Superchi, Cecilia (Date of defense: 2021-01-21)
Editorial peer review is the gateway to scientific publication. It was established to ensure that research papers were vetted by independent experts before they are published. Despite the importance of ...
Codony, David (Date of defense: 2021-03-01)
This PhD thesis focuses on the development of mathematical and computational models for flexoelectricity, a relatively new electromechanical coupling that is present in any dielectric at the micron and ...
Arjona Martínez, Jamie (Date of defense: 2021-02-11)
Nowadays, one of the most important problems in urban areas concerns traffic congestion. This, in turn, has an impact on the economy, nature, human health, city architecture, and many other facets of ...
Duarte-López, Ariel (Date of defense: 2021-02-05)
The Zipf distribution, also known as discrete Pareto distribution, attracts considerable attention because it helps describe skewed data from many natural as well as man-made systems. Under the Zipf ...
Alarcón Soto, Yovaninna (Date of defense: 2021-06-30)
The present dissertation contributes to Data Science in the Human lmmunodeficiency Virus (HIV) field, addressing specific issues related to the modelling of data coming from three different clinical ...
Rodríguez del Río, Óscar (Date of defense: 2021-07-06)
The main objective of this dissertation is the study of the ejection-collision (EC) orbits in the circular and planar Restricted Three Body Problem (RTBP from now on). In particular, we will focus on ...
Gil-Muñoz, Daniel (Date of defense: 2021-07-02)
We develop a method to compute a basis of the associated order in a Hopf Galois structure H of the ring of integers O_L of an extension of number or p-adic fields L/K. We state and prove a necessary and ...
Vilaró Pacheco, Marta (Date of defense: 2021-07-15)
This PhD thesis is concerned with evaluating the long-term effects of interventions in the editorial peer review process of a biomedical journal. The growing need to increase the value of research and ...
Velona, Vasiliki (Date of defense: 2021-09-17)
The thesis contains a study of two problems of combinatorial statistics. The first one is structure learning for partial correlation graphs and the second one is the broadcasting problem on certain ...
Molins Lleonart, Eduard (Date of defense: 2021-05-28)
In applications for generic medicinal products the concept of bioequivalence is fundamental. Two medicinal products, i.e. a test and a reference drugs containing the same active substance are considered ...