Ramió Pujol, Sara (Date of defense: 2016-07-07)
This doctoral thesis deals with the synthesis of two biofuels (bioethanol and biobuthanol) by bacteria. Concretely, the thesis is focused on a group of bacteria able to grow in a simple substrate such ...
Cussó Forest, Olaf (Date of defense: 2016-06-20)
Asymmetric epoxidation is one of the most important reactions in synthetic organic chemistry, because chiral epoxides act as versatile electrophiles which can be converted in a number of interesting and ...
Bosch Calero, Cristina (Date of defense: 2016-03-08)
Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a sudden cardiac death (SCD) associated disease characterized by the presence of polymorphic or bidirectional ventricular tachycardia ...
Freitas da Mota, Catarina (Date of defense: 2016-07-18)
In this thesis carried through the Doctorate Programm about Tourism from the University of Girona, we decided to investigate whether the tourism system could be considered as a factor in local development ...
Ferrando Climent, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-11-28)
In order to evaluate the increasing environmental and human risk of anticancer drugs in the environment, more information needs to be gathered about their presence, their toxicity, bioaccumulation and ...
Garcia Rodríguez, Aida (Date of defense: 2016-09-23)
Emerging organic contaminants (EOCs), like pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting compounds, are continuously introduced into the environment. Some 2/2 have been found in water bodies, posing a risk ...
Cabrera-Codony, Alba (Date of defense: 2016-07-27)
The thesis deals with removal of organosilicon compounds in the energy recovery of biogas. Alternative adsorbents for the siloxane removal were studied, and the physical and chemical mechanisms involved ...
Huertas Cardozo, Netty Consuelo (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
The purpose of this research is to present a methodology for Social Innovation to communities in conflict (characterized by poverty, but with great natural and cultural wealth); for which it is proposed ...
Roig García, Josep (Date of defense: 2016-07-04)
L'estudi mostra la realitat mèdica, humana i social dels malalts de tuberculosi utilitzant com a font d'informació la novel•la europea de la segona meitat del segle XIX i la primera del segle XX. ...
Ferrer Maza, Dolors (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
This PhD thesis evaluates the links between parasitism, condition and reproduction of mature female individuals of three of the most captured fish species in the western Mediterranean Sea: European hake, ...