Diaz Garolera, Gemma (Date of defense: 2019-12-04)
Social relationships and social participation have an important impact on the social inclusion processes of people with intellectual disabilities (ID). However, research suggests that social networks ...
García Fernández, Ismael (Date of defense: 2012-10-24)
The main question explored in this thesis is how to define novel parallel random-access data structures for surface and image spatial data with efficient construction, storage, and query memory access ...
Ruiz-Barragán, Sergi (Date of defense: 2014-09-19)
Conical Intersections (CI) are points in Potential Energy Surfaces (PES) of two or more states that have the same energy. They are fundamental to understand photo-chemical processes. These points are ...
Mamo, Julian (Date of defense: 2018-12-11)
The combination of two membrane technologies coupled together in series has become a standard technology when it comes to producing reclaimed water of high quality for potable reclamation or industrial ...
Sbardella, Luca (Date of defense: 2019-05-22)
The presence of several pharmaceutical active compounds (PhACs) in water bodies has garnered increasing attention and worldwide concern. The effluents from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are one ...
Collado Alsina, Neus (Date of defense: 2013-07-19)
Human and veterinary pharmaceuticals have been recognized as ubiquitous water microcontaminants with potential subtle detrimental effects on aquatic organisms. The majority of pharmaceutical compounds, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Stollewerk, Katharina (Date of defense: 2012-09-20)
With the objective to study food safety aspects of innovative meat technologies and combinations among them, QDS (Quick-dry-slice), NaCl-free processing and high pressure were integrated in the production ...