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Micro-geographies of the evolution of urban economic clusters. The economic evolution of the Trafalgar Garment District in Barcelona, 1900 - 2018

Vicente Salar, Rafael (Date of defense: 2019-11-05)

Los pequeños cambios económicos que se aprecian en un barrio cualquiera de una ciudad cualquiera son consecuencia de complejos factores que atienden no sólo a una escala urbana sino también a una escala regional, nacional ...

Micro-nano structured electro-optic devices in LiNbO3 for communication and sensing

Tulli, Domenico (Date of defense: 2012-02-20)

A material that is enabling integrated optics is the ferroelectric crystal Lithium Niobate (LiNbO3), which has excellent electro-optical, acousto-optical and nonlinear optical properties. Moreover, it can be doped with ...

Micro-nano structured optical devices using Ge2Sb2Te5

Rudé Moreno, Miquel (Date of defense: 2016-12-01)

Photonic devices are key to implement future communication and information technologies. Their success is largely determined by our capability to appropriately control light in such devices, especially in future reconfigurable ...

Micro-Nano-Bio Systems for on-line monitoring of in vitro biofilm responses

Estrada Leypón, Oscar Emilio (Date of defense: 2015-07-20)

El treball presentat en aquesta tesi doctoral te com objectiu principal la contribució en el camp de la microbiologia per entendre el biofilms i el possible control de desenvolupament mitjançant l’ús de mètodes i enfoc ...

Micro-RNAs in ovarian cancer as tools for diagnosis and therapy

Majem Cavaller, Blanca (Date of defense: 2017-09-08)

El càncer d'ovari (CO) és la cinquena causa del càncer en dones i la principal causa de mort entre les malalties ginecològiques. Els símptomes inespecífics i les eines diagnòstiques actualment insuficients no detecten la ...

Micro-structured ferroelectric superlattice for efficient acousto-optic devices

Yudistira, Didit (Date of defense: 2012-02-21)

In this thesis we have investigated and proposed acoustic superLattices (ASLs) made of periodically poled ZX-cut lithium niobate (PPLN) associated ith coplanar electrodes as an effective alternative for surface acoustic ...

Micro/Nano fabrication of polymer-based devices

Martín Olmos, Cristina (Date of defense: 2008-03-06)

Aquest document resumeix el treball d'investigació realitzat per l'obtenció del títol de Doctor en Enginyeria Electrònica a la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). <br/>El treball ha estat elaborat al Centre Nacional ...

Micro/NanoHerramientas para Aplicaciones a Celulas Vivas

López Martínez, Mª José (Date of defense: 2000-10-10)

Micro/Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS) applications for in vivo cell studies open a wide range of new applications in medicine, biology, and biochemistry. This has lead to develop devices for local drug delivery, ...

Microalgae as a new source of chitosans

Latil de Ros, Derek (Date of defense: 2017-03-07)

Chitosans are a family of linear polysaccharides generally obtained from the chemical deacetylation of chitin derived from crustacean shells that have been reported to have a wide range of bioactivities. However, the ...

Microalgae cultivation in view of resource and energy recovery

Carbonell Chacón, Sergi (Date of defense: 2019-05-08)

El rabdomiosarcoma (RMS) és el sarcoma de parts toves més comú en la infància i el seu origen rau en les cèl·lules embrionàries precursores del múscul esquelètic. Histològicament se subdivideix en dos tipus: l'embrionari ...

Microalgae downstream processing and economical approaches of biodiesel producton processes

Ríos, Sergio Daniel (Date of defense: 2013-03-22)

Microalgae oil has been identified as a reliable resource for biodiesel production due to its high lipid productivity and potential cultivation in non-fertile locations. However, high scale production of microalgae based ...

Microalgae harvesting in wastewater treatment plants : application of natural techniques for an efficient flocculation

Gutiérrez Martínez, Raquel (Date of defense: 2016-05-03)

Research of new sources of bioenergy is nowadays driving attention to microalgae. Cost-effective biomass harvesting poses a challenge for full-scale microalgae production for biofuels. In the context of wastewater treatment ...

Microalgae in aquaculture wastewater : a new forecasting method of production in a marine system

Andreotti, Valeria (Date of defense: 2019-07-12)

In the field of aquaculture, the main microalgae application is animal nutrition, in which they can be used as an unprocessed component, or as dried material for feed preparations. Moreover, microalgae can assimilate the ...

Microalgae-based systems for micropollutants removal, resource recovery and bioenergy production towards a circular bioeconomy approach

Avila, Cintia Romina (Date of defense: 2021-09-07)

Les tecnologies basades en microalgues ofereixen una solució prometedora per canviar l’enfoc del tractament de residus i aigües residuals cap a la recuperació d’energia i recursos. Les microalgues consumeixen els nutrients ...

Microalgae-based wastewater treatment systems at demonstrative scale : gravity harvesting and thickening of biomass, and advanced design of bioreactors

Ortiz Ruiz, Antonio (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)

Microalgae culture is currently receiving considerable attention for its potential in wastewater treatment and production of algal biomass from which high-value bioproducts and bioenergy can be obtained, as well as the ...