Sánchez Peacham, Daniel Alexander (Date of defense: 2020-01-27)
The continuous development of laser sources delivering ultra-short light pulses underpins much of the current progress in experimental science, particularly in the domain of physics concerned with ...
Roigé Montornés, Núria (Date of defense: 2020-07-15)
This Doctoral Thesis addresses aspects of interest for hydraulic infrastructure managers, such as investment decision support tools, in order to provide both decision support and the justification tools ...
Mulas, Dani (Date of defense: 2020-02-28)
The Barcelona metropolitan area (BMA; 3.2 M inhabitants) has an integrated urban water cycle management. Different type of treatment plants are located along the drinking, sewerage and reuse networks ...
Tsitsimelis, Achilleas (Date of defense: 2020-10-14)
Since their inception, more than one century ago, electrical grids have played the role of a critical infrastructure. During the majority of this time, power systems have not faced radical changes. In ...
Olaizola, Edita (Date of defense: 2020-11-12)
Among the better-known approaches are Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, the Circular Economy and the Collaborative Economy. All of these drive value for organisations, and all share this ...
Villalonga Munar, Pablo (Date of defense: 2020-07-22)
This thesis investigates the encounters between elevated linear infrastructures and architectures of the European sedimentary city. The scalar contraposition between these two opposing urban elements ...
Liu, Xiao (Date of defense: 2022-11-10)
(English) Snapshot positioning is the technique to determine the position of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver using only a very brief interval of the received satellite signal. In ...
Marazuela Calvo, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2020-07-03)
This thesis aims to advance the knowledge of the hydrogeological functioning of salt flats in order to achieve a sustainable management of their mineral resources and ecosystems. Salt flats are a major ...
González Romero, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-03-07)
The thesis starts by giving an introduction to the game of Scrabble, then mentions state-of-the-art computer Scrabble programs and presents some characteristics of our developed Scrabble engine Heuri. ...
Bellido Recoder, Lucía (Date of defense: 2021-10-25)
Railway bridges located at seismic zones are particularly complex structures that present exceptional difficulties due to the existence of the track and the phenomena associated to it called track-bridge ...