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Elshazly, Hatem Mohamed Abdelfattah Eid (Date of defense: 2022-01-28)
This thesis contributes from the perspective of task-based programming models to the efforts of optimizing I/O intensive applications. Throughout this thesis, we propose programming model abstractions and mechanisms that ...
Vitola Oyaga, Jaime (Date of defense: 2021-01-28)
For a few decades, systems for supervising structures have become increasingly irnportant. In origin, the strategies had as a goal only the detection of damages. Furthermore, now monitoring the civil or military structures ...
Vázquez Méndez, Marcial (Date of defense: 2022-02-21)
This research investigates factors that impact the use of digital systems for HR management at SEAT, a car manufacturing firm of the Volkswagen Group. Electronic Human Resource Management (e-HRM) is not a completely new ...
Sánchez Verdejo, Rommel (Date of defense: 2022-02-04)
The memory system is a significant contributor for most of the current challenges in computer architecture: application performance bottlenecks and operational costs in large data-centers as HPC supercomputers. With the ...
Larion, Ygee (Date of defense: 2022-02-01)
In a large number of geo-environmental applications, it is essential to model coupled processes that depend on several design parameters such as material properties and geometrical features. Thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) ...
Khadivipanah, Peiman (Date of defense: 2022-02-03)
The main objective of this thesis is to describe and implement a rate-dependent (viscoplastic) constitutive equations for copper based canister using a single internal state variable and use it for modelling disposal schemes ...
Hashemi, Mohammad Reza (Date of defense: 2022-02-22)
In numerous applications, two-phase liquid-gas transport at sub-millimeter length scales plays a substantial role in the determination of the behavior of the system at hand. As its main application, the present work focuses ...
Díez Blanco, María Teresa (Date of defense: 2022-02-07)
The Dutch De Stijl group was born at a time of common interest among avant-garde artists and architects of the first half of the 20th century in the purification of the means of expression, based until then on a tradition ...
Batbayar, Khulan (Date of defense: 2022-02-07)
Internet access is still unavailable to one-third of the world population due to the lack of infrastructure, high cost, and the digital divide. Many access-limited communities opt for shared Internet access where they build ...
Ritter, Josias Manuel Gisbert (Date of defense: 2021-07-16)
Flash floods are one of the most devastating natural hazards, claiming numerous lives and tremendous economic losses. One of the main reasons for their catastrophic potential is the limited time available for precautionary ...
Bové Tous, Oriol (Date of defense: 2022-02-04)
Pallet racking systems are structures intended to store products. Their proper structural design is of paramount importance as its collapse can lead to significant economic losses and even human. This type of structures ...
Pastorino, David (Date of defense: 2015-11-23)
The topic of this Philosophy Doctor Thesis tallies with the national project MAT2012 of the BBT group of UPC: "Pore4Bone: Biomimetic calcium phosphates: tailoring porosity from the nano- to the macroscale for osteoinduction, ...
Sánchez Herrero, Eulalia (Date of defense: 2022-01-21)
People with peripheral visual field loss perceive limited information about the environment and present severe problems in achieving successful orientation and mobility. In recent years, virtual and augmented reality systems ...
Rojas Dueñas, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2022-01-11)
Nowadays, many industries are moving towards more electrical systems and components. This is done with the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of their systems while being environmentally friendlier and sustainable. ...
Acosta Mejía, Boris (Date of defense: 2022-01-14)
This thesis looks at the original notion of heterotopia, followed by its interpretations and applications of different authors and disciplines. The course that takes this notion -from the strange to the generalised-, becomes ...
Yago Llamas, Daniel (Date of defense: 2022-01-24)
This doctoral thesis addresses topology optimization problems at a single scale. Based on this purpose, a new topology optimization approach is developed in order to improve existing and widespread techniques in the research ...
Trechera Ruiz, Pedro (Date of defense: 2022-01-13)
The main objective of this PhD thesis is the study of coal mine dust patterns produced by different types of mining operations and different types of coal. In addition, the potential links between oxidative potential (OP) ...
Santín Muriel, Andreu (Date of defense: 2022-01-24)
Sponge assemblages dominate several distinctive, hard-bottom environments, being one of the most important structural organisms at several locations around the world. Although the Mediterranean sponge fauna is among the ...
Ridaura Aldana, Gregorio (Date of defense: 2020-02-18)
In search to contribute to the current fight against climate change, the industrial sector is immersed in a transition to the Circular Economy (CE) to achieve resource efficiency through the redesign of products and ...
Moncunill Marimon, Jorge (Date of defense: 2022-01-21)
The objective of this thesis is to improve the efficiency in the compass adjustment. First, a complete, orderly, synthetic and updated study on this matter is performed, including the state of the art, as well as the ...