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The early retirement of newscasts women presenters in Colombia and Spain: The repudiation of female old age [El temprano retiro de las presentadoras de telediarios en Colombia y España: El repudio a la vejez femenina]
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2019)The actual television, as a mass communication based on public image, maintains a series of sexual stereotypes that are also transmitted in the newscasts. In the following research article, a cross-cultural gender study ... -
Experimental data on the production and characterization of biochars derived from coconut-shell wastes obtained from the Colombian Pacific Coast at low temperature pyrolysis
(Elsevier Inc., 2020)Biochars are emerging eco-friendly products showing outstanding properties in areas such as carbon sequestration, soil amendment, bioremediation, biocomposites, and bioenergy. These interesting materials can be synthesized ... -
Economic Dispatch of BESS and renewable generators in DC microgrids using voltage-dependent load models
(MDPI AG, 2019)This paper addresses the optimal dispatch problem for battery energy storage systems (BESSs) in direct current (DC) mode for an operational period of 24 h. The problem is represented by a nonlinear programming (NLP) model ... -
Influence of vehicular traffic on environmental noise spectrum in the tourist route of Santa Marta City
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)Transportation demands large amounts of fuel. In particular, road transport greatly contributes to both criteria air pollutants and noise within cities. The influence of vehicular traffic on the environmental noise spectrum ... -
Effect of a commercial air valve on the rapid filling of a single pipeline: A numerical and experimental analysis
(MDPI AG, 2019)The filling process in water pipelines produces pressure surges caused by the compression of air pockets. In this sense, air valves should be appropriately designed to expel sufficient air to avoid pipeline failure. Recent ... -
Renewable energy production and demand dataset for the energy system of Colombia
(Elsevier Inc., 2020)During the last decades, an increasing number of studies have focused their attention on the development of energy system models in order to facilitate sustainable energy planning strategies and understand the technical ... -
Analysis of the behavior of daily maximum rainfall within the department of Atlántico, Colombia
(MDPI AG, 2019)In the Colombian Caribbean region, there are few studies that evaluated the behavior of one of the most commonly used variables in hydrological analyses: the maximum daily rainfall (Pmax-24h). In this study, multiannual ... -
In silico drug repurposing for the identification of potential candidate molecules against arboviruses infection
(Elsevier B.V., 2020)Arboviral diseases caused by dengue (DENV), Zika (ZIKV) and chikungunya (CHIKV) viruses represent a major public health problem worldwide, especially in tropical areas where millions of infections occur every year. The aim ... -
Reverse innovation model: A proposal for the Colombian context [Modelo de innovación inversa: Una propuesta para el contexto Colombiano]
(Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions, 2019)The reverse innovation is the generation of products and services with high impact on the market and low cost for companies in the future, many innovations in the emerging market, often by companies with resources and ... -
An exact MINLP model for optimal location and sizing of DGs in distribution networks: A general algebraic modeling system approach
(Ain Shams University, 2019)This paper addresses the classical problem of optimal location and sizing of distributed generators (DGs) in radial distribution networks by presenting a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) model. To solve such ... -
Early characteristics and predictors of clinical severity in Autism Spectrum Disorder [Características tempranas y predictores de la severidad del cuadro clínico en el trastorno del espectro autista]
(Universidad CES, 2019)Significant efforts have been made to detect Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) during the first years of life, with positive effects on the prognosis of children. However, in countries such as Colombia early identification ... -
Features of dengue and chikungunya infections of colombian children under 24 months of age admitted to the emergency department
(Oxford University Press, 2018)We aimed to assess clinical and laboratory differences between dengue and chikungunya in children <24 months of age in a comparative study. We collected retrospective clinical and laboratory data confirmed by NS1/IgM for ... -
Design of a model of evaluation and measurement of organizational maturity in project management and application to companies of Colombian´s shipowners [Diseño de un modelo de evaluación y medición de la madurez organizacional en gestión de proyectos y aplicación a compañías de armadores de Colombia]
(Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions, 2019)The Project management organizational maturity models are considered a useful tool to evaluate the current capacity of organizations to manage and carry out successful projects, including its alignment with the organizational ... -
Analysis of the management of science, technology and innovation projects under the PMI principles [Análisis de la Gestión de proyectos de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación bajo los Principios del PMI]
(Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions, 2019)The Research, Development and Innovation projects have important challenges from the point of view of their management. In this article, an analysis of the management of this type of projects based on the principles of ... -
Project management Tools and Techniques (T&T) usage in building sector companies in Cartagena City, T.C.D..
(Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions, 2019)This research work was based on an analysis of project management tools and techniques usage and its practical application in the construction sector. It is a fact that projects currently have a high failure rate which was ... -
A proposal for an air quality monitoring system for Cartagena de Indias
(Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions, 2019)This paper presents an Air Quality Monitoring System for the city of Cartagena de Indias. The goal of this system is to monitor the air quality in the city and to establish the current state of the air Cartagena's citizen ... -
Robust automated reading of the skin prick test via 3D imaging and parametric surface fitting
(Public Library of Science, 2019)The conventional reading of the skin prick test (SPT) for diagnosing allergies is prone to inter- and intra-observer variations. Drawing the contours of the skin wheals from the SPT and scanning them for computer processing ... -
Estimation of soil resistivity by the assembly of a vertical electrical sounding equipment at a university campus at Turbaco, Bolivar
(Institute of Physics Publishing, 2019)A low-cost geoelectric equipment was implemented for academic purposes to carry out the Vertical Electrical Sounding method in order to determine the resistivity and depth of a point on the surface of a university zone and ... -
A Structure-from-Motion Pipeline for Generating Digital Elevation Models for Surface-Runoff Analysis
(Institute of Physics Publishing, 2019)Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are used to derive information from the morphology of a land. The topographic attributes obtained from the DEM data allow the construction of watershed delineation useful for predicting the ... -
Developing a Robust Acquisition System for Fringe Projection Profilometry
(Institute of Physics Publishing, 2019)Since Fringe Projection Profilometry (FPP) is an intensity-based coding strategy, it is prone to improper optical setup arrangement, surface texture and reflectance, uneven illumination distribution, among others. These ...
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