Biau, Emmanuel (Date of defense: 2015-11-13)
Speakers naturally accompany their speech with hand gestures and extend the auditory prosody to visual modality through rapid beat gestures that help them to structure their narrative and emphasize ...
Valle Cordero, Alejandro Javier del (Date of defense: 2015-12-14)
La carrera artística de Ana Mendieta se enmarca dentro de los movimientos estéticos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. El primitivismo en el arte es uno de ellos. Esta investigación estudia en profundidad ...
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 ...
Klischies, Sabine (Date of defense: 2015-07-15)
Microtubules (MTs) are part of the cytoskeleton in eukaryotic cells and are nucleated by the γ-tubulin ring complex (γTuRC), at the centrosome, which is also called the MTOC (microtubule organizing ...
Amodio, Francesco (Date of defense: 2015-06-11)
This thesis provides an empirical investigation of externalities and social interaction mechanisms in various settings. In the first chapter, I show how input heterogeneity triggers productivity spillovers ...
Ollé Espluga, Laia (Date of defense: 2015-10-15)
This dissertation aims to describe the main processes leading to interaction between safety representatives and workers and the factors influencing it, as well as analysing its effects. Adopting a ...
Sancho Fibla, Sergi (Date of defense: 2015-12-04)
En este trabajo reivindicamos la necesidad de contextualizar las obras de Marguerite d'Oingt en el entorno cultural en el que fueron realizadas. Esto significa tener en cuenta toda una serie de prácticas ...
Fornés Crespo, Oriol (Date of defense: 2015-01-21)
Protein-DNA interactions are indispensable players in the daily activities of cells. DNA-binding proteins regulate gene expression and are responsible of DNA replication, packaging, repair and recombination. ...
Grippa, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2015-06-12)
Most cells store energy in lipid droplets (LDs), specialized storage organelles composed of a neutral lipid core that, during their biogenesis, is packaged into a single phospholipid monolayer decorated ...
Osorio Gonnet, Cecilia (Date of defense: 2015-01-29)
Los Programas de Transferencias Condicionadas (PTC) tienen como objetivo la superación de la pobreza proveyendo efectivo a los hogares de bajos ingresos, a condición de que las familias utilicen ...