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Informalidad, crisis del mundo del trabajo y nuevas organizaciones: Análisis del modelo hegemónico de trabajo en Barcelona

Porras Bulla, Julián Arturo (Date of defense: 2018-02-06)

A partir del debate sobre la crisis del mundo del trabajo y su relación con las actividades que se encuentran por fuera del modelo hegemónico de trabajo, el objetivo de esta tesis es analizar y entender los mecanismos y ...

Informalismo y poética: hacia una lectura de la arquitectura de Alvar Aalto y de la pintura informal como narrativa

Martínez i Borrell, Claudi (Date of defense: 1991-02-26)

Son bastante conocidas las relaciones entre la pintura de Piet Mondrian y la arquitectura moderna; desde Theo Van Doesburg a John Hejduk, la influencia de su poética ha sido manifiesta. Menos estudiadas han sido las ...

Information acquisition, expertise, and consumer behavior in markets with informational asymmetries

Rodríguez-Camacho, Javier A. (Date of defense: 2016-07-20)

En esta tesis estudiamos mercados con asimetrías informativas desde la perspectiva de la teoría microeconómica. Primero analizamos la manera en que las asimetrías informativas afectan las decisiones de los médicos cuando ...

Information and communication technologies in conference interpreting

Berber-Irabien, Diana (Date of defense: 2010-05-10)

New technologies, more specifically, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), are today indispensable in all professions. It is undeniable, however, that some professions have been affected to a greater extent ...

Information and control supervision of adaptive/iterative schemes

Balaguer Herrero, Pedro (Date of defense: 2007-07-18)

El disseny d'un controlador es un procés que requereix adquirir y processar informació amb la finalitat de dissenyar un sistema de control satisfactori. A més a més és àmpliament reconegut el fet de que si s'afegeix nova ...

Information dissemination in mobile networks

Trullols Cruces, Oscar (Date of defense: 2014-07-17)

This thesis proposes some solutions to relieve, using Wi-Fi wireless networks, the data consumption of cellular networks using cooperation between nodes, studies how to make a good deployment of access points to optimize ...

Information economics, the translation profession and translator certification

Chan, Andy Lung Jan (Date of defense: 2008-12-09)

This research uses the framework of information economics to analyze the translation profession and translator certification. The translation market is found to be heterogeneous and fragmented and both buyers and sellers ...

Information extraction from heterogeneous handwritten documents

Toledo Testa, Juan Ignacio (Date of defense: 2019-07-01)

L’objectiu d’aquesta tesi és l’extracció d’Informació de documents total o parcialment manuscrits amb una certa estructura. Bàsicament treballem amb dos escenaris d’aplicació diferent. El primer escenari són els documents ...

Information fusion and learning from diverse clinical cohorts and heterogeneus data

Martí Castellote, Pablo-Miki (Date of defense: 2023-09-27)

This PhD thesis explores how data science can be leveraged to learn from diverse cohorts and fuse information from heterogeneous data, aiming to advance understanding and improve prediction in healthcare settings. It covers ...

Information metrics for localization and mapping

Vallvé Navarro, Joan (Date of defense: 2019-02-27)

Decades of research have made possible the existence of several autonomous systems that successfully and efficiently navigate within a variety of environments under certain conditions. One core technology that has allowed ...

Information processing in the cortex: the relevance of coherent oscillations for neuronal communication

Buehlmann, Andrés (Date of defense: 2010-07-20)

Les oscil·lacions d'activitat neuronal són un fenomen omnipresent a l'escorça cerebral. La funció d'aquestes oscil·lacions, però, no està clara. ¿Són només un epifenomen de les elevades taxes de descàrrega de potencials ...

Information propagation in the cortex across the sleep-wake cycle: a computational study

Razi, Farhad (Date of defense: 2023-07-21)

During the deep phases of sleep we do not normally wake up by a thunder, but we nevertheless notice it when awake. The exact same sound gets to our ears and cortex through the thalamus and still, it triggers two very ...

Information representation and processing in neuronal networks: from biological to artificial systems and from first to second-order statistics

Lawrie, Sofía (Date of defense: 2022-03-28)

Neuronal networks are today hypothesized to the basis for the computing capabilities of biological nervous systems. In the same manner, artificial neuronal systems are intensively exploited for a diversity of industrial ...