Universitat de Girona: Enviaments recents
Ara mostrant els elements 1226-1245 de 1910
Pollution assessment of arsenic in groundwater: geochemistry and analytical aspects
Apart from the geological controls that can cause As mobilization in groundwater in the Bengal Delta Plain, local anthropogenic factors may also contribute to some extent. Investigations showed that As(III) get enriched ...
Arsenic and its speciation analysis in biological and environmental samples using ICP techniques
Arsenic (As) is one of the common cancers causing contaminant in groundwater of West Bengal, India along with other regions of the world. Scientists believe that As contamination in groundwater of these region are because ...
Design and implementation of a closed-loop blood glucose control system in patients with type 1 diabetes
In the work presented in this dissertation, open-loop and closed-loop control strategies that were aimed at resolving major glucose control problems in the postprandial period were developed. A new model-based control ...
El fracàs d'una utopia. Comunicació política dels feixismes a Espanya durant la Segona República, 1931-1936
The thesis "The fail of an utopia. Political communication of fascists groups in Spain, 1931-1936" studies communicative strategies of the following political groups: Las Juntas Castellanas de Actuación Hispánica, La ...
Contribution to laser milling process parameters selection for process planning operations
Nontraditional manufacturing processes (NTM) appeared to answer the growing demands of market productivity. Needs of higher quality products in less time and new demands such as new exotic work materials, innovative geometric ...
On the use of energy decomposition analyses to unravel the origin of the relative stabilities of isomers
Structural isomers are molecules that have the same number and type of atoms but arranged in different manner. The isomerization energy is the energy difference between two isomers, i.e. the energy cost corresponding to ...
Nitrate groundwater pollution and aquifer vulnerability: the case of the Osona region
Nitrate groundwater pollution in the Osona region is a persistent and widespread problem. Nitrate concentrations are commonly above the drinking water threshold of 50 mg/L in wells and springs. ANOVA and logistic regression ...
La eficacia de la protección del derecho a la seguridad y salud en el trabajo de los trabajadores extranjeros
This thesis conducts a legal analysis of the effectiveness of the protection of foreign workers’ right to safety and health at work. Even though this is a right attached to the legal status of any worker, regardless of ...
Framework for detection, assessment and assistance of university students with dyslexia and/or reading difficulties
During the past years, the adoption of Learning Management System (LMS) to support an e-learning process has been continuously growing. Hence, a potential need and meaningful factor to provide a personalized support, within ...
Multi-scale investigation of occurrence, fate, removal and biodegradation of pharmaceutical contamination in wastewater treatment and river systems
Human and veterinary pharmaceuticals have been recognized as ubiquitous water microcontaminants with potential subtle detrimental effects on aquatic organisms. The majority of pharmaceutical compounds, after being consumed ...
Ecological and biological strategies taken by the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile (Mayr, 1868), in cold seasons. Effects of winter nests management in natural invaded areas
The winter nesting behaviour of the Argentine ant seems to be intrinsic, and its success as an invasive species does not rely on a shift in social organization, nor on a shift in its mode of nesting associated with the ...
Desarrollo de la teoría de la mente, lenguaje y funciones ejecutivas en niños de 4 a 12 años
Considerable attention has focused on the theory of mind (TM) in the past 25 years and it has become a very productive area of research in developmental psychology. Several studies addressed this issue and many researchers ...
A naturalistic theory of intentional content
Naturalistic theories of intentional content aim at explaining the phenomenon of representation in naturalistic terms: what kind of relation is a representational relation? What grounds the fact that certain states qualify ...
La estructura financiera de las pymes catalanas: la dinámica en un contexto de recesión
This research analyses the financial structure of companies in general, and subsequently, to study the factors that determine taking into account the internal vision of the company, with respect to the respective theories, ...
Agenda 21 Escolar en Guanajuato, dos experiencias, dos proyectos, un destino común...
There are few documented cases and active programs of environmental education (EA) that support schools and teachers in their teaching for the care of the environment in the State of Guanajuato, Mexico. Two cases will be ...
How Mediterranean plant species are able to cope with increasing levels of UV-B radiation and drought in the context of climate change?
Climatic models predict higher fluxes of UV-B radiation and a decrease in summer precipitation in the near future for the Mediterranean region. The UV radiation can be an oxidative stress factor for plants affecting their ...
Enfoques metodológicos para mejorar la precisión y fiabilidad de los sistemas de monitorización continua de glucosa en pacientes con diabetes tipo 1 y en pacientes críticos mediante técnicas lineales y no lineales
This dissertation focuses on the development and improvement of the minimally invasive continuous glucose monitoring systems (CGMS). This dissertation gives emphasis in solving the problem of the accuracy and reliability ...
Polítiques cuturals i educatives a Catalunya: dificultats de la interrelació
There has not been great deal of analysis about the relationship between cultural and educational polices in Catalonia. In the context of present day society, however, knowledge, artistic and cultural practices and ...
Atlas-based segmentation of multiple sclerosis lesions in magnetic resonance imaging
This thesis deals with the segmentation of brain magnetic resonance imaging applied to multiple sclerosis patients. This disease is characterised by the presence of white matter lesions in this image modality. After a ...
GPU parallel algorithms for reporting movement behaviour patterns in spatiotemporal databases
In this thesis we treat and solve various problems related to movement pattern detection by designing and implementing parallel algorithms using the GPU. We first propose a GPU pipeline based algorithm to report the ’Popular ...
