Santamaría Martínez, Mezteli Suyapa (Date of defense: 2023-02-08)
In the last couple of years, medical information has been presented across different digital and visual forms of communication. Mainly, comics are published on various social media platforms and ...
Shafirova, Liudmila (Date of defense: 2020-07-28)
Second language use online has become a regular practice for many Internet users reflecting the emergence of new participatory cultures in the virtual world. However, little is yet known about the ...
Vázquez-Calvo, Boris (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)
Este informe doctoral, de marcado cariz cualitativo, pretende cubrir un nicho vacío sobre los usos de los recursos lingüísticos en línea que los aprendices de lengua exploran. Por tanto, se trata de un ...
Fukukawa, Misa (Date of defense: 2019-06-18)
Recently, multiliteracy has received lots of attention. Due to increased migration, globalisation and intermarriage, as of 2017, there are 203 Hoshukos (Japanese school located outside of Japan) spread ...
O'Grady, Rhiannon (Date of defense: 2022-11-15)
In the field of teaching English literature to Spanish adolescents, a multimodal approach offers diverse modes of representation and brings potential for meaning making. However, teaching with digital ...
Zhang, Leticia Tian (Date of defense: 2020-06-29)
When watching television, many people use social media to share real-time opinions and feelings. The mediated co-viewing is widely studied under the name of “second screen” or “social TV”. In Japan and ...
Blair, David Sutherland (Date of defense: 2023-04-24)
The past decade has seen several attempts to employ the entropy of neuroimaging signals as a potential biomarker for cognitive decline or traumatic brain injury (C. Y. Liu et al. 2013; Adhikari et al. ...
Ghifrani, Erfan (Date of defense: 2022-10-26)
Agents make decisions under uncertainty. They are not only uncertain about the true realizations of variables of interest, but also about their degree of uncertainty. Using survey of business uncertainty, ...
Cabús, Lluc (Date of defense: 2024-03-15)
RNA is a molecule that is released by the different tissues into the circulation. When it is found in the circulation it is called cell-free RNA (cfRNA). This type of molecule has great potential as ...
Martínez Corral, Rosa (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)
In this Thesis we have studied how dynamics and space modulate cellular behaviour, by means of mathematical modelling of particular biological examples. At the single cell level, we show how pulsatile ...