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Castillo Fuentealba, Carlos Ignacio (Date of defense: 2023-02-13)
(English) The purpose of the doctoral thesis is to study interior spaces - built in the old tradition of closed and contrasted architecture – relativized in their interior condition. In the classical opacity and the ...
Marques de Araújo, Luciano (Date of defense: 2013-10-25)
The aim of this investigation is to understand how international project teams enable mature multinational enterprises (MNEs) to cope with knowledge diversity and political activity, two well-known disruptive organizational ...
Dimogerontakis, Emmanouil (Date of defense: 2017-05-26)
The majority of the world's population does not have any or adequate Internet access. This implies that the Internet cannot provide universal service, reaching everyone without discrimination. Global access to the Internet ...
García Alcaraz, Teresa (Date of defense: 2022-01-17)
This thesis explores the in-between spaces of the contemporary city, and the role they have in promoting urban togetherness through interstitial practice. By looking at different processes that take place in the borderlands ...
Porta Bleda, Núria (Date of defense: 2010-07-27)
Aquesta tesi tracta sobre tècniques d'anàlisi de supervivència en situacions amb múltiples esdeveniments i patrons complexes de censura. Proposem una nova metodologia per tractar la situació de riscos semi-competitius quan ...
Salvadó Aragonés, Núria (Date of defense: 2013-02-21)
"Inhabited intervals" is a research about the transition space in collective housing, specifically about the intermediate space located on the way from home to the street. After the work done by Team 10 between the fifties ...
Zavala Sánchez, María Dolores (Date of defense: 2013-11-18)
This PhD thesis is a deep research on the architectural evolution of the most representative municipal markets in Catalonia and Valencia , from its origins to the present day. It includes an extensive comparison of all the ...
Simancas Alarcón, Leiris (Date of defense: 2013-07-04)
There has been interest over the last few decades in Barcelona for buildings in urban cores that have outlived their original purpose. To take advantage of the heritage of these buildings, both public and private sectors ...
Uzqueda Martínez, Ángel L. (Date of defense: 2023-07-24)
(English) There is a broad consensus on the need to drive urban intervention public policies with the purpose of promoting more inclusive, sustainable, balanced and diverse cities. Urban intervention is not neutral; it has ...
Fentanes Gutiérrez-Zamora, Karla Angélica (Date of defense: 2004-11-26)
La Selva Lacandona de Chiapas, al sureste de la República Mexicana, es una región de 1'800.000 hectáreas de alto valor ambiental. Determinada por las características físicas del ecosistema selvático, ha sido un escenario ...
Qian, Liyuan (Date of defense: 2016-11-04)
The process of landscape restoration in highly polluted areas is influenced by complex interactions between a variety of environmental elements; these are interconnected through the comprehensive medium of the landscape ...
Gawali, Sandeep Babu (Date of defense: 2020-12-17)
Semiconductor lasers in high-power regime typically manifest a poor beam quality due to its asymmetric beam divergence and its large beam quality factor (M2). The emission along one of the transverse directions (slow axis) ...
Barba Serrahima, Albert (Date of defense: 2018-11-28)
The development of synthetic bone substitutes with enhanced osteogenic properties is urged by the global ageing population. Sintered calcium-phosphate (CaP) ceramics are the most widely used synthetic biomaterials for bone ...
Dhara, Chirag (Date of defense: 2013-06-12)
Quantum mechanics was developed as a response to the inadequacy of classical physics in explaining certain physical phenomena. While it has proved immensely successful, it also presents several features that severely ...
González Dan, José Roberto (Date of defense: 2015-11-06)
The frequency of occurrence of an accident is a key aspect in the risk assessment field. Variables such as the human factor, which is a major cause of undesired events in process industries, are usually not considered ...
Gispert Ramis, Adrià (Date of defense: 2007-01-26)
Aquesta tesi està dedicada a l'estudi de la utilització de informació morfosintàctica en el marc dels sistemes de traducció estocàstica, amb l'objectiu de millorar-ne la qualitat a través de la incorporació de informació ...
Panagiotidi, Sofia (Date of defense: 2014-09-29)
As distributed electronic systems grow to include thousands of components, from grid to peer-to-peer nodes, from (Semantic) Web services to web-apps to computation in the cloud, governance of such systems is becoming a ...
Costa Freire, Carla Sofia (Date of defense: 2012-05-18)
Nowadays, Information and Communication Technologies and Internet play an important role supporting everyday objectives. The speed of tasks performance, the easy access to all kind of information and the possibility of ...
Martínez Gomariz, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2016-11-04)
In this research work, an analysis is first undertaken on the hazard regarding people exposed to floods in urban areas. Several experiments with people were carried out in order to determine the stability limit to pedestrians, ...
Morgenstern de Muller, Christian Rudolf (Date of defense: 2010-02-25)
La estimación del esfuerzo respiratorio durante el sueño es de una importancia crítica para la identificación correcta de eventos respiratorios en los trastornos respiratorios del sueño (TRS), el diagnóstico correcto de ...