Sánchez Balseca, Joseph (Date of defense: 2021-11-15)
Air pollution is an environmental challenge that has an important influence on the life of human beings. Therefore, the development, implementation, and evaluation of new statistical approaches will ...
Bieschewski, Stefan (Date of defense: 2013-06-20)
Power constraints led to the end of exponential growth in single–processor performance, which characterized the semiconductor industry for many years. Single–chip multiprocessors allowed the performance ...
Tamarit Sariol, Anna (Date of defense: 2015-07-06)
Consider the billiard map defined inside an analytic closed strictly convex curve Q. Given q>2 and 0<p<q relatively prime integers, there exist at least two (p,q)-periodic trajectories inside Q. The ...
Clot Razquin, Arnau (Date of defense: 2014-02-20)
This thesis presents a three-dimensional dynamic model of a double-deck circular tunnel embedded in a full-space. The model uses the receptance method to obtain the response of the complete structure ...
Espinal Bustos, Raúl Uziel (Date of defense: 2013-12-20)
Hydrogen constitutes a promising alternative to manage our energy supply more efficiently. Hydrogen can be stored and used in fuel cells to produce electricity, where it combines with the oxygen present ...
Valencia Domènech, Enric (Date of defense: 2012-10-17)
The knowledge of sea surface salinity (SSS) is a key issue to understand and monitor the Earth¿s water cycle. Accurate and systematic measurement of SSS was not possible until the ESA¿s Soil Moisture ...
Valencia Carreño, Rafael (Date of defense: 2013-04-19)
This thesis reports research on mapping, path planning, and autonomous exploration. These are classical problems in robotics, typically studied independently, and here we link such problems by framing ...
Duarte Correa, María Jazmín (Date of defense: 2013-05-31)
Metallic glasses are often referred as glassy or amorphous alloys. They lack long-range order and microstructural defects that are characteristics in crystals, such as grain and phase boundaries and ...
Abdollahi, Amir (Date of defense: 2012-10-18)
The unique electro-mechanical coupling properties of ferroelectrics make them ideal materials for use in micro-devices as sensors, actuators and transducers. Nevertheless, because of the intrinsic ...
Córdoba Solà, Patricia (Date of defense: 2013-03-25)
Coal-fired power plants are a major source of emissions for a number of air pollutants including SO2, NOx, particulate matter (PM), HCl, HF, and Hg amongst. In this work, intensive sampling campaigns ...