Pulido Companys, Alba (Date of defense: 2014-07-18)
In this thesis, several physico-chemical phenomena occurring at the two-dimensional environment of a Langmuir monolayer are studied. In the first section, the characterization of Langmuir monolayers ...
Guilera Sala, Jordi (Date of defense: 2013-07-19)
Ethyl octyl ether is a bioethanol-derived component that has excellent properties as diesel fuel. This work proved that ethyl octyl ether can be produced successfully in liquid-phase at the temperature ...
Guart Torres, Albert (Date of defense: 2013-10-31)
The thesis with title "Identification of plastic material constituents in water and development of migration assays" has as the main objective the identification of the plastic components in the water ...
Pérez-Obiol Castañeda, Axel (Date of defense: 2014-02-11)
In this thesis we have described the weak Lambda N to NN interaction, which is the main responsible for the decay of heavy hypernuclei, within the effective field theory (EFT) framework. The EFT is ...
Payo Payo, Ana (Date of defense: 2017-04-28)
The overarching aim of my thesis was to assess the role of environmental variability and specially of perturbations in the population dynamics of social vertebrates. Our results emphasize the need to ...
Sáez Calvo, Carles (Date of defense: 2019-07-22)
En esta tesis se estudian problemas relacionados con acciones de grupos finitos en 4-variedades diferenciables y simplécticas. Se prueba que toda 4-variedad diferenciable cerrada X admite una constante ...
Pérez Carrasco, Rubén (Date of defense: 2013-02-04)
Cells are the minimum unit of life. They are born, they eat, the may grow, they may move, and, eventually, they die. By contrast, from a physicist point of view, cells are systems out of equilibrium ...
Repchevskiy, Dmitry (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
The aim of this thesis is to develop standard and practical approaches for the semantic integration of biological data and services. The thesis considers various scenarios where ontologies may benefit ...
Nadal Sala, Daniel (Date of defense: 2019-11-28)
Semi-arid environments are zones where annual precipitation is less than a half of annual potential evapotranspiration, yet water availability is high enough to allow tree growth. Climate change is ...
Monlleó Mas, Ester (Date of defense: 2016-11-25)
Gaucher disease (GD) is one of the most prevalent lysosomal storage diseases.A mutation on gene gba1 generates a misfolded enzyme acid β-glucosidase. Due to this, this enzyme is not properly transported ...