Guixeras López, Xavier (Date of defense: 2023-03-03)
In recent decades, studies on the management and financing of public services have gained special relevance in the context of the local economy. In this context, the debate has revolved around which ...
Tosu, Dilara (Date of defense: 2020-03-06)
The dissertation explores individuals' attitudes towards redistribution. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 present two dynamic theoretical models that are used to analyze the interrelation between education ...
Correa Pinzón, John Enrique (Date of defense: 2022-11-18)
This thesis studies the effects of hard skills and soft skills and risk attitudes on the likelihood of starting a company in the US. Hard skills are those skills that can be learned and trained. They ...
Paz Bermejo, Marco Antonio (Date of defense: 2022-05-30)
Background. The relative efficacy of antihypertensive drugs/combinations is not well known; Identifying the most effective ones, and the patients’ characteristics associated to best performance of the ...
Boqué Busquet, Pere (Date of defense: 2021-11-22)
Predictive policing is a global strategic orientation of the police that emphasizes the anticipation of crimes to prevent them. Its development comes from various fields of knowledge, in which criminology ...
Carbó Bagué, Anna (Date of defense: 2023-03-27)
In this doctoral thesis, the epidemiology of cutaneous and mucosal melanoma is analyzed, as well as its molecular profile to provide new knowledge on a population basis in the province of Girona. The ...
Chaudhuri, Somnath (Date of defense: 2023-06-09)
Spatial statistics is traditionally based on stationary models like Matérn fields. However, applying stationary models to complex spatial regions having physical barriers like islands or coastal areas ...
Espín Sánchez, Rufina (Date of defense: 2023-06-16)
Introduction: Hypertension is the common cardiovascular risk factor and affects 20 to 50% of the population. Treatment, with drugs or not, involves improving lifestyle. Olive leaf extract has traditionally ...
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 ...
Franquet Bonet, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2021-12-01)
The objective of this thesis is to explore in greater depth the process of creating a public health observatory and the processing of the information needed to take territorial decisions in the county ...