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    Nanophotonics with charged particles 

    Giulio, Valerio di (Date of defense: 2023-04-12)

    (English) Among the fundamental constituents of matter, charged particles such electrons and positrons are leading protagonists in physical phenomena associated with small (~ meV) and high (~ MeV) energy scales. For example, ...

    Nanoscale Coherent Control. Ultrafast dynamics of single molecules, individual light harvesting complexes and discrete nanoantennas at room temperature. 

    Brinks, Daan (Date of defense: 2012-10-19)

    Ultrafast pulses allow observation of molecular dynamics with femtosecond time resolution through pump probe experiments. However, averaging over an ensemble of molecules tends to wash out phase sensitive information, ...

    Nanoscale control of near-field interactions between single emitters and photonic antennas-on-probe 

    Sanz Paz, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-07-27)

    Photonic antennas are metallic (or dielectric) nanoscale structures that convert propagating light into highly confined fields, and vice versa, in analogy to common radio antennas but on nanometric scales that lead to ...

    Nanoscale spatial control of light in optical antennas 

    Volpe, Giorgio (Date of defense: 2012-05-10)

    El control dinámico y determinístico de la luz en una escala espacial por debajo de la longitud de onda es un requisito clave para ampliar los conceptos y las funcionalidades de la macro-óptica hasta la escala nanométrica. ...

    Nanostructured coatings for controlling bacterial biofilms and antibiotic resistance 

    Ivanova, Kristina Dimitrova (Date of defense: 2017-01-27)

    The accelerated emergence of drug resistant bacteria is one of the most serious problems in healthcare and the difficulties in finding new antibiotics make it even more challenging. To overcome the action of antibiotics ...

    Narrativas cibernéticas y arquitectura computacional 

    Cifuentes Quin, Camilo Andrés (Date of defense: 2014-10-20)

    This dissertation aims to contribute to the understanding of the role accorded to information technology in architecture. For this purpose the dissertation presents a look at some of the dominant models developed in the ...

    Narrowband photon pairs for atoms: high resolution spectral engineering and characterisation 

    Prakash, Vindhiya (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)

    This thesis describes experimental work to generate and characterise single photons and photon pairs, with frequency content suitable for controlled interaction with cold rubidium atoms. We describe a photon-pair source, ...

    Natural and anthropogenic control of water quality of an Amazon estuary : the Caeté estuary (Brazil) 

    Monteiro, Marcela Cunha (Date of defense: 2017-04-04)

    In the Amazon region, few data are available on the impacts caused by the urban settlements found in the proximity of estuaries. In the estuary of the Caeté River, the focus of the present study, the nutrient input is ...

    Natural enemies for the conservation biological control of Myzus persicae in Mediterranean peach orchards 

    Aparicio del Moral, Yahana Michelle (Date of defense: 2019-07-23)

    Peach and nectarine tree belongs to the species Prunus persica and is the third most produced fruit species in the world. Within Europe, Spain is a leading producer. Most of the crops are located in Catalonia (northeastern ...

    Natural lighting in Mediterranean climates. Visual comfort in top-lit sports halls: from the Barcelona 1992 Olympics to the Tarragona 2018 Mediterranean Games 

    González Matterson, Maria Leandra (Date of defense: 2021-03-01)

    The role of natural light in the health and wellbeing of users is a central subject to architectural design today. Sustainability and energy efficiency are also leading concerns. Therefore, new and existing buildings must ...

    Negotiation capability : a conceptual model and reference practices 

    Oliveira, Heloísa Maria da Apresentação (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)

    This research studies the topic of negotiation in the business field at a national and international level, and in particular the concept of negotiation capability, understanding that the negotiation processes generally ...

    Neighborly and almost neighborly configurations, and their duals 

    Padrol Sureda, Arnau (Date of defense: 2013-03-12)

    This thesis presents new applications of Gale duality to the study of polytopes with extremal combinatorial properties. It consists in two parts. The first one is devoted to the construction of neighborly polytopes and ...

    Network coding for transport protocols 

    Gheorghiu, Steluta (Date of defense: 2011-07-11)

    With the proliferation of smart devices that require Internet connectivity anytime, anywhere, and the recent technological advances that make it possible, current networked systems will have to provide a various range of ...

    Network coding-aided MAC protocols for cooperative wireless networks 

    Antonopoulos, Angelos (Date of defense: 2012-12-17)

    The introduction of third generation (3G) technologies has caused a vast proliferation of wireless devices and networks, generating an increasing demand for high level Quality of Service (QoS). The wide spread of mobile ...

    Network creation games: structure vs anarchy 

    Messegué Buisan, Arnau (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)

    In an attempt to understand how Internet-like network and social networks behave, different models have been proposed and studied throughout history to capture their most essential aspects and properties. Network Creation ...

    Network resource allocation policies with energy transfer capabilities 

    Piovesan, Nicola (Date of defense: 2020-06-05)

    During the last decades, mobile network operators have witnessed an exponential increase in the traffic demand, mainly due to the high request of services from a huge amount of users. The trend is of a further increase in ...

    Network traffic classification : from theory to practice 

    Carela Español, Valentín (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)

    Since its inception until today, the Internet has been in constant transformation. The analysis and monitoring of data networks try to shed some light on this huge black box of interconnected computers. In particular, the ...

    Network virtualization in next generation cellular networks 

    Tseliou, Georgia (Date of defense: 2019-07-17)

    The complexity of operation and management of emerging cellular networks significantly increases, as they evolve to correspond to increasing QoS needs, data rates and diversity of offered services. Thus critical challenges ...

    Network-based ionospheric gradient monitoring to support ground based augmentation systems 

    Caamaño Albuerne, María (Date of defense: 2022-07-12)

    The Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS) is a local-area, airport-based augmentation of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) that provides precision approach guidance for aircraft. It enhances GNSS performance ...

    Netzero de alta densidad : análisis de ciclo de vida y energías renovables aplicado a vivienda colectiva en Colombia 

    Ballén Zamora, Sergio (Date of defense: 2021-12-10)

    NetZero Energy Buildings or buildings with almost zero energy consumption, are buildings with high energy performance in terms of operational energy, and which also seek to reduce their CO2 emissions in addition to other ...