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 ...
Silvestre Tormo, Gracia (Date of defense: 2015-10-30)
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are characterized by their high organic matter and nutrient removal efficiency, but also by their high energy consumption. In the current context where resources are ...
Vilaseca i Vallvé, M. Mercè (Date of defense: 2015-05-10)
This thesis is based on the study of colour elimination of textile effluents which contain reactive dyes. Reactive dyes are widely used in the dyeing of cotton and other cellulosic fibre. However they ...
Padrol Sureda, Arnau (Date of defense: 2013-03-12)
This thesis presents new applications of Gale duality to the study of polytopes with extremal combinatorial properties. It consists in two parts. The first one is devoted to the construction of neighborly ...
Comas Umbert, Pere R. (Date of defense: 2012-05-12)
In this dissertation, we present a factoid question answering system, specifically tailored for Question Answering (QA) on spoken documents. This work explores, for the first time, which techniques can ...
Font Bach, Josep Oriol (Date of defense: 2013-07-26)
The goal of this Ph.D. dissertation is to address a number of challenges encountered in the digital baseband design of modern and future wireless communication systems. The fast and continuous evolution ...
Lladó Valero, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-02-02)
In the last two decades an increasing presence of organic substances such drugs, pesticides, etc. has been detected in water which may affect the health of the organisms and the environment. Some of ...
Estrella Toral, Soledad (Date of defense: 2013-10-17)
Tradicionalmente la construcción de aliviaderos escalonados en presas de hormigón compactado con rodillo (HCR) se caracteriza por la presencia de muretes guías que imponen un ancho constante a lo largo ...