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    Decolourization of textile wastewater by manganese-aluminium metallic particles 

    AboliGhasemabadi, Mitra (Date of defense: 2019-07-10)

    Waste treatment is an important aspect of an industry. Organic dyes are used in many fields, such as textile, paper or food. Residual dye compounds from these industries are one of the most critical sources of environmental ...

    Decomposition techniques for computational limit analysis 

    Rabiei, Nima (Date of defense: 2014-10-27)

    Limit analysis is relevant in many practical engineering areas such as the design of mechanical structure or the analysis of soil mechanics. The theory of limit analysis assumes a rigid, perfectly-plastic material to model ...

    Decoupling state from control in software-defined networking 

    Rodríguez Natal, Alberto (Date of defense: 2016-07-04)

    Software-Defined Networking (SDN) arose as a solution to address the limitations of traditional networking. In SDN networks, the control-plane is decoupled from the data-plane devices and logically centralized in a new ...

    Deep learning architectures applied to wind time series multi-step forecasting 

    Manero Font, Jaume (Date of defense: 2020-07-14)

    Forecasting is a critical task for the integration of wind-generated energy into electricity grids. Numerical weather models applied to wind prediction, work with grid sizes too large to reproduce all the local features ...

    Deep learning based methodologies applied to industrial electromechanical systems monitoring 

    Arellano Espitia, Francisco (Date of defense: 2023-10-10)

    (English) In recent years, there has been significant attention from both the academic and industry sectors towards condition-based maintenance of rotating systems. This attention stems from the high relevance of these ...

    Deep learning for i-vector speaker and language recognition 

    Ghahabi Esfahani, Omid (Date of defense: 2018-05-29)

    Over the last few years, i-vectors have been the state-of-the-art technique in speaker and language recognition. Recent advances in Deep Learning (DL) technology have improved the quality of i-vectors but the DL techniques ...

    Deep learning for spatio-temporal forecasting: benchmarks, methods, and insights from mobility and weather predictions 

    Herruzo Sánchez, Pedro (Date of defense: 2023-10-30)

    (English) This thesis explores the intersection of deep learning and spatio-temporal forecasting, focusing on the challenges and opportunities present in applying machine learning methods to predict complex geospatial and ...

    Deep learning techniques for demand-capacity balancing 

    Mas Pujol, Sergi (Date of defense: 2023-05-12)

    (English) Nowadays Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) have to handle and accommodate a continuously increasing traffic demand in a scenario that is expected to be more time-efficient and cost-efficient. Meeting the ...

    Deep learning that scales: leveraging compute and data 

    Campos Camúñez, Víctor (Date of defense: 2020-12-22)

    Deep learning has revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence in the past decade. Although the development of these techniques spans over several years, the recent advent of deep learning is explained by an increased ...

    Definition and use of software requirement patterns in requirements engineering 

    Palomares Bonache, Cristina (Date of defense: 2016-10-04)

    The final quality of software products and services depends on the requirements stated in the Software Requirements Specifications (SRSs). However, some problems like ambiguity, incompleteness and inconsistency have been ...

    Definition of external schemas and derived classes in object oriented databases 

    Samos Jiménez, José (Date of defense: 1997-05-14)

    El principal objetivo de esta tesis es ampliar el estudio de los esquemas externos en BDOO, en particular, su proceso de definición. Una nueva metodología de definición de esquemas externos que simplifica considerablemente ...

    Definition of multidimensional reduced order models for the elastic analysis of large composite structures 

    Turon Pujol, Francesc (Date of defense: 2024-03-05)

    (Engilsh) Modern composite materials, primarily based on the union of polymeric matrices and fibers of glass, carbon or any other fiber of remarkable rigidity, have paved the way for the design and manufacture of lightweight ...

    Definition of new WAN paradigms enabled by smart measurements 

    Ciaccia, Francesco (Date of defense: 2020-12-04)

    Nowadays massive amounts of data are being moved over the Internet thanks to data-hungry applications, Big Data, and multimedia content. Combined with a reduction in cost and augmented reliability for high-speed broadband ...

    Deformation and flow driven by osmotic processes in porous materials 

    Mokni, Nadia (Date of defense: 2011-02-22)

    En el caso del almacenamiento de los residuos radioactivos los flujos osmóticos pueden ser relevantes y requieren un análisis en detalle. El residuo nuclear bituminizado (BW) será almacenado mediante contenedores en cavidades ...

    Deformation measurement and monitoring with Ground-Based SAR 

    Monserrat Hernández, Oriol (Date of defense: 2012-03-15)

    The Ground-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar (GB-SAR) is a relatively new technique, which in the last ten years has gained interest as deformation measurement and monitoring tool. The GB-SAR technique is ...

    Deformation mechanisms of metastable stainless steels accessed locally by monotonic and cyclic nanoindentation 

    Sapezanskaia, Ina (Date of defense: 2016-07-21)

    Metastable austenitic stainless steels feature an abundance of different deformation mechanisms, which contribute to the distinguished mechanical properties of these alloys. However, these properties are known to depend ...

    Degradation of organic compounds in paper and testile industrial wastewaters by advanced axidation processes 

    Pérez Moya, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2001-11-16)

    Les activitats de recerca destinades a la solució dels problemes de contaminació de les aigües estan patint un fort increment en els darrers anys. <br/><br/>Entre les indústries més contaminants, cal esmentar la tèxtil i ...

    Del mejoramiento a la prevención de asentamientos informales : esquemas endógenos y sostenibles en ciudades intermedias de Nicaragua 

    Pérez Casas, Marc (Date of defense: 2016-07-05)

    The informal settlement’s associated predicament must be addressed by concurrent remediation and prevention urban policies. Nevertheless, the growing social pressure to respond to the situation through decent and effective ...

    Del mur romànic al museu. La tècnica de la pintura mural romànica i del seu traspàs amb morters de caseïna 

    Oriols Pladevall, Núria (Date of defense: 2022-11-17)

    (English) An important collection of Romanesque wall paintings, detached from their original places at the beginning of the 20th century, is now preserved and exhibited in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. To define ...

    Delaying the image : towards an aesthetics of encounter 

    Altés Arlandis, Alberto (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)

    This thesis, as part of a movement towards the degree of PhD (a becoming Doctor of Philosophy), is constructed and approached as a philosophical situation, which is always about an encounter between terms that are foreign ...