Binti Shaarani, Farra Wahida (Date of defense: 2021-05-20)
The current research is primarily focused on the preparation of a polycarbonate using epoxidized linseed oil (ELO) and epoxidized soybean oil (ESO) as feedstocks. The presence of unsaturation in vegetable ...
Mena Andrade, Ramiro Francisco (Date of defense: 2021-01-15)
Computer simulation is acknowledged as the third branch of Science. From the seminal work of Turner et al. (1956) [on Finite Elements, impressive improvements have been made in terms of software and ...
Vasconcellos, Ramon Barboza de (Date of defense: 2021-05-18)
The thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) behaviour of expansive clays has been extensively studied in the last decades due to the potential use of bentonites as components of engineered barrier systems (EBS) ...
Lacruz Cruz, Amado (Date of defense: 2022-07-18)
Fluorinated chemicals, commonly known as per- and polyfluoroalkyt substances (PFASs), are widely used to obtain water-, oil- and stain-repellent texUles. The constant development and optimization of ...
Carrés Gonzàlez, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-02-23)
Energy audits have been, and are basically the study and analysis of energy flows in a building, process or system with the aim of knowing its behavior in order to find possibilities for energy improvement. ...
Tirrito, Emanuele (Date of defense: 2020-07-13)
For a long time, quantum states of matter have been successfully characterized by the Ginzburg-Landau formalism that was able to classify all different types of phase transitions. This view changed ...
Ortiz-Gaona, Raúl (Date of defense: 2020-09-16)
Online social networks (OSNs) are increasinglyused by different sectors of societywith the purpose of informing and influencing people. These sectors are: govemments, political parties, non-govemmental ...
Domènech i Blàzquez, Margarita (Date of defense: 2020-11-24)
The first part of this thesis focuses on cooperative games and specifically on the study of semivalues and probabilistic values. Each semivalue, as a solution concept defined on cooperative games with ...
Basta, Christine Raouf Saad (Date of defense: 2022-10-14)
(English) Gender bias is a dangerous form of social bias impacting an essential group of people. The effect of gender bias is propagated to our data, causing the accuracy of the predictions in models ...
Guijarro Gamez, Grecia (Date of defense: 2020-12-21)
In this Thesis, we report a detailed study of the ground-state properties of a set of quantum few- and many-body systems by using Quantum Monte Carlo methods. First, we introduced the Variational Monte ...