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    Dans l'ombre du démarrage industriel: les manufactures des maisons de charité. L'Hospice de Gérone et la bonneterie de coton en Catalogne (1750-1830) 

    Mutos Xicola, Céline (Date of defense: 2022-06-27)

    The charity institutions of the early modern Europe have not traditionally been seen as spaces with an economic, and particularly manufacturing, dimension. Although they housed a variety of craft workshops with the aim of ...

    Data-driven approaches for event detection, fault location, resilience assessment, and enhancements in power systems 

    Souto, Laiz (Date of defense: 2021-01-15)

    This thesis presents the study and development of distinct data-driven techniques to support event detection, fault location, and resilience assessment towards enhancements in power systems. It is divided in three main ...

    Data-driven models for building energy efficiency monitoring 

    Massana i Raurich, Joaquim (Date of defense: 2018-02-02)

    Nowadays, energy is absolutely necessary all over the world. Taking into account the advantages that it presents in transport and the needs of homes and industry, energy is transformed into electricity. Bearing in mind ...

    Data-driven models for type 1 diabetes using generative deep learning 

    Mujahid, Omer (Date of defense: 2023-09-19)

    Modeling biological systems has always been challenging given the complexity of the processes involved in them. Experts have been employing physiological models to approximate the dynamics of biological systems; however, ...

    De l'antiquarisme a l'arqueologia. La protecció del patrimoni històric i arqueològic a la província de Girona (1835-1876) 

    Buscató i Somoza, Lluís (Date of defense: 2011-09-12)

    The first protective activities of historical and archaeological heritage in the province of Girona (Catalonia, Spain), although some earlier precedents, were produced from the third decade of the nineteenth century. These ...

    El deber de lealtad contractual. Justificación y aplicación 

    Bustos Díaz, María Magdalena (Date of defense: 2021-07-29)

    The goal of this doctoral dissertation is to explain that, for certain types of contracts, such as relational contracts, loyalty duties that derive from objective good faith are enforceable. Loyalty duties impose a more ...

    Decision support framework for space-use optimization and arrangement of public services 

    Rusek, Robert (Date of defense: 2017-05-24)

    The thesis concentrates particularly on how to enhance space-use in the case of public facilities. This issue has been approached by repurposing existing facilities and introducing additional services, thereby creating ...

    Decision-support for adaptive and sustainable urban wastewater system management in the face of uncertainty 

    Hadjimichael, Antonia (Date of defense: 2016-12-14)

    With sustainable development as the new overarching goal, urban wastewater system (UWS) managers are now being asked to take all social, economic, technical and environmental facets related to their decisions into account. ...

    Deep learning for atrophy quantification in brain magnetic resonance imaging 

    Bernal Moyano, Jose (Date of defense: 2020-10-27)

    The quantification of cerebral atrophy is fundamental in neuroinformatics since it permits diagnosing brain diseases, assessing their progression, and determining the effectiveness of novel treatments to counteract them. ...

    Deep learning methods for automated detection of new multiple sclerosis lesions in longitudinal magnetic resonance images 

    Salem, Mostafa (Date of defense: 2020-02-13)

    This thesis is focused on developing novel and fully automated methods for the detection of new multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions in longitudinal brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). First, we proposed a fully automated ...

    Deep learning methods for extraction of neuroimage markers in the prognosis of brain pathologies 

    Clèrigues Garcia, Albert (Date of defense: 2023-02-13)

    This PhD thesis focuses on improving the extraction of neuroimage markers for the prognosis and outcome prediction of neurological pathologies such as ischemic stroke, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and multiple sclerosis (MS). ...

    Definición de los conceptos "tradicional" e "innovación" en alimentos desde la perspectiva del consumidor europeo 

    Guerrero Asorey, Luis (Date of defense: 2012-05-17)

    Traditional food products (TFP) are an important part of European culture, identity, and heritage. The main objective of present research is to obtain a consumer-driven definition for the concept of ‘‘traditional food ...

    Defining the effect of service quality measurement on service design procedures: mixed methods analysis of four performing arts festivals in Catalonia, Spain 

    Arévalo-Montealegre, Camilo (Date of defense: 2023-01-23)

    Evidence suggests that customer satisfaction relates directly to engagement, loyalty, and wordof- mouth. Moreover, a growing body of literature in the cultural tourism sector recognises the importance of guaranteeing ...

    Deformable object segmentation in ultra-sound images 

    Massich i Vall, Joan (Date of defense: 2013-12-04)

    This thesis analyses the current strategies to segment breast lesions in Ultra-Sound (US) data and proposes a fully automatic methodology for generating accurate segmentations of breast lesions in US data with low false ...

    Dehiscencia de anastomosis en la cirugía del cáncer de recto: incidencia, factores pronósticos y morbimortalidad asociada 

    Farrés Coll, Ramon (Date of defense: 2023-03-10)

    Introduction: Anastomotic leak (AL) is the most feared complication in the postoperative period for patients with rectal cancer. Objectives: To determine the real rate of AL in patients operated on for rectal cancer. ...

    Del censal al debitori: continuïtats i transformacions en el crèdit hipotecari català en l’etapa final de l’Antic Règim (regions de Barcelona i Girona, 1768-1840) 

    Villalón Barragán, Sebastià (Date of defense: 2023-06-09)

    The objective of this report is to study causes and consequences of substituting annuity for obligation in the final period of the Ancient Regime in Catalonia (1768-1840), affording special attention to the regions of ...

    Del Simbolisme a l'abstracció: l'ideal de la unitat de les arts en l'obra de Kandinsky i Mondrian, 1886-1936 

    Faxedas, M. Lluïsa (Maria Lluïsa) (Date of defense: 2007-06-13)

    Aquesta tesi explora els orígens de la pintura abstracta des d'un punt de vista eminentment conceptual. Parteix de la hipòtesi que l'abstracció es pot considerar la culminació dels ideals estètics del Simbolisme finisecular; ...

    Del transmedia storytelling al transmedia learning. Reflexions entorn l'ús de les narratives transmèdia com a estratègia didàctica 

    Meyerhofer-Parra, Rafel (Date of defense: 2023-09-05)

    This doctoral thesis is the result of the conceptual and practical analysis of the uses of transmedia narratives in education. Storytelling, narration or the art of storytelling is a key element of human communication. In ...

    Democràcia a l'escola. Discursos, pràctiques i elements que afavoreixen la democràcia 

    Mondéjar Torra, Eduard (Date of defense: 2017-11-27)

    The present doctoral dissertation is aimed at contributing to advance the existing scientific knowledge on how to better implement democracy at the school level. Particularly, it is about identifying those aspects that ...

    Density functional theory to the rescue of transition-metal chemistry 

    Martins, Frederico F. (Date of defense: 2023-10-09)

    Density functional theory (DFT) was postulated almost 60 years ago and equipped chemists with a powerful framework to simulate, in silico, the behavior of chemical systems. Despite its widespread utility, DFT methods have ...