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Why do negotiation processes matter?: informal capabilities as determinants of EU member states bargaining success in the Council of the EU
How do differences in the informal capabilities of Member States impact their bargaining success at the EU level? Based on new datasets collected via 145 semi-structured interviews with national negotiators and EU officials ...
Why does Poland develop different politics in the field of the climate and energy framework of the EU? The Polish case in relation to Germany - focus on distributed generation
Polonia y Alemania se abastecen de fuentes de carbón similares, sin embargo, estos dos países desarrollan políticas completamente diferentes en el ámbito del marco energético y climático de la Unión Europea. Alemania, hasta ...
Why language(s) matter to people: a theoretical and comparative approach to linguistic justice in western democracies : the case of mixed societies
This dissertation examines two ideological clashes underlying contemporary political theories of linguistic justice (instrumentalism/constitutivism; monism/pluralism) with the aim to elucidate (a) why languages matter to ...
Wide bandgap chalcogenide thin films onto transparent substrates
This PhD thesis explores the use of wide band gap chalcopyrite (CIGS) material and its application in thin film solar cells onto transparent back contacts, as a way to promote the use of thin film technologies in novel and ...
Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for MEMS and Related Process Technologies
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Wideband cognitive radio: monitoring, detection and sparse noise subspace communication
We are surrounded by electronic devices that take advantage of wireless technologies, from our computer mice, which require little amounts of information, to our cellphones, which demand increasingly higher data rates. ...
Wideband pulse amplifiers for the integrated cameras of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
One type of photon detector is the photomultiplier tube (or PMT), most commonly used in Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). A PMT has a photoelectric cathode that absorbs light and emits an electron. A PMT ...
Width-Based Planning and Learning
Optimal sequential decision making is a fundamental problem to many diverse fields. In recent years, Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods have experienced unprecedented success, largely enabled by the use of deep learning ...
Wildfire and forest management effects on soil properties
Forest fires are a common phenomenon in the Mediterranean ecosystem. These wildfires, post-fire weather conditions and forest management before and after the fire can cause irreversible damage to the soil. This thesis aims ...
Wildfire effects on macroinvertebrate communities in Mediterranean streams / Efectes dels incendis forestals sobre las comunitats de macroinvertebrats en rius Mediterranis
Wildfire effects on macroinvertebrate communities have not been intensively studied in other areas than the Western US, and the results in fire prone areas like NE Mediterranean and SE Australia are scarce. In this study, ...
Wildfire risk management in southern European landscapes: Towards a long‐term comprehensive strategy
Pocs incendis grans i destructius representen els impactes més negatius en els valors socioeconòmics i naturals de les zones mediterrànies. Com a conseqüència de l’augment de l’acumulació de biomassa en els paisatges ...
Wildland Fire Prediction based on Statistical Analysis of Multiple Solutions
En diferentes áreas científicas, el uso de modelos para representar sistemas físicos se ha tornado una tarea habitual. Estos modelos reciben parámetros de entradas representando condiciones particulares y proveen una salida ...
WIM-based modelling of traffic load scenarios for extreme load effects in long-span bridges
(English) During the lifetime of long-span bridges, the traffic conditions are affected by the surroundings and will typically vary and also unpredictably change. In this thesis, a prior site-specific traffic load spatial ...
Wind Field Retrieval from Satellite Radar Systems
Wind observations are essential for determining the atmospheric flow. In particular, sea-surface wind observations are very useful for many meteorological and oceanographic applications. In this respect, most of the satellite ...
Wind power supply chain: relevant aspects related to manufacturing and quality management
In recent years, supply chain management (SCM) has become of great importance as nowadays not only are businesses competing with each other, but so too are suppliers. The main objective of this thesis is to analyse some ...
Wind-driven currents in the coastal and equatorial upwelling regions
During the last two decades the scientific community has recognised the importance of the tropical Atlantic Ocean and the upwelling regions on the Earth's climate. This recognition has opened new questions such as: ¿What ...
Wine lees and their derived products to manage hypertension. Identification of their bioactive compounds and underlying mechanisms
Actualment la hipertensió (HTN) és un dels principals factors de risc de malaltia cardiovascular. L'ús de compostos antihipertensius naturals es consideren una bona estratègia per a la reducció de la pressió arterial (PA). ...
Wine yeast: the challenge of low temperature
Different aspects and disciplines have been enclosed in this thesis in order to unravel the effects of low temperature to wine yeast. Results enclosed in chapters 1st and 2nd of this thesis reveal original empirical data ...
Winter ecology of tits ("Paridae") in boreal and subalpine forests: social organisation and the role of food hoarding.
The main objective of this thesis is to analyse the variation in non-breeding social systems within the group of parids and to identify the main factors involved. More specifically, I studied the role of food hoarding on ...
Wireless multimedia sensor networks, security and key management
Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) have emerged and shifted the focus from the typical scalar wireless sensor networks to networks with multimedia devices that are capable to retrieve video, audio, images, as well ...
