Ferreira Martins, Vânia (Date of defense: 2016-04-27)
Air quality sampling campaigns both on platforms and inside trains of three European subway systems (Barcelona, Athens and Oporto) were conducted in order to characterise PM, investigating its variability, ...
Alcaraz Domínguez, Silvia (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)
One of the characteristics of knowledge societies is the increasingly important role of science and technology in our daily lives. In this context, there is a need in formal education to help students ...
Elduque Busquets, Xavier (Date of defense: 2014-09-05)
This work is divided in 2 different parts: Part A: Cyclization and conjugation can confer on biomolecules better activity, resistance toward enzymatic degradation and better internalization ...
Lundsteen, Martin (Date of defense: 2015-10-30)
The main aim of the thesis has been to scrutinise the relations between cultural diversity and social conflicts, and to consider why some social conflicts are said to be inherently cultural. I have ...
Martínez Redondo, Paloma (Date of defense: 2014-06-25)
The chromatin consists of a hierarchical and dynamical structure that is modulated during the different cell cycle stages in order to maintain genome integrity and preserve the genetic information coded ...
Oliveira Monteiro, Freddy Miguel de (Date of defense: 2013-06-28)
Ralstonia solanacearum is a soil-borne beta-proteobacterium that causes wilting disease on a wide range of plants with economic importance like tomato, potato, pepper, eggplant and banana. Each year, ...
Vicente, Filipa (Date of defense: 2016-03-09)
Cocoa is a well recognized source of polyphenols, but studies on their consumption refer that it contributes with a low proportion to the daily polyphenol consumption. Cocoa polyphenol content is plenty ...
Pérez Guillén, Cristina (Date of defense: 2016-06-27)
Snow avalanches are extended moving sources of infrasonic and seismic energy. The acoustic and seismic wave fields generated by an avalanche is a complex natural phenomenon produced by the interaction ...
Benito Mauricio, Adrián (Date of defense: 2014-02-21)
The present doctoral thesis is focused on the metabolic adaptations induced by oncogene activation as well as the potential role of the metabolic network as antitumor therapy. Over the last years, it ...
Domènech i Amador, Núria (Date of defense: 2015-10-30)
This thesis is devoted to the study of the interactions of phonons in indium nitride (InN) and materials of the (In,Ga)N system with wurtzite structure. For this purpose, we present Raman spectroscopy ...