Fullea Urchulutegui, Javier (Date of defense: 2008-01-25)
Detailed modelling of the present-day lithospheric structure is of paramount importance to understand the evolution of the Earth in the context of plate tectonics. The objectives of this thesis are ...
Casanova Gurrera, María de los Desamparados (Date of defense: 2005-04-29)
Dependence between random variables is studied at various levels in the first part, while the last two chapters are devoted to the construction of bivariate distributions via principal components. Chapter ...
Mingorance Jiménez de la Espada, Ana (Date of defense: 2006-01-16)
The adult central nervous system (CNS) has a very little capability to regrow its connections after lesion. The lack of axonal regeneration is a multifactorial problem, which is mainly due to the presence ...
El Halimi, Rachid (Date of defense: 2005-07-22)
En la presente investigacion se presenta un "taller" de análisis avanzado de datos en el contexto de los modelos mixtos, con matrices estructuradas de varianzas-covarianzas de los efectos aleatorios y/o ...
Narberhaus, Ana (Date of defense: 2007-02-08)
1. INTRODUCCIÓN<br/><br/>La definición de prematuro es la de recién nacido de edad gestacional inferior a 37 semanas (American Academy of Pediatrics y American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, ...
Fonollosa Magrinyà, Jordi (Date of defense: 2009-07-20)
[spa] Actualmente el control de la concentración de etileno en las cámaras de almacenamiento de fruta proporciona información de gran interés sobre su estado. Por un lado, la fruta produce pequeñas ...
Garcia Alvarez, Gisela (Date of defense: 2005-03-10)
Whether a cell enters the cell cycle, undergoes apoptosis or survives is a consequence of the integration of several cellular and environmental signals. Growth factors, cell contact, and apoptotic ...
Pérez Marín, Ana María (Date of defense: 2006-03-06)
El tema central de esta tesis es la fidelización de clientes y la gestión del riesgo de negocio en entidades aseguradoras.<br/><br/>En la tesis se analiza el tiempo de permanencia del asegurado como ...
Diez Pérez, Ismael (Date of defense: 2006-12-01)
OF THE PhD.<br/><br/><br/>This PhD project has been fully developed at the department of physical-chemistry of the University of Barcelona. The work involves a fundamental study of passivity on iron ...
Miralpeix Pujol, Immaculada (Date of defense: 2008-02-29)
This dissertation analyses the effects of age on the acquisition of vocabulary in English as a Foreign Language (FL). It focusses on productive vocabulary because it is a crucial aspect in language ...