Mestres Missé, Anna (Date of defense: 2007-11-15)
The series of studies that comprise this dissertation are aimed at simulating vocabulary learning and meaning acquisition of different types of words, namely words which differ in imageability. For this ...
Hereu Fina, Bernat (Date of defense: 2007-04-28)
The discipline of ecology is habitually divided up into a whole range of different specialities, and this thesis forms part of what is commonly known as "community ecology" (Diamond and Case 1986). To ...
Nofrarias Serra, Miquel (Date of defense: 2007-12-13)
LISA Pathfinder (LPF) is an ESA mission, with NASA contributions, devoted to pave the way to the future spaceborne gravitational wave observatory LISA.<br/>The LISA Technology Package (LTP) experiment ...
Geyer Traver, Adelina (Date of defense: 2007-03-28)
Collapse calderas are defined as the volcanic depression that result from the disruption of the geometry of the magma chamber roof due to down faulting during the course of an eruption. These structures ...
Narberhaus, Ana (Date of defense: 2007-02-08)
1. INTRODUCCIÓN<br/><br/>La definición de prematuro es la de recién nacido de edad gestacional inferior a 37 semanas (American Academy of Pediatrics y American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, ...
Bae, Joonwoo (Date of defense: 2007-04-12)
Quantum cryptography is one of the most important quantum information applications. The present thesis covers several topics on quantum cryptography, such as the security analysis of quantum channels ...
Feliu Trijueque, Elisenda (Date of defense: 2007-11-29)
The results of this thesis contribute to the program of developing a higher arithmetic intersection theory. These results constitute chapters 3 and 5. Chapters 2 and 4 consist of the preliminary results ...
Solé Padullés, Cristina (Date of defense: 2007-11-09)
L'interès general d'aquest projecte de tesi doctoral es centra en l'estudi dels patrons d'activació cerebral subjacents a l'envelliment cognitiu, tant en condicions clíniques normals com patològiques ...
Hernández García, Iker (Date of defense: 2007-09-26)
Flavonoids have received much attention in biology and medicine because of their high in vitro antioxidant activities. However, little is known about the physiological significance of this capacities ...
Gavara i Casas, Núria (Date of defense: 2007-02-22)
THESIS SUMMARY:<br/><br/>GENERAL AIM<br/><br/>The general aim of this thesis was to study the generation of contractile force by human alveolar epithelial cells in culture in response to biochemical or ...