Pérez Galmés, Magdalena (Date of defense: 2018-07-27)
Adhesives have been shown to be an excellent solution for joining fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) components thanks to their capacity to redistribute loads, reduces stress concentrations and contribute ...
Fráguas Nobre, Guilherme (Date of defense: 2018-01-12)
The thesis relates the ‘creative economy’ with the ‘sustainable human development’, tracing a parallel between economic growth (e.g. GDP) and human development (e.g. HDI). The aspect of sustainability ...
Rodríguez Mayorga, Mauricio (Date of defense: 2018-07-24)
In this thesis, we focused on the alternative methodologies that are based on the reconstruction of density matrices. While in DFT several benchmarks can be found in the literature, for the rest of ...
Tarragó Abella, Elena (Date of defense: 2018-03-09)
Human population has had an impact on the natural phosphorus’ cycle, a limited resource, and the predictions show that this resource could be exhausted in 100-250 years. Therefore, the actions for the ...
Palomares Cano, Xavier (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)
This thesis adopts Habermas’s theory of communicative action to explore how consensus-oriented actions contribute to knowledge creation and collective decision-making in collaborative governance processes. ...
Perpiña Blanch, Laura (Date of defense: 2018-01-12)
This doctoral thesis explores the perception of tourism destinations though two major lines of research, destination image and risk perception, by a compendium of publications. The first article compares ...
Hossayni, Sayyed Ali (Date of defense: 2018-07-27)
Analyzing the sentiment of Social Networks users is an attractive task, well-covered by the Sentiment Analysis research communities. Alongside, predicting the rating/opinion of users in Social Networks ...
Rueda Pepinosa, Diego Fernando (Date of defense: 2018-11-14)
Most of transportation networks interacts with other to support our modern society way of life. The proper performance of interdependent networks depends on the normal operation of the networks that are ...
Mandarić, Ladislav (Date of defense: 2018-10-24)
The main aim of this thesis was to establish a link between the urban origin of chemical contamination (e.g. PhACs) and other stressors, particularly associated to water scarcity (Chapter 1, 2, and 3). ...
Kapanadze, Maria (Date of defense: 2018-09-07)
There is growing interest in the efficacy of career construction as a technique in counseling programs which aim to improve employability. There remains a lack of empirical scholarship on career ...
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