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    Wireless power transfer : fueling the dots 

    Bou Balust, Elisenda (Date of defense: 2017-07-17)

    Resonant Inductive Coupling Wireless Power Transfer (RIC-WPT) has been proven to provide very high power transfer efficiencies (above 80%) for moderate distances, and is hence foreseen as a key technology to enable wireless ...

    Wireless sensor networks in the future internet of things: density, mobility, heterogeneity and integration 

    Barceló Lladó, Marc (Date of defense: 2015-11-09)

    Las redes de sensores inalámbricos están destinadas a revolucionar nuestra manera de vivir, trabajar y relacionarnos con el entorno. Aunque este tipo de redes ha estado en el foco de la investigación científica durante la ...

    Wireless sensors embedded in high permittivity lossy media 

    González López, Giselle (Date of defense: 2021-06-29)

    The design of wireless sensors for operation embedded in a medium with high losses creates a series of additional constraints that should be taken into consideration at design stage to enhance sensor performance. In such ...

    The wiring diagram of antennal lobe and mapping a brain circuit that controls chemotaxis behavior in the Drosophila larva 

    Khandelwal, Avinash (Date of defense: 2017-01-19)

    Drosophila larvae present unique opportunity for anatomical and functional mapping of their nervous system because of features such as numerical simplicity of neurons its nervous system is composed of, and ability to exhibit ...

    Witnessing non-Markovian evolutions 

    De Santis, Dario (Date of defense: 2021-06-22)

    The formulation of quantum physics stands among the most revolutionary theories of the twentieth century. During the first decades of this century, many phenomena concerning the microscopic world were unexplained or had ...

    Wittgenstein y Gadamer: lenguaje, praxis, razón. El problema del pluralismo a través de la filosofía del lenguaje 

    Miras Boronat, Núria Sara (Date of defense: 2009-06-19)

    El trabajo de investigación se propone medir la influencia y recepción de Wittgenstein y Gadamer en el debate del pluralismo teórico contemporáneo. El pluralismo se comprende como una pluralidad de marcos conceptuales ...

    Wittgenstein y Heidegger: la crítica del sentido como inicio de la posmodernidad 

    Corrales Sepúlveda, Gonzalo Andrés (Date of defense: 2012-11-20)

    El objetivo central de esta tesis doctoral es intentar establecer una aproximación entre los programas filosóficos de Wittgenstein y Heidegger, de forma particular, en lo que se refiere al grado de influencia de ambos con ...

    Wladimiro Acosta y la vivienda colectiva (1928 - 1935) : su aporte a la innovación arqueológica y tipológica en América Latina 

    Ranzini, Marcelo (Date of defense: 2015-07-21)

    VVladimiro Acosta (WA) was a Russian architect with centro-european modem studies. His moving to Latin America in 1928 he meant one of the most significant contributions to Argentinian architecture. Since his arrival until ...

    WNT and NOTCH: Joining Efforts to Maintain the Intestinal Homeostasis 

    Rodilla Benito, Verónica (Date of defense: 2011-05-13)

    Colorectal tumors with mutations on Wnt family members show an overexpression of several Notch target genes, suggesting a link between Wnt and Notch signaling pathways. In this work, we have demonstrated that there is ...

    WNT signaling, hypoxia and GATA6 : their role in colorectal cancer, stem cells and disease progression 

    Whissell, Gavin (Date of defense: 2013-12-03)

    The recent discovery that intestinal adenomas are built on a stem cell hierarchy has raised great interest in understanding the signals that maintain tumor stem cells. We unveiled the existence of a transcriptional circuit ...

    Wnt/beta-catenin activity controls the stability of imprinted genes in mouse embryonic stem cells 

    Theka, Ilda (Date of defense: 2017-02-06)

    Las células madre embrionarias (ESCs) derivan de la masa cellular interna de los blastocistos y son capaces de generar las tres capas germinales. Muchos factores controlan la pluripotencia incluyendo la ruta Wnt/β-catenina. ...

    WNT5A, SFRP5 y CRTC3: nuevas adipocinas relacionadas con la obesidad en la edad pediátrica 

    Soriano Rodríguez, Pilar (Date of defense: 2015-10-13)

    WNT5A is a protein with proinflammatory properties recently related to insulin resistance. It is believed that this protein might be regulated by SFRP5, which sequesters WNT5A exerting its anti-inflammatory actions and ...

    Women and leadership: the case of women managers in Lebanon 

    Shouman, Lina (Date of defense: 2023-05-16)

    La present tesi doctoral pretén examinar alguns dels reptes que continuen dificultant l'avanç de les dones cap a rols de lideratge, per què algunes dones no accepten tenir una cap dona i si les subordinades dones sempre ...

    Women in executive office in advanced industrial democracies : presence, portfolios and post-ministerial occupation 

    Claveria i Alias, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)

    This thesis is focused on women in executive office. Whereas the literature on women's political representation in national parliaments is now well established, analyses of women in cabinets are rather limited. The ...

    Women in science and higher education: A bibliometric approach 

    Dehdarirad, Tahereh (Date of defense: 2016-11-08)

    The main objective of this thesis work is to assess and map international research concerning gender in science and higher education. To do this, two different studies were designed: first, to examine the development and ...

    Women in the labor markets: wages, labor supply, and fertility decisions 

    Kaya, Ezgi (Date of defense: 2014-06-27)

    El desenvolupament més important en el mercat de treball en tots els països industrialitzats ha estat l’increment de dones casades a la força laboral. La literatura econòmica associa l'increment de la participació a la ...

    Worban Resilience and (un)sustainability. Exploring the nexus between resilience and urban systems 

    Chelleri, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2012-09-07)

    Este trabajo representa una primera exloración de las interpretaciones generales y especificas que se le atributen a la relación ciudad-resiliencia. Como expresa el titulo, WORBAN es un nuevo catchword que quiere llamar ...

    Word embeddings with applications to web search and advertising 

    Edizel, Necati Bora (Date of defense: 2019-07-26)

    Word embeddings are a building block of many practical applications across NLP and related disciplines. In this thesis, we present theoretical analysis and algorithms to learn word embeddings. Moreover, we present applications ...

    Word spotting and recognition in images from heterogeneous sources 

    Ghosh, Suman Kumar (Date of defense: 2018-05-30)

    El text es la manera més habitual d’intercanviar informació des de les edats. Amb el desenvolupament recent d’imatges de bases de dades de manuscrits manuscrits històrics, la demanda d’algorismes per fer accessibles ...

    Word-processing-based routing for Cayley graphs 

    Aguirre Guerrero, Daniela (Date of defense: 2019-05-15)

    This Thesis focuses on the problem of generic routing in Cayley Graphs(CGs). These graphs are a geometric representation of algebraic groups and have been used as topologies of a wide variety of communication networks. ...