Puig Gasol, María Dolores (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)
The general objective of this thesis is to study the innovation strategies in Catalan biotechnology companies and the impact of these strategies on their innovation. ldentifying how, where and with whom ...
Ferrer Ferré, Àlex (Date of defense: 2017-05-26)
The present dissertation aims at addressing multiscale topology optimization problems. For this purpose, the concept of topology derivative in conjunction with the computational homogenization method ...
Delgado Rodríguez, Jordi (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
In this work we use geometric techniques in order to study certain natural extensions of free groups, and solve several algorithmic problems on them. To this end, we consider the family of free-abelian ...
Caicedo Silva, Manuel Alejandro (Date of defense: 2017-02-24)
This thesis focuses on the numerical modeling of fracture and its propagation in heterogeneous materials by means of hierarchical multiscale models based on the FE2 method, addressing at the same time, ...
Kress, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2017-04-18)
The upcoming General Data Protection Regulation at EU level to be implemented in 2018 will represent a history achievement data time when the Europe is laying the foundations of a single digital market. ...
Feu, Anna (Date of defense: 2017-06-26)
La gran quantitat de monuments religiosos existents a Catalunya fa molt difícil mantenir en condicions aquest parc edificat, i sovint, les solucions proposades per a reparar danys o revertir el mal estat ...
Herrera Hernández, María Guadalupe (Date of defense: 2017-03-24)
Dietary polyphenols represent a group of secondary metabolites which widely occur in fruits, vegetables, wine, tea, extra virgin olive oil, chocolate and other cocoa products. Previous studies have shown ...
Varga, Jovan (Date of defense: 2017-01-24)
On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) is an approach widely used for data analysis. OLAP is based on the multidimensional (MD) data model where factual data are related to their analytical perspectives ...
Jain, Palkesh (Date of defense: 2017-05-05)
The phenomenal progress of computing devices has been largely made possible by the sustained efforts of semiconductor industry in innovating techniques for extremely large-scale integration. Indeed, ...
Schieber, Romain (Date of defense: 2017-11-10)
Nowadays, cardiovascular diseases are mainly treated by implantation of a metallic or polymeric mesh, called stent, which maintains the artery widely open. This technique shows very good clinical results, ...