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    Welfare promoting environments: assessment and management in sanctuary chimpanzees 

    Crailsheim, Dietmar (Date of defense: 2024-02-02)

    Due to the curiosity and interest humans show towards great apes such as chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), we can find large numbers of captive chimpanzees all over the world housed in a wide array of living conditions. ...

    Architectural identity for digital corporations: new architectural design strategies based on green values 

    Jawad I Alhelal, Abdulhadi (Date of defense: 2024-02-06)

    (English) The thesis reveals new corporate and architectural identity relationship developments in the twenty-first century. The study unpacks that relationship by examining digital corporations' approach to exploiting ...

    Impresión 3D cerámica de densidad variable controlada 

    Aguilar Urquidez, Pavel (Date of defense: 2024-02-26)

    (English) This doctoral thesis aims to develop an Additive Manufacturing technique for the production of Ceramic Building Elements with controlled variable density. The research seeks to provide an alternative to the ...

    A novel arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian framework for large strain solid dynamics 

    Giusto, Thomas B. J. di (Date of defense: 2024-01-24)

    (English) In the realm of Computer-Aided Engineering applied to fast solid dynamics, the intricate mechanical behaviours exhibited by materials when subjected to strong dynamic forces, high speed impacts and complex ...

    Design and Rapid Prototyping of Graphene-based Electrodes Fabricated by Direct Writing for Electrochemical Biosensing towards Point-of-Care Testing 

    Zhao, Lei (Date of defense: 2023-04-20)

    La contaminació ambiental, la contaminació alimentària i les pandèmies (ex. COVID-19) requereixen estratègies fiables per la detecció anticipada d’anàlits. El diagnòstic ràpid de malalties i contaminants, i la supervisió ...

    Epidemiología, aspectos virológicos, clínica, gravedad y consumo de recursos sanitarios de la infección respiratoria viral pediátrica 

    Vila Soler, Jorgina (Date of defense: 2023-04-27)

    Introducció: Les infeccions respiratòries de vies baixes (IRVB) virals estan associades a una elevada morbimortalitat a la població pediàtrica i són la principal causa d'hospitalització, especialment en els menors de 2 ...

    Exploring the Genome and Links Between Transcriptome and Fatty Acid Profiling of Muscle in Pigs 

    Valdés Hernández, Jesús (Date of defense: 2023-04-19)

    El contingut de greix intramuscular i la composició d’àcids grassos (AG) són paràmetres importants que afecten a la qualitat de la carn, influint en les seves característiques organolèptiques i el seu valor nutricional. ...

    Searches for new neutral and charged scalars with multiple top and bottom quarks in Run 2pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector 

    Salvador Salas, Adrian (Date of defense: 2023-04-27)

    Aquesta tesi presenta dues recerques de nous escalars utilitzant les 139 fb^-1 de dades de col·lisions protó-protó a una energia del centre de massa de 13 TeV, recollides amb detector ATLAS al Gran Col·lisionador d’Hadrons ...

    Unfolding the challenges to prepare epitaxial complex oxide membranes by chemical methods 

    Sallés Perramon, Pol (Date of defense: 2023-04-25)

    Els òxids complexes epitaxials presenten una àmplia gamma de propietats funcionals desitjables per a futures aplicacions en electrònica i energia. No obstant, aquestes capes epitaxials estan unides covalentment a substrats ...

    Valoración de la utilidad de la cirugía reconstructiva de lesiones osteocondrales de la rodilla mediante trasplante de aloinjerto osteocondral fresco 

    Ramírez-Bermejo, Eduard (Date of defense: 2023-04-19)

    Les lesions del cartílag articular del genoll són una patologia cada vegada més freqüent al nostre entorn en pacients joves i actius, afectant a la vida diària del pacient. El trasplantament osteocondral fresc de genoll, ...

    Novel high-resolution BAW ultrasonic sensors based on CMOS-compatible AlN transducers operated in a pulse-echo scheme 

    Yáñez Sotelo, Jesús (Date of defense: 2023-09-07)

    Les tecnologies i els dispositius d’ones acústiques han estat en ús comercial per a telecomunicacions, detecció de pressió per a automoció, proves no destructives i atenció mèdica durant més de 60 anys; la seva aplicació ...

    Methods for remote stock monitoring using depth sensors 

    Vila Clarà, Oriol (Date of defense: 2024-01-29)

    RGB-D cameras return images like an ordinary camera but in addition to color, depthmaps where each pixel value represents the distance to a point of the scene are also obtained. Although originally conceived for gaming and ...

    El Registre de Convenis de Catalunya i les relacions intergovernamentals a l'Estat autonòmic: Gestió de recursos informatius i transparència de la cooperació 

    Mampel Alandete, Diana (Date of defense: 2023-09-29)

    A l’Estat autonòmic, com en qualsevol sistema políticament descentralitzat, hi ha tres tipus de recursos: competencials, financers i informatius. Els governs han prioritzat habitualment els dos primers i no han donat prou ...

    Caterina Albert/Víctor Català (1869-1966), biografia intel·lectual i literària 

    Muñoz Pairet, Irene (Date of defense: 2024-01-29)

    The thesis Caterina Albert/Víctor Català (1869-1966), intellectual and literary biography analyzes the professional career of the writer Víctor Català, from its beginnings, at the end of the 19th century, to the 1950s. It ...

    Sobre la forma de los arbotantes en las fábricas góticas 

    Samper Sosa, Albert (Date of defense: 2024-01-25)

    Flying buttresses have been extensively studied from a mechanical, constructive or descriptive point of view. The references on its geometric aspects are practically scarce and unfortunately, we have to go back to 1854 to ...

    Dinámica clonal en las neoplasias mieloproliferativas crónicas 

    Fernández Ibarrondo, Lierni (Date of defense: 2024-04-05)

    Las neoplasias mieloproliferativas Philadelphia-negativas son enfermedades clonales que se originan en las células madre hematopoyéticas, ocasionadas por la adquisición de mutaciones driver que afectan a la vía JAK/STAT. ...

    Precise writing of human genomes: engineering & characterizing genome editors for programmable DNA integration in human cells 

    Ivancic, Dimitrie (Date of defense: 2024-04-03)

    Methods for genome engineering have enabled construction of synthetic genomes, therapeutically reprogrammed cells, synthetic organs, and modification of human genomes. Design and discovery of genome editors has enabled ...

    Neural entrainment to languages of different rhythms in adults and infants 

    Özer, Ege Ekin (Date of defense: 2024-03-21)

    In this thesis, we explored neural entrainment as a potential mechanism to underline the behavioral evidence that certain phonological properties of listeners’ native language affects speech segmentation. In two experimental ...

    Analysis of circulating RNAs for the early detection of complex diseases using liquid biopsy 

    Cabús Fornas, Lluc (Date of defense: 2024-03-15)

    RNA is a molecule that is released by the different tissues into the circulation. When it is found in the circulation it is called cell-free RNA (cfRNA). This type of molecule has great potential as a noninvasive biomarker ...

    Dissecting γTuRC recruitment and microtubule nucleation at MTOCs 

    Vineethakumari Muraleedharan, Chithran (Date of defense: 2024-03-14)

    Microtubules form diverse arrays according to the cell type or the cell cycle stage to facilitate the context-specific functions of the cytoskeleton. One way by which cells achieve this is by restricting the formation of ...