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    Urban Groundwater. Barcelona City Case Study 

    Vázquez Suñé, Enric (Date of defense: 2003-07-17)

    Cuando se estudian las aguas subterráneas en zonas urbanas deben tenerse en cuenta una serie de cuestiones específicas. La urbanización del territorio afecta significativamente al ciclo del agua tanto en cantidad como en ...

    Urban mobility network design : functional analysis and modeling for a concentric city 

    Medina Tapia, Marcos (Date of defense: 2021-06-15)

    Cities face problems influencing urban mobility, such as traffic growth, congestion, explosive population growth, urban sprawl. According to the literature, traffic, congestion, and urban development have an interrelationship ...

    Urban mobility safety in Barcelona: an evaluation of risk factors and techniques to achieve Vision Zero 

    Aiash, Ahmad (Date of defense: 2023-10-27)

    (English) In order to converge towards Vision Zero concept in road safety, traffic crashes need great study and analysis. This thesis is aimed at this goal, applied to the urban and metropolitan environment of Barcelona. ...

    Urban park a new typology of built-up nature : towards a new urban green language for Barcelona 

    Naeimi, Tahmineh (Date of defense: 2021-03-19)

    This thesis aims to generate a new vision for the park division and introduce a new model of parks called Urban Park. Urban Park should follow specific features and unique characteristics that made it suitable to be ...

    El urban sprawl : un modelo de urbanización insostenible 

    Arellano Ramos, Blanca (Date of defense: 2022-09-30)

    (English) he present thesis consists in a PhD thesis by compendium of publications. The general objective of the thesis is the analysis of the phenomenon of the Urban Sprawl, on a planetary scale, starting from the hypothesis ...

    Urban vertical garden: ways to improve living conditions by applying green façades in buildings refurbishment at semi-arid climate 

    Bagheri Moghaddam, Faezeh (Date of defense: 2022-01-24)

    This dissertation aims to improve work conditions in office buildings by implementing vertical greenery systems, such as green façades and living walls in semi-arid climates. Since building energy performance is characterized ...

    Urbanismo para la vida cotidiana : herrramientas de análisis y evaluación urbana a escala de barrio desde la perspectiva de género 

    Ciocoletto, Adriana (Date of defense: 2014-07-17)

    The main objective has been built a methodology of analysis and evaluation system at neighborhood scale on the incorporation of everyday experience in urban analysis support it with a theoretical and critical base, begun ...

    Urbanització i planejament urbanístic: Barcelona, 1917-1936 

    Llobet i Llobet, Jaume (Date of defense: 1984-02-01)

    El núcleo fundamental del trabajo es el análisis conjunto de las transformaciones en las formas de construcción urbana y el planeamiento urbanístico en un periodo histórico, significativo en tanto que relaciona la ciudad ...

    Urbe en palabras: la otra ciudad venezolana: imaginarios literarios de la urbanización en la temprana modernida 

    Muñoz Bravo, Meridalba (Date of defense: 2007-06-25)

    The new image that the Venezuelan city acquired thanks to radical transformations operated from the first half of the XX century, image of disorder and chaos, was dramatically foreseen and/or registered by our narrators ...

    US signal and image monitoring and diagnosis using computer vision and deep learning 

    Farahi, Maria (Date of defense: 2023-11-03)

    (English) This thesis presents a comprehensive investigation of the reliability and efficacy of Ultra-Sound (US) signals and images for remote monitoring and early diagnosis in medical applications. The main objective of ...

    Use of advanced analytics for health estimation and failure prediction in wind turbines 

    Beretta, Mattia (Date of defense: 2022-07-21)

    The energy sector has undergone drastic changes and critical revolutions in the last few decades. Renewable energy sources have grown significantly, now representing a sizeable share of the energy production mix. Wind ...

    Use of alternative materials in soil stabilization: mechanical and environmental aspects 

    Baloochi, Hani (Date of defense: 2023-03-17)

    (English) Currently, the two most raw material consumer industries are civil engineering and the pulp and paper industry. Meanwhile, these sectors face severe criticism due to their environmental impact. Additionally, by ...

    The use of integrative approaches to characterize new mechanisms of toxicity of pollutants in the aquatic environment 

    Rivetti, Claudia (Date of defense: 2017-05-19)

    Anthropogenic pollution represents a major concern for aquatic ecosystem, which has been affected by a complex cocktail of heterogeneous compounds that may provoke significant toxic effects to the living organisms. Among ...

    Use of locator/identifier separation to improve the future internet routing system 

    Jakab, Loránd (Date of defense: 2011-07-04)

    The Internet evolved from its early days of being a small research network to become a critical infrastructure many organizations and individuals rely on. One dimension of this evolution is the continuous growth of the ...

    Use of mathematical methods in the resolution of chemical engineering problems 

    Valverde Salamanca, Abel (Date of defense: 2020-07-27)

    This thesis consists of a compendium of five works that illustrate the utilization of selected mathematical methods to solve specific chemical engineering problems. Hence, the thesis is intended to cover both, a review of ...

    The use of new multiparametric observatory platforms for the remote monitoring and exploration of deep-sea ecosystems at day-night and seasonal temporal scales 

    Doya Le Besnerais, Carolina (Date of defense: 2017-07-14)

    Traditional sampling technologies such as trawling but also novel ones as ROV surveying are oriented toward a high spatial coverage without repeating data collection at fixed seabed windows. The temporal repetition is often ...

    Use of the supercritical fluid technology for the preparation of nanostructured hybrid materials and design of the interface 

    García González, Carlos A. (Date of defense: 2009-12-11)

    Los materiales compuestos nanoestructurados son considerados una opción prometedora para la concepción de materiales multifuncionales. Sin embargo, la falta habitual de interacción entre los componentes orgánicos e ...

    Using an ontology for guiding natural language interaction with knowledge based systems 

    Gatius, Marta (Date of defense: 2001-01-15)

    Des dels anys 80, els sistemes basats en el coneixement, programes que utilitzen una gran quantitat de informació per modelar situacions i resoldre problemes, han adquirit gran importància en el camp industrial, financer ...

    Using natural language processing for question answering in closed and open domains 

    Latifi, Majid (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)

    With regard to the growth in the amount of social, environmental, and biomedical information available digitally, there is a growing need for Question Answering (QA) systems that can empower users to master this new wealth ...

    Using statistical copulas to measure dependence in the agrofood sector 

    Ahmed Nasreldin, Osama (Date of defense: 2015-01-26)

    This thesis has been pursued in three papers whose nexus is the use of statistical copulas for the purpose of assessing dependence in the field of agrofood economics. The first paper aims at determining how the introduction ...