Bernat Molina, Ignasi (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)
The ‘Mapping the Crimes of the Powerful and the Economic Crisis: Crime, State and Power’ focuses on four recent episodes of the different crisis affecting Southern Europe. Departing from criminological ...
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, ...
Bassa i Vila, Oriol (Date of defense: 2020-07-23)
The application of the different parameters of the territorial transformations according to the determining factors for each one of the study periods through the Geographic Information Systems and the ...
Loma-Osorio Ricón, Pablo (Date of defense: 2020-07-03)
Introduction and aims: In recent years, public access defibrillation programs have exponentially increased the availability of automatic external defibrillators in public spaces but there are no data ...
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. ...
Ferreira dos Santos, Maria do Carmo (Date of defense: 2020-10-26)
Breakthrough cancer pain due to its characteristics, fast onset, short duration and high severity implies a significant reduction in the quality of 2/2 life perceived by affected persons. For this ...
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 ...