Now showing items 1266-1285 of 1900

    Development of new solvent-free microextraction techniques for the analysis of volatile organic compounds: application to the use of breath analysis as a toxicological tool for explosure analysis 

    Alonso Roura, Mònica (Date of defense: 2012-12-14)

    Hippocrates predicted many years ago that breath could tell something related with our health. On his treaties, he indicated that when the body starts moving after sleeping, and breathe with more frequency, something hot ...

    La convivència escolar a primària: anàlisi de les dificultats de convivència i identificació de les iniciatives de millora als centres escolars de primària de Catalunya 

    Felip i Jacas, Núria (Date of defense: 2012-11-23)

    The thesis “The coexistence in primary schools” aims to analyse the difficulties encountered by primary schools in Catalonia in terms of coexistence. It also focuses on the various proposals for improvement that school ...

    Utilidad de la resonancia magnética testicular con espectroscopía en el análisis cuantitativo de la infertilidad 

    Baleato González, Sandra (Date of defense: 2012-12-12)

    PURPOSE: To determine the role of MRI and MR spectroscopy (MRSI) in the diagnosis of infertility. To stablish normal values of the metabolites involved in the spermatogenesis (choline, creatine, and lipids) and to quantify ...

    La exhibición de documentos probatorios y soportes informáticos 

    Pereira Puigvert, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2012-09-14)

    The objective of the PhD thesis is the analysis of the institute of the exhibition of documents (of an evidentiary nature and technical support) in the Spanish civil procedure. It deals with addressing a momentous problem ...

    Els visitants infantils dels museus gironins en el marc d'una visita familiar i no organitzada 

    Servitja Tormo, Lada (Date of defense: 2012-11-28)

    The present research try to analyze the objectively patterns of visitor behavior focused on 5 and 12 years old kids, which visited the museums of the city of Girona in a non organized tour. We combined different methodologies ...

    Technology-enhaced support for lifelong competence development in higher education 

    Florian Gaviria, Beatriz Eugenia (Date of defense: 2013-01-18)

    A trace of lifelong-learning qualifications has become more mandatory at the European and even at world level. However, for higher education courses, the former could imply complex learning designs and abundance of data ...

    The invasion of the Argentine ant Linepithema humile in Mediterranean ecosystems: impacts and efficacy of winter aggregations extirpation as a control methods 

    Enríquez Lenis, Martha Lucía (Date of defense: 2012-12-20)

    We studied the characteristics and effects of the Argentine ant invasion on the native ants and other arthropods. Moreover, we assessed the effects of L. humile winter nest aggregations extirpation on its population dynamics. ...

    Metodología y análisis de la fabricación de anhidrita en horno rotativo mediante elementos de inteligencia artificial 

    Gironès Güell, Xavier (Date of defense: 2013-01-21)

    For the manufacture of gypsum powder applied and checked on its setting, using multiple components. One of the intrinsic components of construction gypsum is the anhydrite, completely dehydrated gypsum, working as inert ...

    Hollow fiber liquid-phase microextraction in the determination of pharmaceuticals and personal care products 

    Sagristà i Puig, Ester (Date of defense: 2012-11-23)

    Extensive amounts of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (organic emerging pollutants) are introduced into the environment mainly through wastewater treatment plants discharges either effluent wastewater reaching ...

    Adsorbentes preparados a partir de residuos y su aplicación en la eliminación de compuestos causantes de olores (NH3 y H2S) 

    Canals Batlle, Carla (Date of defense: 2012-11-30)

    This thesis is focused on two environmental issues. The first one is the recovery of different wastes, such as sewage sludge and fly ashes, and the second one is related to the removal of odour causing compounds which are ...

    Robust image segmentation applied to magnetic resonance and ultrasound images of the prostate 

    Ghose, Soumya (Date of defense: 2012-10-19)

    Prostate segmentation in trans rectal ultrasound (TRUS) and magnetic resonance images (MRI) facilitates volume estimation, multi-modal image registration, surgical planing and image guided prostate biopsies. The objective ...

    L'eficiència del mercat immobiliari: estratègies i instruments 

    Panosa Gubau, Anna M. (Date of defense: 2012-12-18)

    Real estate represents a part of the portfolio of many investors and can be accessed from both the real and the financial market. The low efficiency of real market prevents from taking advantage of the value created through ...

    Supporting competence development processes on open learning systems through personalization 

    Baldiris Navarro, Silvia Margarita (Date of defense: 2012-12-14)

    This thesis aim for promoting the learning objects economy by offering teacher the possibility of generating adaptive and standardized learning designs. The adaptation of the generated learning design considers two of the ...

    Phylogeographical analysis of two aristed shrimps, Aristeus antennatus and Aristaemorpha foliacea (Crustacea: Aristeidae), with implications for resource conservation 

    Fernández Hernández, Maria Victoria (Date of defense: 2012-11-28)

    The conservation of species relies on a deep knowledge of biology of the species concerned, as well as on the identification of reproductively isolated units, which are genetically different from one other (genetic stocks). ...

    El comportament del turisme en una destinació de litoral dins una conjuntura de crisi econòmica 

    Grijalvo Pujol, Marc, 1978 (Date of defense: 2012-11-30)

    The tourism behaviour in a coastal destination within an economic crisis is a research with reference to an specific place: Roses. This research has intended to identify which are the rules of economic behaviour that due ...

    Characterization and optimization of dispersed composite laminates for damage resistant aeronautical structures 

    Sebaey Abdella, Tamer Ali Abdella (Date of defense: 2013-01-11)

    The main objective of the thesis is to assess the damage resistance and damage tolerance of the non-conventional dispersed laminates and compare the response with the conventional ones. However, part of the effort is spent ...

    A multiapproach study of soil attributes under land use and cover change at the Cap de Creus Península, NE Spain 

    Emran Khaled Abd El Aziz, Mohamed (Date of defense: 2012-12-03)

    The work presented in this Doctoral Thesis has studied the temporal and spatial patterns of the most relevant soil parameters with special attention posed to soil biological and biochemical dynamics occurring at the studied ...

    El patrimonio cultural territorial. Historia, paisaje y gestión en Metepec, Puebla (México) 

    Castellanos Arenas, Mariano (Date of defense: 2012-12-12)

    This thesis is a research project that aims to build, in the first instance, a historical, theoretical, and methodological frame of reference and protection of cultural property, and more precisely of the territorial ...

    Disseny d'un instrument de mesura de capital intel·lectual per a pimes del sector industrial tecnològic. Aplicació a un conjunt de pimes de la província de Girona 

    Verdaguer Arpa, Jordi (Date of defense: 2012-12-13)

    In the first phase a historical and descriptive is carried out, in analyzing both the foundations and history of intellectual capital as its corrent state. We proceed to analyse definitions of intangible assets from diferents ...

    A satisfiability modulo theories approach to constraint programming 

    Suy Franch, Josep (Date of defense: 2012-12-20)

    In this thesis we focus on solving CSPs using SMT. Essentially, what we do is reformulating CSPs into SMT. The obtained results allow us to conclude that state-of-the-art SMT solvers are a robust tool to solve CSPs. We ...