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    Conocimiento de la lengua de la escuela y práctica educativa: un estudio de caso en una aula de acogida lingüística de Catalunya 

    Rodríguez Hernández, Neus (Date of defense: 2013-01-09)

    This PhD dissertation examines how educational practice mediates learning the language of instruction with immigrant students in a linguistic support classroom in Catalonia. From a socioconstructivist theoretical approach, ...

    Function and structure of river sediment biofilms and their role in dissolved organic matter utilization 

    Freixa Casals, Anna (Date of defense: 2016-02-18)

    The objective of this thesis was to study how sediment microbial communities in Mediterranean rivers used dissolved organic matter at different spatial and temporal scales. Results from the two field studies, showed that ...

    Comprehensive inventories for Life Cycle Assessment in urban wastewater systems 

    Morera Carbonell, Sadurní (Date of defense: 2016-02-19)

    This thesis represents an important contribution to facilitate the efficient creation of detailed inventories to carry out Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies of urban wastewater systems. Specifically, this thesis provides ...

    El sentido de la coherencia y el compromiso laboral de las enfermeras en el ámbito sociosanitario de Girona 

    Malagón Aguilera, M. Carmen (Date of defense: 2016-01-18)

    L’objectiu d’aquest estudi és conèixer el sentit de coherència de les infermeres de l’àmbit sociosanitari de Girona i relacionar-lo amb la salut percebuda, l’optimisme disposicional, el compromís laboral i la síndrome de ...

    La centralitat del llenguatge en l'antropologia de Lluís Duch: reflexió filosòfica sobre la noció d'emparaulament 

    Ferrer i Borrell, Elies (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)

    This thesis examines the proposal anthropological thinker Catalan Lluís Duch, paying special attention to their understanding of language as the core of anthropology. It is considered especially his notion of «emparaulament». ...

    Projecte EM-Line!: programa de rehabilitación cognitiva para pacientes afectados de esclerosis múltiple 

    Gich Fullà, Jordi (Date of defense: 2013-07-18)

    The clinical manifestations of Multiple Sclerosis are motor, sensitive, cerebellar and cognitive alterations. It evolves with a high degree of physical and cognitive disability. The “EM-line! Project” has its origins in ...

    Nuevos determinantes moleculares en la respuesta a isquemia cerebral 

    Gubern Mérida, M. Carme (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)

    Cerebral ischaemia is a potent inducer of gene expression, however, little is known about the mechanisms that regulate this expression. Studies of gene expression and the study of the mechanisms regulating this expression ...

    Estudi de l'efecte de l'administració de tilosina i doxicilina en els principals paràmetres nutricionals i de composició de l'ou de gallina 

    Roldós Noguer, Eva (Date of defense: 2015-12-16)

    The aim of the present work was to study the effects of tylosin A and doxycycline administration to laying hens on egg nutritional and compositional parameters during antibiotic treatment and after a withdrawal period. ...

    Mass unemployment in Spain (1959-2014): productive and commercial problems of a peripheral economy in global capitalism 

    Portella Carbó, Ferran (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)

    The thesis studies one of the main problems in Spain: mass unemployment. It is not a short-term problem, but a structural feature of the Spanish socio-economic system since at least the end of the 1970s, which remains ...

    L'erotisme en la poesia catalana del segle XX: Joan Salvat-Papasseit, Josep Palau i Fabre i Gabriel Ferrater 

    Perera Roura, Anna (Date of defense: 2015-10-23)

    The PhD thesis analyses the representation of eroticism in the poetics works of Joan Salvat-Papasseit (1894-1924), Josep Palau i Fabre (1917-2008), and Gabriel Ferrater (1922-1972). Based on the results of this inquiry, ...

    La expulsión de extranjeros del artículo 89 del Código Penal: análisis jurídico penal y criminológico 

    Martín Escribano, Patrícia A. (Date of defense: 2015-11-27)

    The aim of this study is to analyze, from a legal and criminological perspective, the measure contained in article 89 of the Criminal Law (Organic Law 5/2010 of 22 July, that modified the Organic Law 10/1995 of 23 November, ...

    Fugitive green-house gas emissions during biological wastewater treatment: investigating sources and mitigation strategies in laboratory and full-scale systems 

    Rodríguez-Caballero, Adrián (Date of defense: 2015-03-20)

    The exponential increase of the atmospheric concentration of green-house gases due to human activities is responsible for the acceleration of global warming and climate change. Recently, scientific studies have pointed ...

    Recursos per promoure la salut i el benestar de les persones amb malaltia pulmonar obstructiva crònica 

    Puigvert Vilalta, Margarita (Date of defense: 2015-07-13)

    The World Health Organization in 2002, recognized that self-care was the cornerstone in the care of people with chronic diseases. The management of chronic disease requires time, and it is complex and difficult. Self-care ...

    La legitimación activa en las acciones colectivas 

    Corominas Bach, Sergi (Date of defense: 2015-07-08)

    This doctoral thesis is orientated towards the study of standing in collective actions, which are a procedural remedy for the damages caused to legally-protected and collective interests. Beginning with the nature, types, ...

    Sculptor Nina Slobodinskaya (1898-1984). Life and search of creative boundaries in the Soviet epoch 

    Gnezdilova, Anastasia (Date of defense: 2015-10-19)

    Nina Konradovna Slobodinskaya - sculptor of Soviet epoch and space. Her creative work embraces more than 50 years and mirrors all artistic tendencies, actual subjects, main sculptural genres of the most contradictory, ...

    Obtaining advanced oxide thin films at low temperatures by chemical methods. Thermal analysis of thin films 

    Sánchez Rodríguez, Daniel (Date of defense: 2015-10-14)

    L'objectiu d'aquest treball és analitzar mètodes químics de baix cost com a ruta per a sintetitzar òxids avançats a baixa temperatura. En particular, hem explorat l'SHS per a la síntesi d'un òxid catalitzador fent servir ...

    Formulació i caracterització de materials compostos de polipropilè reforçat amb fibres lignocel·lulòsiques procedents de poda de taronger. Estudi del seu ús per a materials aplicables a la construcció 

    Reixach Corominas, Rafel (Date of defense: 2015-10-28)

    Aquesta tesi doctoral i tot el treball experimental s’ha realitzat dintre les línies de treball del grup de recerca, Laboratori d’Enginyeria Paperera i Materials Polímers (LEPAMAP) de l’Escola Politècnica Superior de la ...

    Bond-slip and cracking behaviour of glass fibre reinforced polymer reinforced concrete tensile members 

    Vilanova Marco, Irene (Date of defense: 2015-10-20)

    In this work, a methodology has been developed to implement the bond behaviour between concrete and GFRP bars in the numerical modelling. Based on experimental results and applying the inverse method, the bond law to be ...

    Modelo integrador de programas de desarrollo de liderazgo (LDP) en Executive Education 

    Hugas Sabater, Jaume (Date of defense: 2015-10-27)

    Los LDP (programas de desarrollo de liderazgo) de los centros de Executive Education de las escuelas de negocio se pueden definir como el proceso académico de desarrollo de capacidades de liderazgo de los participantes de ...

    Avaluació de la formació en l'ús del desfibril·lador extern automàtic en un programa de desfibril·lació pública 

    Olivet Pujol, Josep (Date of defense: 2015-10-28)

    A Catalunya, cada any perden la vida més de 3.000 persones degut a la mort sobtada cardíaca. Per aconseguir una major supervivència són fonamentals una sèrie d'accions que constitueixen la «cadena de supervivència» i la ...