Solans Margalef, Marta (Date of defense: 2019-10-14)
Diet is a key modifiable risk factor for several neoplasms, but evidence for lymphoid malignancies is still inconsistent. Previous epidemiological studies were mostly focused on single dietary components ...
Noguerola Solà, Imma (Date of defense: 2016-07-29)
This doctoral thesis studies the abundance, diversity, seasonal dynamics and activity of Epsilonproteobacteria in a meromictic basin of Lake Banyoles during three year cycles. We applied a complementary ...
Espasa Arxer, Joan (Date of defense: 2018-11-15)
Automated planning is a discipline in the field of Artificial Intelligence that can be described as the process of finding a course of action that achieves a specified task. In other words, it focuses ...
Trias Mansilla, Albert (Date of defense: 2013-07-19)
The village paradigm presents some benefits compared with the library paradigm; people can adapt the answer content as a function of who is requesting the information, or furthermore, people can perform ...
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 ...
Ramírez Orozco, Raissel (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
The limited dynamic range of digital images can be extended by composing different exposures of the same scene to produce HDR images. This thesis is composed of an overview of the state of the art ...
Broncano-Berrocal, Fernando (Date of defense: 2013-10-25)
This thesis presents a diagnosis of the problem of luck in epistemology and an analysis of the concept of knowledge. Part I gives an account of the ordinary concept of luck. Part II gives an account ...
López de Rioja, Víctor (Date of defense: 2019-03-11)
The thesis studies from an analytical and computational perspective, and by using reaction-diffusion equations, the spatiotemporal evolution of different populations. First, the dynamics of the T7 ...
García Rodríguez, Santiago (Date of defense: 2019-06-28)
This thesis investigates the impact response of novel laminates made with “thin-plies” as well as proposes a toughening method to improve their impact tolerance. To this purpose, we devised a wide ...
Juan García, Pau (Date of defense: 2019-02-04)
The water sector is entering a period of uncertainty, as stressors such as climate change pose unknown risks to its infrastructure. Utilities need to build resilience to handle unpredictable changes, ...