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Peters, Rebecca Anne (Date of defense: 2021-07-06)
This thesis analyzes 12 episodes from the dystopian science fiction anthology series, Black Mirror (2011-present). Episodes selected are those that, as argued in this text, depict the role of technology as replacing that ...
Selfa Aspiroz, Idoia Lucía (Date of defense: 2022-02-01)
During the last years, the development of procedures to direct the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) towards different renal cell types has resulted in the establishment of approaches focused on the ...
Espada Trespalacios, Fco. Javier (Date of defense: 2022-02-04)
Des de fa anys l'atenció al part està perseguint la fita d'aconseguir donar una assistència més humana i fisiològica a tot el procés, s'han creat guies de pràctica clínica, grups de treball, estratègies nacionals, etc., ...
Escutia Sánchez, Erika (Date of defense: 2021-10-20)
El presente estudio indaga en las interpretaciones y usos que las familias reinantes de Europa dieron a los artefactos americanos incorporados a sus posesiones entre 1493 y 1565. A través del análisis de documentos, imágenes ...
Aljaro Fontalva, Immaculada (Date of defense: 2021-11-05)
Este trabajo pretende reflexionar sobre cómo el aburrimiento se ha convertido en un recurso estético en la novela contemporánea; cómo, a través de una serie de estrategias, los autores consiguen despertar en los lectores ...
García Moral, Eric (Date of defense: 2021-07-05)
El objetivo de esta tesis doctoral es analizar la jefatura colonial en la Baja Casamance (Senegal) entre 1851 y 1948. Más concretamente, se estudia la creación y la evolución de los jefes de pueblo y de cantón en las ...
Ruiz Pérez, Javier (Date of defense: 2021-04-16)
In pre-Columbian times thousands of raised and ditched agricultural fields were built in the seasonally inundated savannah of the Llanos de Moxos, southwestern Amazonia. How they functioned is still poorly understood. An ...
Belmonte Mateos, Carla (Date of defense: 2022-02-03)
Precise regulation of neurogenesis is achieved by differentially allocating the neurogenic competence along the tissue. In the hindbrain proneural gene expression is stereotypically confined in segment boundary-adjacent ...
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 voice with instrumental ...
Martín Ontiyuelo, Clara (Date of defense: 2022-01-28)
El déficit de hierro (DH) podría jugar un papel en la enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica (EPOC) dado que es fundamental en la bioenergética celular. Estudio 1: Se analizaron 18 pacientes EPOC con DH y 18 pacientes ...
Pérez Culubret, Adrià (Date of defense: 2022-01-27)
Caracteritzar la dinàmica de les proteïnes és essencial per tal d'entendre la connexió entre seqüència i funció. La simulació de dinàmiques moleculars és una de les tècniques principals per a estudiar la dinàmica de proteïnes ...
Qi, Zhongchen (Date of defense: 2022-01-25)
El presente trabajo tiene el objetivo de conocer el tratamiento de los tres elementos principales de la microestructura de los diccionarios bilingües: el equivalente, el ejemplo y su traducción, y de proponer entradas ...
Veiga Busto, Raquel (Date of defense: 2022-01-14)
Languages use different resources to specify the numerosity of the referents and to denote the speech act participants. This thesis describes the morphophonological strategies used in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) personal ...
Bao, Lingxian (Date of defense: 2021-11-11)
Deep neural networks as an end-to-end approach lacks flexibility and robustness from an application point of view, as one cannot easily adjust the network to fix an obvious problem, especially when new training data is ...
Piedra Barrull, Sheila (Date of defense: 2022-01-25)
Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is the most common adverse effect of many first-line antineoplastic agents, which negatively affects the quality of life and clinical outcome. Current clinical management ...
Navarrete-González, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2022-01-13)
This thesis provides a description and a pragmatic analysis of the expression and interpretation of focus and contrast in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). I argue that LSC data provides empirical evidence that contrast is an ...
Vujovic, Milica (Date of defense: 2021-06-16)
Research has provided relevant advances in evidence-based design for productive learning. For example, in the field of collaborative learning, there is extensive evidence for some key learning design elements, such as ...
Yesiler, M. Furkan (Date of defense: 2022-01-12)
This dissertation aims at developing audio-based musical version identification (VI) systems for industry-scale corpora. To employ such systems in industrial use cases, they must demonstrate high performance on large-scale ...
Dovelos, Konstantinos (Date of defense: 2021-11-05)
Undoubtedly, spectrum scarcity constitutes the main bottleneck of current wireless networks. It is therefore imperative to move beyond the sub-6 GHz band in order to overcome this limitation. Toward this direction, terahertz ...
Cabrero Daniel, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2022-01-12)
Computer-generated crowds are becoming more and more frequent in films, video games and safety assessment applications. Many crowd simulation algorithms exist to address the needs of this diverse range of industries. Even ...