Levatti, Hector Ulises (Date of defense: 2015-04-28)
This thesis focuses on the experimental and numerical study of the desiccation processes of low-plasticity clayey soils that usually result in shrinkage and often in cracking. A comprehensive state of ...
Rotondo, Damiano (Date of defense: 2016-04-01)
This thesis presents some contributions to the state-of-the-art of the fields of gain-scheduling and fault tolerant control (FTC). In the area of gain-scheduling, the connections between the linear ...
Planas Hortal, Elena (Date of defense: 2013-03-21)
Executable models play a key role in many development methods (such as MDD and MDA) by facilitating the immediate simulation/implementation of the software system under development. This is possible ...
Lagunas Targarona, Eva (Date of defense: 2014-03-07)
Signal acquisition is a main topic in signal processing. The well-known Shannon-Nyquist theorem lies at the heart of any conventional analog to digital converters stating that any signal has to be sampled ...
Termens Perarnau, Maria Assumpció (Date of defense: 2014-03-07)
Compared to the conventional ground measurement of gravity, airborne gravimetry is more efficient and cost-effective. Especially, the combination of GPS and INS is known to show very good performances ...
Pérez Mayos, Javier (Date of defense: 2012-07-03)
The objective of this dissertation is to study and develop techniques to decompose the speech signal into its two main components: voice source and vocal tract. Our main efforts are on the glottal pulse ...
Centolanza, Giuseppe (Date of defense: 2015-10-23)
The Earth is continuously monitored by sensors capable of providing diversified information about several phenomena. In particular Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is able to observe the Earth in all-day ...
Merlano Duncan, Juan Carlos (Date of defense: 2012-07-26)
Precise phase synchronization of clock or local oscillator signals over distributed systems is a recurring requirement in the design of a wide range of systems, with applications in telecommunications ...
Santín Muriel, Andreu (Date of defense: 2022-01-24)
Sponge assemblages dominate several distinctive, hard-bottom environments, being one of the most important structural organisms at several locations around the world. Although the Mediterranean sponge ...
Arellano-Escudero, Nelson (Date of defense: 2015-05-26)
In the nineteenth century, at the Atacama Desert, a phenomenon of competition occurred between different industrial water desalination techniques, one of which had excellent results and a long life using ...