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    L'habitat alternatif en Catalogne, un modèle émergent?: la (re)naissance d'une "troisieme voie", entre pragmatisme et utopie 

    Pointelin, Richard (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)

    The research aims to analyze all current forms of alternative housing based on participation and cooperation in Catalonia, those formal initiatives with collective dimension which put the inhabitant at the center of the ...

    Estudi de les comunitats neolítiques de l’Horitzó dels Sepulcres de Fossa (nord-est de la península Ibèrica, c. 4.000-3.400 cal ANE) a partir de les anàlisis tecno-funcionals dels artefactes polits i bisellats 

    Masclans Latorre, Alba (Date of defense: 2017-07-17)

    The present dissertation generates a new data corpus which makes it possible to resize and widen the current interpretative framework about the communities living in the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula around the turn ...

    "En vers vull desafiar...": la poesia femenina a l'àmbit català (segles XVI-XVIII): edició crítica 

    Zaragoza Gómez, Verònica (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)

    This thesis provides a review of the female works from the 16th-18th centuries in the Catalan linguistic area, focusing especially in the poetic genre. The invisibility of women in literary or historical manuals, with the ...

    Mitjans digitals i públics escènics. La relació entre el públic i el producte cultural a través de la xarxa. Cas d'estudi: Festival Temporada Alta 

    Baraut, Ingrid (Date of defense: 2017-07-26)

    The aim is to determine how the media environment affects the way in which live performance is received, distributed, and participated in. Based particularly on media and cultural convergence, the study analyses contemporary ...

    Aigua sagrada i aigua monumental al nord-est de la Península Ibèrica en l'època romana 

    Costa Solé, Ana (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)

    At the end of the Republican era, changes on the territory of our study began started. During this period, a lot of cult buildings, with a clear italic nature, were established. That’s the proof of territorial, religious, ...

    La cultura participativa en el ámbito local. La ciudad contemporánea y las políticas culturales 

    Bacquelaine Vidal de Llobatera, Flora (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)

    This research is framed in the context of the current reflection on the new theoretical paradigms that revolve around the so-called Network Society that presents itself as the great revolution of the cultural regime. This ...

    Online path planning for autonomous underwater vehicles under motion constraints 

    Hernández Vega, Juan David (Date of defense: 2017-10-26)

    The most common applications of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) include imaging and inspecting different kinds of structures on the sea. Most of these applications require a priori information of the area or structure ...

    Climate change and Mediterranean ecosystems: plant and soil responses to UV radiation and water availability before and after a perturbation 

    Díaz Guerra, Laura (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)

    Taking into account the expected changes in solar UV levels, precipitation and fire regime in the Mediterranean basin, the main goal of this thesis was to evaluate the effects of UV radiation (UV-A and UV-B) and diminished ...

    Arteriopatia perifèrica assimptomàtica: prevalença, detecció i tractament 

    Quesada Sabaté, Miquel (Date of defense: 2017-02-17)

    Background There is few epidemiological data of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in our environment. The recommendation of screening with ankle brachial index (ABI) in asymptomatic individuals is controversial. Evidence ...

    Clinical decision support for screening, diagnosis and assessment of respiratory diseases: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as a use case 

    Velickovski, Filip (Date of defense: 2016-10-06)

    In this thesis we propose a framework for designing, developing, a clinical decision support systems (CDSS) offering a suite of services for the early detection and assessment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), ...

    Entrepreneurial skills, trust and jobs: three essays on entrepreneurial skills of self-employed and employees 

    Teodoro i Sadurní, Jaume (Date of defense: 2017-09-08)

    This thesis is an empirical study that sets out to explain entrepreneurial activity, based on a broad concept of entrepreneurship. The study is based on the development of logistic regression models for a dichotomous ...

    El pensament polític de Miquel Santaló Parvorell a través dels seus textos (1919-1939) 

    Carmaniu Mainadé, Xavier (Date of defense: 2017-06-13)

    Miquel Santaló Parvorell (1887 – 1962) was one of the most important personalities of the Second Republic. He was minister of Lerroux, member of the government of Catalonia, spokesman of ERC in the Spanish Congress and ...

    El trabajo emocional en el sector turístico. Obstáculos y facilitadores empresariales y su consecuencia para los trabajadores 

    Molina Rodríguez, Jesús (Date of defense: 2017-07-11)

    The general objective of this thesis is to analyze if there is emotional labor in the tourism sector, as well as to study its possible causes and consequences. This general aim is concretized in three specific aims that ...

    Relación entre el flujo de la arteria cerebral media y la presión en la arteria carótida interna durante la endarterectomía carotídea 

    Rodríguez Cabeza, Patricia (Date of defense: 2017-10-03)

    Risk of cerebral hypoperfusion during carotid endarterectomy arterial is the main limiting factor of this technique. Shunt allows partial maintenance of cerebral perfusion during clamping. We analyze the hemodynamic ...

    L'envelliment actiu i saludable a la província de Girona i a Europa segons diferents models 

    Bosch Farré, Cristina (Date of defense: 2016-07-01)

    To determine the prevalence of Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) in the province of Girona and 14 European countries according to various models, to analyze the association between health variables and social determinants ...

    Endo-β-1,4-glucanasa para la fabricación de micro/nanocelulosa: propiedades y aplicaciones 

    Tarrés Farrés, Joaquim Agustí (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)

    In the recent years, significant interest on the production, characterization and application of cellulose nanofibers has brought out among scientific and technic authorities. This special attention mainly comes from their ...

    En busca del tiempo y del espacio recobrados. Una investigación biográfica a partir de relatos de vida y migración de una familia de origen marroquí del Pirineo catalán 

    Amorós Torró, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-03-24)

    This biographic research depicts the way in which six members of a Moroccan origin family in the Catalan Pyrenees interpret and integrate their experiences in autobiographic narrations. The analysis of their life stories ...

    Robot learning applied to autonomous underwater vehicles for intervention tasks 

    Carrera Viñas, Arnau (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)

    The interest in performing underwater tasks using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) has been growing over the past few years. In this thesis, a flexible framework for underwater interventions using a Learning ...

    Supporting technology for augmented reality game-based learning 

    Tobar Muñoz, Hendrys Fabián (Date of defense: 2017-06-15)

    In this thesis, Augmented Reality Game-Based Learning (ARGBL) is explored and arguments are given in favor of its application in the classrooms. The thesis explores the concept and proposes technologies, theories and ...

    Metadesacuerdos. La teoría del derecho frente al fenómeno de los desacuerdos jurídicos fundamentales 

    Rapetti, Pablo Ariel (Date of defense: 2017-02-24)

    This doctoral thesis analyzes various philosophical treatments of the phenomenon of legal disagreements, particularly focusing on the exchange, based on it, stemming from Ronald Dworkin’s challenge to legal positivism. The ...