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    Study of the ability of carboranylcarboxylate ligands to generate polynuclear compounds. Potential applications 

    Fontanet Cepeda, Mònica (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)

    In this thesis is presented the synthesis and characterization of two different carboranylcarboxylate ligands, 1-CH3-2-CO2H-1,2-closo-C2B10H10 and 1-CO2H-1,2-closo-C2B10H11, in which the methyl group bonded to the carbon ...

    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 ...

    Study of two analogues of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide as novel therapeutic compounds for Huntington’s disease 

    Solés Tarrés, Irene (Date of defense: 2023-06-14)

    Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative genetic disorder with no effective treatment characterized by motor discoordination, deficits in cognitive function (acquiring new knowledges, memory, understanding…), and ...

    El suburbium de Gerunda. Evolució històrica del pla de Girona en època romana 

    Palahí Grimal, Lluís (Date of defense: 2013-10-11)

    This doctoral thesis aims to go deep on the knowledge of the city of Gerunda in the Roman period using as a main source of information the data about its suburbium, especially thanks to several archaeological projects ...

    Sulfide and methane production in anaerobic sewer pipes: from microbial community characterization to effective mitigation strategies 

    Auguet Horta, Olga (Date of defense: 2016-07-13)

    Sewer systems transport wastewater from its source to treatment plants. During this transport, wastewater microorganisms colonize pipe walls and develop biofilms. The activity of microbial communities generates sulfide ...

    Sunshine duration as a proxy of the atmospheric aerosol content 

    Sanchez Romero, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2016-06-06)

    One of the most important radiative properties of aerosols is their optical thickness (AOD), which is closely linked to the total burden of atmospheric aerosols. On the contrary, we do avail of long time series of sunshine ...

    Supervisory systems in waste water treatment plants: sistematise their implementation 

    Cortés de la Fuente, Christian (Date of defense: 2002-12-17)

    La implantació de Sistemes de Suport a la presa de Decisions (SSD) en Estacions Depuradores d'Aigües Residuals Urbanes (EDAR) facilita l'aplicació de tècniques més eficients basades en el coneixement per a la gestió del ...

    Supporting competence development processes on open learning systems through personalization 

    Baldiris Navarro, Silvia Margarita (Date of defense: 2012-12-14)

    This thesis aim for promoting the learning objects economy by offering teacher the possibility of generating adaptive and standardized learning designs. The adaptation of the generated learning design considers two of the ...

    Supporting technology for augmented reality game-based learning 

    Tobar Muñoz, Hendrys Fabián (Date of defense: 2017-06-15)

    In this thesis, Augmented Reality Game-Based Learning (ARGBL) is explored and arguments are given in favor of its application in the classrooms. The thesis explores the concept and proposes technologies, theories and ...

    Supramolecular nanocapsules as platforms for molecular recognition and reactivity in confined spaces 

    Fuertes Espinosa, Carles (Date of defense: 2020-07-23)

    The use of self-assembly to bring simple building blocks together into complex product, has led to the preparation of an increasing number of sophisticated and functional 3D supramolecular nanocapsules. By understanding ...

    Surface reconstruction methods for seafloor modelling 

    Campos Dausà, Ricard (Date of defense: 2014-06-02)

    Underwater maps are an important source of information for the scientific community, since mapping the seafloor is the starting point for underwater exploration. The advance of range scanning methodologies (both acoustic ...

    Survival analysis of lymphoid neoplasms and impact of comorbidity in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in Girona: a population-based study 

    Villavicencio Obando, Alicia Silvana (Date of defense: 2022-03-29)

    Comprehensive population-based studies assessing the survival of hematological entities are scarce and typically conducted using old classifications schemes, which hampers their interpretation and international comparisons. ...

    Synthesis and applications of large supramolecular nanocapsules: matryoshka-type masks, higher fullerene C84 purification and stabilization of metallic clusters and sub-nanoparticles 

    Ubasart Clarà, Ernest (Date of defense: 2022-10-28)

    The development of supramolecular assemblies with big cavities is important to recognize specific guests or infer a chemo- or regioselective chemistry, in analogy to natural enzymes. The objective of this thesis was to ...

    Synthesis and evaluation of cyclic cationic peptides as antimicrobial agents for use in plant protection 

    Monroc, Sylvie (Date of defense: 2008-01-18)

    Aquesta tesi doctoral se centra en l'estudi de l'aplicació de pèptids antimicrobians en la lluita contra agents patògens de cultius de plantes d'interès econòmic.L'estratègia sintètica s'ha portat a terme utilitzant ...

    Synthesis of antimicrobial peptides derived from BP100 and BPC194 

    Güell Costa, Imma (Date of defense: 2012-01-27)

    In the present PhD thesis we studied the solid-phase peptide synthesis of antimicrobial peptides derived from the lead peptides BP100 and BPC194. First, peptides derived from BP100 containing D-amino acids at different ...

    Synthesis of molecular nanocapsules for supramolecular host-guest chemistry and enzyme-like catalysis 

    García Simón, Cristina (Date of defense: 2015-04-10)

    Coordination-driven self-assembly has led to the realization of an increasing number of elegant and sophisticated functional structures, the structural complexity of which would be difficult to achieve using conventional ...

    Synthesis of unusual alpha-amino acids and study of the effect of their incorporation into antimicrobial peptides. Total synthesis of biactive marine natural products and analogues thereof 

    El Marrouni El Ghazaoui, Abdellatif (Date of defense: 2012-04-13)

    The principle theme of this thesis was the synthesis of bioactive compounds. To this end, this work was focus on two main projects. The first one, which was carried out in the Department of Chemistry of the University of ...

    Synthesis, structure and reactivity of novel CuI, CuII and CuIII complexes containing triaza and hexaaza macrocyclic ligands 

    Ribas Salamaña, Xavi (Date of defense: 2001-12-17)

    El treball de tesi s'emmarca dins del camp de la bioinorgànica, disciplina que estudia les propietats estructurals i de reactivitat dels centres actius dels enzims, servint-se de models síntètics de baix pes molecular per ...

    Synthetic antifungal peptides for controlling brown spot of pear caused by Stemphylium vesicarium. Activity, mode of action and field evaluation 

    Puig Garcia, Mireia (Date of defense: 2015-12-15)

    Brown spot of pear is a fungal disease caused by Stemphylium vesicarium. Currently, the disease control efficacy is limited, due to the characteristics of disease and the reduction of the allowed fungicides. Therefore, ...

    Synthèse, caractérisation et application des alliages à base de Mn-X-Y (X=Al; Y=Fe,Co) et Ca-Al dans la dégradation d'un colorant azoïque "Black 5" utilisé dans l'industrie de textile 

    Ben Mbarek, Wael (Date of defense: 2018-11-20)

    This work is framed in the general context of the synthesis and characterization of Mn or Ca based alloys, which are subsequently applied in degradation processes of azo dyes used in the textile industries. The alloys were ...