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Sciandra, Dario (Date of defense: 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. (Date of defense: 2008-01-25)
Ortuzar Fernández, Iban (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 ...
González Vidal, Juan José (Date of defense: 2017-09-29)
The application of spectroscopic techniques is crucial for art historians and conservators who require knowledge of materials used in works of art (pigments, dyes, binders, additives, ...) in particular instances. In this ...
Lin Ye, Jue (Date of defense: 2018-05-22)
Wave-storms are the responsible of the main changes in the Coast. Their detailed characterization results in a better design of any marine structure. The most common approach to describe wave-storms is to simplify the event ...
Botella Pérez, Cristina (Date of defense: 2010-05-26)
L'expressiódels gens obtinguts de l'anàliside microarrays s'utilitza en molts casos, per classificar les cèllules. En aquestatesi, unaversióprobabilística del mètodeDiscriminant Partial Least Squares (p-DPLS)s'utilitza per ...
Pasamontes Fúnez, Alberto (Date of defense: 2006-01-13)
El objetivo de esta tesis ha sido estudiar y desarrollar metodologias analíticas<br/>usando un sistema de inyección secuencial (SIA) con un espectrofotómetro de diodos en<br/>fila para obtener datos de segundo orden. Para ...
Vilamala Muñoz, Albert (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)
Malignant tumours of the brain represent one of the most difficult to treat types of cancer due to the sensitive organ they affect. Clinical management of the pathology becomes even more intricate as the tumour mass increases ...
Guamán Novillo, Ana Verónica (Date of defense: 2015-10-21)
There are several applications where the measurement of VOC results to be useful, such as: toxic leaks, air quality measurements, explosive detection, monitoring of food and beverages quality, diagnosis of diseases, etc. ...
Burgas Nadal, Llorenç (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)
In order to reduce mismatches between real and expected consumption, this thesis explores the use of PCA (Principal Component Analysis) as a modelling tool for buildings. PCA is a statistical technique that allows complex ...
Ruiz Ordóñez, Magda Liliana (Date of defense: 2008-06-16)
ABSRACT<br/><br/>This thesis focuses on the monitoring, fault detection and diagnosis of Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP), which are important fields of research for a wide range of engineering disciplines. <br/><br/>The ...