Therapeutic potential of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide and epigallocatechin gallate in motor and cognitive deficits of Huntington's disease models 

    Cabezas Llobet, Núria (Fecha de defensa: 2019-02-28)

    Huntington's disease (MH) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a motor dysfunction, cognitive impairment, and psychiatric symptoms. At neuropathological level, it has been described that cognitive ...

    Three bibliometric analysis articles on the application of compositional analysis theory (CoDa) in the social science 

    Navarro-López, Carolina (Fecha de defensa: 2022-11-14)

    Compositional data analysis is a recently applied methodology with great potential for expansion in multiple scientific disciplines.This doctoral thesis aims to help the dissemination and transfer of knowledge about the ...

    Three essays on hard skills, soft skills, risk attitudes and entrepreneurship 

    Correa Pinzón, John Enrique (Fecha de defensa: 2022-11-18)

    This thesis studies the effects of hard skills and soft skills and risk attitudes on the likelihood of starting a company in the US. Hard skills are those skills that can be learned and trained. They are cognitive in nature. ...

    Three essays on housing economics: the impact of COVID-19 on short-, medium- and long-term rental housing 

    Llaneza Hesse, Catalina (Fecha de defensa: 2023-12-19)

    This dissertation evaluates the pandemic's impact on three coexisting urban rental markets: traditional long-term rentals (LTR), short-term rentals (STR) primarily catering to tourists, and seasonal month-by-month rentals ...

    Time misalignments in fault detection and diagnosis 

    Llanos Rodríguez, David Alejandro (Fecha de defensa: 2008-10-17)

    El desalineamiento temporal es la incorrespondencia de dos señales debido a una distorsión en el eje temporal. La Detección y Diagnóstico de Fallas (Fault Detection and Diagnosis-FDD) permite la detección, el diagnóstico ...

    Tools for 3D point cloud registration 

    Roure Garcia, Ferran (Fecha de defensa: 2017-03-08)

    In this thesis, we did an in-depth review of the state of the art of 3D registration, evaluating the most popular methods. Given the lack of standardization in the literature, we also proposed a nomenclature and a ...

    Tornar. Els paisatges de la inquietud en la narrativa catalana de principis del segle XXI 

    Puig Parnau, Maria (Fecha de defensa: 2020-03-06)

    This dissertation is built on the basis that during the first decades of the twenty-first century, it has appeared a diverse corpus of Catalan prose-works characterized by a new representation of both the imaginary and the ...

    Tourism demand in Spain: trip duration and budget structure, a comparison of low cost and legacy airline users 

    Ferrer Rosell, Berta (Fecha de defensa: 2014-05-27)

    This thesis compares the behaviour of tourists arriving to Spain by low cost airlines or by legacy airlines, in terms of length of stay and travel budget allocation. It also segments low cost users according to travel ...

    Tourism destination zoning and governance in border regions 

    Blasco Franch, Daniel (Fecha de defensa: 2014-01-27)

    Debates on the creation and management of tourism destinations have increased during the last decades. This dissertation endeavours to contribute to the literature on tourism destinations planning and governance, with ...

    Tourist behavior in a cross-border area: the case of Nicosia, Cyprus 

    Díaz Sauceda, Judit (Fecha de defensa: 2016-07-13)

    Tourists are crossing borders naturally when consuming an area. Therefore, cross-border tourism studies are gaining relevance. A qualitative analysis showed the lack of research on cross-border tourism from the demand side. ...

    Towards a high-performance computing finite element simulation framework for virtual testing of composite structures 

    Quintanas Corominas, Adrià (Fecha de defensa: 2019-10-11)

    his doctoral thesis aims at developing and implementing a computational framework for performing virtual testing of composite structures using a High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment. In this sense, this thesis ...

    Towards better management of combined sewer systems. A methodology based on low-cost monitoring 

    Montserrat Royuela, Albert (Fecha de defensa: 2015-07-03)

    In combined sewer systems (CSS) wastewater and stormwater flow through the same pipes. During severe rain episodes, the excess combined flow of untreated wastewater and stormwater is released out from the system through ...

    Towards socially sustainable smart cities: observations and potentials from digitizing participatory planning 

    Bouzguenda, Islam (Fecha de defensa: 2021-02-01)

    This thesis contributes to the current debate on the relationship between the participation of digital citizens in urban planning and social sustainability within the framework of the smart city concept. Recent studies ...

    Towards the implementation of a biotechnology for biogas upgrading: role of bacteria in siloxane removal 

    Boada Cahueñas, Ellana (Fecha de defensa: 2020-07-20)

    Biogas is a highly recognized alternative to fossil fuels towards a sustainable energy production. Massive use of biogas depends on the removal of contaminants that may affect performance of processing equipment and energy ...

    Towards the implementation of ecosystem management: a multi-level assessment of a small scale Mediterranean multi-specific fishery 

    Dimitriadis, Caterina (Fecha de defensa: 2015-10-16)

    Fisheries are complex systems, in which the process of assessment and management should explicitly consider the ecological, social and economic attributes of the system. For a responsible and sustainable management of ...

    Trace elements biogeochemistry in high mountain lake catchments: identifying anthropogenic versus natural components from the atmospheric contamination legacy in remote natural areas 

    Bacardit Peñarroya, Montserrat (Fecha de defensa: 2011-06-01)

    Human activities have been interfering with the natural biogeochemical cycles of trace elements since the ancient civilizations. Although they are inaccessible and remote, high mountain lake catchments are irrefutably ...

    Tracing the creation and evaluation of accessible Open Educational Resources through learning analytics 

    Ávila Garzón, Cecilia (Fecha de defensa: 2018-06-12)

    The adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) has been continuously growing and with it the need to addressing the diversity of students’ learning needs. Because of that, OER should meet with characteristics such as the ...

    La tradición judía y la narración en la pintura de Marc Chagall 

    Turon Mejías, Ma. Àngels (Fecha de defensa: 2014-05-28)

    Among the many readings of this painter, I try to draw up a narrative reading of his work, taking into account the Jewish tradition in which both his biography and his artistic work were deeply involved. Once I have discussed ...

    Trafficking and function of the voltage-gated sodium channel β2 subunit 

    Cortada Almar, Èric (Fecha de defensa: 2020-11-24)

    The sodium channel β2 subunit is a component of the voltage-gated sodium channel (NaV), a large multimeric protein complex. In the heart, NaV is mainly composed of a pore-forming α subunit, NaV1.5, and two associated ...

    Transferència de tecnologia universitària. Modalitat i estratègies 

    Condom i Vilà, Pere (Fecha de defensa: 2003-05-30)

    Anàlisis del procés de transferència de tecnologia universitària. L’objectiu és identificar i entendre els principals camins que permeten traslladar el coneixement i els resultats de la investigació originats en els àmbits ...