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    Exploiting the multiscale synergy among ocean variables : application to the improvement of remote sensing salinity maps 

    Umbert Ceresuela, Marta (Date of defense: 2015-10-23)

    Les imatges de teledetecció de la superfície oceànica proporcionen una vista sinòptica de la complexa geometria de la circulació oceànica, dominada per la variabilitat de mesoescala. Estructures com filaments i vòrtex són ...

    Exploiting word embeddings for modeling bilexical relations 

    Madhyastha, Pranava Swaroop (Date of defense: 2017-07-25)

    There has been an exponential surge of text data in the recent years. As a consequence, unsupervised methods that make use of this data have been steadily growing in the field of natural language processing (NLP). Word ...

    Exploración en la operación y modelización de Redes Sociales de Comunicación para el desarrollo rural en zonas marginadas de Latinoamérica 

    Nuñez Espinoza, Juan Felipe (Date of defense: 2008-06-26)

    El concepto de redes sociales de comunicación rural, como una estructura relacional hecha por nodos que están vinculados por medio de actores tales como pequeños productores rurales, proyectos de desarrollo rural, ...

    Exploration and discovery of sponge assemblages on the continental shelf and slope of the Catalano-Balearic Sea by means of non-invasive techniques 

    Santín Muriel, Andreu (Date of defense: 2022-01-24)

    Sponge assemblages dominate several distinctive, hard-bottom environments, being one of the most important structural organisms at several locations around the world. Although the Mediterranean sponge fauna is among the ...

    Exploration of customer churn routes using machine learning probabilistic models 

    Garcia Gomez, David (Date of defense: 2014-04-10)

    The ongoing processes of globalization and deregulation are changing the competitive framework in the majority of economic sectors. The appearance of new competitors and technologies entails a sharp increase in competition ...

    Exploration of FDSOI back-biasing techniques to hinder cryptographic attacks based on leakage current 

    Palma Carmona, Kenneth (Date of defense: 2023-10-18)

    (English) Cryptography is the science that studies how to achieve secure communication between multiple parties. Under the assumption that any message transmitted is to be ultimately intercepted, the endeavors of cryptography ...

    Exploring coordinated software and hardware support for hardware resource allocation 

    Figueiredo Boneti, Carlos Santieri de (Date of defense: 2009-09-04)

    Multithreaded processors are now common in the industry as they offer high performance at a low cost. Traditionally, in such processors, the assignation of hardware resources between the multiple threads is done implicitly, ...

    Exploring flatland nano-optics with graphene plasmons 

    Woessner, Achim (Date of defense: 2017-05-11)

    Plasmons are charge oscillations coupled to electromagnetic radiation. One of their most intriguing properties is their deep subwavelength confinement resulting in strongly enhanced light-matter interaction. Metal plasmons ...

    Exploring free-energy landscapes and microscopic interactions of selected small-molecules and proteins with cell membranes 

    Lu, Huixia (Date of defense: 2020-09-29)

    The present Thesis is devoted to the study of the physical-chemical properties of selected small-molecules (such as amino-acids like tryptophan or hormones like melatonin) and proteins (such as KRAS-4B) absorbed in model ...

    Exploring intersubbands in 2D materials 

    Schmidt, Peter, 1989- (Date of defense: 2019-04-16)

    Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are semiconducting layered materials that can be isolated up to the limit of a single atomic layer. Next to graphene, they are some of the most intensively studied materials within ...

    Exploring quantum many-body systems from an entanglement and nonlocality perspective 

    Aloy López, Albert (Date of defense: 2020-07-16)

    Entanglement and non-local correlations give rise to unprecedented phenomena with no classical analogue. As a result, they have settled themselves as fundamental properties in the study of quantum many-body systems, as ...

    Exploring quantum memory schemes in cold atoms for quantum repeaters 

    Heller, Lukas (Date of defense: 2023-11-06)

    (English) Quantum memories are devices that are able to store photonic quantum states and entanglement. Future quantum networks, which could enhance cybersecurity through quantum key distribution, improve the precision in ...

    Exploring the applications and limitations of location-based social network data in urban spatiotemporal analysis 

    Yang, Liya (Date of defense: 2021-09-27)

    Nowadays, the widespread utilization of intelligent mobile and located-embedded services extends the border of social network sites (SNS) to physical-spatial space. The appearance of SNS changes our daily life meanwhile ...

    Exploring the potential usage of underused urban space: Hajj sites in Mecca as case study 

    Imam, Ayman Amin (Date of defense: 2017-07-20)

    The term Underused Urban Spaces (UUS) refers to spaces within urban areas that have become unused, or that are being used to a lesser degree than they could or should be. The emergence of such spaces has therefore encouraged ...

    Exploring the topical structure of short text through probability models : from tasks to fundamentals 

    Capdevila Pujol, Joan (Date of defense: 2019-09-26)

    Recent technological advances have radically changed the way we communicate. Today’s communication has become ubiquitous and it has fostered the need for information that is easier to create, spread and consume. As a ...

    Exploring twisted bilayer graphene with nano-optics 

    Hesp, Niels Caspar Herman (Date of defense: 2021-10-20)

    Nano-optics studies the behaviour of light on the nanoscale. In particular, it probes the interaction of light with objects, often of nanometre-size, and reveals fine details of the material's optical properties. Optoelectronics ...

    Exponentiated weibull fading channel model in free-space optical communications under atmospheric turbulence 

    Barrios Porras, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2013-05-17)

    Free-space optical (FSO) communications is drawing increasing attention as a promising technology to overcome bandwidth shortage, of an evermore crowded wireless marketplace. Currently radio-frequency (RF) technology ...

    Expressió gènica en microorganismes marins 

    Coll Lladó, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2013-09-27)

    Ara que es comença a treure l’entrellat -o si més no a tenir una nova perspectiva- de la diversitat de microorganismes present als oceans gràcies a la biologia molecular i a la metagenòmica, el següent pas és esbrinar ...

    Expressway Ends : desarrollo y construcción de las autopistas urbanas en Estados Unidos : 1900-1967 

    Canna, Romina (Date of defense: 2016-02-03)

    Assembling original documents, historical material, completed or unrealized projects and the evolution of governmental and professional structures, this dissertation explores the development and construction of urban ...

    Extended hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method 

    Gürkan, Ceren (Date of defense: 2018-11-22)

    This thesis proposes a new numerical technique: the eXtended Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin (X-HDG) Method, to efficiently solve problems including moving boundaries and interfaces. It aims to outperform available ...