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    Small Perturbation Techniques for the Electronic Analysis of Perovskite Devices 

    Bou Catalá, Agustín (Date of defense: 2023-02-20)

    Metal-halide perovskites have emerged as a promising semiconductor material for a variety of potential applications, due to their intrinsic properties and their low-cost fabrication methods. Perovskite solar cells have ...

    Small signals lead to big changes: Deciphering the mechanisms behind Peptide-Induced Resistance in plants 

    Pastor Fernández, Julia (Date of defense: 2022-07-08)

    To cope with biotic stresses, such as pest and pathogen attacks, plants have evolved a broad variety of adaptative defense strategies. Sometimes plant perception of external stimuli induces an enhanced resistance state ...

    Smart Sustainable Cities Assessment 

    Akande, Adeoluwa Stephen (Date of defense: 2020-03-13)

    There has been an exponential growth of cities in the last decade. Rural to urban migration are occurring at an unprecedented level. This is partly because cities serve as hubs of innovation offering numerous economic ...

    Sobre la percepción de indicios en bocetos de ingeniería y su aplicación al modelado basado en bocetos 

    Plumed Ferrer, Raquel (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)

    <p>Los bocetos de ingeniería son un tipo importante de gráficos, porque ayudan a los diseñadores de productos industriales durante la fase más creativa del diseño conceptual. A tal fin, las aplicaciones informáticas de ...

    Sociedad civil: democracia monitorizada y medios de comunicación en John Keane 

    Feenstra, Ramón Andrés (Date of defense: 2010-03-10)

    El objetivo de esta tesis doctoral consiste en analizar de manera exhaustiva el concepto de sociedad civil en la obra de Keane. Un estudio que pretende mostrar la potencialidad de la propuesta de sociedad civil de este ...

    Solid-State Hosts Based on Fluorides with Europium: From the Crystal Structure toward the Optical Performance 

    Serna-Gallén, Pablo (Date of defense: 2023-12-21)

    The present Doctoral Thesis is framed within the Solid State Chemistry and Materials Science, focusing on the formulation of host lattices based on yttrium fluorides for photoluminescence applications, and establishing ...

    Some contributions to archetypal analysis with applications 

    Cabero Fayos, Ismael (Date of defense: 2019-11-27)

    Aquesta Tesi desenvolupa l’Anàlisi d’Arquetipus (AA) i demostra la seua viabilitat i rigor. Amplia la tipologia de dades amb les quals pot treballar utilitzant, a banda de les dades multivariants contínues, dades binàries ...

    El Sonido como Principio Estructural de la Enseñanza del Piano. La Pedagogía de L. N. Sintsev (1944-2008) como un Estudio de Caso. 

    Tomás García, Fabiola (Date of defense: 2024-02-09)

    Cuando una metodología funciona, adoptarla y desarrollarla se convierte en una obligación moral para cualquier docente. Este principio es el punto de partida de esta investigación sobre uno de los pilares del piano ruso ...

    Sorteando barreras hacia la inclusión. Una historia de vida 

    Doménech Vidal, Ana (Date of defense: 2017-05-26)

    Partiendo de un concepto amplio de diversidad, esta tesis doctoral focaliza su atención en las respuestas sociales y educativas que las personas con diversidad funcional encuentran en sus respectivas trayectorias vitales. ...

    Sorteo y minipúblicos: un complemento para las democracias representativas contemporáneas 

    Camarelles Queralt, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2023-05-12)

    Esta tesis doctoral plantea una reflexión sobre el potencial del sorteo en política, a través de minipúblicos deliberativos, como instrumento regenerador de la democracia representativa. Así pues, se trabaja en dos campos ...

    Sparse Linear System Solvers on GPUs: Parallel Preconditioning, Workload Balancing, and Communication Reduction 

    Flegar, Goran (Date of defense: 2019-06-21)

    With the breakdown of Dennard scaling in the mid-2000s and the end of Moore's law on the horizon, the high performance computing community is turning its attention towards unconventional accelerator hardware to ensure the ...

    Spatial and spatio-temporal point patterns on linear networks 

    Moradi, Mohammad Mehdi (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)

    The last decade witnessed an extraordinary increase in interest in the analysis of network related data and trajectories. In the spatial statistics field, there are numerous real examples such as the locations of traffic ...

    Spatial modelling of air pollution for open smart cities 

    Gupta, Shivam (Date of defense: 2018-11-15)

    The thesis presents five contributions which address the issues mentioned above. The first contribution is the choice of a statistical method which can help in utilising existing open data and overcoming challenges imposed ...

    Stabilization of Polymorphic Halide Perovskite Black Phase for Optoelectronic Applications 

    Kunnummal Mangott, Muhammed Salim (Date of defense: 2022-05-26)

    The photovoltaic and luminance efficiencies of halide perovskite-based devices achieved an unprecedented improvement in comparison to their existing counterparts. Among the family of lead-based halide perovskites, the ...

    Statistical tests for comparisons of spatial and spatio-temporal point patterns 

    González Monsalve, Jonatan A. (Date of defense: 2018-02-21)

    We mainly introduce a new set of tests to compare functional descriptors in point processes context. Firstly, since the study of spatio-temporal point processes has not been widely covered in the literature, a complete ...

    Storytelling como herramienta y mejora de la eficacia en publicidad. Análisis de los casos Aquarius y BMW en televisión (1992-2010) 

    Farran Teixidó, Eduard (Date of defense: 2014-01-31)

    La tesis estudia la relación del Storytelling como herramienta de difusión de mensajes emocionales y a la vez como herramienta de mejora de la eficacia en publicidad a través de dicha herramienta. Para ello se estudia una ...

    Structural and Processing Modification of Perovskite for the Optimization of Photovoltaic Devices 

    Serafini, Patricio (Date of defense: 2023-11-21)

    Perovskite solar cell devices exhibit better properties than previous generations of solar cells thus making them a powerful competitor in the market. However, it is necessary to carry out optimizations to reach high ...

    Studies of sulfurated compounds and epoxidation of MDH adducts. New inhibitors of cysteine proteases. 

    Latorre Martínez, Antonio (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)

    A. L. Martínez presents a PhD thesis on syntheses design and testing of new protease inhibitors targeting proteasome and cysteine proteases, e.g. cathepsins. With the various chapters his thesis covers fields from organic ...

    Study and Prediction of Air Quality in Smart Cities through Machine Learning Techniques Considering Spatiotemporal Components 

    Iskandaryan, Ditsuhi (Date of defense: 2023-03-07)

    Air quality is considered one of the top concerns. Information and knowledge about air quality can assist in effectively monitoring and controlling concentrations, reducing or preventing its harmful impacts and consequences. ...

    Study of the possible migration risks of food contact materials for children under 3 years 

    Onghena, Matthias (Date of defense: 2016-11-01)

    El Bisfenol-A (BPA) se ha usado durante muchos años como monómero en polímeros de policarbonato (PC) (botellas de agua y comida para niños-biberones) y en resinas tipo epoxi (botes de comida preparada), a partir de los ...