Morrison, Jane H. (Date of defense: 2018-06-29)
Concerns about a global decline in pollinators have called for more knowledge about the drivers of wild pollinator abundance and diversity in agroecosystems. Agricultural intensification has been ...
Adabi Firouzjaee, Mohammad Ebrahim (Date of defense: 2018-01-25)
The solid state transformer (SST) is seen as a proper replacement of the conventional iron-and-copper transformer in the future smart grid . The SST offers several benefits (e.g. enhanced power quality ...
Mrazovic, Petar (Date of defense: 2018-10-22)
Urban rörlighet anses ofta vara en av de främsta möjliggörarna för en hållbar statsutveckling. Idag skulle det dock kräva ett betydande skifte mot renare och effektivare stadstransporter vilket skulle ...
Živanovič, Darko (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)
Memory systems are signicant contributors to the overall power requirements, energy consumption, and the operational cost of large high-performance computing systems (HPC). Limitations of main memory ...
Pérez Carreras, Adrià (Date of defense: 2018-12-04)
The study of hydro-mechanical (HM) coupled problems in different areas of civil, environmental or petroleum engineering is common in literature, but the effect of a thermal field by means of the heat ...
Ribera Ponsa, Helena (Date of defense: 2018-03-16)
In this thesis we study diffusion processes of nanoparticle evolution and develop appropriate models with the aim of being able to optimise their functions according to the needs of industry. Two distinct ...
Rodriguez-Chiang, Lourdes (Date of defense: 2018-05-04)
Sustainability of resources such as energy, water and waste have become important drivers in our current economy. For large industries that are water and energy intensive like pulp and paper (P&P) mills, ...
Tadesse, Girmaw Abebe (Date of defense: 2018-04-26)
Advances in wearable technologies are facilitating the understanding of human activities using first-person vision (FPV) for a wide range of assistive applications. In this thesis, we propose robust ...
Roitero, Erica (Date of defense: 2018-02-22)
Tetragonal polycrystalline zirconia stabilized with 3% mol of yttria (3Y-TZP) is a popular bioceramic, increasingly used for dental applications thanks to its good mechanical properties, biocompatibility ...
Tabani, Hamid (Date of defense: 2018-02-21)
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. ...