Duque Cardona, Juan Carlos (Date of defense: 2004-09-30)
The interest in geographical information technologies has grown considerably over the last three decades. Today, geographical information is no longer the exclusive domain of government and public ...
Kappler, Karolin Eva (Date of defense: 2009-09-29)
The thesis describes the everyday life of victims of sexual violence in Germany, based upon the qualitative study of in-depth interviews. By means of the grounded analysis of their action system of ...
Martínez Abadías, Nieves (Date of defense: 2007-12-19)
This thesis is the final outcome of the project "Quantitative genetics of craniofacial traits: a functional approach to heritability", which received support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for ...
Casanova i Fernàndez, Fèlix (Date of defense: 2004-03-09)
This Ph.D. Thesis has been devoted to the preparation and characterisation of bulk Gd5(SixGe1-x)4 alloys and to the study of the magnetocaloric effect at the first-order magnetostructural transition ...
García Cordente, Antonio Felipe (Date of defense: 2006-06-22)
In eukaryotes, L-carnitine is involved in energy metabolism, where it facilitates b-oxidation of fatty acids. Carnitine acyltransferases catalyze the reversible conversion of acyl-CoA and carnitine to ...
Grandes Vilaclara, Mª Eugenia (Date of defense: 2008-06-18)
The aim of this 4 year long work was to study the Connexin32 (Cx32), a protein that forms hemichannels anchored in the plasma membrane. Two hemichannels of adjacent cells form a gap junction. Mutations ...
Cid Roldós, Emili (Date of defense: 2002-07-08)
La glicogen sintasa muscular és un enzim altament regulat. Aquesta tesi doctoral ha aprofondit en diversos aspectes no resolts com la descripció del seu mecanisme catalític i les relacions estructura-funció ...
Àlvarez Montaner, Josep (Date of defense: 2002-05-27)
Sigui R l'anell de polinomis amb coeficients en un cos k de característica zero. El nostre objectiu és, tot seguint la linia de recerca encetada per G. Lyubeznik, utilitzar en profunditat la teoria de ...
Loewe Durall, Germán (Date of defense: 2009-06-23)
DE LA TESIS:<br/><br/>Cuando suena por primera vez el despertador, muchos de nosotros apretamos el botón de "posponer alarma" (<i>"snooze"</i>, según la expresión inglesa, que significa echar una ...
Colomé Nin, Gemma (Date of defense: 2008-07-14)
A first goal of this thesis is to contribute to the knowledge of cohomological properties of non-standard multigraded modules. In particular we study the Hilbert function of a non-standard multigraded ...