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    Sublethal effects of heavy metal contamination on marine sponges: Responses at different biological levels 

    Cebrian Pujol, Emma (Date of defense: 2007-04-20)

    Many antrophic activities release pollutants to the marine environment. Among them heavy metals are of great importance, since they are conservative pollutants, which can be accumulated through trophy chains. Sometimes, ...

    Substructural Logics and Pragmatic Enrichment 

    Terrés Villalonga, Pilar (Date of defense: 2020-01-27)

    In this dissertation, we argue for a Pragmatic Logical Pluralism, a pluralist thesis about logic which endorses Classical, Relevant, Linear, and Ordered logic. We justify that the formal languages of these four logics are ...

    Substructure in the phase-space of the Galaxy with Gaia 

    Ramos, Pau (Date of defense: 2020-09-25)

    The Gaia mission and its extensive catalogue of stars has marked the beginning of the Golden Age of Galactic dynamics. We have now access to the kinematics of more than a billion stars with which we can start ...

    Subsurface flow constructed wetlands for the treatment of wastewater from different sources. Design and operation 

    Torrens Armengol, Antonina (Date of defense: 2016-01-28)

    The aim of the thesis is to examine the viability of the subsurface constructed wetlands for the treatment of wastewater derived from three different sources (treatment ponds, pig farms and car wash facilities), and to ...

    Subsynoptic characterization of tropopause fold structure with glogal data anlyses and mesoscale WRF simulations 

    Mateu i Santaeulària, Mireia (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)

    In this work, a subsynoptic characterization of tropopause fold structures is derived from one-year of global, high resolution GFS (Global Forecasting System, 0.3 degrees) data analyses and 10 years of daily WRF (Weather ...

    Subtilitates naturae. Continuïtats i ruptures a la cosmologia d’Hildegarda de Bingen (1098-1179) 

    González Rabassó, Georgina (Date of defense: 2015-11-23)

    L’objectiu principal de la present Tesi doctoral és mostrar les línies de continuïtat i les ruptures que articulen les representacions de l’univers d’Hildegarda de Bingen per mitjà de l’anàlisi descriptiva, interpretativa ...

    Subtypes in Parkinson's disease and Dementia with Lewy bodies: MRI and neuropsychological profiles 

    Inguanzo Pons, Anna (Date of defense: 2021-10-01)

    [eng] INTRODUCTION: Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) appear as neurodegenerative disorders with a wide range of symptomatology that differs among patients, among which are different levels of ...

    Succes or failure? The effect of the language of test on students’ academic achievement in rural Senegal 

    Martín-Chazeaud, Alexandre (Date of defense: 2017-11-17)

    In most Sub-Saharan countries, children grow up in a local environment attached to a culture and an identity which are embraced by a local language. However, when they start compulsory school at the age of six, they have ...

    Sucesión intestada a favor del Estado, La 

    Valls Lloret, José Domingo (Date of defense: 1996-11-29)

    El acercamiento a la determinación de quién es el llamado a sucesión del que fallece intestado puede hacerse desde diversas perspectivas, que van desde la perspectiva histórica hasta el estado de la misma desde la óptica ...

    Sueño y ritmos circadianos en la pérdida de peso en pacientes con obesidad grave sometidos a cirugía bariátrica 

    Barnadas Solé, Cristina (Date of defense: 2021-02-22)

    Hasta hace no muchos años la obesidad se relacionaba con un desequilibrio entre la ingesta dietética y el gasto energético. Sin embargo, esta aproximación era muy simplista y actualmente se conoce el carácter multifactorial ...

    La suficiencia investigadora de la instrucción penal 

    Borràs Andrés, Núria (Date of defense: 2022-11-02)

    [spa] La fase previa al juicio oral del proceso penal ha venido caracterizada, en los diferentes ordenamientos procesales, como una fase eminentemente investigadora. Sin embargo, su encaje procesal, la extensión de su ...

    El suïcidi en la literatura. Tradició i representació en la narrativa de Mercè Rodoreda 

    Zurrón Servera, Irene (Date of defense: 2023-04-14)

    [cat] Aquesta tesi doctoral examina la representació del suïcidi en la narrativa de Mercè Rodoreda –els significats, els sentits, les implicacions–, la qual s’insereix en la literatura catalana i occidental amb aquest tema ...

    SUMO a la retina: expressió gènica i rellevància en la modificació posttaducciontal del factor de transcripció NRE3 

    Abad Morales, Víctor (Date of defense: 2017-02-03)

    La sumoïlació és una modificació posttraduccional (PTM) que consisteix en la conjugació covalent i reversible d’una proteïna SUMO (Small ubiquitin-like modifier) al residu lisina d’una proteïna diana. Igual que la ubiquitina, ...

    Super-Cationic peptides: insights on their antimicrobial action 

    Pérez Guillén, Isabel (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)

    [eng] Bacteria have been to the human civilization a threat as well as an ally, since the beginning of time. The introduction of antibiotics into clinics to treat infections was one of the best medical achievements ever ...

    Superhéroes en la pantalla de la guerra contra el terror. Un estudio semiótico-discursivo a las trilogías cinematográficas Iron Man y The Dark Knight 

    Sánchez Román, María Elisenda (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)

    Esta investigación se centra en el análisis discursivo de dos trilogías cinematográficas, The Dark Knight (Nolan, 2005, 2008, 2012) y Iron Man (Favreau 2008, 2010; Black, 2013), producidas entre el 2005 y el 2013, en el ...

    Superposició de sistemes estel·lars a simetria cilíndrica 

    Cubarsi Morera, Rafael (Date of defense: 1988-11-15)

    S'estudia la superposició de dos sistemes estel·lars a partir de l'aproximació de Chandrasekhar sota la hipòtesi de simetria cilíndrica, en un cas general no estacionari. Les equacions diferencials de Chandrasekhar es ...

    Superposición de imágenes. Identificación facial bidimensional. 

    Merabishvili, Gela (Date of defense: 2006-06-23)

    El método de superposición adquiere una importancia vital en los gabinetes de identificación modernos. La técnica bidimensional de superposición radiografia/fotografia permite desarrollar una técnica no destructiva y ...

    Support Vector Machines for Survival Analysis: Methods and Variable Relevance = Màquines de Suport Vectorial per Anàlisi de la Supervivència: Mètodes i Rellevància de Variables 

    Sanz Ródenas, Héctor (Date of defense: 2017-07-19)

    The process of creating an efficacious malaria vaccine is complex due to the characteristics of the disease that are directly related to the responsible parasite. In the disease-vaccine interaction several aspects need to ...

    The supramolecular organization of cancer metabolism: From macromolecular crowding to metabolic reprogramming underlying cancer metastasis and drug resistance 

    Balcells Nadal, Cristina (Date of defense: 2019-12-19)

    Metastasis and drug resistance represent the two main causes of therapeutic failure in oncology. In the present dissertation, the interplay between them has been interrogated using metabolomics, systems biology and biophysical ...

    Supramolecular Strategies to Control the Assembly of Organic-Based Materials 

    Riba Moliner, Marta (Date of defense: 2015-12-11)

    The focus of this thesis is the use of supramolecular chemistry to functionalize polymers to obtain organic-based materials with a control of their structure and properties. The non-covalent functionalization of polymers ...