Fragment and inclusion : urban architecture in contemporary Barcelona 

    Wei, Song (Fecha de defensa: 2015-07-14)

    The main issue of the thesis is to discuss the method of building relationships between architecture and city through analyzing projects by Barcelona architects. There are two hypothesizes of the thesis: fragment and ...

    Fragmentos de una crítica: Revisando a IBA de Berlim 

    Bronstein Passaro, Lais (Fecha de defensa: 2002-03-07)

    DE LA TESIS<br/><br/>La presente tesis tiene por objetivo retratar parte de la crítica y de la teoría arquitectónica comúnmente llamada Posmoderna, a través del análisis de la IBA - Internationale Bauausstellung - ...

    A framework for 3D nonlinear analysis of reinforced concrete frames under general loading 

    Poliotti, Mauro (Fecha de defensa: 2020-11-04)

    Modern guidelines for design and assessment of reinforced concrete structures under seismic and other extreme loads require nonlinear analysis. The complex structural response can be obtained by means of three-dimensional ...

    Framework for an eXtended Reality (XR) solution for holistic safety management in construction 

    Muñoz La Rivera, Felipe (Fecha de defensa: 2023-03-28)

    (English) Cycles in the construction sector and economy disguise what appears to advance in occupational risk prevention when, unfortunately, the AECO sector maintains very high accident rates. The zero accident target is ...

    A framework for multidimensional indexes on distributed and highly-available data stores 

    Cugnasco, Cesare (Fecha de defensa: 2019-03-22)

    Spatial Big Data is considered an essential trend in future scientific and business applications. Indeed, research instruments, medical devices, and social networks generate hundreds of peta bytes of spatial data per year. ...

    A framework for navigation of autonomous characters in complex virtual environments 

    Oliva Martínez, Ramon (Fecha de defensa: 2016-11-28)

    In order to create autonomous characters it is necessary to solve the problem of moving agents between two locations, at both the global and local navigation levels. Global navigation has two main components: the path ...

    Francesc Mitjans y el Camp Nou : estudios previos, proyecto ejecutivo y dirección de obra, 1954-1957 

    López Alonso, Ignacio (Fecha de defensa: 2014-10-24)

    Este estudio se ha centrado en las diversas fases de proyecto y la primera etapa de la construcción del Camp Nou, entre 1954 y 1957. Con la intención de ampliar al máximo la capacidad de localizar variables e indeterminaciones ...

    Freeze concentration of cofee extract : study of block and fallling-film techniques = Crioconcentración de extracto acuoso de café : estudio de las técnicas de bloque total y película descendente 

    Moreno Moreno, Fabián Leonardo (Fecha de defensa: 2014-11-05)

    Coffee is the most traded food in the world. The coffee industry has a great economic and social relevance worldwide. The sensory and functional properties of the product are highly important for the consumers, and therefore, ...

    From cells to tissues, microscopy to modeling: towards precise, data-driven photothermal therapy with gold nanorods 

    Morales Dalmau, Jordi (Fecha de defensa: 2019-02-15)

    Suspensions of gold nanorods (GNRs) are emerging as potential drugs to address some of the limitations in traditional biomedical sensing,imaging and therapy. They are inorganic nanoparticles with good biocompatibility, ...

    From hypothesis testing of quantum channels to secret sharing 

    Salek Shishavan, Farzin (Fecha de defensa: 2020-12-14)

    The present thesis has three major thrusts: the first thrust presents a broad investigation of asymptotic binary hypothesis testing, when each hypothesis represents asymptotically many independent instances of a quantum ...

    From low carbon buildings to sustainable cities : sustainability transitions in the built environment towards the UN Agenda 

    Penagos, Guillermo (Fecha de defensa: 2021-07-06)

    This thesis addresses sustainability transitions in the built environment, from buildings to the metropolitan scale, while ranging from low carbon development to the multidimensional challenges currently faced by cities. ...

    From quantum foundations to quantum information protocols and back 

    Torre Carazo, Gonzalo de la (Fecha de defensa: 2015-09-23)

    Physics has two main ambitions: to predict and to understand. Indeed, physics aims for the prediction of all natural phenomena. Prediction entails modeling the correlation between an action, the input, and what is subsequently ...

    From RNA to histological images: linking the transcriptome with human phenotypes through statistical learning 

    Muñoz Aguirre, Manuel (Fecha de defensa: 2021-04-07)

    Genomic datasets are fundamental to broaden our understanding of human biology in the context of health and disease. However, the high-dimensional nature of gene expression and other molecular traits poses a challenge when ...

    From the i* diversity to a common interoperability framework 

    Cares Gallardo, Carlos (Fecha de defensa: 2012-09-20)

    Since the i* framework emerged in the requirements engineering community in the mid-90s, different research groups have proposed variations to the modelling language proposed in the i* framework (¿the i* language¿). There ...

    From the production of the single cell to the end of life of the battery module: the development of parameter variation of lithium-ion cells 

    Oeser, David (Fecha de defensa: 2022-10-27)

    (English) In lithium-ion batteries, depending on the requirements, many individual cells are connected in series and parallel. Despite very similar individual cell parameters after production, they can develop differently ...

    Fuera de juego: variables cualitativas de la luz en la arquitectura 

    Campos de Armas, Attenya (Fecha de defensa: 2016-01-15)

    According to architecture, lighting design involves a high sensitivity keep with the intended use of each project. One of the key issues in defining the indoor environment is the optima! planning of daylight, providing ...

    Full time-domain electromagnetic interference measurements and applications 

    Azpúrua, Marco A. (Fecha de defensa: 2018-06-28)

    This thesis presents a technology that has been called the Full Time-Domain Electromagnetic Interference measurement systems and its applications. Full TDEMI measurement systems are an implementation of an FFT-based receiver ...

    A fully Lagrangian formulation for fluid-structure interaction between free-surface flows and multi-fracturing solids 

    Cornejo Velázquez, Alejandro (Fecha de defensa: 2020-12-21)

    It is well known that in civil engineering structures are designed so that they remain,whenever possible, in an elastic regime and with their mechanical properties intact. The truth isthat in reality there are uncertainties ...

    Funciones de complejidad y su relación con las familias abstractas de lenguajes 

    Gabarró, Joaquim (Fecha de defensa: 1983-01-01)

    Functionalization of a Ti-based alloy with synthesized recombinant fibronectin fragments to improve cellular response 

    Herranz Díez, Carolina (Fecha de defensa: 2014-07-22)

    According to a study of the European Commission, approximately one million hips are replaced by prostheses worldwide every year. The interaction of the human body with foreign materials that are subjected to alternating ...