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    El Nacimiento de la comedia : imaginario mítico en el cine de Charles Chaplin 

    Silveira dos Santos, Daniela (Date of defense: 2015-01-22)

    Esta tesis investiga los orígenes arquetípicos de la comedia a través del personaje Charlot y busca dibujar y estructurar el imaginario mítico del cine de Charles Chaplin alrededor del arquetipo del niño. El estudio ...

    Narrative features of 12 klondike stories by Jack London : semiodiscursive and textual approach 

    Kuzmicheva, Maria (Date of defense: 2013-11-05)

    The present piece of research is concerned with 12 Northern stories written by the American writer Jack London. Its goal is to apply discourse analysis as a framework to the study of narrative texts in order to find out ...

    Narrative Voice and Racial Stereotypes in the Modern Novel: Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! 

    Puxan Oliva, Marta (Date of defense: 2010-06-03)

    Aquesta tesi vol demostrar que Joseph Conrad i William Faulkner, en les novel·les Lord Jim i Absalom, Absalom! respectivament, reflexionen sobre la credibilitat de la veu en la ficció i del discurs racial per mitjà de ...

    Nation building in contested states 

    Potapkina, Viktoria (Date of defense: 2019-02-27)

    This thesis provides an overview of current nation building processes in contested states. With a specific focus on the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, and Kosovo, original data is ...

    Nations and Nationalism in a cosmopolitanized world: some lessons from Ulrich Beck's work 

    Errasti Lopez, Ander (Date of defense: 2017-07-27)

    This thesis consists of a thorough analysis and subsequent critical review of Ulrich Beck's cosmopolitan proposal. I basically challenge his three main normative assumptions: national secularism, community of risk and ...

    Native American genetic history through admixed populations of Brazil 

    Mas Sandoval, Àlex (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)

    Most of the Native American populations that lived in nowadays Eastern Brazil when the Europeans established in the area in the 16th century do not exist anymore. The colonization of Brazil implied huge migrations from ...

    Native Italians' comprehension of press information in Spanish: a phraseodidactic approximation from a cognitive linguistics approach 

    Mellado Blanes, Ester (Date of defense: 2019-04-26)

    This thesis analyses the interlanguage effect in the learning process of Spanish phraseology by native Italians. It is intended to investigate the interactions between native languages and the learning process of a foreign ...

    Natural antisense transcripts control LEF1 gene expression 

    Aparicio i Prat, Estel (Date of defense: 2014-02-07)

    Non-coding RNA functions are emerging in the recent years. In this thesis we describe a Natural Antisense Transcript (NAT) that controls the expression of LEF1 transcriptional factor. This LEF1 NAT is transcribed from a ...

    Natural language processing technologies in compensatory supports for people with aphasia and acquired reading impairments 

    Cistola, Giorgia (Date of defense: 2022-07-04)

    Aphasia is often associated with reading impairments. Nonetheless, supports designed for people with aphasia and acquired reading impairments allowing autonomous access to written material are lacking. These individuals ...

    Natural outdoor environments and adults' health : associations, effect modifiers and mediators 

    Triguero Mas, Margarita (Date of defense: 2017-02-14)

    This thesis aims at (a) evaluating the association between natural outdoor environments (NOE) and health in adults and potential effect modifiers of this association, and (b) investigating the possible mechanism of this ...

    Naturaleza e interpretación del subtipo agravado de estafa procesal 

    Becerra Briceño, Jesús Luis (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)

    A pesar de la ingente cantidad de supuestos de estafa procesal que son enjuiciados cada año por los juzgados y tribunales españoles, este subtipo agravado ha sido objeto de poca atención por la doctrina. Tras realizar un ...

    The need for practice in the acquisition of the post-editing skill-set: lessons learned from the industry 

    Ginovart Cid, Clara (Date of defense: 2021-07-02)

    While (translation) technology and the language industry continue to evolve, varieties of professional profiles and nuances to the relevant skillsets emerge. The field of machine translation post-editing, and, in ...

    Negociación colectiva transnacional y redes transnacionales de producción : geografías de derechos sociales a través de acuerdos marco transnacionales 

    Canalda Criado, Sergio (Date of defense: 2014-06-26)

    Dentro de los debates sobre contexto y evolución del Derecho del Trabajo, las nuevas formas de organización empresarial plantean un complejo marco de equilibrios de poder entre los actores a la hora gobernar las relaciones ...

    Negociar el poder : fiscalidad y administración pública en el proceso de construcción del estado ecuatoriano, 1830-1875 

    Velasco Herrera, Viviana (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)

    Esta investigación analiza el proceso de construcción del Estado ecuatoriano a través del estudio de dos elementos intrínsecos a él: la conformación de la fiscalidad y la dinámica de la administración pública en el período ...

    Negotiating interactions and addressing communication breakdowns in foreign language telecollaborative projects through videoconferencing 

    Chimeva, Yordanka (Date of defense: 2021-07-14)

    Telecollaboration through videoconferencing is one way of responding to the present situation in education resulting from the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as from globalization and innovation in information and ...

    Negotiating religious exemptions: a public reason perspective 

    Bespalov, Andrei (Date of defense: 2019-04-11)

    In this thesis I elaborate on three reasons why religious exemptions from generally applicable laws are not publicly justifiable in a liberal democratic society. First, mere claims of the form “God says so and my conscience ...

    The negotiation of an asymmetrical European Monetary System and the decision of high inflation countries to join the system 

    Solé, Anna (Date of defense: 2020-02-11)

    The EMS negotiations were centred on the debate on symmetry. High inflation countries struggled to introduce elements to force a more symmetrical functioning of the system than the Snake. However, these attempts found the ...

    Neigborhood effects in schooling and in the labor market 

    Rosolia, Alfonso (Date of defense: 2005-01-12)

    A lo largo de los ultimos diez años los economistas hemos reconocido que en muchos casos las decisiones individuales se ven afectadas por las decisiones, los comportamientos las preferencias de otros agentes no solamente ...

    Network Externalities in Developing Economics 

    Comola, Margherita (Date of defense: 2008-06-11)

    Esta tesis consta de tres ensayos basados en microeconometria, teoria de redes y desarrollo económico. En los primeros dos me focalizo en paises en desarrollo (Tanzania y Nepal respectivamente) por estudiar como los ...

    Network projects and collaboration. Models for socio-cultural changes-on the internet 

    Schuch Brunet, Karla (Date of defense: 2006-04-21)

    Esta tesis propone modelos para cambios socio-culturales en Internet. Proyectos en red en colaboración fueran el objeto de este estudio. Fueran elegidos 100 proyectos para una base de datos donde se hizo un análisis ...