Universitat de Girona: Recent submissions
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Bioelectrochemical systems for ammonium removal in contaminated water
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 ...
Development and application of new methodologies for chemical bonding analysis
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 ...
Turisme i nuclis urbans, determinants del finançament municipal a Espanya 2000-2018
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 ...
Factors pronòstics en la dehiscència anastomòtica de la cirurgia del càncer de còlon. Models de predicció actuals i validació externa independent
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 ...
Deep learning methods for extraction of neuroimage markers in the prognosis of brain pathologies
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). ...
Underwater 3d sensing using structured light: development of an underwater laser scanner and a non-rigid point cloud registration method
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 ...
Chemometric methods to process online spectrometry for quality monitoring of different water matrices
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 ...
Les teràpies complementàries i les/els professionals de la salut. L’efecte de la musicoteràpia en l’estrès de les infermeres i infermers que atenen persones amb malaltia oncològica
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 ...
La confianza policial en la ciudadanía. El caso de la Policía de la Generalitat-Mossos d’Esquadra
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 ...
Molecular insights on arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy: assessment of premature termination codons in desmosomal genes and variants reclassification
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 ...
Fundamentos distributivos del derecho de contratos. El problema de la incertidumbre y del infortunio contractuales
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, ...
La enseñanza y el aprendizaje del español en contacto con el francés y el yemba en Camerún en vista a unas perspectivas pedagógicas
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 ...
Factores asociados al bienestar subjetivo en docentes chilenos
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 ...
World heritage brand personality comparative analysis
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 ...
Mediación cultural en el espacio museístico: un enfoque cooperativo para alumnado de educación secundaria. Aproximación a dos casos de estudio en Quebec y Cataluña
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 ...
Inhibition of sialyltransferases in pancreatic cancer: effects on the EGFR pathway and on the tumour phenotype
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 ...
Caracterización de polimorfismos genéticos implicados con el metabolismo de la citarabina y asociación con la respuesta y toxicidad a la quimioterapia en pacientes con leucemia mieloide aguda de riesgo intermedio
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is adults' most common acute leukemia. Prognostic factors influencing treatment response and patient survival are diverse, the most relevant being those associated with specific cytogenetic and ...
Agencias de género a partir de memorias colectivas construidas por mujeres cubanas vinculadas a procesos de alfabetización de la Revolución
For decades, Cuba has represented the socialist utopia of the left in Latin America. The early incorporation of women into education and productive work in the 1960s helped ratify the imaginary of justice and social equality. ...
La modelización matemática: transición entre la educación primaria y secundaria
Un dels reptes principals de l'Educació Matemàtica com a disciplina científica és generar coneixement que permeti incidir en la pràctica docent del professorat, amb l'objectiu de millorar els processos d'aprenentatge dels ...
Defining the effect of service quality measurement on service design procedures: mixed methods analysis of four performing arts festivals in Catalonia, Spain
Evidence suggests that customer satisfaction relates directly to engagement, loyalty, and wordof- mouth. Moreover, a growing body of literature in the cultural tourism sector recognises the importance of guaranteeing ...
