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Sanz Lanzas, Claudia (Date of defense: 2023-05-26)
(English) The circular economy is an emerging concept presented as a solution to counteract the damage caused by the linear economic scheme followed in the past decades. It is based on the principle of "closing the life ...
Lomelí Quintero, Víctor Manuel (Date of defense: 2023-10-13)
(English) Climate change is a major issue that is having a significant impact on coastal areas globally. This phenomenon is generating processes of erosion, flooding and sea level rise, which is of great concern. These ...
Ballesteros Mascarell, Ainara (Date of defense: 2023-01-13)
(English) Jellyfish stings cause discomfort to users of the marine environment, who sometimes require medical assistance. Although jellyfish stings are common today, the scientific community remains in disagreement on how ...
Rocamonde Lourido, Javier (Date of defense: 2023-01-17)
(English) The first entry of the Diccionario de la lengua española (RAE) defines cooperate as "to work together with one or more agents to achieve a common goal". Perhaps this idea of aligned agents with a shared objective ...
Parada Bustelo, Samuel (Date of defense: 2023-01-27)
(English) This thesis deals with finite element methods to solve compressible flow problems, an important branch of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) whose applications are widespread in many areas of engineering and ...
Aiash, Ahmad (Date of defense: 2023-10-27)
(English) In order to converge towards Vision Zero concept in road safety, traffic crashes need great study and analysis. This thesis is aimed at this goal, applied to the urban and metropolitan environment of Barcelona. ...
Puruncajas Maza, Bryan (Date of defense: 2023-05-26)
(English) Wind turbines are huge structures with technological and industrial development on land and sea. These structures are located in remote areas with difficult access, with extreme environmental conditions. These ...
Turon Pujol, Francesc (Date of defense: 2024-03-05)
(Engilsh) Modern composite materials, primarily based on the union of polymeric matrices and fibers of glass, carbon or any other fiber of remarkable rigidity, have paved the way for the design and manufacture of lightweight ...
Ramírez-Casas, J. (Date of defense: 2024-03-07)
(English) In the area of architecture and construction, natural cement is the least known of traditional conglomerates. Most professionals in the sector who are interested in conglomerates have broad knowledge of the two ...
Orellana Bech, Bernat (Date of defense: 2024-03-07)
(English) The study of the colonic volume has strong relevance in gastroenterology and contributes to the diagnosis and research of lowseverity diseases such as constipation, diarrhea, or Irritable Bowel Syndrome. In the ...
Narváez Muñoz, Christian (Date of defense: 2023-05-05)
(English) The high precision controllability and versatility of Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) processes are enabling and accelerating the development of novel microfluidic-based manufacturing techniques. This technology relies ...
Biere Arenas, Rolando Mauricio (Date of defense: 2023-05-22)
(English) Global warming and climate change are undeniable and must be combated with urgent measures. In this sense, the rehabilitation of the building stock is crucial to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In Europe, 35% ...
Timoté Bejarano, Cristhian Camilo (Date of defense: 2023-03-27)
(English) This document presents the collection of four manuscripts published during my Doctoral academic formation, which main goal has been the real-time implementation of tools to monitor the ionosphere using Global ...
Kumar, Gaurav (Date of defense: 2024-03-11)
(English) Bolometer technology, crucial for uncooled thermal detection in thermography, industrial inspection, monitoring, and surveillance applications, relies on thermistors primarily made of VOx, a-Si, and Si/SiGe QWs ...
Mazo Barbara, Laura del (Date of defense: 2024-03-12)
(English) Bone is the second most frequent tissue transplantation right after blood transfusion. Although it has natural self-healing abilities, bone grafts are required in critical size defects to provide mechanical ...
Castro Villalba, Antonio (Date of defense: 1987-01-01)
(Español) La tesis pretende a través del estudio de las fuentes de la época y de los textos interpretativos más notables acotar la verdadera dimensión de los conocimientos reales de los constructores medievales. No parece ...
Saez Ujaque, Diego (Date of defense: 2023-03-17)
(English) This research deepens in the knowledge of the processes and changing dynamics of cities from the perspective of their resilience. The thesis proposes as object the processes of regeneration and transformation of ...
Vima Grau, Sara (Date of defense: 2024-02-08)
(English) This thesis addresses the connections between housing and vulnerability by studying habitability in two of Barcelona’s most underprivileged neighbourhoods, as part of the debate on policies for housing rehabilitation ...
Sciandra, Dario (Date of defense: 2024-02-09)
(English) Geological Carbon Storage (GCS) holds immense promise for mitigating atmospheric CO2 emissions, making the sealing capacity of caprocks pivotal as storage scales up. Despite excellent sealing capacities observed ...
Oleas Serrano, Diego Patricio (Date of defense: 2024-02-22)
(English) This doctoral thesis examines the process of adaptation of Modern Architecture in Quito over a period of twenty years (1960-1980). The city's location at latitude 0 and an elevation of 2850 meters above sea level ...