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Experimental Studies on Market Entry under Uncertainty and on Coordination

Yao, Lan (Date of defense: 2008-06-03)

Esta tesis es dividida en tres capítulos que se refieren a dos temas diferentes. El segundo capítulo se concentra en los efectos incentivos de bajar salarios llanos y su papel en la ayuda del fracaso de coordinación vencido. ...

Experimental studies on organizational behavior

Angelovski, Andrej (Date of defense: 2014-07-24)

Una creciente literatura explora cómo las personas son afectadas por la organización, y también cómo las personas afectan a la organización con sus decisiones. Mi tesis contribuye a esta parte de la literatura investigando ...

Experimental study and numerical modelling of soil-roots hydro-mechanical interactions

Fraccica, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)

The thesis is aimed at characterising the multi-scale and hydro-mechanical behaviour of lightly compacted silty sand penetrated by a turf-grass (Cynodon Dactilon). The study will allow better assessing the impact of ...

Experimental study of feedback-induced dynamics in semiconductor lasers : from symbolic analysis to subwavelength position sensing

Aragoneses Aguado, Andrés (Date of defense: 2014-06-18)

The aim of this thesis is the study of the dynamics induced by optical feedback in semiconductor lasers. This study aims, on the one hand, to improve our knowledge of stocahstic complex systems, and on the other hand, to ...

Experimental Study of Proclarix as a tumor marker for the Early Detection of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer

Campistol Torres, Míriam (Date of defense: 2023-12-13)

Introducció La detecció precoç del càncer de pròstata clínicament significatiu (CaPcs) redueix la mortalitat de la malaltia. La sospita inicial de CaP es basa en nivells elevats de l'antigen prostàtic específic (PSA) en ...

Experimental study of simple and multi-leaf masonry slender elements under compressive stress loaded parallel to the face

Llorens Sulivera, Joan (Date of defense: 2020-10-21)

The thin-tile vault is a structural system widely used in the Mediterranean area. The most spectacular development took place through modernist-style buildings designed by architects such as Antonio Gaudí o Luís Domènech ...

Experimental study of speckle generated by semiconductor light sources: application in double pass imaging

Halpaap, Donatus (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)

With the double pass (DP) technique it is possible to quantify the optical quality of a patient's eye by measuring its point spread function. Due to the low reflectivity of the retina a high-intensity, point-like illumination ...

Experimental study of thermal conductivity of new mixtures for absorption cycles and the effect of the nanoparticles addition

Cuenca Martínez, Yolanda (Date of defense: 2013-11-14)

Este estudio investiga la conductividad térmica de fluidos de trabajo para ciclos de refrigeración por absorción activados por energía solar o calor residual. Una mezcla prometedora es el NH3+LiNO3. Sin embargo, el ...

Experimental study on microstructure and structural behaviour of recycled aggregate concrete

Etxeberria Larrañaga, Miren (Date of defense: 2004-06-18)

The use of recycled aggregates in concrete opens a whole new range of possibilities in the reuse of materials in the building industry. This could be an important breakthrough for our society in our endeavours towards ...

Experimental tools for quantum networking operations with single photons and sinlge ions

Huwer, Jan Henning (Date of defense: 2014-01-29)

One promising approach for future quantum networks is the combination of strings of trapped ions as quantum-information processors with entangled photon pairs produced by spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) to ...

Experimental validation of optimal real-time energy management system for microgrids

Marzband, Mousa (Date of defense: 2014-01-20)

Nowadays, power production, reliability, quality, efficiency and penetration of renewable energy sources are amongst the most important topics in the power systems analysis. The need to obtain optimal power management and ...

Experimental velocity profile distribution characterization of mountain rivers

Marin-Esteve, Blanca (Date of defense: 2023-05-18)

(English) The aim of this thesis is to improve our understanding of the behaviour of mountain rivers and to predict their morphological functioning under conditions of low relative submergence. Mountain rivers have received ...

Experimentar l’extitució: relats de vida professional de sis comissàries independents a Barcelona

Almirall, Caterina, 1986- (Date of defense: 2022-05-09)

Este trabajo parte de la inquietud por encontrar maneras de explicar desde la experiencia compartida cómo opera el rol del comisariado independiente en el contexto artístico de Barcelona, y cuáles son los efectos de las ...

The Experimenters' Regress: A Conceptual and Historical Evaluation

Zuppone, Romina (Date of defense: 2018-12-18)

The goal of this thesis is to show, against Harry Collins, that there are scientific and internal grounds for the resolution of controversies in experimental practice. The approach I take is twofold: On the one hand, I ...

Experimentos y modelos en sistemas que presentan transiciones de fase de primer orden con dinámica de avalanchas

Pérez Reche, Francisco José (Date of defense: 2005-04-29)

En esta tesis se han estudiado algunos aspectos de sistemas que presentan transiciones de fase. Para ello se ha empleado tanto un enfoque experimental como teórico. En particular, se han investigado algunas transiciones ...

Experiments and models for human decision-making: social dilemmas, pedestrian movement and financial markets

Gutiérrez-Roig, Mario (Date of defense: 2016-01-28)

The revolution of ICT technologies in Digital Era combined with progress of ComplexitySciences have lead to the emergence of Computational Social Science, whose purposeis to analyze society in a quantitative way. ...

Experiments de flux i sedimentació de llim fi

Capapé Miralles, Sergi (Date of defense: 2017-05-18)

Research on fine sediment transport (silt and clay) is less advanced than research on sand and gravel movement. Nevertheless, fine sediment can be the predominant fraction of the suspended load in some rivers, and its ...

Experiments i models relativistes per a l'astrometria òptica des de l'espai. Aplicació a la missió Gaia.

Anglada Escudé, Guillem (Date of defense: 2007-09-25)

[spa] Gaia es un proyecto de la agencia espacial Europea (ESA) que pretende hacer un censo galáctico catalogando más de 1000 millones de objetos con una precisión astrometrica sin precedentes. La astrometria es la parte ...

Experiments of ethics and economic behavior

Rode, Julian (Date of defense: 2007-10-25)

The dissertation employs laboratory experimental methodology to study decision-making when people face trade-offs between ethical and economic values. More explicitly, the three chapters investigate 1) consumer behaviour ...

Experiments on financial and donation behaviour : decision-making processes

Maras, Marta (Date of defense: 2012-09-03)

The three chapters of this thesis investigate the decision-making processes behind financial and donation behaviour of individuals. Chapter One studies the impact of prior learning and competition on the presence of the ...