Piscal Arévalo, Carlos Mario (Date of defense: 2018-10-22)
An important percentage of Colombian population is located in medium-to-high seismicity zones (NSR-10, 2010). Therefore, it is important to protect the buildings, principally the highly crowded ones, ...
Valverde Morales, Victor (Date of defense: 2016-04-08)
Atmospheric pollution causes large impacts on human health and societal economic interests and it is a threat for the ecosystems and the climate of the Earth. Improving the understanding of pollution ...
Liesegang Maria, Sergi (Date of defense: 2022-11-07)
In the last few years, a lot of effort has been put into the development of the fifth generation of cellular networks (5G). Given the vast heterogeneity of devices coexisting in these networks, new ...
Gatti, Francesca (Date of defense: 2021-03-19)
Let E be an elliptic curve defined over the field of rational numbers and let f be the corresponding newform of weight 2. Let g,h be two weight one newforms whose nebentype characters are mutually ...
Rana, Manish (Date of defense: 2016-10-18)
This thesis presents novel methods based on a combination of well-known statistical techniques for faster estimation of memory yield and their application in the design of energy-efficient subthreshold ...
Blanco Núñez, Igor D. (Date of defense: 2015-01-31)
The study of the brain using diffuse optical methods has progressed rapidly in the recent years. The possibility of studying the cerebral microvasculature in addition to the portability and low cost of ...
Tepsic, Slaven (Date of defense: 2021-07-07)
Mechanical resonators based on low dimensional materials have attracted a lot of attention due to their remarkable properties. Their ultra-low mass and high Q factors make them exceptional sensors, ...
Miró Jané, Arnau (Date of defense: 2019-06-19)
Synthetic jets are produced by the oscillatory movement of a membrane inside a cavity, causing fluid to enter and leave through a small orifice. This results in a net jet that is able to transfer kinetic ...
Jedynak, Maciej (Date of defense: 2017-03-27)
The brain is known to operate under the constant influence of noise arising from a variety of sources. It also organises its activity into rhythms spanning multiple frequency bands. These rhythms originate ...
Luo, Chengyang (Date of defense: 2022-06-21)
Radio frequency identification over measurable ultra-high frequency textile substrates (UHF-RFID) is a promising technology to develop new applications in the field of health and the Internet of Things ...