TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa)

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Biomonitoreo de contaminantes de preocupación emergente en especies invasoras y nativas para la evaluación del riesgo ecológico en ecosistemas acuáticos 

Manjarrés López, Diana Patricia (Date of defense: 2025-03-31)

[spa] La contaminación de ecosistemas acuáticos derivada de actividades antropogénicas puede generar graves consecuencias ambientales, como la degradación de la calidad del agua, la pérdida de biodiversidad, la acumulación ...

Understanding the sorption of radium and lanthanides in soils and biochars for predictive modelling and remediation purposes 

Serra Ventura, Joan (Date of defense: 2025-10-03)

[eng] The exponential increase in the demand for certain metals across various technological sectors has intensified mining and industrial activities. A consequence of these processes is the unintentional enrichment of ...

Design and regulation of high-performance catalysts in cathodes and separators for alkali metal-sulfur batteries 

Li, Canhuang (Date of defense: 2025-10-07)

[eng] Alkali metal-sulfur batteries (MSBs) are considered to be the most promising materials to replace lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in next-generation energy storage systems. Compared to LIBs, lithium sulfur batteries ...

Search and study of massive runaway stars in the Milky Way and impact on high-energy binaries 

Carretero Castrillo, María del Mar (Date of defense: 2025-10-03)

[eng] Massive stars are ubiquitous in many astrophysical phenomena. A significant fraction of massive stars are runaways, displaying high velocities with respect to their environment. Due to their formation scenarios, ...

Computational methods applied to chemical engineering 

Cabello Gallego, Ruben (Date of defense: 2025-07-01)

[eng] Computational tools, and more specifically Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) have seen a rapid development and increase in use in recent years thanks to the exponential growth that computing power experiences every ...

Recobriments d'or: avançant cap a una tecnologia més sostenible 

Amazian El Moussaoui, Mohamed (Date of defense: 2025-07-21)

[cat] En la indústria dels recobriments decoratius destaca l'ús d'aliatges d'or. Aquests recobriments es fabriquen majoritàriament mitjançant l’electrodeposició, una tècnica que requereix temps de treball reduïts i que ...

Development and assessment of magnesium phosphate cements by using industrial by-products and wastes 

Alfocea Roig, Anna (Date of defense: 2025-05-16)

[eng] The construction sector is globally recognized as a significant contributor to environmental pollution, particularly in terms of climate change and the depletion of natural resources. These environmental impacts arise ...

Investigating the roles of MnO2-acid complexes in catalytic ozonation for enhanced micropollutants abatement in water 

Jing, Liu (Date of defense: 2025-04-09)

[cat] Amb el ràpid creixement de la població, es generen grans quantitats de contaminants orgànics que s'alliberen al medi aquàtic. Per eliminar aquests compostos refractaris, els processos d'oxidació avan9ada (A0Ps), entre ...

Engineering and microbiology insights into co-fermentation of waste activated sludge and food waste 

Pérez i Esteban, Noemí (Date of defense: 2025-06-06)

[eng] According to the circular economy principles, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) should be transformed into water resource recovery facilities. Urban organic waste, including sewage sludge from WWTPs, can be converted ...

Phase Separation of the Intrinsically Disordered Activation Domain of the Androgen Receptor and Therapeutic Approaches 

Bielskutė, Stasė (Date of defense: 2025-02-11)

[eng] Transcription factors represent highly attractive therapeutic targets, yet they are among the most challenging due to the intrinsically disordered nature of their activation domains (ADs). In this study, we focus on ...

«Infancias activistas» y sus capacidades colectivas políticoepistémicas en la esfera adultocrática: una propuesta desde el enfoque de las capacidades 

Maldonado Castañeda, Pedro Hernando (Date of defense: 2025-09-30)

[spa] Esta disertación plantea una revisión crítica orientada a resignificar las infancias bajo el concepto de «infancias activistas», con el objetivo de cuestionar y transformar las estructuras adultocéntricas que, ...

Fortalecimiento de la escuela pública en escenarios de mercado: Significados atribuidos por docentes directivos a la Ley de Nueva Educación Pública en Chile. 

Bravo Cuevas, Sergio Antonio (Date of defense: 2025-09-10)

[spa] El año 2017, el Gobierno de Chile aprueba la Ley 21.040 de Nueva Educación Pública (NEP). Esta legislación plantea que los establecimientos educativos públicos de dependencia municipal pasan a depender directamente ...

Chamber of Reflections: Text Mining for a Retrospective Analysis of Archaeological Heritage Discourse under the "Academic Gaze" 

Schwartz, Haley Anne (Date of defense: 2025-07-24)

[eng] This thesis highlights the need for self-reflective analyses within the fields of Heritage, Education and Archaeology to evaluate the production of textual sources. By determining both the process through which the ...

L'aprenentatge informal dels joves amb persones desconegudes a internet. Aproximació a un fenomen glocal a partir d'un estudi de cas 

Jubany i Vila, Jordi (Date of defense: 2025-07-17)

[cat] La societat xarxa fa possible comunicar-nos amb persones d'arreu del món i aprendre conjuntament sobre interessos comuns. Els joves nascuts al segle XXI hi tenen accés a la tecnologia digital que ho facilita, però ...

Análisis de la Promoción del Aprendizaje Autorregulado en la Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de las Matemáticas por Futuros Profesores de Secundaria 

Hidalgo Moncada, Diana (Date of defense: 2025-07-17)

[spa] El aprendizaje autorregulado es un proceso mediante el cual los estudiantes gestionan activamente su propio aprendizaje, estableciendo metas, monitoreando su progreso y ajustando sus estrategias. En matemáticas, esta ...

La entonación del español hablado por polacos 

Urbanik-Pęk, Weronika (Date of defense: 2025-07-15)

[spa] El interés por el estudio de español en Polonia ha experimentado un crecimiento constante, motivado por razones distintas: escolares, académicas, laborales o personales. Sin embargo, esta creciente demanda contrasta ...

Deep Learning Approaches for Human Activity Understanding 

Zhang, Zejian (Date of defense: 2025-06-12)

[eng] Understanding human activities is crucial for developing practical applications that benefit society. Temporal action localization (TAL) in untrimmed videos is one of the most challenging tasks in this field. While ...

Bridging Natural Language and Hierarchical Multivariate Data Visualisation to Support Data Analysis 

Kavaz, Ecem (Date of defense: 2025-04-23)

[eng] Tracking and analysing the vast amounts of data generated from social networks and digital platforms presents important challenges, not only due to the overwhelming volume but also the complex relationships embedded ...

Large and iterated finite group actions on aspherical manifolds 

Daura Serrano, Jordi (Date of defense: 2025-07-11)

[eng] Finite transformation group theory investigates the finite symmetries of topological objects, such as manifolds or CW-complexes. In this thesis, we focus on actions on closed topological manifolds and adopt the ...

Periodic boundary points for transcendental Fatou components 

Jové Campabadal, Anna (Date of defense: 2025-09-18)

[eng] This thesis is framed in the field of Complex Dynamics, which studies discrete dynamical systems generated by the iteration of holomorphic functions. More precisely, given a transcendent, integer or meromorphic ...