Kizildag, Deniz (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)
The work carried out in the framework of the present thesis aims at shedding light into the complex phenomena involved in turbulent water-filled cavities, questioning the validity of the well-established ...
Fernández Aymerich, Ismael (Date of defense: 2016-01-25)
There is a lack on ocean dynamics understanding, and that lead oceanographers to the need of acquiring more reliable data to study ocean characteristics. Oceanographic measurements are difficult and ...
Novillo Parales, Francisco Vicente (Date of defense: 2013-06-04)
The growing need for wireless connectivity is pushing the massive adoption and usage of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) based on the IEEE 802.11 standard (Wi-Fi), leading to dense deployments of ...
Fabra Cervellera, Francisco (Date of defense: 2013-05-13)
This work evaluates the potential use of signals from the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) that scatter off the Earth surface for the retrieval of geophysical information from the cryosphere. ...
Amiri Nehzad, Maryam (Date of defense: 2013-01-30)
The increasing demand for large and low cost wireless coverage, ranging from campus to city wide areas, has motivated a high interest in multi-hop communications with Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) based ...
Martínez Torrents, Albert (Date of defense: 2015-03-17)
The contact ofthe spent nuclear fuel (SNF) with water dueto a failure in the canister would be a conservative but still plausible hypothesis in the safety assesment of a deep geologic repository (DGR). ...
Tomić, Sasa (Date of defense: 2012-07-13)
Conventional lock-based synchronization serializes accesses to critical sections guarded by the same lock. Using multiple locks brings the possibility of a deadlock or a livelock in the program, making ...
Gallisai, Rachelle (Date of defense: 2016-11-04)
The potential capacity of fertilization of surface oceans by atmospheric deposition is of scientific interest. This is especially true in the oligotrophic Mediterranean Sea. Its surface waters are ...
Nowack, Vesna (Date of defense: 2016-01-12)
With the increased number of cores on a single processor chip, an application can achieve good performance if it splits the execution into multiple threads that run on multiple cores at the same time. ...
Polyàkova, Tatyana V. (Date of defense: 2015-03-13)
This thesis focuses on the phonetic transcription in the framework of text-to-speech conversion, especially on improving adaptability, reliability and multilingual support in the phonetic module. The ...