Altaki, Mohammed-Soubhi (Date of defense: 2017-06-29)
The development of sensitive analytical methods has allowed identifying non- nutrient chemicals in food that may affect the human health and are recognised as food chemical contaminants. Some of these ...
Shoghi Kalkhoran, Elham (Date of defense: 2013-01-15)
The aim of the present work was to contribute to establish robust and high throughput methodology of interest in the "Drug Discovery" step commonly done in pharmaceutical laboratories. This purpose ...
Santiago Santiago, Luz Mary (Date of defense: 2015-12-10)
Plastic scintillation microspheres (PSm) are a solid dispersion of one or more fluorescent solutes encapsulated within a polymeric matrix. PSm appear as an alternative to the use of liquid scintillation ...
Sanchís, Josep Àngel (Date of defense: 2015-07-30)
Nanotechnology is the multidisciplinary science consisting in modifying the matter at the nanometre scale. Due to the unique properties exhibited by nanomaterials, the number of investigations devoted ...
Godinho da Fonseca, Ana Sofia (Date of defense: 2016-06-06)
Exposure to micro- and nano-scaled particles has been widely linked to adverse health effects including pulmonary, cardiovascular and nervous system disease leading to increased mortality and morbidity ...
Yordanov Platikanov, Stefan (Date of defense: 2016-07-11)
Chemometric methods have been used to explore and analyze information regarding potable and waste water quality in this Thesis. The analyzed data were obtained from (a) drinking water disinfection ...
Mastroianni, Nicola (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
In the last decades, the development of increasingly sensitive analytical techniques has revealed the presence in the environment of a large number of potentially dangerous compounds for human health ...
Llorca-Casamayor, Marta (Date of defense: 2012-12-19)
Per- and poly- fluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a group of manmade substances synthesised for more than 60 years. Due to their specific properties, PFASs have been widely used for industrial applications ...
Radović, Jagoš (Date of defense: 2014-03-21)
In the past two decades we witnessed a decrease in both the number of oil spill incidents, and of the quantity of oil released in these incidents, which led to a diminished interest for basic oil spill ...
Cristale, Joyce (Date of defense: 2013-10-18)
The presence of priority and emerging flame retardants (FR) in the environment deserve attention since many of these substances are toxic and persistent. The aim of this thesis was to evaluate the ...