Abdel Monsef, Said Ahmed Ibrahim (Date of defense: 2020-07-02)
Cohesive zone models are widely used for modelling delamination and bonded joints under different loading conditions. In the current thesis, an objective inverse method has been developed to extract the ...
Godo Pla, Lluís (Date of defense: 2020-11-05)
Drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs) face significant challenges due to anthropocentric pressure and climate change. To address them, DWTP managers need to adjust treatment units. In the present work, ...
Rubio Gracia, Francesc (Date of defense: 2021-10-27)
This thesis aimed to assess the responses of stream biota to flow alterations, in terms of water velocity increments and reductions of discharge, and to metal pollution. The investigations performed ...
Čelić, Mira (Date of defense: 2020-12-15)
The main objective of this thesis is to evaluate the impact of wastewater discharges on receiving riverine and coastal ecosystems by studying the occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants (ECs). Since ...
Vico Martori, Alexandre (Date of defense: 2021-04-12)
In 1483 Sandro Botticelli completed with the collaboration of his workshop the quartet with the story of Nastagio degli Onesti. It was the first pictorial transcription on panel of the novella of the ...
Rabionet Diaz, Marc (Date of defense: 2021-11-08)
Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) accounts for 15-20% of the breast cancers and displays an aggressive profile, poor prognosis, high relapse risk and does not have a targeted therapy. In the last ...
Jaén Gil, Adrián (Date of defense: 2021-05-28)
The low efficiency of wastewater treatment plants to achieve the complete removal of micropollutants, including pharmaceuticals, has motivated the development of alternative water technologies to improve ...
Jahani, Babak (Date of defense: 2021-11-29)
Aerosols and clouds, as two particular cases of a single phenomenon (i.e., a suspension of particles in the air), are important components in the climate system. They play a crucial role in determination ...
Baró Sabé, Aina (Date of defense: 2021-07-30)
Xylella fastidiosa is one of the most damaging phytopathogenic bacteria in the world, causing a variety of diseases with a major economic impact on agriculture and the environment. Until now, no therapeutic ...
Jurado Bruggeman, Diego (Date of defense: 2023-03-16)
Introduction Different types of dose calculation algorithms for external beam radiation therapy with MV photons coexist nowadays. The oldest ones are convolution/superposition (C/S), which consider all ...