Pujol Company, M. Dolors (Date of defense: 2013-04-16)
Coastal zones are governed by physical forces originating from tidal currents, waves, winds and night convection, amongst others, and are characterized by the presence of canopy meadows. This thesis ...
Blasco Franch, Daniel (Date of defense: 2014-01-27)
Debates on the creation and management of tourism destinations have increased during the last decades. This dissertation endeavours to contribute to the literature on tourism destinations planning and ...
Escoriza, Daniel (Date of defense: 2015-03-02)
Amphibians are a group in worldwide decline. The factors that are causing this decline are not well known, but could be multifactorial, related to the recent expansion of pathogens and habitat disturbance. ...
Badalló i Cañellas, Pere (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)
The use of the stiffened panels in the aircraft/aeronautical industry has been growing in the last decades. On the other hand, the exponential growth in the use of composite materials in the last years ...
Emara, Mohamed Reda Ali Elewa (Date of defense: 2018-04-17)
The main objective of work has been to study the bond strength and bond-slip response of NSM CFRP strips in concrete when subjected to sustained loading under different environmental conditions. To this ...
Agarwal, Richa (Date of defense: 2019-09-26)
In the field of breast cancer imaging, traditional Computer Aided Detection (CAD) systems were designed using limited computing resources and used scanned films (poor image quality), resulting in less ...
Mahmood, Muhammad Habib (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
Motion segmentation refers to the process of separating regions and trajectories from a video sequence into coherent subsets of space and time. In this thesis, we created a new multifaceted motion ...
El Allaoui, Nazha (Date of defense: 2016-07-21)
The general objective of this doctoral thesis has been to contribute to understand the modification of hydrodynamics in fragmented canopies. The effect of different parameters such as the canopy density, ...
Teodoro i Sadurní, Jaume (Date of defense: 2017-09-08)
This thesis is an empirical study that sets out to explain entrepreneurial activity, based on a broad concept of entrepreneurship. The study is based on the development of logistic regression models for ...
Piedrafita Francos, Daniel (Date of defense: 2014-12-01)
In this thesis two all-steel BRB have been designed, manufactured and tested, and both satisfy the testing protocols required by EU and US codes. They are composed of a steel slotted restraining unit ...