The use of outriggers in tall buildings is a common practice to reduce response under dynamic loading. Viscous dampers have been implemented between the outrigger and the perimeter columns, to reduce vibrations produced by strong winds. However, its behaviour under strong earthquakes has been not...
This thesis describes the guidelines, experimental design, and initial results for stationary and dynamic aerodynamic assessments of vocal hyperfunction.
This work aims to improve the understanding and clinical assessment of vocal hyperfunction by advancing current methods for the inverse filteri...
Synthetic biology aims to unveil the design principles of complex cellular processes, such as the ones underlying transcriptional networks. An interesting transcriptional genetic module is the Transcriptional-Translational Negative Feedback Loop (TTFL), as find at the heart of circadian clocks. T...
Electrical trees are micrometre-size tubular channels of degradation in high voltage polymeric insulation, a precursor to failure of electrical power plant. Hence, electrical trees critically affect the reliability of power systems and the performance of new insulation designs. Imaging laboratory...
This research is centered on thermoeconomic assessment of the joint production of electricity, fresh-water, cooling and process heat for solar polygeneration plants, to create scientific knowledge basis for the development of concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies in zones with high direct i...
The strong ground motions generated by earthquakes can be related to the characteristics of the earthquakes source (stress drop, rupture velocity etc..), and therefore to the frictional conditions of the faults. These characteristics are usually studied by analyzing the low frequency band (≤ 1Hz)...
Current networking systems are highly homogeneous, consisting mainly of identical or very similar devices from a single vendor. This advantageous pattern
from management, economic, and interoperability points of view jeopardizes the
capacity of the network to face correlated attacks/failures that...
Los sistemas actuales de red son altamente homogéneos, principalmente formados por dispositivos idénticos o muy similares de un mismo vendedor. Este patrón, que resulta ventajoso desde un punto de vista económico, de administración e interoperabilidad pone en peligro la capacidad de la red para h...
The aim of this project was to evaluate the influence of conventional anaerobic digestion (CAD) and
advanced anaerobic digestion (AAD) of sewage sludge in the composition (i.e. physicochemical
and microbiological characteristics, and the concentration of micropollutants) and in the direct and
ind...
El objetivo de este proyecto fue evaluar la influencia de la digestión anaerobia convencional (DAC)
y la digestión anaerobia avanzada (DAA) de lodos sanitarios en la composición (es decir en las
características fisicoquímicas y microbiológicas, y en la concentración de microcontaminantes) y
en la...
Discrete choice modelling has become the preferred empirical context to study individuals’
preferences and willingness to pay. Although the outcome is important in decision making, so
is the process that individuals adopt to assist them in reaching a decision. Both should be
considered when analy...
Los modelos de elección discreta se han convertido en el contexto empírico preferido para estudiar las preferencias individuales y disposiciones al pago. Aunque el resultado es importante en una elección, también lo es el proceso que los individuos adoptan al hacer una elección. Ambos deberían se...
Understanding and forecasting the behaviour of individuals is key in different realms of society such as public policy and marketing. Discrete choice models are an important econometric tool for understanding these behaviours. The kernel of a discrete choice model is its choice heuristic, which r...
