Boher Genís, Pau (Date of defense: 2017-02-06)
We have developed new molecular tools to characterize the FHT and StRIK genes in the tuber periderm. Regarding FHT gene, our results demonstrated that is induced very specifically in suberizing tissues ...
Tobar Muñoz, Hendrys Fabián (Date of defense: 2017-06-15)
In this thesis, Augmented Reality Game-Based Learning (ARGBL) is explored and arguments are given in favor of its application in the classrooms. The thesis explores the concept and proposes technologies, ...
Vilà-Rovira, Albert (Date of defense: 2017-10-20)
This doctoral thesis has integrated biological models (activated sludge models “ASM”) with simulation tools of computational fluid dynamics “CFD”, and has applied them to the design of two advanced ...
Sabeña Vila, Gerard (Date of defense: 2017-06-23)
In this work we have prepared octahedral non - heme iron species in high oxidation states. Iron (IV) - oxo and iron (IV) - imido complexes based on triazacyclononane scaffold had been synthesised and ...
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 ...
Gibert Sotelo, Elisabeth (Date of defense: 2017-12-18)
This dissertation offers a contrastive analysis of the (here called) Source prefix des- and the negative prefix iN- in Spanish that highlights the connections and divergences existing between the encoding ...
Barral Fraga, Laura (Date of defense: 2017-10-26)
Based on the current knowledge about biofilm ecotoxicology and arsenic biogeochemistry in freshwater ecosystems, this thesis studied, under realistic environmental concentrations, i) the role of benthic ...
Fillol Homs, Mireia (Date of defense: 2017-03-23)
The Phylum Bathyarchaeota is currently one of the most studied uncultured archaeal phyla. Bathyarchaeota are phylogenetically diverse, globally ubiquitous and especially abundant in marine subsurface ...
Corona Prieto, Teresa (Date of defense: 2017-02-17)
The transformation of C-H bonds into C-O/N bonds is a process of interest in organic synthesis, but controlling the reactivity and selectivity among the multiple C-H bonds existing in most molecules is ...
Hernández Vega, Juan David (Date of defense: 2017-10-26)
The most common applications of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) include imaging and inspecting different kinds of structures on the sea. Most of these applications require a priori information ...