Hermida Carrera, Carmen (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)
Rubisco, the enzyme that catalyzes the assimilation of atmospheric CO2 and sustains the vast majority of food chains in the Biosphere, presents functional inefficiencies limiting the photosynthetic ...
Perdomo López, Juan Alejandro (Date of defense: 2015-02-06)
La demanda mundial de cultivos agrícolas para la alimentación ha experimentado un aumento notorio a través de las últimas décadas como consecuencia de la creciente población humana. Por otra parte, las ...
Valls Mir, Maria (Date of defense: 2017-07-28)
The conservation of marine ecosystem structure and functioning is a priority target within the context of the environmental management. This is especially important in oligotrophic systems such as the ...
Jiménez Forteza, Francisco (Date of defense: 2017-09-05)
[eng]Throughout history, human beings have received and interpreted information from distant stars and galaxies through electromagnetic waves (light). Until 2015 this was the dominant way for observing ...
Acedo Carmona, Cristina (Date of defense: 2014-12-01)
Introducción La vida social humana se sustenta en la cooperación de una forma diferente respecto a otras especies. Los científicos han indagado en la evolución de la cooperación desde distintos puntos ...
Porte Parera, Javier (Date of defense: 2015-11-30)
Introduction: The present thesis is devoted to the study of semiconductor lasers subject to delayed optical feedback and coupling. The complex spectral and dynamical properties of these systems ...
Hicke, Konstantin (Date of defense: 2014-07-03)
The work in this thesis is focused on the complex dynamics of semiconductor laser (SL) devices which receive time-delayed feedback from an external cavity or are delay-coupled with a second semiconductor ...
Jacob Abad, Karen Lesley (Date of defense: 2013-09-20)
Aquesta tesi mostra la importància de l’Anglès com a Llengua Internacional i el seu ús com a forma de comunicació que suposa un corrent i una mescla multidireccional entre els parlants. Això ha portat ...
Guerrero Tomé, Carlos (Date of defense: 2012-05-14)
Martorell Lliteras, Sebastià (Date of defense: 2014-12-11)
Water availability is one of the biggest constraints limiting the plant growth and species distribution around the world. This is the case in the Mediterranean region where, moreover, the frequency ...