Now showing items 4666-4685 of 42399

    Brown macroalgae (Phaeophyceae) as an alternative and sustainable source of novel antimicrobial compounds to improve food safety 

    Rubiño Campoy, Susana (Date of defense: 2023-07-28)

    Macroalgae have been recognized as an interesting source of compounds with multiple applications in different fields due to their various bioactivities since current trends are moving towards the use of alternative compounds ...

    Browsing through products and people: online review, ratings, and swiping 

    Hosseini, Rahil (Date of defense: 2020-09-09)

    In this thesis, I explored three topics, each addressing a different aspect online search for products and people. In chapter one, we investigated whether consumers’ response to online product reviews depends, not only on ...

    Brujería, dominación y libertad en el Caribe neogranadino y la Cuba de entre siglos a partir de Los cortejos del Diablo, de Germán Espinosa, y Biografía de un cimarrón, de Miguel Barnet 

    Salazar Carreño, Ronald (Date of defense: 2023-01-18)

    [spa] La magia, como un elemento disruptivo, que ensancha el marco perceptivo, epistémico o cognoscitivo del hombre, ha estado presente también en sus manifestaciones artísticas. Por ejemplo, durante siglos, la literatura ...

    Bruno Taut e il Ministero della Cultura turco. Traiettorie professionali nella Turchia Repubblicana (1936-1938) 

    Gasco, Giorgio (Date of defense: 2007-10-15)

    La tesis se compone de cuatro partes. <br/>La primera tiene carácter introductivo, ofreciendo un visión general de la breve pero intensa experiencia profesional de Bruno Taut en Turquía. En particular evidencia como el ...

    Bubble and droplet flow phenomena at different gravity levels 

    Suñol Galofré, Francesc (Date of defense: 2011-07-19)

    Two-phase flows are encountered in a wide range of applications both on-ground and in space. The dynamics of such flows in the absence of gravity is completely different from that in normal gravity due to the absence of ...

    Budding botanists: Diversity and distribution of children's ethnobotanical knowledge in Madagascar 

    Porcher, Vincent Clement Camille (Date of defense: 2023-10-02)

    Els infants són essencials per a la transmissió biocultural i per documentar la diversitat biocultural és crucial entendre com perceben, coneixen, viuen i utilitzen les plantes. Tot i això, hi ha mancances en la documentació ...

    El buen hacer. El respeto al oficio desde los valores tradicionales como propuesta metodológica para una práctica fotográfica actual 

    Martín Fernández, Diego (Date of defense: 2016-01-28)

    La ruta propuesta en esta investigación comienza con una introducción en la que se analiza la idea básica del “buen hacer” en la praxis del fotógrafo. Para ello, se empieza con una breve panorámica sobre el interés que ...

    Building a decision : support methodolgy to define ecosystem services bundles and to analyze trade-offs in diverse landscapes : application to Ecuadorian ecosystems 

    Delgado Medina, Fátima (Date of defense: 2020-02-07)

    A key challenge of ecosystem management is determining how to manage multiple ecosystem services across landscapes. Enhancing provisioning ecosystem services (i.e., food, timber, etc.) might lead to tradeoffs between ...

    Building a Scenario of Physics Beyond the Standard Model in the Flavor Sector 

    Arnan Vendrell, Pere (Date of defense: 2020-09-04)

    Recently lepton flavor universality tests in colliders have reported tensions with the Standard Model, providing an experimental hint at low energies of the effect of a new high energy theory. These tensions are known as ...

    Building an architecture of everyday life in South Korea: mass housing estates in Seoul as an instrument of modernization, 1962-2008 

    Brossa Balcells, Marc (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)

    The mass housing estates – apat’u tanji in Korean – that were developed in Seoul during the second half of the twentieth century are the most characteristic spatial practice of the South Korean modernization project. They ...

    Building emancipatory strategies, producing political subjects: alternative food economies in the basque country and Greece in the crisis 

    Calvário, Rita (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)

    Las economías alternativas se presentan comúnmente como un resultado de la voluntad, o como una reacción espontánea y acumulativa a un impacto, ya sea la crisis o el neoliberalismo en general. Su destino es transformar el ...

    Building ethernet connectivity services for provider networks 

    Bonada i Cruells, Eduard (Date of defense: 2012-07-16)

    Network providers are motivated to deploy Ethernet in their infrastructures. However, this represents a new application for Ethernet technology that leads to new requirements. In Ethernet networks, the Rapid Spanning Tree ...

    Building Human Spinal Cord Organoids (huSpineOrg) biomodels to study neural tube defects 

    Blanco Ameijeiras, Jose Manuel (Date of defense: 2023-03-24)

    [eng] The Central nervous system (CNS) originates from the coordinated events that result into neural specification and the morphogenic events that shape the neural tube (NT). Then, the embryonic NT should grow and generate ...

    Building information modeling for facility managers 

    Alavi, Hamidreza (Date of defense: 2022-10-11)

    A Decision Support System (DSS) can help facility managers to improve building performance, occupants’ comfort, and energy efficiency during the Operation and Maintenance (O&M) phase. These DSSs are normally data-intensive ...

    Building knowledge in performance measurement and management: A critical realist approach 

    Armstrong, Ryan (Date of defense: 2018-12-19)

    Within management and organizational studies, researchers and practitioners alike have maintained a constant interest in the topic performance management as a means of improving individual and organizational performance. ...

    Building legitimacy under bombs: syrian local revolutionary governance’s quest for trust and peace 

    Salameh, Nour (Date of defense: 2017-09-28)

    Although, Local Governance Entities in opposition-controlled areas in Syria introduce themselves as governmental bodies, their role and agency go beyond the traditional definition of local governance which limits them to ...

    Building sustanibility and trust in the usage of electronic identification using technology acceptance model 

    Seven, Asli (Date of defense: 2015-07-03)

    El propósito general de esta disertación fue analizar las razones para no usar más eficientemente la identificación electrónica y proponer un modelo conceptual. Para conseguir esto, un estudio empírico realizado sobre una ...

    Building up molecular complexity by Ni-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions 

    Sun, Shangzheng (Date of defense: 2020-12-15)

    En línia amb la investigació desenvolupada al nostre grup basada en l’elaboració de noves reaccions d’acoblament creuat, hem decidit centrar la tesis doctoral en l’estudi de la formació de nous enllaços Csp3–Csp3, utilitzant ...

    Building up molecular complexity via C-H functionalization and skeletal rearrangements 

    Gutiérrez Bonet, Alvaro (Date of defense: 2016-01-15)

    L'obtenció de molècules orgànicas complexes a partir de simpl precursors és, avui en dia encara, de gran interès en el camp de la química sintética. En els darrers anys, la funcionalizació d´enllaços C-H en les molèculas ...

    Building urban destination brands in Europe: re-conceptualizing the relationship between brand image and brand personality in website communication practices 

    Vinyals-Mirabent, Sara (Date of defense: 2018-02-08)

    Destinations must project a strong and differentiated brand image to position themselves in a competitive market. To this end, official websites have become a key instrument in the portrayal of the desired image and as the ...