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Garcia Orallo, Robert (Date of defense: 2020-10-23)
This research takes a look at the work of Giorgio Agamben to address a crisis in the transmission of experiences. On one side, the very notion of experience which will be studied and questioned to the point of denying its ...
González-Lafont, Araceli (Date of defense: 2020-12-16)
he relationship between the practice of physical activity, diet and consumption of substances in young university students allows the establishment of healthy lifestyle patterns that can improve health in adulthood. This ...
Rafart Serra, Maria Assumpció (Date of defense: 2020-11-20)
The present doctoral thesis explores an e-learning proposal fruit of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with the objective of improving students’ learning experience. The proposal aims to facilitate the ...
Baquerizo Minuche, Jorge (Date of defense: 2020-10-09)
This doctoral thesis consists of a conceptual study: an analysis of the concept of ‘constituent power’ in a legal key and through the instruments of analytical philosophy received by the theory of law. Throughout the five ...
Llorens Sulivera, Joan (Date of defense: 2020-10-21)
The thin-tile vault is a structural system widely used in the Mediterranean area. The most spectacular development took place through modernist-style buildings designed by architects such as Antonio Gaudí o Luís Domènech ...
Farguell Magnet, Josep (Date of defense: 2020-09-22)
The purpose of this research work is focused on the archaeological practice that was carried out from the archaeological associations in Catalonia. The Renaixença cultural movement claimed a glorious past in Catalonia ...
Beneyto Tantiña, Aleix (Date of defense: 2020-12-02)
Type 1 diabetes is a serious disease that must be monitored and controlled artificially by supplying exogenous insulin to the body. The artificial pancreas (AP) is a closed-loop system that resulted from integrating an ...
Guerrero Barrado, Pedro Enrique (Date of defense: 2020-07-29)
Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDA), the most common pancreatic cancer, remains one of the most lethal tumor types, with extremely low survival rates due to late diagnosis and resistance to standard therapies. Expression ...
Miquel Milian, Laura (Date of defense: 2020-10-30)
The intention of this doctoral thesis is to study the municipal finances of Barcelona in the fifteenth century and to see how far this economic indicator may serve to establish what kind of impact the so-called “late ...
Carrasco Barea, Lorena (Date of defense: 2020-10-09)
Salt marshes are considered key ecosystems for climate regulation because they have a high carbon sequestration capacity. However, most studies of carbon sequestration capacity of these ecosystems have been performed in ...
Vidal Santorum, Adrià (Date of defense: 2020-10-07)
Advertising in Catalonia originated thanks to Catalan pioneers´ business vision, instinct and tenacity. One of the principal pioneers of the modern Catalan advertising was Pere Prat Gaballí (Barcelona, 1885-1962). His ...
Torres Bagur, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-09-25)
This thesis analyses the perception of climate change and problems with water perceived by lodging industry. 33 in-depth interviews to owners or managers of hotels, campsites and rural lodgings of the Muga river basin have ...
Moawad, Mohamed Abdalla Mohamed Mohamed (Date of defense: 2020-07-30)
The main objective of this work is to study the long-term and residual flexura! strength of Near Surface Mounted (NSM) strengthened Reinforced Concrete (RC) beams with Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) strips when ...
Blasco Gómez, Ramiro (Date of defense: 2020-07-22)
Microbial Electrochemical Technologies (METs) are a promising alternative for capturing and in-situ reducing CO2 through the use of renewable electricity. Microorganisms grown in autotrophic conditions use CO2 as an electron ...
Colls Lozano, Miriam (Date of defense: 2020-07-31)
Currently, global change is promoting the spatiotemporal occurrence of temporary streams, altering fluvial ecosystem function and structure, and the ecosystem services they provide. To effectively protect fluvial ecosystems, ...
Ferreira dos Santos, Maria do Carmo (Date of defense: 2020-10-26)
Breakthrough cancer pain due to its characteristics, fast onset, short duration and high severity implies a significant reduction in the quality of 2/2 life perceived by affected persons. For this reason, breakthrough ...
Kushibar, Kaisar (Date of defense: 2020-07-20)
This PhD thesis focuses on the development of deep learning based methods for accurate segmentation of the sub-cortical brain structures from MRI. First, we have proposed a 2.5D CNN architecture that combines convolutional ...
Llobet Vallejo, Jordi (Date of defense: 2020-01-17)
This thesis investigates the fatigue behaviour of fibre-reinforced composite laminates. Fatigue of composite materials is a complex subject both from an experimental and numerical modelling point of view. In this context, ...
Agarwal, Richa (Date of defense: 2019-09-26)
In the field of breast cancer imaging, traditional Computer Aided Detection (CAD) systems were designed using limited computing resources and used scanned films (poor image quality), resulting in less robust application ...
Parramon Font, Dídac (Date of defense: 2019-07-26)
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide as well as in our population. One of the main cardiovascular prevention strategies is to identify healthy patients who are at risk of ...