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Moll de Alba Cabot, Jorge Eduardo (Date of defense: 2016-11-25)
During recent decades the development of urban tourism has proven extraordinarily successful, to the point where it is the form of tourism that has seen the greatest growth worldwide. The city of Barcelona has become one ...
Llobet Martí, Bernat (Date of defense: 2016-09-19)
This thesis is a compilation of 3 articles, and the main focus of attention is the learning transfer mechanism. The first article explains the Rugby Attack Assessment instrument, a tool that assesses game performance of ...
Cabrera-Codony, Alba (Date of defense: 2016-07-27)
The thesis deals with removal of organosilicon compounds in the energy recovery of biogas. Alternative adsorbents for the siloxane removal were studied, and the physical and chemical mechanisms involved in the siloxane ...
Peñarrubia Lozano, Luis (Date of defense: 2016-10-21)
The zebra mussel and the Asian clam are two invasive aquatic species worldwide. Both species are present in the Iberian Peninsula for several years. However, introduction history and colonization routes of these two invasive ...
Malé Ribera, Joaquim (Date of defense: 2016-07-17)
This dissertation studies some of the historiographical approaches that have been carried out with regard to the writings of the New Testament. Part I presents a critical history of the historiography of Jesus of Nazareth ...
Batlle Vilanova, Pau (Date of defense: 2016-11-25)
In 2015 the average concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere exceeded 400 ppm. Some technologies, including CO2 capture and storage, are palliative. However, the development of alternatives to burning of fossil fuels focuses ...
Forcada Parrilla, Iris (Date of defense: 2016-11-04)
The main objective of OMS global strategy is to promote and protect the people health through healthy nutrition and doing physical activity. The adult health promotion is especially based on stimulating habits and healthy ...
Martínez López, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2016-11-18)
The physical and chemical properties of fullerenes and nanotubes can be conveniently tuned by the attachment of different functional groups to them. Therefore, the systematic understanding of different problems such as ...
Matías González, Alberto (Date of defense: 2006-01-19)
The research subject comes as a result of the need to implement sustainable practices in agriculture, in order to confront the environmental deterioration. The research aspires to explain the relation between peasant ...
Granda Garcia, Luis Angel (Date of defense: 2016-07-29)
This thesis studies the effect produced by the reinforcement of polypropylene with a semichemical fibre of Leucaena collinsii in the mechanical, thermal and water uptake properties. Samples with different reinforcement ...
Freitas da Mota, Catarina (Date of defense: 2016-07-18)
In this thesis carried through the Doctorate Programm about Tourism from the University of Girona, we decided to investigate whether the tourism system could be considered as a factor in local development in medium-sized ...
Borrisser Pairó, Francesc (Date of defense: 2016-11-28)
Surgical castration of piglets is a common practice in farms to avoid boar taint (androstenone and skatole) in meat, and to improve its sensory quality. The European Commission is planning to ban surgical castration by ...
López Amo, Mireia (Date of defense: 2016-02-10)
The main goal of this dissertation is to analyse a view about perceptual justification that is known as dogmatism. Dogmatism is a highly attractive view due to its anti-sceptical force and the fact that it seems to follow ...
Araya Novoa, Marcela Paz (Date of defense: 2016-09-28)
Is the control of de conclusions concerning the acts of the nullity courts in a system of freedom of evidence possible? This question arises because it is usually stated, that the audit of the quaestio facti made by judges ...
Massaguer Colomer, Eduard (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)
In this work, we investigate harvesting thermoelectric energy from wasted heat in fluid networks and propose a generic tool for the simulation and sizing of thermoelectric energy harvesters, that can be used in ...
Buján Murlà, Núria (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
The diagnose of a mitochondrial disease implies biochemical studies such as the enzymatic activities of the mitochondrial respiratory chain (MRC) and the quantification of the amount of CoQ10 in energetic tissues. Throughout ...
Serrano Plana, Joan (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)
The oxidation of hydrocarbons is one of the most important processes in the chemical industry, and it is often related to highly toxic reagents that generate a big amount of undesired residues. In sharp contrast, oxygenase ...
Marín Hernández, Lorena (Date of defense: 2015-11-13)
In the common design and certification process, a large number of experimental tests, going from small specimens to the full structure, are performed. In these tests, the environmental conditions, especially temperature ...
Acuña-Parés, Ferran (Date of defense: 2016-07-20)
One of the major current scientific goals is the development of renewable energy sources. An effective alternative to fossil fuels consists in the conversion of the sunlight energy into chemical fuels. The molecular hydrogen ...
Robles Cedeño, René (Date of defense: 2016-07-19)
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease of the central nervous system which has an unknown aetiology and an autoimmune mechanism. Two pathogenic processes, inflammation and neurodegeneration, converge causing a progressive ...