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Building an architecture of everyday life in South Korea: mass housing estates in Seoul as an instrument of modernization, 1962-2008

Brossa Balcells, Marc (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)

The mass housing estates – apat’u tanji in Korean – that were developed in Seoul during the second half of the twentieth century are the most characteristic spatial practice of the South Korean modernization project. They ...

Building emancipatory strategies, producing political subjects: alternative food economies in the basque country and Greece in the crisis

Calvário, Rita (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)

Las economías alternativas se presentan comúnmente como un resultado de la voluntad, o como una reacción espontánea y acumulativa a un impacto, ya sea la crisis o el neoliberalismo en general. Su destino es transformar el ...

Building ethernet connectivity services for provider networks

Bonada i Cruells, Eduard (Date of defense: 2012-07-16)

Network providers are motivated to deploy Ethernet in their infrastructures. However, this represents a new application for Ethernet technology that leads to new requirements. In Ethernet networks, the Rapid Spanning Tree ...

Building Human Spinal Cord Organoids (huSpineOrg) biomodels to study neural tube defects

Blanco Ameijeiras, Jose Manuel (Date of defense: 2023-03-24)

[eng] The Central nervous system (CNS) originates from the coordinated events that result into neural specification and the morphogenic events that shape the neural tube (NT). Then, the embryonic NT should grow and generate ...

Building information modeling for facility managers

Alavi, Hamidreza (Date of defense: 2022-10-11)

A Decision Support System (DSS) can help facility managers to improve building performance, occupants’ comfort, and energy efficiency during the Operation and Maintenance (O&M) phase. These DSSs are normally data-intensive ...

Building knowledge in performance measurement and management: A critical realist approach

Armstrong, Ryan (Date of defense: 2018-12-19)

Within management and organizational studies, researchers and practitioners alike have maintained a constant interest in the topic performance management as a means of improving individual and organizational performance. ...

Building legitimacy under bombs: syrian local revolutionary governance’s quest for trust and peace

Salameh, Nour (Date of defense: 2017-09-28)

Although, Local Governance Entities in opposition-controlled areas in Syria introduce themselves as governmental bodies, their role and agency go beyond the traditional definition of local governance which limits them to ...

Building sustanibility and trust in the usage of electronic identification using technology acceptance model

Seven, Asli (Date of defense: 2015-07-03)

El propósito general de esta disertación fue analizar las razones para no usar más eficientemente la identificación electrónica y proponer un modelo conceptual. Para conseguir esto, un estudio empírico realizado sobre una ...

Building up molecular complexity by Ni-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions

Sun, Shangzheng (Date of defense: 2020-12-15)

En línia amb la investigació desenvolupada al nostre grup basada en l’elaboració de noves reaccions d’acoblament creuat, hem decidit centrar la tesis doctoral en l’estudi de la formació de nous enllaços Csp3–Csp3, utilitzant ...

Building up molecular complexity via C-H functionalization and skeletal rearrangements

Gutiérrez Bonet, Alvaro (Date of defense: 2016-01-15)

L'obtenció de molècules orgànicas complexes a partir de simpl precursors és, avui en dia encara, de gran interès en el camp de la química sintética. En els darrers anys, la funcionalizació d´enllaços C-H en les molèculas ...

Building urban destination brands in Europe: re-conceptualizing the relationship between brand image and brand personality in website communication practices

Vinyals-Mirabent, Sara (Date of defense: 2018-02-08)

Destinations must project a strong and differentiated brand image to position themselves in a competitive market. To this end, official websites have become a key instrument in the portrayal of the desired image and as the ...

Buits infraestructurals : estratègies operatives pel projecte de la ciutat contemporània

Vancells Guérin, Xavier (Date of defense: 2015-11-13)

The aim ofthis thesis is to create an analytical framework to understand the specificity and potential of these areas from a critical view of the current extensive growth model operating on the territory, which is performing ...

Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators and their Application to Microwave Devices

Verdú Tirado, Jordi (Date of defense: 2010-06-09)

El crecimiento exponencial que han experimentado los sistemas de comunicaciones inalámbricos actuales durante los últimos años, ha dado lugar a la necesidad de disponer dispositivos de microondas de tamaño reducido y, a ...

Bulk and Interfacial Engineering to Enhance Photovoltaic Properties of Iodide and Bromide Perovskite Solar Cells

Aranda Alonso, Clara (Date of defense: 2019-11-27)

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have come to the forefront of photovoltaic technology due to their impressive power conversion efficiency (PCE) of up to 25%. This high efficiency comes together with great advances regarding ...

Bulk and interfacial properties of chain fluids: a molecular modelling approach

Pàmies Corominas, Josep (Date of defense: 2003-12-11)

En aquest treball s'han desenvolupat tècniques de modelització molecular, concretament la teoria estadística dels fluids associants (en anglès, SAFT) i la simulació molecular (Monte Carlo i dinàmica molecular), i s'han ...

Bullionism, Specie-Point Mechanism and Bullion Flows in the Early 18th-century Europe

Nogués Marco, Pilar (Date of defense: 2010-01-22)

The discovery of America was followed by a flow of precious metals to Spain and Portugal, and from there throughout the world. Historiography has reconstructed the quantities of gold and silver transferred from the New ...

El bullying a l’esport i a l’Educació Física. Una aproximació des de la perspectiva de les víctimes de bullying en el context esportiu, dels entrenadors i les entrenadores, i del futur personal docent d'Educació Física

Ríos Sisó, Xènia (Date of defense: 2023-02-24)

[cat] El bullying, una problemàtica social d’abast mundial, es va començar a estudiar als anys 70. La investigació, centrada principalment en el context escolar, ha posat de manifest la necessitat d’abordar el fenomen degut ...