Giménez Navarro, Mónica (Date of defense: 2006-10-20)
The general aim of this thesis is to study the cerebral basis of cognitive disturbances in adolescents with history of premature birth (PB). As previous manual volumetric investigations in PB samples, ...
García Molina, Verónica (Date of defense: 2006-06-16)
The main objective of this work was to test the efficiency of wet oxidation processes when treating several types of aqueous wastes. On one side its performance for the abatement of chloro-organic ...
Reguera, D. (David) (Date of defense: 2001-11-23)
Esta tesis está dedicada al estudio de la cinética de la nucleación centrada en sus aspectos mesoscópicos y fuera equilibrio. Hemos desarrollado y presentado un marco teórico, basado en la Termodinámica ...
Villanueva Álvarez, Laura (Date of defense: 2005-12-22)
Microbial mats are prokaryotic communities that are thought to represent the present-day analogues of the first ecosystems on Earth. Their study reveals microbial strategies for survival under a broad ...
Corral López, María José (Date of defense: 2008-09-22)
The occurrence of auditory changes in a stable environment may cause distraction. The pattern of this effect in the present thesis depended on the salience of the feature undergoing auditory change, the ...
Fortuny Andreu, Jordi (Date of defense: 2007-01-12)
The syntactic component of the faculty of language is a device responsible for ordering features or clusters of features, usually called categories. As to the syntactic component is concerned, Universal ...
Bonada i Caparrós, Núria (Date of defense: 2003-04-02)
The main objective of this work has been to determine the structure of the macroinvertebrate communities in mediterranean rivers at different scales, organization and taxonomical levels. To achieve that, ...
Brufau Penella, Jordi (Date of defense: 2009-01-30)
This thesis focuses on the use of smart materials in microrobotic applications. The development of materials with the capabilities to mechanically respond to electrical stimuli or, at the same time, ...
Gordo Villoslada, Susana (Date of defense: 2008-06-30)
Protein-protein interactions are essential in biological processes and thus, they have become very promising therapeutic targets. Nevertheless, the artificial modulation of protein complexes remains a ...
Bassat Orellana, Quique (Date of defense: 2009-06-22)
Despite a renewed impetus on bringing together efforts to wipe malaria from the globe, the truth is that this ancient disease remains one of the principal threats to child survival in vast areas of the ...