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Peña Pitarch, E. (Esteve) (Date of defense: 2008-01-25)
La mano humana es una herramienta muy completa, capaz de adaptarse a diferentes superficies y formas, y también tocar y coger. Es una conexión directa entre el mundo exterior y el cerebro. I.Kant (filosofo alemán) definió ...
Utrera Iglesias, Gladys Miriam (Date of defense: 2007-12-10)
This work focuses on scheduling of MPI jobs when executing in shared-memory multiprocessors (SMPs). <br/>The objective was to obtain the best performance in response time in multiprogrammed multiprocessors systems using ...
Pagès Cruz, Albert (Date of defense: 2014-12-16)
Current transport network owners are focused on offering services on top of the infrastructures they own, while end users have no control over them. Traditionally, this has been their business model, as the cost of building ...
Garrido Platero, Luis Angel (Date of defense: 2019-11-26)
Cloud infrastructures have become indispensable in our daily lives with the rise of cloud-based services offered by companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon and many others. These cloud infrastructures use a large numbers ...
Tarrasó Martínez, Andrés (Date of defense: 2022-02-22)
During the last century, the electrical energy infrastructures have been governed by synchronous generators, producing electrical energy to the vast majority of the population worldwide. However, power systems are no longer ...
Jaqués Adell, Irene (Date of defense: 2023-02-10)
(English) In the current context of both energy and environmental needs, there has been an increase in activities related to extraction and injection of fluids in the underground. It is known that a possible consequence ...
García González, María Luisa (Date of defense: 2017-06-28)
This doctoral thesis is based on professional experience with patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia. This clinical syndrome, which is highly prevalent in the health and social environment, with very diverse etiologies is ...
Font Aragonès, Xavier (Date of defense: 2013-05-30)
Biometric Recognition refers to the automatic identification of a person based on his or her anatomical characteristic or modality (i.e., fingerprint, palmprint, face) or behavioural (i.e., signature) characteristic. It ...
Marbán González, Arturo (Date of defense: 2018-02-12)
Perceiving and understanding the world represents a long-term goal in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In recent years, advances in the field of Machine Learning (ML), and specifically in Deep Learning (DL), have ...
Barceló Garcia, Miquel (Date of defense: 1990-09-01)
(Cat) Aquesta memòria descriu com la literatura de ciència ficció reflecteix en les seves narracions els conceptes i resultats propis de la ciència i la tecnologia informàtica. Aquesta visió cal entendre-la en un sentit ...
Santamaria Navarro, Àngel (Date of defense: 2017-04-24)
The ability to fly has greatly expanded the possibilities for robots to perform surveillance, inspection or map generation tasks. Yet it was only in recent years that research in aerial robotics was mature enough to allow ...
Vidal Calleja, Teresa Alejandra (Date of defense: 2007-07-13)
Navigation in mobile robotics involves two tasks, keeping track of the robot's position and moving according to a control strategy. In addition, when no prior knowledge of the environment is available, the problem is even ...
Ventura Royo, Carles (Date of defense: 2016-07-08)
The first part of this dissertation focuses on an analysis of the spatial context in semantic image segmentation. First, we review how spatial context has been tackled in the literature by local features and spatial ...
Hernández Ruiz, Alejandro José (Date of defense: 2023-05-30)
(English) Visual understanding of human behavior is a very broad topic that, in the abstract, means understanding what a person or group of people is doing in an image or video. In practice, it can be broken down into a ...
Tosi, Alessandra (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)
Over the last few decades, data analysis has swiftly evolved from being a task addressed mainly within the remit of multivariate statistics, to an endevour in which data heterogeneity, complexity and even sheer size, driven ...
Remón Esteban, José Ángel (Date of defense: 2013-03-14)
Shanghái es una ciudad que desde el comienzo de su historia urbana contemporánea se ha desarrollado en base a la construcción de vivienda masiva. Desde sus primeros modelos, que le dieron su identidad, denominados lilong, ...
Weibel Fernández, Hugo Eduardo (Date of defense: 2008-11-10)
El objeto de estudio de esta tesis es la vivienda unifamiliar de la oficina chilena Bresciani, Valdés, Castillo, Huidobro. <br/>Dentro del conjunto de su obra, dicha temática -que dio origen a sus encargos y cuyo diseño ...
Becerra Ibáñez, José Alejandro (Date of defense: 2016-01-18)
Durant el segle XX, en l'eix de recerca de l'habitatge i la seva relació amb la ciutat, adquireixen protagonisme els models urbans que afronten la dimensió col·lectiva del projecte residencial, a partir de les formes ...
Zaguirre Fernández, Juan Manuel, 1969- (Date of defense: 2018-01-12)
This research project arose from an interest in the foundational logic of Tarragona's industrial area, as well as a desire to evaluate the impact of episodes and phenomena in urban development and reveal attributes of this ...
Pérez Mayos, Javier (Date of defense: 2012-07-03)
The objective of this dissertation is to study and develop techniques to decompose the speech signal into its two main components: voice source and vocal tract. Our main efforts are on the glottal pulse analysis and ...