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    Violencia de género y mujeres inmigrantes 

    Antón García, Lorena (Date of defense: 2013-10-31)

    El principal objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el impacto de la violencia contra las mujeres inmigrantes en el ámbito de la pareja y la respuesta que les ofrece el sistema de justicia penal, prestando especial atención ...

    Violencia y discriminación contra las personas LGBT. Los derechos de las víctimas 

    Páez Ramírez, Manuel Yasser (Date of defense: 2021-12-15)

    La investigación pretende ofrecer elementos de juicio para cuestionar los alcances actuales de las garantías de las víctimas de violaciones a los derechos humanos en el caso de los sujetos con orientaciones sexuales y ...

    Virtual Reality based stroke neurorehabilitation: Development and Assessment of the Rehabilitation Gaming System 

    Da Silva Cameirao, Mónica (Date of defense: 2010-10-06)

    Donat el nivell d'incidència i impacte de l'ictus, hi ha la necessitat de trobar mètodes de rehabilitació més automatitzats que els actuals. Un candidat prometedor és la Realitat Virtual, on múltiples sistemes ja han estat ...

    Visiones del alma: De lo sublime a lo "numinoso" en la obra de Mark Rothko 

    Cañadas Salvador, Helena (Date of defense: 2017-09-25)

    Partimos de la presentación de la obra de Mark Rothko y de un análisis que nos descubre los “riesgos de lo sublime” en ella, para tomar después un punto de vista estético. Dirigiendo la atención al necesario acto que ...

    Visions del Cosmos: Estudi comparatiu entre les concepcions cosmogòniques gregues i egípcies 

    Ferrer Torrell, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2022-03-25)

    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 ...

    Visual data-enriched design technology for blended learning 

    Albó, Laia (Date of defense: 2019-11-28)

    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 ...

    Visual Exploration of Web Spaces 

    Pascual Cid, Victor (Date of defense: 2010-12-20)

    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 ...

    Visual identity of urban international destinations: typological analysis of the city logo and study of its value for city branding 

    De Ferrari, Lorena (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)

    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 ...

    Vocabulary acquisition in study abroad and formal instruction: an investigation on oral and written lexical development 

    Zaytseva, Victoria (Date of defense: 2016-07-01)

    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 ...

    Voice Processing and synthesis by performance sampling and spectral models 

    Bonada, Jordi (Date of defense: 2009-02-13)

    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 ...

    Voluntary disclosure of negative information in corporate communication: Can companies benefit from disclosing their ethical infractions? 

    Aktar, Ipek (Date of defense: 2011-03-21)

    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 ...

    VR-based rehabilitation strategies for functional motor recovery after stroke: individualization, reinforcement, and transfer 

    Rubio Ballester, Belén (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)

    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 ...

    Walking for transportation : estudio de los factores individuales y contextuales que influyen en el caminar como medio de transporte y de sus implicaciones en salud 

    Olabarria Saenz de Viguera, Marta (Date of defense: 2013-05-08)

    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 ...

    Water pollution, cancer and molecular mechanisms 

    Salas Díaz, Lucas Andrés (Date of defense: 2015-07-09)

    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 ...

    Wavelet-based spatial audio framework : from ambisonics to wavelets: a novel approach to spatial audio 

    Scaini, Davide (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)

    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 ...

    Weakly-supervised learning for automatic facial behaviour analysis 

    Ruiz Ovejero, Adrià (Date of defense: 2017-11-23)

    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 ...

    Wh-questions in Catalan sign language 

    Alba de la Torre, Celia (Date of defense: 2016-01-26)

    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 ...

    What do we owe parents?: distributing the costs of children 

    Trifan, Isabella Ana-Maria (Date of defense: 2019-07-26)

    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 ...

    What holds a multinational state together?: the political stability of the Spanish "state of autonomies" 

    Holesch, Adam (Date of defense: 2016-11-31)

    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 ...

    What's in a job? An exploration of what we do and how it affects labor and family outcomes 

    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 describes jobs by ...