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Explica'm un relat i et diré què penses. La formació del pensament crític de l'alumnat de quart d'ESO

Andreu i Rosés, Mercè (Date of defense: 2021-03-11)

Presentem una investigació realitzada a joves de 15 i 16 anys sobre com formen el seu pensament social, a partir dels seus relats, els quals són un instrument idoni per expressar les seves opinions, inquietuds o alternatives ...

Explicació atomística de fenòmens físics relacionats amb el pes, la calor i l'aigua, a través de "De rerum natura" de Lucreci

Montserrat Sangrà, Jesús Maria (Date of defense: 1996-02-27)

Aquesta tesi està dedicada a l'estudi de les explicacions dels fenòmens físics relacionats amb el pes, la calor i l'aigua, ofertes pel poema De rerum Natura de l'atomista epicuri llatí Lucreci (Titus Lucretius Carus, ...

Explicant la pròpia carrera: una mirada longitudinal sobre gènere, organitzacions i vida personal en els relats de les trajectòries professionals

Selva Olid, Clara (Date of defense: 2012-07-27)

Aquesta tesi realitza un abordatge del fenomen de la trajectòria professional de la dona des de posicions de comandament intermedi a la direcció així com dels elements personals, socials i organitzatius que esdevenen claus ...

Explication from an Externalist Point of View

Alexandrov, Anton (Date of defense: 2023-06-22)

[eng] The dissertation investigates the method of explication from an externalist point of view. Chapter1 explains externalism in the philosophy of mind and language. Externalism holds that the meaning of many of our kind ...

Explicit Bound states and Resonance fields in Effective Field Theories

Tarrús Castellà, Jaume (Date of defense: 2012-06-07)

The first three chapters of this thesis have been devoted to the theoretical background. We presented the novel work of this thesis in chapters 4 and 5. In chapter 4 we have constructed a Chiral effective field theory for ...

Explicit integration of some integrable systems of classical mechanics

Basak Gancheva, Inna (Date of defense: 2011-11-28)

The main objective of the thesis is the analytical and geometrical study of several integrable finite-dimentional dynamical systems of classical mechanics, which are closely related, namely: - the classical generalization ...

Explicit Rules or Implicit Imitation: A Comparative Study of Two Approaches to Teaching English Prosody to Chinese Adult EFL Learners

Zhang, Xiaodan (Date of defense: 2024-02-12)

Aquest estudi té com a objectiu explorar l'efecte de l'ensenyament explícit i implícit sobre la millora de la pronunciació anglesa pel que fa a la producció de l'accentuació. 28 estudiants xinesos d'anglès com a llengua ...

Explicitation and translation editing environments

Mesa-Lao, Bartolomé (Date of defense: 2014-11-25)

Esta tesis presenta una investigación empírica sobre el fenómeno de la explicitación en traducciones elaboradas en tres entornos de traducción diferentes con un grado variable de traducción asistida por ordenador (TAO). ...

Exploiting asymmetric multi-core systems with flexible system software

Chronaki, Kallia (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)

Asymmetric multi-cores (AMCs) are a successful architectural solution for both mobile devices and supercomputers. These architectures combine different types of processing cores designed at different performance and power ...

Exploiting circulating lymphocytes and cell-free DNA as a source to develop minimally-invasive personalized T-cell therapies

Garcia Garijo, Andrea (Date of defense: 2023-05-26)

[eng] Adoptive cell transfer (ACT) of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) can medi- ate tumor regression in patients with metastatic melanoma. Retrospective studies of TIL products from responders and non-responders have ...

Exploiting cognition for energy and spectrum efficient wireless networks

Mesodiakaki, Agapi (Date of defense: 2015-11-09)

The main objective of this thesis is to propose and evaluate medium access layer algorithms, that will exploit different types of cognition to provide energy and spectrum efficiency enhancement. In particular, two main ...

Exploiting data locality in cache-coherent NUMA systems

Sánchez Barrera, Isaac (Date of defense: 2022-04-06)

The end of Dennard scaling has caused a stagnation of the clock frequency in computers.To overcome this issue, in the last two decades vendors have been integrating larger numbers of processing elements in the systems, ...

Exploiting distributional semantics for content-based and context-aware recommendation

Codina Busquet, Victor (Date of defense: 2014-06-13)

During the last decade, the use of recommender systems has been increasingly growing to the point that, nowadays, the success of many well-known services depends on these technologies. Recommenders Systems help people to ...

Exploiting frame coherence in real-time rendering for energy-efficient GPUs

Anglada Sánchez, Martí (Date of defense: 2020-06-09)

The computation capabilities of mobile GPUs have greatly evolved in the last generations, allowing real-time rendering of realistic scenes. However, the desire for processing complex environments clashes with the ...

Exploiting high pressure advantages in catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol

Bansode, Atul Baban (Date of defense: 2014-03-27)

The aim of this thesis was to develop highly efficient CO2 hydrogenation process towards methanol by making use of high pressure approach. A high pressure lab scale plant was developed to conduct CO2 hydrogenation up to ...

Exploiting implicit user activity for media recommendation

Trevisiol, Michele (Date of defense: 2014-10-15)

This thesis explores in depth how to use the user browsing behavior, and in particular the referrer URL, in order to understand the interest of the users. The aim is, first, to understand the preferences of the users from ...

Exploiting nonlinearity and noise in optical tweezers and semiconductor lasers : from resonant damping to stochastic logic gates and extreme pulses

Perrone, Sandro (Date of defense: 2014-02-07)

This thesis is focused on the study of stochastic and nonlinear dynamics in optical systems. First, we study experimentally the dynamics of a Brownian nanometer particle in an optical trap subjected to an external forcing. ...

Exploiting novel automated analytical methodologies for the monitoring of environmental organic pollutants, and its potential incorporation to environmental monitoring regulations

Rodríguez-Navas González, Carlos (Date of defense: 2012-10-19)

Se han desarrollado métodos analíticos basados en cromatografía y detección por espectrometría de masas para la detección de múltiples compuestos orgánicos a niveles traza en muestras de interés ambiental. Se han determinado ...

Exploiting optical signal analysis for autonomous communications

Sequeira, Diogo Gonçalo (Date of defense: 2022-10-31)

(English) Optical communications have been extensively investigated and enhanced in the last decades. Nowadays, they are responsible to transport all the data traffic generated around the world, from access to the core ...

Exploiting Organocatalysis in Photochemical Processes

Cuadros Huertas, Sara (Date of defense: 2019-10-17)

El treball descrit en aquesta dissertació es centra en la implementació d’estratègies organocatalítiques per superar les limitacions de processos fotoquímics establerts. Específicament, dues transformacions impulsades per ...