Umbert Morist, Martí (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
This thesis focuses on the control of a singing voice synthesizer to achieve natural expression similar to a real singer. There are many features that should be controlled to achieve natural expression ...
Coleman, Graham Keith (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
Sampling, as a musical or synthesis technique, is a way to reuse recorded musical expressions. In this dissertation, several ways to expand sampling synthesis are explored, especially mosaicing synthesis, ...
Mac Dougall, Lola (Date of defense: 2016-10-24)
This research looks at the contributions made by some Indian women photographers to the representation of privacy. Indian women photographers have enjoyed a privileged access in their bid to depict ...
Seoane, Luís F. (Date of defense: 2016-05-13)
This thesis tackles a series of phenomena across diverse fields from the point of view of optimization. The problems studied often bring together diverse conflicting constraints that cannot be fully ...
Landry, Pascal (Date of defense: 2016-01-25)
This thesis focuses on defining a set of design strategies to develop and assess video games that foster physical activity, commonly referred to as exergames. Regular physical activity is essential for ...
López Montañés, María (Date of defense: 2016-11-25)
El citomegalovirus humano (HCMV) promueve una redistribución del compartimento de células Natural Killer (NK) marcada por un incremento de las células NK maduras que expresan niveles elevados del receptor ...
Espeso Gil, Sergio (Date of defense: 2016-12-05)
El reguloma està constituït per un sistema complex de factors que controlen el fenotip molecular de la cèl·lula, que al seu torn està influenciada pel medi ambient. Qualsevol pertorbació pot desencadenar ...
Lazcano, Vanel (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)
In this thesis we tackle two problems, namely, the data interpolation prob- lem in the context of depth computation both for images and for videos, and the problem of the estimation of the apparent ...
Aslay, Çiğdem (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)
This thesis constitutes one of the first investigations that lie at the intersection of social influence propagation, viral marketing, and social advertising. The objective of this thesis is to take the ...
Costantini, Filippo (Date of defense: 2016-06-13)
Harmony is one of the most important concepts of the Confucian tradition. Along Confucianism, harmony represented most of the time the ultimate ideal that man needs to pursue. Confucians employed the ...