Esteban Alamá, Irene (Date of defense: 2016-12-15)
The importance of South Africa lies in the many caves and rock shelters containing well preserved evidence of human activity, cultural material complexity and a growing number of early modern human ...
Matos Silva Cabral, Maria (Date of defense: 2016-12-07)
The urban phenomenon of floods is recurrent and is expected to be aggravated in the near and distant future, not only in light of climate change projections, but also if flood management approaches ...
Oriola Folch, Marta (Date of defense: 2012-02-13)
El soporte de tela de los cuadros se compone mayoritariamente de celulosa. Una de las vias de degradación de la celulosa es la hidrólisis ácida, que implica que en un ambiente ácido (bajo pH), la ...
Briesen, Brendan J. Von (Date of defense: 2017-09-20)
This thesis examines the guilds comprising the sub-sector of maritime cargo handling in Barcelona from 1760-1840, a period defined in economic terms by the progressive advance of liberal reforms and ...
Resano, Dolores (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)
This dissertation analyzes a typically overlooked novel within the corpus of post-9/11 fiction studies, Jess Walter’s The Zero (2006), and puts forward some hypotheses for this under-examination. It ...
Shi, Ruoyang (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
[eng] This thesis examines a hitherto uninvestigated aspect of formal thought disorder (FTD), a core symptom of schizophrenia that manifests itself as speech which is difficult to follow often to the ...
Fraga, Joana Margarida Ribeirete de (Date of defense: 2013-09-12)
The dissertation “Three revolts in images: Catalonia, Portugal and Naples (1640-1647) is about the role of political visual communication during the revolts of 1640-1647 in Catalonia, Portugal and Naples. ...
Sebastián González, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2011-06-17)
A naturalistic account of phenomenal consciousness is presented: Self-Involving Representationalism. The first step for the project of naturalizing phenomenal consciousness is to make the project ...
Levkina, Mayya (Date of defense: 2014-02-28)
The present dissertation was inspired by the increasing interest in task sequencing in L2 syllabus design, on the one hand, and the lack of empirical studies, on the other hand, where task sequencing ...
Fàbrega Domènech, Emma (Date of defense: 2023-02-24)
[eng] This doctoral thesis investigates identity, ageing, and migration through an intersectional approach to retirement and later life migration from the UK to Spain. Through an in-depth exploration ...