Builes Cárdenas, Cristian (Date of defense: 2023-03-20)
Transport industry, especially automotive, is one of the most pollutant in the world. Current environmental concerns demand original equipment manufacturers (OEM’s) to reduce the amount of emissions ...
Carbó Bagué, Anna (Date of defense: 2023-03-27)
In this doctoral thesis, the epidemiology of cutaneous and mucosal melanoma is analyzed, as well as its molecular profile to provide new knowledge on a population basis in the province of Girona. The ...
Vila Vadrí, Jordi (Date of defense: 2023-04-21)
The development of novel catalytic methodologies involving the formation of carbon – carbon/heteroatom bonds to produce cyclic systems constitutes a field of great interest in the modern synthetic organic ...
Hassan, Mohamed Abdalla Elsayed (Date of defense: 2023-01-27)
Currently, World Heritage Sites (hereafter, WHSs) are perceived as a prominent tourism brand, a fact that encourages many countries to increase their listed WHSs (Su & Lin, 2014) so that they may benefit ...
Polonio Alcalá, Emma (Date of defense: 2023-05-17)
Although there are therapies for triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) and epidermal growth factor-mutated non-small cell lung cancer (EGFRm NSCLC), these two subtypes of cancer are very aggressive, and ...
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 ...
Curado Carballada, Christian (Date of defense: 2023-03-13)
Enzymes have evolved through years until becoming great catalysts that present high selectivity, specificity, and activity. Initially, enzymes were understood as static (bio)molecular structures capable ...
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 ...
Chaudhuri, Somnath (Date of defense: 2023-06-09)
Spatial statistics is traditionally based on stationary models like Matérn fields. However, applying stationary models to complex spatial regions having physical barriers like islands or coastal areas ...
Mateo Otero, Yentel (Date of defense: 2023-06-13)
For many years, reproductive outcomes were considered as being solely determined by the genome of oocytes and sperm. Yet, in the last decades, many other female and male factors have also been found to ...