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Juan García, Pau (Date of defense: 2019-02-04)
The water sector is entering a period of uncertainty, as stressors such as climate change pose unknown risks to its infrastructure. Utilities need to build resilience to handle unpredictable changes, but the field of ...
Salek Farokhi, Omid (Date of defense: 2019-05-27)
There has always been a controversy in relevant studies about the role of the museum in the tourism industry, particularly in cultural tourism has always remained controversial in relevant studies. The studies which have ...
Carreras Blasco, Laura (Date of defense: 2019-07-17)
The overall purpose of this Ph.D. thesis is to contribute to the reliable design of composite structures subjected to fatigue-driven delamination. The aim is motivated by a wish to reduce the amount of experimental testing ...
Sánchez Ruiz, María (Date of defense: 2018-12-20)
This doctoral thesis is responsible for making a critical edition of two Spanish manuscripts, namely: the codex escurialense J.I.6 and the testimony BNE 17638, which we keep of the historiographical work of the French ...
Pujol i Fabrelles, David (Date of defense: 2019-05-08)
The present doctoral thesis, which combines compilation with research, aims to give an insight into the presence of the Catalan language in schools over the last three hundred years. Needless to say, it pays special attention ...
Sales i Favà, Lluís (Date of defense: 2019-06-07)
This doctoral thesis analyses the private credit available to the popular classes during the fourteenth century. At the same time, it focuses on the institutional mechanisms granted by public powers in order to sanction ...
Hernández Piferrer, Jordi (Date of defense: 2019-04-12)
In journalism, the use of sources of information is one of the main criteria to evaluate the quality of a product. The development of news based on many sources is the best way, not only to guarantee the quality of the ...
González-Villà, Sandra (Date of defense: 2019-05-31)
This thesis is focused on the automated segmentation of the brain structures in magnetic resonance images, applied to multiple sclerosis patients. This disease is characterized by the presence of lesions, which affect the ...
Casanovas López, Raquel (Date of defense: 2019-06-10)
The present investigation deals about the participation rights in the cultural life by disabilities hearing and visual people, analyzing a specific case such as that of the Aragon’s Autonomous Community. The study was ...
Mancera Valetts, Laura (Date of defense: 2019-02-06)
In this thesis, the Adaptative Hypermedia Systems (AHS) are used to generate e-Learning processes that consider the characteristics of university students who suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). ...
Johansson, Sara (Date of defense: 2019-04-29)
Increasing awareness on the limited nature of the raw materials for the production of inorganic fertilizer is pushing for a shift from removal to recovery of nutrients from waste streams. In municipal wastewater treatment ...
Navarro Cejas, Mercedes (Date of defense: 2019-06-17)
The present doctoral thesis work analyzes the issue of migrant women in relation to gender equality and non-discrimination in employment. In particular, the group of domestic migrant women whose condition is most vulnerable ...
Mahmood, Muhammad Habib (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
Motion segmentation refers to the process of separating regions and trajectories from a video sequence into coherent subsets of space and time. In this thesis, we created a new multifaceted motion segmentation dataset ...
Palomeras, Sònia (Date of defense: 2019-02-27)
The major clinical problem for HER2+ breast cancer target therapies is the acquisition of resistance. The DNA methylation status of the promoter gene region has been described as a common epigenetic alteration for ...
Serrat Costa, Mar (Date of defense: 2019-05-24)
Introduction: Arterial hypertension (AHT) is the main risk factor in attributable mortality. It is therefore considered one of the most significant public health problems, in particular for primary health care, which is ...
Valenzuela Leal, Helen (Date of defense: 2019-04-09)
The thickness of epicartic fat can be directly measured by transthoracic echocardiography. Epicartic fat has recently been associated with the onset of atrial fibrillation (AF). In this work we will analyze the relationship ...
Ambusto, Loriana (Date of defense: 2017-11-23)
This thesis is a reinterpretation trip of my personal and professional route through my previous experiences as a practitioner and as a researcher, that winds through the recent methodologies of arts based educational ...
Dorf, Tomasz (Date of defense: 2019-06-05)
Polymeric materials, which are suitable for high performance applications for example human implants are one of the most expensive available polymers. Standard injection micromoulding process, dedicated for mass production, ...
Hosseini, Seyedeh Yasamin (Date of defense: 2019-06-03)
This is an investigation that wants to study about the perspective of service quality for young audiences at a cultural place such as museum. These types of projects allow us to obtain direct feedback from children as young ...
Serrat Llinàs, Alba (Date of defense: 2019-04-10)
Exploited marine fish species with an affinity for cold waters inhabiting close to the warmer edge of their distribution area are exposed to stress caused by fishing and climate change. Three case studies of “cold water ...