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    Extracting chemical concepts with effective fragment orbitals 

    Comas Vilà, Gerard (Fecha de defensa: 2025-06-10)

    ENG- The first part of the work focuses on ligands that bind to metal centers and chemical substituents. It presents new ways to measure how ligands donate or accept electrons (their donor-acceptor properties) by directly ...

    Descripció de la prevalença de la malaltia cardiovascular subclínica per territoris vasculars i la seva associació a factors de risc 

    Campos Mercadé, Berta (Fecha de defensa: 2025-07-24)

    ENG-Introduction: The increase in global life expectancy is leading to an unprecedented growth in the aging population, posing significant challenges for public health. Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) remain the leading cause ...

    La culpa grave en la responsabilidad civil 

    Zuñiga Tejos, Alex Edmundo (Fecha de defensa: 2025-10-10)

    ENG- This research endeavours to explore how gross negligence (or recklessness) acquires particular significance within the Law of Torts, distinguishing itself from ordinary negligence, which generally serves as the ...

    Operational conditions and modelling of backwashing in pressurised porous media filters 

    Graciano-Uribe, Jonathan (Fecha de defensa: 2025-10-01)

    ENG- Pressurised sand filters are widely used in drip irrigation systems to ensure water quality by retaining suspended particles, thereby preventing emitter clogging. One of the main operational challenges of these systems ...

    La presa de decisions en els acolliments familiars d’infants i adolescents 

    Sitjes-Figueras, Rosa (Fecha de defensa: 2025-09-26)

    ENG- Foster care is a child protection measure that provides a safe environment for children who cannot live with their families of origin. This measure prioritizes the well-being of children and their holistic development, ...

    Hysteresis modeling, identification and control for magnetorheological actuators 

    Tang, Lei (Fecha de defensa: 2025-10-06)

    ENG- With the well-developed levels of science and technology, there has been a significant increase in the daily needs for higher comfort and higher safety on either private automobiles or public transportation. The ...

    Essays in applied economics 

    Brugarolas, Pablo (Fecha de defensa: 2025-09-25)

    ENG- High-quality preschool is often seen as a powerful tool to boost children's development and help parents—especially mothers—balance work and family life. Governments have invested heavily in these programs in recent ...

    Evolució cronològica, arquitectònica i urbanística del poblat ibèric de Sant Sebastià de la Guarda (Palafrugell, Baix Empordà) 

    Rojas, Antoni (Fecha de defensa: 2025-09-23)

    ENG- The archaeological research carried out in this thesis focuses on the chronological, architectural and urban evolution of the Iberian settlement of Sant Sebastià de la Guarda (Palafrugell, Baix Empordà). The data ...

    Cuidados comunes y autonomías colectivas. Estrategias de las mujeres indígenas para la defensa de la vida y el territorio en la Amazonía ecuatoriana 

    Rivadeneira Herrera, María Ines (Fecha de defensa: 2025-09-22)

    ENG- The thesis is developed through three articles that follow a common thread of analysis regarding the intersections between the coloniality of power, the injustices suffered by cuerpos-territorios in the Ecuadorian ...

    Graph-based underwater localization techniques considering a rigorous on Lie group formulation 

    Vial Serrat, Pau (Fecha de defensa: 2025-09-19)

    ENG- The main contributions of this thesis are two, properly presented in the four articles that form the articles compendium. The first one is the development of a scan matching algorithm based on Gaussian Mixture Models ...

    Evaluación de la alfabetización en salud de las personas con esclerosis múltiple 

    González del Rio, Marina (Fecha de defensa: 2025-09-22)

    ENG- In the care of people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic, complex, and unpredictable disease, it is often observed that not everyone understands their condition in the same way, nor do all individuals ...

    Pharmaceuticals in water reclamation: prioritisation and monitoring for sustainable irrigation practices in mediterranean regions 

    Castaño Trias, Marta (Fecha de defensa: 2025-09-19)

    ENG- The present doctoral thesis explores the potential risks posed by pharmaceutical compounds (PhACs) in water reuse scenarios across the Mediterranean region. The research begins with a comprehensive review of scientific ...

    Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in practice: the strategic role of businesses and challenges in the private sector to reach the 2030 agenda 

    Palau Pinyana, Erola (Fecha de defensa: 2025-09-10)

    ENG- This thesis begins with a systematic literature review of 96 research papers to identify key enablers of SDG implementation, categorized as external (e.g., industry, tools, education), internal (e.g., governance, ...

    Desarrollo de proyectos educativos desde la perspectiva de los fondos comunitarios de conocimiento e identidad 

    Boned, Paula (Fecha de defensa: 2025-09-17)

    ENG- The main objective of this thesis is to illustrate and examine the potential of the Community Funds of Knowledge and Identity (CFoKI) approach as a theoretical-methodological tool to design, develop, and evaluate ...

    Essays on the effects of school-meal programmes 

    Lado, Samuel (Fecha de defensa: 2025-09-10)

    ENG- Despite the growing body of research on the causal impact of school-meal programmes, the academic literature has yet to reach a consensus on their effects. This thesis contributes to the debate through a synthesis of ...

    EL proceso monitorio entre su revisión doctrinal y jurisprudencial y su transformación en tiempos de cambio 

    Rodríguez Ríos, Santiago-Francisco (Fecha de defensa: 2025-09-08)

    ENG- The main purpose of this PhD thesis is to analyse the order for payment procedure regulated in Articles 812 to 818 of the LEC. A good indication of its relevance can be seen in the fact that around half of the proceedings ...

    Integrating ecological complexity and physiological traits into environmental risk assessments 

    Khalid, Amina (Fecha de defensa: 2025-09-05)

    ENG- This thesis explored a more nature-based way to test chemical pollution, using a chemical called Benzotriazole-1H (BTR-1H), commonly found in industrial products and known to end up in rivers. Here's how the study ...

    Unamuno’s natural foundation for religious faith 

    Oya Márquez, Alberto (Fecha de defensa: 2020-02-14)

    ENG- This doctoral dissertation is a collection of sixteen papers related to the question of the nature of religious faith and its justification. All these papers were motivated, implicitly or explicitly, by my interest ...

    Juventud y Aislamiento Social Voluntario (hikikomori). Estudio de caso en la ciudad de Barcelona 

    Coeli, Gianluca (Fecha de defensa: 2025-09-05)

    ENG- This thesis examines the hikikomori phenomenon, understood as a form of extreme and voluntary social withdrawal, mainly involving young people who isolate themselves within the home for extended periods. Although the ...

    Getting insight into C-H functionalization and cross-coupling reactions mediated by nickel and other first-row transition metals 

    Juvanteny i Palomeras, Adrià (Fecha de defensa: 2025-09-03)

    ENG- Unfortunately, the implementation of first-row transition metals in catalysis presents certain challenges. Often, the high complexity of reaction mechanisms, as well as the difficulty in studying key intermediates due ...