Universitat de Girona: Recent submissions
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Síntesi de lipopèptids i de pèptids conjugats derivats de BP100. Caracterització estructural de lipopèptids lineals i cíclics
Nowadays, around a third of the agricultural production is lost due to the damage caused by pests, resulting in a significant economic impact. It is estimated that about a third of these losses are provoked by phytopathogens. ...
Fraud against individuals in the Internet era: trends, victimisation, impact and reporting
This thesis aims to examine fraud against individuals in the Internet era to shed light on: current trends and the dark figure of fraud; factores associated with victimisation; how fraud impacts individuals; and the factores ...
El proceso de empoderamiento en jóvenes originarios del Cono Sur latinoamericano a partir de sus experiencias migratorias en Catalunya
This thesis investigates the empowerment processes of youngsters and young adults from the Cono Sur of Latin America who are currently living in Catalonia. The hypothesis defends the idea that the migration of people, during ...
Factores protectores y de riesgo de la violencia escolar desde una perspectiva socio-ecológica en estudiantes peruanos de secundaria
School violence is a pandemic that affects millions of children and adolescents worldwide. The effects of suffering school violence diminsh the development of cognitive abilities as well as experiencing lower levels ...
The socio-cognitive dimension of water: the case of politicisation of water in Barcelona
The thesis studies the discursive construction of cognitive frames in the water sector in order to understand the dynamics of politicisation and depoliticisation in the water conflict in Barcelona between 2011 and ...
Estudi epidemiològic poblacional de la incidència, tendència i supervivència de les neoplàsies limfoides a la província de Girona durant un període de 20 anys (1996-2015)
The incidence, time trends and survival of lymphoid neoplasm’s in the Girona province are analyzed from 1996 to 2015. The survival of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (LBDCG) before and after 2004 and estimate incidence rate ...
Imágenes para la experiencia. Pensar la imagen fotográfica desde la obra de Giorgio Agamben
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 ...
Noves tecnologies i aplicacions innovadores per l'ensenyament d'assignatures d’empresa en estudis d’enginyeria
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 ...
El concepto de 'poder constituyente'. Un estudio de teoría analítica del derecho
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 ...
Experimental study of simple and multi-leaf masonry slender elements under compressive stress loaded parallel to the face
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 ...
L’associacionisme arqueològic a Catalunya en el segon franquisme i la transició. Estudi del cas del Grup de Prehistòria i Arqueologia del Museu de Berga
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 ...
Robust and fault-tolerant strategies for controlling blood glucose in patients with type 1 diabetes
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 ...
Altered glycosylation in pancreatic cancer: development of new tumor markers and therapeutic strategies
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 ...
La guerra civil catalana i la crisi financera de Barcelona durant el regnat de Joan II (1458-1479)
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 ...
Soil and vegetation carbon dynamics (stocks and fluxes) and litter decomposition in a Mediterranean non-tidal salt marsh
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 ...
Els fonaments de la docència publicitària a Catalunya, a través de l'aportació científica de Pere Prat Gaballí
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 ...
Percepción del cambio climático y medidas de ahorro de agua en alojamientos turísticos de la cuenca del río Muga (Girona, España)
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 ...
Flexural behavior of NSM FRP strenthened reinforced concrete beams under sustained loading
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 ...
Steering CO2 bio-electrocycling into valuable compounds through inline monitoring of key operational parameters
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 ...
Adaptació transcultural i validació de la versió catalana i castellana de l'escala Breakthrough Pain Assessment Tool en persones amb càncer
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 ...
