Li, Bin (Date of defense: 2016-03-08)
Fracture mechanics of brittle materials has focused on bulk materials with isotropic surface energy. In this situation different physical principles for crack path selection are very similar or even ...
Casazza, Daniele (Date of defense: 2016-10-28)
Let K|Q be a number field and let Z(K,s) be its associated complex L-function. The analytic class number formula relates special values of Z(K,s) with algebraic invariants of the field K itself. It ...
Dachs Cadefau, Ferran (Date of defense: 2016-06-13)
The aim of this memoir is to study multiplier ideals in two-dimensional local rings having at worst rational singularities. We also want to extend this study to the case of mixed multiplier ideals. The ...
Roca Lacostena, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-05-18)
The goal of this thesis is to solve the embedding problem for Markov matrices, posed by Gustav Elfving in1937. A Markov matrix is non-negative square matrix whose rows sum to 1. We say that such a matrix ...
Anaya Vejar, Maribel (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)
The need of ensure the proper performance of the structures in service has made of structural health monitoring (SHM) a priority research area. Researchers all around the world have focused efforts on ...
Jiménez Jiménez, Ma. José (María José) (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)
It is well known the important role that difference equations play in several problems of the engineering or of the science. However, whereas the expression of the solutions when the coefficients of the ...
Asadipour, Nina (Date of defense: 2016-03-04)
We present a cell-centred model for the simulation of multicellular soft tissues that takes into account the underlying active process at the cytoskeletal level, and allows for active and passive cell-cell ...
Roig Maranges, Abdó (Date of defense: 2016-01-26)
The traditional way to study algebraic cycles on an algebraic variety uses the Chow groups. However, in the beginnings of the 90's, Blaine Lawson and Eric Friedlander developed a different way to study ...
Ruiz Muñoz, José Luis (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)
A graph consists of a finite non-empty set of vertices and a set of unordered pairs of vertices, called edges. A dominating set of a graph is a set of vertices D such that every vertex not in D is ...
Serra Musach, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
Cancer can be defined as a family of complex disease characterized by a cellular hyperproliferation and the capacity of the cell to invade surrounding tissue and metastasize to other organs in the body. ...