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, ...
Avelar Rosa, Bruno (Date of defense: 2020-09-04)
The research focuses on the process of knowledge construction in martial arts and combat sports fundamentals in primary school, through the analysis of the joint activity organization. The didactic ...
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 ...
Oliveras Rovira, Àngel (Date of defense: 2020-10-27)
Nowadays, around a third of the agricultural production is lost due to the damage caused by pests, resulting in a significant economic impact. It is estimated that about a third of these losses are ...
Fernández Recasens, Cristina (Date of defense: 2020-01-08)
This research explores the possibilities of the use of body movement in the field of the teaching of literature and, more specifically, for teaching poetry. It is based on a questioning of the control ...
Galván Femenía, Iván (Date of defense: 2020-07-10)
The present thesis is a compendium of three research articles produced between 2015 and 2019. The three articles are different contributions based on compositional statistical methodology and statistical ...
Madruga Parera, Marc (Date of defense: 2020-06-03)
The asymmetries detected in the different multi-directional sports vary in magnitude depending on the test selected. Furthermore, in the individual analysis of the different tests administered, it was ...
Corominas Pérez, Maria Josep (Date of defense: 2020-10-13)
The right of the child to be heard justifies the analysis of the children’s subjective well-being (SWB) in order to encourage considering the cognitive and affective evaluations that children make about ...
Kushibar, Kaisar (Date of defense: 2020-07-20)
This PhD thesis focuses on the development of deep learning based methods for accurate segmentation of the sub-cortical brain structures from MRI. First, we have proposed a 2.5D CNN architecture that ...