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Contemporary elderly housing in China and Europe : architecture refurbishing and emotional design
This thesis is written under the background of Chinese society. Architecture always develops with adaption to the desires of society. Design is a way to satisfy these social desires. Currently, China is suffering from the ...
Ubiquitous supercomputing : design and development of enabling technologies for multi-robot systems rethinking supercomputing
Supercomputing, also known as High Performance Computing (HPC), is almost everywhere (ubiquitous), from the small widget in your phone telling you that today will be a sunny day, up to the next great contribution to the ...
High-precision computation of uniform asymptotic expansions for special functions
In this dissertation, we investigate new methods to obtain uniform asymptotic expansions for the numerical evaluation of special functions to high-precision. We shall first present the theoretical and computational fundamental ...
Modeling capillarity and two-phase flow in granular media: from porescale to network scale
Numerical simulations at the pore scale are a way to study the behavior of multiphase flows encountered in many natural processes and industrial applications. In this work, liquid morphology and capillary action are examined ...
Diseño de instrumental científico destinado a la caracterización y estructura de nucleo-proteinas y polímeros en general
El presenta trabajo expone el diseño de aparatos y la consecución de técnicas en dos líneas de investigación distintas pero complementarias: electroforesis y estudios de difracción de Rayos X, La electroforesis es un ...
Quantum information outside quantum information
Quantum theory, as counter-intuitive as a theory can get, has turned out to make predictions of the physical world that match observations so precisely that it has been described as the most accurate physical theory ever ...
Integrated IT and SDN Orchestration of multi-domain multi-layer transport networks
Telecom operators networks' management and control remains partitioned by technology, equipment supplier and networking layer. In some segments, the network operations are highly costly due to the need of the individual, ...
Multifunctional enzymatically-generated hydrogel platforms for chronic wound application
Chronic wounds became burdensome problem of worldwide healthcare systems, along with the increased elderly population, which is the most vulnerable risk group, predisposed to their development. Chronic wounds represent a ...
Crowd simulation and visualization
Large-scale simulation and visualization are essential topics in areas as different as sociology, physics, urbanism, training, entertainment among others. This kind of systems requires a vast computational power and memory ...
Optoelectronic optimization of photocatalytic processes for wastewater treatment
Water pollution is an alarming problem that endangers the health of all living beings. The textile industry is listed as one of the most contaminating industries, since in order to carry out its dyeing and finishing ...
Dealing with geopolitical brownfield sites : towards an adaptive guideline to foster their regeneration
This study set out initially to compare characteristics and possible regeneration approach between typical brownfield sites and semi-like brownfield sites in geopolitical conflict zones to identify similarities and ...
Validación de un instrumento de calidad de vida específico para pacientes con discapacidad visual : Low Vision Quality of Life (LVQOL)
There is a growing need in the western world to know the quality of life (QoL) of patients affected by ocular pathologies that cause visual impairment (VI). In this type of pathologies, objective data such as visual acuity ...
Time domain, near-infrared diffuse optical methods for path length resolved, non-invasive measurement of deep-tissue blood flow
The non-invasive and, often, continuous measurement of the hemodynamics of the body, and for the main purposes of this thesis, the brain, is desired because both the instantaneous values and their changes over time constantly ...
Sistema de medición e indicadores para analizar y evaluar las redes organizacionales de salud pública chilenas como mecanismo de control de gestión
In recent decades there has been a growing interest in the study of production systems as a whole, over organizations as particular units, especially the analysis of organizational networks and the configurations they ...
Análisis del comportamiento frente acciones cíclicas de muros de mampostería reforzados con materiales compuestos de matriz inorgánica y tejidos de fibras vegetales
In order to pursue sustainable objectives in the construction industry, a new composite material using vegetal fabric coated with resin and embedded into mortar was developed, characterized and applied on masonry walls. ...
Motion planning using synergies : application to anthropomorphic dual-arm robots
Motion planning is a traditional field in robotics, but new problems are nevertheless incessantly appearing, due to continuous advances in the robot developments. In order to solve these new problems, as well as to improve ...
Estudio de la viabilidad de la estimación del grado de adherencia a estilos de vida saludables a partir de medidas cardíacas oportunistas
In recent times, developed countries have experienced an increase of several diseases related to non-healthy lifestyles. Nevertheless, as an individual, it is difficult to know the degree of adherence to a healthy lifestyle ...
Livelihood strategies and risk behavior of cacao producers in Ecuador : effects of national policies to support cacao farmers and specialty cacao landraces
This thesis addresses the Ecuadorian cacao value chain through three interrelated chapters. Small producers linked to this chain face significant trade-offs between the two main available varieties for planting: the fine ...
Dynamics of marine dissolved organic matter : ocean metabolism and climate transitions
The Global Ocean is the largest Earth compartment holding carbon and nutrients that reaches the upper-ocean at temporal scales ranging from months to 10 kyr. The availability of these nutrients is fundamental to sustain ...
Advanced carbon capture and storage technologies
In this work two research topics are presented: investigation of carbonation reactions of high – calcium waste materials and CO2 storage in coal. Firstly, sorption capacity of CO2 and CH4 of hard coal and associated ...
