Corral López, María José (Date of defense: 2008-09-22)
The occurrence of auditory changes in a stable environment may cause distraction. The pattern of this effect in the present thesis depended on the salience of the feature undergoing auditory change, the ...
Ortega Torres, Silvia (Date of defense: 2017-07-20)
In the world around us, it is easy to think in different situations in which there are temperature gradients available. These could be converted into a great source of energy if using the proper technology. ...
Fortuny Andreu, Jordi (Date of defense: 2007-01-12)
The syntactic component of the faculty of language is a device responsible for ordering features or clusters of features, usually called categories. As to the syntactic component is concerned, Universal ...
Cornet Bartolomé, David (Date of defense: 2019-07-09)
Infertility, defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the inability to conceive after a year of unprotected sex, is a disease that affects 1 in 9 couples of reproductive age worldwide. Most of ...
Pascual Sala, Jordi (Date of defense: 2013-10-30)
Animals have to eat a certain amount of food every day to survive. Since trophic resources are usually found in exposed locations, animals are in risk of predation while feeding, and face the well known ...
Chiabrera, Francesco Maria (Date of defense: 2019-06-28)
Interface-dominated materials such as nanocrystalline thin films have emerged as an enthralling class of materials able to engineer functional properties of transition metal oxides widely used in energy ...
Verdolini, Norma (Date of defense: 2018-11-29)
The poorest outcomes in bipolar disorder are represented by self-aggressive (i.e. deliberate self-harm, attempted or completed suicide) and hetero-aggressive violent behaviors. A better understanding ...
Merino Perez, Irene (Date of defense: 2021-10-22)
In this PhD work, we carry out a geophysical and geological study of two classical examples of rifted continental margins: the Gulf of Lions (GoL), located in the Western Mediterranean, and the Tagus ...
Rosell i Segura, Jordi (Date of defense: 2017-11-10)
Europe's cities – home to 70% of the EU population and generating over 80% of the Union's GDP - are connected by one of the world's best transport systems (European Commission Regional Policy, 2011). ...
Pintanel Costa, Pol (Date of defense: 2018-11-26)
Temperature is likely to be one of the most important abiotic factors given how it affects the physiology of the whole organism and as a consequence, it has an essential role in ecology and evolution. ...