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    Ricard Giralt i Casadesús, un noucentista transversal (1884-1970): arquitectura, urbanisme i municipi a la Catalunya del segle XX 

    Gil, Rosa Maria, 1962- (Date of defense: 2014-07-18)

    The present thesis studies in depth a perspective of the noucentista movement focusing on the professional career of the architect Ricard Giralt Casadesús (1884-1970) and particularly on his urban design approach and social ...

    Rice seeds as biofactories of the production of antimicrobial peptides 

    Montesinos Barreda, Laura (Date of defense: 2014-05-16)

    A series of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) derived from the BP134 peptide (a member of the CECMEL11 library) exhibited potent bactericidal effect and low cytotoxicity, and were selected for expression in transgenic rice. ...

    Roadmap for scaling up thermophilic CO2 bioreduction to acetate : shedding light on using surplus renewable energy and industrial off gases 

    Rovira Alsina, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-12-02)

    Carbon dioxide (CO2) is largely emitted in the ignition of fossil fuels for transport, electricity generation or other industrial processes. CO2 is an inorganic compound that exists naturally on Earth, but its concentration ...

    Robot learning applied to autonomous underwater vehicles for intervention tasks 

    Carrera Viñas, Arnau (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)

    The interest in performing underwater tasks using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) has been growing over the past few years. In this thesis, a flexible framework for underwater interventions using a Learning ...

    Robust and fault-tolerant strategies for controlling blood glucose in patients with type 1 diabetes 

    Beneyto Tantiña, Aleix (Date of defense: 2020-12-02)

    Type 1 diabetes is a serious disease that must be monitored and controlled artificially by supplying exogenous insulin to the body. The artificial pancreas (AP) is a closed-loop system that resulted from integrating an ...

    Robust control of systems subjected to uncertain disturbances and actuator dynamics 

    Villamizar Mejia, Rodolfo (Date of defense: 2005-03-17)

    Esta tesis está enfocada al diseño y validación de controladores robustos que pueden reducir de una manera efectiva las vibraciones structurales producidas por perturbaciones externas tales como terremotos, fuertes vientos ...

    Robust image segmentation applied to magnetic resonance and ultrasound images of the prostate 

    Ghose, Soumya (Date of defense: 2012-10-19)

    Prostate segmentation in trans rectal ultrasound (TRUS) and magnetic resonance images (MRI) facilitates volume estimation, multi-modal image registration, surgical planing and image guided prostate biopsies. The objective ...

    Robustness against large-scale failures in communications networks 

    Segovia Silvero, Juan (Date of defense: 2011-12-15)

    This thesis studies robustness against large-scale failures in communications networks. If failures are isolated, they usually go unnoticed by users thanks to recovery mechanisms. However, such mechanisms are not effective ...

    Robustness on resource allocation problems 

    Muñoz i Solà, Víctor (Date of defense: 2011-02-17)

    En problemes d'assignació de recursos, normalment s'han de tenir en compte les incerteses que poden provocar canvis en les dades inicials. Aquests canvis dificulten l'aplicabilitat de les planificacions que s'hagin fet ...

    Role of alpha 2,3-sialyltransferases ST3Gal III and ST3Gal IV in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma 

    Pérez Garay, Marta (Date of defense: 2011-02-07)

    Este trabajo demuestra que los genes que codifican para los enzimas beta-galactosido alfa-2,3-sialiltransferasa 3 (ST3Gal III), y en menor medida beta-galactosido alfa-2,3-sialiltransferasa 4 (ST3Gal IV), están directamente ...

    Role of miRNAs in multiple sclerosis: study of miRNAs in cerebrospinal fluid for different clinical conditions 

    Muñoz San Martín, María (Date of defense: 2021-09-15)

    Multiple sclerosis (MS) is considered a chronic inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease, characterized by the existence of demyelinated areas in the central nervous system, infiltration of inflammatory cells in the ...

    Rostres en rostres. Estudi i traducció del "Comentari al Sefer Yesirah" (Llibre de la creació) de rabí Isaac el Pietós, altrament anomenat, el Cec. Una visió teològica, cosmològica i antropològica del seu autor 

    Gendra, Jordi, 1970- (Date of defense: 2012-05-30)

    This dissertation contains a Hebrew edition and annotated Catalan translation of Isaac the Blind's (1165-1235) Commentary on the Book of Creation. The introduction introduces the historical context in which the author ...

    Salut i poder en la gènesi de l'home contemporani 

    Quintanas Feixas, Anna (Date of defense: 1997-11-10)

    Amb aquesta investigació, que s'emmarca dins l'àmbit de l'Antropologia Filosòfica, el que ens proposem és escriure un capítol per a una genealogia de l'home contemporani, intentant respondre a la pregunta: com hem arribat ...

    Salut percebuda, patrons d'activitat física i autodescripció física en una mostra d'estudiants universitaris 

    González-Lafont, Araceli (Date of defense: 2020-12-16)

    he relationship between the practice of physical activity, diet and consumption of substances in young university students allows the establishment of healthy lifestyle patterns that can improve health in adulthood. This ...

    SBR technology for wastewater treatment: suitable operational conditions for a nutrient removal 

    Vives Fàbregas, M. Teresa (Date of defense: 2004-11-29)

    Actualment, la legislació ambiental ha esdevingut més restrictiva pel que fa a la descàrrega d'aigües residuals amb nutrients, especialment en les anomenades àrees sensibles o zones vulnerables. Arran d'aquest fet, s'ha ...

    Scheduling through logic-based tools 

    Coll Caballero, Jordi (Date of defense: 2019-07-15)

    Scheduling problems consist in determining how to execute the activities of a project in order to satisfy some requirements. Such problems are ubiquitous nowadays in industry and services, but finding solutions of scheduling ...

    Sculptor Nina Slobodinskaya (1898-1984). Life and search of creative boundaries in the Soviet epoch 

    Gnezdilova, Anastasia (Date of defense: 2015-10-19)

    Nina Konradovna Slobodinskaya - sculptor of Soviet epoch and space. Her creative work embraces more than 50 years and mirrors all artistic tendencies, actual subjects, main sculptural genres of the most contradictory, ...

    Seguridad alimentaria y bienestar subjetivo de niños y niñas participantes del programa familias en Chile 

    Dauvin Herrera, Cristóbal (Date of defense: 2023-07-14)

    The research aims to examine the relationship between food security and subjective well-being of girls and boys participating in the Families Program of the Metropolitan Region in Chile. A cross-sectional explanatory ...

    Selective submap joining SLAM for autonomous vehicles 

    Aulinas Masó, Josep M. (Date of defense: 2011-09-22)

    Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) do not result in consistent maps of large areas because of gradual increase of the uncertainty for long term missions. In addition, as the size of the map grows the computational ...

    Selenium cycling in volcanic environments: the role of soils as reactive interfaces 

    Floor, Geerke Henriette (Date of defense: 2011-03-29)

    Selenium (Se) is an element with important health implications that is emitted in significant amounts from volcanoes. Attracted by the fertility of volcanic soils, around 10% of the world population lives within 100 km of ...