Vives, Marc-Lluís (Date of defense: 2020-01-15)
Foreign language processing is hard, sometimes the right words do not come out, sometimes phonemes are incompressible. Words also lose their emotional appeal in a foreign language. How does this affect ...
Tomasena Glennie, José Miguel (Date of defense: 2020-11-05)
Esta tesis presenta un estudio sobre las prácticas mediáticas de los BookTubers: personas que usan YouTube (y otras plataformas digitales) para compartir contenidos relacionados con los libros y la ...
Aina, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-03-25)
This thesis studies the information that an expression and its context contribute to ambiguity resolution, focusing on the syntactic, lexical, and referential levels, and on the English language. I ...
Pazo Pelegrí, Esther (Date of defense: 2021-07-15)
At the end of G1 phase, cells have to decide between continue proliferation or remain in a quiescent state (G0). This decision point, known as “Start” in yeast and “Restriction Point” in metazoans, marks ...
Goulart, Kimberly (Date of defense: 2023-05-23)
The objective of this thesis is to explore what makes up a job–the tasks, skills, personality traits, and rewards–and determine how a job impacts our daily lives. Much of the literature quantifies and ...
Vigué-Guix, Irene (Date of defense: 2022-07-19)
Spontaneous oscillations in the alpha band (α, 8–12 Hz) reflect ongoing fluctuations in cortical excitability. Several theoretical frameworks and empirical studies have supported the notion that distinct ...
Hakami, Eyad (Date of defense: 2023-02-10)
The accelerating adoption of digital technologies creates a direct relationship between the status of individual and societal well-being on one hand, and the state of the digital technologies that ...
Boronat Rigol, Anna (Date of defense: 2020-01-16)
Hydroxytyrosol is a health-promoting dietary phenol mainly present in extra virgin olive oil. Wine and beer are sources of tyrosol, a related phenolic compound. We have demonstrated that in humans tyrosol ...
Gao, Peng (Date of defense: 2022-01-31)
La presente tesis abarca la transferencia de los referentes culturales en el fansubbing del español al chino a través de un corpus de la serie de televisión española El Ministerio del Tiempo compuesto ...
Pindado, Zaira (Date of defense: 2021-03-23)
Elliptic curves with a bilinear map, or pairing, have a rich algebraic structure that has been fundamental to develop practical Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge (NIZK) proofs. On the theoretical side, ...