Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Antoni Gaudí developed, for the pinnacles ofthe Sagrada Famí!ia, a unique constructive solution with precast concrete elements which were slightlyreinforced and covered with a trencadís ofMurano glass (Venice). In the ...
This doctoral thesis aims to define directives for the development of a recovery policy of social residential compounds, basing the analysis on their problems and the interventions that occurred in these areas in Spain, ...
Background. The construction sector presents a significantly higher rate of work injuries than other sectors. Beyond strict legal compliance, voluntary protection programs (VPP) showed an average 52% reduction in accidents ...
This research deals with the occupation and urbanization process of La Pampa National Territory.Taking as object of study the western portien of the Argentinian wet pampa, in transition to dry pampa,formad by this territory ...
This thesis analyzes the influence of the defensive systems and the military architecture on the urban pattern development of the city of Palma from the 17th to the 19th century which coincides with the construction and ...
In the last decade of the 20th century, profound social and urban changes took place in the ports of Iquique and Pisagua, in northern Chile. This meant the advent of a new mindset which was modern, liberal and marked by ...
During years the hitoric British treatises about construclion have been considered almost exclusively from the point of view of the use of orders and the architectural planning of major houses, palaces and occassionally ...
The aerospace community is challenged as of today for being able to manage accurate overnight computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of compressible flow problems. Well-established CFD solvers based on second-order ...
Continuous improvements in transistor scaling together with microarchitectural advances have made possible the widespread adoption of high-performance processors across all market segments. However, the growing reliability ...
(English) Due to the fact that construction, maintenance, and operation of buildings consume almost 40% of global energy today, architects play a major role in the reduction of world energy consumption. Building’s façades ...
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved tremendous success for cognitive applications, and are especially efficient in classification and decision making problems such as speech recognition or machine translation. Mobile ...
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is one of the most important applications in the area of cognitive computing. Fast and accurate ASR is emerging as a key application for mobile and wearable devices. These devices, such ...
This PhD dissertation describes the research and development of a new low-cost medium wavelength infrared MWIR monolithic imager technology for high-speed uncooled industrial applications. It takes the baton on the latest ...
Electrochemical sensors are expanding rapidly over other chemical sensoring technologies because of their potential to generate precise, selective, miniaturized and cost-effective analytical devices. These features satisfy ...
One of the challenges in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the unstructured nature of texts, in which useful information is not easily identifiable. Information Extraction (IE) aims to alleviate it by enabling automatic ...
Architecture’s progression into the digital age is fundamentally changing contemporary practice due to the rapid development of digital tools available to architects, which are deeply affecting how projects are conceived, ...
This project deals with the architectural works of Lucio Costa (1902-1998) and his projects built during the decades of the 1920's, 1930's, and 1940's. lnside a historiographical narrativa, we have structured an architectural ...
Space is the expression of society, and contemporary society is built around flows; hence the existence of a characteristic spatial form. However, most people still live in places and perceive their space by virtue of them. ...
Latin American modern architecture experienced, since mid-1950s, a period of ephemeral splendour that would last until mid-1960s. The end of the Second World War was responsible for setting up a new theoretical horizon ...
(English) FORMULATION OF THE TOPIC. Visibility at night without contributions of natural light. Artificial light is still a difficult invention to control, even in our time of advanced technologies. Human visual perception ...
