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Baumgartner, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-11-22)
It is well known that injuries affect the tissue integrity. It might be less known that injury mechanisms could be initiated through a compromised cell response, which subsequently affects the tissue integrity. Such injuries ...
Della Valle, Fabio (Date of defense: 2021-11-29)
This thesis presents a study of blockchain impacts for supply chain (SC) application. By conducting explorative research, the thesis presents a grounded theory analysis based on eighteen interviews with international experts ...
Rafael-Palou, Xavier (Date of defense: 2021-10-22)
Nowadays, lung cancer assessment is a complex and tedious task mainly per- formed by radiological visual inspection of suspicious pulmonary nodules, using computed tomography (CT) scan images taken to patients over ...
Platt, Steven (Date of defense: 2021-09-27)
This thesis undertakes an investigation into the fit and utility of blockchain technologies within cellular networks. The core of this writing is a new 5G core network blockchain designed to be compatible with, and paired ...
Higueras-Esteban, Alfredo (Date of defense: 2021-06-17)
Neurosurgery is evolving towards the use of minimally invasive procedures. In this dissertation, we present several tools designed to fulfill the multimodal and multidisciplinary requirements of Stereoencephalography (SEEG) ...
Accuosto, Pablo (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)
Argument mining consists in the automatic identification of argumentative structures in natural language, a task that has been recognized as particularly challenging in the scientific domain. In this work we propose SciARG, ...
Ferraro, Andrés (Date of defense: 2021-09-30)
Music streaming platforms nowadays play an important role in music consumption and have a big influence on the musical taste of the listeners. Machine learning-based recommender systems are a fundamental part of such ...
Zabaleta Razquin, Itziar (Date of defense: 2021-10-01)
The industry of cinema has experienced a radical change in the last decades: the transition from film cinematography to its digital format. As a consequence, several challenges have appeared, but, at the same time, many ...
Jiménez Sánchez, Amelia (Date of defense: 2021-10-14)
This thesis investigates two key aspects of learning deep-based image representations for medical diagnosis. The two are confronted with common challenges of medical image databases, namely, the limited number of samples, ...
Arbués Sangüesa, Adrià (Date of defense: 2021-10-08)
Although tracking data have completely revolutionized the whole data science paradigm in sports competitions with the largest economic resources, its use in a European context is still unexplored. In this thesis, three ...
Junyent Barbany, Miquel (Date of defense: 2021-10-15)
Optimal sequential decision making is a fundamental problem to many diverse fields. In recent years, Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods have experienced unprecedented success, largely enabled by the use of deep learning ...
Klein, Nina (Date of defense: 2021-07-19)
Electroporation is a biophysical phenomenon in which cell membrane permeability to ions and molecules is increased when the cell is briefly exposed to high electric fields. Electroporation is the basis of multiple novel ...
Blanco Casares, Ángel David (Date of defense: 2021-09-28)
Mastering the violin and other bowed string instruments requires special considerations compared with other musical instruments. The process of good sound generation in the violin is a notoriously complex task that requires ...
Vitoria Carrera, Patricia (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)
Restoration of a high-quality image from a degraded recording is an important problem in early vision processing. In this thesis, we tackle three image restoration problems: image inpainting, colorization, and motion ...
Canudas Grabolosa, Irene (Date of defense: 2021-07-15)
In this thesis we focus on the relationship between language and logic, to try to find potential primitives of thought. We depart from a well-established linguistic theory (the theory of exhaustification), which claims ...
Franzoni, Federico (Date of defense: 2021-05-07)
During the last decade, cryptocurrencies have revolutionized the financial industry. In these systems, participants communicate by means of a peer-to-peer protocol. Today, many of such protocols take Bitcoin as a reference ...
Sayis, Batuhan (Date of defense: 2021-05-04)
Full-body Interaction experiences based on Mixed Reality (MR) systems are already playing an important role in encouraging socialization behaviors in children with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC), as seen in the state of ...
Casamayor, Gerard (Date of defense: 2021-04-26)
Text summarization deals with the automatic creation of summaries from one or more documents, either by extracting fragments from the input text or by generating an abstract de novo. Research in recent years has become ...
Eladly, Ahmed Fayed (Date of defense: 2021-04-28)
This thesis was conducted within the framework of the eAXON project that is aimed at developing injectable wireless sub-millimetric single-channel addressable microstimulators based on volume conduction called eAXONs ...
Meléndez Catalán, Blai (Date of defense: 2021-04-13)
Under the current copyright management business model, broadcasters are taxed by the corresponding copyright management organization according to the percentage of music they broadcast, and the collected money is then ...