López Roldán, Ramón (Date of defense: 2015-07-10)
An optimal strategy for monitoring water quality should be based on a combination of different technologies depending on the particularities of the system being observed. The final solution will be a ...
Sánchez Toledano, Blanca Isabel (Date of defense: 2017-06-08)
Mexico is one of the countries with the highest corn production in the world (24.6 million tons) (FAOSTAT, 2016). However, in some regions, the yields are very low (2.0 Tn.ha-1) compared to the national ...
Scaini, Chiara (Date of defense: 2015-03-18)
During April-May 2010, the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland caused the larger breakdown of civil aviation after World War II. Although the eruption was weak in intensity, the dispersal ...
Marras, Simone (Date of defense: 2012-12-10)
In this thesis the finite and spectral element methods (FEM and SEM, respectively) applied to problems in atmospheric simulations are explored through the common thread of Variational Multiscale ...
Michelutti, Enrico (Date of defense: 2014-01-10)
Urban fragmentation is a phenomenon which characterizes the so-called "global city", both in the North and in the South of the world. Since the 1990s, several disciplines have approached fragmentation ...
Selvanathan, Tharshanan (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
Decline of resources, increasing expectation of stakeholders and radical transparency imposed by new technologies urges multinational enterprises to define sustainability as an important driver, which ...
Pires Carneiro, Alex (Date of defense: 2015-07-21)
Water is a limited resource essential for life. Human activities have been exercising considerable pressures on it. The unsustainable use and the need to improve the management of water are among the ...
Oliveres Solé, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-02-02)
Fire regimes are changing under the influence of global change. On the European continent, landscape memory in the 21st century is dominated by an accumulation of forest fuel and irrupted by a progressive ...
Hassouneh, Islam (Date of defense: 2012-02-29)
Los mercados mundiales agroalimentarios se han visto recientemente afectados por shocks importantes tales como crisis alimentarias y el estallido del mercado de los biocombustibles. La presente tesis ...
Arranz Piera, Pol (Date of defense: 2018-12-03)
Access to energy is crucial to human welfare; no residential, commercial or industrial activity can be conceived without energy supply. At the same time, current dependence on fossil fuels and their ...