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Mirmazloumi, Seyed Mohammad (Date of defense: 2024-01-30)
(English) Natural movements of Earth and human-based activities generate continuous ground displacements, affecting human life and the economy. In order to mitigate and reduce the impact of such displacements, accurate and ...
Sanfeliu Cerdán, Neus (Date of defense: 2024-03-12)
(English) In recent years, our understanding of the ion channels and receptors that orchestrate the conversion of physical stimuli into physiological signals has deepened significantly. Nevertheless, there remains some ...
Bello Gómez, Lorena (Date of defense: 2015-12-21)
(English) Hybrid Networks explores in detail the slow geography of the French Camino network in northwest Spain, giving an account of the network at the scale of the lberian Peninsula and Europe. This old itinerary is a ...
Yáñez Alvarado, Carlos René (Date of defense: 2024-01-18)
(English) In this doctoral thesis, significant strides have been made in the realm of biofluid flow sensing through the innovative integration of Self-Mixing Interferometry (SMI) with confocal microscopy principles, resulting ...
Rey Barroso, Laura (Date of defense: 2023-12-18)
(English) This thesis makes a significant contribution to the realm of medical diagnostics through the utilization of photonic technologies and emerging imaging modalities, leading to the creation of innovative approaches ...
Liu, Yuming (Date of defense: 2024-01-26)
(English) In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the growth of electricity demand. This electricity demand requires retrofitting of lines or exploiting the maximum capacity of existing power lines. In ...
Rallis, Konstantinos (Date of defense: 2024-05-09)
(English) Lately, in the rise of the era of 2D materials, Graphene is one of the materials that has been extensively investigated for its possible integration in computing devices and thus computing circuits. This is mainly ...
Orti Navarro, Joan (Date of defense: 2024-05-10)
(English) Surface inspection of coated surfaces in the automotive industry, traditionally has been a manual process in charge of keen eye operators in charge of inspecting the whole car body. However, as might be deducted, ...
Nestorov, Anna Maria (Date of defense: 2024-05-03)
(English) Recently, serverless computing has garnered attention from academia and industry due to its on-demand resource provisioning, allowing users to focus solely on their core business logic by breaking down tasks into ...
Matsumura, Kazuaki (Date of defense: 2024-05-02)
(English) The rapid development in computing technology has paved the way for directive-based programming models towards a principal role in maintaining software portability of performance-critical applications. Efforts ...
Parareda Oriol, Sergi (Date of defense: 2023-12-04)
(English) Fatigue failures in materials have been studied for centuries, with early pioneers like August Wöhler noting that repeated loading, even below the static strength of the material, could lead to structural ...
Figueira Alves, Mariana (Date of defense: 2023-12-19)
(English) According to the European Green Deal, the European Union (EU) must become climate-neutral by 2050. However, many raw materials needed for this green transition are supplied by non-EU countries. To ensure the ...
Fernández Tejedor, Margarita (Date of defense: 2023-12-18)
(English) The increase in the production of marine bivalves targets the sustainable development of aquaculture to improve global food and nutrition security. Bivalve aquaculture is currently facing challenges and threats ...
Sheikh, Mahdi (Date of defense: 2023-11-27)
(English) Changing wastewater treatment plants into wastewater and resource recovery facilities represents a paradigm shift in wastewater management. Resources such as water, energy, and nutrients are becoming scarcer, ...
Prades Valls, Albert (Date of defense: 2023-11-30)
(English) The term rockfall applies to blocks or masses of rock that, after separating from a steep wall, experience free fall and then impact against the ground, with the consequent rebound and possible rolling and sliding ...
In 't Veld, Marten (Date of defense: 2023-11-29)
(English) Air pollutants can be classed as either primary or secondary pollutants. Primary air pollutants are those that are directly emitted into the atmosphere, whereas secondary air pollutants are generated in the ...
Giuliodori Picco, Agustina (Date of defense: 2023-11-30)
(English) The advancements in material science and innovative manufacturing techniques have created substantial possibilities for improving the functionality of medical devices, tailoring them to specific needs. However, ...
Fontanes Molina, Pol (Date of defense: 2023-11-17)
(English) Lightning strikes to aircraft and wind turbines can lead to substantial repair expenses. These structures often trigger lightning strikes, in the form of bidirectional leaders in the case of aircraft and upward ...
Janeras Casanova, Marc (Date of defense: 2023-10-23)
(English) In the Montserrat Mountain, high hazard of rockfall and high human exposure by visitors to both Monastery and Natural Park converge. It is a relevant geological risk difficult to mitigate since it is necessary ...
Francescangeli, Marco (Date of defense: 2023-10-30)
(English) The Monitoring of coastal marine ecosystems has been traditionally carried out with man and vessel-assisted methodologies. In the last decades, new technologies have been progressively integrated by platforms ...