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 ...
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 ...
Ferrández Peral, Luis (Date of defense: 2022-06-08)
The evolution of transcriptomes has been linked to the emergence of novel phenotypes. However, our knowledge on how isoform diversity has impacted recent human evolution is very limited. To fill this ...
Torrens Fontanals, Mariona (Date of defense: 2022-02-11)
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are a well-established technique to characterize the structural motions of biological systems at atomic resolution. However, accessing, viewing, and sharing MD ...
Garriga Nogales, Edgar (Date of defense: 2022-02-15)
In these days of significant changes and the rapid evolution of technology, the amount of datascience has to deal with the growth incredibly fast, and the size of data could be prohibitive.Multiple ...
Cepak, Roberta (Date of defense: 2022-01-31)
This study examines the opinions of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing and hearers of Spain with regards to the subtitling services currently offered by the Spanish Digital Television, with the aim of integrating ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Gutiérrez Páez, Nicolás Felipe (Date of defense: 2022-06-22)
The success of an online community depends on the contributions and actions performed by the community members. This dissertation aims to understand the dynamics of participation in regulated, not-for-profit, ...