Barroso del Toro, Alberto (Date of defense: 2023-07-06)
(English) This thesis provides empirical evidence, with an unprecedented sample size, that sustainability news moves the stock market, particularly positive news related to fossil fuels. The findings ...
Cabrera Estanyol, Ferran de (Date of defense: 2023-07-03)
(English) A great deal is known about second-order statistics. For many years, most of the signal processing problems have been addressed under the perspective of the first and second-order moments of ...
Castañar Pérez, Inocencio (Date of defense: 2023-07-24)
(English) Topology optimization of incompressible structures, in which the loads on the structure come from the stresses exerted by a surrounding fluid, is a highly complex problem. This work presents ...
Oks, David (Date of defense: 2023-07-17)
(English) Computational modeling and simulation (CM&S) provides a powerful cost- and time-efficient tool to access detailed mechanistic information of biomedical problems, which is not accessible in ...
Barceló Mercader, Jordi (Date of defense: 2023-09-08)
(English) Flexoelectricity is a two-way coupling between strain gradient and polarisation or strain and polarization-gradient. Harnessing flexoelectricity as a functional property requires gradient ...
Urtiaga Erneta, Iñigo (Date of defense: 2023-07-04)
(English) This PhD dissertation deals with qualitative questions from the theory of elliptic Partial Differential Equations (PDE) and integro-differential equations. We are primarily interested in a ...
Finogina, Tamara (Date of defense: 2023-10-02)
(English) One of the most common fears regarding electronic voting is that a voting device will disregard the voter's intent and cast a different vote instead. An undetectable attack like that on a large ...
Cortez Ordóñez, Alexandra Piedad (Date of defense: 2023-11-23)
(English) Nowadays, Bicycle Sharing Systems (BSS) have become a popular and widespread transportation system across the world thanks to their multiple environmental and health benefits, and its successful ...
Alsalti Baldellou, Àdel (Date of defense: 2023-12-18)
(English) Divergence constraints are present in the governing equations of many physical phenomena, and they usually lead to a Poisson equation whose solution is one of the most challenging parts of ...
Vila i Julià, Guillem (Date of defense: 2023-11-22)
(English) Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally, only behind cardiovascular diseases, being a major public health issue. Cancer comprises a wide group of diseases characterized by abnormal ...