Universitat de Girona: Recent submissions
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Feasibility of incorporating treated lignin and cellulose nanofiber in fiberboards made from corn stalk and rice straw
Agricultural waste is of particularly interest due to abudant, cheap, widely available worldwide and renewable material. It represent a good option for wood sources substitution, containing similar in chemical and physical ...
L'organització de l'activitat conjunta i la seva anàlisi en el procés d'ensenyament i aprenentatge de l'equilibri dinàmic en l'educació física escolar
The aim of this thesis is to analyze and describe a mechanism of educational influence which research has identified in different instructional contexts. We study the mechanism of cession and transfer of learning control ...
A contribution to the understanding of compression after impact of composite laminates
The threat of impact on laminated composite structures has been a serious concern in the aerospace industry and scientific community because the compression load-carrying capacity of the structures, namely Compression 1/2 After ...
Source and negative prefixes: On the syntax-lexicon interface and the encoding of spatial relations
This dissertation offers a contrastive analysis of the (here called) Source prefix des- and the negative prefix iN- in Spanish that highlights the connections and divergences existing between the encoding of Source paths ...
Bereavement and addiction: complicated grief symptoms, psychopathology and associated variables in a substance use disorder sample
The loss of a loved one is a universal experience to which the majority of people adjust adequately. A substantial minority do not allow the natural process and, despite the passing of time, they continue to live with great ...
Arsenic and fluvial biofilms: biogeochemistry, toxicity and biotic interactions
Based on the current knowledge about biofilm ecotoxicology and arsenic biogeochemistry in freshwater ecosystems, this thesis studied, under realistic environmental concentrations, i) the role of benthic biofilms in the ...
La percepción de autoeficacia como factor pronóstico de la integración social y la satisfacción con la vida en personas con lesión cerebral traumática severa-moderada después del tratamiento rehabilitador
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is responsible for major disabilities and the leading cause of death in children and young people. It also has a significant impact on families and high social costs. Objectives: To explore ...
L'habitat alternatif en Catalogne, un modèle émergent?: la (re)naissance d'une "troisieme voie", entre pragmatisme et utopie
The research aims to analyze all current forms of alternative housing based on participation and cooperation in Catalonia, those formal initiatives with collective dimension which put the inhabitant at the center of the ...
Estudi de les comunitats neolítiques de l’Horitzó dels Sepulcres de Fossa (nord-est de la península Ibèrica, c. 4.000-3.400 cal ANE) a partir de les anàlisis tecno-funcionals dels artefactes polits i bisellats
The present dissertation generates a new data corpus which makes it possible to resize and widen the current interpretative framework about the communities living in the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula around the turn ...
"En vers vull desafiar...": la poesia femenina a l'àmbit català (segles XVI-XVIII): edició crítica
This thesis provides a review of the female works from the 16th-18th centuries in the Catalan linguistic area, focusing especially in the poetic genre. The invisibility of women in literary or historical manuals, with the ...
Mitjans digitals i públics escènics. La relació entre el públic i el producte cultural a través de la xarxa. Cas d'estudi: Festival Temporada Alta
The aim is to determine how the media environment affects the way in which live performance is received, distributed, and participated in. Based particularly on media and cultural convergence, the study analyses contemporary ...
Aigua sagrada i aigua monumental al nord-est de la Península Ibèrica en l'època romana
At the end of the Republican era, changes on the territory of our study began started. During this period, a lot of cult buildings, with a clear italic nature, were established. That’s the proof of territorial, religious, ...
La cultura participativa en el ámbito local. La ciudad contemporánea y las políticas culturales
This research is framed in the context of the current reflection on the new theoretical paradigms that revolve around the so-called Network Society that presents itself as the great revolution of the cultural regime. This ...
Online path planning for autonomous underwater vehicles under motion constraints
The most common applications of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) include imaging and inspecting different kinds of structures on the sea. Most of these applications require a priori information of the area or structure ...
Climate change and Mediterranean ecosystems: plant and soil responses to UV radiation and water availability before and after a perturbation
Taking into account the expected changes in solar UV levels, precipitation and fire regime in the Mediterranean basin, the main goal of this thesis was to evaluate the effects of UV radiation (UV-A and UV-B) and diminished ...
Arteriopatia perifèrica assimptomàtica: prevalença, detecció i tractament
Background There is few epidemiological data of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in our environment. The recommendation of screening with ankle brachial index (ABI) in asymptomatic individuals is controversial. Evidence ...
Clinical decision support for screening, diagnosis and assessment of respiratory diseases: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as a use case
In this thesis we propose a framework for designing, developing, a clinical decision support systems (CDSS) offering a suite of services for the early detection and assessment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), ...
Entrepreneurial skills, trust and jobs: three essays on entrepreneurial skills of self-employed and employees
This thesis is an empirical study that sets out to explain entrepreneurial activity, based on a broad concept of entrepreneurship. The study is based on the development of logistic regression models for a dichotomous ...
El pensament polític de Miquel Santaló Parvorell a través dels seus textos (1919-1939)
Miquel Santaló Parvorell (1887 – 1962) was one of the most important personalities of the Second Republic. He was minister of Lerroux, member of the government of Catalonia, spokesman of ERC in the Spanish Congress and ...
El trabajo emocional en el sector turístico. Obstáculos y facilitadores empresariales y su consecuencia para los trabajadores
The general objective of this thesis is to analyze if there is emotional labor in the tourism sector, as well as to study its possible causes and consequences. This general aim is concretized in three specific aims that ...
