Now showing items 1268-1287 of 1900

    Management of industrial wastewater discharges in river basins through agents'argumentation 

    Aulinas Masó, Montse (Date of defense: 2009-10-14)

    La gestió de l'aigua residual és una tasca complexa. Hi ha moltes substàncies contaminants conegudes però encara moltes per conèixer, i el seu efecte individual o col·lgectiu és difícil de predir. La identificació i avaluació ...

    Managing the impacts of extreme climatic events related to inputs of organic matter on the ecosystem services provided by water supply reservoirs 

    Munthali, Elias (Date of defense: 2024-10-17)

    ENG- Drinking water supply, one of the key ecosystem services provided by rivers, lakes and reservoirs, is under threat due to impacts of extreme climatic events (ECEs) mediated by climate change. The occurrence of ECEs ...

    Manifestacions musicals a Barcelona a través de la festa: les entrades reials (segles XV-XVIII) 

    Raventós Freixa, Jordi (Date of defense: 2006-03-31)

    El tema d'aquesta tesi és el factor de la festa en l'articulació de pràctiques musicals a Barcelona en un context que s'estén des del segle XV al XVIII. Concretament, se centra en les anomenades "Entrades Reials", unes ...

    Manifold clustering for motion segmentation 

    Zappella, Luca (Date of defense: 2011-06-30)

    En aquesta tesi s’estudia el problema de la segmentació del moviment. La tesi presenta una revisió dels principals algoritmes de segmentació del moviment, s’analitzen les característiques principals i es proposa una ...

    Manuel Brunet i Solà (1889-1956). El periodisme d'idees al servei de la "veritat personal" 

    Montero Aulet, Francesc (Date of defense: 2011-10-28)

    This doctoral thesis deals with the intellectual biography of the writer and journalist Manuel Brunet (Vic, 1889, Figueres, 1956). It reconstructs the life and professional studies of the author, and the most important ...

    Mapping the crimes of the powerful and the economic crisis: crime, state and power 

    Bernat Molina, Ignasi (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)

    The ‘Mapping the Crimes of the Powerful and the Economic Crisis: Crime, State and Power’ focuses on four recent episodes of the different crisis affecting Southern Europe. Departing from criminological literature and crimes ...

    Mass transport and fouling of novel forward osmosis thin-film composite membranes 

    Sauchelli Toran, Marc (Date of defense: 2019-07-18)

    Forward osmosis (FO) is known to be particularly efficient at treating impaired water sources with a high fouling potential. In the context of water reuse FO is being introduced as a robust pre-treatment process, usually ...

    Mass unemployment in Spain (1959-2014): productive and commercial problems of a peripheral economy in global capitalism 

    Portella Carbó, Ferran (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)

    The thesis studies one of the main problems in Spain: mass unemployment. It is not a short-term problem, but a structural feature of the Spanish socio-economic system since at least the end of the 1970s, which remains ...

    Materiales compuestos a partir de filamentos naturales y matriz plástica biobasada, y sus posibles aplicaciones tecnológicas 

    Séculi, Faust (Date of defense: 2023-10-11)

    Nowadays the problem of climate change on planet Earth has aggravated, it has become extremely important to find solutions that considerably reduce or even eliminate its causes. Among the set of solutions that have been ...

    Materiales compuestos de una poliamida de origen renovable y fibras naturales de alto rendimiento: una sólida alternativa a los materiales compuestos de polipropileno reforzados con fibra de vidrio 

    Oliver Ortega, Helena (Date of defense: 2018-07-20)

    The main goal of this thesis is the production and characterization of composites materials from a bio-based polyamide and natural fibres which could be more sustainable alternative to glass fibre reinforced polypropylene. ...

    Mágica belleza. El pensamiento mágico como fundamento original de la teoría del arte 

    Ferrer Ventosa, Roger (Date of defense: 2018-09-20)

    Artistic forms seem to be closely related to magical thinking, because of their use of symbols and representations, the creation of talismanic objects and the articulation of ritual practices. This link has fluctuated ...

    Más allá de una indemnización: autonomía y respeto en la responsabilidad civil 

    Vargas Tinoco, Alexander (Date of defense: 2020-06-15)

    This research intends to approach to the Law of Torts from its philosophical and moral foundations, to explain and justify remedies that do not involve the payment of a sum of money in this area of private law. The central ...

    Más allá del realismo sucio. Ruido, Nocilla, historia y puntos ciegos en la novela española contemporánea. Desde Mañas hasta Cercas, pasando por Fernández Mallo 

    Lobina, Matteo (Date of defense: 2019-05-17)

    This doctoral study focuses on a literary and cultural analysis of contemporary Spanish literature starting from the 1990. Historias del Kronen (Mañas, 1994) and its four sequels, represent a starting point for the analysis, ...

    Mecanismes cel·lulars en la curació de ferides a Hirudo medicinalis 

    Huguet i Blanco, Gemma (Date of defense: 1994-06-06)

    S'estudia la histologia normal de la paret corporal d'Hirudo medicinalis i els canvis morfogenètics que es donen durant el procés de cicatrització de ferides per incisió, cauterització i nitrat de plata.<br/>El procés de ...

    Mecanismos de regulación del anabolismo lipídico en el tejido adiposo del paciente obeso 

    Ortega Delgado, Francisco José (Date of defense: 2012-06-18)

    Obesity is one of the most important public health problems facing the world today. Gene expression studies applied to fat depots from obese subjects have provided important clues about the pathophysiology of adipose tissue. ...

    Mechanism of action of cyclic antimicrobial peptides 

    Díaz i Cirac, Anna (Date of defense: 2011-07-01)

    This PhD thesis is the result of the combination of experimental and computational techniques with the aim of understanding the mechanism of action of de novo cyclic decapeptides with high antimicrobial activity. By ...

    Mediación cultural en el espacio museístico: un enfoque cooperativo para alumnado de educación secundaria. Aproximación a dos casos de estudio en Quebec y Cataluña 

    Laliberté De Gagné, Élisabeth (Date of defense: 2023-01-26)

    This research is the result of a personal quest that focuses on the possibility of implementing and analyzing a mediation experience with high school students in the museum through cooperative learning experiences and to ...

    Medical imaging applied to teaching and meat science 

    Xiberta, Pau (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)

    Medical imaging has greatly progressed to become an essential technology in current clinical processes. However, advances in diagnostic imaging have not been applied to the same extent to other fields such as education and ...

    Medical imaging techniques for the analysis and measurement of composite materials 

    Julià i Juanola, Adrià (Date of defense: 2022-11-11)

    The purpose of this thesis is the research and development of methods, algorithms and tools for the analysis of composite materials. In order to improve their properties, one must employ specific techniques in order to ...

    Medición del bienestar subjetivo en la adolescencia 

    Benavente Delgado, Mariavictoria (Date of defense: 2021-02-15)

    The present thesis aims to know the psychometric properties of two scales intended to assess the subjective wellbeing of schooled adolescents and residents in urban contexts in Chile. The results obtained show that both ...