Neighborly and almost neighborly configurations, and their duals 

Padrol Sureda, Arnau (Date of defense: 2013-03-12)

This thesis presents new applications of Gale duality to the study of polytopes with extremal combinatorial properties. It consists in two parts. The first one is devoted to the construction of neighborly polytopes and ...

Network coding for transport protocols 

Gheorghiu, Steluta (Date of defense: 2011-07-11)

With the proliferation of smart devices that require Internet connectivity anytime, anywhere, and the recent technological advances that make it possible, current networked systems will have to provide a various range of ...

Network coding-aided MAC protocols for cooperative wireless networks 

Antonopoulos, Angelos (Date of defense: 2012-12-17)

The introduction of third generation (3G) technologies has caused a vast proliferation of wireless devices and networks, generating an increasing demand for high level Quality of Service (QoS). The wide spread of mobile ...

Network creation games: structure vs anarchy 

Messegué Buisan, Arnau (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)

In an attempt to understand how Internet-like network and social networks behave, different models have been proposed and studied throughout history to capture their most essential aspects and properties. Network Creation ...

Network resource allocation policies with energy transfer capabilities 

Piovesan, Nicola (Date of defense: 2020-06-05)

During the last decades, mobile network operators have witnessed an exponential increase in the traffic demand, mainly due to the high request of services from a huge amount of users. The trend is of a further increase in ...

Network traffic classification : from theory to practice 

Carela Español, Valentín (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)

Since its inception until today, the Internet has been in constant transformation. The analysis and monitoring of data networks try to shed some light on this huge black box of interconnected computers. In particular, the ...

Network virtualization in next generation cellular networks 

Tseliou, Georgia (Date of defense: 2019-07-17)

The complexity of operation and management of emerging cellular networks significantly increases, as they evolve to correspond to increasing QoS needs, data rates and diversity of offered services. Thus critical challenges ...

Network-based ionospheric gradient monitoring to support ground based augmentation systems 

Caamaño Albuerne, María (Date of defense: 2022-07-12)

The Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS) is a local-area, airport-based augmentation of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) that provides precision approach guidance for aircraft. It enhances GNSS performance ...

Netzero de alta densidad : análisis de ciclo de vida y energías renovables aplicado a vivienda colectiva en Colombia 

Ballén Zamora, Sergio (Date of defense: 2021-12-10)

NetZero Energy Buildings or buildings with almost zero energy consumption, are buildings with high energy performance in terms of operational energy, and which also seek to reduce their CO2 emissions in addition to other ...

Neuron guidance and nano-neurosurgery using optical tools 

Vathalloor Mathew, Manoj (Date of defense: 2009-10-16)

Neuronal encoding and transmission of weak periodic signals 

Masoliver Vila, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-02-20)

Sensory neurons use sequences of electrical pulses (known as action potentials or spikes) to encode and transmit information of external temporal stimuli. Neural coding is the research field that studies the relationship ...

Neuronal oscillations: from single-unit activity to emergent dynamics and back 

Sancristóbal Alonso, Belén de (Date of defense: 2013-07-22)

L’objectiu principal d’aquesta tesi és avançar en la comprensió del processament d’informació en xarxes neuronals en presència d’oscil lacions subumbrals. La majoria de neurones propaguen la seva activitat elèctrica a ...

Neutron capture cross section measurement of the heaviest s-process branching 204Tl and of 203Tl at CERN n_TOF 

Casanovas Hoste, Adrià (Date of defense: 2020-10-27)

Neutron capture cross sections are fundamental in the study of the slow neutron capture process of nucleosynthesis, also known as the s-process, which produces half of the observed solar system abundances of elements heavier ...

Neutron-induced fission cross section of 240,242Pu 

Salvador Castiñeira, Paula (Date of defense: 2014-11-07)

A recent sensitivity analysis done for the new generation of fast reactors [1] has shown the importance of improved cross section data for several actinides. Among them, the neutron-induced fission cross section of 240,242Pu ...

Neutronics analysis and thermodynamics studies of several DEMO breeding blankets for the development of the AINA safety code 

Fabbri, Marco (Date of defense: 2018-04-05)

By 2050 the energy consumption is expected to increase considerably.The production might be mostly based on renewable energy mix driven by the nuclear fusion which could potentially deliver continuous, large-scale power ...

New approach for efficient design of stainless steel RHS and SHS elements 

Arrayago Luquin, Itsaso (Date of defense: 2016-10-17)

This thesis investigates the cross-section and member behaviour of cold-formed stainless steel RHS and SHS elements and proposes an alternative and more efficient design approach. Combined with aesthetic appeal, exceptional ...

New approaches in calcium phosphate cements and ceramics for bone regeneration. 

Gallinetti, Sara (Date of defense: 2014-09-19)

Bone is among the most frequently transplanted tissues in the body. In Europe, about one million patients encounter a surgical bone reconstruction annually. The worldwide market of bone replacement materials is currently ...

New Architectures for ubiquitous networks : use and adaptation of internet protocols over wireless sensor networks 

Ludovici, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2014-07-07)

This thesis focuses on the study of low-resource demanding protocols, communication techniques and software solutions to evaluate, optimise and implement Web service in WSNs. We start analysing the Web service architectures ...

New autonomous sensor system for the continous monitoring of the composting process from the inside 

Rillo Moral, Francesc (Date of defense: 2016-05-12)

The composting process is Nature's way of recycling organic wastes with a good quality organic fertilizer as a result. This process, though, needs of a thoroughly monitoring of temperature and humidity for a good resulting ...

New data integration methods for drug re-purposing by mining heterogeneous omics data 

Zambrana Seguí, Maria del Carme (Date of defense: 2023-11-21)

(English) High-throughput omics technologies produce large-scale heterogeneous data that provide complementary views of the underlying complexity of the studied organism. To exploit these new data to answer biomedical ...