Agencias de género a partir de memorias colectivas construidas por mujeres cubanas vinculadas a procesos de alfabetización de la Revolución 

    Alfonso Olivera, Rachel N. (Date of defense: 2022-12-21)

    For decades, Cuba has represented the socialist utopia of the left in Latin America. The early incorporation of women into education and productive work in the 1960s helped ratify the imaginary of justice and social equality. ...

    Análisis etnográfico de la comunidad spoitor de la comuna de Grădiștea (Rumanía): procesos de identificación y mecanismos de dominación 

    Hernández Vallés, Marc (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)

    The main goal of this PhD thesis is to deepen the knowledge of the processes of identification and production of otherness that change according to the context and the objective conditions in which they are framed, as well ...

    Aportacions de l'anàlisi composicional a les mixtures de distribucions 

    Comas Cufí, Marc (Date of defense: 2018-10-24)

    The present thesis is a compendium of three original works produced between 2014 and 2018. The papers have a common link: they are different contributions made by compositional data analysis to the study of the models based ...

    Cataluña-Quebec. Nacionalismo, sociedad civil y cultura popular en el siglo XX 

    Giori, Pablo (Date of defense: 2017-10-20)

    This PhD thesis contributes to the study of neo-nationalism and nationalization by the proposal of a theoretical proposal that is enriched in the comparative analysis of two concrete cases. Although these complex phenomena ...

    El proceso de empoderamiento en jóvenes originarios del Cono Sur latinoamericano a partir de sus experiencias migratorias en Catalunya 

    Páez de la Torre, Sonia (Date of defense: 2020-11-23)

    This thesis investigates the empowerment processes of youngsters and young adults from the Cono Sur of Latin America who are currently living in Catalonia. The hypothesis defends the idea that the migration of people, during ...

    Environmental and socio-economical assessment of measures for the reduction of pharmaceuticals in rivers 

    Gimeno Melià, Vicent Pau (Date of defense: 2019-01-21)

    Pharmaceuticals are ubiquitous water contaminants that have shown detrimental effects on aquatic organisms at low concentrations. National authorities are starting to plan and implement measures (Wastewater treatment plants ...

    Factors associated with arterial stiffness in a general Mediterranean population and in a Mediterranean intermediate cardiovascular risk population 

    Camós Llovet, Lourdes (Date of defense: 2019-02-26)

    The objectives of the thesis are to estimate the prevalence of pathological arterial stiffness (measured with the Cardio-Ankle Vascular Index –CAVI-) in a general Mediterranean population and in a Mediterranean intermediate ...

    La riqueza (cultural) de los municipios. Honduras: desequilibrios y políticas de igualación entre la riqueza material y la riqueza cultural 

    Malta Luna, Juan Joseph (Date of defense: 2022-01-21)

    As unusual as it may seem, in the XXI Century, there is a lack of a method of measuring cultural wealth. Cultural goods are mistakenly required to have their respective mechanisms or profit levels, losing sight of their ...

    Morbilidad, utilización de recursos y costes sanitarios en la comarca del Baix Empordà 

    Inoriza, José María (Date of defense: 2015-02-27)

    Los sistemas de atención sanitaria tienden en la actualidad a migrar de formas de organización fragmentadas por líneas o niveles, que al mismo tiempo compiten e intentan coordinarse entre sí, hacia formas que integran todos ...

    Pobresa, privació i rendes mínimes a Catalunya 

    Ballester González, Ramon (Date of defense: 2014-03-14)

    The current economic crisis has increased severe poverty as well as severe deprivation levels in our society, putting under stress the existing social protection system. In the Spanish system of social protection, the very ...

    Population range expansions, with mathematical applications to interacting systems and ancient human genetics 

    López de Rioja, Víctor (Date of defense: 2019-03-11)

    The thesis studies from an analytical and computational perspective, and by using reaction-diffusion equations, the spatiotemporal evolution of different populations. First, the dynamics of the T7 bacteriophage infecting ...

    Temporal trends of incidence and survival of myeloid malignancies in Girona: a population-based study during the recent fifteen years 

    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 Health Organization ...