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Constructing and restraining the societies of surveillance: Accountability, from the rise of intelligence services to the expansion of personal data networks in Spain and Brazil (1975-2020)
(2021-05-31)
The objective of this study is to examine the development of socio-technical accountability mechanisms in order to: a) preserve and increase the autonomy of individuals subjected to surveillance and b) replenish the asymmetry ...
Four essays on financial risk quantification
(2020-06-08)
Esta tesis tiene como objetivo analizar el desempeño de medidas de riesgo como el Value-at-Risk (VaR) y (recientemente propuesta por el Comité de Basilea) de Expected Shortfall (ES), principalmente para cuantificar riesgo ...
Workplace Innovation: Programmes as public policy instruments. The case of the Provincial Government of Gipuzkoa
(2020-09-18)
En la era de la robotización y la digitalización aspectos como la productividad y la calidad de la vidalaboral emergen como cuestiones de gran importancia para la competitividad y progreso social. Eneste marco los programas ...
High intensity interval training effects in moderately trained athletes: triathlon training implications
(2020-11-27)
This PhD project is submitted on the basis of article compilation. The introduction, chapter 1, reviews what is currently known on the topic, summarising the main triathlete characteristics and the physiological effects ...
Strategical thinking of elite soccer coaches in Palestine: impact of competitive divisions, qualification, and experience
(2021-12-22)
The purpose of this study was to describe and explain the rationale of elite soccer coaches in Palestine when designing and selecting practice in the pre-season period of season 2019/2020. Coaching is a decision-making ...
Who controls the present controls the past?. Psychosocial effects of the Truth Commission's evaluations and the social representations of history in Brazil.
(2020-01-27)
The thesis aims to investigate the Brazilian Truth Commission's (TC) impact and evaluations and the social representations of history regarding the military regime in Brazil. Another goal was to integrate the results about ...
Multivariate dependence modeling and some financial and economic consequences
(2021-11-04)
La tesis trata sobre el análisis de estructuras de dependencia multivariantes. En este sentido, utilizamos copulas para modelizar las distribuciones multivariantes y cuantificamos su dependencia a través de la tau de ...
Moving forward health equity: implementation research on governance for health equity at local level.
(2021-11-26)
BACKGROUND: Urbanization is one of the leading sociodemographic trends of the 21st century, which makes urban areas one the most important settings for tackling current and new global challenges. In fact, the importance ...
The role of metacognitive monitoring in regulating learning in early readers
(2021-12-10)
Metacognition refers to the capacity of reflecting upon our own cognitive processes. There is an ongoing discussion in the literature on the role of metacognitive monitoring in learning and academic achievement. However, ...