Local electricity markets design and operation in distribution power systems 

Olivella Rosell, Pol (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)

In the context of distributed generation growth, local grids could face operational issues. In that sense, smart grid deployment will give information to local grid operators about grid status at medium and low voltage ...

Local feature description in cross-spectral imagery 

Aguilera Carrasco, Cristhian Alejandro (Date of defense: 2017-09-29)

En los últimos años, el número de aplicaciones de consumo basadas en visión por computadora han incrementado drásticamente. Actualmente, soluciones basadas en visión por computadora pueden ser encontradas en video juegos, ...

Local government debt in Spain: Spatial effects and budgetary stability 

Ivanova Toneva, Mariya (Date of defense: 2020-02-21)

This doctoral thesis analyses a number of issues within the domain of local administration; issues such as local indebtedness, spatial effect on local debt and the law of financial sustainability and budgetary stability. ...

Local model predictive control for navigation of a wheeled mobile robot using monocular information 

Pacheco Valls, Lluís (Date of defense: 2009-11-30)

Aquesta tesi està inspirada en els agents naturals per tal de planificar de manera dinàmica la navegació d'un robot diferencial de dues rodes. Les dades dels sistemes de percepció són integrades dins una graella d'ocupació ...

Local optics corrections in the HL-LHC 

Coello de Portugal - Martínez Vázquez, Jaime Maria (Date of defense: 2021-06-16)

In order to increase the performance of particle colliders, it is crucial to make the beam sizes at the collision points as small as possible. This causes an increase of the beam size in the region surrounding the collision ...

Local ordering and dynamics of plastic crystals 

Henao Aristizábal, Andrés (Date of defense: 2016-09-23)

Many materials of scientific interest show a disordered phase, with their molecules presenting positional disorder, orientational disorder or both. Processes of interest to life also occur in these kind of phases as it is ...

Local political opportunity structure and immigrant political incorporation: the multifaceted incorporation of latinos in Chicago 

Cruz Lera, Estefanía (Date of defense: 2018-10-29)

Esta tesis aborda la incorporación política de inmigrantes a través del análisis de las interacciones entre la agencia de los migrantes y el contexto político local. En esta investigación me concentro en explicar por qué ...

Local political participation: what citizens want, what governments do, and what academics assume. Southern european evidence for an international debate 

Alarcón Pérez, Pau (Date of defense: 2015-02-06)

La implementació d’innovacions democràtiques incorporant a la ciutadania en el procés de presa de decisions s’ha estès globalment durant les darreres dècades. Els mecanismes de participació local han esdevingut molt coneguts ...

Local preconditioning for parallel iterative solvers 

Córdoba Pañella, Paula (Date of defense: 2022-04-22)

This thesis aims at improving the convergence of iterative solvers, used for algebraic systems coming from the discretization of partial differential equations (PDE), in the context of large scale simulations and high ...

Local Pro-inflammatory or Anti-inflammatory Microenvironments induce alterations in the Neuron-Microglia "On/Off" signalling after Facial Nerve Axotomy 

Gómez López, Ariadna Regina (Date of defense: 2022-05-09)

Les cèl·lules microglials tenen un paper fonamental en l’homeòstasi i durant la neuroinflamació al sistema nerviós central (SNC). Quan detecten qualsevol alteració, s’activen ràpidament en un procés anomenat “activació ...

Local Public Service Provision and Delivery Economic Analysis and Policy Evaluation 

Sebő, Marianna (Date of defense: 2022-11-10)

[eng] This dissertation is composed of four empirical studies on local public service provision, production, and local politics. The first study, Chapter 2, looks at inter-municipal cooperation (IMC). IMC has attracted the ...

Local renewable energy projects on remote islands: Impacts, ethics, and transformative potential 

Tsagkari, Marouko (Date of defense: 2022-06-01)

In the discussions on climate change, the transition to renewable energy is seen as one of the biggest and most urgent steps the world can take to avoid ecological collapse. At the same time, the decentralized and abundant ...

Local scale air quality model system for diagnostic and forecasting simulations using the finite element method 

Oliver Serra, Albert (Date of defense: 2015-11-13)

Air pollution is an important topic with a great social impact; it is related with public health, environment and ecology, and climate change. Scientists have developed several models in the last thirty years, and regional ...

Local temperature and correlations in quantum many-body systems 

Hernández Santana, Senaida (Date of defense: 2019-04-12)

Quantum Mechanics was established as the theory of the microscopic world, which allowed to understand processes in atoms and molecules. Its emergence led to a new scientific paradigm that quickly spread to different research ...

Localitzacions i complecions d'espais anesfèrics 

Bastardas i Ferrer, Gemma (Date of defense: 2003-06-13)

Localizaciones con impactos de rayos recurrentes : aportación a la distribución geográfica de rayos con corrientes extremas y a la caracterización de rayos que afectan aerogeneradores 

Solà de las Fuentes, Glòria (Date of defense: 2023-11-03)

(English) Nowadays, lightning presents a challenge to the proper functioning of an increasingly complex electrical system. One of the most sensitive and exposed to lightning elements are wind turbines. Due to their height ...

Localización de deformación en medios dúctiles y anisótropos: estudio de campo, experimental y numérico 

Gómez Rivas, Enrique (Date of defense: 2008-05-09)

Aquesta tesi doctoral se centra en l'estudi de la localització de la deformació i la fracturació associada en medis dúctils i mecànicament anisòtrops. Malgrat la gran quantitat de treballs que es poden trobar a la literatura ...

Localización de faltas en sistemas de distribución de energía eléctrica usando métodos basados en el modelo y métodos basados en el conocimiento 

Mora Flórez, Juan José (Date of defense: 2006-12-15)

La calidad de energía eléctrica incluye la calidad del suministro y la calidad de la atención al cliente. La calidad del suministro a su vez se considera que la conforman dos partes, la forma de onda y la continuidad. ...

Localización de robots móviles en entornos cerrados mediante características de audio 

Manzanares Brotons, Manuel (Date of defense: 2016-02-03)

When GPS is not operative in closed environments, mobile robots use different types of sensor in order to locate their position. However, the use of audiofrequency signals sensors is significative lower than other type of ...

Localización del foramen mandibular: estudio anatómico mediante tomografía computarizada (TC) 

Parellada Insa, Héctor (Date of defense: 2012-07-16)

Para la mayoría de tratamientos dentales, es efectiva la utilización de técnicas anestésicas de tipo infiltrativo, consiguiendo el bloqueo efectivo del estímulo doloroso en todos los dientes de la arcada superior y del ...