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Martín Balet, Alejo (Date of defense: 2023-06-23)
(English) This thesis proposes to determine a damaged structure using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of modal frequency variation of sorne damaged and undamaged configurations. The estimators used are the accumulated ...
Manzano Aguilar, Martí (Date of defense: 2023-06-08)
(English) In line with the current trend of exploiting corporative data, software companies, especially those using Agile and Rapid software development, are challenged to improve the quality of their products, their ...
Maule, Massimiliano (Date of defense: 2023-06-16)
(English) Earmarked as the revolutionary 5G key enabler, Network Slicing (NS) is the embodiment of the concept of running multiple logical networks as virtually independent business operations on a common physical ...
Lima, Marcos Natan da Silva (Date of defense: 2023-06-30)
(English) Pre-salt oil exploration means a new development path for Brazil. This activity stimulates investments from national and foreign companies, boosts the production of technology, promotes greater professional ...
Ifrah, Reut (Date of defense: 2023-06-26)
(English) Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) is a chronic and diffuse abnormality of the meibomian glands (MGs) that occurs in 38% of contact lens (CL) wearers, though the influence of CLs on MGD is equivocal. A topical ...
Galleguillos Pozo, Rosa (Date of defense: 2023-06-19)
(English) The United Nations objective to ensure energy access for all is still far from being achieved, particularly in rural areas of developing countries. In order to expand access to electricity, isolated systems, ...
Font i Reverter, Jordi (Date of defense: 2023-06-08)
(English) During development, cellular tissues undergo dramatic reconfigurations as a result of organized flows driven by active forces. Depending on the system, cellular flows and active forces can be understood from a ...
Eskenati, Amir Reza (Date of defense: 2023-06-09)
(English) The most common composite materials for strengthening building structures are divided into two dif ferent types based on the matrix’s composition, organics (polymers) or inorganics (cement, lime). The hybrid ...
Alves, Natália Domingues (Date of defense: 2023-06-16)
(English) This thesis studies, using simulation and experiment, the motional dynamics of a single atom in an optical dipole trap. The optical dipole trap we study is a single-beam, red-detuned, far-off-resonance trap (FORT). ...
Chahare, Nimesh Ramesh (Date of defense: 2023-06-20)
(English) Epithelial sheets form specialized 3D structures suited to their physiological roles, such as branched alveoli in the lungs, tubes in the kidney, and villi in the intestine. To generate and maintain these structures, ...
Carpio Garza, Marcel Francisco (Date of defense: 2023-06-07)
(English) The automotive industry is constantly seeking to improve the performance of the car and at the same time reduce CO2 emissions into the environment, which can be achieved among other solutions through the use of ...
Borges Martins, Patricia Alexandra (Date of defense: 2023-06-16)
(English) The building sector has nowadays become a key point for policies and strategies to reduce energy and greenhouse gas emissions. The significant and unprecedented urban expansion that occurred in recent years and ...
Blondel, Gilles (Date of defense: 2023-06-07)
(English) This thesis focuses on the discovery of causal relations and on the prediction of causal effects. Regarding causal discovery, this thesis introduces a novel and generic method to learn causal graphs by performing ...
Moragas i Spà, Antoni de (Date of defense: 1986-01-01)
(Català) A partir d'un material gràfic, fotografies i dibuixos s'ha fet la biografia d'un arquitecte fins ara molt desconegut i que va jugar un paper que considerem de molta importància dintre del Modernisme. Deixeble de ...
Baquero Mosquera, Juan Sebastián (Date of defense: 2023-06-22)
(English) When analyzing structures for seismic design and performance assessment purposes, it has been common to assume that the ground motions or their equivalent representations correspond to that of the free-field ...
Silva, Marcos Paulo Aráujo da (Date of defense: 2023-06-29)
(English) Monitoring the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is a matter of interest for many applications, such as weather forecasting, pollutant-dispersion models and wind energy. The ABL is the most turbulent part of the ...
Álvarez de la Campa Crespo, Mercè (Date of defense: 2023-06-29)
(English) Virtual reality (VR) allows not only to easily change the perceived scenario but also to control several factors associated with the sense of being in an embodied virtual avatar that would not be achievable in ...
Almache Hernández, Rosa Estefanía (Date of defense: 2023-06-29)
(English) In recent years, there has been an increasing need to find an environmentally friendly and low-pollution alternative for electricity production through solar energy absorption. Since 1950, photovoltaic researchers ...
Ahmadian, Seyed Morteza (Date of defense: 2023-06-16)
(English) This Ph.D. thesis focuses on the application of intelligent models to Discrete-Variable Quantum Key Distribution (DV-QKD) protocol. The first objective focuses on providing a method for AI-based polarization ...
Zheng, Jian (Date of defense: 2023-05-11)
(English) The topics explained in this thesis are organized in different chapters. A summary of the contents is given below: Chapter 2. Details of working pairs and properties with numerical modelling and experimental ...