Eighty years after the discovery of penicillin, the interest of this ß-lactam antibiotic at industrial level is still remarkable. Despite the good background knowledge, little is known on how Penicillin chrysogenum became a good penicillin overproducer, and much of the…

Resource management and performance models constitute important aspects for parallel applications' performance analysis and tuning. Defining performance models associated with the application structure has been proven useful for implementing dynamic tuning tools. However, for extending this strategy to complex pplications…

Understanding how materials deform and break is a subject of critical importance in industry. At the same time, it requires from the knowledge of the basic processes governing the phenomenon and hence, fundamental physics research is a must. The presence…

Los materiales ferroeléctricos presentan una serie de propiedades que les hace apropiados para un gran número de aplicaciones. Estos materiales presentan dos estados de polarización de igual energía entre los que se puede transitar mediante la aplicación de un campo…

In a world in which markets are more globalised and continuously evolving, industry need new tools to enhance their flexibility and maintain competitiveness. A key strategy is discovering useful knowledge through the information gathered from production processes. In recent decades,…

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From the earliest hardware and software days to the internet era, complexity of computer systems has been something computer scientists, engineers, and programmers have had to deal with. Important fields of research and technology have originated, developed, or matured as…

Biclustering has become a very popular data mining technique due to its ability to explore at the same time two different dimensions, as opposed to clustering techniques, that make use of only one dimension. Gene expression data offer a suitable…

With the increasing demand for composite materials by the industry, the adhesive joints emer ge as an attractive alternative to traditional mechanical joints. The latter require as a preliminary step, the drilling of the laminates with consequent damage to the…

Since ancient times, fishing has been a major source of food for humanity and a provider of employment and economic benefits to those engaged in this activity. However, with increased knowledge and the dynamic development of fisheries it was realized…

This dissertation sets out to examine the conceptual domains of CHANGE and
POSSESSION by selecting two main verbal classes, namely entity-specific change-ofstate verbs for the domain of CHANGE and contribute verbs for that of POSSESSION.
The most important step consisted…