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Jurado Bruggeman, Diego (Date of defense: 2023-03-16)
Introduction Different types of dose calculation algorithms for external beam radiation therapy with MV photons coexist nowadays. The oldest ones are convolution/superposition (C/S), which consider all media as water of ...
Curado Carballada, Christian (Date of defense: 2023-03-13)
Enzymes have evolved through years until becoming great catalysts that present high selectivity, specificity, and activity. Initially, enzymes were understood as static (bio)molecular structures capable of accelerating ...
Farrés Coll, Ramon (Date of defense: 2023-03-10)
Introduction: Anastomotic leak (AL) is the most feared complication in the postoperative period for patients with rectal cancer. Objectives: To determine the real rate of AL in patients operated on for rectal cancer. ...
Alarcón Espinosa, Francisco Xavier (Date of defense: 2023-03-09)
The Public Administration exercises powers and abilities that are bestowed upon it by the Constitution, by international human rights instruments, and by the Law itself. The fundamental purpose of the constitutional State ...
Osset Álvarez, Miguel (Date of defense: 2023-03-08)
Summary Nowadays, ammonium (NH4+) is a pollutant present in all kinds of water bodies, leading to multiple environmental and health issues. The current NH4+-removing technologies are very expensive, as they require a lot ...
Gimferrer Andrés, Martí (Date of defense: 2023-03-27)
In the last decades, electronic structure methods have been crucial for chemists to achieve deeper insight into chemistry itself and to make predictions before performing the actual experiments. The development of computational ...
Guixeras López, Xavier (Date of defense: 2023-03-03)
In recent decades, studies on the management and financing of public services have gained special relevance in the context of the local economy. In this context, the debate has revolved around which determinants directly ...
Pigem Rodeja, Anna (Date of defense: 2023-03-03)
INTRODUCTION: Anastomotic leak (AL) is the most dreadful and life-threatening complication in colon cancer (CC) surgery. It is associated to an increase of morbimortality, longer hospital stay, increased healthcare costs ...
Clèrigues Garcia, Albert (Date of defense: 2023-02-13)
This PhD thesis focuses on improving the extraction of neuroimage markers for the prognosis and outcome prediction of neurological pathologies such as ischemic stroke, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and multiple sclerosis (MS). ...
Castillón Sánchez, Miguel (Date of defense: 2023-02-10)
Accurate underwater 3D perception is essential to advance towards the automation of expensive, dangerous and/or time-consuming tasks, such as the inspection, maintenance and repair of off-shore industrial sites. Accurate ...
Plà Castellana, Mireia (Date of defense: 2023-02-24)
Water quality monitoring during the purification and sanitation processes in Drinking Water Treatment Plants (DWTP), Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP) and Water Reclamation Plants (ERA) is a necessary step to obtain a ...
Roura Martí, Pere (Date of defense: 2023-02-16)
Complementary therapies are highly present in our society and they are consulted and used by the general population. This has been shown by the European Commission, the European Council and the WHO, among other international ...
Requena Hidalgo, Jesús (Date of defense: 2023-02-16)
Trust is a key attribute in any social relationship, also in the one that occurs regarding police interactions with citizens. Everything that can be expected from this type of relationship –mainly the public's trust in the ...
Vallverdú Prats, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-02-03)
Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is an entity that groups different clinical forms of hereditable cardiac diseases that are associated to ventricular arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death. The main cases are characterized ...
Sánchez Rubín, José Antonio (Date of defense: 2023-02-02)
The purpose of this research is to present a distributive conception of contract law. For this purpose, in the First Part of the work, two theoretical approaches are critically analyzed that, despite their differences, ...
Djessi Mongo, Jeanne Edith (Date of defense: 2023-02-02)
This study, which is both a personal assessment and the result of an intense experience as a student first and later as a Spanish teacher in the Cameroonian education system, has its origins in the lack of global prestige ...
Herrera Barros, Camilo Alfredo (Date of defense: 2023-02-17)
Teachers are one of the main pillars of our society, multiple studies indicate that their subjective well-being is essential for a good performance of their duties. This research aims to identify the main protective and ...
Hassan, Mohamed Abdalla Elsayed (Date of defense: 2023-01-27)
Currently, World Heritage Sites (hereafter, WHSs) are perceived as a prominent tourism brand, a fact that encourages many countries to increase their listed WHSs (Su & Lin, 2014) so that they may benefit from the use of ...
Laliberté De Gagné, Élisabeth (Date of defense: 2023-01-26)
This research is the result of a personal quest that focuses on the possibility of implementing and analyzing a mediation experience with high school students in the museum through cooperative learning experiences and to ...
Miró Domènech, Laura (Date of defense: 2023-01-13)
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) presents a dismal prognosis mainly due to its delayed diagnosis, its aggressiveness, and resistance to existing therapies. Aberrant glycosylation and, in particular, the overexpression ...