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    Unravelling 3D cargo transport dynamics at the microtubule network with super-resolution microscopy 

    Verdeny Vilanova, Ione (Date of defense: 2016-10-13)

    Intracellular transport plays an essential role in a wide variety of fundamental cellular processes required to maintain the internal regulation and organization of cells. Different types of cargos such as organelles, ...

    Unravelling motor protein organization on lysosomal membranes with super-resolution microscopy 

    Cordier, Guillaume (Date of defense: 2018-04-03)

    This thesis first develops new methods for high-throughput and multi-color super-resolution microscopy (Chapters 2 and 3). Subsequently, I apply these methods to study the organization of motor proteins on the lysosome ...

    Unstable motions in the three body problem 

    Paradela Díaz, Jaime (Date of defense: 2023-06-30)

    (English) The 3 Body Problem (3BP) models the motion of three bodies interacting via Newtonian gravitation. It is called restricted when one body has zero mass and the other two, the primaries, have strictly positive masses. ...

    Unsteady laminar convection in cylindrical domains: numerical studies and application to solar water storage tanks 

    Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette (Date of defense: 2006-12-19)

    Los dispositivos de almacenamiento de energía térmica son ampliamente usados en diversos sistemas térmicos caracterizados por un desfase temporal entre la producción de energia y su consumo, como es el caso de los sistemas ...

    Unsupervised and attention approaches for deep learning speaker recognition 

    Safari, Pooyan (Date of defense: 2023-05-19)

    (English) The thesis presents various contributions to the field of speaker recognition. In the first part of the thesis, the focus is on unsupervised methods for speaker recognition. This includes a method that uses Deep ...

    Unsupervised entity linking using graph-based semantic similarity 

    Naderi, Ali M. (Date of defense: 2016-02-10)

    Nowadays, the human textual data constitutes a great proportion of the shared information resources such as World Wide Web (WWW). Social networks, news and learning resources as well as Knowledge Bases (KBs) are just the ...

    Unsupervised learning for expressive speech synthesis 

    Jauk, Igor (Date of defense: 2017-09-12)

    Nowadays, especially with the upswing of neural networks, speech synthesis is almost totally data driven. The goal of this thesis is to provide methods for automatic and unsupervised learning from data for expressive speech ...

    Unsupervised learning of relation detection patterns 

    Gonzàlez Pellicer, Edgar (Date of defense: 2012-06-01)

    L'extracció d'informació és l'àrea del processament de llenguatge natural l'objectiu de la qual és l'obtenir dades estructurades a partir de la informació rellevant continguda en fragments textuals. L'extracció d'informació ...

    Update urban basemap by using the LiDAR mobile mapping system : the case of Abu Dhabi municipal system 

    Al Shaiba, Omar (Date of defense: 2020-10-02)

    Basemaps are the main resource used in urban planning and in building and infrastructure asset management. These maps are used by citizens and by private and public stakeholders. Therefore, accurate, up-to-date geoinformation ...

    Upgrade paths from existing copper-based access solutions to advanced a gile wavelength-routed passive optical networks 

    Bock Montero, Carlos (Date of defense: 2006-02-28)

    Aquesta tesi presenta un pla de millores des de les xarxes d'accés existents basades en coure a xarxes de fibra òptica fins la llar de segona generació basades en xarxes òptiques passives per enrutament de longitud ...

    Upscaling mixing-limited chemical reactions from pore to continuum scale using the dispersive lamella concept 

    Perez Fonseca, Lazaro J. (Date of defense: 2019-05-17)

    Reactive transport modeling is an important tool for the analysis of coupled physical, chemical, and biological processes in Earth systems. Observed reactive transport in heterogeneous porous media shows a different behavior ...

    Uptake and metabolization of antibiòtics in crops 

    Tadić, Đorđe (Date of defense: 2020-11-04)

    The discovery of antibiotics (ABs) and their mass production brought a revolution in medicine worldwide during the middle of the XX century. Infectious diseases with high morbidity and mortality suddenly become treatable. ...

    An upwind cell centred finite volume method for large strain explicit solid dynamics in OpenFOAM 

    Haider, Jibran (Date of defense: 2018-04-20)

    In practical engineering applications involving extremely complex geometries, meshing typically constitutes a large portion of the overall design and analysis time. In the computational mechanics community, the ability to ...

    Urban cemetery biophilic integration for human well-being : an applied case study of Tehran, Iran 

    Mirbagheri, Mahsa (Date of defense: 2021-05-25)

    Cemeteries are an ancient reality, and while their basic function has not changed, their physical layout as well as the symbolic and emotional role within our societies has undergone profound transformations over time. The ...

    Urban co-creation: community planning, bottom-up and participation tools 

    Sève, Bruno (Date of defense: 2020-11-12)

    For whom do we transform our built environment? The answer may seem obvious, since architecture, in theory, is conceived for humans and for the emancipation of communities. However, it is clear that architecture has moved ...

    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 ...