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    Functionalization of titanium with integrin-selective ligands for orthopedic and dental applications 

    Fraioli, Roberta (Date of defense: 2016-11-14)

    Despite being biocompatible and with adequate mechanical properties for application as a bone replacement material, titanium lacks osteoinductive capacity, i.e. it supports new bone growth on its surface but does not foster ...

    Functionalized CoCr surfaces with adhesive molecules to improve endothelialization 

    Castellanos Arboleda, Maria Isabel (Date of defense: 2017-05-05)

    Cobalt-chromium (CoCr) alloys are widely used as biomaterials for coronary stents due to their excellent mechanical properties, biocompatibility and corrosion resistance. However, these materials are bioinert, retarding ...

    Fundamentos de la morfogénesis de tensoestructuras: Membrane House 

    Arnaiz Barrio, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2021-07-30)

    The fundamental objective of this thesis is to delve into the process of generating the shape of tensioned membrane structures, from the conjunction of the theoretical foundations presented and practical experimentation, ...

    Fungicides alternatius per a la indústria de la pell : comparació amb productes convencionals 

    Cuadros Domènech, Sara (Date of defense: 2013-12-20)

    This thesis is focused on the search of alternatives to fungicides conventionally used in the tanning industry. These chemicals must be effective against a large number of fungi less toxic, more environmentally friendly ...

    Furor divino : contribución a la historia de la teoría del arte : análisis de la evolución del concepto de furor divino en relación con las facultades del alma, en la tratadística, del Renacimiento al Barroco 

    Azara, Pedro (Date of defense: 1986-12-01)

    La tesis estudia la relevancia del concepto de furor divino en la creación plástica clásica muestra como el furor divino concepto que proviene del campo de la poética pasa de tener un origen externo a uno interno bajo ...

    Further into the infrared with quantum dot photodetectors 

    Özdemir, Onur (Date of defense: 2022-02-04)

    In the infrared, photodetectors are the key components in a wide-variety of applications such as thermal imaging, remote sensing, spectroscopy with newer technologies added to the list such as LiDaR and deep tissue imaging. ...

    Fusing prosodic and acoustic information for speaker recognition 

    Farrús Cabeceran, Mireia (Date of defense: 2008-10-29)

    El reconeixement automàtic del locutor és la utilització d’una màquina per identificar un individu a partir de d’un missatge parlat. Recentment, aquesta tecnologia ha experimentat un increment en l’ús de diverses aplicacions ...

    Fusión de Datos: Imputación y Validación 

    Juárez Alonso, Carlos Alberto (Date of defense: 2005-03-04)

    Las actitudes, el conocimiento y las acciones generalmente se basan en muestras. Algunos basan sus conclusiones en muestras pequeñas y pocas veces toman en cuenta la magnitud de lo que se desconoce. Generalmente se carece ...

    Galileo broadcast ephemeris and clock errors, and observed fault probabilities for ARAIM 

    Alonso Alonso, María Teresa (Date of defense: 2023-03-03)

    (English) The characterization of Clock and Ephemeris error of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems is a key element to validate the assumptions for the integrity analysis of GNSS Safety of Life (SoL) applications. ...

    Galoisian approach to supersymmetric quantum mechanics 

    Acosta Humanez, Primitivo Belén (Date of defense: 2009-07-02)

    Esta tesis versa sobre el punto de vista desde la Teoría de Galois Diferencial hacia la mecánica cuántica supersimétrica. El objeto principal considerado aquí es la ecuación deSchrödinger estacionaria no relativista, ...

    Gas migration in deep argillaceous formations : Boom clay and indurated clays 

    Gonzalez‐Blanco, Laura (Date of defense: 2017-05-31)

    Deep geological disposal remains the preferred option at present for the management of long-living and heat-emitting radioactive waste, which consists of confining the waste during a very long period (several hundreds of ...

    Gathering empirical evidence and building a business case for software reference architectures in industry 

    Martínez-Fernández, Silverio (Date of defense: 2016-06-23)

    Background: Software reference architectures are becoming widely adopted by organizations that need to support the design and maintenance of software applications of a shared domain. For organizations that plan to adopt ...

    Gaudí i els jardins de l’antic "manicomi de Sant Boi de Llobregat" 

    Agulló Galilea, David (Date of defense: 2020-11-25)

    Created between 1903 and 1912 by an anonymous architect, the Modernist constructions in the gardens of the former Mental Hospital in Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona, allude to, anticipate or are contemporaries of works ...

    Gender bias in natural language processing 

    Basta, Christine Raouf Saad (Date of defense: 2022-10-14)

    (English) Gender bias is a dangerous form of social bias impacting an essential group of people. The effect of gender bias is propagated to our data, causing the accuracy of the predictions in models to be different depending ...

    Generació de decisions davant d'incerteses 

    Escobet i Canal, Antoni (Date of defense: 2012-09-17)

    Aquesta tesi tracta sobre la metodologia del raonament inductiu difús (FIR, de l’anglès fuzzy inductive reasoning) aplicada a sistemes de detecció i diagnòstic de fallades. La metodologia FIR sorgeix de l’enfocament del ...

    Generació espontània de vents en règim de convecció tèrmica 

    Prat Farran, Joana d'Arc (Date of defense: 1996-10-11)

    En aquest treball s'estudia la convecció en una capa plana de fluid entre dues superfícies perfectament conductores sotmesa a un gradient advers de temperatura. Es considera el problema bidimensional amb periodicitat en ...

    Generación de falsas claves criptográficas como medida de protección frente a ataques por canal lateral 

    Lumbiarres López, Rubén (Date of defense: 2015-07-29)

    In the late 90s, Paul C. Kocher introduced the concept of differential attack focused on the power consumption of a cryptographic device. In this type of analysis the plain text sent to the device is known, and all possible ...

    Generación y control de formas libres en entornos BIM : modelado paramétrico, modelado algorítmico 

    Larrondo Lizarraga, Antonio (Date of defense: 2017-07-12)

    The present thesis work intends to explore and research how far these new tools and modeling techniques can reach, regarding the generation and control of free forms (conceptual or mass modeling) in geometries generally ...

    Generalized consistent estimation in arbitrarily high dimensional signal processing 

    Rubio Molina-Prados, Francisco E. (Date of defense: 2008-06-13)

    La teoría del procesado estadístico de la señal halla un amplio abanico de aplicaciones en los campos de las comunicaciones de datos, así como también en el procesado con agrupaciones de sensores. Ciertamente, un gran ...

    Generalized Delaunay triangulations : graph-theoretic properties and algorithms 

    Cano Vila, María del Pilar (Date of defense: 2020-06-25)

    This thesis studies different generalizations of Delaunay triangulations, both from a combinatorial and algorithmic point of view. The Delaunay triangulation of a point set S, denoted DT(S), has vertex set S. An edge uv ...