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Interactivity in children's entertainment
Using the popular, multi-platform, Catalan children's channel Super3 as a case study, a doctoral thesis at the UAB has studied interactivity in children's television and in Internet content. This research has tried to see how children interact with this type of entertainment...
Menéndez Pelayo's contribution to Spanish philosophy
Despite the ideological prejudices that for many years have accompanied the analysis of the work of Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, this doctoral thesis at the Department of Philosophy of the UAB shows how Menéndez Pelayo's contributions to Spanish...
What attracts our visual attention?
A doctoral thesis conducted at the Department of Computer Science of the UAB has studied which parts of an image attract our attention the most and which parts seem aesthetically pleasing to us and which not. The study suggests that regions that attract our attention can be predicted by the...
Improving schools through more professional management
The doctoral thesis read by Marita Navarro at the Applied Pedagogy Department of the UAB, falls into one of the classic areas of organization: management as a key to the improvement of schools. This work seeks a better understanding of professional development within...
Tuberculosis in Barcelona, an unsolved problem
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that affects each year to 8.8 million people and produces about 1.4 million deaths worldwide, mostly in poor countries. The problem of its frequent association with HIV, has been added increasing antibiotic resistance mainly due to poor...
Moroccan immigrants in the Pitiüses Islands
Moroccan Immigrants in the Pitiüses Islands are the focus of Ivone Puig Artigas's doctoral thesis, read at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at UAB. Puig has studied the factors that help or hinder integration and acculturation of the immigrants, their status and...
