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Francesc Alegre: La primera guerra púnica, 1472. Estudi i edició crítica

Bescós Prat, Pere (Date of defense: 2011-02-25)

La traducción en el siglo XV establece una tercera vía: traducir un texto del latín o del griego "ad sententiam", segun su significado; alternativa a los dos "modi" medievales, que son la traducción "ad verbum" o literal, ...

Francesc d'Assís Galí (1880-1965) : vida, obra i pensament

Mercadé, Albert (Date of defense: 2013-05-17)

La present tesis doctoral és un estudi sobre la vida, l’obra artística i el pensament estètic del pintor i pedagog català Francesc d’Assís Galí i Fabra (Barcelona, 1880-1965). Galí va ser una de les figures clau del ...

Francisco Solanes: teoria política i pràctica de govern a Nàpols durant el virregnat austríac (1707-1734)

Ballbé i Sans, Neus (Date of defense: 2017-03-08)

Francisco Solanes fou un dels màxims exponents del cos de juristes catalans que, a cavall dels segles XVII i XVIII i, sobretot, en el context de la guerra de Successió, vetllà pel manteniment de l’ordenament jurídic propi ...

França o bé Itàlia? Avantguardes europees a Catalunya: percepció i transferències 1900-1924: Edició crítica de les Letres de l'estranger de Joan Salvat-Papasseit i projecte de mostra

Abelló Juanpere, Joan (Date of defense: 2015-12-04)

Aquesta Tesi Doctoral presenta la percepció i les principals transferències de les primeres Avantguardes europees a Catalunya. En la primera part del present treball defensem la primacia del Futurisme. Des d’un punt de ...

Freedom of expression and its limits in sport

Abanazir, Suat Cem (Date of defense: 2019-12-05)

As a social and economic force, sport is an integral part of globalised society. Sport is organised and followed globally. Therefore, the organisation of sport at the hands of sport governing bodies and the use of the idea ...

From affective computing to empathic adaptive systems: inference and induction of emotion in ecologically-valid contexts to foster novel paradigms of human-computer interaction

Betella, Alberto (Date of defense: 2015-10-23)

Due to the complexity of the natural world, scientific studies on cognitive, behavioral and physiological phenomena are typically conducted under strict laboratory conditions. Nonetheless, recent technological improvements ...

From chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to lung cancer : an immunologic approach

Ramis Cabrer, Daniel (Date of defense: 2019-07-11)

Se ha establecido que un subconjunto de pacientes con cáncer debuta con infiltrados inmunes que se organizan en agregados en el nicho tumoral y sus alrededores. Estas estructuras linfoides se desarrollan en respuesta ...

From heuristics-based to data-driven audio melody extraction

Bosch Vicente, Juan José (Date of defense: 2017-06-27)

The identification of the melody from a music recording is a relatively easy task for humans, but very challenging for computational systems. This task is known as "audio melody extraction", more formally defined as the ...

From music similarity to music recommendation : computational approaches based on audio features and metadata

Bogdanov, Dmitry (Date of defense: 2013-09-06)

Aquest treball es centra en el modelatge d'usuari per la recomanació musical i desenvolupa algoritmes per la comprensió automàtica i visualització de preferències musicals. Primer, es proposa un model d'usuari construït a ...

From national catholicism to democratic patriotism?: An empirical analysis of contemporany Spanish national identity

Muñoz Mendoza, Jordi (Date of defense: 2009-03-02)

El nacionalcatolicisme franquista, ha sigut substituït per un patriotisme democràtic espanyol? Aquesta tesi explora, mitjançant l'anàlisi del cas espanyol, com els estats establerts promouen i dónen forma a la identitat ...

From networks to population-specific adaptations : studying positive selection in humans

Dobón Berenguer, Begoña (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)

The evolution of the genome is driven, among other factors, by the composition of the genome, the functional output of the gene products, and by environmental pressures. Among the environmental factors, pathogens are one ...

From pixels to particles: multi-physics meshless model of the heart

Lluc Álvarez, Èric (Date of defense: 2019-10-21)

The functioning of the heart, which main role is pumping blood to the rest of the body, is the result of a complex combination of multi-scale physical processes from the molecular to the tissue level. The predominance of ...

From populations to species : Unravelling the unknowns of ageing with two complementary approaches

Farré Ramon, Xavier (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)

Ageing is a very complex phenotype that has been widely studied, but is still largely unknown. Most of the studies focus on a single species, or on performing genome wide association studies in human cohorts, but this only ...

From simple to complex multicellularity : on the preconditions, design spaces and the evolution of neural agents

Ollé Vila, Aina (Date of defense: 2020-02-12)

Les grans transicions evolutives han transformat profundament la manera com la informació s'organitza i es transmet, a vegades en la forma d'un nou nivell jeràrquic que conté entitats que prèviament es comportaven com ...

From site to inter-site user engagement : fundamentals and applications

Lehmann, Janette (Date of defense: 2015-02-26)

L’objetiu d’aquesta tesi és aprofundir en el concepte de participació i compromís dels usuaris en pàgines web i analitzar com mesurar aquesta interacció. Comencem estudiant les mètriques del comportament online, les quals ...

From the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age: unraveling 5.000 years of European population history with paleogenomics

Olalde Marquínez, Íñigo (Date of defense: 2016-07-22)

The general objective of this thesis is to use ancient genomic data to study the European prehistory. Thanks to the latest advances in DNA sequencing technologies, the field of ancient DNA has suffered a profound transformation ...

From viral marketing to social advertising: ad allocation under social influence

Aslay, Çiğdem (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)

This thesis constitutes one of the first investigations that lie at the intersection of social influence propagation, viral marketing, and social advertising. The objective of this thesis is to take the algorithmic aspects ...

Full characterization of the small RNA transcriptome using novel computational methods for high-throughput sequencing data: study of miRNA variability in eukaryote organisms.

Pantano Rubiño, Lorena (Date of defense: 2011-09-26)

In this thesis we have developed a user-friendly tool, SeqBuster, for the analysis of small RNA (sRNA) data generated by next generation sequencing strategies, with special emphasis on deep characterization of miRNA ...

Full-body interaction and autism : design, development and evaluation of experiences as tools for intervention on motivation and social initiation for ASD children

Mora Guiard, Joan (Date of defense: 2016-09-19)

This thesis focuses on the design, development and evaluation of a series of full-body interaction experiences as tools for intervention on motivation and social initiation for children with Autism. Autism Spectrum Disorders ...

Funció i evolució de la premsa de Barcelona durant la transició democràtica ( 1975-1978)

Mauri, Marcel (Date of defense: 2010-07-23)

La fi del franquisme i l'inici del període conegut com la transició democràtica va significar un canvi a diversos nivells en el panorama comunicatiu que, fins aquell moment, hi havia a Barcelona. El final de les limitacions ...