Physical orientation was a central philosophical problem for German thinkers in the late eighteenth century. Moses Mendelssohn, for instance, pondered in Morgenstunden, o Vorlesungen uber das Daseyn Gotten (1785) whether one can orient oneself in the metaphysical realm with the…

The debate on the relationship between income, income inequality, and health of the last two decades has been based almost entirely on empirical considerations. The ideas prompting the debate are based on the concave relationship observed between health and income…

"En los sistemas de distribución de energía el eléctrica típicos es común encontrar cargas de tipo monofásico. Sin embargo estos sistemas son generalmente desbalanceados, debido a que la cargas son desigualmente distribuidas entre las fases, y distorsionados por la gran…

Breast Cancer Resistance Protein (BCRP, ABCG2) and P-glycoprotein (P-gp, ABCB1, MDR1) are
members of the G and B subfamily of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) efflux transporters, respectively.
Both transporters use the energy of ATP hydrolysis for substrate efflux.…

Molts problemes de la vida quotidiana estan plens de decisions multi-classe. En l'àmbit del Reconeixement de Patrons, s'han proposat moltes tècniques d'aprenentatge que treballen sobre problemes de dos classes. No obstant, la extensió de classificadors binaris al cas multi-classe és…

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…

En esta tesis doctoral se propone la utilización de una metodología espacial para la integración de construcciones rurales en su entorno, mediante la utilización de un sistema de evaluación de criterios múltiples (ECM), en un entorno web asistido por la…

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…

Generally, drilling fluids may be multicomponent suspensions, emulsions and/or foams, basically consisting of a base fluid (oil or water), viscosifiers/thinners (clays, biopolymers, etc) and weighting agents (salts) designed to lubricate during drilling operation and removal the cuttings, among others functions.…

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…