Aguilera Becker, Rosana (Date of defense: 2015-03-10)
This work investigated the effect of global change phenomena, particularly land use and climatic changes, on water quality patterns in Mediterranean rivers. A hybrid process-based and statistical model ...
Gibert Sotelo, Elisabeth (Date of defense: 2017-12-18)
This dissertation offers a contrastive analysis of the (here called) Source prefix des- and the negative prefix iN- in Spanish that highlights the connections and divergences existing between the encoding ...
Torner Bosch, Eva (Date of defense: 2014-06-20)
This thesis is about challenges that currently concern in vitro production (IVP), sex determination procedures and sex-related survival of in vitro-produced porcine embryos. Specifically, the current ...
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 ...
Colon i Bosch, Mireia (Date of defense: 2011-02-11)
In this thesis, simple methods to determine sulfide at low levels (µg L-1) in aqueous samples and sediments by water free hydrogen sulfide vapor generation using a commercially available vapor generation ...
Vidal Sánchez, Diego (Date of defense: 2019-07-24)
The oxidation of hydrocarbons under soft and selective conditions is a reaction almost exclusively produced under these conditions by enzymes. A lot of these enzymes, posses iron in their metal center, ...
Barral Fraga, Laura (Date of defense: 2017-10-26)
Based on the current knowledge about biofilm ecotoxicology and arsenic biogeochemistry in freshwater ecosystems, this thesis studied, under realistic environmental concentrations, i) the role of benthic ...
Haraburda, Ewelina (Date of defense: 2015-07-28)
The development of new chemical processes for the formation of carbon-carbon bonds is an important topic in organic chemistry. In particular, the transition metal catalysed [2+2+2] cycloaddition reaction ...
Gabarrón Fernández, Sara (Date of defense: 2014-05-16)
This thesis is based on diagnosing, assessing and optimising the design and operation of membrane bioreactors (MBR) used for treating municipal wastewater. Specifically, this thesis has been carried out ...
Bolívar Díaz, Nicolás (Date of defense: 2012-07-30)
Cognitive Radio (CR) is one possible option for mitigating the inefficient wireless spectrum distribution that occurs as a result of fixed spectrum allocation. The use of Dynamic Spectrum Access ...