Malagarriga i Guasch, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-01-13)
The aim of this thesis is to deepen into the understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the generation of complex and stochastic dynamics, as well as emerging phenomena, in the human brain. We study ...
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 ...
Medina Pardell, Judith (Date of defense: 2021-11-30)
The invention of the laser triggered the study of light-matter interactions. In turn, the advent of artificial structured materials on micro- and nanometer scales has become a fruitful playground to ...
Parés Calaf, M. Eulàlia (Date of defense: 2021-01-14)
The determination of a body position, velocity and attitude is the purpose of the navigation techniques. The most extended navigation systems (INS/GNSS), as any other HW and SW system, provide precise ...
Majeed, Husam Tareq (Date of defense: 2018-10-05)
Aerobiology is the science that focuses on the study of the airborne living organisms (bacteria, fungal spores, pollen, small insects, etc.). The influence of meteorology and climate change on plant ...
Velasco Cruz, Jorge Enrique (Date of defense: 2019-06-28)
Metallic glasses are amorphous solids produced by rapid cooling, with disordered atomic structure and lacking long-range order. This structural disorder makes them to show mechanical properties different ...
Halpaap, Donatus (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)
With the double pass (DP) technique it is possible to quantify the optical quality of a patient's eye by measuring its point spread function. Due to the low reflectivity of the retina a high-intensity, ...
Kumar, Shubham (Date of defense: 2017-06-21)
Dynamical instabilities which lead to spontaneous pattern formation are present in a wide variety of nonlinear dynamical systems, both in nature as well as in technological areas. The instabilities may ...
Ye, Jin (Date of defense: 2017-11-23)
This thesis focuses on the thermodynamic and crystallographic characterization of C60 solvates formed with small organic molecules (CBr2(CH3)2, CBr2Cl2, CBr2H2, CBrCl2H and CBrClH2) Chapter I provides ...
Lu, Huixia (Date of defense: 2020-09-29)
The present Thesis is devoted to the study of the physical-chemical properties of selected small-molecules (such as amino-acids like tryptophan or hormones like melatonin) and proteins (such as KRAS-4B) ...