Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Recent submissions
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L'Església Catòlica i l'Esclavitud: Esclaves als Monestirs Femenins de Barcelona a la Baixa Edat Mitjana (1326-1495)
El propòsit d’aquesta tesi és doble. En primer lloc, aprofundir el coneixement de la presència i la vida de dones esclaves que, a la Catalunya medieval, entre els anys 1326 i 1495, van ser propietat d’institucions monàstiques ...
Xeno-ludens afectos no humanos en el videojuego contemporáneo
La presente tesis propone una teoría de los afectos desde una perspectiva deleuziana para pensar el videojuego contemporáneo y otros fenómenos de la cultura ludificada. Se trata de una investigación con una dimensión ...
Producción videográfica en L2: prácticas translingüísticas e identifidación de los creadores transnacionales en Douyin
En esta tesis exploramos una práctica creativa emergente en las selvas digitales: la producción videográfica en idioma extranjero o adicional (L2), con el objetivo de indagar cómo los aprendices de L2 construyen y negocian ...
The Evolution of disease terms of western medicine in Chinese (1915-2020) and suggestions for terminology policy in China
In this doctoral thesis, we address the study of the linguistic evolution of Western medicine disease terms in the Chinese language from 1915 to 2020. This is a parameter that has not yet been investigated in the specialized ...
The Representation of youth language in fictional dialogue in english and its translation into catalan
This dissertation describes youth language as it is represented in contemporary novels published in English and its subsequent translation into Catalan. Youth language is especially appealing for the study of written fiction ...
Mapping protein-coding genomes to phenomes: a phylogenetic perspective
In the current genomics era, it is essential to understand how the existing genomics diversity across evolution is linked to the enormous diversity we observe at the phenotypic level. Until now, Genome-wide association ...
Characterisation of walking in older adults: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as a case study
Background: Walking is crucial for an active and healthy ageing. Aim: To understand walking in ageing populations, and, as a case study, in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Methods: This thesis (in seven ...
"Somitogenesis unbound": dissecting the spatiotemporal control of mammalian embryo segmentation through in vitro models of development
Stem cell-based in vitro systems have recently been used to complement the study of developmental processes in the embryo. Somitogenesis, which segments a vertebrate body axis to establish its characteristic body plan, ...
Exploring the pathogenesis of rare disorders: novel approaches from genomics to transcriptomics
Rare disorders have been presumed to be caused by monogenic variation for decades, hindering the diagnosis in some cases. With many rare disease patients still missing a molecular diagnosis after genetic testing, the ...
Systems biology perspectives on cellular senescence and inflammation
This thesis examines inflammation from the perspective of systems biology in two different situations: cellular senescence resulting from unresolved tissue damage and the acute immune response to the invasion of a pathogen, ...
Characterization of left atrial hemodynamics with 4D flow magnetic resonance imaging, in-silico models and deep learning
Although the left ventricle has traditionally held the spotlight as the primary determinant of cardiovascular disease prognosis, the characterization of left atrial hemodynamics is increasingly being recognized as a ...
Large scale off-policy and offline learning
Reinforcement Learning (RL), a subfield of machine learning and artifical intelligence, is a learning paradigm where an artificial agent learns to reach a predefined goal by trying to maximize a reward signal while ...
Geopolitics of Violent Non-State Actors: Exploring manifestations of statehood by violent governors
In the twentieth century, violent non-state actors (VNSAs) have emerged as significant contenders to states. These entities thrive in areas of low (or non-existent) formal state control and engage in the delivery of public ...
Interactive language learning in deep network agents
Recent advances in language modeling led to remarkable performance in many NLP applications. However, the static and passive learning imposed by the nexttoken- prediction objective makes models suboptimal when deployed in ...
Prediction of mental health crises based on electronic health records: probabilistic and machine learning models for clinical applications
This thesis delves into the transformative potential of Electronic Health Records and Machine Learning in the prevention of mental health crisis relapses. Our work focuses on the prediction of these relapses throughout the ...
Toward a new model of borderline personality disorder: a psychophysiological approach on the link between emotional and behavioural dysregulation
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of the most studied personality disorders, given its prevalence and the severity of its symptoms. In the last years, several models of the disorder were presented, however, no ...
The role of conflict in perception: case studies in binocular rivalry, cinema and flavour
Our everyday perception of the world is remarkably unambiguous, considering that it stems from a multitude of ambiguous sensory signals. This feat is believed to be achieved by a set of perceptual and cognitive mechanisms ...
A journey in representation learning textual emotion detection and structural graph encodings
Representation learning is the field of modern machine learning focused on automatically producing useful representations from data. This thesis studies the impact of data volumes, annotation perspectives, and structural ...
Computational analysis of fetal brain development with patient-specific modelling and deep learning techniques
This dissertation presents a novel computational pipeline for creating patient-specific models of brain development. Initially, the human brain develops from a smooth to a convoluted cortical surface, with abnormal ...
Activismo judicial revisitado: historia conceptual hacia un proyecto meliorativo y defensa de una concepción autoritativa para el Estado constitucional
La motivación de este trabajo es sustentar un concepto de activismo judicial reconstruido, no desde el intento quintaesencial de definirlo o desde una mera definición estipulativa, sino desde un análisis diacrónico y ...
