Liv, Yi (Date of defense: 2017-10-26)
The threat of impact on laminated composite structures has been a serious concern in the aerospace industry and scientific community because the compression load-carrying capacity of the structures, ...
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 ...
Gabarda Mallorquí, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2017-02-13)
Tourism has become one of the most important economic sectors in the Mediterranean coast. Despite the economic benefits generated by tourism at local and regional level, the environmental impacts related ...
Maldonado López, Ferney A. (Date of defense: 2017-09-12)
SDN is a network technology that separates control functions and the data plane. This separation allows flexibility in the management and use of network resources because the software is specialized in ...
Tortajada Giménez, Meritxell (Date of defense: 2017-07-17)
This thesis is focused on the automatic detection of masses in FFDM images by using case-level information which includes bilateral, temporal and/or ipsilateral information. As a first step, FFDM images ...
Carrera Viñas, Arnau (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
The interest in performing underwater tasks using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) has been growing over the past few years. In this thesis, a flexible framework for underwater interventions using ...
Roure Garcia, Ferran (Date of defense: 2017-03-08)
In this thesis, we did an in-depth review of the state of the art of 3D registration, evaluating the most popular methods. Given the lack of standardization in the literature, we also proposed a ...
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 ...
Ortega Novillo, Adrián (Date of defense: 2017-04-20)
When a fibre-reinforced composite laminate is subjected to traction or compression, it develops a relatively large Fracture Process Zone where material toughening mechanisms such as ...
Rusek, Robert (Date of defense: 2017-05-24)
The thesis concentrates particularly on how to enhance space-use in the case of public facilities. This issue has been approached by repurposing existing facilities and introducing additional services, ...