Ament, Jennifer (Date of defense: 2018-11-06)
This doctoral dissertation has three main aims: firstly, to investigate the acquisition of pragmatic markers (PMs); secondly, to investigate the effect of either full- or semi-English-medium instruction ...
Gil Rodríguez, Raquel (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)
In this thesis we focus on two different image processing challenges: high dynamic range (HDR) image/video generation, and colour matching. In both cases, we redefine these tasks by taking into account ...
Stamate, Ecaterina Anca (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
El sistema de protección del diseño industrial representa una de las cuestiones más debatidas en el ámbito del Derecho de propiedad industrial, un debate estrechamente vinculado a su discutida naturaleza ...
Schustek, Philipp (Date of defense: 2018-06-15)
Updating beliefs to maintain coherence with observational evidence is a cornerstone of rationality. This entails the compliance with probabilistic principles which acknowledge that real-world observations ...
Lamelas, Marcos (Date of defense: 2018-01-26)
En medio de la disrupción digital que ha puesto patas arriba los medios de comunicación, sus rutinas productivas y el modelo de negocio de las últimas décadas, la exclusiva periodística ha seguido ...
Núñez García, Marta (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)
Many aspects related to the pathogenesis and progression of atrial fibrillation (AF) are still not fully understood. In this thesis we have contributed with (1) an automatic framework to segment the ...
Fernández Nicolás, Ana (Date of defense: 2018-01-30)
In the present thesis, we have studied the metamorphosis of the cockroach Blattella germanica, focusing on two main periods of development, the embryonic and the postembryonic. In the embryonic development, ...
Martín Rodríguez, Elena (Date of defense: 2018-01-24)
A splicing network analysis that captured functional similarities among spliceosomal components, revealed a prominent core module containing splicing factors SPF45, SR140 and CHERP. We report that ...
Benkarim, Mohamed Oualid (Date of defense: 2018-09-14)
Nowadays, imaging of the human brain is vastly used in clinical settings and by the neuroscientific research community. There is an ever-increasing demand for novel biomedical image analysis approaches ...
Debroux, Tatsuro (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)
The thesis shows the result of the research on foreign policy during the first and second Abe administration. It focuses on the relations with the US, China, India, Australia, the Philippines, the ...