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Muñoz Montplet, Carles (Date of defense: 2022-03-01)
The algorithm for calculating absorbed dose in external radiotherapy Acuros XB (AXB), based on the solution of the Boltzmann equation, has shown to achieve a higher level of accuracy than the preceding convolution/superposition ...
Perruca Martínez, Cristina (Date of defense: 2022-03-04)
The lack of knowledge and skills in the care of infants in their first years of life often results in frequent paediatric consultations for banal problems and doubts, which are often a result of a low level of health ...
Oliveras Villanueva, Marc (Date of defense: 2022-02-21)
Tourism is one of the drivers of our economy. The importance of this sector, the high competition and the current crisis caused by Covid19 surfaced the need for the operators to gain competitive advantages. Therefore, an ...
Boqué Busquet, Pere (Date of defense: 2021-11-22)
Predictive policing is a global strategic orientation of the police that emphasizes the anticipation of crimes to prevent them. Its development comes from various fields of knowledge, in which criminology has created a ...
Penalba Suárez, Neus (Date of defense: 2021-12-03)
This study is a monographic analysis of Mercè Rodoreda’s posthumous novel, La mort i la primavera, the work that has received the least critical attention. It is a fascinating and very complex novel, both because of the ...
Alarcón Galindo, Xavier (Date of defense: 2022-03-25)
Over the last decade the number of unaccompanied immigrant youths and asylum seekers has increased worldwide. The arrival of minors from Northwestern Africa and asylum seekers, mainly from Latin America and the Middle East, ...
Vico Martori, Alexandre (Date of defense: 2021-04-12)
In 1483 Sandro Botticelli completed with the collaboration of his workshop the quartet with the story of Nastagio degli Onesti. It was the first pictorial transcription on panel of the novella of the Decameron and its ...
Garau, Enrica (Date of defense: 2022-01-31)
This doctoral thesis aims to identify and characterize the relationships between stakeholders and water resources through the sociocultural and spatial analysis of the water ecosystem services (WES) in the social-ecological ...
Call Quintana, Arnau (Date of defense: 2016-12-13)
The increasing need for more efficient synthetic methods and sustainable processes for fuel and high-value organic molecules production can be seen as one of the major challenging goals for the future. Nature has developed ...
Rodríguez Hidalgo, Claudia Marina (Date of defense: 2020-09-09)
Various climatic models predict an increase in the ultraviolet (UV) radiation and a reduction in the precipitation levels reaching in the Mediterranean Basin. Exposure of plants to different levels of UV radiation and water ...
Vicente Bellas, Esperança (Date of defense: 2022-02-03)
The pandemic situation experienced by COVID-19 has made discriminatory attitudes towards older people visible, especially in gerontological centers. Knowing which are the stereotypes regarding aging and old age in the ...
Fernández Recasens, Cristina (Date of defense: 2020-01-08)
This research explores the possibilities of the use of body movement in the field of the teaching of literature and, more specifically, for teaching poetry. It is based on a questioning of the control of the body that takes ...
Broncano Bolzoni, Miriam (Date of defense: 2020-07-08)
Objective: To evaluate the mental health perception from a positive, multidimensional and recovery perspective in people with psychotic disorder. Methodology: A multicentre, cross-sectional, descriptive, correlational, ...
Fuertes Espinosa, Carles (Date of defense: 2020-07-23)
The use of self-assembly to bring simple building blocks together into complex product, has led to the preparation of an increasing number of sophisticated and functional 3D supramolecular nanocapsules. By understanding ...
Perpiñà Martí, Georgina (Date of defense: 2021-12-20)
Why do some people adapt better to life's adversities? Why do some students with a high IQ fail at school, while others with less intellectual capacity do better academically? How do we explain that people with a low IQ ...
Laroui, Nawel (Date of defense: 2020-07-01)
The cities of Tunis and Carthage belong to the same geographical area, although they have developed in two different eras. In a way, Tunis has been the heiress of Carthage. Due to its strategic situation in the central ...
Guitart Molina, Mateu (Date of defense: 2022-02-14)
The history of Gerona changed suddenly with the Treaty of the Pyrenees because the cordon established by then (basically, Perpignan and the fortress of Salses) was dismantled. The inability of the Spanish Monarchy to ...
Camacho Oña, Narcisa (Date of defense: 2022-02-16)
When discussing about Dual Vocational Training (Dual VET), it is not enough to highlight the characteristics of the system or the incidence of the learning model and its impact in each context. Conceptually, it has managed ...
Santamaría Pérez, Jorge (Date of defense: 2021-09-27)
Biological invasions have become one of the most pervasive threats to native ecosystems worldwide, causing species extinctions, disrupting the functioning of ecosystems, altering the provision of critical ecosystem services ...
Bellvehi Casadella, Josep (Date of defense: 2022-02-09)
The community feeling associated to belonging to a neighbourhood is essential in our life quality. These emotions represent the relationship between the individual and the city. In this sense, this doctoral thesis analyzes ...