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    Life cycle assessment of the cabin waste management in the aviation sector 

    Blanca Alcubilla, Gonzalo (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)

    Air transport, in 2018, was the means of transport chosen by 8.8 billion people around the world. This is a sector that expected continued passenger growth in the following years, but due to the current effects of the ...

    Life cycle document management system for construction 

    Forcada Matheu, Núria (Date of defense: 2005-04-29)

    La industria de la construcción está fragmentada debido a la gran cantidad de Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas (PYMEs) y la multitud de fases que forman parte de un proyecto. Desde siempre, esta situación ha provocado una serie ...

    Life cycle thinking and general modelling contribution to chemical process sustainable design and operation 

    Bojarski, Aaron David (Date of defense: 2010-10-07)

    La industria es comúnmente vista como una fuente de degradación ambiental y de consumo de recursos, a pesar de ello es una parte vital del desarrollo social y de la creación de riqueza. Del mismo modo, los sistemas ...

    Lifelong AI-driven zero-touch network slicing 

    Rezazadeh, Farhad (Date of defense: 2023-11-13)

    (English) The sixth-generation (6G) network's evolution necessitates advancements in algorithms and architecture to transition from an AI-native to an intrinsic trustworthy automation-native system. Network slicing creates ...

    Light absorption and ergodicity in systems that transform light into other forms of energy 

    Ferreira, Catarina Gonçalves (Date of defense: 2023-09-27)

    (English) To mitigate the present environmental crisis, caused by the excessive use of fossil fuels and associated release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, it is necessary to significantly reduce worldwide energy ...

    Light and taste : third plane side‐view combined with complex fenestration system atmospheres under midday clear sky at restaurants 

    Uriarte Otazua, Urtza (Date of defense: 2016-12-22)

    This thesis deals with sunny side-lit indoor atmospheres, in which an outdoor view is required and a calm environment to enhance concentration. Different window systems were compared: a single fully glazed façade and complex ...

    Light beam propagation in complex crystals 

    Kumar, Nikhil P. (Date of defense: 2017-07-13)

    Recent advancement in Photonics have brought about a new era of miniaturisation. Along came a need for technology to allow the manipulation of light at the micrometer scale, with precise control over beam propagation. The ...

    Light enhancements in nano-structured solar cells 

    Pastorelli, Francesco (Date of defense: 2013-12-09)

    In this century some of our main issues are energy shortage and pollution. This work will briefly describe these problems, proposing a plan of action combining energy saving and different sustainable energy sources. Within ...

    Light generation and manipulation from nonlinear randomly distributed domains in SBN 

    Yao, Can (Date of defense: 2014-06-25)

    Disordered media with refractive index variations can be found in the atmosphere, the ocean, and in many materials or biological tissues. Several technologies that make use of such random media, as image formation, satellite ...

    Light harvesting and energy efficiency in perovskite solar cells and their applications 

    Martínez-Denegrí Sánchez, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2021-09-29)

    The environmental issues associated with the use of conventional fuels necessitates the utilisation of renewable energy sources, as well as the implementation of energy efficient designs, in order to decrease electricity ...

    Light harvesting in fiber array organic solar cells 

    Mariano Juste, Marina (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)

    Considering that the most abundant renewable energy source is the Sun, photovoltaic technology possesses one of the highest potentials to provide environmental benign and sustainable energy worldwide. Currently, most of ...

    Light management in non-Hermitian systems 

    Ahmed, Waqas Waseem (Date of defense: 2018-04-17)

    The quest for new artificial structures and materials uncovers novel new light-matter interactions, and intriguing physical phenomena. Since the late 80’s purely dielectric materials have been structured, at the wavelength-scale, ...

    Light methods for conformance checking of business processes 

    Taymouri, Farbod (Date of defense: 2018-12-21)

    Conformance Checking is a new research discipline devoted to identify deviations between business process models and their real executions. Identifying deviations boils down to the notion of alignment conceptually. An ...

    Light-matter interaction with atomic ensembles 

    Dubost, Brice (Date of defense: 2012-11-26)

    (English) The study of quantum light-matter interaction with atomic ensembles is an active research area. This kind of system allows fundamental studies on measurement in the context of continuous variables, in collective ...

    Lightweight and static verification of UML executable models 

    Planas Hortal, Elena (Date of defense: 2013-03-21)

    Executable models play a key role in many development methods (such as MDD and MDA) by facilitating the immediate simulation/implementation of the software system under development. This is possible because executable ...

    Lignocellulosic wastes and chitosan composites applied to recover rare earth elements by liquid-solid separation 

    Lapo Calderón, Byron Gonzalo (Date of defense: 2023-07-12)

    (English) Rare earths elements (REE) are crucial elements to the future of technology, particularly to the power generation and road transport. One of the most sustainable processes to recover rare earths is biosorption. ...

    Limpieza de matrices sólidas porosas de interés medioambiental con fluidos supercríticos. 

    Abaroudi, Kamal (Date of defense: 2001-04-04)

    En esta tesis, se ha intentado sustituir el uso de los solventes orgánicos clorados peligrosos con la técnica de la extracción supercrítica para la limpieza de piezas metálicas porosas. Se ha estudiado experimental y ...

    Lineamientos en la dirección estratégica para la integración de la responsabilidad social en las instituciones de educación superior 

    Ramos-Monge, Elva Lizeth (Date of defense: 2019-01-30)

    Nowadays, the need for ethical behavior in society is unquestionable due to dominant social problems that concern society, such as poverty, inequality and climate change. These issues have been addressed by private and ...

    Lingnin-based nanoparticles with antibacterial properties and their nanocomposite materials for wound healing 

    Morena Gatius, Ángela Gala (Date of defense: 2023-03-10)

    (English) Lignocellulosic biomass is an abundant renewable resource considered a suitable carbon raw material for the synthesis of chemicals and as an alternative to fossil fuels energy supply source. Cellulose, hemicellulose, ...

    Link level performance evaluation and link abstraction for LTE/LTE-advanced downlink 

    Serra Pagès, Albert (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)

    Els objectius principals d'aquesta tesis són l'avaluació del rendiment a nivell d'enllaç i l'estudi de l'abstracció de l'enllaç pel LTE/LTE-Advanced DL. S’ha desenvolupat un simulador del nivell d'enllaç E-UTRA DL basat ...