Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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The transition towards an environmentally sustainable society involves a substantial transformation of the configuration of the energy system, and therefore, it entails a significant shift in planning process strategy. ...
This investigation presents a study of the rates that generate economic flows between developers and concessionaires in the port sector based on the hypothesis that a private developer purchases the land on the waterfront ...
Urban air pollution is of major concern in Spain and also throughout Europe and globally with numerous effects on human health and ecosystems. Since air quality (AQ) is predominantly a problem for human health and the ...
Atmospheric pollution causes large impacts on human health and societal economic interests and it is a threat for the ecosystems and the climate of the Earth. Improving the understanding of pollution dynamics is necessary ...
The laboratories of the leather sector have the necessity to analyse anionic species in different samples. Although ionic chromatography is currently the best method for this analysis, until now, the processes based on it ...
Rising public awareness about the care of our enviroment and therefore, corporate business awareness also, are notorious day by day. This real interest is reflected in environmental laws and other regulations, seeking at ...
The general objective of this thesis is to study the innovation strategies in Catalan biotechnology companies and the impact of these strategies on their innovation. ldentifying how, where and with whom these companies ...
In the leather industry, the finish process uses many types of resins including butadiene, acrylic and polyurethanes, aided by auxiliaries as pigments, waxes etc. that give touch to different articles that are currently ...
The objective of this thesis was to establish bases to characterize "learn to learn" competence and to promote it in an engineering educational context. It adopted the vision of educational psychology that establishes ...
The upcoming General Data Protection Regulation at EU level to be implemented in 2018 will represent a history achievement data time when the Europe is laying the foundations of a single digital market. In the context of ...
The main objective of this study is to compare the implementation of a quality model that comprehensively covers the stages of housing construction, with tracking sales strategies in real estate housing projects. The ...
Electric vehicles are, slowly but steadily, entering into the automotive market. The slow entry is caused, basically, by the high cost of their batteries. Additionally, electric vehicle batteries are considered not useful ...
The research carried out is part of the field of study of Collective Intelligence (CI) with the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Higher Education. The heart of this research was focused on the ...
Within the practice of public health at a global level there is now a greater interest in conceptualizing, materialize, and achieve the development of "healthy communities". Such communities would require the approach of ...
When it comes to organizing and defining a project, depending on its nature and typology, it will be necessary to use a series of tools to carry it out. The availability of a generic model that can be transposed to most ...
Nanotechnology and specially nanomaterials, offer a range of opportunities for the automotive industry. The improvement of physical and chemical properties or the development of new functionalities in the vehicle has driven ...
The construction sector contributes to current environmental problems. It is responsible for the impact of the production of building materials and for the waste generated in construction works. Strategies for alternative ...
The general context of this thesis is the current framework regarding the Industrial Heritage and the sort of possible actions following the guidelines recommended by the London Charter to act and also to manage all the ...
The process of control of a construction project involving the whole life cycle is a complex task. The version of control of a project on the basis only of the execution of the work is a limited version, because the success ...
