Silva Araujo Monteiro, Virginia (Date of defense: 2013-06-10)
La propuesta de una vejiga artificial es un obstáculo a trasponer. El cáncer de vejiga está entre los casos más frecuentes de enfermedades oncológicas en Estados Unidos y Europa. Ese cáncer es considerado ...
Diego Íñiguez, Javier (Date of defense: 2013-07-03)
Cell migration is a fundamental element in a variety of physiological and pathological processes. Alteration of its regulatory mechanisms leads to loss of adhesion and increased motility, critical steps ...
Kouhi Esfahani, Mohammad (Date of defense: 2013-09-30)
This work covers a contribution to two most interesting research elds in aerodynamics, the fi nite element analysis of high-speed compressible flows (Part I) and aerodynamic shape optimization (Part ...
Marulanda Fraume, Mabel Cristina (Date of defense: 2013-04-25)
El riesgo sísmico y en general los desastres futuros que puede sufrir una ciudad, una región o un país significan una obligación o pasivo contingente no explícito que puede afectar, desde el punto de ...
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 ...
Kamram, Kazem (Date of defense: 2013-06-21)
The development of efficient algorithms to understand implosion dynamics presents a number of challenges. The foremost challenge is to efficiently represent the coupled compressible fluid dynamics of ...
Sánchez Molina, David (Date of defense: 2013-11-07)
This dissertation is a research about the mechanical behavior of the human esophagus. This work is intended to be applied in the treatment of stenosis and other esophageal diseases that frequently require ...
Pérez Guindal, Elsa (Date of defense: 2013-12-05)
The knee joint is the largest and most complex both in humans and in canines. The internal forces that govern it, are not known exactly. Canine knee injuries are recurrent, especially in the anterior ...
Valcárcel Torres, Jairo Andrés (Date of defense: 2013-02-01)
Los daños por terremotos en edificios y sistemas esenciales han motivado la definición de estándares de comportamiento de estas instalaciones, buscando reducir las pérdidas económicas y la pérdida de ...
Paredes López, Jairo-Andrés (Date of defense: 2013-11-11)
Esta tesis surge de la necesidad de establecer un método racional y práctico para identificar, a través del cambio de las frecuencias naturales , el daño en estructuras de hormigón armado. Por lo que ...