Pérez Galmés, Magdalena (Date of defense: 2018-07-27)
Adhesives have been shown to be an excellent solution for joining fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) components thanks to their capacity to redistribute loads, reduces stress concentrations and contribute ...
Fráguas Nobre, Guilherme (Date of defense: 2018-01-12)
The thesis relates the ‘creative economy’ with the ‘sustainable human development’, tracing a parallel between economic growth (e.g. GDP) and human development (e.g. HDI). The aspect of sustainability ...
Rodríguez Mayorga, Mauricio (Date of defense: 2018-07-24)
In this thesis, we focused on the alternative methodologies that are based on the reconstruction of density matrices. While in DFT several benchmarks can be found in the literature, for the rest of ...
Cornejo Brugués, Laura (Date of defense: 2018-01-08)
The main topic of this doctoral research is the French artist Balthus (1908-2001) and the analysis of his pictorial production. Despite being a notorious and much discussed painter by a theorical corpus ...
Tarragó Abella, Elena (Date of defense: 2018-03-09)
Human population has had an impact on the natural phosphorus’ cycle, a limited resource, and the predictions show that this resource could be exhausted in 100-250 years. Therefore, the actions for the ...
Sitjar Suñer, Miquel (Date of defense: 2018-03-15)
Chronic renal insufficiency is a public health problem that affects about 11% of the world’s adult population. However, the impact of peritoneal dialysis on people who receive this treatment is little ...
Fernández Blanco, Carolina (Date of defense: 2018-01-25)
The starting point of this research is the observation that current theories that link economic and human development with the presence of certain type of institutions (understood as "rules of the game ...
Palomares Cano, Xavier (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)
This thesis adopts Habermas’s theory of communicative action to explore how consensus-oriented actions contribute to knowledge creation and collective decision-making in collaborative governance processes. ...
Matés Ramírez, Jesús (Date of defense: 2018-01-19)
Arrhythmogenic cardiac diseases are the main cause of SCD among the population under 35 years of age. Despite the improvements in genetic diagnosis, the percentage of cases that remain unexplained after ...
Perpiña Blanch, Laura (Date of defense: 2018-01-12)
This doctoral thesis explores the perception of tourism destinations though two major lines of research, destination image and risk perception, by a compendium of publications. The first article compares ...