Actividad electrodermal (EDA), personalidad y stress

En el presente trabajo de investigación nos planteamos estudiar la actividad electrodérmica (EDA), tanto en su aspecto tónico (registro de niveles) como el fásico (registro de respuestas) de 10s sujetos sometidos a una situación estresante, por la amenaza de schock eléctrico y su posible correlación con sus rasgos de personalidad (en las dimensiones de neuroticismo y extraversión del EPQ-A) y la ansiedad medida por el M.A.S. de Taylor. Para el1o nos hemos propuesto recoger y valorar las posibles soluciones planteadas por diferentes autores (Freixa i Baqué, 1975, 1977; Ferrer y Colom, 1983) a los problemas procedimentales y técnicos que presentan los registros y la utilización de la EDA, para asegurar la comparabilidad de los datos, la estandarización de 10s registros y el nivel de significación que pueda atribuirse al registro posterior de la respuesta del sujeto.El resultado del mismo nos da a conocer las correlaciones significativas existente entre: neuroticismo y ansiedad, neuroticismo y respuestas al primer y segundo estimulo y finalmente entre ansiedad y respuesta al segundo estimulo.

The nature of the Cr-C bond: direct estimation of aromaticity in Fischer carbenes

Report for the scientific sojourn at the the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, from september to december 2007. For the first, we employed the Energy-Decomposition Analysis (EDA) to investigate aromaticity on Fischer carbenes as it is related through all the reaction mechanisms studied in my PhD thesis. This powerful tool, compared with other well-known aromaticity indices in the literature like NICS, is useful not only for quantitative results but also to measure the degree of conjugation or hyperconjugation in molecules. Our results showed for the annelated benzenoid systems studied here, that electron density is more concentrated on the outer rings than in the central one. The strain-induced bond localization plays a major role as a driven force to keep the more substituted ring as the less aromatic. The discussion presented in this work was contrasted at different levels of theory to calibrate the method and ensure the consistency of our results. We think these conclusions can also be extended to arene chemistry for explaining aromaticity and regioselectivity reactions found in those systems.In the second work, we have employed the Turbomole program package and density-functionals of the best performance in the state of art, to explore reaction mechanisms in the noble gas chemistry. Particularly, we were interested in compounds of the form H--Ng--Ng--F (where Ng (Noble Gas) = Ar, Kr and Xe) and we investigated the relative stability of these species. Our quantum chemical calculations predict that the dixenon compound HXeXeF has an activation barrier for decomposition of 11 kcal/mol which should be large enough to identify the molecule in a low-temperature matrix. The other noble gases present lower activation barriers and therefore are more labile and difficult to be observable systems experimentally.

Design of Novel Frequency Generation Circuit with Application to Ultra-Wideband Distributed Oscillators

Given the urgence of a new paradigm in wireless digital trasmission which should allow for higher bit rate, lower latency and tigher delay constaints, it has been proposed to investigate the fundamental building blocks that at the circuital/device level, will boost the change towards a more efficient network architecture, with high capacity, higher bandwidth and a more satisfactory end user experience. At the core of each transciever, there are inherently analog devices capable of providing the carrier signal, the oscillators. It is strongly believed that many limitations in today's communication protocols, could be relieved by permitting high carrier frequency radio transmission, and having some degree of reconfigurability. This led us to studying distributed oscillator architectures which work in the microwave range and possess wideband tuning capability. As microvave oscillators are essentially nonlinear devices, a full nonlinear analyis, synthesis, and optimization had to be considered for their implementation. Consequently, all the most used nonlinear numerical techniques in commercial EDA software had been reviewed. An application of all the aforementioned techniques has been shown, considering a systems of three coupled oscillator ("triple push" oscillator) in which the stability of the various oscillating modes has been studied. Provided that a certain phase distribution is maintained among the oscillating elements, this topology permits a rise in the output power of the third harmonic; nevertheless due to circuit simmetry, "unwanted" oscillating modes coexist with the intenteded one. Starting with the necessary background on distributed amplification and distributed oscillator theory, the design of a four stage reverse mode distributed voltage controlled oscillator (DVCO) using lumped elments has been presented. All the design steps have been reported and for the first time a method for an optimized design with reduced variations in the output power has been presented. Ongoing work is devoted to model a wideband DVCO and to implement a frequency divider.

Aplicación de las técnicas de suavizado en la variación negativa contingente (CNV)

El presente trabajo recoge de forma breve laproblemática de la estimación de la serial en series temporales de datos obtenidos en registros ERP. Se centra en aquellos componentes de frecuencia mis baja, como es el caso de la CNV: Sepropone la utilización alternativa de las técnicas de suavizado del Análisis Exploratorio de Datos (EDA), para mejorar la estimación obtenida, en comparación con la técnica del promediado simple de diferentes ensayos.