García-Escudero, Daniel (Date of defense: 2012-10-04)
This doctoral thesis commences, as any other research would, from an intuition that becomes a hypothesis and, therefore, a vehicle that governs the development of an entire argument. In this case, the ...
Ayala de la Hoz, Angélica (Date of defense: 2014-04-25)
Proponemos en este trabajo contribuir a esa reflexión universal, presentando una categoría de ciudad que se funda rodeada de mar. <Islas> ubicadas en un lugar geográfico específico y parte de una unidad ...
Blanco, Ana (Date of defense: 2013-03-20)
The use of fibre reinforced concrete (FRC) as a construction material has expanded beyond the traditional applications since the publication of design codes and guidelines. In fact, the industry is ...
Pérez Cáncer, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 2015-02-11)
Designing parallel codes is hard. One of the most important roadblocks to parallel programming is the presence of data dependencies. These restrict parallelism and, in general, to work them around ...
Dávalos Chargoy, César Emilio (Date of defense: 2014-06-19)
The aim of this work is to present a new procedure for modelling industrial processes that involve granular material flows, using a numerical model based on the Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM). ...
Sun, Congcong (Date of defense: 2015-11-17)
This thesis is devoted to design a multi-layer MPC controller applied to the complex water network taking into account that the different layers with different time scales and control objectives have ...
Dantas, Joana Sócrates (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)
Backbone networks are responsible for long-haul data transport serving many clients with a large volume of data. Since long-haul data transport service must rely on a robust high capacity network the ...
Cappai, Alessadra (Date of defense: 2014-04-07)
Il tema centrale della presente tesi è lo studio della relazione tra la pianificazione di un territorio turistico e gli elementi del territorio e del paesaggio che lo compongono, attraverso un caso di ...
Cuadros Domènech, Sara (Date of defense: 2013-12-20)
This thesis is focused on the search of alternatives to fungicides conventionally used in the tanning industry. These chemicals must be effective against a large number of fungi less toxic, more ...
Gustavsson, Mikael (Date of defense: 2011-07-27)
This doctoral thesis explores how ion sensors can provide spatial and temporal control of specific cellular and biomaterial activity related to bone tissue engineering applications. First it was ...