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Zimmer, Veronika Anne (Date of defense: 2017-02-13)
The aim of this thesis is to explore and develop measures for image comparison in two main areas of medical image analysis: image registration and manifold learning for population analysis. In particular, the main contributions ...
Prieto Aguaza, Alberto (Date of defense: 2009-01-19)
Aparentment la funció de la imatge és la d'il·lustrar l'acció que es desenvolupa al text i la funció del text és explicar allò que visualitzem a la fotografia. Més enllà d'aquesta complementarietat, les relacions s'amplien ...
Sánchez Fraile, Sergio (Date of defense: 2017-12-04)
El presente trabajo examina la imagen y la representación de la República Popular China en España durante las décadas de 1960 y 1970. La construcción de la imagen de China ha estado condicionada a una sucesión de estereotipos ...
Medina Audelo, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2011-07-14)
La inmigración internacional es uno de los fenómenos mundiales más importantes, complejos e inquietantes en la época actual a consecuencia de su crecimiento y de los retos sin precedentes que afronta: económicos, políticos, ...
Puigarnau Torelló, Alfons (Date of defense: 1999-06-01)
En el contexto del siglo XII europeo, se impone la iconografía del Cristo Luz aureolado por una almendra mística, sosteniendo un libro abierto con inscripciones alusivas a una teología de la luz. <br/><br/>La proliferación ...
Amaro, Antoni (Date of defense: 2015-11-25)
Aquesta tesi planteja l’estudi del Tarot Rider – Waite. Per fer-ho hem anat a les fonts del Tarot, fent una anàlisi sobre la imatge dels Tarots Tradicionals {Visconti-Sforza, Mantegna (Segle XV) i Marsella (segle XVIII)} ...
Hachero Hernández, Bruno (Date of defense: 2019-01-28)
Esta tesis propone un estudio estético de la representación documental del horror en el cine contemporáneo, analizando cómo el cine articula modos puesta en escena para documentar genocidios, guerras, matanzas, crímenes o ...
Fernández, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-12-10)
Esta tesis doctoral explora la efectividad y la ética comunicativa de las producciones visuales activistas antiespecistas, especialmente las imágenes de violencia y la estrategia comunicativa del shock moral. El objetivo ...
Arruda, Eliana (Date of defense: 2015-06-18)
In recent years, the academic literature on the well-being of immigrants has expanded far from the study of economic factors by including psychological elements. Subjective well-being and life satisfaction have been ...
Ahonen, Emily (Date of defense: 2009-04-17)
Este estudio cualitativo, exploratorio y descriptivo en cinco ciudades examina las condiciones de trabajo, los riesgos, los factores influyentes y los efectos en salud experimentados por trabajadores inmigrantes en España. ...
Villarroel Williams, Nazmy Katherine (Date of defense: 2015-01-26)
Objective: To compare health status (sub-study 1), sleep health (sub-study 2) and health care use (sub-study 3) between the Spanish population and immigrants from the seven leading countries in terms of number of immigrants; ...
Domenjó Vila, Eva (Date of defense: 2022-06-01)
The contribution of cross-presenting XCR1+ dendritic cells (DC) in maintaining T cell function during exhaustion and immuno-therapeutic interventions of chronic infections remains poorly characterized. Using the mouse model ...
Brugulat Serrat, Anna (Date of defense: 2019-06-21)
White matter hyperintensities (WMH) have been associated with increased risk and progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the range to which this association can be extended to AD risk factors and WMH burden in ...
Di Giovanni, Francesca (Date of defense: 2016-11-24)
Chromatin is not randomly organized inside the eukaryotic nucleus in interphase. In budding yeast gene expression of some specific loci is affected by their positioning in the nucleus. Replication firing of early origins ...
Baltzis, Athanasios (Date of defense: 2023-03-20)
Recent advances in deep learning techniques have revolutionised protein structure modelling. Since AlphaFold2’s release, a set of tools have now become available to predict native-like structures at near-experimental ...
Bofill Pumarola, Andreu (Date of defense: 2021-03-09)
A great deal of efforts has been made to improve and expand pharmacological testing and optimisation of drug candidates during the discovery process. However, we are yet to understand fully why drugs require certain ...
Roessler, Abeba (Date of defense: 2012-09-14)
The present dissertation set out to investigate how the linguistic environment affects speech perception. Three sets of studies have explored effects of bilingualism on word recognition in adults and infants and the impact ...
Revilla, Melanie (Date of defense: 2012-09-26)
This dissertation studies the impact of the mode of data collection on the quality of answers to survey questions, defined as the product of reliability and validity. Using data from the Netherlands about different topics ...
Estirado Vera, Cristina (Date of defense: 2022-06-15)
La Enfermedad Pulmonar Obstructiva crónica (EPOC) presenta afectación pulmonar y sistémica y periodos de exacerbación (AEPOC), que contribuyen a su progresión. En algunas ocasiones la AEPOC está causada por microorganismos ...
Sangüesa Boix, Júlia (Date of defense: 2024-06-13)
Els baixos nivells de vitamina D durant l’embaràs i els primers anys de la vida són freqüents en dones embarassades i en nadons i, a més, poden tenir implicacions per a la salut de l’infant a llarg termini. Malgrat això, ...