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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Faxedas, M. Lluïsa (Maria Lluïsa) (Date of defense: 2007-06-13)
Aquesta tesi explora els orígens de la pintura abstracta des d'un punt de vista eminentment conceptual. Parteix de la hipòtesi que l'abstracció es pot considerar la culminació dels ideals estètics del Simbolisme finisecular; ...
Mondéjar Torra, Eduard (Date of defense: 2017-11-27)
The present doctoral dissertation is aimed at contributing to advance the existing scientific knowledge on how to better implement democracy at the school level. Particularly, it is about identifying those aspects that ...
Maldonado Manzano, Eduard (Date of defense: 2020-07-27)
Almost all people with stroke have vascular risk factors that influence the risk of developing this disease, many of which can be modified. The study included 115 smokers hospitalized at Dr. University Hospital. Josep ...
Darnaculleta i Gardella, Mercè (Date of defense: 2002-12-12)
El objeto de esta tesis es el análisis de la autorregulación regulada, es decir, el análisis de las normas y de los controles privados que poseen relevancia para el Derecho público. A pesar de su aparente desvinculación ...
Vial Dumas, Manuel (Date of defense: 2012-07-06)
The thesis analyzes the evolution of family structures in the field of Christian Mediterranean, from Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The first part focuses on the transition from an extensive family structure, ...
Sendra Moll, Jorge (Date of defense: 2017-11-30)
The present dissertation analyzes some of the internal tensions in our current constitutional democracies. I start from the consideration of the characteristics that currently define our constitutional realities. I attempt ...
Serrano Ortiz, Jèssica (Date of defense: 2012-12-10)
Considerable attention has focused on the theory of mind (TM) in the past 25 years and it has become a very productive area of research in developmental psychology. Several studies addressed this issue and many researchers ...
Gratacós Cubarsí, Marta (Date of defense: 2008-03-26)
La utilización de algunas sustancias antimicrobianas y algunos corticosteroides como promotores del crecimiento es una práctica ilegal en la UE. Una nueva aproximación para la detección y el control del suministro de estos ...
Cabello Ulloa, Mario Javier (Date of defense: 2016-07-12)
The use of adhesive joints in industrial structural applications is currently growing. Nevertheless, the designing process is still a challenge for engineers because there is a lack of effective models to predict their ...