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Roldán Gómez, Steven (Date of defense: 2020-01-14)
During the last decades, computational chemistry has become a resourceful tool in the quest to understand and predict the mechanism and the reactivity of chemical systems. This is especially true in the area of ...
Mor Roy, Jordi-René (Date of defense: 2019-09-19)
Mediterranean rivers are characterized by high hydrological variability and heterogeneity of habitats, placing themselves amongst arid and temperate climates, and are associated with high biological diversity. On the ...
Romero Blanch, Ferran (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)
Human exploitation of river ecosystems, together with the increasing pressure that represents climate change, is posing rivers worldwide at risk. In rivers, microorganisms are ecologically very important. Most of ...
Manrique Salas, Ester (Date of defense: 2018-10-22)
In this thesis we present the synthesis and characterization of different types of ruthenium complexes containing N-donor ligands together with monodentate ligands, along with their complete characterization through s ...
Rodríguez Serrat, Mònica (Date of defense: 2019-09-27)
In the last decades, carbenes have shown a huge potential and versatility in organometallic and organic chemistry. In each of these fields, first row transition metal chemistry is less developed than noble metal complexes. ...
Camó Marín, Cristina (Date of defense: 2019-06-27)
Plant diseases produced by bacteria are responsible for considerable economic losses. These phytopathologies are highly contagious and difficult to control. With this aim, we selected peptides reported as plant defense ...
Fernandes Freitas, Dino Miguel (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
Tissue Engineering plays a vital role in tissue construct to repair, maintain or replace tissues. Those tissues can be cultivated in vivo or in vitro using devices such as bioreactors. There are several approaches to ...
Costa Marcé, Albert (Date of defense: 2019-10-25)
The global economy has suffered a serious crisis and rapid slowdown. globalization significantly increases the unbalanced use of finite, non- 2/1 renewable sources of energy, aggravating climate change. Millions of ...
Artigas Ruf, Albert (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)
Fullerenes are a group of spherical molecules with outstanding 2/1 physicochemical properties that make them important materials in a variety of fields, ranging from biomedicine to photovoltaics. However, in order ...
Vidal Garcia, Eduard (Date of defense: 2019-11-28)
Autonomous underwater vehicles are used nowadays in many applications. One of the applications is mapping of a particular area of the ocean. Quen the robot needs to cover the area of interest and no prior knowledge of ...
Xiberta, Pau (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)
Medical imaging has greatly progressed to become an essential technology in current clinical processes. However, advances in diagnostic imaging have not been applied to the same extent to other fields such as education and ...
Soler Busquets, Jordi (Date of defense: 2019-12-05)
In the 19th century, the museum archetype was based on an architecture of classical lines and a palace image. The current trend of new museums buildings is characterized by its typological vagueness and the lack of an ...
Navarro Moya, Maria Pau (Date of defense: 2019-11-26)
Several studies highlight the fact that ambulance personnel are exposed to multiple psychosocial risk factors that can lead, among others, to burnout syndrome. There are few studies that provide information on protective ...
Rasi, Silvia (Date of defense: 2019-11-12)
High temperature superconductivity and in particular YBa2Cu3O7-x (YBCO) coated conductors (CCs) are a crucial technology for the drastic reduction of CO2 emissions. Since nowadays YBCO CCs are not competitive economically, ...
Verdaguer i Serrat, Roger (Date of defense: 2015-04-10)
The results obtained in this thesis indicate that StNAC103 promoter activity is induced in tissues undergoing suberin synthesis. Moreover StNAC103 transcript accumulation is concomitant to that of CYP86A33 and takes place ...
Turull López, Marta (Date of defense: 2019-07-19)
This thesis is focused on the use of the Diffusive Gradient in thin film (DGT) technique for the analysis of bioavailable mercury and other trace metals in water and soil. Homemade DGT devices using a selective ion-exchange ...
Solans Margalef, Marta (Date of defense: 2019-10-14)
Diet is a key modifiable risk factor for several neoplasms, but evidence for lymphoid malignancies is still inconsistent. Previous epidemiological studies were mostly focused on single dietary components (i.e. nutrients ...
Torrent Fàbrega, Laura (Date of defense: 2019-10-09)
The production of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) has grown in last years due to their special physicochemical properties in respect to their bulk counterparts, derived from their small size (1-100 nm). Among the existing ...
Santos Clotas, Eric (Date of defense: 2019-11-08)
The anaerobic digestion of organic matter causes the formation of biogas that can be used in energy conversion systems for the production of electricity and heat, injection into the gas grid or as a fuel. However, biogas ...
Sbardella, Luca (Date of defense: 2019-05-22)
The presence of several pharmaceutical active compounds (PhACs) in water bodies has garnered increasing attention and worldwide concern. The effluents from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are one of the main sources ...