Universitat de Girona: Recent submissions
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Senyors, pagesia i inversions barcelonines. La llarga transició a la vall baixa del Llobregat (segles XI fins a principis del XIX)
ENG- This research explores how the agricultural landscape of a part of the lower Llobregat valley was shaped from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, specifically in the territories of Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Sant ...
Scale-dependent patterns of hydrological, chemical, and ecological descriptors in an intensively managed Mediterranean river
ENG- This doctoral thesis uses a multiscale approach aiming to understand how climate change and anthropogenic pressures impact the hydrology of an intermittent river and how this, in turn, determines the patterns of ...
Los motivos de género a prueba
ENG- This thesis explores a subcategory of gender-based crimes referred to as «gender-motivated crimes», whose paradigmatic examples are, arguably, the crime of femicide and gender-based hate crimes. These types of crimes ...
Estudi de rols i pràctiques dels coordinadors de cicle com a líders intermedis al context escolar català
ENG- The doctoral thesis by Aleix Olondriz Valverde analyzes the role of cycle coordinators as middle leaders within the Catalan education system. This research is framed in a context of transformation in school organizations, ...
Materialidades y memorias de los paisajes de conflicto de la Guerra Civil: una aproximación desde las humanidades digitales
ENG- This thesis examines the construction and transformation of collective memory in relation to two key battles of the Spanish Civil War —the Iron Belt (1937) and the Battle of the Ebro (1938) — through the analysis of ...
Conceptualization of positive emotions in second language acquisition: influences between l1 (russian) and l2 (spanish)
ENG- Emotions constitute an important part of everyday life of an individual and the conceptual representation of emotions could vary from culture to culture. Consequently, in order to become a full member of a new speech ...
“In helping my mentee, I grew too”. A qualitative study of socio-emotional growth among mentors in India
ENG- This thesis explores the socio-emotional development of college student mentors participating in a school-based mentoring (SBM) program in India. Situated within the broader challenges of educational inequity, urban-rural ...
Extracting chemical concepts with effective fragment orbitals
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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, ...
