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El Allaoui, Nazha (Date of defense: 2016-07-21)
The general objective of this doctoral thesis has been to contribute to understand the modification of hydrodynamics in fragmented canopies. The effect of different parameters such as the canopy density, the plant height ...
Castillo Llorens, Alba (Date of defense: 2017-03-17)
The selection of the most appropriate wastewater treatment involves a complex decision making process. For that reason, some tools have been developed in recent years in order to deal with this complexity, as Novedar_EDSS ...
Huerta Buitrago, Belinda (Date of defense: 2016-04-12)
Occurrence, fate, and adverse effects of emerging contaminants in the aquatic environment have become a matter of concern, since these compounds have been persistently detected in wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents, ...
Gómez Lima, Ana Belén (Date of defense: 2017-03-24)
We designed and implemented a training programme aimed at university students in the field of education and health, providing them with professional tools for carrying out preventive interventions in relation to high-risk ...
Ranocchi Di Cesare, Francesco (Date of defense: 2015-09-10)
This paper analyzes the adaptation of the design culture to the americanization of western society; this phenomenon is studied with a special attention to the effects of the growth of the network society ( ie, in the process ...
Pastor Saberi, Roser (Date of defense: 2017-02-24)
Border landscapes often constitute geographical unities which have experimented distinct landscapes dynamics in each side of the border. This fact occurs because these border landscapes belong to different countries. The ...
Ribera Masgrau, Lluís (Date of defense: 2017-02-28)
This paper analyzes the vulnerability of commercial establishments in the city of Girona to potential floods caused by the River Onyar. We identified all the shops located on the ground floor within the flood areas with ...
Calabuig i Serra, Teresa (Date of defense: 2017-02-03)
Citizens with good mathematical knowledge will be better prepared to make social commitments and accept the social responsibilities presented by a changing and complex world. This thesis proposes to link mathematics education ...
Gabarda Mallorquí, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2017-02-13)
Tourism has become one of the most important economic sectors in the Mediterranean coast. Despite the economic benefits generated by tourism at local and regional level, the environmental impacts related to water consumption ...
Torres Antón, Òscar (Date of defense: 2017-02-24)
Some of the most powerful methods for synthesizing complex organic molecules with high levels of chemo-, diastereo- and enantioselectivity rely on metal carbene chemistry. These compounds are versatile reaction intermediates ...
Lay, Makara (Date of defense: 2017-02-03)
Coming from renewable and sustainable raw materials, nanocelluloses are rapidly emerging as one of the most promising future materials. Recently, the use of nanocellulose nanocomposites in flexible electrodes, biosensors ...
Corona Prieto, Teresa (Date of defense: 2017-02-17)
The transformation of C-H bonds into C-O/N bonds is a process of interest in organic synthesis, but controlling the reactivity and selectivity among the multiple C-H bonds existing in most molecules is a challenging task. ...
Pueyo Vallet, Oriol (Date of defense: 2016-01-15)
Computer Graphics applications community has big interest on urban modeling and especially on designing complex and realistic cities and buildings. This topic is interesting for film, video game and urbanism industries. ...
Ros i Sala, Àlex (Date of defense: 2016-10-26)
In the margins of continents there are the coastal zones, regions of remarkable biological productivity. Coastal zones include, among others, wetlands, that are land areas inundated permanently o seasonally, characterized ...
Arroyo Borrell, Elena (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)
The main aim of this thesis is to investigate the effects of economic conditions on health using advanced micro-econometric techniques applied to survey data. The dissertation examines the consequences of the current ...
Ferrando Climent, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-11-28)
In order to evaluate the increasing environmental and human risk of anticancer drugs in the environment, more information needs to be gathered about their presence, their toxicity, bioaccumulation and persistence. In ...
Pereira de Abreu, Desirée (Date of defense: 2017-01-16)
This doctoral thesis aims to study the relationship between stressful everyday events, coping strategies for stress and subjective well-being in children and adolescents schooled in northeastern Brazil. The global sample ...
Carneiro de Alcantara, Stefania (Date of defense: 2017-01-16)
The general aim of this doctoral dissertation is to analyse the relationship between peer violence in the school environment, subjective well-being and other psychosocial factors from the individual, family, school, and ...
Puyalto, Carol (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)
The aim of this study is to explore the obstacles and supports that according to people with intellectual disabilities (ID) living in Catalonia impact on their right to independent living, as set out in the Convention on ...
Bonmatí Tomàs, Anna (Date of defense: 2016-12-13)
Traditional health promotion programs designed immigrant women at risk of social exclusion have focussed on their needs. The salutogenic approach offers a new perspective to them. Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness ...