m, s eta k opioide-hartzaileen deskribapena, kokapena eta funtzionaltasuna hozi-zelula maskulinoetan

258 p.

Building up a frequency stabilisation based on a wavemeter for a diode laser and characterisation for a digital mirror device for artificial potentials

It has built and characterised a laser and It has learned what each of the components does. It has been able to run the laser in single-mode and stabilised it around a desired setpoint thanks to a PID controller that It has programmed. It has established a communication between the PID controller programmed in LabVIEW and Arduino Due, the DAC that It has chosen after comparing it with another candidate. It has learned some basics of how the LightCrafter 4500 DMD works. The projected light is the composition of the lights of three LED’s, each of which has a certain on-time. The mirrors chose to be in on- or off-stages depending to the amount of intensity that we want for each colour.

Dependencia térmica del disponible metabólico para la actividad en bivalvos aclimatados a distintas temperaturas

[es]Para la realización del presente estudio, se utilizaron 50 ejemplares de Ruditapes Decussatus o almeja fina y otros 50 de Ruditapes Philippinarum o almeja japonesa, recogidas y seleccionadas por mariscadores profesionales de la Bahía de Santoña (Cantabria). La temperatura influye en las tasas fisiológicas, llegando a generar finalmente alteraciones en el metabolismo del organismo. Por ello, una variable de interés para el estudio se trata de la tasa metabólica, la cual puede ser estimada a través de la medición de la tasa de consumo de oxígeno (VO2). El objetivo final de este estudio es, por tanto, observar el efecto cinético de la temperatura y la aclimatación sobre el metabolismo de ambas especies de almejas, distribuidas en cuatro grupos de estudio (almeja fina y japonesa aclimatadas a 12oC y 22oC), midiendo la VO2 a diferentes temperaturas de exposición (7oC, 12oC, 17oC, 22oC y 27oC). Utilizando el la respirometría como medio para calcular la VO2 y el cálculo de la Q10 para determinar las tasas metabólicas. Los resultados ponen de manifiesto que en tres de los cuatro casos no se observaron diferencias significativas entre el metabolismo rutina y el metabolismo estándar. También se comprobó positivamente el efecto cinético de la temperatura sobre la VO2; así como la presencia de un intervalo de temperaturas, en las que se realiza compensación, más amplio para almeja japonesa que para almeja fina.

Double proximity effect in lateral S-NF-S junctions

We investigate planar Josephson junctions where the intermediate spacer between the two superconductors is an hybrid structure made by a normal metal and a ferromagnet. The different behaviors of the S-N-S junctions with thicknesses of 50 nm in both Cu and Nb layers, and S-N/F-S junctions with 10 nm of Co, 50 nm of Cu and 50 nm of Nb are studied. In this way, we analyze the influence of the ferromagnetic exchange interaction on the proximity effect. A dramatic supression of the josephson critical current of the Nb-(Cu/Co)-Nb junctions is observed. We believe that the reason for this is due to the length scale of the superconducting correlations of the electrons and holes of the weak link is larger than the thickness of Cu/Co bilayer.

Fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy to study hemodynamics

[EN] In the recent years a series of optical correlation techniques have been developed in order to be able to measure flow velocity with high spatial resolution while being non-invasive in order to be employed in-vivo on biological organisms. The technique employed in my thesis work, scanning laser image correlation (SLIC), is a powerful approach for the detection of flow motions because it overcomes some limitations of the classical spectroscopy techniques. SLIC method consists in repeated laser scans over a linear pattern and on the cross correlation of the signal emitted by the excited fluorophores in different positions along the scan line. Therefore, the resulting measurements for flow velocity are really accurate.

Birgaitze energetikoak gizarte etxebizitzan. Portaera termikoaren analisia

472 p.

Grupos topológicos

The main goal of this work is to give the reader a basic introduction into the subject of topological groups, bringing together the areas of topology and group theory.

Energy retrofits in social housing. Analysis of its thermal behaviour.

468 p.

Inflazio kosmikoaren Fisika: Unibertsoaren egituraren jatorri kuantikoa

[ES] Analizamos el modelo de inflación cósmica más sencilla, y cómo este, a la vez que soluciona los problemas del modelo cosmológico estándar, es capaz de explicar el origen de la estructura a gran escala del universo.

Intercambio iónico en estado sólido de cobre sobre zeolitas

La creciente preocupación por reducir las emisiones de CO2, responsable entre otros del efecto invernadero, ha promovido el desarrollo de vehículos de bajo consumo de combustible, como son los vehículos ligeros, híbridos y vehículos con motores diésel. Los motores diésel tienen varias ventajas sobre los motores de gasolina: menor consumo de combustible (menor producción de CO2), mayor par motor y mayor durabilidad. Sin embargo, la efectividad de los catalizadores de estos vehículos a la hora de eliminar los NOx producidos durante la combustión es limitada, por lo que se buscan nuevas alternativas a los catalizadores clásicos, que puedan eliminar en mayor medida estos compuestos, como la tecnología SCR. Los catalizadores estudiados para esta tecnología son zeolitas intercambiadas con metales de transición, como son el Cu o el Fe, puesto que presentan una muy buena relación entre conversión de los NOx y estabilidad a altas temperaturas.

Memoria asociativa en redes tipo Hopfield balanceadas

[ES] Análisis computacional de un modelo (además de su fenomenología emergente) de red asociativa tipo Hopfield que se ha modificado para de cabida a evidencias biológicas como es la del balanceado entre las neuronas excitadoras e inhibidoras en la corteza cerebral.

Poblaciones urbanas de anfibios y reptiles de Bilbao: inventario y estudio del estado de salud de Podarcis muralis

Se realizó un inventariado de las poblaciones urbanas de reptiles y anfibios de la ciudad de Bilbao. Posteriormente, se eligió una especie adecuada ("Podarcis muralis") para analizar su estado de salud y compararlo con el de poblaciones no urbanas. El trabajo está escrito en castellano.

Spectroscopic study of galaxies in the Herschel Reference Sample

Galaxies are clusters of millions and billions of stars dynamically stable, with gas, dust and dark matter. They are the biggest isolated objects known in the Universe . Even though they are very complex systems, today we have a clear knowledge about their evolution and about their physical phenomena. Aside from the stellar component there is a gaseous component, principally neutral Hydrogen (HI), and dust that, although is not a significant component in terms of the mass, plays an important role on the absorption phenomena. Finally, cinematic and other kind of observations suggest the existence of a spheric dark matter halo, dominant in terms of mass and more extensive than the barionic component.

Surface plasmons and effects of losses in propagating modes in a chain of silver nanoparticles

In this work a chain of 4000 silver nanoparticles embedded in a glass medium is considered, and its leftmost particle is excited by an electric field pulse of Gaussian shape. Considering Drude’s model, losses of the system are taken into account by γ factor, which stands for the Ohmic losses, and different quantities, such as frequencies of excited modes and group velocities are calculated. Besides, these results are compared to those obtained from the dispersion relation of an infinite chain. The increase of losses affects the lifetime and propagation length of the plasmon; besides, although the response dispersion relation for an infinite chain seems to remain invariable, this is not the case for a finite chain. The mismatches are bigger for higher losses. Furthermore, plasmon propagation velocities are analysed, and an explanation for the mismatch of longitudinal modes close to the intersection point with the dispersion of light is suggested. Finally, some concepts to treat this problem from the energy transport point of view are introduced.

Fitting BICEP2 with defects, primordial gravitational waves and dust

In this work we discuss the possibility of cosmic defects being responsible for the B-mode signal measured by the BICEP2 collaboration. We also allow for the presence of other cosmological sources of B-modes such as inflationary gravitational waves and polarized dust foregrounds, which might contribute to or dominate the signal. On the one hand, we find that defects alone give a poor fit to the data points. On the other, we find that defects help to improve the fit at higher multipoles when they are considered alongside inflationary gravitational waves or polarized dust. Finally, we derive new defect constraints from models combining defects and dust. This proceeding is based on previous works [1, 2].