In surface colonization, microorganisms tend to form complex biological structures containing cells and adhesion molecules, called biofilms, which provide them with high stability and resistance to biocide compounds. These ...

Els avenços en nanotecnologia i materials avançats anuncien una nova era per als dispositius a nano escala en medicina de precisió. Aquests dispositius, equipats amb capacitats integrades de detecció, computació, comunicació, ...

Current web tracking practices pose a constant threat to the privacy of Internet users. As a result, the research community has recently proposed different tools to combat well-known tracking methods. However, the early ...

To reduce the levelized cost of wind energy, through the reduction in operation and maintenance costs, it is imperative that the wind turbine downtime is reduced through maintenance strategies based on condition monitoring. ...

The Pliocene is a key period in Earth's climate evolution, as it records the transition from warm and stable conditions to the colder and more variable glaciated climate of the Pleistocene. Simultaneously, climate became ...

Incipient Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is characterized by a slow onset of clinical symptoms, with pathological brain changes starting several years earlier. Consequently, it is necessary to first understand and differentiate ...

Register windows is an architectural technique that reduces memory operations required to save and restore registers across procedure calls. Its effectiveness depends on the size of the register file. Such register ...

Although ceramic-on-ceramic (CoC) bearings have been shown to produce the smallest amount of wear volume in vitro as well as in vivo studies when used for total hip arthroplasties (THA), concerns about the failure of these ...

This is a technical report for the early nine test of the first stage of a minilauncher to put up to six femto-satellites in a 250 km Low Earth Orbit. These nine tests were performed in a stone quarry in order to gain ...