Zhou, Sirui (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)
As one of the Four Great Classical Novels in China, Hong Lou Meng (HLM) marks the summit of classical Chinese literature. The present research proposes a multilingual approach by bringing into comparison ...
Della Valle, Fabio (Date of defense: 2021-11-29)
This thesis presents a study of blockchain impacts for supply chain (SC) application. By conducting explorative research, the thesis presents a grounded theory analysis based on eighteen interviews with ...
Hinojosa Galisteo, Joan Carles (Date of defense: 2021-06-23)
Butterflies are among the best studied animals, but despite the research efforts carried out during centuries, our knowledge on their diversity and on the mechanisms generating it is still incomplete. In ...
Milà Alomà, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-04-29)
La malaltia d’Alzheimer (MA) està precedida per una llarga etapa preclínica, en la qual es desenvolupa la patologia cerebral en absència de simptomatologia. La identificació acurada d’aquesta fase ...
Chandna, Pritish (Date of defense: 2021-09-23)
This thesis dissertation focuses on singing voice extraction from polyphonic musical signals. In particular, we focus on two cases; contemporary popular music, which typically has a processed singing ...
Rohrer, Patrick Louis (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)
Human language is essentially multimodal in that speakers use multiple channels to convey meaning, including speech prosody and gesture (e.g. Mondada, 2016; Perniss, 2018). In the last decades, studies ...
Dios Martínez, Toni de (Date of defense: 2021-03-23)
Infectious diseases have affected humanity since its apparition in Africa 300,000 years ago. Demographic changes associated to the Neolithic transition, and ensuing population movements, have facilitated ...
Mixão, Verónica de Pinho (Date of defense: 2020-10-20)
Candida species are among the most important fungal pathogens. Although Candida albicans is the most common cause of Candida infections, many other Candida species have emerged as pathogens. How ...
Gutiérrez Páez, Nicolás Felipe (Date of defense: 2022-06-22)
The success of an online community depends on the contributions and actions performed by the community members. This dissertation aims to understand the dynamics of participation in regulated, not-for-profit, ...
Woiczyk, Thomas Karl Alfred (Date of defense: 2020-05-25)
In this thesis I explore how people form and are affected by judgments about objects, people, and categories. In particular, I show how the implications are affected by the level of aggregation; both ...