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    Disseny i síntesi de lipopèptids cíclics i de pèptids conjugats derivats de BPC194 amb activitat antimicrobiana 

    Vilà Roura, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2014-07-28)

    Les malalties causades per bacteris i fongs són responsables d’importants pèrdues econòmiques en cultius. Es considera que els pèptids antimicrobians, naturals i sintètics, són uns bons candidats per a ser utilitzats com ...

    Automatic change detection in multiple pigmented skin lesions 

    Korotkov, Konstantin (Date of defense: 2014-07-08)

    Malignant melanoma is the rarest and deadliest of skin cancers causing three times more deaths than all other skin-related malignancies combined. Fortunately, in its early stages, it is completely curable, making a total ...

    Prescripción enfermera en España: práctica profesional y limbo jurídico 

    Romero Collado, Ángel (Date of defense: 2014-06-13)

    Nurse prescribing has experienced much legislative confusion over the past 40 years in Spain. Nonetheless, primary care nurses prescribe medications, most frequently standard childhood vaccinations, antiseptics and ...

    La responsabilidad civil del principal por hecho de sus auxiliares. En especial, la relación de dependencia 

    Casadellà Sánchez, Mònica (Date of defense: 2014-06-13)

    If the person who actually caused the damage is not a sufficiently solvent debtor, if he is impossible to identify or does not have sufficient liability insurance coverage, liability of the actual wrongdoer will not help ...

    Habilitats sociocognitives i de funcionament executiu en nenes i nens amb síndrome de Down d'entre 4 i 12 anys 

    Amadó Codony, Anna (Date of defense: 2014-05-09)

    The study of socio-cognitive skills, and their relationship with executive functions, has generated a large number of studies. In order to assess these skills in children with Down syndrome, we administered a battery of ...

    Expectativas y preferencias en la utilización de servicios en atención primaria 

    Alfranca Pardillos, Rebeca (Date of defense: 2014-06-03)

    The main aim of this thesis is to study the expectations and preferences of the Catalan population regarding the public health system, and an appraisal of the influence played by factors such as age, gender, geographical ...

    Cuantificación de la demanda y sentencia con reserva de liquidación 

    Abrisqueta Costa, Pedro (Date of defense: 2014-05-29)

    The present study deals with the quantification of the demand in relation to the sentence subject to settlement. This last institute is of great practical importance for having been the instrument chosen, in the Spanish ...

    La tradición judía y la narración en la pintura de Marc Chagall 

    Turon Mejías, Ma. Àngels (Date of defense: 2014-05-28)

    Among the many readings of this painter, I try to draw up a narrative reading of his work, taking into account the Jewish tradition in which both his biography and his artistic work were deeply involved. Once I have discussed ...

    Tourism destination zoning and governance in border regions 

    Blasco Franch, Daniel (Date of defense: 2014-01-27)

    Debates on the creation and management of tourism destinations have increased during the last decades. This dissertation endeavours to contribute to the literature on tourism destinations planning and governance, with ...

    Tourism demand in Spain: trip duration and budget structure, a comparison of low cost and legacy airline users 

    Ferrer Rosell, Berta (Date of defense: 2014-05-27)

    This thesis compares the behaviour of tourists arriving to Spain by low cost airlines or by legacy airlines, in terms of length of stay and travel budget allocation. It also segments low cost users according to travel ...

    Diagnosis, assessment and optimisation of the design and operation of municipal MBRs 

    Gabarrón Fernández, Sara (Date of defense: 2014-05-16)

    This thesis is based on diagnosing, assessing and optimising the design and operation of membrane bioreactors (MBR) used for treating municipal wastewater. Specifically, this thesis has been carried out within the framework ...

    Surface reconstruction methods for seafloor modelling 

    Campos Dausà, Ricard (Date of defense: 2014-06-02)

    Underwater maps are an important source of information for the scientific community, since mapping the seafloor is the starting point for underwater exploration. The advance of range scanning methodologies (both acoustic ...

    Contribution to micro-milling process parameters selection for process planning operations 

    Vázquez Lepe, Elisa (Date of defense: 2014-05-20)

    The development of new products with micro-metric characteristics and complex geometries has been a manufacturing trend in different industrial sectors, particularly for electronic, military, biomedical and aerospace ...

    Transition metal-catalysed [2+2+2] cycloaddition reactions. Methodology and mechanism 

    Parera Briansó, Magda (Date of defense: 2014-05-20)

    The transition-metal catalysed [2+2+2] cycloaddition reaction is a highly efficient synthetic tool that allows six-membered polysubstituted carbo- and heterocyclic derivatives to be obtained in an atom economy process. ...

    Rice seeds as biofactories of the production of antimicrobial peptides 

    Montesinos Barreda, Laura (Date of defense: 2014-05-16)

    A series of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) derived from the BP134 peptide (a member of the CECMEL11 library) exhibited potent bactericidal effect and low cytotoxicity, and were selected for expression in transgenic rice. ...

    El "Tractat de les penes particulars d'infern" de Joan Pasqual: estudi i edició crítica 

    Gómez Martín, Francesc Josep (Date of defense: 2014-04-11)

    El Tractat de les penes particulars d’infern de Joan Pasqual, mestre en teologia i franciscà de Castelló d’Empúries, forma part d’una obra de divulgació teològica dividida en dos volums: el Llibre de beatitud, dedicat el ...

    La proyección macular, un nuevo método para determinar la agudeza visual potencial 

    Rodríguez Mier, Fernando Avelino (Date of defense: 2014-03-14)

    The "Macular Projector" MAP, designed by us, is so effective, reliable and predictive as the Guyton-Minkowski PAMÒ and Retinometer Heine Lambda 100 in the assessment of potential visual acuity. The PAM has the advantage, ...

    Multi-attribute auctions: application to workflow management systems 

    Pla Planas, Albert (Date of defense: 2014-04-25)

    Resource and task allocation for workflows poses an allocation problem in which several attributes may be involved (economic cost, delivery time, CO2 emissions...), therefore, it must be treated from a multi-criteria ...

    Sonar scan matching for simultaneous localization and mapping in confined underwater environments 

    Mallios, Angelos (Date of defense: 2014-05-15)

    This thesis presents the development of a localization and mapping algorithm for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). It is based on probabilistic scan matching of raw sonar scans within a pose-based simultaneous ...

    Reproducció i desenvolupament de la mallerenga blava (Cyanistes caeruleus): conseqüències de la invasió de la formiga argentina (Linepithema humile) en la xarxa tròfica del bosc mediterrani 

    Estany-Tigerström, David (Date of defense: 2013-11-29)

    We investigated whether the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) invasion modifies the trophic web of the sclerophyllous Mediterranean forests to the point that impacts co-occurring bird communities. We studied if the invaded ...