Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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This is a comparative study between the Greek and Egyptian cosmogonies in addition to the kosmopoia in the Leiden J 395 papyrus. Without losing sight of the great influence that the Near East exerted on the Greek ...
This doctoral thesis focuses on a gap identified in the literature by investigating how visual representations, authoring support, and data analytics can aid teachers in designing for learning in complex scenarios that ...
El gran volumen de datos que las técnicas de minería Web generan sobre espacios Web puede llegar a ser muy difícil de entender, provocando la necesidad de desarrollar nuevas técnicas que permitan generar conocimiento ...
Several cities are not using the logo as an instrument for enhancing the city brand. They made a logo without working on their city brand; therefore, these cities do not have a positioning strategy. Conversely, some cities ...
The present study investigates the impact of two different consecutive learning contexts, formal instruction (FI) at home and a 3-month stay abroad (SA), on second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition in oral and written ...
La veu cantada és probablement l'instrument musical més complex i més ric en matisos expressius. Al llarg de varies dècades s'ha dedicat molt d'esforç a investigar i estudiar les seves propietats acústiques i a entendre ...
This thesis builds on the literature of corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication. The following three chapters study the potential impacts of disclosing voluntarily negative information in a company’s own CSR ...
Stroke represents one of the main causes of adult disability and will be one of the main contributors to the burden of disease in 2030. However, our healthcare systems do not have enough resources to cover the current ...
Desplazarse a pie es una actividad física moderada, rutinaria e integrada en la vida diaria que podría convertirse en una herramienta para disminuir la tendencia creciente del sedentarismo de la población. El objetivo ...
Disinfection by-products (DBP) are complex mixtures of toxicants derived from drinking water treatment. Trihalomethanes (THM) and haloacetic acids (HAA) are the most prevalent DBP in chlorinated waters, which are used as ...
Ambisonics is a complete theory for spatial audio whose building blocks are the spherical harmonics. Some of the drawbacks of low order Ambisonics, like poor source directivity and small sweet-spot, are directly related ...
In this Thesis we focus on Automatic Facial Behavior Analysis, which attempts to develop autonomous systems able to recognize and understand human facial expressions. Given the amount of information expressed by facial ...
This dissertation offers a characterization and an analysis of wh-questions in Catalan Sign Language, which show the particularity of placing wh-expressions canonically in sentence final position. This feature, specific ...
The topic of this thesis is the just distribution of the costs of children. In particular, it asks whether an ideal liberal egalitarian society owes it to the parents to ensure that the costs of children are shared between ...
In this PHD thesis I answer the question: “What holds a multinational state together?” by analyzing the political developments in the Spanish “State of Autonomies”. The results show that among the individual factors a dual ...
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 describes jobs by ...
This thesis analyzes 12 episodes from the dystopian science fiction anthology series, Black Mirror (2011-present). Episodes selected are those that, as argued in this text, depict the role of technology as replacing that ...
This dissertation aims to understand where, why and how scientific knowledge on health inequalities is produced, why and how some places have strong capacity to produce this, and what determines this capacity. It consists ...
This thesis aims to provide quantitative evidence on the flows of illegal immigrants in the U.S. and the E.U. After describing the flows in space and time (years 2000-2011), the actors involved, and the role of criminal ...
This PhD dissertation addresses how couples manage their money in intimate relationships. It is composed of 4 articles. The first one focuses on the individual and couple level dynamics behind money management systems in ...
