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Hosseini, Seyed Mohammad Amin (Fecha de defensa: 2016-09-30)
Many people lose their homes every year due to natural disasters. One of the major challenges to mollify displaced persons is the provision of adequate post-disaster accommodations, temporary housing (TH) being the most ...
Ruiz Almeida, Adriana (Fecha de defensa: 2021-04-29)
Nowadays, around 690 million undernourished people worldwide, even though the world already produces enough food to feed more than the whole current population. This situation is far from diminishing due to the current ...
Sadrolodabaee, Payam (Fecha de defensa: 2022-07-11)
Cementitious materials have one of the highest compressive strength-to-weight ratios compared to other construction materials. Nonetheless, both tensile strength capacity and toughness result to be an order of magnitude ...
Reinhardt, Robert, 1989- (Fecha de defensa: 2019-11-08)
The purpose of this doctoral research dissertation is to examine sustainable business model (SBM) perspectives for the rapidly developing Battery Second Use (B2U) market within the emerging electric vehicle (EV) industry. ...
Dogbe, Wisdom (Fecha de defensa: 2019-10-15)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the influence of climate and health policies on personal well-being and the environment or both as well as how household behaviour influences the sustainability of health goals – ...
Morganti, Michele (Fecha de defensa: 2013-12-16)
This research aims at exploring meanings, qualities and analytical abilities of density concept and its potential interpretations in architecture and sustainability fields. Despite the growing unsustainability of today's ...
Zakharova, Elena (Fecha de defensa: 2017-12-11)
In this century, the major use of synthetic polymers have been as replacements for more traditional materials, particulary in packaging. Today the packaging industry is by far the major user of plastics. Another interesting ...
Hernández Pibernat, Hugo (Fecha de defensa: 2012-06-11)
The main contributions of this thesis are located in the domain of wireless sensor netorks. More in detail, we introduce energyaware algorithms and protocols in the context of the following topics: self-synchronized ...
Alquézar Mancho, René (Fecha de defensa: 1997-05-12)
This thesis is structured in four parts for a total of ten chapters. <br/><br/>The first part, introduction and review (Chapters 1 to 4), presents an extensive state-of-the-art review of both symbolic and connectionist GI ...
Portal González, Gerard (Fecha de defensa: 2022-05-27)
Soil moisture is an essential climate variable that plays a crucial role linking the Earth’s water, energy, and carbon cycles. It is responsible for the water exchange between the Earth’s surface and the atmosphere, and ...
Cerra Flórez, Mauro Andrés (Fecha de defensa: 2021-10-04)
The aging heat treatments in maraging steels are fundamental to achieving their excellent mechanical properties and, in some applications using oxidation surface treatments lead to induce a superficial layer formed by iron ...
Hamouda, Inés (Fecha de defensa: 2020-12-16)
This PhD Thesis tallies with the Starting Grant project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) entitled “Atmospheric Pressure plAsma meets biomaterials for bone Cancer HEaling” (APACHE) and has been carried out ...
Binti Shaarani, Farra Wahida (Fecha de defensa: 2021-05-20)
The current research is primarily focused on the preparation of a polycarbonate using epoxidized linseed oil (ELO) and epoxidized soybean oil (ESO) as feedstocks. The presence of unsaturation in vegetable oil structure ...
Padilla Díaz, Alberto (Fecha de defensa: 2015-11-11)
Connect, upload, download, share and transfer anything at anytime and anywhere is not a futuristic vision and is indeed a real demand on current and future wireless and fixed communication systems. From the point of view ...
Hueltes Escobar, Alberto (Fecha de defensa: 2021-02-05)
The meteoric growth of the mobile communication market for the last three decades has been strongly related with the evolution of the electroacoustic (EA) filter technology. With way over 5 billion cell phone users worldwide ...
Moreno Vega, Alberto (Fecha de defensa: 2019-03-08)
Improvements in circuit manufacturing have allowed, along the years, increasingly complex designs. This has been enabled by the miniaturization that circuit components have undergone. But, in recent years, ...
Murase Fernández, Sara Keiko (Fecha de defensa: 2015-04-24)
Synthetic biopolymers have attracted considerable attention in the last decades in the biomedical field. Poly(ester amide)s are a family of biodegradable polymers that can be tailored for specific applications due to the ...
Portilla Arias, José Antonio (Fecha de defensa: 2008-04-24)
In the rapidly changing scientific world, contributions of scientists and engineers are leading to major new solutions of significant medical problems. Biology and medicine are beginning to reduce the problems of disease ...
Assaf, Simon Sassine (Fecha de defensa: 2019-06-18)
Nanotechnology is widely seen as having huge potential to bring benefits to many areas of research and application. Nowadays, research studies are focusing on realizing nano-machines on the order of nanometers in size. A ...
Argüello-Luengo, Javier (Fecha de defensa: 2022-10-21)
Atomic and optical physics are two fields closely connected by a shared range of energy scales, and the interactions between them. Atoms represent the most fundamental components of matter, and interactions with electromagnetic ...