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Rodríguez Contreras, Alejandra (Date of defense: 2013-06-06)
Nowadays biopolymers are a good alternative to petrochemical polymers. One of these biopolymers is Poly[(R)-3- Hydroxybutyrate] (PHB) which is produced from renewable resources by various microorganisms and, after its use ...
Rodríguez, María D. (Date of defense: 2020-10-26)
Compton cameras are used for radiological imaging, which can be useful in environmental applications and especially in determining the position of hidden sources. Current Compton cameras are based on pixelated detectors ...
Yang, Xuefei (Date of defense: 2021-07-06)
Textile wastewater often shows high color concentration, containing a large range of organic chemicals, with high chemical oxygen demand as well as hard-degradation materials. Therefore, understanding and developing effective ...
Casas Carné, María del Pilar (Date of defense: 2010-03-25)
Cotxes, camions, tractors, avions... tots necessiten els neumàtics com a component imprescindible per al seu funcionament. Malauradament, degut al desgast per ús, els neumàtics tenen una vida útil limitada que obliga a ...
Triguero Enguídanos, Jordi (Date of defense: 2019-03-08)
In this thesis, different theoretical approaches designed to study a wide interval of length- and/or time-scales have been used to examine the microscopic properties of chemical systems with varying degrees of complexity ...
Vegué, Marina (Date of defense: 2018-03-23)
Structure is fundamental in shaping the types of computations that neuronal circuits can perform. Explaining the laws that determine the connectivity properties of brain networks and their implications in neuronal dynamics ...
Calderer Perich, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2010-06-23)
La present tesi es basa en l'estudi dels processos de bioremediació com a tecnologies de descontaminació d'aqüífers.<br/>Concretament, es pretén estudiar la desnitrificació i la decloració reductiva com a tecnologies de ...
Casamitjana Díaz, Adrià (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that constitutes the most common dementia pathology. It represents a global epidemic that expands exponentially as the life expectancy increases with no yet useful ...
Yang, Yali (Date of defense: 2015-09-29)
La patata es una fuente de carbohidratos, de versátil preparación y presentación. Dependiendo del proceso de cocción y de las características morfológicas y nutricionales de la patata estos efectos pueden ser positivos o ...
García Olaya, Jerónimo (Date of defense: 2006-04-20)
The magnetically confined plasmas study is one of the most promising research fields in the present days due to the high perspectives of unlimited and clean energy that fusion has generated. In this framework, the stellarator ...
Bellot Pujalte, Pau (Date of defense: 2017-05-08)
A cell is a the basic structural and functional unit of every living thing, it is protein-based an that regulates itself. The cell eats to stay alive, it grows and develops; reacting to the environment, while subjected to ...
Alcaraz Iranzo, David (Date of defense: 2020-06-23)
Graphene is the first of the 2D-material family. It is formed by carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice, which confers it intriguing physical properties that are still being discovered nowadays. A fundamental advantage ...
Eskenati, Amir Reza (Date of defense: 2023-06-09)
(English) The most common composite materials for strengthening building structures are divided into two dif ferent types based on the matrix’s composition, organics (polymers) or inorganics (cement, lime). The hybrid ...
Mao, Yanxin (Date of defense: 2018-09-06)
The hydro-mechanical behaviour of soils during freezing and thawing is a coupled multi-physics process that has important practical applications. To cite but a few examples, on artificial ground freezing –to provide ...
Castejón i Compnay, Oriol (Date of defense: 2015-07-16)
The main object of study of this thesis are invariant manifolds in the field of dynamical systems. We deal with two different and independent topics, namely, the study of exponentially small splitting of invariant manifolds ...
Palacios Rosas, Adriana (Date of defense: 2011-01-11)
Entre els accidents greus que poden ocórrer a les instal·lacions industrials o durant el transport de substàncies perilloses, els dolls de foc presenten un especial interès. Tot i que tenen una distància relativament més ...
Gavidia Bovadilla, Giovana (Date of defense: 2018-10-21)
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a progressive and neurodegenerative disorder characterized by pathological brain changes starting several years before clinical symptoms appear. Earlier and accurate identification of those brain ...
Affes Salah, Rim (Date of defense: 2013-05-14)
Anaerobic digestion is a biochemical process that transforms diverse categories of biomass feedstock to renewable energy, in the form of methane, and contributes to resources conservation and greenhouse gases emission ...
Morales Gámez, Laura Teresa (Date of defense: 2012-01-23)
Polymer clay nanocomposites of polyamides and biodegradable polymers with three kinds of organomodified clays were prepared by different techniques (in situ polymerization, solution casting, and melt mixing). The polymers ...
Espriu, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2017-07-17)
Nowadays nuclear power plants (NPP) and dedicated facilities are storing the spent nuclear fuel (SNF). In the case of Spain, the NPP have enough space in their pools to keep storing the SNF produced from their activity; ...