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Villar Salinas, Sergio (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
(English) Axial forces in columns of moment-resisting frames (MRF) have a paramount role for the seismic performance of these structural systems. Nonetheless, there are significant gaps in the literature entailing the ...
Vaezi Anzeha, Iman (Date of defense: 2023-12-21)
(English) This doctoral thesis investigates the causes that induce (micro)seismicity as a result of hydraulic stimulation in fractured low-permeability rock. Understanding such phenomenon is of paramount importance to ...
Sidki Rius, Nor (Date of defense: 2023-12-13)
(English) The importance of potash is inevitable to life on the planet earth as it is required by living mechanisms including plants, animals and human beings. In Europe, this vital ore is produced mainly by Germany and ...
Sánchez Arrieta, Natalia de Fátima (Date of defense: 2023-12-18)
(English) Organisations use communication in the process of managing their commercial, institutional or social responsibility activities to form and maintain relationships with different audiences. Beyond being a way to ...
Salgado Rojas, José (Date of defense: 2023-12-20)
(English) We are living in an era where the complexity of environmental challenges is unprecedented. Biodiversity loss, habitat degradation, and climate change are interconnected issues requiring a comprehensive and ...
Rodrigo Muñoz, Santiago (Date of defense: 2023-12-18)
(English) Despite its tremendous potential, it is still unclear how quantum computing will scale to satisfy the requirements of its most powerful applications. Continued progress in the fabrication and control of qubits ...
Ramírez Santos, Ana Gladys (Date of defense: 2023-12-13)
(English) This doctoral research develops the issue of just agroecological transitions in the food system and develops two case studies in the Global North and Global South. Based on the framework developed to analyze ...
Pereira, Roberto Matheus Pinheiro (Date of defense: 2023-12-19)
(English) In many modern signal processing applications, traditional machine learning and pattern recognition methods heavily rely on the having a sufficiently large amount of data samples to correctly estimate the underlying ...
Piccardo, Stefano (Date of defense: 2023-12-04)
(English) We consider two-fluid problems involving immiscible Stokes fluids in contact and with surface tension at their interface. We develop, analyze, and compare two approaches for space discretization, the Hybrid ...
Ockova, Jana (Date of defense: 2023-12-13)
(English) Light is a powerful non invasive tool for probing matter down to its fundamental molecular properties. The past three decades saw advent of metallic nanoantennas engineered to concentrate light into sub diffraction ...
Molins Duran, Gemma (Date of defense: 2023-12-18)
(English) Chicken meat production has increased in recent years and is expected to continue growing, which also increases the generation of waste from the poultry industry. Chicken feathers (PlP) are one of these wastes ...
Mayor Pillado, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
(English) The 20th-century introduction of the Haber-Bosch nitrogen fixation process significantly disrupted the nitrogen cycle in ecosystems, contributing to environmental issues and nutrient loss. The heavy reliance on ...
Martínez Hernández, Marina (Date of defense: 2023-12-20)
(English) Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death in the world. The heart has a very limited regeneration capacity. Thus, following tissue damage – e.g., myocardial infarction –, heart transplantation ...
Marimon Serra, Xavier (Date of defense: 2023-12-22)
(English) This thesis aims to explore cardiac cell physiology across various scales, also known as translational cardiology. The research employs novel computational techniques from Biomedical engineering and utilizes ...
López Hernández, Arianne (Date of defense: 2023-12-20)
(English) Getting to give added value in the different products that are nowadays in the market has not been easy. Since many years ago we have worked on the addition of fragrances in different articles. This added value ...
Llopis, Marcel (Date of defense: 2023-12-14)
(English) This thesis presents the Tychonis framework, a solution to the limitations faced by existing software packages used in space missions to identify geometric events. The framework is designed to integrate with ...
Castro Cros, Martí de (Date of defense: 2023-12-18)
(English) Digitalization has revolutionized many industries, including the power generation sector. The availability of a vast amount of data from various systems has transformed decision-making processes in Industry. ...
Cortés Duarte, María Carolina (Date of defense: 2023-12-01)
(English) Environmental inequality metrics require complex analyses between social, economic and environmental variables at different scales. The current research develops metrics within this framework to determine ...
Boix Cots, David (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
(English) This doctoral thesis addresses one of the most significant challenges facing the Spanish administration: the efficient selection and management of public investments. To achieve this goal, the 'Public Investment ...
Babici, Laura Mariana (Date of defense: 2023-12-21)
(English) In this study, the Weierstrass fractal function was used to model the surface roughness of railway tracks and, subsequently, the static coefficient of friction (COF) for Hertzian rail-wheel contact and cylinder-plane ...