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Andriella, Antonio (Date of defense: 2022-10-13)
(English) There are 50 million people worldwide living with dementia, and this number is projected to triple by 2050. While there are no pharmacological treatments for this syndrome, behavioural therapy such as cognitive ...
Barbecho Bautista, Pablo Andrés (Date of defense: 2022-05-19)
(English) The most promising solution to reduce carbon emissions due to transportation is migrating from fossil-fuel vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs). In recent years, the decisive shift of drivers to use EVs has been ...
Lago Rivera, Darío (Date of defense: 2022-11-02)
(English) The future quantum Internet will allow the transfer of quantum states between remote locations. However, bridging large distances is a challenging task due to losses in optical fibres. A promising approach to ...
Company Se, Georgina (Date of defense: 2023-07-03)
(English) Respiratory diseases, along with heart diseases, are the most prevalent in the world. The acquisition of lung samples is essential for a correct diagnosis of the disease. For peripheral lesions it is not easy to ...
Esnaola Acebes, Mikel (Date of defense: 2023-06-23)
(English) Epidemiology is a relatively young and rapidly evolving science. Recent technological breakthroughs have allowed modern epidemiologists to raise increasingly ambitious research hypotheses. This has originated ...
Zhang, Junhui (Date of defense: 2023-06-22)
(English) Zirconia-based ceramics present unique combination of mechanical, thermal and chemical properties, making them a preferred choice in automotive, aerospace, heavy machinery, defence and healthcare sectors. However, ...
Urbano González, Eva María (Date of defense: 2023-06-01)
(English) The current energy transition fosters the insertion of renewable energies and system decentralisation intending to achieve a more secure, sustainable and efficient energy market. The industry can play a key role ...
Castell Uroz, Ismael (Date of defense: 2023-07-06)
(English) echnologies are extensively used to collect huge amounts of personal information from our online activity, including the things we search for, the sites we visit, the people we contact, or the products we buy. ...
Bu, Xiangbo (Date of defense: 2023-11-09)
(English) Recent decades have witnessed varying degrees of damage in underground structures, including instances of structural collapse, reported during post-earthquake hazard investigations. Therefore, the research on ...
Alonso Travesset, Alexandre (Date of defense: 2023-07-14)
(English) The rise of distributed generation systems (DGSs) is crucial for the energy transition. The reduction in renewable energy costs and increasing implementation of environmentally-friendly policies are driving a new ...
Xenos, Alexandros (Date of defense: 2024-02-02)
(English) The recent technological advances in high-throughput sequencing have yielded vast amounts of large-scale biological omics data that describe different aspects of cellular functioning. These omics data are typically ...
Soltanalipour, Milad (Date of defense: 2023-05-10)
(English) Composite structures are frequently used in the construction of high-rise buildings due to their high ductility and strength. This article-based doctoral thesis has multiple objectives related to different ...
Sanz Lanzas, Claudia (Date of defense: 2023-05-26)
(English) The circular economy is an emerging concept presented as a solution to counteract the damage caused by the linear economic scheme followed in the past decades. It is based on the principle of "closing the life ...
Lomelí Quintero, Víctor Manuel (Date of defense: 2023-10-13)
(English) Climate change is a major issue that is having a significant impact on coastal areas globally. This phenomenon is generating processes of erosion, flooding and sea level rise, which is of great concern. These ...
Ballesteros Mascarell, Ainara (Date of defense: 2023-01-13)
(English) Jellyfish stings cause discomfort to users of the marine environment, who sometimes require medical assistance. Although jellyfish stings are common today, the scientific community remains in disagreement on how ...
Rocamonde Lourido, Javier (Date of defense: 2023-01-17)
(English) The first entry of the Diccionario de la lengua española (RAE) defines cooperate as "to work together with one or more agents to achieve a common goal". Perhaps this idea of aligned agents with a shared objective ...
Parada Bustelo, Samuel (Date of defense: 2023-01-27)
(English) This thesis deals with finite element methods to solve compressible flow problems, an important branch of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) whose applications are widespread in many areas of engineering and ...
Aiash, Ahmad (Date of defense: 2023-10-27)
(English) In order to converge towards Vision Zero concept in road safety, traffic crashes need great study and analysis. This thesis is aimed at this goal, applied to the urban and metropolitan environment of Barcelona. ...
Puruncajas Maza, Bryan (Date of defense: 2023-05-26)
(English) Wind turbines are huge structures with technological and industrial development on land and sea. These structures are located in remote areas with difficult access, with extreme environmental conditions. These ...
Turon Pujol, Francesc (Date of defense: 2024-03-05)
(Engilsh) Modern composite materials, primarily based on the union of polymeric matrices and fibers of glass, carbon or any other fiber of remarkable rigidity, have paved the way for the design and manufacture of lightweight ...