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    bm-Symplectic manifolds: symmetries, classification and stability 

    Planas Bahí, Arnau (Date of defense: 2020-09-30)

    This thesis explores classification and perturbation problems for group actions on a class of Poisson manifolds called $b^m$-Poisson manifolds. $b^m$-Poisson manifolds are manifolds which are symplectic away from a ...

    Bone regeneration by tuning the drug release from the calcium phosphate scaffolds 

    Khurana, Kanupriya (Date of defense: 2017-11-10)

    Bone is among the most transplanted tissues for regeneration of bone defects, caused by trauma, age-related bone loss or bone infections. Due to their similar characteristics to the mineral phase of bone, calcium phosphates ...

    Bound states in the continuum in planar anisotropic structures 

    Mukherjee, Samyobrata (Date of defense: 2021-10-05)

    Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are modes that remain radiationless though they exist in the part of the spectrum that corresponds to radiating waves. They are a general wave phenomenon and following initial theoretical ...

    Bounded model checking for asynchronous concurrent systems 

    Rakotoarisoa, Manitra Johanesa (Date of defense: 2014-03-04)

    Complex hardware systems become more and more ubiquitous in mission critical applications such as military, satellite, and medical to name but a few. In such applications, reliability remains a primary concern because a ...

    Brackish springs in coastal aquifers and the role of calcite dissolution by mixing waters 

    Sanz Escudé, Esteban (Date of defense: 2007-10-19)

    Brackish springs are relatively frequent phenomena in coastal carbonate formations and their existence has been extensively reported in Mediterranean coasts. In fact, more than 300 brackish springs have been identified ...

    The Brazil-Malvinas Confluence : from local to global scales 

    Orúe-Echevarría Iglesias, Dorleta (Date of defense: 2019-11-04)

    The Southwest Atlantic Ocean is a key component of the global climate system. It holds the Confluence of the Brazil and Malvinas Currents (BMC), one of the highest frontal systems of the world ocean. The BMC is the encounter ...

    Breaking host-centric management of task-based parallel programming models 

    Bosch Pons, Jaume (Date of defense: 2021-07-21)

    Heterogeneous platforms had become popular to increase the computational power of the systems within a constrained power budget. They are present in several systems, from embedded platforms and mobile devices to high-end ...

    Breathing pattern characterization in patients with respiratory and cardiac failure 

    Garde Martínez, Ainara (Date of defense: 2010-07-21)

    El objetivo principal de la tesis es estudiar los patrones respiratorios de pacientes en proceso de extubación y pacientes con insuficiencia cardiaca crónica (CHF), a partirde la señal de flujo respiratorio. La información ...

    Bridging the gap between reconstruction and synthesis 

    Pumarola Peris, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-10-13)

    3D reconstruction and image synthesis are two of the main pillars in computer vision. Early works focused on simple tasks such as multi-view reconstruction and texture synthesis. With the spur of Deep Learning, the field ...

    Bridging the gap between textual and formal business process representations 

    Sànchez-Ferreres, Josep (Date of defense: 2021-09-29)

    In the era of digital transformation, an increasing number of organizations are start ing to think in terms of business processes. Processes are at the very heart of each business, and must be understood and carried out ...

    Bringing cognition to multilayer transport networks 

    Pérez Vela, Alba (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)

    Operator’s transport networks are becoming increasingly more complex due to the large number of network layers needed to support the ever increasing number of new services (e.g., video-on-demand, social media, on-line ...

    Bringing social reality to multiagent and service architectures : practical reductions for monitoring of deontic-logic and constitutive norms 

    Álvarez Napagao, Sergio (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)

    As distributed systems grow in complexity, the interactions among individuals (agents, services) of such systems become increasingly more complex and therefore more difficult to constrain and monitor. We propose to view ...

    Broadband electrical impedance spectroscopy for dynamic electrical bio-impedance characterization 

    Sánchez Terrones, Benjamín (Date of defense: 2012-01-13)

    The electrical impedance of biological samples is known in the literature as Electrical Bioimpedance (EBI). The Electrical Bioimpedance enables to characterize physiological conditions and events that are interesting for ...

    Broadcast-oriented wireless network-on-chip : fundamentals and feasibility 

    Abadal Cavallé, Sergi (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)

    Recent years have seen the emergence and ubiquitous adoption of Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs), which rely on the coordinated operation of multiple execution units or cores. Successive CMP generations integrate a larger number ...

    Bruno Taut e il Ministero della Cultura turco. Traiettorie professionali nella Turchia Repubblicana (1936-1938) 

    Gasco, Giorgio (Date of defense: 2007-10-15)

    La tesis se compone de cuatro partes. <br/>La primera tiene carácter introductivo, ofreciendo un visión general de la breve pero intensa experiencia profesional de Bruno Taut en Turquía. En particular evidencia como el ...

    Bubble and droplet flow phenomena at different gravity levels 

    Suñol Galofré, Francesc (Date of defense: 2011-07-19)

    Two-phase flows are encountered in a wide range of applications both on-ground and in space. The dynamics of such flows in the absence of gravity is completely different from that in normal gravity due to the absence of ...

    Building a decision : support methodolgy to define ecosystem services bundles and to analyze trade-offs in diverse landscapes : application to Ecuadorian ecosystems 

    Delgado Medina, Fátima (Date of defense: 2020-02-07)

    A key challenge of ecosystem management is determining how to manage multiple ecosystem services across landscapes. Enhancing provisioning ecosystem services (i.e., food, timber, etc.) might lead to tradeoffs between ...

    Building an architecture of everyday life in South Korea: mass housing estates in Seoul as an instrument of modernization, 1962-2008 

    Brossa Balcells, Marc (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)

    The mass housing estates – apat’u tanji in Korean – that were developed in Seoul during the second half of the twentieth century are the most characteristic spatial practice of the South Korean modernization project. They ...

    Building information modeling for facility managers 

    Alavi, Hamidreza (Date of defense: 2022-10-11)

    A Decision Support System (DSS) can help facility managers to improve building performance, occupants’ comfort, and energy efficiency during the Operation and Maintenance (O&M) phase. These DSSs are normally data-intensive ...

    Buits infraestructurals : estratègies operatives pel projecte de la ciutat contemporània 

    Vancells Guérin, Xavier (Date of defense: 2015-11-13)

    The aim ofthis thesis is to create an analytical framework to understand the specificity and potential of these areas from a critical view of the current extensive growth model operating on the territory, which is performing ...