IEEE 802.11 based wireless networks, especially the infrastructure based Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) or Wi-Fi networks, are hugely successful, and have become an indispensable part of our life at homes and working ...

Dam behaviour is difficult to predict with high accuracy. Numerical models for structural calculation solve the equations of continuum mechanics, but are subject to considerable uncertainty as to the characterisation of ...

Deep learning approaches have become increasingly popular in the last years thanks to their state-of the-art performance in fields such as computer vision and natural language understanding. The first goal of this thesis ...

In this dissertation we propose algorithms for the analysis of social media texts, focusing on two particular aspects: irony and emojis. We propose novel automatic systems, based on machine learning methods, able to recognize ...

The latestWLAN standard, known as IEEE 802.11n, has notably increased the network capacity with respect to its predecessors thanks to the incorporation of the multipleinput multiple-output (MIMO) technology. Nonetheless, ...

The growth of the Internet impacts multiple areas of the world economy, and it has become a permanent part of the economic landscape both at the macro- and at microeconomic level. On-line traffic and information are currently ...

El nombre d’estudis realitzats dins del camp dels macrocicles amb àtoms donadors tous, com el sofre o el fòsfor, és molt inferior en comparació amb els macrocicles que contenen àtoms donadors més durs com l’oxigen o el ...

Les reformes dels sistemes de protecció social i les retallades que, en general, han sofert les diverses institucions de l'Estat de Benestar durant la dècada dels 80 s'han justificat per raons de tipus "tècnic", basades ...

La macroprolactina es una variante molecular de la prolactina (PRL), que se origina de la unión de varias moléculas de PRL monomérica con autoanticuerpos IgG. Se denomina macroprolactinemia a aquellas hiperprolactinemias ...