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Colombo Vilarrasa, Alba (Date of defense: 2012-09-25)
In contemporary democratic societies most administrations manage their competences by means of programmes of government action, i.e. using public policies. These aim to resolve publicly identified situations or conflicts, ...
Malo Cerrato, Sara (Date of defense: 2009-01-30)
Des de la perspectiva psicosocial s'analitzen alguns aspectes de les interaccions entre progenitors i fills/es adolescents entre 12 i 16 anys en relació a l'ús del telèfon mòbil en el marc de la societat acceleradament ...
Amoah-Mensah, Aborampah (Date of defense: 2011-03-14)
La satisfacció és una preocupació crucial pels clients i per les organitzacions, incloent els bancs. L'estudi examina la satisfacció global dels clients dels bancs a Ghana i Espanya. Així s'analitzen aspectes com la relació ...
Petnji Yaya, Luc Honoré (Date of defense: 2012-07-27)
This thesis investigates whether ISO 9001 certification by banks affects customers’ perceptions of e-service quality and recovery (and hence customer satisfaction, value and loyalty) in online banking services. In pursuit ...
Artigas Ruf, Albert (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)
Fullerenes are a group of spherical molecules with outstanding 2/1 physicochemical properties that make them important materials in a variety of fields, ranging from biomedicine to photovoltaics. However, in order ...
Sales Villalonga, Marta (Date of defense: 2010-06-08)
Les algues del gènere Cystoseira són els principals organismes formadors d'estructura en fons rocosos ben il·luminats del Mar Mediterrani. Formen unes comunitats molt estructurades que s'assemblen ecològicament als boscos ...
Mutos Xicola, Céline (Date of defense: 2022-06-27)
The charity institutions of the early modern Europe have not traditionally been seen as spaces with an economic, and particularly manufacturing, dimension. Although they housed a variety of craft workshops with the aim of ...
Souto, Laiz (Date of defense: 2021-01-15)
This thesis presents the study and development of distinct data-driven techniques to support event detection, fault location, and resilience assessment towards enhancements in power systems. It is divided in three main ...
Massana i Raurich, Joaquim (Date of defense: 2018-02-02)
Nowadays, energy is absolutely necessary all over the world. Taking into account the advantages that it presents in transport and the needs of homes and industry, energy is transformed into electricity. Bearing in mind ...
Mujahid, Omer (Date of defense: 2023-09-19)
Modeling biological systems has always been challenging given the complexity of the processes involved in them. Experts have been employing physiological models to approximate the dynamics of biological systems; however, ...
Buscató i Somoza, Lluís (Date of defense: 2011-09-12)
The first protective activities of historical and archaeological heritage in the province of Girona (Catalonia, Spain), although some earlier precedents, were produced from the third decade of the nineteenth century. These ...
Bustos Díaz, María Magdalena (Date of defense: 2021-07-29)
The goal of this doctoral dissertation is to explain that, for certain types of contracts, such as relational contracts, loyalty duties that derive from objective good faith are enforceable. Loyalty duties impose a more ...
Rusek, Robert (Date of defense: 2017-05-24)
The thesis concentrates particularly on how to enhance space-use in the case of public facilities. This issue has been approached by repurposing existing facilities and introducing additional services, thereby creating ...
Hadjimichael, Antonia (Date of defense: 2016-12-14)
With sustainable development as the new overarching goal, urban wastewater system (UWS) managers are now being asked to take all social, economic, technical and environmental facets related to their decisions into account. ...
Bernal Moyano, Jose (Date of defense: 2020-10-27)
The quantification of cerebral atrophy is fundamental in neuroinformatics since it permits diagnosing brain diseases, assessing their progression, and determining the effectiveness of novel treatments to counteract them. ...
Salem, Mostafa (Date of defense: 2020-02-13)
This thesis is focused on developing novel and fully automated methods for the detection of new multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions in longitudinal brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). First, we proposed a fully automated ...
Clèrigues Garcia, Albert (Date of defense: 2023-02-13)
This PhD thesis focuses on improving the extraction of neuroimage markers for the prognosis and outcome prediction of neurological pathologies such as ischemic stroke, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and multiple sclerosis (MS). ...
Guerrero Asorey, Luis (Date of defense: 2012-05-17)
Traditional food products (TFP) are an important part of European culture, identity, and heritage. The main objective of present research is to obtain a consumer-driven definition for the concept of ‘‘traditional food ...
Arévalo-Montealegre, Camilo (Date of defense: 2023-01-23)
Evidence suggests that customer satisfaction relates directly to engagement, loyalty, and wordof- mouth. Moreover, a growing body of literature in the cultural tourism sector recognises the importance of guaranteeing ...
Massich i Vall, Joan (Date of defense: 2013-12-04)
This thesis analyses the current strategies to segment breast lesions in Ultra-Sound (US) data and proposes a fully automatic methodology for generating accurate segmentations of breast lesions in US data with low false ...