Lara, Ann Rebecca (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)
Study abroad (SA) as an integral part of university studies is often seen by students, educators and institutions alike as an important means of boosting foreign language skills; yet, still little is ...
Domingo Rodriguez, Laura (Date of defense: 2020-01-17)
The easy access to palatable foods is a major contributing factor for compulsive eating and development of food addiction, a disorder closely linked to obesity and binge eating disorder. The concept of ...
Duberry, Jérôme (Date of defense: 2015-06-10)
The doctoral dissertation deals with the impact of the use of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) on global environmental governance. The objective of the research is to analyze the ...
Scaini, Davide (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
Ambisonics is a complete theory for spatial audio whose building blocks are the spherical harmonics. Some of the drawbacks of low order Ambisonics, like poor source directivity and small sweet-spot, ...
Magri, Giuliana (Date of defense: 2011-03-31)
S'ha establert un sistema experimental autòleg per a poder estudiar la resposta de les cèl.lules Natural Killer (NK) contra les cèl.lules dendrítiques derivades de monòcits (moDC), infectades pel ...
Falbe, Sandra (Date of defense: 2015-12-11)
El presente estudio se propone investigar el significado interpersonal del lenguaje y su papel en la cultura de los medios de comunicación actuales. Con este fin se examinará un corpus de textos ...
Musse, Mariana (Date of defense: 2016-11-23)
Les noves formes de sociabilitat i d'autorepresentació, a partir d'avenços tecnològics i Internet, i el paper central de la imatge en la contemporaneïtat són els principals temes que es tracten en aquesta ...
Jorba Argemí, Guillem (Date of defense: 2023-04-13)
El procés de descobriment i desenvolupament de fàrmacs (DDD) és costós tant econòmic com temporalment, i el qual resulta en nivells d'èxit molt reduïts. Una gran quantitat de compostos son analitzats i ...
Ugarte Ruiz, Alfonso (Date of defense: 2011-03-21)
This thesis studies how firms’ investment and credit are affected by different financial imperfections related to firm and bank learning, relationship lending and financial wealth. After reviewing in ...
Nieddu, Marco Giovanni (Date of defense: 2018-11-14)
This thesis consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, I investigate how promo-tion incentives affect the performance of high-skilled public employees. I study a centralized evaluation process ...