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Camós Llovet, Lourdes (Date of defense: 2019-02-26)
The objectives of the thesis are to estimate the prevalence of pathological arterial stiffness (measured with the Cardio-Ankle Vascular Index –CAVI-) in a general Mediterranean population and in a Mediterranean intermediate ...
Salleras Duran, Laia (Date of defense: 2019-02-20)
Patients often require venous access. The lack of a scale to predict this difficulty in the emergency department makes the validation of an instrument all the more necessary. The use of ultrasounds to locate veins makes ...
Alves Cabratosa, Lia (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in clinical practice and implies a huge social, medical, and economical burden. Analyses of AF risk factors in certain groups of population would allow tailored ...
Hossayni, Sayyed Ali (Date of defense: 2018-07-27)
Analyzing the sentiment of Social Networks users is an attractive task, well-covered by the Sentiment Analysis research communities. Alongside, predicting the rating/opinion of users in Social Networks or e-commerce platforms ...
Soriano Rodríguez, Pilar (Date of defense: 2015-10-13)
WNT5A is a protein with proinflammatory properties recently related to insulin resistance. It is believed that this protein might be regulated by SFRP5, which sequesters WNT5A exerting its anti-inflammatory actions and ...
Bosch Sánchez, Lluís (Date of defense: 2017-03-10)
This PhD dissertation attempts to describe and value the translation into Catalan of English language poetry during the period that comprises the years 1990 to 2010. It is the aim of this thesis to consider a theoretical ...
Ben Mbarek, Wael (Date of defense: 2018-11-20)
This work is framed in the general context of the synthesis and characterization of Mn or Ca based alloys, which are subsequently applied in degradation processes of azo dyes used in the textile industries. The alloys were ...
Carvalho, Adalberto Dias de (Date of defense: 2018-07-12)
The present study assumes an interdisciplinary nature and privileges the undertaken assumption as hypothesis that there is a relation of anthropological nature of the human beings with the small islands, which, by conditioning ...
Ribot Horas, Arantxa (Date of defense: 2017-07-20)
The Spanish Psychiatric Reform in 1985 promoted the change in the treatment of people with mental illness, moving from hospitalization to community rehabilitation. All the services and resources deployed to implement the ...
Espasa Arxer, Joan (Date of defense: 2018-11-15)
Automated planning is a discipline in the field of Artificial Intelligence that can be described as the process of finding a course of action that achieves a specified task. In other words, it focuses on reasoning about ...
Mandarić, Ladislav (Date of defense: 2018-10-24)
The main aim of this thesis was to establish a link between the urban origin of chemical contamination (e.g. PhACs) and other stressors, particularly associated to water scarcity (Chapter 1, 2, and 3). Research has been ...
Maldonado López, Ferney A. (Date of defense: 2017-09-12)
SDN is a network technology that separates control functions and the data plane. This separation allows flexibility in the management and use of network resources because the software is specialized in controlling the ...
Glink Lezana, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2018-11-26)
Objectives: To study the effect of alpha neurofeedback training in anxiety and depression and its repercussion on reactivity and recovery from stress. Method: 14 participants (37.85 mean age) with stress, anxiety and/or ...
Gol i Gómez, Roser (Date of defense: 2018-07-17)
This work evaluates the effectiveness of the midwifery telephone support in relation to the abandonment of breastfeeding of primiparous women from a randomized parallel controlled clinical trial. 220 primiparous women who ...
Daranas Boadella, Núria (Date of defense: 2018-11-29)
The fruit production is threatened by several bacterial diseases, such as fire blight of apple and pear, bacterial canker of kiwifruit, bacterial spot of stone fruits, and angular leaf spot of strawberry. The conventional ...
Romero Rivera, Adrian (Date of defense: 2018-12-18)
Enzymes are the most efficient biocatalysts in Nature. However, biocatalysts in general are not capable of catalyzing reactions for industrial purposes. Hence, biocatalysts need to be engineered by introducing mutations ...
Rodríguez Hermosa, José Ignacio (Date of defense: 2018-12-10)
A prospective study on 300 morbidly obese patients who underwent gastric bypass in the province of Girona with a follow-up of 5 years.More female (288/12), mean age 43.5 years, mean weight 118.7 kg, mean BMI 46.1 kg/m2. ...
Rueda Pepinosa, Diego Fernando (Date of defense: 2018-11-14)
Most of transportation networks interacts with other to support our modern society way of life. The proper performance of interdependent networks depends on the normal operation of the networks that are interconnected. The ...
Moya Sánchez, Daissy Hatblathy (Date of defense: 2018-12-18)
Purpose: To prove the incidence of online reputation in the occupation and profitability of hotels in Latin America. Methodology: Based on the information provided by the Hotel Chain GHL, financial and online reputation ...
Bové Masmiquel, Josep (Date of defense: 2018-04-27)
To achieve a sand filter design that reduce its pressure loss, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tecnique was used combined with laboratory tests in a scaled filter using different filter media. The CFD models allowed to ...