Cabrera Estanyol, Ferran de (Date of defense: 2023-07-03)
(English) A great deal is known about second-order statistics. For many years, most of the signal processing problems have been addressed under the perspective of the first and second-order moments of ...
Castañar Pérez, Inocencio (Date of defense: 2023-07-24)
(English) Topology optimization of incompressible structures, in which the loads on the structure come from the stresses exerted by a surrounding fluid, is a highly complex problem. This work presents ...
Oks, David (Date of defense: 2023-07-17)
(English) Computational modeling and simulation (CM&S) provides a powerful cost- and time-efficient tool to access detailed mechanistic information of biomedical problems, which is not accessible in ...
Barceló Mercader, Jordi (Date of defense: 2023-09-08)
(English) Flexoelectricity is a two-way coupling between strain gradient and polarisation or strain and polarization-gradient. Harnessing flexoelectricity as a functional property requires gradient ...
Urtiaga Erneta, Iñigo (Date of defense: 2023-07-04)
(English) This PhD dissertation deals with qualitative questions from the theory of elliptic Partial Differential Equations (PDE) and integro-differential equations. We are primarily interested in a ...
Finogina, Tamara (Date of defense: 2023-10-02)
(English) One of the most common fears regarding electronic voting is that a voting device will disregard the voter's intent and cast a different vote instead. An undetectable attack like that on a large ...
Cortez Ordóñez, Alexandra Piedad (Date of defense: 2023-11-23)
(English) Nowadays, Bicycle Sharing Systems (BSS) have become a popular and widespread transportation system across the world thanks to their multiple environmental and health benefits, and its successful ...
Alsalti Baldellou, Àdel (Date of defense: 2023-12-18)
(English) Divergence constraints are present in the governing equations of many physical phenomena, and they usually lead to a Poisson equation whose solution is one of the most challenging parts of ...
Vila i Julià, Guillem (Date of defense: 2023-11-22)
(English) Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally, only behind cardiovascular diseases, being a major public health issue. Cancer comprises a wide group of diseases characterized by abnormal ...
Andreu Casas, Enric (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
(English) The proposed PhD thesis consists in solving the Multi-manned Assembly Line Balancing Problem (MALBP). This type of assembly lines is common in the manufacture of large products, such as ...