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    Tourism destination zoning and governance in border regions 

    Blasco Franch, Daniel (Date of defense: 2014-01-27)

    Debates on the creation and management of tourism destinations have increased during the last decades. This dissertation endeavours to contribute to the literature on tourism destinations planning and governance, with ...

    Tourist behavior in a cross-border area: the case of Nicosia, Cyprus 

    Díaz Sauceda, Judit (Date of defense: 2016-07-13)

    Tourists are crossing borders naturally when consuming an area. Therefore, cross-border tourism studies are gaining relevance. A qualitative analysis showed the lack of research on cross-border tourism from the demand side. ...

    Towards a high-performance computing finite element simulation framework for virtual testing of composite structures 

    Quintanas Corominas, Adrià (Date of defense: 2019-10-11)

    his doctoral thesis aims at developing and implementing a computational framework for performing virtual testing of composite structures using a High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment. In this sense, this thesis ...

    Towards better management of combined sewer systems. A methodology based on low-cost monitoring 

    Montserrat Royuela, Albert (Date of defense: 2015-07-03)

    In combined sewer systems (CSS) wastewater and stormwater flow through the same pipes. During severe rain episodes, the excess combined flow of untreated wastewater and stormwater is released out from the system through ...

    Towards socially sustainable smart cities: observations and potentials from digitizing participatory planning 

    Bouzguenda, Islam (Date of defense: 2021-02-01)

    This thesis contributes to the current debate on the relationship between the participation of digital citizens in urban planning and social sustainability within the framework of the smart city concept. Recent studies ...

    Towards the implementation of a biotechnology for biogas upgrading: role of bacteria in siloxane removal 

    Boada Cahueñas, Ellana (Date of defense: 2020-07-20)

    Biogas is a highly recognized alternative to fossil fuels towards a sustainable energy production. Massive use of biogas depends on the removal of contaminants that may affect performance of processing equipment and energy ...

    Towards the implementation of ecosystem management: a multi-level assessment of a small scale Mediterranean multi-specific fishery 

    Dimitriadis, Caterina (Date of defense: 2015-10-16)

    Fisheries are complex systems, in which the process of assessment and management should explicitly consider the ecological, social and economic attributes of the system. For a responsible and sustainable management of ...

    Trace elements biogeochemistry in high mountain lake catchments: identifying anthropogenic versus natural components from the atmospheric contamination legacy in remote natural areas 

    Bacardit Peñarroya, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2011-06-01)

    Human activities have been interfering with the natural biogeochemical cycles of trace elements since the ancient civilizations. Although they are inaccessible and remote, high mountain lake catchments are irrefutably ...

    Tracing the creation and evaluation of accessible Open Educational Resources through learning analytics 

    Ávila Garzón, Cecilia (Date of defense: 2018-06-12)

    The adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) has been continuously growing and with it the need to addressing the diversity of students’ learning needs. Because of that, OER should meet with characteristics such as the ...

    La tradición judía y la narración en la pintura de Marc Chagall 

    Turon Mejías, Ma. Àngels (Date of defense: 2014-05-28)

    Among the many readings of this painter, I try to draw up a narrative reading of his work, taking into account the Jewish tradition in which both his biography and his artistic work were deeply involved. Once I have discussed ...

    Trafficking and function of the voltage-gated sodium channel β2 subunit 

    Cortada Almar, Èric (Date of defense: 2020-11-24)

    The sodium channel β2 subunit is a component of the voltage-gated sodium channel (NaV), a large multimeric protein complex. In the heart, NaV is mainly composed of a pore-forming α subunit, NaV1.5, and two associated ...

    Transferència de tecnologia universitària. Modalitat i estratègies 

    Condom i Vilà, Pere (Date of defense: 2003-05-30)

    Anàlisis del procés de transferència de tecnologia universitària. L’objectiu és identificar i entendre els principals camins que permeten traslladar el coneixement i els resultats de la investigació originats en els àmbits ...

    Transformacions territorials, canvi climàtic i risc d'inundació a la conca de la riera d'Argentona (1956-2050) 

    Bassa i Vila, Oriol (Date of defense: 2020-07-23)

    The application of the different parameters of the territorial transformations according to the determining factors for each one of the study periods through the Geographic Information Systems and the subsequent calculation ...

    Transformación identitaria y subjetiva en historias de violencia de género en la pareja íntima 

    Vázquez Ahumada, María Andrea (Date of defense: 2014-12-16)

    Aquesta tesi es un treball d’investigació en el que s’analitzen les narracions fetes per dones que van patir violencia de génere a dins de la parella. Al llarg de l’investigació es determinen i descriuen els elements del ...

    Transition metal-catalysed [2+2+2] cycloaddition reactions. Methodology and mechanism 

    Parera Briansó, Magda (Date of defense: 2014-05-20)

    The transition-metal catalysed [2+2+2] cycloaddition reaction is a highly efficient synthetic tool that allows six-membered polysubstituted carbo- and heterocyclic derivatives to be obtained in an atom economy process. ...

    La Transliteracy degli studenti del Liceo classico Italiano 

    Runchina, Cinzia (Date of defense: 2023-07-26)

    The integration of new media literacies and, consequently, of strategies such as transmedia learning in teaching-learning processes has been a topic of interest among various types of national and international institutions ...

    Transport, distribution and fate of emerging contaminants in wastewater-receiving rivers under multiple stress conditions 

    Mandarić, Ladislav (Date of defense: 2018-10-24)

    The main aim of this thesis was to establish a link between the urban origin of chemical contamination (e.g. PhACs) and other stressors, particularly associated to water scarcity (Chapter 1, 2, and 3). Research has been ...

    La transversabilidad normativa de la salud como derecho 

    Ricou Casal, Mónica (Date of defense: 2023-07-19)

    This doctoral thesis has the ambitious challenge of studying how social, labor, technological and environmental changes affect the reformulation of the right to health. It has become clear during the Covid-19 pandemic the ...

    Treatment of mature urban landfill leachates by anammox process 

    Ruscalleda Beylier, Maël (Date of defense: 2012-02-17)

    This thesis results from the collaborative projects between the LEQUIA-UdG group and Cespa (a company in charge of several landfill sites in Spain). The aim of the work was the development of a suitable alternative treatment ...

    Trets de personalitat, percepció de control, conducta proactiva de vinculació social i satisfacció amb la vida d'una mostra d'estudiants universitaris 

    Manzano Nieto, Anna (Date of defense: 2010-03-22)

    Amb aquest estudi es pretén conèixer els nivells de Satisfacció amb la vida i simptomatologia afectiva dels estudiants de Psicologia de la Universitat de Girona, analitzar la influència de les diferències individuals en ...