Resumen: Terremotos históricos y recientes (p. ej. los de 1906, 1985 y 2010) indican la repetición de un patrón espacial de la distribución de los daños sísmicos en Viña del Mar (Chile) que afectan sobre todo a la zona llana de la ciudad.
La ciudad de Viña del Mar, situada en el borde norte de la...
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Historical and recent earthquakes (eg those of 1906, 1985 and 2010) indicate the repetition of a spatial pattern of the distribution of seismic damage in Viña del Mar (Chile) that mainly affects the flat area of the city . The city of Viña del Mar, located on the northern edge of the g...
This thesis addresses the observer design problem, for a class of linear one-dimensional parabolic Partial Differential Equations, considering the simultaneous estimation of states and parameters from boundary measurements. The design is based on the Backstepping methodology for Partial Different...
In this thesis we present algorithmic and modeling contributions for Stackelberg games that help address challenges due to problem size. Stackelberg games consider that one player, called leader, commits a strategy first and the other player, named follower, observes this strategy and plays a bes...
In packet-based wireless communications, the first task of a receiver is to detect the
presence of a signal in the air and to determine a timing reference about it. This task is often
assisted by transmitting a known preamble sequence. The task has to be performed under
several impairments such a...
The general objective of this thesis is to address the problem of forest fires from a pre- ventive perspective, mainly motivated by the increase of this phenomenon worldwide and exacerbated by climate change. The current incidents indicate that preventive policy mea- sures must be taken to reduce...
Seawater (SW) in mining is used in a desalinated or non-desalinated mode and it is presented as a favorable alternative to supply the lack of water in this industry. The first option means high investment costs and energy consumption translated into greater pollution, either by the emission of gr...
Pichia pastoris is recognized as a biotechnological workhorse for recombinant protein expression. Based on past achievements and novel developments, systems biotechnology of P. pastoris has significantly progressed over the last two decades.
In this doctoral thesis, a systematic analysis of opera...
Alcoholism is a serious socio-economic problem. The cost associated with alcohol abuse
for the Chilean economy is estimated at USD$1300 million, in the USA alcoholism costs
$185 billion mainly due to lost productivity, health care and associated societal ills.
The process by which ethanol is meta...
Molybdenum(Mo)-doped ceria (CMO) nanoparticles were synthesized by the combustion method with three different Mo concentrations: 5 wt.%, 7 wt.% and 10 wt.%. The catalytic activity of CMO for wet gasification of carbon was studied in a fluidized bed reactor, while the mechanical and electrical pro...
Software processes tailoring is the activity of adapting the organizational software process to the needs of particular projects. Model-driven engineering (MDE) has been applied with this purpose, using models for formalizing the software process and the project context, and model transformations...
