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    Genetics and transcriptomics of adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC): new approaches to uncover molecular markers for its rapid identification 

    Camprubí Font, Carla (Date of defense: 2019-07-26)

    The adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) pathotype could play a role in the course of Crohn’s disease. This is characterized by its capacity to adhere to and to invade intestinal epithelial cells as well as to replicate ...

    Geographical interdependent robustness measures in transportation networks 

    Rueda Pepinosa, Diego Fernando (Date of defense: 2018-11-14)

    Most of transportation networks interacts with other to support our modern society way of life. The proper performance of interdependent networks depends on the normal operation of the networks that are interconnected. The ...

    Geometric characteristics of clouds from ceilometer measurements and radiosounding methods 

    Costa Surós, Montse (Date of defense: 2014-10-02)

    Improving methods for automatic and continuous description of cloud has a huge importance in order to determine the role of clouds in climate and their contribution to climate change. The geometric characteristics of clouds, ...

    Geostatistics for constrained variables: positive data, compositions and probabilities. Applications to environmental hazard monitoring 

    Tolosana Delgado, Raimon (Date of defense: 2005-12-19)

    Aquesta tesi estudia com estimar la distribució de les variables regionalitzades l'espai mostral i l'escala de les quals admeten una estructura d'espai Euclidià. Apliquem el principi del treball en coordenades: triem una ...

    Gestión de la diversidad cultural y del diálogo intercultural en Escandinavia. Estudio de casos y análisis comparado de Mångkulturellt Centrum (Estocolmo) e Interkulturelt Museum (Oslo) 

    Riaza de los Mozos, Mónica (Date of defense: 2023-03-17)

    This research on cultural policy examines two organizations, Mångkulturellt Centrum in Stockholm, Sweden, and Interkulturelt Museum in Oslo, Norway. It bases its analysis on a context focused on cultural diversity and ...

    Gestión de la imagen de marca de destinos turísticos maduros usando herramientas online. El caso de la Costa Brava 

    Marin Rabiol, Jaume (Date of defense: 2022-09-16)

    The marketing and promotion of tourist destinations have evolved exponentially with the passage of time and use of the internet. This change has generated different attitudes in tourists and altered how they consume ...

    La gestión de la innovación en las empresas de servicios intensivas en conocimiento tecnológico (t-KIBS) de Cataluña 

    Amores Bravo, Xavier (Date of defense: 2015-11-16)

    The present thesis analyses data from 45 t-KIBS (Technological Knowledge Intensive Business services) of Catalonia that are provided with a minimum dimension and activity during the last few years to ensure certain capability ...

    Gestión del conocimiento en la co-creación de material educativo con y para estudiantes con altas capacidades 

    Meneses Ortegón, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2023-06-20)

    The development of any process handles data. These data are generated from information that in turn generates knowledge. The ideal is that this knowledge provides the process with added value that allows it to improve, ...

    Glandular tissue pattern analysis through multimodal MRI-mammography registration 

    García Marcos, Eloy (Date of defense: 2018-04-05)

    Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Several studies have shown that the combination of the different medical image modalities, such as the x-ray mammography and the magnetic resonance imaging ...

    Glicosilació aberrant en proteïnes de secreció com a marcadors tumorals 

    Tabarés Carreras, Glòria (Date of defense: 2004-03-19)

    Als països desenvolupats, una de cada cinc persones morirà a causa del càncer. S'ha descrit que les cèl·lules canceroses presenten modificacions en els glicans presents a la superfície cel·lular i aquesta glicosilació ...

    Glycan alterations of serum proteins as tumour markers. Prostate-specific antigen in prostate cancer and acute-phase proteins in pancreatic cancer 

    Sarrats Carbó, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2011-02-10)

    Els pacients amb càncer presenten una taxa de supervivència superior si es diagnostiquen a estadis inicials, per la qual cosa és indispensable disposar de marcadors tumorals adequats. Glicoformes de proteïnes específiques ...

    Gold complexes based on (N,C) and (N,C,C) chelating ligands: ligand design and reactivity studies in cross-coupling catalysis 

    Font Rubio, Pau (Date of defense: 2023-10-06)

    Homogeneous reactions catalyzed by gold have mainly been developed in the past two decades, stemming from the proneness of Au(I) and Au(III) complexes to coordinate and activate carbon-carbon multiple bonds towards a ...

    Gold complexes for homogeneous cross-coupling catalysis and migratory insertion reactions 

    Serra Parareda, Jordi (Date of defense: 2018-06-21)

    Most of the different homogeneous reactions catalyzed by gold have been developed in the past fifteen years and stem from the ability of both Au(I) and Au(III) complexes to coordinate and activate multiple carbon-carbon ...

    Good-visibility computation using graphics hardware 

    Madern Leandro, Narcís (Date of defense: 2010-10-08)

    Aquesta tesi tracta del disseny, implementació i discussió d'algoritmes per resoldre problemes de visibilitat i bona-visibilitat utilitzant el hardware gràfic de l'ordinador. Concretament, s'obté una discretització ...

    GPU parallel algorithms for reporting movement behaviour patterns in spatiotemporal databases 

    Valladares Cereceda, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2013-07-18)

    In this thesis we treat and solve various problems related to movement pattern detection by designing and implementing parallel algorithms using the GPU. We first propose a GPU pipeline based algorithm to report the ’Popular ...

    Gradient-based reinforcement learning techniques for underwater robotics behavior learning 

    El-Fakdi Sencianes, Andrés (Date of defense: 2011-03-03)

    Darrerament, l'interès pel desenvolupament d'aplicacions amb robots submarins autònoms (AUV) ha crescut de forma considerable. Els AUVs són atractius gràcies al seu tamany i el fet que no necessiten un operador humà per ...

    Grape stalk and coffee polyphenolic extracts administration as new pharmacological strategies to modulate spinal cord injury-induced neuropathic pain in mice 

    Bagó Mas, Anna (Date of defense: 2022-03-18)

    More than half of spinal cord injury patients develop central neuropathic pain, which is largely refractory to current treatments. Developing neuropathic pain has a high impact on the quality of life becoming an emotional, ...

    Gràfic de control T2 de Hotelling per a dades composicionals 

    Vives Mestres, Marina (Date of defense: 2014-11-28)

    Compositional data are defined as vectors of components that represent parts of a whole and contain relative information (e.g. %, ppm, mg/l...). CoDa are widely found in chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries among ...

    Green citites and green urban economy; contributions from case studies for a necessary low-carbon future 

    Nuss Girona, Sergi (Date of defense: 2014-12-05)

    City Governments engaged in climate change mitigation and adaptation face the multiple challenge of self-commitment, the need to involve their communities and stakeholders, and top-down and multi-scalar processes out of ...

    Greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment processes: identifying triggering factors at laboratory and full-scale systems 

    Ribera Guàrdia, Anna (Date of defense: 2017-12-12)

    This thesis focuses on the study of the global green house gas (GHG) emissions from wastewater systems. Nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) are the main GHG directly emitted from wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). In ...