Bas Silvestre, Maria (Date of defense: 2021-10-19)
Confined coastal lagoons are shallow and dynamic water bodies that play an important ecological role. Considering the severe degradation they have been facing in the last years, understanding the ...
Esteve Caupena, Ernest (Date of defense: 2020-10-02)
This Thesis aimed at studying the prevalence and severity and broadening the knowledge of aetiology and risk factors of groin injuries in male football. The four papers, which form part of this Thesis, ...
Cortada Almar, Èric (Date of defense: 2020-11-24)
The sodium channel β2 subunit is a component of the voltage-gated sodium channel (NaV), a large multimeric protein complex. In the heart, NaV is mainly composed of a pore-forming α subunit, NaV1.5, ...
Villavicencio Obando, Alicia Silvana (Date of defense: 2022-03-29)
Comprehensive population-based studies assessing the survival of hematological entities are scarce and typically conducted using old classifications schemes, which hampers their interpretation and ...
Ditzel, Ana Loreto (Date of defense: 2022-06-07)
This doctoral thesis aims to explore different aspects of the subjective well-being of children living in conditions of social vulnerability and participating in after-school programs in Chile. To this ...
Lara Burbano, Giovanna (Date of defense: 2022-04-26)
The thesis aims to explore the cooperation of manufacturing industries and service companies, with universities and research institutes, their propensity to cooperate in innovation activities and their ...
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 ...
Cunillera-Montcusí, David (Date of defense: 2020-02-21)
During the last years, there has been an increase in the number and intensity of disturbances, and their consequences related with global change, which have corroborated the already forecasted scenarios. ...
González Trujillo, Juan David (Date of defense: 2020-07-30)
I used the metacommunity framework to dissect the relative influences of dispersal (in ecological and evolutionary timeframes), selection (driven by abiotic factors) and ecological drift on the assembly ...
Pons Pairó, Marc (Date of defense: 2020-07-07)
Green manufacturers and an understanding of their differentiating characteristics and environmental and economic performance when applying green practices are at the centre of this doctoral thesis. The ...