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    Models economètrics en entorns big data enfocats a desigualtats 

    Perafita Basart, Xavier (Date of defense: 2023-11-24)

    In the last twenty years, the study of social inequalities has been a topic of special interest, revealing how differences between social classes have increased. During the same period, data generation has exponentially ...

    L’extracte de fulla d’olivera redueix la pressió arterial de pacients amb hipertensió arterial lleugera sense malaltia vascular subclínica 

    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 been taken to ...

    Analysis and modeling spatiotemporal events on complex spatial regions 

    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 can result in ...

    Clinical epidemiology and molecular biology of cutaneous and mucosal melanoma in Girona 1994-2018 

    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 cancer registry of ...

    Turisme i nuclis urbans, determinants del finançament municipal a Espanya 2000-2018 

    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 determinants directly ...

    Three essays on hard skills, soft skills, risk attitudes and entrepreneurship 

    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 are cognitive in nature. ...

    Eficacia de los fármacos antihipertensivos en monoterapia y combinación 

    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 drugs will improve ...

    Survival analysis of lymphoid neoplasms and impact of comorbidity in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in Girona: a population-based study 

    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 international comparisons. ...

    Models matemàtics per a la predicció dels robatoris amb força a domicili a Catalunya 

    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 has created a ...

    Statistical methods to manage and analyse real world data. Development of a health observatory in Alt Empordà 

    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 of Alt Empordà. The ...

    Essays on preferences for redistribution 

    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 decisions and preferences ...

    Dietary patterns in the etiology of lymphoid neoplasms 

    Solans Margalef, Marta (Date of defense: 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 ...

    El análisis composicional (CoDa) como herramienta para el mapeo de la teoría de la agenda-setting. Estudio de caso de la opinión sobre política en el sistema mediático español, dentro del período de las Elecciones Generales de 2015 

    Blasco Duatis, Marc (Date of defense: 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 ...

    Essays on social networks and cooperation: the case of natural resources 

    Marco Renau, Jorge (Date of defense: 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 ...

    Creative economy and sustainable human development: a theoretical approach for convergences and divergences 

    Fráguas Nobre, Guilherme (Date of defense: 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 ...

    Entrepreneurial skills, trust and jobs: three essays on entrepreneurial skills of self-employed and employees 

    Teodoro i Sadurní, Jaume (Date of defense: 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 ...

    El trabajo emocional en el sector turístico. Obstáculos y facilitadores empresariales y su consecuencia para los trabajadores 

    Molina Rodríguez, Jesús (Date of defense: 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 ...

    Health and economic conditions: evidence from individual-level data 

    Arroyo Borrell, Elena (Date of defense: 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 ...

    Mass unemployment in Spain (1959-2014): productive and commercial problems of a peripheral economy in global capitalism 

    Portella Carbó, Ferran (Date of defense: 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 ...

    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 ...