Boada Cahueñas, Ellana (Date of defense: 2020-07-20)
Biogas is a highly recognized alternative to fossil fuels towards a sustainable energy production. Massive use of biogas depends on the removal of contaminants that may affect performance of processing ...
Abdel Monsef, Said Ahmed Ibrahim (Date of defense: 2020-07-02)
Cohesive zone models are widely used for modelling delamination and bonded joints under different loading conditions. In the current thesis, an objective inverse method has been developed to extract the ...
Godo Pla, Lluís (Date of defense: 2020-11-05)
Drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs) face significant challenges due to anthropocentric pressure and climate change. To address them, DWTP managers need to adjust treatment units. In the present work, ...
Čelić, Mira (Date of defense: 2020-12-15)
The main objective of this thesis is to evaluate the impact of wastewater discharges on receiving riverine and coastal ecosystems by studying the occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants (ECs). Since ...
Galván Femenía, Iván (Date of defense: 2020-07-10)
The present thesis is a compendium of three research articles produced between 2015 and 2019. The three articles are different contributions based on compositional statistical methodology and statistical ...
Madruga Parera, Marc (Date of defense: 2020-06-03)
The asymmetries detected in the different multi-directional sports vary in magnitude depending on the test selected. Furthermore, in the individual analysis of the different tests administered, it was ...
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 ...
Wilson Aponte, Natalia (Date of defense: 2020-09-04)
The automated processing of genomic data can cause serious problems, both to data holders and third parties, especially about the infringement of fundamental rights to privacy and to self-determination ...
Paulino Valldepérez, Isabel (Date of defense: 2020-07-31)
Tourism destinations usually follow the administrative boundaries of the corresponding territorial administration. In contrast, previous studies state that administrative boundaries are not the most ...
Solé Torres, Carles (Date of defense: 2020-05-29)
At present, agriculture is the human activity which requires more volume of water. Given the importance and scarcity of this resource, the efficient use of water has become a priority. On one hand, if ...
504 - Threats to the environment (11)
004 - Computer science and technology. Computing. Data processing (6)
574 - General ecology and biodiversity (6)
628 - Public health engineering. Water. Sanitation. Illuminating engineering (6)
620 - Materials testing. Commercial materials. Power stations. Economics of energy (5)