The microenvironment of solid human tumors is characterized by heterogeneity in oxygenation and by proliferation of a network of blood vessels that provides oxygen and nutrients and removes waste products. The capability of a tumor to metastasize is linked to…
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In recent years, an increased interest in the Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy technique has been observed. As in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), there is a tendency in EPR to go to higher microwave frequencies (95 GHz and higher) to…
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VIRGO is a recycled Michelson interferometer where each arm is replacedby a 3 km long Fabry-Perot cavity. It is designed to detect gravitational waves emitted by astrophysical sources. Mirrors are suspended in vacuumby high performance suspensions, so that detection is…
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This thesis defines a novel semantic for multicast in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) and it defines a middleware, the Localized Vehicular Multicast Middleware (LVMM) that enables minimum cost, source-based multicast communications in VANETs. The middleware provides support to find…
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Patents are now an integral part of global economy. The creation of the world trade system has also redefined the value of intellectual property protection and generated an unprecedented demand for patent protection that is no longer limitedto the traditionally…
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This thesis investigates two new research problems that arise in modern data mining: reasoning on data mining results, and privacy implication of data mining results. Most of the data mining algorithms rely on inductive techniques, trying to infer information that…
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LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, and its technology-demonstrating precursor LISA Pathfinder, form an ESA/NASA collaborative project, selected as an ESA Cornerstone and included in NASAs Beyond Einstein initiative.The primary objective of the LISA mission is to detect and observe…
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The GIS revolution and the increasing availability of GIS databases emphasize theneed to better understand the typically large amounts of spatial data. Clustering isa fundamental task in Spatial Data Mining and many contributions from researchersin the field of Knowledge Discovery…
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LISA Pathfinder is intended to demonstrate the key technologies for LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna for gravitational waves detection. At the heart of the LISA Pathfinder (LPF) mission lies the high-precision inertial sensor package, the so-called LTP (LISA Technology…
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Many experimental time series exhibit a stochastic behavior that can be represented by a two-state process. Examples include the gating currents of single ionic channels and the intermittent fluorescence of blinking nano-crystals. The interesting property of these processes is that…
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