Universitat de Girona: Recent submissions
Now showing items 441-460 of 1807
L’associacionisme arqueològic a Catalunya en el segon franquisme i la transició. Estudi del cas del Grup de Prehistòria i Arqueologia del Museu de Berga
The purpose of this research work is focused on the archaeological practice that was carried out from the archaeological associations in Catalonia. The Renaixença cultural movement claimed a glorious past in Catalonia ...
Robust and fault-tolerant strategies for controlling blood glucose in patients with type 1 diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is a serious disease that must be monitored and controlled artificially by supplying exogenous insulin to the body. The artificial pancreas (AP) is a closed-loop system that resulted from integrating an ...
Altered glycosylation in pancreatic cancer: development of new tumor markers and therapeutic strategies
Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDA), the most common pancreatic cancer, remains one of the most lethal tumor types, with extremely low survival rates due to late diagnosis and resistance to standard therapies. Expression ...
La guerra civil catalana i la crisi financera de Barcelona durant el regnat de Joan II (1458-1479)
The intention of this doctoral thesis is to study the municipal finances of Barcelona in the fifteenth century and to see how far this economic indicator may serve to establish what kind of impact the so-called “late ...
Soil and vegetation carbon dynamics (stocks and fluxes) and litter decomposition in a Mediterranean non-tidal salt marsh
Salt marshes are considered key ecosystems for climate regulation because they have a high carbon sequestration capacity. However, most studies of carbon sequestration capacity of these ecosystems have been performed in ...
Els fonaments de la docència publicitària a Catalunya, a través de l'aportació científica de Pere Prat Gaballí
Advertising in Catalonia originated thanks to Catalan pioneers´ business vision, instinct and tenacity. One of the principal pioneers of the modern Catalan advertising was Pere Prat Gaballí (Barcelona, 1885-1962). His ...
Percepción del cambio climático y medidas de ahorro de agua en alojamientos turísticos de la cuenca del río Muga (Girona, España)
This thesis analyses the perception of climate change and problems with water perceived by lodging industry. 33 in-depth interviews to owners or managers of hotels, campsites and rural lodgings of the Muga river basin have ...
Flexural behavior of NSM FRP strenthened reinforced concrete beams under sustained loading
The main objective of this work is to study the long-term and residual flexura! strength of Near Surface Mounted (NSM) strengthened Reinforced Concrete (RC) beams with Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) strips when ...
Steering CO2 bio-electrocycling into valuable compounds through inline monitoring of key operational parameters
Microbial Electrochemical Technologies (METs) are a promising alternative for capturing and in-situ reducing CO2 through the use of renewable electricity. Microorganisms grown in autotrophic conditions use CO2 as an electron ...
Biofilm responses to flow intermittency in Mediterranean rivers
Currently, global change is promoting the spatiotemporal occurrence of temporary streams, altering fluvial ecosystem function and structure, and the ecosystem services they provide. To effectively protect fluvial ecosystems, ...
Adaptació transcultural i validació de la versió catalana i castellana de l'escala Breakthrough Pain Assessment Tool en persones amb càncer
Breakthrough cancer pain due to its characteristics, fast onset, short duration and high severity implies a significant reduction in the quality of 2/2 life perceived by affected persons. For this reason, breakthrough ...
Automatic segmentation of brain structures in magnetic resonance images using deep learning techniques
This PhD thesis focuses on the development of deep learning based methods for accurate segmentation of the sub-cortical brain structures from MRI. First, we have proposed a 2.5D CNN architecture that combines convolutional ...
A constitutive model for fatigue and residual strength predictions of composite laminates
This thesis investigates the fatigue behaviour of fibre-reinforced composite laminates. Fatigue of composite materials is a complex subject both from an experimental and numerical modelling point of view. In this context, ...
Computer aided detection for breast lesion in ultrasound and mammography
In the field of breast cancer imaging, traditional Computer Aided Detection (CAD) systems were designed using limited computing resources and used scanned films (poor image quality), resulting in less robust application ...
Avaluació de la funció renal en la millora de la predicció del risc vascular. Anàlisi del rol de les estatines en la prevenció primària d’esdeveniments cardiovasculars en la població amb malaltia renal crònica inicial
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide as well as in our population. One of the main cardiovascular prevention strategies is to identify healthy patients who are at risk of ...
Social Sales: una nueva manera de intermediación turística online
The evolution of tourism has experienced different circumstances due to changes in the tourism intermediation system. These changes occurred since the beginning of modern tourism. One of the cyclic changes was the introduction ...
Apel·les Mestres (1854-1936). La dignitat de la tradició literària popular
The doctoral thesis Apel·les Mestres (1854-1936). The Dignity of the Popular Literary Tradition aims to present a complete study of the literary work of Apel·les Mestres in order to raise awareness of the value that it has ...
Desenvolupament d’una vacuna contra la mamitis bovina causada per Streptococcus uberis
Bovine mastitis caused by Streptococcus uberis is a major problem in the dairy industry worldwide. Despite of that, there is no vaccine commercial available against it. Therefore, the objectives of this doctoral thesis are ...
Contemporary trends in transmedia storytelling. Transmedia television
Transmedia storytelling is a process where integral elements of a fiction are systematically broaden through a number of distribution channels in order to create a coordinated form of entertainment. With each new medium ...
Integrated assessment of wastewater treatment plants and their receiving river systems in a global change context
For a long time, there has been a need and an ambition to better understand the behavior of integrated systems by considering the whole urban water cycle, including wastewater transportation, wastewater treatment and the ...
