Aspillaga Cuevas, Eneko (Date of defense: 2017-07-27)
Animal movement is a key biological process for the maintenance of ecosystem services, and a major concern for the conservation of biodiversity. The aim of movement ecology is to understand the causes ...
Monereo Cuscó, Oriol (Date of defense: 2016-10-20)
Gas sensors can be found in many activities ranging from environment protection, risk prevention, agriculture and even in food, chemical, and petrochemical industries. There exist different technologies ...
Torrent Juan, Roger (Date of defense: 2016-06-02)
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disorder, mainly characterized by a progressive loss of midbrain dopaminergic (DA) neurons, located in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc), ...
De Luca, Antonella (Date of defense: 2016-09-26)
In the last decades, the scientific community has been involved in the research of new kinds of contaminants generally known as of “emerging concern” (CECs). The harmfulness of CECs, even at small ...
Vergara Díaz, Omar (Date of defense: 2019-11-26)
Global climate change effects on agroecosystems together with increasing world population is already threatening food security and endangering ecosystem stability. Meet global food demand with crops ...
Ariño i Prats, Andreu (Date of defense: 2015-02-03)
El Medi Intergalàctic permet una caracterització de propietats bàsiques de l'univers tals com paràmetres fonamentals del model cosmològic, el creixement de pertorbacions primordials de densitat i ...
Canadell Cano, Marta (Date of defense: 2014-07-04)
The subject of the theory of Dynamical Systems is the evolution of systems with respect to time. Hence, it has many applications to other areas of science, such as Physics, Biology, Economics, etc. and ...
Fernandez Boix, Alberto (Date of defense: 2014-11-20)
This dissertation is devoted to the study of Cartier algebras and local cohomology modules; more precisely, we show that the Cartier algebra of a complete Stanley-Reisner ring R can only be either ...
Samà Monsonís, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-12-15)
The air and environment quality is, nowadays, one of the main political concerns of the governmental institutions. Suitable gas detection is nowadays an important requirement, which is provided by gas ...
Biete Castells, Cristina (Date of defense: 2019-10-22)
Studies of mountain belts worldwide show that along-strike changes are common in their foreland fold-and-thrust belts. These are typically caused by processes related to fault reactivation and/or fault ...