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    Retorno, financiamiento y deserción, factores clave de la educacción superior. Lecciones para la política públlica : el caso de Chile 

    Améstica Rivas, Luis Rodolfo (Date of defense: 2015-04-15)

    La Educación Superior constituye un imperativo estratégico para los países, impactando a la sociedad como un todo, siendo la formación de capital humano avanzado uno de los factores que permite un mayor bienestar de las ...

    Retroflections in the tropical Atlantic Ocean 

    Vallès Casanova, Ignasi (Date of defense: 2021-10-19)

    The upper ocean circulation is the area of confluence of two major vertical cells: the large-scale overturning Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the regional relatively shallow Subtropical Cells (STCs). ...

    Return of the marine heterotrophic flagellates: diversity, distribution and gene expression patterns 

    Obiol Plana, Aleix (Date of defense: 2023-01-27)

    (English) Marine heterotrophic flagellates (HF) are very small (2-5 µm) unpigmented protists that are dominant bacterial grazers in the ocean, where they link the transfer of carbon from bacterial cells to higher trophic ...

    Reusing cached schedules in an out-of-order processor with in-order issue logic 

    Palomar Pérez, Óscar (Date of defense: 2011-05-09)

    Modern processors use out-of-order processing logic to achieve high performance in Instructions Per Cycle (IPC) but this logic has a serious impact on the achievable frequency. In order to get better performance out of ...

    Revestimientos a base de sílica e ácido fosfônico para proteção anticorrosiva da liga de alumínio AA2024-T3 

    Dalmoro, Viviane (Date of defense: 2013-11-04)

    The aluminum alloy AA2024-T3, u sed extensively in the aerospace industry, dueto the heterogeneous microstructures intentionally designed to optím ize the m echanical properties, is very susceptible to localízed corros ...

    Revolutionizing space mission event modeling with the Tychonis framework 

    Llopis, Marcel (Date of defense: 2023-12-14)

    (English) This thesis presents the Tychonis framework, a solution to the limitations faced by existing software packages used in space missions to identify geometric events. The framework is designed to integrate with ...

    Réplica de negocios en contextos de pobreza: identificiación de modelos idóneos a partir de la evaluación de fuentes de creación de valor superior y mecanismos de transferencia 

    Mutis, Juliana (Date of defense: 2013-03-18)

    La tesis doctoral que se desarrolla a continuación se centra en la réplica de negocio que, en contextos de pobreza, crean valor para la sociedad (en términos de reducción de pobreza) y la empresa. La incorporación de las ...

    RFID multiantenna systems for wireless communications and sensing 

    Capdevila Cascante, Santiago (Date of defense: 2013-02-15)

    Many scientific, industrial and medical applications require the measurement of different physical parameters in order to collect information about the spatially distributed status of some process. Very often this information ...

    Rheological models for tissue relaxation and fluidisation 

    Asadipour, Nina (Date of defense: 2016-03-04)

    We present a cell-centred model for the simulation of multicellular soft tissues that takes into account the underlying active process at the cytoskeletal level, and allows for active and passive cell-cell reorganisation ...

    Ridolfi a Terni, 1944-1964. La Palazzina com a síntesi entre forma urbana i tipologia domèstica 

    Solanellas Terés, Àngel (Date of defense: 2021-11-09)

    Roman architect Mario Ridolfi (1904-1984) made a substantial contribution to the transformation of European cities and to collective housing after the Second World War. For a period of twenty years, he used the city of ...

    Riego y fertilización nitrogenada en maíz (zea mays l.): efecto sobre el rendimiento del cultivo y la contaminación subterránea por nitratos 

    Poch Massegú, Ricard (Date of defense: 2012-03-30)

    Intensive farming often leads environmental consequences. This is the case of the study area of this thesis: the Empordà, a region with a variety of intensive crops (fruits, cereals, forage,...) and manifest problems of ...

    Riesgo sísmico de edificaciones en términos de pérdidas económicas mediante integración de costos de reparación de componentes 

    Yamin Lacouture, Luis Eduardo (Date of defense: 2016-01-28)

    The probabilistic seismic risk assessment in terms of economic losses for building portfolios aims at the estimation of the probability distribution functions of losses. This can be done for a specific seismic event ...

    Rights and services interoperability for multimedia content management 

    Maroñas Borras, Xavier (Date of defense: 2013-12-04)

    The main goal of the work presented in this thesis is to describe the definition of interoperability mechanisms between rights expression languages and policy languages. Starting from languages interoperability, the intention ...

    Risk analysis of jet fires thermal effects 

    Foroughi, Vahid (Date of defense: 2023-09-20)

    (English) The historical analysis performed has shown that jet fires have been the origin of a high number of domino effect accidents, both in the process industry and in the transportation of flammable fluids by pipelines ...

    Risk managment of complex aquifers contaminated by chemical mixtures : numerical tools and human health risk assessment 

    Henri, Christopher (Date of defense: 2015-07-09)

    Human impact on groundwater resources has led to a rapid growth of social concerns worldwide owing to an increasing presence of toxic chemicals released in the subsurface. Risk assessment provides the scientific tool needed ...

    Risk-based highway bridge inspection intervals 

    Anitori, Giorgio (Date of defense: 2021-04-23)

    Infrastructure maintenance programs establish schedules for routine inspections of highway bridges with little consideration of their current conditions. The time interval between two inspections is traditionally set based ...

    RMADS: development of a concurrent Rapid Manufacturing Advice System 

    Munguía Valenzuela, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 2009-12-03)

    La intenció d'aquest projecte de recerca és anar més enllà de l' aconseguit pels sistemes existents de selecció i comparació de processos de Prototipat Ràpid, mitjançant la introducció d'una nova metodologia que tingui com ...

    Roadmap para la organización de estructuras departamentales de innovación : el caso de los hospitales del sector sanitario en España 

    Feghali, Liliana (Date of defense: 2017-02-20)

    lnnovation management has different approaches for implementation. depending on the type of company and industry in which it is applied. In spite of existing organizational models for innovation management in companies and ...

    Robert Delaunay y la Torre Eiffel : fragmentación e interpenetración del espacio pictórico y arquitectónico 

    Capriata Estrada, Pedro A. (Date of defense: 2017-01-11)

    The work of Robert Delaunay and particularly his Eiffel Tower paintings are recognized as an essential symbol of modern art. However, their precise assessment by historians varies and there are aspects of these works that ...

    Robot learning from demonstration of force-based manipulation tasks 

    Rozo, Leonel (Date of defense: 2013-06-11)

    One of the main challenges in Robotics is to develop robots that can interact with humans in a natural way, sharing the same dynamic and unstructured environments. Such an interaction may be aimed at assisting, helping or ...