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    Multi-risk assessment and users' perception: a futher step towards ecosystem-based beach management 

    Lozoya Azcárate, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2012-10-29)

    This thesis deals with the need to move towards a holistic, truly integrated and ecosystem-based beach management that allows a sustainable use of these systems within the socio-ecological paradigm. However, the scarcity ...

    Multi-robot cooperative platform : a task-oriented teleoperation paradigm 

    Hernansanz Prats, Albert (Date of defense: 2016-04-14)

    This thesis proposes the study and development of a teleoperation system based on multi-robot cooperation under the task oriented teleoperation paradigm: Multi-Robot Cooperative Paradigm, MRCP. In standard teleoperation, ...

    Multi-scale biomechanical study of transport phenomena in the intervertebral disc 

    Malandrino, Andrea (Date of defense: 2012-07-26)

    Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is primarily involved in back pain, a morbidity that strongly affects the quality of life of individuals nowadays. Lumbar IVDs undergo stressful mechanical loads while being the largest ...

    Multi-scale integrated cellular modelling for the study of urban change phenomena 

    Norte Pinto, Nuno (Date of defense: 2016-09-12)

    The development of urban models based on mathematical and physics concepts has been one of the most intense scientific areas of research for the last two decades in urban studies. Cellular automata (CA), a mathematical ...

    Multi-scale topological design of structural materials : an integrated approach 

    Ferrer Ferré, Àlex (Date of defense: 2017-05-26)

    The present dissertation aims at addressing multiscale topology optimization problems. For this purpose, the concept of topology derivative in conjunction with the computational homogenization method is considered. In ...

    Multi-terminal HVDC grids control and operation 

    Rouzbehi, Kumars (Date of defense: 2016-03-29)

    In recent years, there have been considerable efforts in the design and development of technologies and techniques for more efficient harvesting of renewable energy resources to meet the ever increasing electric power ...

    Multi-view depth coding based on a region representation combining color and depth information 

    Maceira Duch, Marc (Date of defense: 2017-06-21)

    Depth map data is used to supplement the color data in multi-view sequences. As depth maps present distinct Characteristics than natural color images, new coding techniques are required to represent their smooth regions ...

    Multiapproach computational modelling of tuberculosis : understanding its epidemiological dynamics for improving its control in Nigeria 

    Ahmad, Nura Mohammad Rabiu (Date of defense: 2020-07-20)

    Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that is considered to be the biggest killer of mankind in the history of infectious diseases. There are still more than 10 million new TB cases every year and it causes more than ...

    Multichannel analysis of normal and continuous adventitious respiratory sounds for the assessment of pulmonary function in respiratory diseases 

    Lozano García, Manuel (Date of defense: 2015-07-15)

    Respiratory sounds (RS) are produced by turbulent airflows through the airways and are inhomogeneously transmitted through different media to the chest surface, where they can be recorded in a non-invasive way. Due to ...

    Multicore architecture optimizations for HPC applications 

    Milić, Uglješa (Date of defense: 2017-11-22)

    From single-core CPUs to detachable compute accelerators, supercomputers made a tremendous progress by using available transistors on chip and specializing hardware for a given type of computation. Today, compute nodes ...

    Multicore architecture prototyping on reconfigurable devices 

    Arcas Abella, Oriol (Date of defense: 2016-04-15)

    In the the last decades several performance walls were hit. The memory wall and the power wall are limiting the performance scaling of digital microprocessors. Homogeneous multicores rely on thread-level parallelism, which ...

    A multicore emulator with a profiling Infrastructure for transactional memory on FPGA 

    Sönmez, Nehir (Date of defense: 2012-09-19)

    This thesis attempts to bring together two recent topics by presenting a flexible Transactional Memory environment on a multicore prototype that is realized on FPGA fabric. For this, we devise a MIPS-compatible shared-memory ...

    Multidimensional and temporal SAR data representation and processing based on binary partition trees 

    Alonso González, Alberto (Date of defense: 2014-06-13)

    This thesis deals with the processing of different types of multidimensional SAR data for distinct applications. Instead of handling the original pixels of the image, which correspond to very local information and are ...

    Multidimensional speckle noise. Modelling and filtering related to sar data. 

    López Martinez, Carlos (Date of defense: 2003-06-02)

    Los Radares de Apertura Sintética, o sistemas SAR, representan el mejorejemplo de sistemas activos de teledetección por microondas. Debido a su naturaleza coherente, un sistema SAR es capaz de adquirir información dedispersión ...

    Multifaceted resource management on virtualized providers 

    Goiri, Íñigo (Date of defense: 2011-06-14)

    Last decade, providers started using Virtual Machines (VMs) in their datacenters to pack users and their applications. This was a good way to consolidate multiple users in fewer physical nodes while isolating them from ...

    Multifield-based modeling of material failure in high performance reinforced cementitious composites 

    Mora, D. F. (Diego Fernando) (Date of defense: 2013-04-26)

    Cementitious materials such as mortar or concrete are brittle and have an inherent weakness in resisting tensile stresses. The addition of discontinuous fibers to such matrices leads to a dramatic improvement in their ...

    Multifuncional biopolymer-bases materials for modulatig the activites of chromic wound enzymes 

    Francesko, Antonio (Date of defense: 2012-11-29)

    This thesis focuses on the development of active multifunctional dressing materials and nanoparticle formulations with suitable exploitation characteristics for chronic wounds treatment. Chronic wounds a growing clinical ...

    Multifunctional enzymatically-generated hydrogel platforms for chronic wound application 

    Stefanov Stefanov, Ivaylo (Date of defense: 2019-07-23)

    Chronic wounds became burdensome problem of worldwide healthcare systems, along with the increased elderly population, which is the most vulnerable risk group, predisposed to their development. Chronic wounds represent a ...

    Multifunctional metamaterial designs for antenna applications 

    Ferrer González, Pere Josep (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)

    Over the last decades, Metamaterials (MTMs) have caught the attention of the scientific community. Metamaterials are basically artificially engineered materials which can provide unusual electromagnetic properties not ...

    Multilevel adaptive cross approximation and direct evaluation method for fast and accurate discretization of electromagnetic integral equations 

    Tamayo Palau, José María (Date of defense: 2011-02-17)

    El Método de los Momentos (MoM) ha sido ampliamente utilizado en las últimas décadas para la discretización y la solución de las formulaciones de ecuación integral que aparecen en muchos problemas electromagnéticos de ...