Amini, Elahe (Date of defense: 2023-12-14)
(English) Interest in new environmentally friendly cellulose-based products has tremendously increased in recent years. Cellulose-based composites come in various forms and have potential applications ...
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 ...
Andreu Casas, Enric (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
(English) The proposed PhD thesis consists in solving the Multi-manned Assembly Line Balancing Problem (MALBP). This type of assembly lines is common in the manufacture of large products, such as ...
Babici, Laura Mariana (Date of defense: 2023-12-21)
(English) In this study, the Weierstrass fractal function was used to model the surface roughness of railway tracks and, subsequently, the static coefficient of friction (COF) for Hertzian rail-wheel ...
Robles González, Antonio (Date of defense: 2023-10-05)
(English) Smart community services are reaching nearly every area of our daily life, often requiring private information from their users. The scope of all contributors to these services is to collaboratively ...
Castro Cros, Martí de (Date of defense: 2023-12-18)
(English) Digitalization has revolutionized many industries, including the power generation sector. The availability of a vast amount of data from various systems has transformed decision-making processes ...
Martínez Hernández, Marina (Date of defense: 2023-12-20)
(English) Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death in the world. The heart has a very limited regeneration capacity. Thus, following tissue damage – e.g., myocardial infarction –, heart ...
Llopis, Marcel (Date of defense: 2023-12-14)
(English) This thesis presents the Tychonis framework, a solution to the limitations faced by existing software packages used in space missions to identify geometric events. The framework is designed ...
Mayor Pillado, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
(English) The 20th-century introduction of the Haber-Bosch nitrogen fixation process significantly disrupted the nitrogen cycle in ecosystems, contributing to environmental issues and nutrient loss. The ...
Ockova, Jana (Date of defense: 2023-12-13)
(English) Light is a powerful non invasive tool for probing matter down to its fundamental molecular properties. The past three decades saw advent of metallic nanoantennas engineered to concentrate light ...