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Fráguas Nobre, Guilherme (Date of defense: 2018-01-12)
The thesis relates the ‘creative economy’ with the ‘sustainable human development’, tracing a parallel between economic growth (e.g. GDP) and human development (e.g. HDI). The aspect of sustainability is addressed through ...
Postils Ribó, Verònica (Date of defense: 2018-05-07)
In this thesis, the three constituent areas of chemistry (in agreement with Jensen's quotation in his "Introduction to Computational Chemistry" book), which are construction, transformation, and properties of molecules, ...
Tarragó Abella, Elena (Date of defense: 2018-03-09)
Human population has had an impact on the natural phosphorus’ cycle, a limited resource, and the predictions show that this resource could be exhausted in 100-250 years. Therefore, the actions for the coming 10-25 years ...
Ortiz Álvarez, Rüdiger (Date of defense: 2018-05-18)
The microbial metacommunity of the Pyrenees mountain range has never been studied at the regional level. In this PhD thesis, the main goal is to describe the taxonomic diversity and reveal the ecological processes (biotic ...
Iribarren Nadal, Mariona (Date of defense: 2018-01-10)
The thesis presented is a study of some women's movements which claim a recovery of the female body from a feminist and ecologist standpoint and which are currently spreading their influence. It provides a summary of the ...
Almagro Nóbrega, M. Isabel (Date of defense: 2017-11-20)
The purpose of this doctorate is to explore how the use of explicit, systematic reading strategies optimizes competence in both language skills and learning how to learn. The theoretical and conceptual framework is based ...
Ávila Garzón, Cecilia (Date of defense: 2018-06-12)
The adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) has been continuously growing and with it the need to addressing the diversity of students’ learning needs. Because of that, OER should meet with characteristics such as the ...
Rico i Garcia, Antoni (Date of defense: 2018-01-22)
Joan Fuster was one of the most prominent intellectuals of the Catalan Letters in the last century. His national thought and the construction of a Valencian identity which was an alternative to the existing one, was central ...
Alday López Cabello, Fernando (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)
The present study’s objective is to develop a comprehensive explanation on the origin and development of the exclusionary rule in the Spanish legal system. This rule, created from the interpretation of the exclusionary ...
Gispert-Saüch Puigdevall, Montse (Date of defense: 2018-03-02)
We studied the relationship between the circulating levels of the innate immune system molecules (α-defensins and BPI) and the acquired immune system (IgG, IgA and IgM) with obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors in ...
Boulahrouz Lahmidi, Meriam (Date of defense: 2018-05-18)
This research aims to contribute to the development and improvement of education for sustainable development (ESD) in a society increasingly knowledgeable, reflecting about appropriate ESD practices by promoting the ...
Wagih Abdallah Abdel Hady, Ahmed (Date of defense: 2018-05-28)
The objective of the thesis is to provide scaling tool predicting the response of composite structures under out-of-plane loading by testing small coupons. This global objective cannot be achieved without understanding the ...
Tortajada Giménez, Meritxell (Date of defense: 2017-07-17)
This thesis is focused on the automatic detection of masses in FFDM images by using case-level information which includes bilateral, temporal and/or ipsilateral information. As a first step, FFDM images are preprocessed ...
Rocasalva, Carles G. (Carles Garcia) (Date of defense: 2016-12-02)
This work focuses on the study of current European environmental liability legislation and its implementation in Spain, noting its actual scope. In order to do this, we analyzed all its implementing regulations and subsequent ...
González Bártulos, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-03-17)
Nowadays, cancer is one of the leading causes of death in developed countries. Therefore, there is great interest of developing new therapeutic strategies to improve the efficiency of current cancer treatments. The ...
Sitjar Suñer, Miquel (Date of defense: 2018-03-15)
Chronic renal insufficiency is a public health problem that affects about 11% of the world’s adult population. However, the impact of peritoneal dialysis on people who receive this treatment is little known. The present ...
Torrent Quer, Narcís (Date of defense: 2017-04-08)
The PhD dissertation starts off with the research work El paludisme a la Catalunya del segle XIX a través del Diccionario de Madoz i les Topografies Mèdiques, presented as a master’s degree thesis in 2010. By then, the ...
García Marcos, Eloy (Date of defense: 2018-04-05)
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Several studies have shown that the combination of the different medical image modalities, such as the x-ray mammography and the magnetic resonance imaging ...
Terceño Izaga, Mikel (Date of defense: 2018-02-06)
The present thesis, aims to study whether the evaluation of the CT through DTI and tractography sequences in the first 12 hours from the ICH onset, is able to predict the motor and functional outcome at 3 months. The ...
Castro Aguilera, Abril Carolina (Date of defense: 2017-11-17)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is an indispensable structural tool in the modern analytical arsenal of chemists and structural biologists. The present thesis is a computational study of the NMR shift constants ...