Plà Castellana, Mireia (Date of defense: 2023-02-24)
Water quality monitoring during the purification and sanitation processes in Drinking Water Treatment Plants (DWTP), Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP) and Water Reclamation Plants (ERA) is a necessary ...
Solés Tarrés, Irene (Date of defense: 2023-06-14)
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative genetic disorder with no effective treatment characterized by motor discoordination, deficits in cognitive function (acquiring new knowledges, memory, ...
Llavanera Bruguera, Marc (Date of defense: 2023-05-12)
Male infertility is a global health problem affecting one in four infertile couples. This also has a negative repercussion on the animal breeding industry, where infertility has a detrimental impact on ...
Celarain Sanz, Naiara (Date of defense: 2023-06-26)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, inflammatory, autoimmune and neurodegenerative disease characterized by the infiltration of autoreactive immune cells into the central nervous system that leads to ...
Serra Castelló, Cristina (Date of defense: 2023-07-07)
The food safety challenges derived from the market demands towards convenient food, such as ready-to-eat meat products with extended durability, motivate food business operators to explore and adopt new ...
Fernández-Vilar, Andrés Lucas (Date of defense: 2023-07-10)
Inland waters are amongst the most diverse and impacted ecosystems globally, and they host many endangered taxa. Cyprinodontiforms are at the forefront of endangered freshwater fishes in Europe, with ...
Meyerhofer-Parra, Rafel (Date of defense: 2023-09-05)
This doctoral thesis is the result of the conceptual and practical analysis of the uses of transmedia narratives in education. Storytelling, narration or the art of storytelling is a key element of human ...
Soler i Parpal, Jordi (Date of defense: 2023-09-19)
Enzymes are a type of proteins that help chemical reactions happen faster in living organisms. Scientists have been able to modify these enzymes using a technique called protein engineering, which allowed ...
Carrera, Eduard (Carrera Fossas) (Date of defense: 2023-06-26)
The bursting of the real estate bubble in 2008 triggered a widespread socio-economic crisis that particularly affected Spanish cities and towns. It was a crisis that spread to countries all over ...
Moreno Manzo, Jessenia (Date of defense: 2023-09-20)
This doctoral thesis focuses on the studies of tourist destinations with heritage characteristics to investigate the perspectives of the perceived value of the tourist demand and to explore the direct ...