Through questionnaires, classroom observations and interviews with teachers, this thesis has studied in detail the use of multiple devices in science education at the secondary level and the influence that...
Of the innovations Barcelona absorbed from the European continent and overseas at the turn of the twentieth century, this thesis studies the kitchen, and does so mainly through the analysis of dramatic literature of Santiago Rusiñol. He, like other coetaneous...
This thesis analyses the factors affecting transport and mobility in the metropolitan area of...
In 1983, a skull fragment found at a site in the village of Orce (Granada, Spain) was presented. It became the remains of the first European, the Orce Man. One year later, part of its discoverers and...
Migration is not a recent phenomenon but has existed since ancient times. This thesis studies the population of Olesa de Montserrat between 1581 and 1930. The data on the hundred thousand people who lived there in that period has made it possible to reconstruct the...
Inorganic arsenic is a carcinogen in humans, that is, it causes or favours the development of cancer, and it does so though multiple mechanisms of action. This doctoral thesishas studied specifically the...
This doctoral thesis describes socio-residential patterns in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona and studies residential mobility flows in order to determine the migrant spaces within the metropolitan area. The sources are the Census of Population and...
This doctoral thesis analyses internal migration in Colombia during the period 1964-2005, together with residential mobility, individual sociodemographic and contextual factors associated with this phenomenon, and spatial components...
The presence of nitrate in groundwater, due to intensive farming and agricultural activities which include high levels of fertilizer application and animal waste disposal, is a worldwide problem and could increase the incidence of some diseases....
Social scientists tend to associate educational attainment with age of marriage, since numerous studies have shown that women with more years of schooling tend to delay their entry into first union. This thesis focuses its attention on some of the countries where there...
