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Melchor Rodríguez, Angel (Date of defense: 2019-02-21)
The present doctoral thesis proposes a series of methods that have as a general objective the non-contact evaluation of heart rate variability (HRV) and respiratory rate (BR) through video imaging. The proposal of this ...
Ruiz Royo, Adrián (Date of defense: 2023-11-20)
(English) This thesis presents contributions to the state-of-the-art in the field of gain-scheduling control, with special emphasis on linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems and the presence of time-varying saturations. ...
Khoury, Boutrous (Date of defense: 2023-03-24)
(English) Maintenance is indispensable in every industry that uses machines and is inevitable regardless of the attention paid to it. The cumulative effect of its neglect or a non-optimized approach is a long or short-term ...
Ortiz València, Héctor (Date of defense: 2016-02-02)
This document presents the theoretical background and experimental work made to develop and validate a set of experiments based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). These experiments are aimed to demonstrate ...
Larco Barros, Ciro Mauricio (Date of defense: 2021-12-15)
In this research work, a non-linear technique called Minimum Controller Synthesis (MCS) is presented. This is a variant of the Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC), which has the main advantage of requiring very little ...
Narváez Dorado, Marien Cristina (Date of defense: 2023-09-29)
(English) Crutches are widely used as assistive walking devices for a diverse population. They are often prescribed by clinicians/therapists to help offload the lower extremities for individuals with impairments. They can ...
Paillacho Chiluiza, Dennys (Date of defense: 2019-05-03)
Robots are making their way in environments inhabited by people. Whether in domestic or public crowded environments, robots should take into consideration social norms and behaviors in order to become a social robot. This ...
Homs Corbera, Antoni (Date of defense: 2005-07-01)
L'aportació més important d'aquesta tesi doctoral és la proposta de noves tècniques de processament del senyal per a l'anàlisi objectiu d'uns tipus de sons respiratoris, anomenats sibilàncies, com a eina complementària pel ...
Godoy Gallardo, Maria (Date of defense: 2015-04-21)
Tanto el titanio como sus aleaciones son usados como biomateriales por sus excelentes propiedades mecánicas, biocompatibilidad y resistencia a la corrosión. Sin embargo, el fracaso a medio y largo plazo de los implantes ...
García Sánchez, Tomás (Date of defense: 2015-04-24)
The present PhD dissertation is focused on the design and implementation of a microelectrode system capable of performing electroporation and electrical impedance measurements to adherent cell monolayers cultured in standard ...
Koch, Martin Andreas (Date of defense: 2010-04-23)
Grandes defectos óseos constituyen un reto para el campo clínico, ya que no puede ser reparado por el propio organismo, sino que requieren la implantación de injertos de hueso adecuado. Para superar los inconvenientes de ...
Riss, Michael Martin (Date of defense: 2013-07-08)
In this thesis various methods are presented towards long-term electrophysiological monitoring of in-vitro neuron cultures in µ-channel devices. A new µ-channel device has been developed. The StarPoM device offers ...
Principi, Sara (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Recent epidemiological evidences on very late opacities or cataract manifestation, has led to a review of the actual limit for the eye lens (150 mSv/year) for workers exposed to ionizing radiation. ICRP 118 recommends ...
González Pijuán, Carmen (Date of defense: 2019-11-15)
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) reflects the rate of delivery of arterial blood to the brain. Since no nutrients, oxygen or water can be stored in the cranial cavity due to space and pressure restrictions, a continuous perfusion ...
Melia, Umberto (Date of defense: 2014-12-03)
Electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings provide insight into the changes in brain activity associated with various states of anesthesia, epilepsy, brain attentiveness, sleep disorders, brain disorders, etc. EEG's are complex ...
Ivonin, Leonid I. (Date of defense: 2014-05-15)
The problem of capturing human experience is relevant in many application domains. In fact, the process of describing and sharing individual experience lies at the heart of human culture. This advancement came at a price ...
Morales Carbajal, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2013-10-09)
La presente tesis trata del diseño y fabricación de un nuevo dispositivo para registrar la actividad eléctrica neuronal espontánea y estimulada farmacológicamente, en redes neuronales in vitro. La forma de operar esta ...
Coelho, Nuno Miranda (Date of defense: 2012-05-25)
The initial molecular events that take place at biomaterials interface mimic to a certain extent the natural interaction of cells with the extracellular matrix (ECM). In this thesis we describe the fate of adsorbed type ...
Roca Rodríguez, Emma (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
Participation in marathons and ultra-endurance races is growing every day, but it is worrisome that these types of races are becoming mass events, where many runners are not sufficiently prepared. For example, in the 2017 ...
Iglesias Fernández, Jelisa Maria (Date of defense: 2020-01-16)
This thesis explains the design, development, test on the benchmarking dataset DUD-e and the application to an industrial virtual screening project of the PELE VS platform. The most common and quick tools used on virtual ...