Osca-Gelis, Gemma (Date of defense: 2014-10-17)
Myeloid malignancies (MMs) are a heterogeneous group of haematological malignancies presenting different incidence, prognosis and survival. Changing classifications (French-American-British (FAB), World ...
Xabadia i Palmada, Àngels (Date of defense: 2003-06-06)
Dynamic optimization methods have become increasingly important over the last years in economics. Within the dynamic optimization techniques employed, optimal control has emerged as the most powerful ...
Coromina Soler, Lluís (Date of defense: 2006-04-24)
El objetivo de esta tesis es predecir el rendimiento de los estudiantes de doctorado en la Universidad de Girona según características personales (background), actitudinales y de redes sociales de los ...
Portella Carbó, Ferran (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)
The thesis studies one of the main problems in Spain: mass unemployment. It is not a short-term problem, but a structural feature of the Spanish socio-economic system since at least the end of the 1970s, ...
Arbussà i Reixach, Anna (Date of defense: 2001-11-22)
This dissertation studies the effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on the banking sector and the payments system. It provides insight into how technology-induced changes occur, ...
Carbó Bagué, Anna (Date of defense: 2023-03-27)
In this doctoral thesis, the epidemiology of cutaneous and mucosal melanoma is analyzed, as well as its molecular profile to provide new knowledge on a population basis in the province of Girona. The ...
Chaudhuri, Somnath (Date of defense: 2023-06-09)
Spatial statistics is traditionally based on stationary models like Matérn fields. However, applying stationary models to complex spatial regions having physical barriers like islands or coastal areas ...
Marco Renau, Jorge (Date of defense: 2018-07-16)
This thesis revisits the problem of the tragedy of the commons. We analyze the role of social networks and social pressure as driving forces for the establishment and maintenance of cooperation in ...
Ivina, Olga (Date of defense: 2012-11-20)
This thesis is aimed to introduce a newly developed machine learning method, conformal predictors, for air pollution assessment. For the given area of study, the Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BMR), ...
Solans Margalef, Marta (Date of defense: 2019-10-14)
Diet is a key modifiable risk factor for several neoplasms, but evidence for lymphoid malignancies is still inconsistent. Previous epidemiological studies were mostly focused on single dietary components ...