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Multi-probe cosmological analysis with the dark energy survey

Porredon Diez de Tejada, Anna Maria (Date of defense: 2019-10-31)

Les actuals i futures cartografies de galàxies cobriran un major volum i recolliran imatges de millor qualitat que les obtingudes fins ara, permetent mesures precises de la última etapa de l'Univers i proves potents de ...

Multi-risk assessment and users' perception: a futher step towards ecosystem-based beach management

Lozoya Azcárate, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2012-10-29)

This thesis deals with the need to move towards a holistic, truly integrated and ecosystem-based beach management that allows a sustainable use of these systems within the socio-ecological paradigm. However, the scarcity ...

Multi-robot cooperative platform : a task-oriented teleoperation paradigm

Hernansanz Prats, Albert (Date of defense: 2016-04-14)

This thesis proposes the study and development of a teleoperation system based on multi-robot cooperation under the task oriented teleoperation paradigm: Multi-Robot Cooperative Paradigm, MRCP. In standard teleoperation, ...

Multi-scale and multi-sensor remote sensing in international agricultural development

Buchaillot, Maria Luisa (Date of defense: 2023-02-10)

[eng] Personal food security means that they have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and quality food. On the other hand, there are three main causes of food insecurity: 1. the high vulnerability of agriculture ...

Multi-scale biomechanical study of transport phenomena in the intervertebral disc

Malandrino, Andrea (Date of defense: 2012-07-26)

Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is primarily involved in back pain, a morbidity that strongly affects the quality of life of individuals nowadays. Lumbar IVDs undergo stressful mechanical loads while being the largest ...

Multi-scale integrated cellular modelling for the study of urban change phenomena

Norte Pinto, Nuno (Date of defense: 2016-09-12)

The development of urban models based on mathematical and physics concepts has been one of the most intense scientific areas of research for the last two decades in urban studies. Cellular automata (CA), a mathematical ...

Multi-scale investigation of occurrence, fate, removal and biodegradation of pharmaceutical contamination in wastewater treatment and river systems

Collado Alsina, Neus (Date of defense: 2013-07-19)

Human and veterinary pharmaceuticals have been recognized as ubiquitous water microcontaminants with potential subtle detrimental effects on aquatic organisms. The majority of pharmaceutical compounds, after being consumed ...

Multi-scale study of the genome architecture and its dynamical facets

Soler Vila, Paula (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)

High-throughput Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C) techniques have provided a comprehensive overview of the genome architecture. Hi-C, a derivative of 3C, has become a reference technique to study the 3D chromatin structure ...

Multi-scale topological design of structural materials : an integrated approach

Ferrer Ferré, Àlex (Date of defense: 2017-05-26)

The present dissertation aims at addressing multiscale topology optimization problems. For this purpose, the concept of topology derivative in conjunction with the computational homogenization method is considered. In ...

Multi-sensor detection schemes using spatio-temporal models

Ali, Sadiq (Date of defense: 2014-03-31)

This thesis is focused on multi-sensor event detection schemes in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). In the WSN, sensors individually take their observations, do some initial local processing and then send the result to the ...

Multi-sensor remote sensing detection of biotic stress for crop phenotyping and management guidance

Hamdane, Yassine (Date of defense: 2023-09-14)

[eng] The main driving force behind crop research is to ensure food security. Climate change, which affects most crops and increases the risk of disease and famine, is addressed in this notion. The Food and Agriculture ...

A multi-sited ethnography of the decolonization of mobile media among Guaraní

Wagner, Sarah (Date of defense: 2020-01-28)

Els moviments de drets indígenes d'Amèrica Llatina lluiten contra les hegemonies colonials que impregnen la vida contemporània. Mitjançant l'anàlisi particular dels pobles guaranís i les seves estratègies avançades, aquesta ...

Multi-species planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca and δ18O as recorders of surface ocean paleoclimatic processes: 2 case studies from diverse oceanographic regions and timescales

Rodríguez Sanz, Laura (Date of defense: 2012-11-23)

Durante procesos de calcificación los foraminíferos planctónicos incorporan Mg/Ca y fraccionan los isótopos de oxígeno (δ18O) en sus cáscaras dependiendo de la temperatura, y de la temperatura-δ18O de la masa de agua ...

Multi-terminal HVDC grids control and operation

Rouzbehi, Kumars (Date of defense: 2016-03-29)

In recent years, there have been considerable efforts in the design and development of technologies and techniques for more efficient harvesting of renewable energy resources to meet the ever increasing electric power ...

Multi-tier framework for the inferential measurement and data-driven modeling

Rallo Moya, Robert (Date of defense: 2007-07-13)

A framework for the inferential measurement and data-driven modeling has been proposed and assessed in several real-world application domains. The architecture of the framework has been structured in multiple tiers to ...

Multi-view depth coding based on a region representation combining color and depth information

Maceira Duch, Marc (Date of defense: 2017-06-21)

Depth map data is used to supplement the color data in multi-view sequences. As depth maps present distinct Characteristics than natural color images, new coding techniques are required to represent their smooth regions ...

Multi-year campaign of the gamma-ray binary LS I +61º 303 and search for VHE emission from gamma-ray binary candidates with the MAGIC telescopes

López Oramas, Alicia (Date of defense: 2014-09-18)

Esta tesis se centra en el estudio de sistemas binarios compactos de rayos γ, las denominadas binarias de rayos γ, con los telescopios MAGIC. Sólo cinco sistemas son los componentes de este ...

Multiapproach computational modelling of tuberculosis : understanding its epidemiological dynamics for improving its control in Nigeria

Ahmad, Nura Mohammad Rabiu (Date of defense: 2020-07-20)

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that is considered to be the biggest killer of mankind in the history of infectious diseases. There are still more than 10 million new TB cases every year and it causes more than ...

Multiband and Silicon Integrated Antennas for Wireless Sensor Networks

Gemio Valero, Joan (Date of defense: 2011-07-20)

Les tecnologies sense fils han provocat una important revolució en el món de les xarxes i serveis de telecomunicació. Han apareguts nous sistemes com els telèfons mòbils d'última generació o les xarxes LAN sense fils que ...

Multicarrier communication systems with low sensibility to nonlinear amplification

Deumal Herraiz, Marc (Date of defense: 2008-07-11)

Actualment estem entrant a una nova era de la informació amb gran demanda de sistemes de comunicació sense fils. Nous serveis com dades i video requereixen transmissions fiables d'alta velocitat, fins i tot en escenaris ...