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Bastida, Gabriela A. (Date of defense: 2024-11-14)
ENG- The dependence on petroleum poses environmental problems and limits reserves, while the proliferation of microplastics affects health. This drives the development of renewable and biodegradable biomaterials. Cellulose, ...
Beltrán Peralta, Yolanda Natalia (Date of defense: 2024-11-13)
ENG- The monasteries and their gastronomic products have a historical and innate link, these sacred centers have preserved the art of monastic cuisine through the centuries, making products in an artisanal and traditional ...
Bonilla Álvarez, José Manuel (Date of defense: 2024-11-11)
ENG- The thesis explores the relationship between Ciutadans pel Canvi (CpC) and the Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC) in Catalan politics between 1999 and 2011. Ciutadans pel Canvi emerged as a civic platform ...
Armstrong, Margaret Rosé (Date of defense: 2024-10-25)
ENG- The delineation of the current geological epoch as the “Anthropocene,” derived from the prefix “anthro-” meaning “human,” aptly summarizes the sheer magnitude in which humans have affected the biosphere. For many ...
Poyoi, Pimsuporn (Date of defense: 2024-02-23)
ENG- Social media has grown over recent years, and it is unambiguously evident that it plays a significant role in tourist behaviour and destination decisions. In particular, when deciding where to travel or dine, people ...
Iranzo i Domingo, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2024-11-06)
ENG- Dance is a discipline that evolves and progressively broadens its scope of action. It stops having an artistic objective where learning, style, technique, and/or stage are involved, and it transforms into a tool, ...
Leciñana Arregui, Iñaki (Date of defense: 2024-11-07)
ENG- The overall objective of this thesis is to provide a tool for predicting delamination in composite materials under different static and fatigue loading conditions in 3D structures. The methodology is intended to be a ...
Farreras Casamort, Miquel (Date of defense: 2024-11-04)
ENG- This thesis addresses key challenges in the optimization of network slicing in Beyond 5G (B5G) networks, focusing on the use of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for performance prediction and resource allocation. It is ...
Ferrer-Bustins, Núria (Date of defense: 2024-10-25)
ENG- Dry fermented sausages (DFS) are traditional meat products with high production and consumption in Mediterranean countries. Microbial communities of DFS vary throughout the production process, providing characteristic ...
Carbó Monmany, Oriol (Date of defense: 2024-10-24)
ENG- Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) play a crucial role in safeguarding public health by treating wastewater before discharge into the environment. However, conventional facilities consume substantial amounts of energy ...
Norra, Giannis-Florjan (Date of defense: 2024-10-24)
ENG- The objective of this thesis is to assess novel electrochemical techniques for the degradation of persistent organic contaminants and water disinfection, focusing on 3D system methodologies. The initial two chapters ...
Gascón Sangüesa, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2024-10-24)
ENG- Currently, agriculture requires products to protect crops against pests and diseases. Due to the problems generated by chemical synthesis products, such as the negative impact on the environment and on people's health, ...
Coromina Verdaguer, Lluís (Date of defense: 2024-12-09)
ENG- The aim of this doctoral thesis is to analyse the fabrication and socio-cultural processes of appropriation of two professional identities — medical and pharmaceutical —, through a set of places of memory from the end ...
González Ruiz, Mercedes (Date of defense: 2024-12-16)
ENG- The present doctoral thesis explores and compares the oral microbiome of ancient dental plaque from burial sites in the ancient Roman city of Tarraco (modern-day Tarragona) with dental plaque from present-day individuals. ...
Ginot Julià, Antoni (Date of defense: 2024-10-24)
ENG- This doctoral thesis analyses the fishing activity developed in the historical region of la Selva marítima during the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as the fisher families which participated in it. It is mainly ...
Crous Costa, Neus (Date of defense: 2024-10-22)
ENG- This work focuses on the human dimension of tourism, specifically on its potential to be a context of personal transformation. The main objective of the work is to investigate the deep meaning of travel based on the ...
Montilla Busquets, Marc (Date of defense: 2024-10-22)
ENG- In the field of the decomposition of optical properties, there is a very clear issue that has to be solved: whenever one of these molecular properties is decomposed into atomic contributions or fragment contributions, ...
Sierra Castillo, Carolina Andrea (Date of defense: 2024-10-22)
ENG- The main objective of this research is to deepen the understanding of the suffering inflicted by imprisonment. Through a historical, theoretical, and ethnographic perspective, our aim is to comprehend the act of ...
Lluch Balaña, Aina (Date of defense: 2024-10-22)
ENG- Obesity is a complex chronic disease linked to adipocyte dysfunction and a low-grade inflammatory condition leading to the impaired synthetic and secretory activity of hyperplastic depots of adipose tissue. As a ...
Zhuang, Niwen (Date of defense: 2024-09-19)
ENG- The role of women in marriage and the family is significant, also as China's feudal society developed, traditional marriage and family customs changed. After reaching its highest point in the matrilineal clan culture ...