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A constitutive model of human esophagus tissue with application for the treatment of stenosis

Sánchez Molina, David (Date of defense: 2013-11-07)

This dissertation is a research about the mechanical behavior of the human esophagus. This work is intended to be applied in the treatment of stenosis and other esophageal diseases that frequently require a procedure of ...

A constraint-based hypergraph partitioning approach to coreference resolution

Sapena Masip, Emili (Date of defense: 2012-05-16)

The objectives of this thesis are focused on research in machine learning for coreference resolution. Coreference resolution is a natural language processing task that consists of determining the expressions in a discourse ...

A construção de Cidades no Brasil: Capital, poder público, população e a produção do espaço urbano em Vitória da Conquista (1940 - 2010)

Soares dos Santos, Ronan (Date of defense: 2014-01-24)

Este trabalho, baseado em pesquisa empírica e bibliográfica, pretende reconstituir a relação entre o poder público, o capital imobiliário, a população e a produção do espaço urbano na cidade de Vitória da Conquista – Ba, ...

A construção do conhecimento europeu sobre a China, c. 1500 - c. 1630. Impressos e manuscritos que revelaram o mundo chinês à Europa culta

Roque de Oliveira, Francisco M. (Date of defense: 2003-03-12)

Com a chegada dos navios de Vasco da Gama ao litoral indostânico (1498), a conquista do grande empório marítimo de Malaca por Afonso de Albuquerque (1511) e o primeiro desembarque português nas costas da província chinesa ...

A contextual view on the role of contemporary architecture in urban tourism destinations: exploring why contemporary architecture is attracting tourism

Specht, Jan (Date of defense: 2013-01-25)

Architecture forms an inherent part of urban tourism. Nevertheless, so far little research has been carried out regarding the interdependencies between urban tourism and architecture in general, as well as contemporary ...

A contrastive study of the EFL vowel system in native Spanish, French, German and Russian learners

Juan Checa, José Javier (Date of defense: 2021-03-03)

This thesis focuses on the phonetic difficulties that learners of English as a foreign language will encounter. This research wants tó propose a new point of view; a different and wider angle on how to approach this ...

A contribution of budding yeast to unravel aging. Entry into quiescence relies on the transceptor Mtl1 by sensing nutrients and regulation of signaling pathways

Sundaram, Venkatraghavan (Date of defense: 2015-01-10)

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a premier model system to study ageing in post mitotic cells. In this study, we show that Mtl1, member of the Cell Wall Integrity pathway (CWI), plays a positive role in Chronological Life ...

A contribution to chemical process operation support: new machine learning and surrogate models based approaches for process optimization, supervision and control

Shokry Abdelaleem Taha Zied, Ahmed (Date of defense: 2021-05-05)

In the chemical process industry, the decision-making hierarchy is inherently model-based. The scale and complexity of the considered models (e.g., enterprise, plant or unit model) depend on the decision-making level (e.g., ...

A contribution to exchange rate forecasting based on machine learning techniques

Sanabria Montañez, José Antonio (Date of defense: 2011-10-17)

El propòsit d'aquesta tesi és examinar les aportacions a l'estudi de la predicció de la taxa de canvi basada en l'ús de tècniques d'aprenentatge automàtic. Aquestes aportacions es veuen facilitades i millorades per l'ús ...

A contribution to multi-criteria decision making in sustainable energy management based on fuzzy and qualitative reasoning

Afsordegan, Arayeh (Date of defense: 2015-12-21)

Energy problems are serious problems caused by limited resources and by human activity such as deforestation, water pollution and various other long-term practices that have environmental impact which produces global warming ...