Álvarez Ellacuría, Itziar (Date of defense: 2015-06-18)
Understanding the early life stages of fishes and the processes influencing their survival has been at the heart of the fisheries oceanography since the beginning of the 20th century. By focusing on ...
Chellew Gálvez, Karin (Date of defense: 2015-02-06)
Els trets de personalitat juguen un paper rellevant en les diferències individuals en la secreció del cortisol. No obstant això, la naturalesa i els mecanismes subjacents d'aquesta relació tot i romanen ...
Oliver Andreu, Neus (Date of defense: 2015-12-16)
- Introducció Photonic systems are powerful test-beds for the investigation of complex dynamics emerging from delays in feedback or coupling. The aim of this thesis was to study two relevant properties ...
Tous Nadal, Maria (Date of defense: 2015-09-18)
Medicanes are a rare and physically unique type of Mediterranean cyclone. They show similarities with tropical cyclones with regard to their development (based on the thermodynamical disequilibrium ...
Escudier, Romain (Date of defense: 2015-01-21)
Mesoscale eddies are relatively small structures that dominate the ocean variability and have large impact on large scale circulation, heat fluxes and biological processes.In the western Mediterranean ...
Torrens García, Juana María (Date of defense: 2015-01-29)
Introduction A growing body of evidence, from epidemiological studies in humans and animal models, indicate that maternal health and nutritional status during gestation and lactation can program the ...
Martínez Asensio, Adrián (Date of defense: 2015-09-28)
This thesis aims at quantitatively characterizing the recent (last few decades) and future climate variability of marine climate in the Western Mediterranean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Namely it ...
Mohaibes, Raheem J. (Date of defense: 2015-10-27)
- Introducció Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by early synaptic and late neuronal loss, affecting more than 26 million people worldwide. Among patients affected ...
Perdomo López, Juan Alejandro (Date of defense: 2015-02-06)
La demanda mundial de cultivos agrícolas para la alimentación ha experimentado un aumento notorio a través de las últimas décadas como consecuencia de la creciente población humana. Por otra parte, las ...
Porte Parera, Javier (Date of defense: 2015-11-30)
Introduction: The present thesis is devoted to the study of semiconductor lasers subject to delayed optical feedback and coupling. The complex spectral and dynamical properties of these systems ...