Ivanova, Kristina Dimitrova (Date of defense: 2017-01-27)
The accelerated emergence of drug resistant bacteria is one of the most serious problems in healthcare and the difficulties in finding new antibiotics make it even more challenging. To overcome the ...
You Chen, Xialei (Date of defense: 2018-11-29)
In the last years has been performed a huge number of research related to nutrients (mainly N and P) recovery from waste water in order to promote their reuse and also to avoid eutrophication. Recovering ...
Moradi, Sasan (Date of defense: 2021-07-08)
Nowadays. both electronic and microelectronic circuits have great relevance and wide application in our daily lives and are increasingly being used with higher powers and frequencies. One of the main ...
Millán Elías, Cinthia Raquel (Date of defense: 2017-10-27)
AT-rich sequences confer unique properties to DNA, such as high polymorphism and flexibility. The abundance of AT-rich DNA in several pathogens' genomes and the ability of specific molecules to selectively ...
Márquez Lobato, Yolanda (Date of defense: 2016-11-18)
Biomaterials based on block segmented copolymers constituted by hard and soft segments have attracted much attention for biomedical applications in the last decades, specifically as absorbable monofilament ...
Acosta Reyes, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 2016-05-26)
Non-coding DNA is rich in adenines and thymines. Their unique properties, such as high polymorphism, flexibility, transitional states that lead to DNA hairpin formation and the possibility to adopt ...
Gamarra Montes, Ana (Date of defense: 2018-07-13)
In recent years, the increasing public concern about the environmental pollution caused by persistent plastic wastes has stimulated the interest in replacing synthetic polymers by biopolymers. The term ...
Triguero Enguídanos, Jordi (Date of defense: 2019-03-08)
In this thesis, different theoretical approaches designed to study a wide interval of length- and/or time-scales have been used to examine the microscopic properties of chemical systems with varying ...
Rios Rubiras, Oriol (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)
Wildfires are an ecological phenomenon inherent to earth dynamics and widely spread over the globe. In addition to the environmental impact, when wildfires grow beyond controllable magnitudes, they pose ...
Vacca, Pascale (Date of defense: 2023-07-20)
(English) Wildfires that reach the border between the wildland and urban areas, defined as the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), have rapidly expanded in frequency and severity over the past few decades, ...
66 - Chemical technology. Chemical and related industries (69)
504 - Threats to the environment (5)
620 - Materials testing. Commercial materials. Power stations. Economics of energy (5)
577 - Material bases of life. Biochemistry. Molecular biology. Biophysics (4)