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Espín Sánchez, Rufina (Date of defense: 2023-06-16)
Introduction: Hypertension is the common cardiovascular risk factor and affects 20 to 50% of the population. Treatment, with drugs or not, involves improving lifestyle. Olive leaf extract has traditionally been taken to ...
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 ...
Lertxundi Manterola, Aitana (Date of defense: 2007-02-16)
Los objetivos de la tesis son:<br/>1.- Estudiar la relación entre la incidencia y mortalidad por cáncer y los factores medioambientales, en particular la contaminación atmosférica, controlando por factores socioeconómicos.<br/>2.- ...
Serra Saurina, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)
The main objective of this Thesis is to model the occurrence of wildfires and, in particular, knowing the factors with more influence, to evaluate how they are distributed in space and time. The Thesis presents three major ...
Perafita Basart, Xavier (Date of defense: 2023-11-24)
In the last twenty years, the study of social inequalities has been a topic of special interest, revealing how differences between social classes have increased. During the same period, data generation has exponentially ...
Boqué Busquet, Pere (Date of defense: 2021-11-22)
Predictive policing is a global strategic orientation of the police that emphasizes the anticipation of crimes to prevent them. Its development comes from various fields of knowledge, in which criminology has created a ...
Inoriza, José María (Date of defense: 2015-02-27)
Los sistemas de atención sanitaria tienden en la actualidad a migrar de formas de organización fragmentadas por líneas o niveles, que al mismo tiempo compiten e intentan coordinarse entre sí, hacia formas que integran todos ...
Ortuzar Fernández, Iban (Date of defense: 2024-03-04)
The escalating conflicts and competition for freshwater resources are widely acknowledged. The demand for water is on the rise due to rapid population growth and socioeconomic development, while climate change is disrupting ...
Xabadia i Palmada, Àngels (Date of defense: 2003-06-06)
Dynamic optimization methods have become increasingly important over the last years in economics. Within the dynamic optimization techniques employed, optimal control has emerged as the most powerful tool for the theoretical ...
Ballester González, Ramon (Date of defense: 2014-03-14)
The current economic crisis has increased severe poverty as well as severe deprivation levels in our society, putting under stress the existing social protection system. In the Spanish system of social protection, the very ...
Capó Artigues, Aina Maria (Date of defense: 2009-06-16)
Aquesta tesi forma part d'un projecte destinat a predir el rendiment acadèmic dels estudiants de doctorat portat a terme per l'INSOC (International Network on Social Capital and Performance). El grup de recerca INSOC està ...
Coromina Soler, Lluís (Date of defense: 2006-04-24)
El objetivo de esta tesis es predecir el rendimiento de los estudiantes de doctorado en la Universidad de Girona según características personales (background), actitudinales y de redes sociales de los estudiantes. La ...
Franquet Bonet, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2021-12-01)
The objective of this thesis is to explore in greater depth the process of creating a public health observatory and the processing of the information needed to take territorial decisions in the county of Alt Empordà. The ...
Villavicencio Obando, Alicia Silvana (Date of defense: 2022-03-29)
Comprehensive population-based studies assessing the survival of hematological entities are scarce and typically conducted using old classifications schemes, which hampers their interpretation and international comparisons. ...
Osca-Gelis, Gemma (Date of defense: 2014-10-17)
Myeloid malignancies (MMs) are a heterogeneous group of haematological malignancies presenting different incidence, prognosis and survival. Changing classifications (French-American-British (FAB), World Health Organization ...
Arbussà i Reixach, Anna (Date of defense: 2001-11-22)
This dissertation studies the effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on the banking sector and the payments system. It provides insight into how technology-induced changes occur, by exploring both the ...
Correa Pinzón, John Enrique (Date of defense: 2022-11-18)
This thesis studies the effects of hard skills and soft skills and risk attitudes on the likelihood of starting a company in the US. Hard skills are those skills that can be learned and trained. They are cognitive in nature. ...
Llaneza Hesse, Catalina (Date of defense: 2023-12-19)
This dissertation evaluates the pandemic's impact on three coexisting urban rental markets: traditional long-term rentals (LTR), short-term rentals (STR) primarily catering to tourists, and seasonal month-by-month rentals ...
Ferrer Rosell, Berta (Date of defense: 2014-05-27)
This thesis compares the behaviour of tourists arriving to Spain by low cost airlines or by legacy airlines, in terms of length of stay and travel budget allocation. It also segments low cost users according to travel ...
Guixeras López, Xavier (Date of defense: 2023-03-03)
In recent decades, studies on the management and financing of public services have gained special relevance in the context of the local economy. In this context, the debate has revolved around which determinants directly ...