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Costa Surós, Montse (Date of defense: 2014-10-02)
Improving methods for automatic and continuous description of cloud has a huge importance in order to determine the role of clouds in climate and their contribution to climate change. The geometric characteristics of clouds, ...
Ruiz-Barragán, Sergi (Date of defense: 2014-09-19)
Conical Intersections (CI) are points in Potential Energy Surfaces (PES) of two or more states that have the same energy. They are fundamental to understand photo-chemical processes. These points are not isolated points, ...
Vilamitjana Carandell, Maria Dolors (Date of defense: 2014-09-16)
The doctoral thesis reflects the poetry of Quintana and Combis, taking into account that we keep the original manuscripts or first editions checked by the author in the family house of Torroella de Montgrí. The fact of ...
Gabarró i Bartual, Jordi (Date of defense: 2014-07-18)
The biological treatment of industrial wastewater containing high nitrogen concentrations (>1000 mg N L-1) and low biodegradable organic matter (bCOD) such as landfill leachate is nowadays challenging. Conventional ...
Zabaleta del Olmo, Edurne (Date of defense: 2014-09-19)
Objective: To adapt the community nursing version of the “Developing Evidence-Based Practice (DEBP )” questionnaire in to the primary health care (PHC) setting in Spain and to evaluate its psychometric properties. Methods: ...
Noguer i Juncà, Ester (Date of defense: 2014-07-21)
This doctoral thesis will try to identify all structural elements that form the tourist landscape of the Valley of Camprodon, primarily from the tension between tradition/modernity vectors and between the nodes/semiologic ...
Hereu Soms, Anna (Date of defense: 2014-09-19)
The present doctoral dissertation deals with the study of the effect of food preservation technologies, such as high pressure (HP) treatments and biopreservation with nisin, on the behaviour of Listeria monocytogenes during ...
Camelo Botero, Miguel Hernando (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)
This research work explores the use of the Greedy Geometric Routing (GGR) schemes to solve the scalability problem of the routing systems in Internet-like networks and several families of Data Center architectures. We ...
Mora Gallego, Héctor (Date of defense: 2014-09-08)
The objective of this thesis is to develop fermented sausages with lower fat and sodium content by means of innovative processing and the use of fat and NaCl substitutes. The effect of sunflower oil and pork lard-based ...
Liu, Chang (Date of defense: 2014-10-15)
A new technology for Cr(VI) and divalent metal ions removal based on metal sorption onto exhausted coffee waste has been developed. Physical and chemical characterization of exhausted coffee waste was explored as well as ...
Gil, Rosa Maria, 1962- (Date of defense: 2014-07-18)
The present thesis studies in depth a perspective of the noucentista movement focusing on the professional career of the architect Ricard Giralt Casadesús (1884-1970) and particularly on his urban design approach and social ...
Vega Martínez, Esther (Date of defense: 2014-07-30)
Environmental pollution related to odour emission has become in the last years an important public concern. Closeness of odour-causing facilities such as waste water treatment plants (WWTPs) to urban areas further aggravates ...
Vert Company, Anna (Date of defense: 2014-07-30)
Cytotoxic ribonucleases are promising agents to be used in the treatment of cancer. Our group previously described a cytotoxic human pancreatic ribonuclease variant, named PE5, which carries a nuclear localization signal. ...
Budhe, Sandip Rudha (Date of defense: 2014-07-24)
In recent years, the use of composite materials in the aeronautic, automotive, marine construction, etc. has increased significantly. Hence, there is an increasing need for repair technologies on primary structural components, ...
Timoner Amer, Xisca (Date of defense: 2014-05-05)
Streams experiencing a recurrent non-flow phase (i.e., flow intermittency) are characteristic of world regions with arid and semi-arid climates, where Mediterranean regions are part of. During non-flow streambed sediments, ...
Ganiler, Onur (Date of defense: 2014-10-24)
This thesis deals with the detection of new multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions in longitudinal brain magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. This disease is characterized by the presence of lesions in the brain, predominantly in the ...
Jaile Benítez, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 2014-07-10)
The meat industry is the most important economic activity in the agrofood sector, which (in Spain) is 20.6%. The meat industry contributes to the 1.7% Spanish GDP, billing 16 billion Euros (2006), employing more than 85,000 ...
Font Mareñà, Immaculada (Date of defense: 2014-06-20)
The PhD entitled "Luisa Sigea de Velasco: philosophical reflections of a sixteenth-century Spanish docta puella" focuses on verifying and justifying if Luisa Sigea (1522-1560) was a genuine philosopher. To carry out this ...
Lleal Grau, Mariona (Date of defense: 2013-11-29)
The PhD thesis analyzes the town planning liability of Public Authority, based on section 35 of the Royal Decree – Act 2/2008, of 20th June, regulating the Land Act. The research focuses on the key new aspects introduced ...
Llorens Ferrer, Marta (Date of defense: 2013-04-19)
This thesis has the aim of establish a compilation of the citizen’s rights in urbanism. By one hand, the right of having access to the urbanistic information, means to study exhaustively the right of having access to the ...