Sosa Tinoco, Mariana Monserrat (Date of defense: 2022-02-15)
The development of community tourism has been considered essential for sustainable practices due to its ability to benefit the local population while reducing the negative impacts of tourism. Faced with ...
Gómez Colom, Javier (Date of defense: 2022-01-14)
The rehabilitation of civil structures has been gaining importance during the last decades. Owing to their mechanical, corrosion resistance and lightweight properties, Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Polymers ...
Casas Ruiz, Joan Pere (Date of defense: 2017-05-31)
In river networks, dissolved organic matter (DOM) constitutes the major pool of organic carbon, and plays a key role as energy source and modulator of toxic substances availability. In this thesis, Joan ...
Kabeel, Abdallah Mahmoud Bayoumi (Date of defense: 2015-04-15)
The main contribution of this work is to introduce analytical models able to create simple design charts that would allow designers to quickly determine the strength of quasi-brittle structures containing ...
Argudo Fernández, Maria (Date of defense: 2021-02-08)
This thesis shows how the metals of natural and anthropic origin change significantly the composition of the prokaryotic communities (mainly the composition of bacteria). The β-diversity is the most ...
Kushibar, Kaisar (Date of defense: 2020-07-20)
This PhD thesis focuses on the development of deep learning based methods for accurate segmentation of the sub-cortical brain structures from MRI. First, we have proposed a 2.5D CNN architecture that ...
Bosch Alay, Josep (Date of defense: 2018-10-17)
Omnidirectional vision has received increasing interest during the last decade from the computer vision community. However, the use of omnidirectional cameras underwater is still very limited. In this ...
Comas Hervada, Bruna (Date of defense: 2014-07-14)
Flame spread over solid samples has been studied from many points of view, as it is key for fire safety, yet it is a complex phenomenon that involves processes occurring in both the solid and the gas ...
Ivina, Olga (Date of defense: 2012-11-20)
This thesis is aimed to introduce a newly developed machine learning method, conformal predictors, for air pollution assessment. For the given area of study, the Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BMR), ...
Ros i Sala, Àlex (Date of defense: 2016-10-26)
In the margins of continents there are the coastal zones, regions of remarkable biological productivity. Coastal zones include, among others, wetlands, that are land areas inundated permanently o ...
68 - Industries, crafts and trades for finished or assembled articles (125)
504 - Threats to the environment (100)
004 - Computer science and technology. Computing. Data processing (77)
574 - General ecology and biodiversity (72)
628 - Public health engineering. Water. Sanitation. Illuminating engineering (56)