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    Enhancing the AUV long-term deployment: non-holonomic AUV autonomous docking using acoustics in a funnel-shaped docking station 

    Esteba Masjuan, Joan (Date of defense: 2023-10-19)

    Underwater robotics has undergone significant development in recent years. It has been applied to a wide range of sectors, such as the mapping of areas of interest, the collection of scientific data, or the Inspection ...

    Enhancing the efficiency and practicality of software transactional memory on massively multithreaded systems 

    Kestor, Gökçen (Date of defense: 2013-03-22)

    Chip Multithreading (CMT) processors promise to deliver higher performance by running more than one stream of instructions in parallel. To exploit CMT's capabilities, programmers have to parallelize their applications, ...

    Enhancing the ELECTRE decision support method with semantic data 

    Martínez García, Miriam (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)

    Prendre una decisió quan les opcions es defineixen mitjançant un conjunt divers de criteris no és fàcil. Aqueta tesi es centra en ampliar la metodologia ELECTRE, que és el mètode del tipus "outranking" més utilitzat. En ...

    Enhancing the High-temperature Chiral Magnetic State in YBaCuFeO5 

    Zhang, Xiaodong (Date of defense: 2022-07-14)

    Los materiales multiferroicos magnetoeléctricos – en los que el orden magnético induce ferroelectricidad – están atrayendo mucho interés debido a la gran importancia de poder controlar el estado magnético a través de la ...

    Enhancing the profitability of airline tickets purchasing processes through contextual effects : a study of decoy effect 

    González Prieto, David (Date of defense: 2017-07-26)

    Strongly and firmly, product customization and a la carte features have evolved, aided by the extensive development of e­ Commerce, up to becoming an essential trait in most of online purchasing processes across almost ...

    Enhancing the Programmability of Cloud Object Storage 

    Sampé Domenech, Josep (Date of defense: 2018-11-20)

    En un món que depèn cada vegada més de la tecnologia, les dades digitals es generen a una escala sense precedents. Això fa que empreses que requereixen d'un gran espai d'emmagatzematge, com Netflix o Dropbox, utilitzin ...

    Enhancing the Rendering of Natural Scenes: Rain, Sea and Terrain 

    Puig Centelles, Anna (Date of defense: 2010-02-12)

    Los escenarios de exteriores en aplicaciones gráficas incluyen generalmente fenómenos naturales que son complicados de simular en tiempo real. Así, en el campo de la visualización interactiva se han propuesto soluciones ...

    Enhancing the thermal efficiency of a salinity gradient solar pond. Implementation of the study in the design, construction, salinity gradient establishment, operation and energy transfer at industrial scale 

    Alcaraz Segura, Aurora (Date of defense: 2019-02-28)

    The energy model in the last decades has been dominated by the consumption of fossil fuels assuming a high environmental cost. Global warming and the destruction of the ozone layer are two examples of the deterioration ...

    Enhancing the understanding of expatriate adjustment: concept and multi-sample empirical support 

    Canhilal, Sukriye Kubra (Date of defense: 2014-06-26)

    As organizations, regardless of their sizes, seek opportunities to become multinationals, the significance of expatriates is expanding. While expatriation is not a new concept, the known identity of expatriates is adjusting ...

    Enhancing timing analysis for COTS multicores for safety-related industry : a software approach 

    Fernández Díaz, Gabriel Alejandro (Date of defense: 2018-11-15)

    Artificial system interaction with the real environment is in general based on the deployment of properly coordinated sensors and actuators, establishing between them a “dynamic control-loop”. The time to close this ...

    ENJOYING SOCIAL TV Re-discovering the social process and big data research 

    Kim, Jinju (Date of defense: 2019-09-23)

    Esta tesis estudia el comportamiento de las audiencias de lo que hoy se conoce como la televisión social: producciones audiovisuales a las que se accede a través de las redes sociales y el televidente puede disfrutar de ...

    Enlace de datos XML para aplicaciones geospaciales para móviles 

    Tamayo Fong, Alain (Date of defense: 2011-11-25)

    Las aplicaciones geoespaciales se han vuelto muy comunes tanto en entornos de escritorio, servidor, web, como en entornos móviles. El crecimiento del número de este tipo de aplicación hace necesario la utilización de ...

    Enlace y estereoquímica en compuestos monovalentes de Cu, Ag y Au 

    Carvajal Barba, Mª Àngels (Date of defense: 2004-04-26)

    En esta tesis se tratan diversos aspectos de la química de Cu(I), Ag(I) y Au(I). En primer lugar se estudia sistemáticamente la capacidad de los funcionales de la densidad B3LYP, PBE0 y PBE1 para tratar las interacciones ...

    Enlargement, subdivision and individualization of statistical shape models: Application to 3D medical image segmentation 

    Pereañez, Marco (Date of defense: 2017-09-21)

    This thesis presents three original and complementary approaches to enhance the quality of Statistical Shape Models (SSMs), that improve the accuracy of medical image segmentation in challenging applications. First, we ...

    Enolates Go Radical. Stereoselective Radical Alkylation Reactions of Titanium Enolates from N-Acyl Oxazolidinones with Carboxylic Acid Derivatives. Synthesis of Umuravumbolide 

    Pérez Palau, Marina (Date of defense: 2022-07-08)

    This thesis consists in the development of a new methodology of α-alkylation of carbonyl compounds and its application to the synthesis of small molecules with therapeutic interest. In this context, the alkylation of ...

    Enquesta epidemiològica de prevalença de càries dental en els escolars de Catalunya (1997). Evolució de la salut bucodental a Catalunya en els darrers 20 anys (1979-1999). 

    Casals Peidró, Elías (Date of defense: 2000-05-19)

    La càries dental és un dels problemes de salut més prevalents entre la població escolar de Catalunya. Aquest fet, juntament amb l'elevat cost del tractament d'aquesta malaltia, han motivat que la càries sigui un problema ...

    Enric Miralles. Procesos metodológicos en la construcción del proyecto arquitectónico 

    Bigas Vidal, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2006-09-08)

    Se profundiza en el método de trabajo de Enric Miralles, un arquitecto vinculado y comprometido con la experimentación y el desarrollo de nuevas formas de proyectar. Al utilizar una serie de nuevas "técnicas de trabajo", ...

    Enriching unstructured media content about events to enable semi-automated summaries, compilations, and improved search by leveraging social networks 

    Steiner, Thomas (Date of defense: 2014-05-20)

    (i) Mobile devices and social networks are omnipresent Mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, or digital cameras together with social networks enable people to create, share, and consume enormous amounts of media ...

    Enrichment and characterization of anaerobic bacteria degrading organohalide compounds 

    Trueba Santiso, Alba María (Date of defense: 2018-04-06)

    La freqüent contaminació d’aigua subterrània per compostos organohalogenats és un greu problema degut als riscs humans i ecològics que se’n deriven. La bioremediació és un tècnica sostenible que permet superar algunes de ...

    Enrichment of interactions as a form of support for the most vulnerable students 

    Jardí, Andrea (Date of defense: 2022-01-12)

    Improving educational support is a potential pathway on the educational systems’ journey towards inclusion. Therefore, optimising the support provided by teachers and teaching assistants (TAs) within schools is a critical ...