González Rojas, Victor Manuel (Date of defense: 2014-11-28)
The fundamental content of this thesis corresponds to the development of the GNM-NIPALIS, GNM-PLS2 and GNM-RGCCA methods, used to quantify qualitative variables parting from the first k components given ...
Gómez González, Sergio (Date of defense: 2014-11-05)
Vertebroplasty (VP) is a surgical procedure used to treat osteoporosis induced vertebral compresion fractures. This procedure involves the injection of bone cement into the porous vertebral body through ...
López Carreño, Rubén-Daniel (Date of defense: 2018-07-31)
The construction and conservation of road networks represent a major part of public expenditure. For instance, the EU-28 countries annually spend approximately EUR 20.000 million on roadway preservation. ...
Chaperón Cordero, Wilson (Date of defense: 2015-06-17)
Intensive fish culture in floating cages is one of aquaculture activities that has grown fastest in recent years. However, this activity produces impacts ranging from alterations in the natural environment ...
Moure García, David (Date of defense: 2017-06-29)
The global seismic activity is extensively studied and well characterized by seismic networks focused on the seismic hazards derived from earthquakes. However, a specific study on volcano seismicity is ...
Navarro Diarte, Alejandra (Date of defense: 2017-07-13)
Rising public awareness about the care of our enviroment and therefore, corporate business awareness also, are notorious day by day. This real interest is reflected in environmental laws and other ...
Sánchez Artigas, Marina (Date of defense: 2021-02-17)
This doctoral thesis has been carried out at the company VAC-TRON S.A., together with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in the Besós (EEBE) and ...
Puntos Pérez, Sonsoles (Date of defense: 2015-09-29)
During years the hitoric British treatises about construclion have been considered almost exclusively from the point of view of the use of orders and the architectural planning of major houses, palaces ...
Pujol Sánchez, Mireia (Date of defense: 2018-06-26)
The use of externally bonded fibre reinforced polymers, FRP, for strengthening reinforced concrete (RC) beams or columns is an alternative to other traditional strengthening techniques due to its high ...
Ferrer Mileo, Víctor (Date of defense: 2019-10-11)
In recent times, developed countries have experienced an increase of several diseases related to non-healthy lifestyles. Nevertheless, as an individual, it is difficult to know the degree of adherence ...