This diploma thesis deals with the design of a two-axis multi-spindle lathe carriage. In the first part, there is made a research, and its aim is to find possible variants of design solutions. After the best rated variant was selected, the thesis further continues with the necessary technical calculations of the main design nodes such as a synchronous servomotor, ball screw, linear guide and bearing. The design itself was carried out with regard to calculations and the resulting model was examined in terms of dynamic stability. The subject of examination was to find the natural frequencies of the assembly and to determine the amplitudes of the oscillations which arise from the harmonic excitation force. Finally, Lobe diagrams for grooving and longitudinal turning operations were drawn.

This Master's thesis focuses on the influence of socioeconomic status on the morphology of the mandible of individuals from the early medieval burial area in Mikulčice. This hillfort was an important center of power of the Great Moravian Empire with a stratified society. This work compares 2 different approaches on how to divide the inhabitants. The first of them is the division of individuals according to the location of graves into individuals from the castle, sub-castle, and hinterland. The second approach is the division of individuals according to the richness of grave equipment into individuals with rich and poor grave equipment. A different social status is associated mainly with different diets. Therefore, the attachments of the masticatory muscles are the most affected areas. A total of 132 individuals (59 males and 73 females) were analyzed. The material was evaluated by methods of geometric morphometrics. The used methods were CDP DCA, GPA, two-sample t-test, PCA, MANOVA, and SVM. Sexual dimorphism was observed in all sub-groups of the Mikulčice population. Men have larger mandibles with rami wider apart. The biggest differences are between individuals from the castle, the smallest between individuals with rich grave equipment. The distribution of individuals based on the location of...

Aquesta tesi presenta un projecte de gestió integral d'infraestructures hidràuliques de sanejament a la Conca del riu Besòs. S'han considerat dos sistemes de sanejament (La Garriga i Granollers) amb les seves respectives xarxes de clavegueram i Estacions Depuradores d'Aigües Residuals (EDAR), i un tram del riu Congost, afluent del Besòs, com a medi receptor de les seves aigües residuals. Amb aquesta finalitat es construeix i s'utilitza un Sistema de Suport a la Decisió Ambiental (SSDA). Aquesta eina incorpora l'ús de models de simulació de qualitat de l'aigua pels sistemes de clavegueram, EDAR i riu, com a forma d'extracció de coneixement sobre la gestió integrada d'aquests elements. Aquest coneixement es conceptualitza, posteriorment, en forma d'arbres de decisió, que proporcionaran a l'usuari les actuacions a realitzar davant de les diferents situacions reals de gestió diària. / This thesis presents an integrated management project for hydraulic sanitation infrastructures at the basin of the River Besòs. Two sanitation systems were taken into account (La Garriga and Granollers) with their respective sewage systems and Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP), and one stretch of the River Congost, a tributary of the Besòs, as a receptor environment for their waste water. To this end, an Environmental Decision Support System (EDSS) was constructed and used. This tool incorporates the use of water quality simulation models for the sewage systems, WWTP and river as a means of obtaining knowledge about the integrated management of these elements. This knowledge is later conceptualised in the form of decision trees, which provide the user with the interventions to be carried out when faced with the various real situations which arise in day-to-day management.

In the last decades and due to the Water Framework Directive implementation, the urban wastewater cycle management has become more complex. The concept of integrated urban wastewater system management is introduced, and it becomes necessary to consider some new data as the sewer system characteristics or the receiving body. In this sense, environmental decision support systems (EDSS) are very useful and powerful tools to support during the decision making process. A new EDSS for the integrated urban wastewater system management has been developed integrating data from several sources (bibliographic, theoretical or historical) and a real case-based virtual system able to perform simulations. Results demonstrate the benefits of using this kind of systems in comparison with a standard approach, which do not use the expert knowledge and encourages continuing with this research in order to improve the quality and efficiency of this type of EDSSs / En les darreres dècades, i degut a la implementació de la Directiva Marc de l’Aigua, la gestió del cicle urbà de l’aigua ha esdevingut més complexa. S’introdueix el concepte de gestió integrada de conca, i és necessari considerar certa informació, com les característiques de la xarxa de clavegueram o del medi receptor. D’aquesta manera, els sistemes de suport a la decisió ambiental (EDSS) són eines potentíssimes que faciliten la presa de decisions en aquest camp. S’ha desenvolupat un nou EDSS per a la gestió integrada de conca que utilitza una base sòlida de coneixement expert, integrant informació de diverses fonts (bibliogràfiques, teòriques o històriques) i dos sistemes virtuals basats en dades reals sobre els quals és possible realitzar simulacions. Els resultats demostren que aquest sistema presenta beneficis importants respecte a una gestió estàndard sense sistema expert, i esperona a prosseguir amb la recerca i el desenvolupament per a millorar-lo

L'activitat professional és fonamental en la vida de qualsevol persona i en el cas de les persones amb discapacitat resulta molt potent per tal que assumeixin la identitat adulta. Per això, en la tesi es realitza una aproximació al binomi discapacitat i treball i a les mesures que justifiquen l'actual situació de la inserció laboral de les persones amb discapacitat al mercat laboral protegit i al mercat laboral ordinari. L'objectiu general de la tesi és conèixer en profunditat una experiència d'inserció laboral de persones amb discapacitat psíquica a l'Administració de la Generalitat de Catalunya. La investigació realitzada s'ha estructurat en dues fases. En la primera fase s'ha fet una anàlisi descriptiva del col·lectiu estudiat i en la segona fase, emmarcada en una perspectiva metodològica qualitativa, s'ha desenvolupat un estudi de casos per tal de mostrar el testimoni dels protagonistes, partir del seu relat i recollir les seves valoracions. / The professional activity is basic in the life of any person and in the case of the disabled people it is highly powerful so that they assume the adult identity. So, in the thesis, an approach is made to know more about the situation between disabled people and work and to study what kind of measures explain the current labour insertion of disabled people either in shelter places or in the ordinary labour market. The general goal of the thesis is an in-depth investigation about a labour insertion experience of mental disability people in the Catalonia's Administration. The investigation has been structured in two phases. First of all it has made a descriptive analysis of searched group. Then it has been developed a case study framed in a qualitative methodological perspective to show the witness of the protagonists, starting off from their stories and to pick up their valuations.

[EN] Nowadays, one of the biggest concerns that permanently keep the attention of main important sectors of human society is health. Modern medical science is compromised with not only providing good adequate treatments but also effective specific solutions for each type of disease or human pathology. In this direction, innovative approaches like tissue engineering or regenerative medicine, controlled drug delivery systems and nanomedicines emerge to bring alternatives to situations hard to solve with conventional treatment and strategies, including the replacement of damaged or diseases tissues and/or organs. Specifically, this research is mainly aimed to design a combined system for controlled, stable and localized release of therapeutic agents that are able to exert their effect selectively on the area that warrants treatment. This construct will have enough versatility to be adapted to almost any kind of treatment, from cancer to tissue regeneration, always that the key requirement of the treatment was the need to provide the treatment of localized, stable and controlled manner. With the purposes of making easier the understanding as well as the design of the system, I was decided, for the proof of concept, to use drugs and materials with known activity applied on tissue regeneration and for the treatment of chronic wounds. The system in question consists of three main elements: 1) The first element is the polymer conjugates of therapeutic agents, which contribute to increasing the selectivity of the therapeutic action of the drug, as well as improved stability, bioavailability and biocompatibility thereof. If the drug is hydrophobic, conjugation contributes to increase its solubility in water, and in the case of proteins used as therapeutic agents, the combination helps reduce the body's immune response, increasing the chance of successful of the treatment. 2) The second element are the biodegradable polymeric microparticles, which in this case act like encapsulation agents for polymeric conjugate , thus allowing to have a second control point in the release kinetics of the therapeutic agents . Simultaneously, the microparticles also play a role in modifying the texture of the final construct, ascribing mechanical and physicochemical properties that help to improve some biological properties of the final material, such as the affinity, adhesion and cell proliferation. 3) The third element consists of a nanoporous membrane made of a biodegradable polymer by electrospinning, which constitute the unifier element of the whole system. This membrane provides manageability to the construct and is itself the last point of control in the release kinetics of the therapeutic agent or agents. Besides, it must be biocompatible and stable at ambient conditions, since this probably is going to be exposed to the environment while protecting the wound, in the case of this kind of application. These three elements, which themselves are complex systems separately, are systematically combined to achieve a synergistic relationship between them so that each one power the qualities of the other two. The resulting construct was characterized and it demonstrated to have characteristic properties that can be used as a control parameter during manufacture of this new material. Also, preliminary biological studies developed "in vitro" indicated that the proposed system may be a good candidate for deeper studies as alternative treatment for chronic wounds and other pathologies that require localized administration for long periods of time. / [ES] Actualmente, una de las mayores preocupaciones que permanentemente laman la atención de los principales sectores de la sociedad humana es la salud. La ciencia médica moderna está comprometida no solo con suministrar tratamientos adecuados, sino más bien ofrecer soluciones efectivas y específicas para cada tipo de enfermedad o patología humana. En este sentido, estrategias innovadoras como la ingeniería de tejidos o la medicina regenerativa, los sistemas de liberación controlada de fármacos y las nanomedicinas, surgen como buenas alternativas para abordar situaciones difíciles de resolver aplicando los tratamientos y estrategias terapéuticas convencionales, como es el caso cuando se hace necesario reemplazar tejidos o incluso órganos dañados por algún traumatismo o enfermedad. Concretamente, el presente trabajo de investigación tiene por objetivo principal diseñar un sistema combinado para la liberación controlada, estable y localizada de agentes terapéuticos que sean capaces de ejercer su efecto de forma selectiva sobre la zona que amerita el tratamiento. Este constructo tendrá la versatilidad suficiente como para poder adaptarse a casi cualquier tipo de tratamiento, desde el cáncer hasta la regeneración de tejido, siempre que el requisito clave del tratamiento sea la necesidad de suministrar el tratamiento de manera localizada, estable y controlada. Para efectos de facilitar la compresión y el diseño del sistema se escogió para la prueba de concepto materiales y fármacos asociados a la regeneración de tejidos, como tratamiento para casos de heridas crónicas. El sistema en cuestión está constituido por tres elementos principales: 1) El primer elemento son los conjugados poliméricos de agentes terapéuticos que contribuirán a aumentar la selectividad de la acción terapéutica del fármaco, así como también a mejora la estabilidad, biodisponibilidad y biocompatibilidad de los mismos. En caso de que el fármaco sea hidrofóbico, la conjugación contribuye a aumentar su solubilidad en agua, y en el caso de usar proteínas como agentes terapéuticos, la conjugación contribuye a disminuir la respuesta inmunológica del cuerpo incrementando las posibilidad de éxito del tratamiento. 2) El segundo elemento son micropartículas poliméricas biodegradables, que en este caso actúan con agentes de encapsulación para los conjugados poliméricos, permitiendo así contar con un segundo punto de control en la cinética de liberación de los agentes terapéuticos. Simultáneamente, las micropartículas también cumplen un papel de modificador de la textura del constructo final, adjudicándole propiedades mecánica y fisicoquímicas que contribuyen a mejorar las propiedades biológicas del material final, como son la afinidad, la adhesión y la proliferación celular. 3) El tercer elemento consiste en una membrana polimérica biodegradable nanoporosa hecha por electrospinning, que constituyen el elemento unificados del sistema, aporta manejabilidad al constructo y es en sí mismo el último punto de control en la cinética de liberación del agente terapéutico. Este último debe ser biocompatible y estable en condiciones ambientales, puesto que probablemente este expuesto al ambiente mientras protege la herida, en el caso concreto de este tipo de aplicación. Estos tres elementos, que en sí mismos constituyen sistemas complejos por separado, se han combinado sistemáticamente para alcanzar una relación sinérgica entre ellos de manera que cada uno potencia las cualidades de los otros dos. El constructo resultante se caracterizó demostrando tener propiedades características que se pueden utilizar como parámetro de control durante la fabricación del mismo. Así mismo estudios in vitro del sistema desarrollado señalan que puede ser un buen candidato para el tratamiento de heridas crónicas entre otras patologías que requieran tratamientos localizados. / [CAT] Actualment, una de les majors preocupacions que permanentment llepen l'atenció dels principals sectors de la societat humana és la salut. La ciència mèdica moderna està compromesa no solament amb subministrar tractaments adequats, sinó més aviat oferir solucions efectives i específiques per a cada tipus de malaltia o patologia humana. En aquest sentit, estratègies innovadores com l'enginyeria de teixits o la medicina regenerativa, els sistemes d'alliberament controlat de fàrmacs i les nanomedicines, sorgeixen com a bones alternatives per a abordar situacions difícils de resoldre aplicant els tractaments i estratègies terapèutiques convencionals, com és el cas quan es fa necessari reemplaçar teixits o fins i tot òrgans danyats per algun traumatisme o malaltia. Concretament, el present treball de recerca té per objectiu principal dissenyar un sistema combinat per a l'alliberament controlat, estable i localitzada d'agents terapèutics que seguen capaços d'exercir el seu efecte de forma selectiva sobre la zona que amirita el tractament. Aquest constructe tindrà la versatilitat suficient com per a poder adaptar-se a quasi qualsevol tipus de tractament, des del càncer fins a la regeneració de teixit, sempre que el requisit clau del tractament sega la necessitat de subministrar el tractament de manera localitzada, estable i controlada. Per a efectes de facilitar la compressió i el disseny del sistema es va escollir per a la prova de concepte materials i fàrmacs associats a la regeneració de teixits, com a tractament per a casos de ferides cròniques. El sistema en qüestió està constituït per tres elements principals: 1) El primer element són els conjugats polimèrics d'agents terapèutics que contribuiran a augmentar la selectivitat de l'acció terapèutica del fàrmac, així com també a millora l'estabilitat, biodisponibilitat i biocompatibilitat dels mateixos. En cas que el fàrmac sega hidrofòbic, la conjugació contribueix a augmentar la seua solubilitat en aigua, i en el cas d'usar proteïnes com a agents terapèutics, la conjugació contribueix a disminuir la resposta immunològica del cos incrementant les possibilitat d'èxit del tractament. 2) El segon element són microparticles polimèriques biodegradables, que en aquest cas actuen amb agents d'encapsulació per als conjugats polimèrics, permetent així comptar amb un segon punt de control en la cinètica d'alliberament de l'agent terapèutics. Simultàniament, les microparticles també compleixen un paper de texturitzant del constructe final, adjudicant-li propietats mecànica i fisicoquímiques que contribueixen a millorar la propietats biològiques del material final, com són l'afinitat, l'adhesió i la proliferació cel·lular. 3) El tercer element consisteix en una membrana polimèrica biodegradable nanoporosa feta per electrospinning, que constitueixen el element unificats del sistema, aporta manejabilitat al constructe i és en si mateix el ultimi punt de control en la cinètica d'alliberament de l'agent terapèutic. Aquest últim ha de ser biocompatible i estable en condicions ambientals, ja que probablement aquest exposat a l'ambient mentre protegeix la ferida, en el cas concret d'aquest tipus d'aplicació. Aquests tres elements que en si mateixos constitueixen sistemes complexos per separat, s'han combinat sistemàticament per a aconseguir una relació sinergètica entre ells de manera que cadascun potencia les qualitats dels altres dos. El constructe resultant es va caracteritzar demostrant tenir propietats característiques que es poden utilitzar com a paràmetre de control durant la fabricació del mateix. Així mateix estudis in vitro del sistema desenvolupat assenyalen que pot ser un bon candidat per al tractament de ferides cròniques entre altres patologies que requeriren tractaments localitzats. / Rodríguez Escalona, GDJ. (2016). DEVELOPMENT OF CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS OF POLYMERIC NANOMEDICINES ASSOCIATED TO SCAFFOLDS FOR TISSUE REGENERATION [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/63231 / TESIS

The wastewater treatment plays an important role in the maintenance of natural water resources. However, regardless of the technology used or the level of treatment required, the treatment plants of the XXI century are highly complex systems that not only need to meet technical requirements, but also environmental and economic criteria. In this context, decision support systems for environmental domains (English, Environmental Decision Support Systems or EDSS) are configured as an effective tool to support the selection and evaluation of integrated water treatment alternatives. The EDSS designed can be defined as interactive software, flexible and adaptable, which links the numerical models / algorithms, techniques and environmental ontologies, knowledge-based environment, and is capable of supporting decision making, either in choosing between different alternatives, improving potential solutions, or in the integrated assessment using methodologies ranging from environmental (Life Cycle Analysis) to economic / La depuració d’aigües residuals juga un paper fonamental en el manteniment dels recursos hídrics naturals. Tanmateix, sigui quina sigui la tecnologia emprada o el nivell de depuració requerit, les plantes de tractament del segle XXI són sistemes d’alta complexitat, que no només han de satisfer requeriments de tipus tècnic, sinó també de tipus ambiental i econòmic. En aquest context, els sistemes de suport a la decisió en dominis ambientals (en anglès, Environmental Decision Support Systems o EDSS) es configuren com una eina eficaç per donar suport a la selecció i a l’avaluació integrada de diferents alternatives de depuració d’aigües. El EDSS dissenyat pot definir-se com un programari interactiu, flexible i adaptable, que vincula els models numèrics/algoritmes amb tècniques basades en el coneixement i ontologies ambientals, i que és capaç de donar suport a la presa de decisió, ja sigui en l’elecció entre diferents alternatives, millorant una solució, o bé en l’avaluació integrada a través de metodologies ambientals (Anàlisi de Cicle de Vida) i econòmiques

The aim of this thesis is to present new results concerning duality in scalar optimization. We show how the theory can be applied to optimization problems arising in the theory of risk measures, portfolio optimization and machine learning. First we give some notations and preliminaries we need within the thesis. After that we recall how the well-known Lagrange dual problem can be derived by using the general perturbation theory and give some generalized interior point regularity conditions used in the literature. Using these facts we consider some special scalar optimization problems having a composed objective function and geometric (and cone) constraints. We derive their duals, give strong duality results and optimality condition using some regularity conditions. Thus we complete and/or extend some results in the literature especially by using the mentioned regularity conditions, which are weaker than the classical ones. We further consider a scalar optimization problem having single chance constraints and a convex objective function. We also derive its dual, give a strong duality result and further consider a special case of this problem. Thus we show how the conjugate duality theory can be used for stochastic programming problems and extend some results given in the literature. In the third chapter of this thesis we consider convex risk and deviation measures. We present some more general measures than the ones given in the literature and derive formulas for their conjugate functions. Using these we calculate some dual representation formulas for the risk and deviation measures and correct some formulas in the literature. Finally we proof some subdifferential formulas for measures and risk functions by using the facts above. The generalized deviation measures we introduced in the previous chapter can be used to formulate some portfolio optimization problems we consider in the fourth chapter. Their duals, strong duality results and optimality conditions are derived by using the general theory and the conjugate functions, respectively, given in the second and third chapter. Analogous calculations are done for a portfolio optimization problem having single chance constraints using the general theory given in the second chapter. Thus we give an application of the duality theory in the well-developed field of portfolio optimization. We close this thesis by considering a general Support Vector Machines problem and derive its dual using the conjugate duality theory. We give a strong duality result and necessary as well as sufficient optimality conditions. By considering different cost functions we get problems for Support Vector Regression and Support Vector Classification. We extend the results given in the literature by dropping the assumption of invertibility of the kernel matrix. We use a cost function that generalizes the well-known Vapnik's ε-insensitive loss and consider the optimization problems that arise by using this. We show how the general theory can be applied for a real data set, especially we predict the concrete compressive strength by using a special Support Vector Regression problem.

The aim of this thesis is to present new results concerning duality in scalar optimization. We show how the theory can be applied to optimization problems arising in the theory of risk measures, portfolio optimization and machine learning. First we give some notations and preliminaries we need within the thesis. After that we recall how the well-known Lagrange dual problem can be derived by using the general perturbation theory and give some generalized interior point regularity conditions used in the literature. Using these facts we consider some special scalar optimization problems having a composed objective function and geometric (and cone) constraints. We derive their duals, give strong duality results and optimality condition using some regularity conditions. Thus we complete and/or extend some results in the literature especially by using the mentioned regularity conditions, which are weaker than the classical ones. We further consider a scalar optimization problem having single chance constraints and a convex objective function. We also derive its dual, give a strong duality result and further consider a special case of this problem. Thus we show how the conjugate duality theory can be used for stochastic programming problems and extend some results given in the literature. In the third chapter of this thesis we consider convex risk and deviation measures. We present some more general measures than the ones given in the literature and derive formulas for their conjugate functions. Using these we calculate some dual representation formulas for the risk and deviation measures and correct some formulas in the literature. Finally we proof some subdifferential formulas for measures and risk functions by using the facts above. The generalized deviation measures we introduced in the previous chapter can be used to formulate some portfolio optimization problems we consider in the fourth chapter. Their duals, strong duality results and optimality conditions are derived by using the general theory and the conjugate functions, respectively, given in the second and third chapter. Analogous calculations are done for a portfolio optimization problem having single chance constraints using the general theory given in the second chapter. Thus we give an application of the duality theory in the well-developed field of portfolio optimization. We close this thesis by considering a general Support Vector Machines problem and derive its dual using the conjugate duality theory. We give a strong duality result and necessary as well as sufficient optimality conditions. By considering different cost functions we get problems for Support Vector Regression and Support Vector Classification. We extend the results given in the literature by dropping the assumption of invertibility of the kernel matrix. We use a cost function that generalizes the well-known Vapnik's ε-insensitive loss and consider the optimization problems that arise by using this. We show how the general theory can be applied for a real data set, especially we predict the concrete compressive strength by using a special Support Vector Regression problem.