Universitat de Girona: Recent submissions
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Operational strategies towards nitritation-anammox implementation for mainstream municipal wastewater treatment
Anammox-based processes have been commonly applied for the treatment of reject water (high nitrogen content and low C:N ratio), in the sidestream line of urban wastewater tretament plants (WWTP). However, in recent years, ...
Turismo de base comunitaria y emprendimiento indígena. El papel de la gobernanza tradicional en la gestión de empresas de base comunitaria turísticas en Oaxaca, México
This doctoral thesis aims to contribute to the development of an emerging theory of community-based tourism (CBT), defining it as community-driven governance (CDG) and as social entrepreneurship, both analyzed as dimensions ...
Branding regional destinations: an integrated stakeholders perspective
This doctoral thesis explores the brand development process of regional destinations in depth, focusing on the supply-side perspective and the concept of brand identity, as well as the perceptions of stakeholders involved ...
Dissecting the assembly process of benthic communities from Neotropical streams
I used the metacommunity framework to dissect the relative influences of dispersal (in ecological and evolutionary timeframes), selection (driven by abiotic factors) and ecological drift on the assembly process of freshwater ...
Estimación de la prevalencia de la hipercolesterolemia familiar y de las características clínicas asociadas en Cataluña
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is the most frequent hereditary cause of premature coronary heart disease. The aim of this doctoral thesis is to determine the prevalence of subjects with FH phenotype (FH-P); to describe ...
Em defesa de um conceito jurídico de presunção
The current investigation proposes the redefinition of the legal concept of presumption. For that matter, it is taken as the starting point the conduction of a critical analysis of the treatment that procedural dogmatics ...
El síndrome coronario agudo: tendencias en la magnitud del problema, en el manejo hospitalario y en la aparición de complicaciones en un estudio de base poblacional, y mejoras en las estrategias de prevención individual
Acute myocardial infarction incidence rates are very high in those over 74, with a tendency to decrease in recent years in men and are always higher in men than in women. Mortality rates over the age of 74 are very high. ...
Mass transport and fouling of novel forward osmosis thin-film composite membranes
Forward osmosis (FO) is known to be particularly efficient at treating impaired water sources with a high fouling potential. In the context of water reuse FO is being introduced as a robust pre-treatment process, usually ...
Design and implementation of an environmental decision support system for the control and management of drinking water treatment plants
Drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs) face significant challenges due to anthropocentric pressure and climate change. To address them, DWTP managers need to adjust treatment units. In the present work, a decision support ...
Combining forward osmosis and anaerobic membrane bioreactor technologies for raw municipal wastewater treatment
In this thesis, different studies were performed to investigate the combination of FO for the pre-concentration of municipal WW with an anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) for the production of biogas. Firstly, a ...
L'art del retaule a l'àrea de Vic: entre les darreries del cicle renaixentista i l'entrada de les fórmules barroques (1568-1625 ca.)
This research paper studies the production of altarpieces in five of the ten archpriesthoods that make up the current Bishop of Vic (the Vic’s, Lluçanès’, Ter-Collsacabra’s, Guilleries-Congost’sand theMoianès’ ones) between ...
Metacommunities and biodiversity patterns in Mediterranean temporary ponds: the role of pond size, network connectivity and dispersal mode
We sampled the macrofaunal metacommunities in four networks of Mediterranean temporary ponds covering a wide range of pond sizes and different spatial extents. 1) In the smallest pond network, pond size was not related to ...
Projecte “Girona Territori Cardioprotegit”: avaluació del funcionament dels desfibril·ladors públics
Introduction and aims: In recent years, public access defibrillation programs have exponentially increased the availability of automatic external defibrillators in public spaces but there are no data on their performance ...
La rellevància de l'experiència relacional per al benestar subjectiu de la infància: anàlisi de l'entorn familiar, escolar i local
The right of the child to be heard justifies the analysis of the children’s subjective well-being (SWB) in order to encourage considering the cognitive and affective evaluations that children make about their lives, the ...
Validesa del Sistema d’Informació pel Desenvolupament de la Investigació a Atenció Primària en l'estudi de malalties vasculars i estudi de l'efectivitat de les estatines en la reducció de mortalitat i malalties vasculars en la població major de 74 anys
Electronic Health Record are legal documents where all the bio-psycho-social information of care received by the healthcare system is recorded throughout their lives. The first causes of death in Spain are cardiovascular ...
Efectes de l’exercici de resistència de baixa intensitat i del suport nutricional sobre la sarcopènia i la inflamació crònica de baix grau en persones de 60-75 anys
Sarcopenia is a multifactorial entity characterized by loss of muscle mass, strength and functionality. People with sarcopenia are more at risk of developing insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and excess fat in the muscle ...
Avaluació de la utilitat del monitoratge farmacocinètic dels fàrmacs anti-TNF en pacients amb malaltia inflamatòria intestinal en dos hospitals amb diferent grau d’especialització
The tumor necrosis factor (TNF) acts as a potent inducer of inflammation in autoimmune diseases like Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis. Current available treatments are based on TNF inhibition such as infliximab and ...
Construção de conhecimento em iniciação às artes marciais e desportos de combate: Organização da atividade conjunta no desenvolvimento do saber lutar
The research focuses on the process of knowledge construction in martial arts and combat sports fundamentals in primary school, through the analysis of the joint activity organization. The didactic sequence investigated ...
Redefining tourism destination boundaries from a consumption-based perspective
Tourism destinations usually follow the administrative boundaries of the corresponding territorial administration. In contrast, previous studies state that administrative boundaries are not the most effective framework ...
Towards the implementation of a biotechnology for biogas upgrading: role of bacteria in siloxane removal
Biogas is a highly recognized alternative to fossil fuels towards a sustainable energy production. Massive use of biogas depends on the removal of contaminants that may affect performance of processing equipment and energy ...
