Groin problems in male football: beyond the time-loss approach 

    Esteve Caupena, Ernest (Date of defense: 2020-10-02)

    This Thesis aimed at studying the prevalence and severity and broadening the knowledge of aetiology and risk factors of groin injuries in male football. The four papers, which form part of this Thesis, are based on the ...

    L’extracte de fulla d’olivera redueix la pressió arterial de pacients amb hipertensió arterial lleugera sense malaltia vascular subclínica 

    Espín Sánchez, Rufina (Date of defense: 2023-06-16)

    Introduction: Hypertension is the common cardiovascular risk factor and affects 20 to 50% of the population. Treatment, with drugs or not, involves improving lifestyle. Olive leaf extract has traditionally been taken to ...

    Nova metodologia d’anàlisi de distribucions de dosi per algorismes de càlcul de dosi absorbida en radioteràpia externa que simulen el transport de radiació en medi 

    Jurado Bruggeman, Diego (Date of defense: 2023-03-16)

    Introduction Different types of dose calculation algorithms for external beam radiation therapy with MV photons coexist nowadays. The oldest ones are convolution/superposition (C/S), which consider all media as water of ...

    Occurrence of antibiotic resistance genes in aquatic microbial communities exposed to anthropogenic activities 

    Marti Serrano, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2014-03-07)

    The overuse of antibiotics has led to the selection of resistant strains. This thesis investigated the occurrence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in aquatic microbial communities influenced by anthropogenic activities. ...

    Study of the anticancer activity of a nuclear directed HP-RNase variant and different metal-based compounds 

    Bravo Bonilla, Marlon Rolando (Date of defense: 2022-06-16)

    Cancer is the leading cause of death due to non-communicable diseases worldwide. Despite the advances in the development of new antitumor drugs, there are still problems such as the resistance that tumor cells acquire ...