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    A Bayesian approach to robust identification: application to fault detection 

    Fernández Canti, Rosa Ma. (Date of defense: 2013-02-07)

    In the Control Engineering field, the so-called Robust Identification techniques deal with the problem of obtaining not only a nominal model of the plant, but also an estimate of the uncertainty associated to the nominal ...

    A bioeconomic analysis of the coastal fishery of Pernambuco State, North-eastern Brazil 

    Mattos, Sérgio Macedo Gomes de (Date of defense: 2004-10-27)

    Los conceptos bioeconómicos modernos invocan la importancia de definir los derechos de propiedad posibles de ser llevados a cabo dentro del contexto de gestión. La investigación pesquera debe considerar las expectativas ...

    A census for curves and surfaces with diophantine stability over finite fields 

    Vrioni, Brikena (Date of defense: 2021-10-29)

    An algebraic variety defined over a field is said to have Diophantine stability for an extension of this field if the variety does not acquire new points in the extension. Diophantine stability has a growing interest due ...

    A Cobertura da Unité d'Habitation de Marselha e a Pergunta de Le Corbusier pelo Lugar Público 

    Sequeira Carneiro, Marta (Date of defense: 2008-07-11)

    La bibliografía existente sobra la Unidad de Habitación de Marsella de Le Corbusier - una de las más importantes propuestas de vivienda colectiva del siglo XX -, se basa esencialmente en el estudio del conjunto de viviendas ...

    A code for multiphase reactive transport modeling of concentrated solutions under extreme dry conditions 

    Gamazo Rusnac, Pablo Andrés (Date of defense: 2010-12-20)

    La modelació del transport reactiu multifàsic (TRMF) involucra la simulació del flux de fases fluïdes, el transport de compostos químics i energia, i les reaccions químiques. La majoria dels codis de transport reactiu ...

    A collection of resources for the study of educational reverse engineering activities in engineering design education 

    Calderón Saldierna, Marco Lino (Date of defense: 2015-12-23)

    Educational Reverse Engineering Activities referred to as the acronym -EREA- help engineering design students to: Acquire and develop a set of abilities that raise their awareness of the design process; expand their sources ...

    A compressible Lagrangian framework for the simulation of underwater implosion problems 

    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 internal air and ...

    A computational study of intervertebral disc degeneration in relation to changes in regional tissue composition and disc nutrition 

    Ruiz Wills, Carlos (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)

    Up to 85% of the world population suffers from low back pain, a clinical condition often related to the intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration (DD). Altered disc cell nutrition affects cell viability and can generate ...

    A Conpagnie auxiliaire de chemins de fer au Brésil e a cidade de Santa Maria no Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil 

    Lopes, Caryl Eduardo Jovanovich (Date of defense: 2003-06-20)

    LA PAGINACIÓ DE LA TESI EN EL DOCUMENT PDF ESTÀ ORGANITZADA AL REVÉS DE MANERA QUE EL PRIMER FULL ES CORRESPON A LA PRIMERA PÀGINA DE LA TESI<br/><br/>RESUMEN<br/>El presente trabajo es histórico y trata de la relación ...

    A constitutive model of human esophagus tissue with application for the treatment of stenosis 

    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 a procedure of ...

    A constraint-based hypergraph partitioning approach to coreference resolution 

    Sapena Masip, Emili (Date of defense: 2012-05-16)

    The objectives of this thesis are focused on research in machine learning for coreference resolution. Coreference resolution is a natural language processing task that consists of determining the expressions in a discourse ...

    A contribution to chemical process operation support: new machine learning and surrogate models based approaches for process optimization, supervision and control 

    Shokry Abdelaleem Taha Zied, Ahmed (Date of defense: 2021-05-05)

    In the chemical process industry, the decision-making hierarchy is inherently model-based. The scale and complexity of the considered models (e.g., enterprise, plant or unit model) depend on the decision-making level (e.g., ...

    A contribution to multi-criteria decision making in sustainable energy management based on fuzzy and qualitative reasoning 

    Afsordegan, Arayeh (Date of defense: 2015-12-21)

    Energy problems are serious problems caused by limited resources and by human activity such as deforestation, water pollution and various other long-term practices that have environmental impact which produces global warming ...

    A contribution to sustainable management of integrated material/energy networks in process industries 

    Morakabatchiankar, Shabnam (Date of defense: 2021-07-22)

    Towards sustainability forces process industries to change their traditional patterns. Therefore, efficient retrofitting has been a significant challenge and raised several issues, motivating the process system engineering ...

    A contribution to the finite element analysis of high-speed compressible flows and aerodynamics shape optimization 

    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 II). The fi rst part ...

    A contribution to the ranking and description of classifications 

    Sánchez Hernández, Germán (Date of defense: 2013-09-13)

    This thesis presents a novel and complete fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methodology. This methodology is specifically designed for selecting classifications in the framework of unsupervised learning systems. ...

    A contribution to the theory of convolutional codes from systems theory piont of view 

    Um, Laurence Emilie (Date of defense: 2015-05-25)

    Information is such a valuable good of our time. Given that the transmission of information has always been subject to precision problems, knowing the obstacles existing between the transmitter and the receiver, eventual ...

    A Convex Decomposition Perspective on Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation and Applications 

    Morell Pérez, Antoni (Date of defense: 2008-09-23)

    Tradicionalment, les tècniques d'accés múltiple en sistemes de comunicacions multi-usuari han estat desenvolupades o bé orientades a la connexió o bé orientades al tràfic. En el primer cas, l'objectiu és establir tants ...

    A cotangent bundle Hamiltonian tube theorem and its applications in reduction theory 

    Teixidó Roman, Miguel (Date of defense: 2015-03-27)

    The Marle-Guillemin-Sternberg (MGS) model is an extremely important tool for the theory of Hamiltonian actions on symplectic manifolds. It has been extensively used to prove many local results both in symplectic geometry ...

    A coupled CFD-DEM model for sand production in oil wells 

    Climent Pera, Natalia (Date of defense: 2016-10-17)

    During the oil recovery a hole is drilled, the sandstone is left unsupported next to the cavity and disloged sand grains can enter the oil recovery system. This process is called sand production and several problems may ...