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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 ... -
The outset of mental torture. Through the lens of the Ticking Time Bomb Scenario
(2016-07-21)No doubt shall be placed when qualifying torture as one of the cruellest crime offences against human beings. It is widely known that the first torture practices go back to the Middle Ages, where torture mechanisms and ... -
The potential of writing for L2 learning: Collaborative writing
This TFG focuses on how collaborative writing in an L2 can be an effective opportunity for L2 acquisition. For that, it revises six pieces of research that investigate how different variables (such as proficiency, corrective ... -
The problem of multilingualism in the European Union: a historical perspective and evolution
(2022-03-08)The reality of multilingualism in the European institutions is a more complex issue than its motto: United in Diversity. The increasing penetration of English in the everyday use of European citizens and its establishment ... -
The Progress of the English Progressive
This paper addresses the diachronic development of the periphrastic construction, beon/wesan + the participial ending -ende in Old English, into the progressive construction in Modern English. Even though there are two ... -
The propagation of nerve pulses: From the Hodgkin-Huxley model to the soliton theory
(2014-06-23)The present project aims to describe and study the nature and transmission of nerve pulses. First we review a classical model by Hodgkin-Huxley which describes the nerve pulse as a pure electric signal which propagates due ... -
The queen of Carthage and her trojan lover: a comparative study of the relationship between Dido and Aeneas from antiquity to modernity
(2020-12-21)The relevance of Virgil´s The Aeined has prevailed over time and specifically Dido´s story has awaken the interest of several authors that have rewritten their version in different periods. From Virgil´s passive characterization ... -
The Queer West: Homophobia in The Power of the Dog and Brokeback Mountain
(2024-05-06)[EN] The cinematographic success of the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain and the 2021 film The Power of the Dog symbolises the public’s interest in LGBTQ+ stories about the American West and the need for appreciation and ...