Protsenko, Viktoriia (Date of defense: 2019-01-25)
This thesis seeks to explain the affective appeal of Wong Kar-wai’s oeuvre in terms of emotional marketing. Although his working method and storytelling principles are most atypical of Hong Kong film ...
Han, Sojung (Date of defense: 2019-10-16)
Bonobos are an interesting species to study due to their unique evolutionary features such as a peaceful social nature and hypersexual behavior. The prolonged exaggerated sexual swelling in females ...
Aragón, Pablo (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)
This thesis constitutes one of the first investigations focused on characterizing online participation in civic technologies, a type of platform increasingly popular on the Internet that allows citizens ...
Brasó-Vives, Marina (Date of defense: 2019-01-18)
La duplicació és el principal mecanisme de formació de nou material genètic i d'innovació funcional. Entendre com les duplicacions sorgeixen, evolucionen, co-evolucionen i engendren noves funcions és ...
Serrat Farran, Xènia (Date of defense: 2019-11-26)
Caenorhabditis elegans provides a powerful experimental system for understanding fundamental questions in biomedical research, including the consequences of pre-mRNA splicing alterations. Here, we have ...
Ok, Pelin (Date of defense: 2019-06-06)
La investigación examina cómo las marcas europeas de moda de lujo utilizan la nostalgia en su estrategia de publicidad y marketing, y en concreto, cómo el concepto de nostalgia utilizado en los anuncios ...
Caracciolo, Giacomo (Date of defense: 2019-10-29)
Limited asset market participation is a well-known stylized fact and a widespread phenomenon even in developed economies. While existing models have already examined the effects of social security and ...
Pasqual, Elisa (Date of defense: 2019-12-03)
La aplicación de la radiación ionizante (RI) en ámbito médico ha llegado, sin duda, para salvar vidas. Sin embargo, hay una preocupación entre los expertos de salud pública y protección radiológica con ...
Yang, Guohao (Date of defense: 2019-09-03)
This thesis aims to better understand China’s structural change and productivity growth in recent decades. In the first chapter, I study the impact of infrastructure, i.e, highway construction, on China’s ...
Parra López, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
Much research has been conducted on language variation and marked speech in its various forms, such as dialects, registers, and styles. There is one variety, however, which seems to have been broadly ...