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    Mechanism of action of cyclic antimicrobial peptides 

    Díaz i Cirac, Anna (Date of defense: 2011-07-01)

    This PhD thesis is the result of the combination of experimental and computational techniques with the aim of understanding the mechanism of action of de novo cyclic decapeptides with high antimicrobial activity. By ...

    Mediación cultural en el espacio museístico: un enfoque cooperativo para alumnado de educación secundaria. Aproximación a dos casos de estudio en Quebec y Cataluña 

    Laliberté De Gagné, Élisabeth (Date of defense: 2023-01-26)

    This research is the result of a personal quest that focuses on the possibility of implementing and analyzing a mediation experience with high school students in the museum through cooperative learning experiences and to ...

    Medical imaging applied to teaching and meat science 

    Xiberta, Pau (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)

    Medical imaging has greatly progressed to become an essential technology in current clinical processes. However, advances in diagnostic imaging have not been applied to the same extent to other fields such as education and ...

    Medical imaging techniques for the analysis and measurement of composite materials 

    Julià i Juanola, Adrià (Date of defense: 2022-11-11)

    The purpose of this thesis is the research and development of methods, algorithms and tools for the analysis of composite materials. In order to improve their properties, one must employ specific techniques in order to ...

    Medición del bienestar subjetivo en la adolescencia 

    Benavente Delgado, Mariavictoria (Date of defense: 2021-02-15)

    The present thesis aims to know the psychometric properties of two scales intended to assess the subjective wellbeing of schooled adolescents and residents in urban contexts in Chile. The results obtained show that both ...

    Mediterranean macroalgal forests under threat: the effects of ongoing climate change and design of restoration methods 

    Verdura Brugarola, Jana (Date of defense: 2021-06-04)

    Macroalgal forests represent some of the most productive and biodiverse habitats on Earth. In the Mediterranean Sea, species of the genus Cystoseira sensu lato dominate the well-preserved subtidal rocky habitats where ...

    Medium access control messaging scheme for cognitive radio networks 

    Bolívar Díaz, Nicolás (Date of defense: 2012-07-30)

    Cognitive Radio (CR) is one possible option for mitigating the inefficient wireless spectrum distribution that occurs as a result of fixed spectrum allocation. The use of Dynamic Spectrum Access capabilities will potentially ...

    Mejora de la seguridad alimentaria en productos cárnicos listos para el consumo mediante la aplicación combinada de tecnologías de conservación emergentes 

    Marcos Muntal, Begonya (Date of defense: 2007-06-25)

    La demanda creixent de productes mínimament processats i llestos per al consum planteja un important repte per a la seguretat alimentaria i ha conduit al desenvolupament de tractaments suaus que permetin inhibir el creixement ...

    Mental disorders among Spanish university students: a longitudinal study 

    Ballester Coma, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-05-31)

    The objectives were to estimate the frequency of mental disorders among Spanish university students, their association with role impairment and the use of treatment. Also, to identify risk and protective factors. The thesis ...

    El mestre/a d'Educació Musical en el nou marc de l'EEES: un estudi a partir de les competències professionals 

    Sánchez Ariño, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2014-12-05)

    This thesis studies the professional profile of Primary School music teachers, in the framework of the Catalan educational system and the construction of the Higher Education European Area (HEEA), focusing on the study of ...

    Mesura de la qualitat en el sector serveis 

    Saurina, Carme (Date of defense: 1997-04-18)

    El treball desenvolupat en aquesta tesi consisteix en l'adaptació a la llengua catalana d'un model de mesura de la qualitat en el sector serveis, el model servqual, i la seva contrastació a través d'una aplicació empírica ...

    Mesures de seguretat en els pacients amb traumatismes cranials lleus assistits en el mitjà extrahospitalari 

    Soler Sellarès, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2016-02-25)

    The Traumatic brain injury is classified into mild, moderate and severe depending on the initial severity. With mild TBI, the patients may remain conscious or may lose consciousness, but usually these patients have a ...

    Metacommunities and biodiversity patterns in Mediterranean temporary ponds: the role of pond size, network connectivity and dispersal mode 

    Tornero Pinilla, Irene (Date of defense: 2020-03-13)

    We sampled the macrofaunal metacommunities in four networks of Mediterranean temporary ponds covering a wide range of pond sizes and different spatial extents. 1) In the smallest pond network, pond size was not related to ...

    Metadesacuerdos. La teoría del derecho frente al fenómeno de los desacuerdos jurídicos fundamentales 

    Rapetti, Pablo Ariel (Date of defense: 2017-02-24)

    This doctoral thesis analyzes various philosophical treatments of the phenomenon of legal disagreements, particularly focusing on the exchange, based on it, stemming from Ronald Dworkin’s challenge to legal positivism. The ...

    Metal ions removal from polluted waters by sorption onto exhausted coffee waste. Application to metal finishing industries wastewater treatment 

    Liu, Chang (Date of defense: 2014-10-15)

    A new technology for Cr(VI) and divalent metal ions removal based on metal sorption onto exhausted coffee waste has been developed. Physical and chemical characterization of exhausted coffee waste was explored as well as ...

    Metalls de transició en la formació d'enllaços carboni-carboni: cicloaddicions [2+2+2] catalitzades per Rh(I) i acoblaments creuats catalitzats per Pd(0) i Ni(0) 

    Brun Massó, Sandra (Date of defense: 2012-04-27)

    Carbon-carbon bond formation reactions catalyzed by transition metals represent one of the most versatile and efficient strategies in organic synthesis. The catalytic transformations contribute to the development of ...

    Methodology for the experimental characterisation of mode I delamination under different loading rates 

    Medina Escobar, Sergio Alonso (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)

    The rate-dependent behaviour of the interlaminar fracture toughness of fibre reinforced composites has been a matter of research during the last decades. However, the results obtained so far are not conclusive and further ...

    Methodology to obtain the user's Human Values Scale from Smart User Models 

    Guzmán Obando, Javier (Date of defense: 2008-06-16)

    En años recientes,la Inteligencia Artificial ha contribuido a resolver problemas encontrados en el desempeño de las tareas de unidades informáticas, tanto si las computadoras están distribuidas para interactuar entre ellas ...

    Methods for remote stock monitoring using depth sensors 

    Vila Clarà, Oriol (Date of defense: 2024-01-29)

    RGB-D cameras return images like an ordinary camera but in addition to color, depthmaps where each pixel value represents the distance to a point of the scene are also obtained. Although originally conceived for gaming and ...

    Methylome profiling of B and T cells along multiple sclerosis disease progression: a pilot study 

    Celarain Sanz, Naiara (Date of defense: 2023-06-26)

    Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, inflammatory, autoimmune and neurodegenerative disease characterized by the infiltration of autoreactive immune cells into the central nervous system that leads to axonal damage, ...