Brain activity during rest : a signature of the underlying network dynammics 

    Cabral, Joana R. B. (Date of defense: 2012-07-18)

    La actividad cerebral exhibe complejos fenómenos oscilatorios similares a los que se observan en modelos de redes artificiales con osciladores acoplados. Por un lado, estudios sobre la actividad cerebral durante el reposo ...

    Building ethernet connectivity services for provider networks 

    Bonada i Cruells, Eduard (Date of defense: 2012-07-16)

    Network providers are motivated to deploy Ethernet in their infrastructures. However, this represents a new application for Ethernet technology that leads to new requirements. In Ethernet networks, the Rapid Spanning Tree ...

    Human-computer interaction with older people 

    Sayago Barrantes, Sergio (Date of defense: 2009-07-24)

    L'envelliment de la població i la importància de les TIC a la societat actual han motivat la necessitat d'integrar més a les persones grans en la interacció persona-ordinador. La investigació actual es centra en factors ...

    La celebració mediàtica de la Victòria a la Rússia post-soviètica. Anàlisi transversal dels observables de l'hegemonia en la commemoració televisiva de la Victòria sobre l'Alemanya nazi 

    Guerrero Solé, Frederic (Date of defense: 2011-10-04)

    La present tesi doctoral té com a objectiu l’anàlisi de la commemoració televisiva de la Victòria sobre l’Alemanya nazi a la Rússia post-soviètica. En particular, l’anàlisi es centra en la retransmissió de la desfilada ...

    Noise-induced reversals in bistable visual perception 

    García Rodríguez, Pedro Ernesto (Date of defense: 2012-05-06)

    In this thesis, a set of some prevailing rate-based models for bistable perception have been considered in order to find the implications of the novel results reported in Pastukhov & Braun (2011). These authors have ...

    Statistical atlases of cardiac motion and deformation for the characterization of CRT responders 

    Duchateau, Nicolas Guillem (Date of defense: 2012-02-28)

    The definition of optimal selection criteria for maximizing the response rate to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) is still an issue under active debate. Recent clinical approaches propose a classification of patients ...

    Word embeddings with applications to web search and advertising 

    Edizel, Necati Bora (Date of defense: 2019-07-26)

    Word embeddings are a building block of many practical applications across NLP and related disciplines. In this thesis, we present theoretical analysis and algorithms to learn word embeddings. Moreover, we present applications ...