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    Safety and adaptation in physical interaction control for robotic applications 

    San Miguel Tello, Alberto (Date of defense: 2023-09-04)

    (English) Although robotic platforms have been used for a wide range of purposes, recent advances in robot autonomy raise the opportunity of bringing them closer to humans. This implies that, under any circumstance, robots ...

    Safety life cycle analysis applied to the engineering of pressure relief valves in process plants 

    Basco Montia, Josep (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)

    Chemical plants and other industrial installations process and store hazardous materials, which represent a certain risk to people, equipment and the environment. Overpressure is one of the most common upsets in process ...

    Sag effects on protection system in distributed generation grids 

    Bakkar, Mostafa (Date of defense: 2022-02-07)

    Distributed Generators (DGs) are sensible to voltage sags, so the protection devices must trip fast to disconnect the faulted part of the grid. The DG disconnection will not be desirable in the near future with a large ...

    Saharan dust deposition effects on production in the Mediterranean Sea 

    Gallisai, Rachelle (Date of defense: 2016-11-04)

    The potential capacity of fertilization of surface oceans by atmospheric deposition is of scientific interest. This is especially true in the oligotrophic Mediterranean Sea. Its surface waters are extremely poor in nutrients ...

    Salvador de Bahía, siglo XVIII: estudio del papel de las órdenes religiosas en el proceso de urbanización 

    Ribeiro da Costa, Ana de Lourdes (Date of defense: 2003-07-11)

    Considerando la gran importancia que tuvo la Iglesia Católica en el proceso de configuración de los núcleos urbanos coloniales brasileños, lo que se propone en este trabajo es estudiar el papel de la Orden Religiosa de los ...

    Same industry, same host territory, different evolution paths : breaking the FDI trap in the clothing industry : a case study from clothing manufacturing enterprises in Albania 

    Kacani, Jolta (Date of defense: 2017-09-19)

    This research investigates the qualitative effects of foreign direct investments of the clothing industry in a developing country like Albania. The clothing industry is often regarded as the first step of industrialization ...

    Sample Covariance Based Parameter Estimation For Digital Communications 

    Villares Piera, Javier (Date of defense: 2005-10-01)

    En aquesta tesi s'estudia el problema d'estimació cega de segon ordre en comunicacions digitals. En aquest camp, els símbols transmesos esdevenen paràmetres no desitjats (nuisance parameters) d'estadística no gaussiana que ...

    Satellite integration in 5G : contribution on network architectures and traffic engineering solutions for hybrid satellite-terrestrial mobile backhauling 

    Mendoza Montoya, Jesús Fabián (Date of defense: 2019-04-24)

    The recent technological advances in the satellite domain such as the use of High Throughput Satellites (HTS) with throughput rates that are magnitudes higher than with previous ones, or the use of large non- Geostationary ...

    São Paulo, ciudad de ciudades: de los proyectos de vivienda pública a los sistemas urbanos residenciales de interés social 

    Van Sluys, Christine (Date of defense: 2022-09-12)

    The subject of this doctoral thesis is the production of social housing in Brazil, studied from the diverse legacy built specifically in the city of São Paulo over the last hundred years. The main objective of this thesis ...

    Scalability and robustness in software-defined networking (SDN) 

    Jiménez Agudelo, Yury Andrea (Date of defense: 2016-07-06)

    The simplicity of Internet design has led to enormous growth and innovation. In recent decades several network technologies, services and applications have appeared, which demand specific network requirements for their ...

    Scalability in extensible and heterogeneous storage systems 

    Miranda Bueno, Alberto (Date of defense: 2014-09-26)

    The evolution of computer systems has brought an exponential growth in data volumes, which pushes the capabilities of current storage architectures to organize and access this information effectively: as the unending ...

    Scalable community detection for social networks 

    Prat Pérez, Arnau (Date of defense: 2016-03-03)

    Many applications can be modeled intuitively as graphs, where nodes represent the entities and the edges the relationships between them. This way, we are able to better understand them and how they interact. One particularity ...

    Scalable domain decomposition methods for finite element approximations of transient and electromagnetic problems 

    Olm Serra, Marc (Date of defense: 2019-02-18)

    The main object of study of this thesis is the development of scalable and robust solvers based on domain decomposition (DD) methods for the linear systems arising from the finite element (FE) discretization of transient ...

    Scalable processing of aggregate functions for data streams in resource-constrained environments 

    Villalba Navarro, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2019-09-05)

    The fast evolution of data analytics platforms has resulted in an increasing demand for real-time data stream processing. From Internet of Things applications to the monitoring of telemetry generated in large datacenters, ...

    Scalable system software for high performance large-scale applications 

    Morari, Alessadro (Date of defense: 2014-05-27)

    In the last decades, high-performance large-scale systems have been a fundamental tool for scientific discovery and engineering advances. The sustained growth of supercomputing performance and the concurrent reduction in ...

    Scalable techniques for graphene on glass 

    Marchena Martín-Francés, Miriam (Date of defense: 2018-06-14)

    The combination of unique properties -high electrical mobility, thermal conductivity, transparency and mechanical flexibility- make graphene promising for a wide variety of applications, including transparent electrodes, ...

    Scaling deep learning workloads. Applications in computer vision and seismology 

    Cruz de la Cruz, Stalin Leonel (Date of defense: 2023-07-06)

    (English) Deep learning techniques have an enormous impact on the state-of-the-art in many fields, such as computer vision, natural language processing, audio analysis and synthesis, and many others. The increasing computing ...

    Scaling of subsurface processes in heterogeneous aquifers: from hydraulic testing to the use of memory functions 

    Willmann, Matthias (Date of defense: 2008-12-05)

    La heterogeneidad de la conductividad hidráulica es bien conocida, pudiendo cambiar varios órdenes de magnitud en poca distancia. Esto afecta nuestras observaciones de los procesos naturales. Para poder explicar la realidad ...

    Scaling-up methodology : a systematical procedure for qualifying NPP nodalizations. Application to the OECD/NEA ROSA-2 and PKL-2 Counterpart test 

    Martínez Quiroga, Victor (Date of defense: 2014-11-17)

    System codes along with necessary nodalizations are valuable tools for thermal hydraulic safety analysis. Qualifying both codes and nodalizations is an essential step prior to their use in any significant study involving ...

    Scene segmentation using neuromorphic networks 

    Cosp Vilella, Jordi (Date of defense: 2002-07-08)

    Els avanços en neurociència han portat el desenvolupament de models complexes de neurones artificials semblants a les seves contraparts biològiques. Aquests models han millorat la funcionalitat de les xarxes neuronals ...