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    Advanced illumination and view-selection techniques for volume rendering and its application to medical imaging 

    Ruiz Altisent, Marc (Date of defense: 2012-05-04)

    Volume visualization is a method of extracting information from volumetric data using interactive graphics. Volume visualization aims to assist visual interpretation of data by creating three-dimensional models that reproduce ...

    Advanced techniques in trajectory data analysis for anomaly detection and map construction 

    Yuejun, Guo (Date of defense: 2020-05-29)

    With a large amount of trajectory data generated every day, there is a high demand for developing advanced techniques to discover the underlying information instead of dull and heavy manual work. This thesis focuses on the ...

    Advanced thermal analysis of ReBCO superconductor precursor films and functional oxides 

    Rasi, Silvia (Date of defense: 2019-11-12)

    High temperature superconductivity and in particular YBa2Cu3O7-x (YBCO) coated conductors (CCs) are a crucial technology for the drastic reduction of CO2 emissions. Since nowadays YBCO CCs are not competitive economically, ...

    Advanced underwater vehicle manipulation through real-time motion planning 

    Youakim Isaac, Dina Nagui (Date of defense: 2019-06-21)

    A key challenge in autonomous mobile manipulation is the ability to determine in real-time how to safely execute complex tasks when placed in an unknown world. In response to those arising needs in the underwater ...

    Advances in animal blood processing: development of a biopreservation system and insights on the functional properties of plasma 

    Dàvila Ribot, Eduard (Date of defense: 2007-02-09)

    La sang és un subproducte amb un alt potencial de valorització que s'obté en quantitats importants en els escorxadors industrials. Actualment, la majoria de sistemes de recollida de la sang no segueixen unes mesures d'higiene ...

    Advances in fibre Bragg grating sensors for damage detection in composite laminates: application in quasi-static and fatigue delamination tests 

    Sans Canovas, Daniel (Date of defense: 2013-06-26)

    The use of composite materials in industrial applications such as aeronautical, aerospace or wind energy production has greatly increased in recent decades. Due to their inherent properties, these materials allow lighter, ...

    Advances in the modelling of thermoelectric energy harvesters in waste heat recovery applications 

    Massaguer Colomer, Eduard (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)

    In this work, we investigate harvesting thermoelectric energy from wasted heat in fluid networks and propose a generic tool for the simulation and sizing of thermoelectric energy harvesters, that can be used in ...

    Adversidad y trauma. Una aproximación multidimensional y existencial a los factores psicológicos disfuncionales y adaptativos asociados 

    Arredondo Koriat, Arantxa Yagoda (Date of defense: 2022-04-01)

    Trauma and existential concerns are humanly universal issues, which constitute fundamental psychological aspects and whose possible associations are not completely understood. The main objective of this research was to ...

    Agencias de género a partir de memorias colectivas construidas por mujeres cubanas vinculadas a procesos de alfabetización de la Revolución 

    Alfonso Olivera, Rachel N. (Date of defense: 2022-12-21)

    For decades, Cuba has represented the socialist utopia of the left in Latin America. The early incorporation of women into education and productive work in the 1960s helped ratify the imaginary of justice and social equality. ...

    Agenda 21 Escolar en Guanajuato, dos experiencias, dos proyectos, un destino común... 

    Gómez González, María Virginia Rosalía (Date of defense: 2013-07-19)

    There are few documented cases and active programs of environmental education (EA) that support schools and teachers in their teaching for the care of the environment in the State of Guanajuato, Mexico. Two cases will be ...

    Agricultural practices, biodiversity and ecosystem services provided by bats in Mediterranean crops 

    Puig, Xavier, 1975- (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)

    We study the effect of organic farming practices on several taxa in olive groves and vineyards. Sessile organisms show a stronger response to treatment, their diversity being higher in organic vineyards. Vagile organism ...

    Agua, actores sociales y servicios de los ecosistemas en la cuenca del río Muga. Una aproximación socioecológica 

    Garau, Enrica (Date of defense: 2022-01-31)

    This doctoral thesis aims to identify and characterize the relationships between stakeholders and water resources through the sociocultural and spatial analysis of the water ecosystem services (WES) in the social-ecological ...

    Aigua sagrada i aigua monumental al nord-est de la Península Ibèrica en l'època romana 

    Costa Solé, Ana (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)

    At the end of the Republican era, changes on the territory of our study began started. During this period, a lot of cult buildings, with a clear italic nature, were established. That’s the proof of territorial, religious, ...

    Aislamiento, identificación y conservación de cultivos de bacterias lácticas antagonistas de microbiota contaminante de sangre de matadero 

    Zamora Rodríguez, Lucero M. (Date of defense: 2003-11-20)

    La sangre obtenida en el matadero es un producto altamente contaminado que requiere un procesamiento inmediato si se pretende utilizarla como insumo alimentario en la fabricación de productos destinados al consumo humano. ...

    Ajuda humanitària dels quàquers als infants de Catalunya durant la Guerra Civil 

    Serra i Sala, Rosa, 1956- (Date of defense: 2007-02-02)

    Durant la Guerra Civil, els quàquers es van plantejar ajuda calia detectar els punts de conflicte a Catalunya i cercar l'ajuda directa i alimentar els infants a través de les cantines per evitar desplaçaments que ...

    Algoritme diagnòstic en el laboratori. Impacte dels nous índex hematimètrics 

    Marull Arnall, Anna (Date of defense: 2021-06-21)

    Currently, automatic analyzers based on highly accurate methods can determine hematologic parameters in a fast and reliable way which is important to detect abnormalities in blood cells. In laboratories with a high care ...

    Aliatges magnètics nanocristal·lins de base ferro i aliatges Heusler: producció i caracterització 

    Carrillo Berlanga, Albert (Date of defense: 2020-01-17)

    This work is focused on the production and characterization of: (1) Fe based nanocrystalline soft magnetic materials of NANOPERM and HITPERM families and (2) Heusler magnetic shape memory alloys. Within the first typology, ...

    Allocation of GHG emissions in a paper mill, an application tool to reduce emissions 

    Aldrich Tomàs, Remei (Date of defense: 2009-04-30)

    El sector de pasta i paper és considerat un dels set sectors industrials més intensius en consum energètic. La producció i consum d'electricitat i de vapor esdevenen les fonts majoritàries d'emissions de gasos d'efecte ...

    Altered glycosylation in pancreatic cancer: development of new tumor markers and therapeutic strategies 

    Guerrero Barrado, Pedro Enrique (Date of defense: 2020-07-29)

    Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDA), the most common pancreatic cancer, remains one of the most lethal tumor types, with extremely low survival rates due to late diagnosis and resistance to standard therapies. Expression ...

    Les altes pressions i la bioconservació com a estratègies de control de Listeria monocytogenes en productes carnis llestos per al consum. Assajos d’inoculació i modelització matemàtica 

    Hereu Soms, Anna (Date of defense: 2014-09-19)

    The present doctoral dissertation deals with the study of the effect of food preservation technologies, such as high pressure (HP) treatments and biopreservation with nisin, on the behaviour of Listeria monocytogenes during ...