Casas Ruiz, Joan Pere (Date of defense: 2017-05-31)
In river networks, dissolved organic matter (DOM) constitutes the major pool of organic carbon, and plays a key role as energy source and modulator of toxic substances availability. In this thesis, Joan ...
Kabeel, Abdallah Mahmoud Bayoumi (Date of defense: 2015-04-15)
The main contribution of this work is to introduce analytical models able to create simple design charts that would allow designers to quickly determine the strength of quasi-brittle structures containing ...
Bosch Alay, Josep (Date of defense: 2018-10-17)
Omnidirectional vision has received increasing interest during the last decade from the computer vision community. However, the use of omnidirectional cameras underwater is still very limited. In this ...
Comas Hervada, Bruna (Date of defense: 2014-07-14)
Flame spread over solid samples has been studied from many points of view, as it is key for fire safety, yet it is a complex phenomenon that involves processes occurring in both the solid and the gas ...
Ivina, Olga (Date of defense: 2012-11-20)
This thesis is aimed to introduce a newly developed machine learning method, conformal predictors, for air pollution assessment. For the given area of study, the Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BMR), ...
Ros i Sala, Àlex (Date of defense: 2016-10-26)
In the margins of continents there are the coastal zones, regions of remarkable biological productivity. Coastal zones include, among others, wetlands, that are land areas inundated permanently o ...
Estany-Tigerström, David (Date of defense: 2013-11-29)
We investigated whether the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) invasion modifies the trophic web of the sclerophyllous Mediterranean forests to the point that impacts co-occurring bird communities. We ...
Kanzaki Cabrera, Takeichi (Date of defense: 2013-11-29)
Granular materials are multi-particle systems involved in many industrial process and everyday life. The mechanical behavior of granular media such as sand, coffee beans, planetary rings and powders are ...
Acebo Peña, Esteve del (Date of defense: 2011-05-27)
Trust modeling is widely recognized as an aspect of essential importance in the construction of agents and multi agent systems (MAS). As a consequence, several trust formalisms have been proposed over ...
Comamala Laguna, Martí (Date of defense: 2019-07-31)
Since the beginnings of the automotive driven with internal combustion engines all the cycles used in the alternative motors share a thermal characteristic, a large amount of heat released by the fuel ...