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Turull López, Marta (Date of defense: 2019-07-19)
This thesis is focused on the use of the Diffusive Gradient in thin film (DGT) technique for the analysis of bioavailable mercury and other trace metals in water and soil. Homemade DGT devices using a selective ion-exchange ...
Solans Margalef, Marta (Date of defense: 2019-10-14)
Diet is a key modifiable risk factor for several neoplasms, but evidence for lymphoid malignancies is still inconsistent. Previous epidemiological studies were mostly focused on single dietary components (i.e. nutrients ...
Torrent Fàbrega, Laura (Date of defense: 2019-10-09)
The production of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) has grown in last years due to their special physicochemical properties in respect to their bulk counterparts, derived from their small size (1-100 nm). Among the existing ...
Santos Clotas, Eric (Date of defense: 2019-11-08)
The anaerobic digestion of organic matter causes the formation of biogas that can be used in energy conversion systems for the production of electricity and heat, injection into the gas grid or as a fuel. However, biogas ...
Sbardella, Luca (Date of defense: 2019-05-22)
The presence of several pharmaceutical active compounds (PhACs) in water bodies has garnered increasing attention and worldwide concern. The effluents from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are one of the main sources ...
Castelló i Dalmau, Jordi (Date of defense: 2018-06-21)
In recent years, supply chain management (SCM) has become of great importance as nowadays not only are businesses competing with each other, but so too are suppliers. The main objective of this thesis is to analyse some ...
Nettle Valenzuela, Alejandro Horacio (Date of defense: 2019-11-06)
The objective is to associate intuitive probabilistic reasoning with cognitive factors: learning styles, arithmetic skills, school performance and the ability of abstract reasoning of schoolchildren facing mathematically ...
Hernández del Amo, Elena (Date of defense: 2019-10-04)
Nitrogen pollution in water is common in our environment, especially in places affected by agriculture and livestock, industry or wastewater discharge areas. Ammonium and nitrate are the most common pollutants and can be ...
Navàs Farré, Marina (Date of defense: 2019-07-11)
This study intends to offer a comprehensive analysis of Ramon de Cornet’s poetic and historical profile, his works and his manuscript tradition. He is the most important 14th-century Occitan poet, the author of a vast ...
Cornellà i Canals, Pere (Date of defense: 2019-12-18)
The research is focused on applying the gamification methodology to a subject of the mention in ICT to answer the question of whether it can be a suitable methodology to be used in the initial training of teachers. ...
Mendoza Garrido, Raynel Alfonso (Date of defense: 2019-10-11)
La Educación Patrimonial es el proceso que permite a las personas comprender y apropiarse de sus bienes patrimoniales tanto tangibles como intangibles. Tradicionalmente, la Educación Patrimonial se lleva a cabo en escenarios ...
Rondós, Elena (Date of defense: 2019-07-22)
This doctoral thesis aims at developing and implementing a computational framework for performing virtual testing of composite structures using a High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment. In this sense, this thesis ...
Garcia-Lozano, Carla (Date of defense: 2019-11-12)
Human developed coasts in Catalonia show a high-degraded dune landscape. Along the last decades, dunes have disappeared from 60% of the beaches studied, whereas 30% of dunes have been reduced in extension, and only 10% ...
Vidal Sánchez, Diego (Date of defense: 2019-07-24)
The oxidation of hydrocarbons under soft and selective conditions is a reaction almost exclusively produced under these conditions by enzymes. A lot of these enzymes, posses iron in their metal center, responsible for the ...
Miquel Vilanova, Maria Àngels (Date of defense: 2019-07-04)
The aim of this doctoral thesis is to present the person and work of restorer and professor of history of art Joan Sutrà Viñas (1898 - 1981), in particular within the context of the conservation and restoration of artistic ...
Lobina, Matteo (Date of defense: 2019-05-17)
This doctoral study focuses on a literary and cultural analysis of contemporary Spanish literature starting from the 1990. Historias del Kronen (Mañas, 1994) and its four sequels, represent a starting point for the analysis, ...
Saperas Coll, Israel (Date of defense: 2019-07-08)
This thesis consists of an ontological investigation of phenomenological-hermeneutic character of the work Sein und Zeit (Being and time) of Martin Heidegger. Through a set of meditations with this great work, is come to ...
Gairal Casadó, Regina (Date of defense: 2019-07-23)
This thesis aims to identify and analyse the impact on the implementation of successful educational actions with vulnerable groups, thus responding to the social objectives stipulated by the United Nations Organization ...
Muñoz Novoa, David (Date of defense: 2019-07-09)
In summary, this thesis proposes to address the problem of simulating physical effects in large urban environments through the use of procedural rules and Level-of-Detail techniques, in order to reduce the computational ...
Comamala Laguna, Martí (Date of defense: 2019-07-31)
Since the beginnings of the automotive driven with internal combustion engines all the cycles used in the alternative motors share a thermal characteristic, a large amount of heat released by the fuel is lost in the form ...