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The economic consequences of the Brexit vote
(2019)
On June 2016, the British people voted to leave the European Union. This unexpected result provides us with the opportunity to study the impact of the vote on the economy. We replicate the work done by Born et al. (2017) ...
Poverty in the Basque Country and poverty reduction measures
(2019)
After the Great Recession, there is a wide debate about the implementation of Minimum Income Schemes (MIS) in order to reduce poverty. In this paper, we analyze the evolution of poverty and inequality in the Basque Country ...
The impact of technological progress on the labor market: employment polarization in Europe
(2019)
Following findings of recent literature, we analyze which are the main effects of the routine-bias technical change on employment. The master thesis shows evidence of employment polarization pattern for 16 European countries ...
Low Carbon Shipping-An Analysis of the Effectiveness of 'Slow Steaming' on Merchant Ships
(2019-07-26)
This dissertation purports to analyse the effectiveness of the 'Slow Steaming' technique on merchant ships, determining its economic and environmental impact. To this effect, databases such as Scopus and WoS (Web of Science) ...
Spanish-Swedish neural machine translation for the civil engineering domain
(2019-07-17)
[EU] Proiektu honetan punta-puntako itzulpen automatiko neuronalaren domeinu egokitzapena aztertu da. Horretarako, suediera-gaztelera bikoterako lau itzultzaile automatiko garatu ditugu: domeinu orokorreko bi sistema (bat ...
A common semantic space for monolingual and cross-lingual meta-embeddings
(2019-10-29)
This master’s thesis presents a new technique for creating monolingual and cross-lingual meta-embeddings. Our method integrates multiple word embeddings created from complementary techniques, textual sources, knowledge ...
Automatic stance detection on political discourse in Twitter
(2019-11-29)
The majority of opinion mining tasks in natural language processing (NLP) have been focused on sentiment analysis of texts about products and services while there is comparatively less research on automatic detection of ...
Performance of Spanish Construction Companies in International Markets with Emphasis on Africa
(2019-12-04)
In the last fifteen years, international contractors have shifted their focus to new and emerging markets. These companies target regions that can provide a considerable business growth, even if they are located in countries ...
Analysing energy poverty in Spain
(2019)
In this thesis we study energy poverty in Spain both at the level of concept and reality, using the Spanish family budgets survey for the year 2010. First we introduce the phenomenon of energy poverty analysing lightly its ...
Massive finite element computations for deep learning inversion
(2019-09-24)
We focus on the inversion of borehole resistivity measurements in real time. To perform
this task, we propose the use of Deep Learning methods. One critical task on this en-
deavor is to produce a large database that can ...