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    Disseny d'un instrument de mesura de capital intel·lectual per a pimes del sector industrial tecnològic. Aplicació a un conjunt de pimes de la província de Girona 

    Verdaguer Arpa, Jordi (Date of defense: 2012-12-13)

    In the first phase a historical and descriptive is carried out, in analyzing both the foundations and history of intellectual capital as its corrent state. We proceed to analyse definitions of intangible assets from diferents ...

    A satisfiability modulo theories approach to constraint programming 

    Suy Franch, Josep (Date of defense: 2012-12-20)

    In this thesis we focus on solving CSPs using SMT. Essentially, what we do is reformulating CSPs into SMT. The obtained results allow us to conclude that state-of-the-art SMT solvers are a robust tool to solve CSPs. We ...

    El paper de l'alimentació en el benestar subjectiu dels nens i nenes de cinquè i sisè de primària 

    Vaqué Crusellas, Cristina (Date of defense: 2012-12-17)

    The aim of this research is to know the relationship between children’s evaluations on their subjective well-being and food. We used an exploratory and multiple-method cross-sectional study with students from the last years ...

    Percepción social en la gestión del riesgo de inundación en un área mediterránea (Costa Brava, España) 

    Lara San Martín, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2012-12-11)

    This research aims to understand the perception of civil society both organized and unorganized, regarding the problem of floods and their management. This is based on a case study of the following municipalities; Calonge, ...

    Anàlisi legal i ètica de la publicitat audiovisual dels medicaments no subjectes a prescripció 

    Vinyals i Corney, Manel (Date of defense: 2012-10-19)

    In order to analyze advertising messages from a legal and ethical standpoint, this research delimits the object of study to the category that corresponds to medicines not subject to prescription. Medicines as a specific ...

    Evaluación de los efectos no intencionados de los transgenes en plantas modificadas genéticamente (MG) resistentes a plagas y diseñadas como biofactorías de péptidos antimicrobianos 

    Montero Mirabet, Maria (Date of defense: 2012-06-22)

    Genetically modified crops are submitted to strict regulation to ensure the safety of consumers and the environment. To complement the comparison between GM plants and their counterparts, in the present Thesis, we evaluated ...

    Discovering frequent and significant episodes. Application to sequences of events recorded in power distribution networks 

    Quiroga Quiroga, Oscar Arnulfo (Date of defense: 2012-12-18)

    This thesis proposes a formalism to analyse and automatically exploit sequences of events, which are related with faults occurred in power distribution networks and are recorded by power quality monitors at substations. ...

    Avaluació del paradigma d'agents en la gestió d'un sistema complex d'aigües residuals 

    Verdaguer Planas, Marta (Date of defense: 2012-12-21)

    The thesis presents and evaluates the application of the paradigm of agents to the management of the urban wastewater system. The system is conceptualised as a multi-agent system from the development of the models of ...

    MSSPACC: Sistema d'execució paral·lela d'aplicacions amb especulació sobre entorns distribuïts 

    Puiggalí, Joan (Date of defense: 2012-11-07)

    The research we have conducted has been aimed at developing a new mechanism of extraction and use of parallelism at a high level, based on speculation techniques, in cluster environments. This allows our mechanism to be ...

    Patrones de consumo de cocaína en los jóvenes 

    Patiño Masó, Josefina (Date of defense: 2012-11-09)

    The main goal is to identify the prevalence and pattern of cocaine consumption among young people. The results obtained from surveys of a sample of 2139 university students served as input to harness new results ...

    La "Historia de Cataluña" de Rafael de Cervera 

    Genís i Mas, Daniel (Date of defense: 2012-11-09)

    Bernat Desclot finished writing his Chronicle at the end of the 13th century, but it was not published until 1616, in a Spanish translation written by the Barcelona historian and politician Rafael Cervera. The reasons for ...

    Analysis of time-dependent flexural behaviour of concrete members reinforced with fibre reinforced polymer bar 

    Miàs Oller, Cristina (Date of defense: 2012-12-03)

    In this work, long-term behaviour of FRP RC beams has been investigated both analytically and experimentally to further extend the knowledge in this particular research domain. In this respect, a new methodology to determine ...

    Sobre poesia visual: aprenent a llegir davant les línies 

    Masgrau Juanola, Mariona (Date of defense: 2011-04-27)

    This research examines the nature of visual poetry and its educational potential in the processes of teaching and learning reading and writing in primary education. The first part looks into the internal and external logic ...

    Desenvolupament, implementació i aplicació de nova metodologia pel càlcul de la contribució vibracional a les propietats elèctriques: contribucions de relaxació nuclear i curvatura 

    Luis Luis, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 1999-06-28)

    The vibrational contribution to nonlinear optics (NLO) properties is the mean goal of study of this Thesis. The vibrational contribution can be split in the nuclear relaxation contribution and the curvature contribution. ...

    Los Fundamentos jurídico-laborales de la obligación general de seguridad empresarial 

    Camas Roda, Ferran (Date of defense: 1999-12-21)

    The aim of this doctoral thesis is to consolidate the preventive perspective as one of priority action, both by public authorities and private companies, in order to protect the health and safety of employees. To this end, ...

    El Inhibidor de carboxipeptidasa de patata (PCI): un antagonista del EGF con actividad antitumoral 

    Blanco Aparicio, Carmen (Date of defense: 1998-07-17)

    In this work we report that potato carboxypeptidase inhibitor suppresses the growth of several human and mouse pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell lines. The inhibitor also reduces the growth of solid tumors obtained by ...

    Purificació, caracterització i clonatge de la ribonucleasa de pàncreas humà 

    Ribó i Panosa, Marc (Date of defense: 1994-12-16)

    The answer to whether or not, human pancreatic ribonuclease may have a diagnostic value as a serum marker of pancreatic disease, depend upon the specific detection of ribonucleases originated in pancreas amogn those ...

    Ecologia alimentària de la comunitat de peixos de l'Estany de Banyoles 

    García-Berthou, Emili (Date of defense: 1994-11-03)

    Before 1910, the fish assemblage of Banyoles Lake (Catalonia, Spain) consisted of: eel (Anguilla anguilla), Mediterranean barbel (Barbus meridionalis), freshwater blenny (Bennius fluviatilis), three-spined stickleback ...

    Heterogeneïtat pigmentària en bacteris fotosintètics verds: fisiologia i significació ecològica 

    Borrego i Moré, Carles (Date of defense: 1996-11-15)

    Green bacteria possess one of the most complexes antenna systems within the group of the photosynthetic microorganisms. One reason for this complexity is the high diversity of pigments antenna, the bacteriochlorophylls ...

    Sistema radicular de Quercus suber: estructura i desenvolupament 

    Verdaguer Murlà, Dolors (Date of defense: 1995-01-12)

    This thesis is a study of the structure and development of the young radicular system of Quercus suber. The work is focused on the sprouting capacity of the radicular system of the seedling, the development and organization ...