Hermosilla Casajús, Pedro (Date of defense: 2017-07-13)
Molecular dynamics simulations are computer simulations of the physical movements of atoms and molecules, and the interactions between them. In the particular cases we focus on (pharmaceutical drug ...
Jiménez Vélez, Alex Fernando (Date of defense: 2017-01-17)
Within the practice of public health at a global level there is now a greater interest in conceptualizing, materialize, and achieve the development of "healthy communities". Such communities would require ...
Mayans Tayadella, Enric (Date of defense: 2017-12-18)
Since the pioneering work of Reches and Gazit in 2003, in which the formation of diphenylalanine (FF) nanotubes in aqueous solution was discovered, significant efforts have been made to develop a new ...
Alacid Fernández, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)
Parasitism is a widespread interaction that has evolved practically in all branches of the tree of life. It has historically been neglected in studies of marine microbial systems, limiting our understanding ...
Garcia Gasulla, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-04-18)
It is well known that load imbalance is a major source of efficiency loss in HPC (High Performance Computing) environments. The load imbalance problem has very different sources, from static ones related ...
Jordanić, Mislav (Date of defense: 2017-12-05)
Extraction of neuromuscular information is an important and extensively researched issue in biomedical engineering. lnformation on muscle control can be used in numerous human-machine interfaces and ...
Wang, Bingxia (Date of defense: 2017-10-10)
The PhD project, entitled "Second harmonic generation in disordered nonlinear crystals: application to ultra-short laser pulse characterization", is devoted to the study of second harmonic generation ...
Filbà Martínez, Àlber (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
Galvanically-isolated bidirectional dc-dc converters (IBDCs) have recently received more attention due to its increasing use in systems requiring energy transfer between two dc networks in both directions, ...
Serna Higuita, Leidy Yanet (Date of defense: 2017-09-04)
Respiratory diseases remain one of the leading causes of death and illness in Europe and worldwide. One of the most important is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) associated mainly with chronic ...
Capapé Miralles, Sergi (Date of defense: 2017-05-18)
Research on fine sediment transport (silt and clay) is less advanced than research on sand and gravel movement. Nevertheless, fine sediment can be the predominant fraction of the suspended load in some ...