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    Waves and turbulence on submerged and emergent aquatic vegetation 

    Pujol Company, M. Dolors (Date of defense: 2013-04-16)

    Coastal zones are governed by physical forces originating from tidal currents, waves, winds and night convection, amongst others, and are characterized by the presence of canopy meadows. This thesis studies the hydrodynamic ...

    Web-based application for medical imaging management 

    Mata Miquel, Christian (Date of defense: 2015-07-24)

    Prostate and breast cancer are the most common cause of cancers in men and women, respectively. Medical imaging plays an important role in breast and prostate cancer detection and evaluation. Then to prove that our web-based ...

    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. ...

    Where nitrite respiration meets electrotrophy: diversity studies and functional characterization of autotrophic bacterial isolates from bioelectrochemical system 

    Vilar Sanz, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)

    Denitrifying biocathodes are used to treat nitrogen contaminated water resources. The present PhD dissertation have been characterized different bacterial families with a relevant role in denitrification process. Different ...

    Wind power supply chain: relevant aspects related to manufacturing and quality management 

    Castelló i Dalmau, Jordi (Date of defense: 2018-06-21)

    In recent years, supply chain management (SCM) has become of great importance as nowadays not only are businesses competing with each other, but so too are suppliers. The main objective of this thesis is to analyse some ...

    WNT5A, SFRP5 y CRTC3: nuevas adipocinas relacionadas con la obesidad en la edad pediátrica 

    Soriano Rodríguez, Pilar (Date of defense: 2015-10-13)

    WNT5A is a protein with proinflammatory properties recently related to insulin resistance. It is believed that this protein might be regulated by SFRP5, which sequesters WNT5A exerting its anti-inflammatory actions and ...

    Word-processing-based routing for Cayley graphs 

    Aguirre Guerrero, Daniela (Date of defense: 2019-05-15)

    This Thesis focuses on the problem of generic routing in Cayley Graphs(CGs). These graphs are a geometric representation of algebraic groups and have been used as topologies of a wide variety of communication networks. ...

    World heritage brand personality comparative analysis 

    Hassan, Mohamed Abdalla Elsayed (Date of defense: 2023-01-27)

    Currently, World Heritage Sites (hereafter, WHSs) are perceived as a prominent tourism brand, a fact that encourages many countries to increase their listed WHSs (Su & Lin, 2014) so that they may benefit from the use of ...

    X-ray tomography investigation of the impact damage mechanisms of thin-ply composites and the use of veils to improve their impact tolerance 

    García Rodríguez, Santiago (Date of defense: 2019-06-28)

    This thesis investigates the impact response of novel laminates made with “thin-plies” as well as proposes a toughening method to improve their impact tolerance. To this purpose, we devised a wide experimental campaign ...

    Zooplankton structure and dynamics in Mediterranean marshes (Empordà Wetlands): a size-based approach 

    Brucet Balmaña, Sandra (Date of defense: 2003-11-04)

    Zooplankton community structure (composition, diversity, dynamics and trophic relationships) of Mediterranian marshes, has been analysed by means of a size based approach. <br/>In temporary basins the shape of the biomass-size ...