Yago Llamas, Daniel (Date of defense: 2022-01-24)
This doctoral thesis addresses topology optimization problems at a single scale. Based on this purpose, a new topology optimization approach is developed in order to improve existing and widespread ...
Díaz, Angélica (Date of defense: 2015-05-06)
Poly(alkylene dicarboxylate)s constitute a family of biodegradable polymers with increasing interest for both commodity and speciality applications. The most of these polymers can be prepared from ...
Ortiz Ruiz, Antonio (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)
Microalgae culture is currently receiving considerable attention for its potential in wastewater treatment and production of algal biomass from which high-value bioproducts and bioenergy can be obtained, ...
Tamayo Mas, Elena (Date of defense: 2013-12-05)
A new strategy to describe failure of quasi-brittle materials -concrete, for example- is presented. Traditionally, numerical simulation of quasi-brittle failure has been tackled from two different points ...
Cerralbo Peñarroya, Pablo (Date of defense: 2015-07-24)
Using both observations and modelling tools, it is investigated the main hydrodynamic response mechanisms of a microtidal and shallow bay in the Mediterranean Sea: Alfacs Bay. Main objectives are ...
Granados Corsellas, Albert (Date of defense: 2012-09-17)
In the first part, we formally study the phenomenon of the so-called big bang bifurcations, both for one and two-dimensional piecewise-smooth maps with a single switching boundary. These are a special ...
Francesko, Antonio (Date of defense: 2012-11-29)
This thesis focuses on the development of active multifunctional dressing materials and nanoparticle formulations with suitable exploitation characteristics for chronic wounds treatment. Chronic wounds ...
Berbakov, Lazar (Date of defense: 2013-07-11)
In recent years, wireless sensor networks have attracted considerable attention in the research community. Their development, induced by technological advances in microelectronics, wireless networking ...
Murase Fernández, Sara Keiko (Date of defense: 2015-04-24)
Synthetic biopolymers have attracted considerable attention in the last decades in the biomedical field. Poly(ester amide)s are a family of biodegradable polymers that can be tailored for specific ...
Espinosa Duró, Virginia (Date of defense: 2013-06-14)
Face recognition (FR) has been extensively studied, due to both scientific fundamental challenges and current and potential applications where human identification is needed. FR systems have the benefits ...