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Mur Torrentó, Rubén Javier (Data de defensa: 2013-12-10)
Climate change is one of the most important challenges of the 21st century. The increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, in temperatures, and changes in the precipitation pattern are expected to alter the ...
Ballester González, Ramon (Data de defensa: 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 ...
Ferrer Rosell, Berta (Data de defensa: 2014-05-27)
This thesis compares the behaviour of tourists arriving to Spain by low cost airlines or by legacy airlines, in terms of length of stay and travel budget allocation. It also segments low cost users according to travel ...
Alfranca Pardillos, Rebeca (Data de defensa: 2014-06-03)
The main aim of this thesis is to study the expectations and preferences of the Catalan population regarding the public health system, and an appraisal of the influence played by factors such as age, gender, geographical ...
Osca-Gelis, Gemma (Data de defensa: 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 ...
Inoriza, José María (Data de defensa: 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 ...
Portella Carbó, Ferran (Data de defensa: 2015-12-18)
The thesis studies one of the main problems in Spain: mass unemployment. It is not a short-term problem, but a structural feature of the Spanish socio-economic system since at least the end of the 1970s, which remains ...
Arroyo Borrell, Elena (Data de defensa: 2016-12-16)
The main aim of this thesis is to investigate the effects of economic conditions on health using advanced micro-econometric techniques applied to survey data. The dissertation examines the consequences of the current ...
Molina Rodríguez, Jesús (Data de defensa: 2017-07-11)
The general objective of this thesis is to analyze if there is emotional labor in the tourism sector, as well as to study its possible causes and consequences. This general aim is concretized in three specific aims that ...
Teodoro i Sadurní, Jaume (Data de defensa: 2017-09-08)
This thesis is an empirical study that sets out to explain entrepreneurial activity, based on a broad concept of entrepreneurship. The study is based on the development of logistic regression models for a dichotomous ...
Fráguas Nobre, Guilherme (Data de defensa: 2018-01-12)
The thesis relates the ‘creative economy’ with the ‘sustainable human development’, tracing a parallel between economic growth (e.g. GDP) and human development (e.g. HDI). The aspect of sustainability is addressed through ...
Marco Renau, Jorge (Data de defensa: 2018-07-16)
This thesis revisits the problem of the tragedy of the commons. We analyze the role of social networks and social pressure as driving forces for the establishment and maintenance of cooperation in resource use under variable ...
Blasco Duatis, Marc (Data de defensa: 2018-07-20)
Since researchers Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw published the seminal work of Chapel Hill on agenda-setting theory (AS) at the beginning of the 1970s, its academics have developed their investigations using two methodological ...
Solans Margalef, Marta (Data de defensa: 2019-10-14)
Diet is a key modifiable risk factor for several neoplasms, but evidence for lymphoid malignancies is still inconsistent. Previous epidemiological studies were mostly focused on single dietary components (i.e. nutrients ...
Tosu, Dilara (Data de defensa: 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 decisions and preferences ...
Boqué Busquet, Pere (Data de defensa: 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 has created a ...
Franquet Bonet, Álvaro (Data de defensa: 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 of Alt Empordà. The ...
Villavicencio Obando, Alicia Silvana (Data de defensa: 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. ...
Paz Bermejo, Marco Antonio (Data de defensa: 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 drugs will improve ...
Correa Pinzón, John Enrique (Data de defensa: 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 are cognitive in nature. ...