Massip-Bosch, Enric (Date of defense: 2016-04-29)
This research presents the work of the Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006) and studies five of his residential designs as epitome of his oeuvre. lts development is understood as a continuous ...
Silva Araujo Monteiro, Virginia (Date of defense: 2013-06-10)
La propuesta de una vejiga artificial es un obstáculo a trasponer. El cáncer de vejiga está entre los casos más frecuentes de enfermedades oncológicas en Estados Unidos y Europa. Ese cáncer es considerado ...
Grimaldi, Didier (Date of defense: 2016-11-11)
Cities are receiving more and more residents while the natural resources are getting scarce and scarce. As a possible answer, diverse streams of thoughts have emerged declaring that cities need to become ...
González Pijuán, Carmen (Date of defense: 2019-11-15)
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) reflects the rate of delivery of arterial blood to the brain. Since no nutrients, oxygen or water can be stored in the cranial cavity due to space and pressure restrictions, a ...
Uggetti, Enrica (Date of defense: 2011-09-30)
During the last years, the implementation of new Wastewater Treatment Plants has lead to a significant increase of sludge production. As a response, sludge valorisation in agriculture is the preferred ...
Rodriguez-Chiang, Lourdes (Date of defense: 2018-05-04)
Sustainability of resources such as energy, water and waste have become important drivers in our current economy. For large industries that are water and energy intensive like pulp and paper (P&P) mills, ...
Tadesse, Girmaw Abebe (Date of defense: 2018-04-26)
Advances in wearable technologies are facilitating the understanding of human activities using first-person vision (FPV) for a wide range of assistive applications. In this thesis, we propose robust ...
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, ...
Shafiq, Muhammad (Date of defense: 2012-05-21)
El concepto básico de la arquitectura mono-nucleo en los procesadores de propósito general se ajusta bien a un modelo de programación secuencial. La integración de multiples núcleos en un solo chip ha ...
Relaño Castillo, Antonio (Date of defense: 2012-06-06)
A two-dimensional axisymmetric implementation of the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique, called for short AxisSPH, has been described in this thesis, along with a number of basic tests and ...