Montero Banegas, Diego (Date of defense: 2017-11-03)
Internet has become an indispensable and powerful tool in our modern society. Its ubiquitousness, pervasiveness and applicability have fostered paradigm changes around many aspects of our lives. This ...
Gorreta i Mariné, Sergi (Date of defense: 2017-09-29)
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, or MEMS, has been a continuously growing technology during the last decades. Since 1959, when the theoretical physicist Richard Feynman introduced the concept of ...
García Flores, Víctor (Date of defense: 2017-10-02)
Efficiently managing the memory subsystem of modern multi/manycore architectures is increasingly becoming a challenge as systems grow in complexity and heterogeneity. In the field of high performance ...
Ivanova, Kristina Dimitrova (Date of defense: 2017-01-27)
The accelerated emergence of drug resistant bacteria is one of the most serious problems in healthcare and the difficulties in finding new antibiotics make it even more challenging. To overcome the ...
Nishtala, Rajiv (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)
In 2013, U.S. data centres accounted for 2.2% of the country's total electricity consumption, a figure that is projected to increase rapidly over the next decade. A significant proportion of power ...
Ciesko, Jan (Date of defense: 2017-07-24)
Wide adoption of parallel processing hardware in mainstream computing as well as the interest for efficient parallel programming in developer communities increase the demand for programming models that ...
Juan Muñoz, Jaime (Date of defense: 2017-07-20)
A problem is not a problem anymore if no solution exists; therefore, in the present dissertation, a novel manufacturing technique, the In Situ Forming of a Liquid Infused Preform (ISFLIP), is proposed ...
Durán Martínez, Israel (Date of defense: 2017-11-20)
This work has been formally undertaken within the frame of the scholarship number BES-2012-053917 of 1 December 2012, by the "Secretario de Estado de Investigación del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad" ...
Hameed, Saqib (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)
The thesis presented is performed with the aim of studying the effect of electropulses (EPs) in machining processes such as drilling and round turning processes for different materials. When the EPs of ...
Torres-Sánchez, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2017-07-11)
Lipid membranes are thin objects that form the main separation structure in cells. They have remarkable mechanical properties; while behaving as a solid shell against bending, they exhibit in-plane ...