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Solanellas Terés, Àngel (Date of defense: 2021-11-09)
Roman architect Mario Ridolfi (1904-1984) made a substantial contribution to the transformation of European cities and to collective housing after the Second World War. For a period of twenty years, he used the city of ...
Salvador Yuste, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-11-12)
In an increasingly technological society,vulnerability to the effects of lightning is also increasing. The implementation of monitoring and surveillance systems in real time of lightning activity can greatly improve the ...
Moreno Mencía, David (Date of defense: 2021-11-22)
In the last decades, quantum materials have received much attention in the field of condensed matter physics due, in part, to their exotic properties. These are difficult to understand as they result from multiple physical ...
Mahboob, Amir (Date of defense: 2021-11-30)
Creating sustainability and public infrastructure is a fairly recent subject the engineering community has been debating. Introducing new building materials or introducing new structural designs is a strategy for constructing ...
Lucentini, Ilaria (Date of defense: 2021-11-05)
Due to the problems associated with the generation and storage of hydrogen in portable applications, the use of ammonia fer the on-site production of hydrogen through its catalytic decomposition has been proposed. This ...
Sánchez Balseca, Joseph (Date of defense: 2021-11-15)
Air pollution is an environmental challenge that has an important influence on the life of human beings. Therefore, the development, implementation, and evaluation of new statistical approaches will improve the numerical ...
Ruano Torres, Guillem (Date of defense: 2021-11-12)
Depletion of natural resources and non-renewable energy sources has recently accelerated due to the development of globalized economy and industrialization. During the last years, the scientific community has devoted much ...
Pueyo Centelles, Roger (Date of defense: 2021-11-12)
There are several LPWAN radio technologies providing wireless communication to the billions of connected devices that form the so-called IoT. Among them, LoRa has emerged in recent years as a popular solution for low power ...
Pérez Corral, Juan Enrique (Date of defense: 2021-11-09)
The first papers on the fitting of ortho-k lenses in ametropic individuals, treatment that allows them to enjoy good vision without the need to wear glasses or contact lenses, were published almost 60 years ago. Both the ...
Kalkbrenner, Philip (Date of defense: 2021-11-03)
Cutting-edge methods in the computational analysis of structures have been developed over the last decades. Such modern tools are helpful to assess the safety of existing buildings. Two main finite element (FE) modeling ...
Gómez Hernández, Dorian Francisco (Date of defense: 2021-11-18)
Energy access allows to improve population life quality, specifically in terms of food, education and health. Currently, 10% of the world population does not have electricity. 85% of this population is mainly concentrated ...
Carcaño Zapata, Carme (Date of defense: 2020-11-26)
The theoretical and analytical content of this PhD thesis generates the critical knowledge necessary to affirm that free spaces (or open spaces) are the elements capable of restructuring the contemporary city. Amongst them, ...
Azarkamand, Sahar (Date of defense: 2021-11-04)
An important goal to tackle environmental problems and foster sustainable development in the near future is to reduce the generation of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from different industrial sectors including ports. ...
Vila Marta, Sebastià (Date of defense: 2003-12-01)
Esteller Cucala, Maria (Date of defense: 2021-11-19)
Context: Over the last decades, the interest in personalization and, namely, web personalization has grown exponentially, both in industry and in academia. But still, while web personalization is already a standard ...
Blanca Alcubilla, Gonzalo (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)
Air transport, in 2018, was the means of transport chosen by 8.8 billion people around the world. This is a sector that expected continued passenger growth in the following years, but due to the current effects of the ...
Rubí Perelló, Bertomeu (Date of defense: 2020-12-11)
This thesis presents contributions to the Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) systems for multirotor vehicles by applying and developing diverse control techniques and machine learning theory with innovative results. ...
Hamouda, Inés (Date of defense: 2020-12-16)
This PhD Thesis tallies with the Starting Grant project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) entitled “Atmospheric Pressure plAsma meets biomaterials for bone Cancer HEaling” (APACHE) and has been carried out ...
López Palma, Manuel (Date of defense: 2020-10-23)
In this work, a new method is presented to quantify the attention paid by people to the different objects in their environment. The new metric models the eye to determine the attention given and quantifies that attention ...
Marazuela Calvo, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2020-07-03)
This thesis aims to advance the knowledge of the hydrogeological functioning of salt flats in order to achieve a sustainable management of their mineral resources and ecosystems. Salt flats are a major source of Li, B, I, ...