Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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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 ...
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 ...
The work developed by this thesis proposes the analysis of twenty one landscape designs that were conceived by Roberto Burle Marx between 1930 and 1970. By walking through different phases and design rehearses, we are able ...
Cloud Computing markets arise as an efficient way to allocate resources for the execution of tasks and services within a set of geographically dispersed providers from different organisations. Client applications and service ...
Increasing demand for implementing highly-miniaturized battery-powered ultra-low-cost systems (e.g., below 1 USD) in emerging applications such as body, urban life and environment monitoring, etc., has introduced many ...
The major problem in the future technology scaling is the variations in process parameters that are interpreted as imperfections in the development process. Moreover, devices are more sensitive to the environmental changes ...
(...) Las casas que se van a analizar son viviendas unifamiliares construidas en Cadaqués durante este periodo que responden a una manera particular de entender la arquitectura. Dos son los modelos a estudiar: 1.- Las ...
The topic of this Philosophy Doctor Thesis tallies with the national project MAT2012 of the BBT group of UPC: "Pore4Bone: Biomimetic calcium phosphates: tailoring porosity from the nano- to the macroscale for osteoinduction, ...
La missió SMOS de l'Agència Europea de l'Espai (ESA) té com a objectiu mesurar la humitat del sòl i la salinitat dels oceans, paràmetres fonamentals per tal d'entendre el canvi climàtic global.<br/>MIRAS (Radiòmetre de ...
Domestic architecture is the nerve centre within which human development takes place. Based on that premise, the evolution of spatial perception and the concept of intimacy in human dwellings throughout history are ...
This dissertation deals with the evaluation of ocular optical quality in two types of patients. First, are patients who have undergone different surgical techniques of refractive surgery to correct different degrees of ...
PURPOSE: This thesis presents the results of a prospective, double-blind and randomized clinical trial conducted at the Hospital de Sant Pau i la Santa Creu ofBarcelona.lts main objective was to assess and compare visual ...
The use of zirconia ceramics (ZrO2) as advanced structural materials is based on toughness increasing by tetragonal to monoclinic (tm) phase transformation. Of these, the 3Y-TZP (tetragonal polycrystalline zirconia doped ...
This research project intends to investigate empirically the potentials of Social Capital to act as a mechanism to improve the performance of India's small-holder agriculture. The study employs both a qualitative and ...
Since 2007 the Mexican Govemment introduced the fight against poverty as a top priority in its agenda,thus increasing the amount of resources allocated to minimize this social condition. Nevertheless, poverty levels in ...
Esta tesis está relacionada con un proyecto macro cuyo título es "New design and manufacturing processes for high pressure fluid power products" -2004-2008 (acrónimo: PROHIPP), el cual es cofinanciado por la Unión Europea ...
This Doctoral Thesis analyzes the "problem of the emotions" in the person, as entity organizacional and analyzes and realizes contributions concerning the constructs of Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Capital, Relational ...
The aim of the thesis is to study !he environmental behavior of the gallery as a space in between the indoor of the building and outside and as a climate system. Specifically focuses on the galleries of the courtyards of ...
A les turbomàquines pot haver una forta interacció entre els àleps del rodet i les directrius del difusor que afecten la dinàmica del flux i el rendiment estructural de les màquines. Aquest fenomen s’anomena interacció ...
The accumulation of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere, the outcome of unsustainable management of our resources, is triggering one of the most critical environmental issues worldwide: climate change. To avoid ...
