Universitat de Girona: Enviaments recents
Ara mostrant els elements 641-660 de 1771
Creative economy and sustainable human development: a theoretical approach for convergences and divergences
The thesis relates the ‘creative economy’ with the ‘sustainable human development’, tracing a parallel between economic growth (e.g. GDP) and human development (e.g. HDI). The aspect of sustainability is addressed through ...
Computational chemistry applied to hydrocarbon functionalization by iron catalysts, oxidation state characterization, and electrides design
In this thesis, the three constituent areas of chemistry (in agreement with Jensen's quotation in his "Introduction to Computational Chemistry" book), which are construction, transformation, and properties of molecules, ...
Assessment of struvite and K-struvite recovery from digested manure
Human population has had an impact on the natural phosphorus’ cycle, a limited resource, and the predictions show that this resource could be exhausted in 100-250 years. Therefore, the actions for the coming 10-25 years ...
Microbial community assembly and biogeography in the Pyrenean lacustrine district
The microbial metacommunity of the Pyrenees mountain range has never been studied at the regional level. In this PhD thesis, the main goal is to describe the taxonomic diversity and reveal the ecological processes (biotic ...
Dones, cos i ecologia. Dona arbre
The thesis presented is a study of some women's movements which claim a recovery of the female body from a feminist and ecologist standpoint and which are currently spreading their influence. It provides a summary of the ...
L'optimització de la competència lingüística i la competència d'aprendre a aprendre: l'ús explícit i sistemàtic de les estratègies d'aprenentatge a l'Educació primària
The purpose of this doctorate is to explore how the use of explicit, systematic reading strategies optimizes competence in both language skills and learning how to learn. The theoretical and conceptual framework is based ...
Tracing the creation and evaluation of accessible Open Educational Resources through learning analytics
The adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) has been continuously growing and with it the need to addressing the diversity of students’ learning needs. Because of that, OER should meet with characteristics such as the ...
La influència del pensament de Joan Fuster en les cultures polítiques dels Països Catalans (1960-1992)
Joan Fuster was one of the most prominent intellectuals of the Catalan Letters in the last century. His national thought and the construction of a Valencian identity which was an alternative to the existing one, was central ...
La regla de exclusión de la prueba ilícita en España, estudio comparado con la actualidad mexicana
The present study’s objective is to develop a comprehensive explanation on the origin and development of the exclusionary rule in the Spanish legal system. This rule, created from the interpretation of the exclusionary ...
Sistema immunitari i marcadors de risc cardiometabòlic en l'edat pediàtrica
We studied the relationship between the circulating levels of the innate immune system molecules (α-defensins and BPI) and the acquired immune system (IgG, IgA and IgM) with obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors in ...
Aprendizaje móvil y ciudadanía espacial en la educación para el desarrollo sostenible. Una propuesta para la enseñanza de las ciencias sociales en educación secundaria obligatoria
This research aims to contribute to the development and improvement of education for sustainable development (ESD) in a society increasingly knowledgeable, reflecting about appropriate ESD practices by promoting the ...
Response of composite laminates under out-of-plane loading
The objective of the thesis is to provide scaling tool predicting the response of composite structures under out-of-plane loading by testing small coupons. This global objective cannot be achieved without understanding the ...
Case-level detection of mammographic masses
This thesis is focused on the automatic detection of masses in FFDM images by using case-level information which includes bilateral, temporal and/or ipsilateral information. As a first step, FFDM images are preprocessed ...
La responsabilidad medioambiental
This work focuses on the study of current European environmental liability legislation and its implementation in Spain, noting its actual scope. In order to do this, we analyzed all its implementing regulations and subsequent ...
Estudi de l'activitat antitumoral de nous compostos basats en metalls de transició
Nowadays, cancer is one of the leading causes of death in developed countries. Therefore, there is great interest of developing new therapeutic strategies to improve the efficiency of current cancer treatments. The ...
Influència de l'adherència terapèutica i el suport social en la qualitat de vida percebuda de les persones amb diàlisi peritoneal
Chronic renal insufficiency is a public health problem that affects about 11% of the world’s adult population. However, the impact of peritoneal dialysis on people who receive this treatment is little known. The present ...
Cartografia, pràctiques mèdiques i respostes socials a l'entorn del paludisme: Catalunya, segle XIX
The PhD dissertation starts off with the research work El paludisme a la Catalunya del segle XIX a través del Diccionario de Madoz i les Topografies Mèdiques, presented as a master’s degree thesis in 2010. By then, the ...
Glandular tissue pattern analysis through multimodal MRI-mammography registration
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Several studies have shown that the combination of the different medical image modalities, such as the x-ray mammography and the magnetic resonance imaging ...
Papel del diffusion tensor imaging en la resonancia magnética cerebral como marcador predictivo del estado motor y evolución funcional en pacientes con hemorragia intracerebral
The present thesis, aims to study whether the evaluation of the CT through DTI and tractography sequences in the first 12 hours from the ICH onset, is able to predict the motor and functional outcome at 3 months. The ...
Computational study of nuclear magnetic shielding constants
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is an indispensable structural tool in the modern analytical arsenal of chemists and structural biologists. The present thesis is a computational study of the NMR shift constants ...
