Computational medical imaging for total knee arthroplasty using visualitzation toolkit

This project is presented as a Master Thesis in the field of Civil Engineering, Biomedical specialization. As the project of an Erasmus exchange student, this thesis has been under supervision both the Universite Livre de Bruxelles and the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. The purpose of this thesis to put in practice all the knowledges acquired during this Master in Industrial Engineering in UPC and to be a support for medical staff in total knee arthoplasty procedures. Prof. Emmanuel Thienpont has been working for years as orthopaedic surgeon at the Hospital Sant Luc, Brussels. His years of work and research have been mainly focused on Total Knee Arthroplasty or TKA. During one of the most important steps of this procedure, the orthopaedic surgeon has to cut the head of the femur following two perpendicular cutting planes. Nevertheless, the orientation of these planes are directly dependant of the femur constitution. This Master Thesis has been conceived in order to offer the surgeon a tool to determine the proper direction planes in a previous step before the surgical procedure. This project pretends to give the surgeon an openfree computational platform to access to patient geometrical and physiological information before involving the subject in any invasive procedure

The role of demography on per capita output growth and saving rates

Computable OLG growth models and "convergence models" differ in their assessment of the extent to which demography influences economic growth. In this paper, I show that computable OLG growth models produce results similar to those of convergence models when more detailed demographic information is used. To do so, I implement a general equilibrium overlapping generations model to explain Taiwan's economic miracle during the period 1965-2005. I find that Taiwan's demographic transition accounts for 22% of per capita output growth, 16.4% of the investment rate, and 18.5% of the savings rate for the period 1965-2005. Decomposing the demographic effect into its components, I find that fertility alone explains the impact of demographic changes in per capita output growth, while both fertility and mortality explain investment and saving rates. Assuming a small open economy, I find that investment rates increase with more rapid population growth, while saving rates follows the dependence hypothesis (Coale and Hoover, 1958). Under a closed-economy, the population growth rate has a negative influence on economic growth.Taiwan, demography, economic growth

Themed issue on selected papers SEG2015: part II

This themed issue of Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment ‘SEG-2015-Part II’, presents papers selected from extended abstracts submitted to the Symposium on Energy Geotechnics (SEG-2015) held in the Civil Engineering School of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain, between June 2nd and 4th, 2015. This symposium SEG-2015 was the first event organized by the Technical Committee TC308 of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, which will have continuity in the next symposium SEG-2018 to be held in the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland). The first issue ‘SEG-2015-Part I’ appeared just before the 1st International Conference on Energy Geotechnics (ICEG-2016), which was held in Kiel (Germany) at the end of August 2016. The second volume ‘SEG-2015-Part II’ on December 2016 will thus close a first cycle of successful conferences and publications along this initial stage of TC308.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Tourism and hospitality sector electricity use: evidences from 12 EU countries

At the Paris Conference of the Parties (COP21) in 2015, 195 countries agreed to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change. Along this line, the EU is committed to a 40% reduction in their domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. This new target represents a significant progression beyond its existing 20% emission reduction commitment by 2020. Thus, greater efforts will be needed affecting all productive sectors in order to reduce CO2 emissions and energy consumption. In order to reach this ambitious target, new measures affecting all economic sectors would be needed. This paper focuses on the tourism sector. This aim of this study is to investigate the relationships between tourist overnight stays and the hospitality sector electricity consumption. These relationships are studied for 12 EU countries during the period 2005-2012, accordingly with the available data. With this aim, econometric panel data techniques are used in order to estimate an electricity consumption function for the hospitality sector which depends on tourism, income, price and climate variables. The Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis is also tested. An Energy-tourism Kuznets Curve would show that increasing earnings from tourism will bring about reduced electricity consumption from a threshold point, which could be related to the fact that more earnings could imply undertaking more energy efficiency measures

Employment and Unemployment Transitions in Spain from 1996 to 2005

In this paper, we have studied the employment and nonemployment transitions in Spain from 1996 to 2005. To do so, we have used a multi-state multiepisode duration model and a censored continuous-time Markovian matrix. By using the censored Markovian matrix, we have been able to balance the negative effect that censore has on the estimated parameters. The results obtained suggest that women have a probability of employment six percent lower than men. In addition, we have been able to show that Spanish employees experience three different stages of employment during their first decade in the labor market.Employment and Nonemployment Transitions; Multi-state Multi-episode Duration Model; Hazard Rate; Censored Continuous-time Markovian Matrix

Influencia de la homogeneización, el contenido en proteína y el fermento en la Calidad del yogur de vaca azucarado batido

El objetivo de este trabajo ha sido estudiar la influencia de la homogeneización, del contenido en proteínas y del fermento, en la calidad del yogur batido azucarado de vaca. Para realizar este estudio se han realizado dos ensayos diferentes, en el primero únicamente se modificó el contenido en proteínas mediante el empleo de leche en polvo, mientras que en el segundo se modificaron las condiciones de homogeneización, el contenido en proteínas y el tipo de fermento empleado. Se han llevado a cabo análisis del perfil de acidificación, microbiológicos, fisicoquímicos, físicos y se ha completado con un análisis sensorial. Con los resultados obtenidos se ha concluido que la homogeneización y al aumento del contenido en proteínas aumentan los parámetros de textura, el grado de tixotropía y el comportamiento elástico, aunque la homogeneización disminuye la viscosidad mientras que el contenido en proteínas lo aumenta. El fermento seleccionado, el YF-903, ha aportado mayores valores de textura que el otro fermento ensayado, el Advance. Sin embargo, el fermento Advance proporciona mayores valores de viscosidad. La prueba sensorial de preferencia mostró que no había diferencias significativas entre los yogures estudiados.Departamento de Ingeniería Agrícola y ForestalMáster en Calidad, Desarrollo e Innovación de Alimento

El Colegio de Farmacéuticos de Sevilla. Historia de la labor corporativa de dos presidentes (1982-2017): Don Antonio González Ruiz y Don Manuel Pérez Fernández

Estudio y análisis de las diferentes medidas y transformaciones llevadas a cabo por el Colegio de Farmacéuticos de Sevilla, enfatizando en las posiciones adoptadas por los dos presidentes correspondientes al período de tiempo estudiado, de 1982 hasta la actualidad, Don Antonio González Ruiz y Don Manuel Pérez Fernández.Universidad de Sevilla. Grado en Farmaci

Fauna de Culícidos (Díptera) presente en los distintos enclaves hídricos de Sevilla (España)

Universidad de Sevilla. Grado en Farmaci