Llopart Babot, Sandra (Date of defense: 2023-03-14)
This PhD thesis presents a descriptive approach to the translation and reception of African American women’s literature in Spain. My research starts by examining the original conditions of production ...
Hoffmann, Tobias (Date of defense: 2021-04-08)
The splicing regulatory protein RBM10 is frequently mutated in bladder carcinomas. Analysis of RNA sequencing data of 476 bladder tumours (UROMOL) identified 469 alternative splicing (AS) events ...
Cabrero Daniel, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2022-01-12)
Computer-generated crowds are becoming more and more frequent in films, video games and safety assessment applications. Many crowd simulation algorithms exist to address the needs of this diverse range ...
Zhou, Sirui (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)
As one of the Four Great Classical Novels in China, Hong Lou Meng (HLM) marks the summit of classical Chinese literature. The present research proposes a multilingual approach by bringing into comparison ...
Della Valle, Fabio (Date of defense: 2021-11-29)
This thesis presents a study of blockchain impacts for supply chain (SC) application. By conducting explorative research, the thesis presents a grounded theory analysis based on eighteen interviews with ...
Hinojosa Galisteo, Joan Carles (Date of defense: 2021-06-23)
Butterflies are among the best studied animals, but despite the research efforts carried out during centuries, our knowledge on their diversity and on the mechanisms generating it is still incomplete. In ...
Milà Alomà, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-04-29)
La malaltia d’Alzheimer (MA) està precedida per una llarga etapa preclínica, en la qual es desenvolupa la patologia cerebral en absència de simptomatologia. La identificació acurada d’aquesta fase ...
Chandna, Pritish (Date of defense: 2021-09-23)
This thesis dissertation focuses on singing voice extraction from polyphonic musical signals. In particular, we focus on two cases; contemporary popular music, which typically has a processed singing ...
Rohrer, Patrick Louis (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)
Human language is essentially multimodal in that speakers use multiple channels to convey meaning, including speech prosody and gesture (e.g. Mondada, 2016; Perniss, 2018). In the last decades, studies ...
Dios Martínez, Toni de (Date of defense: 2021-03-23)
Infectious diseases have affected humanity since its apparition in Africa 300,000 years ago. Demographic changes associated to the Neolithic transition, and ensuing population movements, have facilitated ...