A hesitant fuzzy perceptual-based approach to model linguistic assessments 

    Porro Martorell, Olga (Date of defense: 2021-04-07)

    Multiple-criteria or multiple-attribute group decision-making is a sub-field of operations research that seek to find a common and representative solution given the preferences elicited by a pre-defined group, over a set ...

    Análisis y modelización de la evolución de patrones globales y regionales en los conflictos socio ambientales. Aplicación a la Amazonia Ecuatoriana 

    Pita Merino, Lina (Date of defense: 2020-01-29)

    This document constitutes a conceptual and empirical approach to the problem of Socio-Environmental Conflicts (SEC) in Ecuador through an evaluation of 51 cases, distributed throughout the Ecuadorian territory between 1977 ...

    Contributions to industrial statistics 

    Fontdecaba Rigat, Sara (Date of defense: 2015-12-23)

    This thesis is about statistics' contributions to industry. It is an article compendium comprising four articles divided in two blocks: (i) two contributions for a water supply company, and (ii) significance of the effects ...

    Efficient models for building acoustics : combining deterministic and statistical methods 

    Díaz Cereceda, Cristina (Date of defense: 2013-11-15)

    Modelling vibroacoustic problems in the field of building design is a challenging problem due to the large size of the domains and the wide frequency range required by regulations. Standard numerical techniques, for instance ...

    La estructura del mercado residencial en Barcelona : un análisis de una metodología de identificación de los submercados a partir de la movilidad residencial 

    González Tamez, Carlos Adrián (Date of defense: 2016-01-26)

    This thesis is based on the assumption that residential mobility understood as the housing changes that individuals experience throughout their lives can provide solid elements for a more sophisticated understanding of the ...

    Estudi de les inèrcies estructurals en anàlisis de correspondències. Aportacions per a una millora de les anàlisis 

    Daunis i Estadella, Josep (Date of defense: 2005-02-11)

    La memòria d'aquesta tesi doctoral s'estructura en un primer capítol on es descriuen els objectius de la tesi i l'organització del treball de recerca. Després, el Capítol 2: Anàlisis factorials de dades es destina a presentar ...

    From RNA to histological images: linking the transcriptome with human phenotypes through statistical learning 

    Muñoz Aguirre, Manuel (Date of defense: 2021-04-07)

    Genomic datasets are fundamental to broaden our understanding of human biology in the context of health and disease. However, the high-dimensional nature of gene expression and other molecular traits poses a challenge when ...

    Improving urban deliveries via collaboration 

    Roca Riu, Mireia (Date of defense: 2015-12-22)

    Distribution of goods is essential for the economic development of cities but at the same time it entails several problems to the urban systems and different stakeholders. Carriers spend a significant portion of their cost ...

    Incidència de l'urbanisme en la funció econòmica i social de la ciutat: El rol de les ciutats mitjanes en un entorn metropolità 

    Calvet Puig, Maria Dolors (Date of defense: 2005-05-05)

    El treball d'investigació parteix d'un marc teòric sobre la situació de les ciutats i del seu desenvolupament i busca la relació que pugui haver-hi entre els actes de govern d'una ciutat i la seva situació d'equilibri i ...

    Los programas de protección voluntarios en la industria de la construcción : desarrollo de un modelo con integración de la cadena de valor 

    Yáñez Rodríguez, Pablo (Date of defense: 2015-12-14)

    Background. The construction sector presents a significantly higher rate of work injuries than other sectors. Beyond strict legal compliance, voluntary protection programs (VPP) showed an average 52% reduction in accidents ...

    Multivariate methods for interpretable analysis of magnetic resonance spectroscopy data in brain tumour diagnosis 

    Vilamala Muñoz, Albert (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)

    Malignant tumours of the brain represent one of the most difficult to treat types of cancer due to the sensitive organ they affect. Clinical management of the pathology becomes even more intricate as the tumour mass increases ...

    Obtenció d’un indicador microterritorial de renda familiar disponible a partir de dades macroterritorials i contrastació empírica a nivell de secció censal : El cas de Terrassa 

    Escofet i Figueras, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 2016-11-11)

    Aquesta tesi té el seu origen en la tesi del Màster de l'any 2008, en què es desenvolupava mitjançant ecologia factorial un indicador socioeconòmic que corresponia al primer factor de l'anàlisi. Els treballs que tracten ...

    Relatos incompletos del entorno doméstico : de la casa colonial a la casa pre-moderna en la literatura de Tomás Carrasquilla 

    Gómez Jiménez, Margiori (Date of defense: 2015-11-13)

    La arquitectura doméstica ofrece un testimonio fundamental para conocer los rasgos que definen una determinada sociedad, ya que la transformación del espacio y el comportamiento desplegado en él, son aspectos estrechamente ...

    Study of longitudinal neurodegeneration biomarkers to support the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease 

    Gavidia Bovadilla, Giovana (Date of defense: 2018-10-21)

    Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a progressive and neurodegenerative disorder characterized by pathological brain changes starting several years before clinical symptoms appear. Earlier and accurate identification of those brain ...

    The management of fire complexity at the edge of criticality 

    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 climatic forcing ...