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    Colectividades agrarias en la región de Girona, 1936-1939 

    Cárdaba Carrascal, Marciano, 1954- (Date of defense: 2001-07-06)

    En el contexto de la revolución y la Guerra civil española se desarrolló en las comarcas de Girona un proceso colectivista agrario protagonizado principalmente por jornaleros, payeses sin tierra suficiente (en propiedad o ...

    Rhodium(I) catalyzed [2+2+2] cycloaddition reactions: experimental and theoretical studies 

    Dachs Soler, Anna (Date of defense: 2011-07-29)

    The [2+2+2] cycloaddition reaction involves the formation of three carbon-carbon bonds in one single step using alkynes, alkenes, nitriles, carbonyls and other unsaturated reagents as reactants. This is one of the most ...

    El cinema i la constitució d'un públic popular a Barcelona. El cas del Paral·lel 

    Suárez Carmona, Luisa (Date of defense: 2011-11-08)

    Between 1895 and 1910 Barcelona saw a whole range of social, political and cultural changes due to the increasingly important emergence of the working masses. At the same time, the cinema arrived in Catalonia, becoming ...

    Procesos secuenciales de adsorción/oxidación con H2O2 para la eliminación de compuestos orgánicos volátiles 

    Anfruns Bagaria, Alba (Date of defense: 2011-11-25)

    Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are one of the main groups of odour causing compounds in Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTP). Adsorption technology is already established, in recent years the interest for the optimization ...

    Assessment of virtual design and manufacturing techniques for fibre reinforced composite materials 

    Gascons i Tarrés, Marc (Date of defense: 2011-12-02)

    Virtual tools are commonly used nowadays to optimize product design and manufacturing process of fibre reinforced composite materials. The present work focuses on two areas of interest to forecast the part performance and ...

    La participació social dels adolescents en el context escolar i el seu benestar personal: estudi psicosocial d'una experiència participativa 

    Navarro, Dolors (Date of defense: 2011-09-05)

    The aim of this research is to gain greater understanding of the psychosocial implications of adolescents’ social participation at school and how this relates to their personal well-being. We designed this research from ...

    Prediction of postprandial blood glucose under intra-patient variability and uncertainty and its use in the design of insulin dosing strategies for type 1 diabetic patients 

    García Jaramillo, Maira Alejandra (Date of defense: 2011-07-22)

    In this thesis I propose a novel method to estimate the dose and injection-to-meal time for low-risk intensive insulin therapy. This dosage-aid system uses an optimization algorithm to determine the insulin dose and ...

    Manuel Brunet i Solà (1889-1956). El periodisme d'idees al servei de la "veritat personal" 

    Montero Aulet, Francesc (Date of defense: 2011-10-28)

    This doctoral thesis deals with the intellectual biography of the writer and journalist Manuel Brunet (Vic, 1889, Figueres, 1956). It reconstructs the life and professional studies of the author, and the most important ...

    Development of chemical separation processes for the treatment and monitoring of metallic cations and oxoanions in polluted waters 

    Güell Martí, Raquel (Date of defense: 2011-10-07)

    The chemical contamination of natural waters is a global problem with a worldwide impact. Considering the relevance of this problem, this thesis is intended, on one hand, to develop different separation/preconcentration ...

    El armamento de influencia La Tène en la Península Ibérica (siglos V-I a.C.) 

    García Jiménez, Gustavo (Date of defense: 2011-10-07)

    El armamento de tipo La Tène se ha venido relacionando habitualmente con la Segunda Edad del Hierro europea, y en general con un territorio dominado por poblaciones de etnia celta. Sin embargo, en la actualidad su alcance ...

    Simplification, approximation and deformation of large models 

    Paradinas Salsón, Teresa (Date of defense: 2011-10-13)

    The high level of realism and interaction in many computer graphic applications requires techniques for processing complex geometric models. First, we present a method that provides an accurate low-resolution approximation ...

    Estudio del impacto ambiental del uso del bagazo como fuente de energía en centrales azucareros en Cuba. Estudio de caso "Melanio Hernández" 

    Gil Unday, Zuleiqui (Date of defense: 2005-10-19)

    This work was carried out to study the environmental impacts produced by power generation from biomass (bagasse) in sugar mills in Cuba. For this purpose, with the collaboration of the Center for Energy and Industrial ...

    Selective submap joining SLAM for autonomous vehicles 

    Aulinas Masó, Josep M. (Date of defense: 2011-09-22)

    Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) do not result in consistent maps of large areas because of gradual increase of the uncertainty for long term missions. In addition, as the size of the map grows the computational ...

    De l'antiquarisme a l'arqueologia. La protecció del patrimoni històric i arqueològic a la província de Girona (1835-1876) 

    Buscató i Somoza, Lluís (Date of defense: 2011-09-12)

    The first protective activities of historical and archaeological heritage in the province of Girona (Catalonia, Spain), although some earlier precedents, were produced from the third decade of the nineteenth century. These ...

    Environmental governance from a gender perspective. Theoretical reflections and case studies 

    Agüera Cabo, Mercè (Date of defense: 2011-07-08)

    In the second half of the twentieth century we saw the environmental debate escalate into one of the most challenging and complex issues that authorities at international, national, regional and municipal levels have to ...

    Miquel Mai (ca. 1480-1546). Art i cultura a la cort de Carles V 

    Bellsolell Martínez, Joan (Date of defense: 2011-07-12)

    The doctoral thesis was an study about Miquel Mai, a polític, jurist, bibliophile and art collector in Barcelona in the first half of the XVI century. The thesis presents the figure of Miquel Mai by his biographic history, ...

    Efficient topology estimation for large scale optical mapping 

    Elibol, Armagan (Date of defense: 2011-07-29)

    Large scale image mosaicing methods are in great demand among scientists who study different aspects of the seabed, and have been fostered by impressive advances in the capabilities of underwater robots in gathering optical ...

    Pèptids biarílics a partir de 4-iodofenilalanina o 3-iodotirosina per borilació i reacció de Suzuki-Miyaura en fase sòlida. Avaluació de l'activitat antimicrobiana 

    Afonso Afonso, Ana (Date of defense: 2011-07-22)

    En aquesta tesi doctoral es va estudiar la preparació de pèptids biarílics en fase sòlida. En primer lloc, es varen borilar residus de fenilalanina o tirosina presents a la seqüència peptídica a través d’una reacció de ...

    Evaluación evolutiva de la salud percibida según las etapas del cambio del modelo transteórico en el tabaquismo 

    Grau Martín, Armand (Date of defense: 2011-06-17)

    OBJETIVO: Evaluar la salud percibida en fumadores de cigarrillos según las etapas del cambio. METODOLOGIA: Se estudiaron 253 personas mediante el cuestionario de salud SF-36 cada 6 meses durante dos años. RESULTADOS: Después ...

    Mechanism of action of cyclic antimicrobial peptides 

    Díaz i Cirac, Anna (Date of defense: 2011-07-01)

    This PhD thesis is the result of the combination of experimental and computational techniques with the aim of understanding the mechanism of action of de novo cyclic decapeptides with high antimicrobial activity. By ...