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    Failure distance based bounds of dependability measures 

    Suñé Socias, Víctor Manuel (Date of defense: 2000-07-03)

    El tema d'aquesta tesi és el desenvolupament de mètodes de fitació per a una classe de models de confiabilitat basats en cadenes de Markov de temps continu (CMTC) de sistemes tolerants a fallades.<br/><br/>Els sistemes ...

    Fair Allocation of Network Resources for Internet Users 

    Banchs Roca, Albert (Date of defense: 2002-02-18)

    In a commercial Internet, the traffic behavior is determined by the contracts between the ISPs and the users, where a user can be a dial-up user, or one corporate network or a group of individual customers or networks. ...

    Fairness Analysis of Wireless Beamforming Schedulers 

    Bartolomé Calvo, Diego (Date of defense: 2005-01-12)

    Aquesta tesi es dedica a l'anàlisi de la justícia a la capa física en entorns de comunicacions amb múltiples antenes i diversos usuaris, cosa que implica un nou punt de vista sobre problemas tradicionals. Malgrat això, el ...

    Farmers' preferences and the factors affecting their decision to improve maize crops in Mexico 

    Sánchez Toledano, Blanca Isabel (Date of defense: 2017-06-08)

    Mexico is one of the countries with the highest corn production in the world (24.6 million tons) (FAOSTAT, 2016). However, in some regions, the yields are very low (2.0 Tn.ha-1) compared to the national average (9.39 ...

    Fashion discovery : a computer vision approach 

    Rubio Romano, Antonio (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)

    Performing semantic interpretation of fashion images is undeniably one of the most challenging domains for computer vision. Subtle variations in color and shape might confer different meanings or interpretations to an ...

    FAST : a fault detection and identification software tool 

    Duatis Juárez, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)

    The aim of this work is to improve the reliability and safety of complex critical control systems by contributing to the systematic application of fault diagnosis. In order to ease the utilization of fault detection and ...

    A fast engineering approach to high efficiency power amplifier linearization for avionics applications 

    Wang, Teng (Date of defense: 2020-12-17)

    This PhD thesis provides a fast engineering approach to the design of digital predistortion (DPD) linearizers from several perspectives: i) enhancing the off-line training performance of open-loop DPD, ii) providing ...

    Fast photorealistic techniques to simulate global illumination in videogames and virtual environments 

    Méndez Feliu, Àlex (Date of defense: 2007-06-15)

    Per al càlcul de la il·luminació global per a la síntesi d'imatges d'escenaris virtuals s'usen mètodes físicament acurats com a radiositat o el ray-tracing. Aquests mètodes són molt potents i capaços de generar imatges de ...

    Fast simulation : assisted shape correction after machining 

    Mena Andrade, Ramiro Francisco (Date of defense: 2021-01-15)

    Computer simulation is acknowledged as the third branch of Science. From the seminal work of Turner et al. (1956) [on Finite Elements, impressive improvements have been made in terms of software and hardware, so that, ...

    Fate and effects of waterborne contaminants of emerging concern in the soil-plant system : impact of biochar soil amendment to mitigate their plant uptake 

    Hurtado Cervera, Carlos (Date of defense: 2017-07-14)

    Water scarcity is an issue of global concern due to the increase of the population and the climate change, which both increase the water demand. Many arid and semiarid countries are facing high water stress and the use of ...

    Fault detection and fault tolerant control in wind turbines 

    Tutivén Gálvez, Christian (Date of defense: 2018-09-27)

    Renewable energy is an important sustainable energy in the world. Up to now, as an essential part of low emissions energy in a lot of countries, renewable energy has been important to the national energy security, and ...

    Fault detection and identification methodology under an incremental learning framework applied to industrial electromechanical systems 

    Cariño Corrales, Jesús Adolfo (Date of defense: 2017-09-08)

    Condition Based Maintenance is a program that recommends actions based on the information collected and interpreted through condition monitoring and has become accepted since a decade ago by the industry as a key factor ...

    Fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control of multiphase voltage source converters for application in traction drives 

    Salehifar, Mehdi (Date of defense: 2014-07-15)

    There is an increasing demand for vehicles with less environmental impact and higher fuel efficiency. To meet these requirements, the transportation electrification has been introduced in both academia and industry during ...

    Fault diagnosis in chemical plants integrated to the information system 

    Ruiz, Diego (Date of defense: 2001-06-05)

    La contribución que se pretende con esta tesis se refiere a la implantación de un sistema de diagnosis de fallos en plantas químicas completas integrado al sistema de supervisión, gestión y control de la producción.<br/>El ...

    Fault diagnosis in wind turbines using machine learning techniques 

    Pérez Pérez, Esvan de Jesús (Date of defense: 2023-11-30)

    (English) In recent years, wind power has emerged as a promising alternative to fossil fuels, with wind turbines widely used to generate clean energy. However, like complex machinery, wind turbines are prone to faults that ...

    Fault tolerant vector control of five-phase permanent magnet motors 

    Salehi Arashloo, Ramin (Date of defense: 2014-07-15)

    Equipped with appropriate control strategies, permanent magnet (PM) machines are becoming one of the most flexible types of actuators for many industrial applications. Among different types of PM machines, five-phase BLDC ...

    Feature selection for multimodal: acoustic event detection 

    Butko, Taras (Date of defense: 2011-07-08)

    The detection of the Acoustic Events (AEs) naturally produced in a meeting room may help to describe the human and social activity. The automatic description of interactions between humans and environment can be useful for ...

    Feedback of channel state information in multi-antenna systems based on quantization of channel Gram matrices 

    Sacristán Murga, Daniel Francisco (Date of defense: 2012-07-19)

    This dissertation deals with the proper design of efficient feedback strategies for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication systems. MIMO systems outperform single antenna systems in terms of achievable throughput ...

    Feedback-Channel and adaptative mimo coded-modulations. 

    Rey Micolau, Francesc (Date of defense: 2006-05-12)

    (Català) En els sistemes de comunicacions on el transmissor disposa de certa informació sobre l'estat del canal (CSI), es possible dissenyar esquemes lineals de precodificació que assignin la potència de manera òptima ...

    Feeder flow control and operation in large scale photovoltaic power plants and microgrids : Part I Feeder ow control in large scale photovoltaic power plants : Part II Multi-microgrids and optimal feeder ow operation of microgrids 

    Bullich Massagué, Eduard (Date of defense: 2018-10-04)

    This thesis deals with the integration of photovoltaic energy into the electrical grid. For this purpose, two main approaches can be identified: the interconnection of large scale photovoltaic power plants with the ...