Most of the materials and functional systems developed by nanotechnology are based on molecules. An example of these are the [2]rotaxanes, which present physical and chemical properties potentially useful for Informatics and Medicine. In this thesis, a powerful computational strategy is outlined and...
Researchers of the Group of Waste Gas Treatment at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the UAB have developed an analyser for the detection of sulfide ion in liquid and hydrogen sulfide in gas samples, especially designed to be used in the control of biofílters...
In the case of a missing data matrix, factorization can be solved by the alternation technique. This strategy could be useful to calculate the Structure from Motion (SFM), a common problem in computerized vision. The autor of this thesis proposes other uses of the...
Nowadays the search for better and cheaper analysis techniques is an important issue in genetics and environmental sciences. This thesis is centered on two objectives: application of electrochemical stripping analysis, and development of new DNA and...
The epidemiological parameters of hepatitis C virus infection in Europe have changed during the past 15 years. The risk of transfusion-associated hepatitis C has decreased with blood safety, but strong evidence supports that HCV is still spreading...
Border disease virus (BDV), which affects mainly sheep and goats, has substantial loss-related economic implications worldwide. An outbreak of a previously unreported disease, associated with a new Pestivirus belonging to the BDV virus cluster, was...
Ionic liquid crystals are a class of liquid crystals composed of ions. These compounds are interesting due to their properties as liquid crystals and to their ion conductivity. In this work we have prepared two new families of molecules which show these characteristics.
Researchers of the Institut Universitari Fundació Parc Taulí have studied in depth the relation between hip fracture and lack of vitamin D in people who suffer osteoporosis. The main conclusion is that the deficit of vitamin D in these patients is high, and especially frequent...
