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Egusquiza Ortega, Aitziber (Fecha de defensa: 2015-12-11)
European Historic Urban Districts are highly appreciated by their inhabitants and visitors and they can be considered as one of the most valuable collective achievements of the European culture. The preservation of our ...
Yalamanchili, Phani Kumar (Fecha de defensa: 2016-11-09)
Physical vapor deposited hard coatings comprised of cubic (c) transition metal (TM)-Al-N, and (TM)-Si-N are the current work horse materials for a large number of metal cutting and wear resistant applicatíons to light ...
El Azhari, Idriss (Fecha de defensa: 2020-07-21)
The present dissertation is an in-depth investigation from the macro to atomic scale of industrial wear-resistant CVD hard coatings deposited on cemented carbides for cutting tool applications. Micro-compression tests at ...
Huetter, Larissa (Fecha de defensa: 2022-09-30)
[eng] There have been significant advances in organic bioelectronic devices in recent years. These devices are capable of stimulating excitable cells and can generate data to facilitate disease diagnostics and monitoring. ...
Lozano Reis, Pablo (Fecha de defensa: 2023-11-10)
[eng] Global warming and climate change, mostly due to the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, are producing devastating effects. Among the different greenhouse gases, CO2 is one of the major ...
Zaghi, Stefano (Fecha de defensa: 2019-01-21)
The improvements in terms of computational power provides the capability to analyze with more detail the materials behavior. On one hand, going deeper in the materials to study an increasingly smaller dimension and capture ...
Otero Gruer, Fermin (Fecha de defensa: 2016-02-09)
Most of the existing materials around us can be considered composite materials, since they are composed by several phases or components at certain spatial scale. The physical and chemical properties of composites, as occurs ...
Piles Guillem, Maria (Fecha de defensa: 2010-07-16)
La humedad del suelo es la variable que regula los intercambios de agua, energía, y carbono entre la tierra y la atmósfera. Mediciones precisas de humedad son necesarias para una gestión sostenible de los recursos hídricos, ...
Sciandra, Dario (Fecha de defensa: 2024-02-09)
(English) Geological Carbon Storage (GCS) holds immense promise for mitigating atmospheric CO2 emissions, making the sealing capacity of caprocks pivotal as storage scales up. Despite excellent sealing capacities observed ...
Nieves Calatrava, Verónica U. (Fecha de defensa: 2008-01-25)
Ortuzar Fernández, Iban (Fecha de defensa: 2024-03-04)
The escalating conflicts and competition for freshwater resources are widely acknowledged. The demand for water is on the rise due to rapid population growth and socioeconomic development, while climate change is disrupting ...
Pié Dols, Laia (Fecha de defensa: 2010-01-15)
The objective of this doctoral thesis is to apply different multisectorial models available to analyse the impact that would had on the Catalan economy as a result of the introduction of policies designed to reduce emissions ...
Cuscó Marigó, Cristina (Fecha de defensa: 2018-03-22)
The Thesis is based on the development of a potentially-scalable methodology to prepare polyurethane/polyurea polymers to nanoencapsulate bioactive molecules. In the first part of the project, the design, optimization and ...
Braun, Andreas (Fecha de defensa: 2016-02-05)
Numerous studies have shown that a wide range of behaviors from sensory processing to motor control involve near-optimal probabilistic inference. Most of these studies have focused on vertebrates, suggesting that the ability ...
Nierula, Birgit (Fecha de defensa: 2017-09-18)
Body ownership refers to the experience that this body is my body and is closely linked to consciousness. Multisensory integration processes play an important role in body ownership as shown in the rubber hand illusion, ...
Cuadrado Guevara, Marlyn Dayana (Fecha de defensa: 2020-11-30)
The presence of renewables in energy systems optimization have generated a high level of uncertainty in the data, which has led to a need for applying stochastic optimization to modelling problems with this characteristic. ...
Gaset Rifà, Jordi (Fecha de defensa: 2018-07-25)
The theories of gravity are one of the most important topics in theoretical physics and mathematical physics nowadays. The classical formulation of gravity uses the Hilbert-Einstein Lagrangian, which is a singular ...
Pont Masanet, Caterina (Fecha de defensa: 2020-01-31)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and one of the most important health-care problems in the world, due to its high prevalence and unaffordable personal and economic impact. Moreover, current ...
Egea Àlvarez, Agustí (Fecha de defensa: 2014-09-26)
Offshore wind is emerging as one of the future energy vectors. Offshore wind power plants locations provide more strong and constant wind speed that allows to extract more power compared to onshore locations. In addition, ...
Catalán Pallarés, Sandra (Fecha de defensa: 2018-02-06)
This dissertation targets two important problems. The first one is the design of low-level DLA kernels for architectures comprising two (or more) classes of cores. The main question we have to address here is how to attain ...