Vasylets, Olena (Date of defense: 2017-05-29)
One of the major areas of interest in task-based language learning and teaching (TBLT) has been the psycholinguistically-oriented strand, which explores the way in which task design may interact with ...
Legnaioli, Tommaso (Date of defense: 2013-02-26)
The increase in water use efficiency in order to maintain or improve crop yields in times of global warming and progressive reduction of water resources is one of the major challenges faced by agricultural ...
Sibayan, Anna Marie (Date of defense: 2017-07-11)
The present dissertation, which contributes to the dearth of research on the acquisition of Spanish as a foreign language by Filipinos, is a pseudolongitudinal study of their Spanish interlanguage (IL) ...
Fernández Coll, Llorenç (Date of defense: 2015-05-11)
Gene expression begins by an enzymatic complex known as RNA polymerase (RNApol). The basic unit (core) of RNApol in bacteria is formed by 5 protein subunits (α2ββ’ω). The three-dimensional structure of ...
Fan, Jiandong (Date of defense: 2013-07-19)
This dissertation has focused on three main topics: (1) Synthesis and characterization of ZnO:Cl NWs; (2) Hetero and homo nanostructures based on ZnO:Cl NWs for efficient PEC cells; (3) Photovoltaic ...
Arbiol i Cobos, Jordi (Date of defense: 2001-07-19)
Recently, there has been an increasing interest in the electronics world for those aspects related to semiconducting gas sensor (SGS) materials. In view of the increasingly strict legal limits for ...
Infanzón Ramos, Belén (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
This thesis is focused in the identification and improvement of lipases for biotechnological application. The importance of lipases is increasing in several industries. However, the commercial use of ...
Gris Ormo, Georgia (Date of defense: 2015-12-04)
The present Doctoral Thesis focuses on the study of the Sigma-1 receptor (σ1R) in the field of pain. This research has been a part of the preclinical σ1R project focusing on drug discovery of σ1R ligands ...
Antoja Castelltort, M. Teresa (Date of defense: 2010-04-30)
One of the most intriguing features of the stellar velocity distribution in the solar neighbourhood is the existence of moving groups. At present, the origin of these kinematic structures is far from ...
Hernáiz, Rodrigo, 1951- (Date of defense: 2018-05-30)
This thesis interrogates the extent to which a range of written variation in the Old Babylonian letters from the central area of Mesopotamia relate significantly to variables denoting temporal-historical ...