Kumar, Nikhil P. (Date of defense: 2017-07-13)
Recent advancement in Photonics have brought about a new era of miniaturisation. Along came a need for technology to allow the manipulation of light at the micrometer scale, with precise control over ...
Cabrera Bejar, Oscar Jair (Date of defense: 2017-06-19)
Current software community players like academy and industry have been changing the traditional paradigms of software engineering towards context-awareness and distributed computing. Nowadays, ...
Zewoudie, Abraham Woubie (Date of defense: 2017-09-20)
Speaker diarization has received several research attentions over the last decade. Among the different domains of speaker diarization, diarization in meeting domain is the most challenging one. It usually ...
Benedetti, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2017-05-11)
Strain localization and quasi-brittle failure in frictional-cohesive materials is still an open and challenging problem in computational mechanics. Owing to its complexity and the significant implications ...
Delpueyo Español, Xana (Date of defense: 2017-11-06)
The incidence of skin cancer in Europe, US and Australia has been rising rapidly. Skin cancer accounts for one in three cancers worldwide and a person has 1:25 chance to develop a melanoma, the most ...
Olaya Escobar, Erika Sofía (Date of defense: 2017-06-28)
The contemporary university is a combination of teaching, research and business interests that offers innovative solutions through knowledge and technology transfer mechanisms (KTT) and enhances the ...
Migliorelli, Carolina (Date of defense: 2017-06-28)
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a noninvasive brain signal acquisition technique that provides excellent temporal resolution and a whole-head coverage allowing the spatial mapping of sources. These ...
Clua Uceda, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2017-12-04)
This document sets out the results of a comprehensive and consistent view on the interstitial condition present in urban articulation projects aimed at integrating different parts of a city. This ...
Gómez Monterde, Javier (Date of defense: 2017-02-17)
The present PhD thesis is framed within the Industrial Doctorate Plan promoted by the Generalitat de Catalunya and has been developed in cooperation between the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Ba ...
Hertog, Wim (Date of defense: 2017-06-07)
Rising population numbers place ever increasing demands on energy resources. A large percentage of the worldwide energy production is reserved for the generation of electricity and a significant portion ...