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    Serious games for health and medicine. A cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) case study 

    Wattanasoontorn, Voravika (Date of defense: 2013-12-11)

    Serious games are video games designed to provide specific expertise, knowledge and skills to the player, going beyond pure entertainment. In this thesis we present a classification of serious games for health and medicine ...

    Serious games for visually impaired players and to promote first-aid protocols 

    Rodríguez Benítez, Antonio (Date of defense: 2020-06-16)

    Serious games are games designed to entertain and also to teach or transmit some knowledge. They are present in many areas such as military, health, manufacturing, education or medicine, just to name a few. One of their ...

    Service quality approach in development of children's visit model. Case study Golestan Palace Museum, Tehran, Iran 

    Hosseini, Seyedeh Yasamin (Date of defense: 2019-06-03)

    This is an investigation that wants to study about the perspective of service quality for young audiences at a cultural place such as museum. These types of projects allow us to obtain direct feedback from children as young ...

    Serviceability behaviour of fibre reinforced polymer reinforced concrete beams 

    Barris Peña, Cristina (Date of defense: 2011-02-11)

    El uso de materiales compuestos de matriz polimérica (FRP) emerge como alternativa al hormigón convencionalmente armado con acero debido a la mayor resistencia a la corrosión de dichos materiales. El presente estudio ...

    El "Servicio de Defensa del Patrimonio Artístico Nacional" i el control franquista del patrimoni a Catalunya durant la Guerra Civil. Agents militaritzats, assessors, propaganda i burocràcia a la "Comisaría de la Zona de Levante" (1938-1940) 

    Caballé Colom, Eduard (Date of defense: 2024-02-09)

    The present work addresses the actions carried out by the first government of Burgos in the field of cultural heritage in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War, through the Comisaría de la Zona de Levante of the Servicio ...

    Signal processing of microstructure profiles: integrating turbulent spatial scales in aquatic ecological modeling 

    Piera Fernández, Jaume (Date of defense: 2002-03-08)

    The main objective of this thesis was the integration of microstructure information in synoptic descriptors of turbulence, that reflects the mixing processes. Turbulent patches are intermittent in space and time, but they ...

    Signatures bacterianes com a eines de diagnòstic diferencial i monitoratge de les malalties inflamatòries intestinals 

    Amoedo Cibeira, Joan (Date of defense: 2020-12-15)

    Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a group of immune-based pathologies that affect the digestive tract, causing chronic inflammatory diseases processes. In recent years, the microbial communities that inhabit the human ...

    Siloxane removal in the energy recovery of biogas: sequential adsorption/oxidation processes 

    Cabrera-Codony, Alba (Date of defense: 2016-07-27)

    The thesis deals with removal of organosilicon compounds in the energy recovery of biogas. Alternative adsorbents for the siloxane removal were studied, and the physical and chemical mechanisms involved in the siloxane ...

    Simplification, approximation and deformation of large models 

    Paradinas Salsón, Teresa (Date of defense: 2011-10-13)

    The high level of realism and interaction in many computer graphic applications requires techniques for processing complex geometric models. First, we present a method that provides an accurate low-resolution approximation ...

    Simulation of delamination in composites under quasi-static and fatigue loading using cohesive zone models 

    Turon Travesa, Albert (Date of defense: 2006-12-18)

    Es desenvolupa una eina de disseny per l'anàlisi de la tolerància al dany en composites. L'eina pot predir el inici i la propagació de fisures interlaminars. També pot ser utilitzada per avaluar i planificar la necessitat ...

    Simulation of interlaminar and intralaminar damage in polymer-based composites for aeronautical applications under impact loading 

    González Juan, Emilio Vicente (Date of defense: 2011-03-08)

    La aplicación de materiales compuestos de matriz polimérica reforzados mediante fibras largas (FRP, Fiber Reinforced Plastic), está en gradual crecimiento debido a las buenas propiedades específicas y a la flexibilidad en ...

    Simultaneous detection and segmentation for generic objects 

    Torrent Palomeras, Albert (Date of defense: 2013-07-08)

    This thesis deals with the simultaneous detection and segmentation for generic objects in images. The proposed approach is based on building a dictionary of patches, which defines the object and allows the extraction of ...

    Simultaneous localization and mapping using single cluster probability hypothesis density filters 

    Lee, Chee Sing (Date of defense: 2015-09-01)

    The majority of research in feature-based SLAM builds on the legacy of foundational work using the EKF, a single-object estimation technique. Because feature-based SLAM is an inherently multi-object problem, this has led ...

    Single and multiple addition to C60. A computational chemistry study 

    Cases Amat, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2003-09-30)

    Des del seu descobriment, a la molècula C60 se li coneixen una varietat de derivats segons el tipus de funcionalització amb propietats fisicoquímiques específiques de gran interès científic. Una sel·lecció de derivats ...

    Sintaxis neuronal y sintaxis lingüística. Implementación cerebral de las estructuras sintácticas 

    Ramírez Fernández, Javier (Date of defense: 2019-02-20)

    We discover properties of language in the light of independent knowledge of the brain and the mind. We will review brain structures and connections on a large scale; the activity, in the form of brain oscillations, that ...

    Sistema d'ajut a la decisió per la selecció de sistemes de sanejament 

    Castillo Llorens, Alba (Date of defense: 2017-03-17)

    The selection of the most appropriate wastewater treatment involves a complex decision making process. For that reason, some tools have been developed in recent years in order to deal with this complexity, as Novedar_EDSS ...

    Sistema immunitari i marcadors de risc cardiometabòlic en l'edat pediàtrica 

    Gispert-Saüch Puigdevall, Montse (Date of defense: 2018-03-02)

    We studied the relationship between the circulating levels of the innate immune system molecules (α-defensins and BPI) and the acquired immune system (IgG, IgA and IgM) with obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors in ...

    Sistema radicular de Quercus suber: estructura i desenvolupament 

    Verdaguer Murlà, Dolors (Date of defense: 1995-01-12)

    This thesis is a study of the structure and development of the young radicular system of Quercus suber. The work is focused on the sprouting capacity of the radicular system of the seedling, the development and organization ...

    Sistemàtica per a l'anàlisi de resultats d'activitats educatives a les institucions museístiques 

    Bosch Bonacasa, Josep (Date of defense: 2022-10-14)

    Museum education has aspects in common with formal education. The objective of this thesis is to define a system for the design and evaluation of educational activities that allows designers and evaluators to improve the ...

    Síntesi de 1-oxaspiro [4.4]nonans polifuncionalitzats i (+-)-andirolactona 

    Planas i Grabuleda, Marta (Date of defense: 1996-03-15)

    Spiro-γ-lactones are widely distributed among natural products, several of them being well known by their interesting biological activities. We describe herein the synthesis of 1-oxaspiro[4.4]nonan derivatives and ...