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    Victory over Chaos? Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Ekistics 1945-1975 

    Theodosis, Lefteris (Date of defense: 2016-05-30)

    Constantinos A. Doxiadis (1913-1975) was an important figure in the realm of postwar urbanism, and yet his contribution has been largely neglected. This study reviews his trajectory and analyzes key projects related to ...

    Vida y obsolescencia de fachadas del siglo XX en la ciudad de Barcelona . El caso de los edificios sin protección patrimonial : factores de influencia y estrategias de diseño en relación a los efectos del paso del tiempo 

    Garrido Torres, Pablo (Date of defense: 2015-07-13)

    The object of this doctoral thesis is to explore the effects of the passage of time on the façades of buildings, focusing on the architect's sphere of influence and point of view. The initial hypothesis is that project ...

    Viewability contributions towards a better online advertising ecosystem 

    Expósito Ventura, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-04-20)

    (English) Online advertising makes possible most of the freely available online content and services. However, it is far from being mature and there are still controversial topics that need to be addressed. One of these ...

    Vilanova Artigas y el ideario moderno: el caso de Londrina, 1948-1953 

    López, Carla Cristina (Date of defense: 2012-11-08)

    El objeto del presente trabajo es un estudio profundizado sobre la obra realizada por el arquitecto Vilanova Artigas en la ciudad de Londrina. Es conocida la importancia que este ha tenido en la formación y consolidación ...

    La vinculación entre los sectores financiero e inmobiliario 

    Arderiu Calvo, Amadeo (Date of defense: 2015-12-17)

    The link between financial and real estate sectors, sometimes excessive and others inadequate, is generated through its assets and in all the operations in which they intervene. Its study comprises finance of mortgage-backed ...

    Virtual human hand: grasping strategy and simulation 

    Peña Pitarch, E. (Esteve) (Date of defense: 2008-01-25)

    La mano humana es una herramienta muy completa, capaz de adaptarse a diferentes superficies y formas, y también tocar y coger. Es una conexión directa entre el mundo exterior y el cerebro. I.Kant (filosofo alemán) definió ...

    "Virtual malleability" applied to MPI jobs to improve their execution in a multiprogrammed environment" 

    Utrera Iglesias, Gladys Miriam (Date of defense: 2007-12-10)

    This work focuses on scheduling of MPI jobs when executing in shared-memory multiprocessors (SMPs). <br/>The objective was to obtain the best performance in response time in multiprogrammed multiprocessors systems using ...

    Virtual network provisioning over flexible optical transport infrastructure 

    Pagès Cruz, Albert (Date of defense: 2014-12-16)

    Current transport network owners are focused on offering services on top of the infrastructures they own, while end users have no control over them. Traditionally, this has been their business model, as the cost of building ...

    Virtualization techniques for memory resource exploitation 

    Garrido Platero, Luis Angel (Date of defense: 2019-11-26)

    Cloud infrastructures have become indispensable in our daily lives with the rise of cloud-based services offered by companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon and many others. These cloud infrastructures use a large numbers ...

    Virtually synchronous power plant control 

    Tarrasó Martínez, Andrés (Date of defense: 2022-02-22)

    During the last century, the electrical energy infrastructures have been governed by synchronous generators, producing electrical energy to the vast majority of the population worldwide. However, power systems are no longer ...

    Visco-plasticity of zero-thickness interfaces with softening, and application to the study of fault reactivation 

    Jaqués Adell, Irene (Date of defense: 2023-02-10)

    (English) In the current context of both energy and environmental needs, there has been an increase in activities related to extraction and injection of fluids in the underground. It is known that a possible consequence ...

    Viscosidad en la dieta de pacientes diagnosticados de disfagia orofaríngea 

    García González, María Luisa (Date of defense: 2017-06-28)

    This doctoral thesis is based on professional experience with patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia. This clinical syndrome, which is highly prevalent in the health and social environment, with very diverse etiologies is ...

    Visible, near infrared and thermal hand-based image biometric recognition 

    Font Aragonès, Xavier (Date of defense: 2013-05-30)

    Biometric Recognition refers to the automatic identification of a person based on his or her anatomical characteristic or modality (i.e., fingerprint, palmprint, face) or behavioural (i.e., signature) characteristic. It ...

    Vision based sensor substitution in robotic assisted surgery 

    Marbán González, Arturo (Date of defense: 2018-02-12)

    Perceiving and understanding the world represents a long-term goal in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In recent years, advances in the field of Machine Learning (ML), and specifically in Deep Learning (DL), have ...

    La visió de la informàtica en la literatura de ciència ficció 

    Barceló Garcia, Miquel (Date of defense: 1990-09-01)

    (Cat) Aquesta memòria descriu com la literatura de ciència ficció reflecteix en les seves narracions els conceptes i resultats propis de la ciència i la tecnologia informàtica. Aquesta visió cal entendre-la en un sentit ...

    Visual guidance of unmanned aerial manipulators 

    Santamaria Navarro, Àngel (Date of defense: 2017-04-24)

    The ability to fly has greatly expanded the possibilities for robots to perform surveillance, inspection or map generation tasks. Yet it was only in recent years that research in aerial robotics was mature enough to allow ...

    Visual Navigation in Unknown Environments 

    Vidal Calleja, Teresa Alejandra (Date of defense: 2007-07-13)

    Navigation in mobile robotics involves two tasks, keeping track of the robot's position and moving according to a control strategy. In addition, when no prior knowledge of the environment is available, the problem is even ...

    Visual object analysis using regions and local features 

    Ventura Royo, Carles (Date of defense: 2016-07-08)

    The first part of this dissertation focuses on an analysis of the spatial context in semantic image segmentation. First, we review how spatial context has been tackled in the literature by local features and spatial ...

    Visual understanding of human behavior: 3D pose, motion, actions and context 

    Hernández Ruiz, Alejandro José (Date of defense: 2023-05-30)

    (English) Visual understanding of human behavior is a very broad topic that, in the abstract, means understanding what a person or group of people is doing in an image or video. In practice, it can be broken down into a ...

    Visualization and interpretability in probabilistic dimensionality reduction models 

    Tosi, Alessandra (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)

    Over the last few decades, data analysis has swiftly evolved from being a task addressed mainly within the remit of multivariate statistics, to an endevour in which data heterogeneity, complexity and even sheer size, driven ...