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    From cluster databases to cloud storage: Providing transactional support on the cloud 

    Navarro Martín, Joan (Date of defense: 2015-02-02)

    Durant les últimes tres dècades, les limitacions tecnològiques (com per exemple la capacitat dels dispositius d'emmagatzematge o l'ample de banda de les xarxes de comunicació) i les creixents demandes dels usuaris (estructures ...

    From community structure to the physics of multiplex networks 

    Granell Martorell, Clara (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)

    Els sistemes complexes són sistemes que estan formats per un gran nombre d'unitats individuals, les quals interactuen entre elles, generalment de manera no-lineal, donant lloc a xarxes complexes d'interaccions. Sistemes ...

    From Compression of Wearable-based Data to Effortless Indoor Positoning 

    Klus, Lucie (Date of defense: 2023-04-27)

    The dissertation focuses on boosting the energy efficiency of IoT and wearable devices by implementing lossy compression techniques onto sensor-based time-series data and into indoor localization paradigms. The thesis deals ...

    From corpora amylacea to wasteosomes 

    Riba Baques, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-03-11)

    Corpora amylacea (CA) in the human brain are polyglucosan aggregates that were first described by J.E. Purkinje in 1837. They are intracellular astrocytic bodies that accumulate mainly in perivascular, periventricular and ...

    From Dynamics to Structure of Complex Networks: Exploiting Heterogeneity in the Sakaguchi-Kuramoto Model 

    Rosell Tarragó, Gemma (Date of defense: 2022-06-16)

    Most of the real-world complex systems are best described as complex networks and can be mathematically described as oscillatory systems, coupled with the neighbours through the connections of the network. The flashing of ...

    From early life stress to adult psychopathology: An epigenetic view from monozygotic twin based approaches 

    Palma Gudiel, Helena (Date of defense: 2019-02-15)

    Psychiatric disorders are highly prevalent and one of the leading causes of disease burden worldwide. Nevertheless, there are no validated biomarkers to be used for either diagnostic or prognostic purposes and their etiology ...

    From energy saving technologies to green product innovation: evidence from the European Manufacturing Survey 

    Pons Pairó, Marc (Date of defense: 2020-07-07)

    Green manufacturers and an understanding of their differentiating characteristics and environmental and economic performance when applying green practices are at the centre of this doctoral thesis. The focus is set around ...

    From flood to drought: Transport and reactivity of dissolved organic matter along a Mediterranean river 

    Ejarque Gonzalez, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2014-11-17)

    Rivers play a key role in the global biogeochemical functioning, as they link the biogeochemical cycles of the terrestrial and oceanic systems. In the framework of the carbon cycle, streams and rivers receive dissolved ...

    From gathering to farming in semi-arid Northern Gujarat (India): a multi-proxy approach 

    García-Granero Fos, Juan José (Date of defense: 2015-06-22)

    Understanding how human societies adapted to past environmental and climatic variability is fundamental to face present and future climatic events, particularly in highly vulnerable arid and semi-arid regions. Northern ...

    From global to local behind the relationship between the economy and the environment 

    Piaggio, Matías (Date of defense: 2013-04-30)

    El objetivo general del presente trabajo es analizar la relación entre la economía y el ambiente a diferentes escalas. Esto ha de ser comprendido como la elección de un problema de investigación en cada dimensión, y aplicar ...

    From gold to carbon: How narratives and discourses define environmental governance in the Brazilian Amazon 

    Junqueira Dausacker Bidone, Francisco (Date of defense: 2021-02-16)

    El context global actual del canvi climàtic imposa grans reptes per a la gestió dels sistemes socials i ecològics. En aquest context, la regió amazònica al Brasil no només és un ‘punt calent’ per a la conservació de ...

    From Gold-Catalyzed Asymmetric or Photoredox-Assisted Cyclizations to Rhodium-Catalyzed C¿H Alkynylations 

    Mayans Peñarrubia, Joan Guillem (Date of defense: 2021-01-21)

    La catàlisi amb metalls de transició és clau per al descobriment de noves transformacions químiques. En les últimes dues dècades, el camp de la catàlisi homogènia d'or ha estat testimoni d'un creixement exponencial degut ...

    From heuristics-based to data-driven audio melody extraction 

    Bosch Vicente, Juan José (Date of defense: 2017-06-27)

    The identification of the melody from a music recording is a relatively easy task for humans, but very challenging for computational systems. This task is known as "audio melody extraction", more formally defined as the ...

    From hypothesis testing of quantum channels to secret sharing 

    Salek Shishavan, Farzin (Date of defense: 2020-12-14)

    The present thesis has three major thrusts: the first thrust presents a broad investigation of asymptotic binary hypothesis testing, when each hypothesis represents asymptotically many independent instances of a quantum ...

    From inocula to biological reactors: molecular characterization of N-cycle bacterial assemblages in a PANAMMOX process 

    Sànchez Melsió, Alexandre (Date of defense: 2015-06-05)

    Nowadays, the combination of the autotrophic nitrification together with heterotrophic denitrification is the most common process for N-removal in the WWTPs. However, when the C:N ratio is low, this two-step process does ...

    From Lifewriting to postcolonising dreaming narrative: uncanny articulations of race, class and gender in the Indigenous Australian corpus 

    Renes, Cornelis Martin (Date of defense: 2010-01-28)

    [eng] This dissertation and its prequel, my minor thesis, have their seeds in a concern with a certain uncanniness embedded in multicultural developments in Western society. In his 1919 essay “The Uncanny”, Freud explains ...

    From low carbon buildings to sustainable cities : sustainability transitions in the built environment towards the UN Agenda 

    Penagos, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2021-07-06)

    This thesis addresses sustainability transitions in the built environment, from buildings to the metropolitan scale, while ranging from low carbon development to the multidimensional challenges currently faced by cities. ...

    From macro to micro. A case of a successful implementation of a novel sales forecasting methodology of great practical implications 

    Dori Arbiv, Maya (Date of defense: 2017-07-19)

    La presente tesis doctoral ofrece una guía para generar modelos de predicción de ventas para productos en diferentes segmentos de mercado, en distintas culturas, productos que se encuentran en etapas diferentes del ciclo ...

    From macro- to nanoscale electrodeposited iron-copper (Fe–Cu) for energy-efficient and sustainable applications 

    Dislaki, Evangelia (Date of defense: 2018-10-26)

    Aquest treball se centra en l'electrodeposició i l'estudi del sistema Fe-Cu, tant sobre substrats llisos per a l’obtenció de pel·lícules continues com en substrats proveïts amb un reticle o màscara, així com la fabricació ...

    From market orientation to orientation towards international marjets (OIM) of born global firms: evaluating the impact of OIM on born global firms' performance 

    Torres Ortega, Rosalina (Date of defense: 2016-01-08)

    No obstante la amplia cantidad de investigaciones dedicadas a la “orientación del mercado”, en las organizaciones empresariales, las referencias de este concepto han sido muy limitadas—específicamente en el contexto de las ...