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(English) Light is a powerful non invasive tool for probing matter down to its fundamental molecular properties. The past three decades saw advent of metallic nanoantennas engineered to concentrate light into sub diffraction ...
This dissertation deals with four topics. The first three are in the same environment, the transmission paths. The fourth refers to the synthesis of subsystems and more specifically to two subsystems linked by any number ...
Constantinos A. Doxiadis (1913-1975) was an important figure in the realm of postwar urbanism, and yet his contribution has been largely neglected. This study reviews his trajectory and analyzes key projects related to ...
The object of this doctoral thesis is to explore the effects of the passage of time on the façades of buildings, focusing on the architect's sphere of influence and point of view. The initial hypothesis is that project ...
(English) Online advertising makes possible most of the freely available online content and services. However, it is far from being mature and there are still controversial topics that need to be addressed. One of these ...
El objeto del presente trabajo es un estudio profundizado sobre la obra realizada por el arquitecto Vilanova Artigas en la ciudad de Londrina. Es conocida la importancia que este ha tenido en la formación y consolidación ...
The link between financial and real estate sectors, sometimes excessive and others inadequate, is generated through its assets and in all the operations in which they intervene. Its study comprises finance of mortgage-backed ...
La mano humana es una herramienta muy completa, capaz de adaptarse a diferentes superficies y formas, y también tocar y coger. Es una conexión directa entre el mundo exterior y el cerebro. I.Kant (filosofo alemán) definió ...
This work focuses on scheduling of MPI jobs when executing in shared-memory multiprocessors (SMPs). <br/>The objective was to obtain the best performance in response time in multiprogrammed multiprocessors systems using ...
Current transport network owners are focused on offering services on top of the infrastructures they own, while end users have no control over them. Traditionally, this has been their business model, as the cost of building ...
Cloud infrastructures have become indispensable in our daily lives with the rise of cloud-based services offered by companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon and many others. These cloud infrastructures use a large numbers ...
During the last century, the electrical energy infrastructures have been governed by synchronous generators, producing electrical energy to the vast majority of the population worldwide. However, power systems are no longer ...
(English) In the current context of both energy and environmental needs, there has been an increase in activities related to extraction and injection of fluids in the underground. It is known that a possible consequence ...
This doctoral thesis is based on professional experience with patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia. This clinical syndrome, which is highly prevalent in the health and social environment, with very diverse etiologies is ...
Biometric Recognition refers to the automatic identification of a person based on his or her anatomical characteristic or modality (i.e., fingerprint, palmprint, face) or behavioural (i.e., signature) characteristic. It ...
Perceiving and understanding the world represents a long-term goal in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In recent years, advances in the field of Machine Learning (ML), and specifically in Deep Learning (DL), have ...
(Cat) Aquesta memòria descriu com la literatura de ciència ficció reflecteix en les seves narracions els conceptes i resultats propis de la ciència i la tecnologia informàtica. Aquesta visió cal entendre-la en un sentit ...
The ability to fly has greatly expanded the possibilities for robots to perform surveillance, inspection or map generation tasks. Yet it was only in recent years that research in aerial robotics was mature enough to allow ...
Navigation in mobile robotics involves two tasks, keeping track of the robot's position and moving according to a control strategy. In addition, when no prior knowledge of the environment is available, the problem is even ...
The first part of this dissertation focuses on an analysis of the spatial context in semantic image segmentation. First, we review how spatial context has been tackled in the literature by local features and spatial ...
