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Leveraging disaggregated accelerators and non-volatile memories to improve the efficiency of modern datacenters

Call Barreiro, Aaron (Date of defense: 2022-11-07)

(English) Traditional data centers consist of computing nodes that possess all the resources physically attached. When there was the need to deal with more significant demands, the solution has been to either add more nodes ...

Leveraging graph neural networks for optimization and traffic compression in network digital twins

Almasan Puscas, Felician Paul (Date of defense: 2023-07-17)

(English) In recent years, several industry sectors have adapted the Digital Twin (DT) paradigm to improve the performance of physical systems. This paradigm consists of leveraging computational methods to build high-fidelity ...

Leveraging knowledge for competitive advantage

Asija, Aman (Date of defense: 2021-07-16)

Explotar el coneixement és fonamental per aconseguir un avantatge competitiu. No obstant això, ha estat un repte persistent per a les empreses. Segons la visió de l'empresa basada en el coneixement, l'apropiació i la ...

Leveraging learning-based computer vision for vibration informed structural diagnosis

Lado Roigé, Ricard (Date of defense: 2023-12-19)

Els nous sistemes de monitoratge basats en la visió presenten una proposta de valor convincent dins de l'àmbit de les aplicacions de monitoratge de la salut estructural (SHM). Serveixen com una alternativa no intrusiva als ...

Leveraging mobile phone-based technologies to provide on-demand adolescent sexual reproductive health information in a resource-limited setting: Kibra, Nairobi County

macharia, paul (Date of defense: 2022-12-13)

Adolescents transitioning from childhood to adulthood need to be equipped with reproductive health (SRH) knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that empower them. The prevalence of pregnancy and STIs among adolescents ...

Leveraging performance of 3D finite difference schemes in large scientific computing simulations

De la Cruz, Raúl (Date of defense: 2015-11-30)

Gone are the days when engineers and scientists conducted most of their experiments empirically. During these decades, actual tests were carried out in order to assess the robustness and reliability of forthcoming product ...

Leveraging Scene Text Information for Image Interpretation

Mafla Delgado, Andrés Patricio (Date of defense: 2022-11-21)

Fins fa poc, la majoria dels models de visió per computador seguien sent analfabets, ignorant en gran mesura la informació explícita i semànticament rica continguda com a text d’escena. El progrés recent en la detecció i ...

Leveraging Synthetic Data to Create Autonomous Driving Perception Systems

Villalonga Pineda, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2021-02-19)

L’anotació manual d’imatges per desenvolupar sistemes basats en visió per computador ha estat un dels punts més problemàtics des que s’utilitza aprenentatge automàtic per a això. Aquesta tesi es centra en aprofitar les ...

Levitation and control of particles with internal degrees of freedom

Planes Conangla, Gerard (Date of defense: 2020-06-30)

Levitodynamics is a fast growing field that studies the levitation and manipulation of micro- and nanoobjects, fuelled by both fundamental physics questions and technological applications. Due to the isolated nature of ...

Levitodynamics on-a-chip: from planar Paul traps to near-field optical nanocavities

Alda, Irene (Date of defense: 2020-07-09)

The field of levitation optomechanics---or levitodynamics---studies the manipulation and control of small trapped objects in an isolated environment, providing a gateway to answer fundamental questions in physics and ...

Levitodynamics toward force nano-sensors in vacuum

Ricci, Francesco, 1987- (Date of defense: 2019-02-22)

Levitodynamics addresses the levitation and manipulation of micro- and nanoresonators with the purpose of studying their dynamics. This emerging field has attracted much attention over the last few years owing to unprecedented ...

Lewis acidic zn(ii) schiff base complexes in homogeneous catalysis

Anselmo, Daniele (Date of defense: 2013-04-04)

El trabajo descrito en esta tesis muestra estudios hacia nuevas aplicaciones de complejos derivados de bases de Schiff en catálisis homogénea. En concreto, se han investigadoligandos “salen” (incluyendo sistemas quelantes ...

Lewis Mumford: una interpretación antropológica de la técnica

Ruiz Ordóñez, Yolanda (Date of defense: 1998-07-20)

Lewis Mumford realiza un estudio tecnológico de las aportaciones más significativas con la finalidad de lograr una convivencia entre la cultura tecnocientífica y la humanística. En este sentido, él parte de una concepción ...

Lexical and semantic processing during the translation process in highly proficient bilinguals: Behavioral and electrophysiological measures

Moldovan, Cornelia Didina (Date of defense: 2014-07-11)

L’objectiu d’aquesta tesi ha estat caracteritzar els processos d’activació léxica i semàntica que es produeixen durant el reconeixement de traduccions en bilingües de Català i Castellà. Aquests bilingües són molt competents ...