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Domenech Pena, Arnau (Date of defense: 2013-12-03)
It is estimated that within a few years chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will be the third leading cause of death worldwide. The morbidity and mortality associated with COPD are due, in part to acute exacerbation ...
Peral, Mireia, 1979- (Date of defense: 2020-03-20)
The objective of this thesis is to study the first-order dynamics of subduction systems characterized by opposite dip polarity in adjacent plate segments. The absence of previous studies analyzing the geodynamic evolution ...
Alves Farias, Inês (Date of defense: 2021-11-03)
[eng] Aphanopus carbo (Lowe, 1839), the black scabbardfish, is a benthopelagic teleost with high commercial value in the NE Atlantic, especially in Madeira Archipelago and mainland Portugal. Given its commercial interest ...
Mezzina, Bianca (Date of defense: 2021-11-30)
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a natural mode of climate variability in the tropical Pacific, which not only perturbs the local atmosphere, but whose impacts can also reach remote, extra-tropical regions through ...
Pidde, Aleksandra (Date of defense: 2020-12-04)
Fluctuations are fundamental for living organisms. They arguably result from interactions with the complex, and unpredictable environment, and can often be manifested as temporal variability. The cell must continually ...
Viñoles Serra, Mireia (Date of defense: 2011-01-18)
Les xarxes neuronals cel·lulars altrament anomenades CNNs, són un tipus de sistema dinàmic que relaciona diferents elements que s'anomenen neurones via unes plantilles de paràmetres. Aquest sistema queda completament ...
Carnerero Quintero, Cristina (Date of defense: 2021-09-30)
Atmospheric aerosol particles, particularly ultrafine particles (UFPs; particles with less than 100 nm in diameter), and tropospheric ozone (O3) are atmospheric pollutants highly influenced by photochemical reactions, i.e., ...
Obućina, Ognjen (Date of defense: 2012-07-16)
The broad objective of this thesis is to study the patterns of objective and subjective well-being among the immigrants in Europe. The main part of the thesis consists of three single-authored empirical chapters. The first ...
Sardanyés i Cayuela, Josep (Date of defense: 2009-05-06)
En aquesta tesi he investigat diversos camps de la biologia que podrien englobar-se en la disciplina general dels sistemes no lineals de replicadors. Els treballs presentats en aquesta tesis investiguen diversos fenomens ...
Boni, Jacopo (Date of defense: 2019-06-20)
DYRK (dual-specificity tyrosine-regulated kinases) is an evolutionary conserved family of protein kinases involved in the regulation of cellular processes, such as proliferation and survival, which play pivotal role in ...
Garcia-Ribera, Carles (Date of defense: 2018-11-22)
Molts trastorns del moviment observats en pacients esquizofrènics passen desapercebuts, especialment els de lleu o moderada intensitat o bé els associats amb anosognosia. El valor dels moviments extrapiramidals i específicament ...
Rello, Luz (Date of defense: 2014-06-27)
Worldwide, 10% of the population has dyslexia, a cognitive disability that reduces readability and comprehension of written information. The goal of this thesis is to make text more accessible for people with dyslexia by ...
Ruiz Gómez, Vicenç (Date of defense: 2017-09-29)
El present estudi pretén analitzar el procés de conformació política d’una comunitat local a l’edat mitjana. Tal com la historiografia ha posat de manifest, poden ser diversos els factors que intervenen en la consolidació ...
Juanmartí i Generès, Eduard (Date of defense: 2015-12-04)
L’apropiació de mites bíblics i clàssics en les primeres obres de Salvador Espriu, des d’Israel (1929) fins a Antígona (1939), respon a les inquietuds fonamentals de l’autor en aquells anys i evoluciona en funció d’aquests ...
Henao Castañeda, Ana María (Date of defense: 2020-07-17)
La presente tesis analiza la aplicación del principio de territorialidad denominado principio de tributación en destino, a los servicios prestados a través de Internet. Se toma en consideración el IVA en el contexto de ...
Fischer e Silva, Renan (Date of defense: 2018-05-03)
Energy efficiency and performance improvements have been two of the major concerns of current Data Centers. With the advent of Big Data, more information is generated year after year, and even the most aggressive predictions ...
Plana Casado, María José (Date of defense: 2018-05-28)
E-grocery shopping is increasingly popular, but a significant part of the food products available online do not comply with food law requirements. The official control systems designed by Member States on the basis of the ...
Etxeberria Urra, Marina (Date of defense: 2015-07-27)
E-glass fiber-reinforced composites (FRC) have become popular in dental and medical applications for load-bearing applications. This is due to their enhanced biomechanical matching with living tissues compared to traditional ...
Steegmann Pascual, Cristina (Date of defense: 2013-03-03)
This paper analyzes several key aspects of online mathematics education at university level. In the context of this specification shall mean the term 'mathematical education' in a general sense, which includes disciplines ...
Donat Roca, Rafel (Date of defense: 2014-05-28)
Donat, R. (2014). El e-learning en la formación del voluntariado de Fisioterapia en Cooperación Internacional. Diseño e implementación de un modelo formativo. (Tesis). Departamento de Pedagogía. Universitat Rovira i Virgili, ...