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The fall of the son a comparative analysis of Milton's Satan, Mary Shelley's "monster" and J. K. Rowling's Lord Voldemort
(2022-03-08)Through the ages, religion has been a fundamental factor in the development of different civilizations and its impact has been reflected in numerous aspects, not only socially and economically, but also literary. Despite ... -
The frustrated accesion of the European Union to the European Convention of Human Rights: a brief analysis of opinion 2/13 of the Court of Justice of European Union
(2016-09-27)Trabajo redactado en inglés sobre la última sentencia 2/13, del Tribunal de Justicia de Europa sobre la adhesión de la Unión Europea al Convenio Europeo de Derechos Humanos fundamentales. Análisis de la opinión 2/13 y sus ... -
The Galois theory of the lemniscate
(2022-12-20)[EN] Geometric constructions with straightedge and compass go as far back as to the time of the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. In fact, there are three classical problems in Greek mathematics related to straightedge and ... -
The general Burnside problem
(2023-01-25)[EN] The Burnside problems are among the most important problems in group theory in the 20th century. In this project, we will focus on the General Burnside Problem, which asks whether a finitely generated periodic group ... -
The Great Gatsby: An Analysis of the American Dream
(2020-05-25)The American Dream and its relation to the American literary production is a subject that has been exposed to detailed study throughout time. In order to contribute to this field of studies, this paper will analyze the ... -
The Great Recession and its recovery: a growth accounting analysis for selected OECD countries
(2022-12-14)The Great Recession is the name given to the period of economic crisis that began at the end of 2007 in most countries, and its severity and duration was very different. In this paper we analyze that period for some of ... -
The Importance of Storytelling for Children and Adults Alike: Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan
(2018-12-04)Since the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Peter Pan (1904), much has been studied and said about these two stories and their authors Lewis Carroll and J. M. Barrie, respectively. They have ... -
The Infanticide in Toni Morrison's "Beloved"- A Mother's Desperate Cry
(2020-05-25)This thesis explores Toni Morrison’s ability to put into words the most dreadful and spiteful situation of the infanticide narrated in Beloved . Morrison’s skilled usage of words arouses to induce the reader to be empathetic ... -
The influence of Basque and Spanish on the acquisition of English false friends: a cross-sectional study
(2018-12-04)Recently there has been a growing interest in the acquisition of vocabulary in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Experts have conducted a vast amount of research on lexical processing and organization, examining ... -
The Influence of CLIL on Receptive Vocabulary: A Preliminary Study
In the last two or three decades, being able to communicate in a foreign language has become an essential trait of any European citizen due to globalisation and migration, resulting in a multi-ethnic and multilingual ... -
The influence of new technologies in foreign language learning
The new technologies have become part of our societies especially in the so-called developed countries and it is hard to conceive our daily routines without them. This paper explores the use of new technologies in foreign ... -
The influence of pro-environmental agricultural practices on carbon content and the activity of related enzymes (beta-glucosidase, cellulase and invertase) in soil after four years of winter wheat monoculture
(2017-01-10)Some pro-environmental agricultural practices (various tillage practices, straw management, bio-fertilizer application) are tested after five years of winter wheat monoculture in order to assess their influence on soil ... -
The interaction landscape of amyloid beta-Zn(II) from molecular dynamics simulations
(2021-02-26)Abstract (English) Amyloid fibrils are stable forms of misfolded proteins associated with numerous neurode-generative diseases. Among these, Alzheimer’s disease may be the most prevalent, with over 50 million dementia ... -
The mechanical behavior of the metal sheet facades
(2017-11)[EN]Building construction is an ancient human activity. Human shelters were at first very simple and, perhaps, lasted only a few days or months. Over time, however, they began more durable and then spreaded, appearing ... -
The Memory Behind the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.
(2023-04-17)This work aims to study the memory of one of the most challenging wars in the recent history of the United States of America through the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. Vietnam was not like other wars. It ... -
The Monsters Within: Gothic Monstrosity in Dracula, Frankenstein, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and its Role in Nineteenth Century English Society
Since ancient times, monsters have populated the human mind and, along with us, they have evolved throughout the centuries. This evolution was finally delineated in the nineteenth-century, when monsters ... -
The Mutually Unbiased Bases problem via the Bloch representation
(2021-12-03)[EN] During the last decades, the term “Second Quantum Revolution” has been widely used among authors to refer to the emerging quantum science and technology, such as quantum computation, quantum metrology or Quantum ... -
The never-ending myth: revision of the western frontier in U.S. contemporary dystopias
(2020-11-24)Even though dystopian literature transports the readers into futuristic fictional scenarios, its undertone mirrors the concerns and fears of the authors’ time of existence. Thus, the genre does not describe the incoming ... -
The Newsroom. Análisis de la comunicación en una organización
(2016-09-26)[ES] “El punto inicial de la actual Edad de Oro de las series en TV se suele situar en el momento en que la cadena HBO se decidió a producir sus propias series dramáticas de larga duración (primero Oz, después The Sopranos, ... -
The origins of women's rights movement in the United States: the Seneca Falls Convention
(2020-05-25)In the 19th century, women had very limited or almost inexistent rights. They lived in a male dominated world where they had restricted access to many fields and they were considered to be an ornament of their husband in ...