Mao, Yanxin (Date of defense: 2018-09-06)
The hydro-mechanical behaviour of soils during freezing and thawing is a coupled multi-physics process that has important practical applications. To cite but a few examples, on artificial ground freezing ...
Datsika, Eftychia (Date of defense: 2018-11-26)
As numerous mobile applications and over-the-top (OTT) services emerge and mobile Internet connectivity becomes ubiquitous, the provision of high quality of service (QoS) is more challenging for mobile ...
Querol Borràs, Jorge (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)
Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI) signals are undesired signals that degrade or disrupt the performance of a wireless receiver. RFI signals can be troublesome for any receiver, but they are especially ...
Gkatzioura, Anna (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)
Current recommender systems aim mainly to generate accurate item recommendations, without properly evaluating the multiple dimensions of the recommendation problem. However, in many domains, like in ...
Ortega Culaciati, Valentina Sofia (Date of defense: 2018-01-16)
The city of Concepción, has been greatly transformed by the occurrence of several seismic events. During the XX century, modern architecture found, in these events, the agent that allowed its introduction ...
Martí Muñoz, Joan (Date of defense: 2018-11-14)
An insufficient vascularization of the wound site is often the cause of failure in tissue regeneration. The use of cell therapy or growth factors has introduced promising results, nevertheless, they are ...
Chen, Yu-Hsiang (Date of defense: 2018-06-12)
Hard coating 's thermal stability is essential due to the high temperature environment of high-speed cutting applications, while the induced phase and microstructure evolution affects the mechanical ...
Kaurin, Dimitri (Date of defense: 2018-10-29)
We examine a classical problem in soft-matter physics: the specific adhesion between deformable elastic objects, such as vesicles, mediated by mobile adhesion molecules. This problem is relevant to ...
Casal Rodríguez, Paulo (Date of defense: 2018-11-12)
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) constitute an heterogeneous group of chemical substances of great environmental relevance. Its persistence, bioaccumulation, long-range transport potential and ...
Saborío González, Maricruz (Date of defense: 2018-03-23)
This work has focused on the study and development of hierarchically, flexible electrodes and lightweight capacitor using as a source of flexibility. the y-polyglutamic acid (y-PGA) and as an electroactive ...