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Assurance quality – measures and determinants

JHARNI, SHERINE

**Purpose** – This thesis examines how sustainability assurance quality can be measured and identifies the key determinants that influence its effectiveness. It addresses the lack of a robust empirical proxy for assurance quality by investigating whether material sustainability restatements can serve as an outcome-base...

Automating startup evaluation: from qualitative descriptions to a multidimensional, text-based measure of maturity and investment readiness

MARIANNELLI, VERONICA

In recent decades, the world of startups has found itself playing a central role in the analysis of economic, technological and social transformations. Startups are not only one of the main engines of innovation, capable of profoundly changing market dynamics or increasing productivity, but they contribute to reshaping...

Cavidades anoftálmicas y prótesis oculares. Comparación de la perspectiva de pacientes y ocularistas. Protocolo de manejo de cavidades anoftálmicas

Martínez Fernández, Elvira

La cavidad anoftálmica (CA) es una órbita sin globo ocular, por causa congénita, quirúrgica o atrófica, que conlleva pérdida visual total. Tras la pérdida del ojo se adapta una prótesis ocular (PO) externa, destinada a restaurar el aspecto anatómico y estético. Los ocularistas (OCU), técnicos especializados, fabrican l...

Regulating the environmental impact of data centres in the European Union

CROSERA, Arianna

The thesis examines two research questions related to the rising environmental impact of data centres in the European Union, the first focused on how data centres are regulated at the EU level from an environmental perspective, and the second on how they should be regulated. This is a socio-legal study grounded in fiel...

Structurally unjust production and consumption : a Youngian theory of private law

PAULESU, Carolina

Production and consumption processes under capitalism are structurally unjust. Through their operation, large groups of people are systematically oppressed and dominated, while other groups benefit from this injustice. Those who are oppressed and dominated are at the intersection of multiple oppressions, including sexi...

The use of immersive media to cover armed conflict in Colombia

Castro Lotero, Andrés David

This doctoral dissertation investigates the use of 360º technology as a journalistic tool for covering the Colombian armed conflict and supporting narratives of peacebuilding. Using a qualitative multiple-case study approach, it examines four immersive media projects that document the post-conflict experiences of victi...

Community Question Answering : an Investigation into the Influence of Question Expansion based on User's Explicit Information on Learning to Rank Q&A Models

Sousa Maia, Macedo

Question Answering (Q&A) community forums provide an open and collaborative environment where users can post subjective questions and answers based on their life experiences or knowledge of specific domains. User interaction in online forums generates thousands of comments on different subjects, resulting in a massive...

Role of the trachea in the formation of the abdominal epidermal layer during metamorphosis of Drosophila melanogaster

Bisai, Bitarka

[cat] Un repte central en biologia del desenvolupament és entendre com els diferents teixits coordinen el seu creixement i remodelatge per produir un cos adult funcional. Això requereix la integració precisa dels senyals hormonals sistèmics amb la comunicació específica entre teixits, assegurant alhora la precisió temp...

Development of highly efficient green methodologies for the synthesis of bioactive compounds

PARASCHIV, ANDREI

Targeting the tumor microenvironment for fluorescence imaging applications

RUSCONI, STEFANO