Browsing by Contributor "Università degli Studi di Padova"

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    • A computational system to monitor and control animal behaviour during perceptual tasks 

      Azizi, Rachid (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-07)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
      In the neuroscience field the scientists aim to understand how the brain works. In order to study the brain mechanisms underlying behaviour and cognition, they perform standardized laboratory experiments with animal ...

    • Aerodynamic Flow Simulation through the Vortex Cloud Method 

      Porta Ko, Agustí-Junan (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-06)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
      The present Bachelor thesis studies, develops and validates the Vortex Cloud Method in a 2-dimensional domain. This method is able to model the flow over a body accounting with flow separation and therefore, overcomes the ...

    • An European study on the effect of coupling electric generation by means of photovoltaic with GSHP in a building retrofit in an urban area 

      Lorenzo Basora, Georgina (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-05-20)
      Master thesis
      Restricted access - author's decision
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
      An European study on the effect of coupling electric generation by means of photovoltaic with GSHP in a building retrofit in an urban area The objective of this project has been to study the possibility of coupling ...

    • Analysis LCA Race Up car MG15 

      Carreras Olaizola, Enric (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-05-11)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
      Environmental pollution and climate change are two issues of particular importance, towards which public opinion has been increasing attention in recent decades, also because the consequences of these phenomena, such as ...

    • Applicazioni di Industria 4.0 in Santex Spa. Interfacciamento Baan IV - Magazzino automatico 

      Garcia Falcò, Adrià (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018)
      Master thesis
      Restricted access - author's decision
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova

    • Chemical and antimicrobial effects of air non-thermal plasma processing of fresh apple juice with focus on safety aspects 

      Tarabová, Barbora; Tampieri, Francesco; Maran, Elisabetta; Marotta, Ester; Ostrihonová, Andrea; Krewing, Marco; Machala, Zdenko (2021-08-31)
      Article
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave / Università degli Studi di Padova / Ruhr-Universität Bochum
      Freshly squeezed apple juice was subjected to air non-thermal plasma treatment to investigate the capability of this processing method to inactivate microorganisms and to evaluate its safety when applied to liquid food ...

    • Deployment of a low-cost digital platform for the monitoring of Santa María del Mar church in Barcelona 

      Borlenghi, Paolo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-07-14)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
      Despite the growing need of protection for Cultural Heritage, many technological innovations are held back by the lack of affordable hardware. In this sense, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a highly valuable tool ...

    • Development of a topology optimisation simulation tool for thermal management systems 

      Savona, Enrico (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-02-13)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
      Els problemes de transferència de calor conjugada (CHT) tenen un paper crucial en la modelització i simulació de fenòmens de refrigeració en sistemes de gestió tèrmica, per exemple, per a vehicles elèctrics amb bateries. ...

    • Discrete Partitioning and Coverage Control for Asynchronous Gossiping Robots 

      Tuzón Márquez, Luis (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-05-22)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
      This thesis proposes distributed algorithms to automatically deploy a group of robotic agents and provide coverage of a discretized environment represented by a graph. The algorithms presented converge to a centroidal ...

    • Error propagation analysis in the processing of sar images for subsidence measuraments 

      Testolina, Paolo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-07)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
      Every measurement of the physical world is affected by uncertainty, no matter how precise the available instruments are. In other words, a measure completely free of errors is not possible. Being able to quantify this ...

    • Esperimenti di un sistema di raffreddamento a film d’acqua per pannelli fotovoltaici 

      Montiel Claver, Joaquin (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Università degli Studi di Padova, 2013)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
      Nei tempi attuali dove i combustibili stanno cominciando a sparire come fonte principale d’energia c’è bisogno di cominciare a usare le risorse rinnovabili. Per questo dobbiamo svilupparle bene prima di installare gli ...

    • Estudi de reducció de costs de material a una unitat de transport refrigerat 

      Sánchez Torra, Txomin (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-07-08)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Reftrans / Università degli Studi di Padova
      El projecte tracta sobre la transició d’una nova gamma de maquinària que serveix per a transportar mercaderies refrigerades, coneguda com a VX, per tal de substituir el model anterior, anomenat V. Malgrat que les VX són ...

    • Experimental Laboratory Tests Study of foams for vibration dampening in snowboards Fatigue tests on Mahindra J101 motorbike 

      Bach, Antoni (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Università degli Studi di Padova, 2013)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
      This thesis is divided in two parts. The first part is a study comparing different foams and their future uses in the design of snowboards to dampen vibrations and shocks during snowboarding. The other part explains the ...

    • Experimental study on the influence of textile reinforcement on the structural response of reduced scale rammed earth buildings 

      Bonavita, Valentina (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-07-14)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
      Rammed earth is an ancient technique for building walls using natural raw materials such as earth, chalk, lime or gravel. It is a technique worldwide spread to a wide variety of countries and cultures. It has a revival in ...

    • Fabrication and opto-electronic characterization of ultrathin gold films with a copper oxide seed 

      Barrantes, Jessica Jazmine Nicole (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-03-24)
      Master thesis
      Restricted access - confidentiality agreement
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
      Ultrathin materials emerged as game changers for Optoelectronics industry for integrated circuits, transis- tors, solar cells, light emitting diodes, photoconductors, light crystal displays and many other applications. In ...

    • Image Translation for Automatic Animation Scenery Generation 

      Espinosa Llandrich, Sergi (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-07-06)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
      In the ever-evolving world of animation, creating aesthetically pleasing and attractive environments is essential if you want to captivate the audience. Historically, the process of creating and animating scenery has mainly ...

    • Investigation on the strength of spandrels in masonry façades 

      Drygiannakis, Myronas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-07-14)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
      The study of the lateral strength of masonry façades and general walls with openings is of utmost importance for the verification of the seismic capacity of masonry buildings. Significant research effort has been recently ...

    • Life cycle assessment of a photovoltaic plant 

      Arqué Molins, Gerard (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-05-12)
      Master thesis
      Restricted access - author's decision
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
      This thesis born from the idea and interest to develop in an extent way the knowledge acquired during the master’s degree of Energy Engineering, especially with the topic of applied energy and solar photovoltaic renewable ...

    • Modeling and simulation of smart buildings energy resources for energy management systems studies 

      Roig García, Luis (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-05-22)
      Master thesis
      Restricted access - author's decision
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
      As the electrical energy production model is evolving from the traditional large capacity electrical power plants into distributed energy resources (DERs) that form smart grids and smart microgrids, having the capability ...

    • Morpho-functionality of the toothed whale external ear canal 

      Vreese, Steffen de (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-06-17)
      Doctoral thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Padova
      While marine, anthropogenic noise pollution is a scientific and societal matter of concern, there is limited knowledge on how sea animals, particularly cetaceans, perceive their environment through sounds. Toothed whales, ...