Universitat de Girona: Recent submissions
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Robust image segmentation applied to magnetic resonance and ultrasound images of the prostate
Prostate segmentation in trans rectal ultrasound (TRUS) and magnetic resonance images (MRI) facilitates volume estimation, multi-modal image registration, surgical planing and image guided prostate biopsies. The objective ...
L'eficiència del mercat immobiliari: estratègies i instruments
Real estate represents a part of the portfolio of many investors and can be accessed from both the real and the financial market. The low efficiency of real market prevents from taking advantage of the value created through ...
Supporting competence development processes on open learning systems through personalization
This thesis aim for promoting the learning objects economy by offering teacher the possibility of generating adaptive and standardized learning designs. The adaptation of the generated learning design considers two of the ...
Phylogeographical analysis of two aristed shrimps, Aristeus antennatus and Aristaemorpha foliacea (Crustacea: Aristeidae), with implications for resource conservation
The conservation of species relies on a deep knowledge of biology of the species concerned, as well as on the identification of reproductively isolated units, which are genetically different from one other (genetic stocks). ...
El comportament del turisme en una destinació de litoral dins una conjuntura de crisi econòmica
The tourism behaviour in a coastal destination within an economic crisis is a research with reference to an specific place: Roses. This research has intended to identify which are the rules of economic behaviour that due ...
Characterization and optimization of dispersed composite laminates for damage resistant aeronautical structures
The main objective of the thesis is to assess the damage resistance and damage tolerance of the non-conventional dispersed laminates and compare the response with the conventional ones. However, part of the effort is spent ...
A multiapproach study of soil attributes under land use and cover change at the Cap de Creus Península, NE Spain
The work presented in this Doctoral Thesis has studied the temporal and spatial patterns of the most relevant soil parameters with special attention posed to soil biological and biochemical dynamics occurring at the studied ...
El patrimonio cultural territorial. Historia, paisaje y gestión en Metepec, Puebla (México)
This thesis is a research project that aims to build, in the first instance, a historical, theoretical, and methodological frame of reference and protection of cultural property, and more precisely of the territorial ...
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
