{"title":"Caracterización de suspensiones de nanopartículas de oro en presencia del copolímero poli (N-isopropilacrilamida)-co-poli (3-acrilamidopropil trimetilamonio): Influencia de la fuerza iónica y la temperatura.","authors":"David Herrera Robalino","doi":"10.18272/aci.v13i2.2338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v13i2.2338","url":null,"abstract":"El recubrimiento de nanopartículas metálicas con un polímero es de interés para dotar de estabilidad a las suspensiones de dichas nanopartículas. Por otro lado, existen polímeros termosensibles que responden de acuerdo a las temperaturas a las que sean expuestos. Este estudio tuvo como objetivo evaluar y caracterizar el sistema conformado por nanopartículas de oro y una versión del copolímero termosensible PNIPAAM-PAMPTMA (+) 48/6. Para esto se utilizó técnicas de dispersión dinámica de la luz, potencial zeta y espectroscopía visible ultravioleta. El PNIPAAM-PAMPTMA (+) 48/6 fue sometido a ensayos a distintas temperaturas en las cuales se confirmó que la temperatura crítica inferior de disolución del copolímero es de aproximadamente 35 oC y que en presencia de un medio salino tiende a agregar independientemente de la temperatura. Por otra parte, el copolímero se mezcló con nanoparticulas de oro para estudiar su comportamiento a fuerzas iónicas entre 0 M y 0,75 M. \u0000Se encontró que, al variar la fuerza iónica en el rango mencionado, el recubrimiento de las nanopartículas de oro por parte del polímero es efectivo puesto que no se observó agregación de las mismas. Esto fue corroborado por el espectro UV-visible en donde, los espectros del sistema (o nanocomposite) copolímero-nanopartícula a fuerzas iónicas de 0 M y 0,75 M son prácticamente iguales al espectro cuando las nanopartículas de oro no han agregado, es decir, el pico del plasmón aparece en todos los casos a la misma longitud de onda aproximada de 530 nm. Finalmente, se estudió la evolución del sistema copolímero-nanopartícula a distintas temperaturas y a fuerzas iónicas de 0 M y 0,75 M. Se detectó que tanto la influencia de la temperatura como de la fuerza iónica provocan que el sistema copolímero-nanopartícula aumente su tamaño. Sin embargo, las nanopartículas de oro en su interior permanecen sin agregarse.","PeriodicalId":42541,"journal":{"name":"Avances en Ciencias e Ingenieria","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80901648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relación cuantitativa estructura actividad del factor de bioconcentración de los bifenilos policlorados en especies de peces utilizando métodos basados en aprendizaje de máquina","authors":"J. Mora","doi":"10.18272/aci.v13i2.2275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v13i2.2275","url":null,"abstract":"Los bifenilos policlorados (PCBs) son contaminantes persistentes que afectan enormemente a los ecosistemas marinos. Utilizando técnicas de aprendizaje de máquina, se construyeron modelos de relación cuantitativa estructura-actividad (RCEA) para predecir el factor de bioconcentración (BCF) de los PCBs. Estos modelos se construyeron a partir de descriptores topográficos 2D y 3D calculados para la estructura molecular optimizada en el nivel de mecánica molecular. Después de analizar sus parámetros estadísticos, se determinó que dos modelos son bastante robustos para la predicción de logBCF. Los modelos seleccionados fueron: M_4_LR construido con dos descriptores moleculares y presenta valores de r2 = 0,9154, Q2LOO = 0,8944, y Q2ext = 0,9119, y M_13 construido con cuatro descriptores moleculares y presenta valores de r2 = 0,9375, Q2LOO = 0,9155, y Q2ext = 0,844. Los dos modelos pasaron la doble fase de validación y cumplieron con los criterios de la prueba de Tropsha. Esto implica que las predicciones para el logBCF fueron bastante precisas tal como se muestra en los resultados del presente estudio.","PeriodicalId":42541,"journal":{"name":"Avances en Ciencias e Ingenieria","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76212035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A High Granularity Approach to NetworkPacket Processing for Latency-TolerantApplications with CUDA (Corvyd)","authors":"Maria Pantoja","doi":"10.18272/aci.v13i2.2142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v13i2.2142","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, practical network packet processing used for In-trusion Detection Systems/Intrusion Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) tendto belong to one of two disjoint categories: software-only implementa-tions running on general-purpose CPUs, or highly specialized networkhardware implementations using ASICs or FPGAs for the most commonfunctions, general-purpose CPUs for the rest. These approaches cover tryto maximize the performance and minimize the cost, but neither system,when implemented effectively, is affordable to any clients except for thoseat the well-funded enterprise level. In this paper, we aim to improve theperformance of affordable network packet processing in heterogeneoussystems with consumer Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) hardware byoptimizing latency-tolerant packet processing operations, notably IDS,to obtain maximum throughput required by such systems in networkssophisticated enough to demand a dedicated IDS/IPS system, but notenough to justify the high cost of cutting-edge specialized hardware. Inparticular, this project investigated increasing the granularity of OSIlayer-based packet batching over that of previous batching approaches.We demonstrate that highly granular GPU-enabled packet processing isgenerally impractical, compared with existing methods, by implementingour own solution that we call Corvyd, a heterogeneous real-time packetprocessing engine.","PeriodicalId":42541,"journal":{"name":"Avances en Ciencias e Ingenieria","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82059600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. F. García Sánchez, J. L. Chacon Velasco, Y. J. Rueda Ordoñez, David Alfredo Fuentes Díaz, J. R. Martínez Morales
{"title":"Study of Solid Biomass Combustion Modeling Using Openfoam","authors":"G. F. García Sánchez, J. L. Chacon Velasco, Y. J. Rueda Ordoñez, David Alfredo Fuentes Díaz, J. R. Martínez Morales","doi":"10.18272/aci.v13i2.2082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v13i2.2082","url":null,"abstract":"Biomass is an important renewable energy source that has great potential as a substitute for fossil fuels in the short and medium-term, which has led to the development of various methods for its energy conversion, of which combustion is the most widely used. This process has several environmental advantages compared to traditional energy sources, however, there is still a long way to go in terms of process efficiency and emission reduction. In this context, CFD computational models are a powerful tool that allows to study and improve the performance of combustion systems in a safe, fast and economical way, compared to experimental studies. OpenFoam is one of the most important CFD software currently available, however, there are few works that use it to simulate the combustion of solid biomass. In this work an application of the software in modeling of a biomass boiler fueled by grape marc is reported, this model allows predict important parameters like CO, H2O and velocity fields in a 2D domain.","PeriodicalId":42541,"journal":{"name":"Avances en Ciencias e Ingenieria","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81636387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hacktech COVID-19: Caso de estudio de un hackathon virtual en Latinoamérica","authors":"Ronny Cabrera, Carlos Calderón, Andrea Carrión","doi":"10.18272/aci.v13i4.2370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v13i4.2370","url":null,"abstract":"Este caso de estudio presenta la iniciativa Hacktech COVID-19, un proyecto que tuvo como objetivo desarrollar un hackathon en línea que permita generar soluciones de base tecnológica que contribuyan a solucionar la crisis sanitaria, social y económica provocada por el COVID-19. Para el evento se realizó un llamado a emprendedores e innovadores de Latinoamérica y el mundo para que presenten soluciones en las temáticas planteadas. Mediante la asignación de mentores se brindó asesoría para que cada equipo mejore sus propuestas. Los autores utilizaron el Health Hackathon Handbook como modelo para organizar el evento, y se adaptó para generar una metodología completamente virtual. Entre los resultados más importantes de esta iniciativa, se logró la participación de 1.021 personas de 25 países, el evento contó con la participación de 239 mentores de 23 países. Al final del hackathon se presentaron 156 proyectos, de los cuales el 78% abordó soluciones para la salud, el 9% soluciones para proteger la comunidad y el 13% soluciones para proteger el empleo. Un jurado seleccionó 3 proyectos ganadores quienes recibieron una subvención económica para la elaboración del prototipo de su idea de negocio, además se seleccionaron 15 proyectos para que reciban asesoramiento en la obtención de fondos en diferentes fuentes de financiamiento.","PeriodicalId":42541,"journal":{"name":"Avances en Ciencias e Ingenieria","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90069854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Actualización de la distribución geográfica de la serpiente índigo Drymarchon corais (Boie, 1827) en la Amazonía Ecuatoriana","authors":"Manuel R. Dueñas","doi":"10.18272/aci.v13i2.2170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v13i2.2170","url":null,"abstract":"Presentamos la actualización de la distribución geográfica de la serpiente índigo Drymarchon corais en la Amazonía ecuatoriana. Los datos presentados fueron obtenidos de la revisión de registros históricos, colección de especímenes en campo, revisión de especímenes en colecciones zoológicas, información de investigadores de campo y revisión de bases de datos de libre acceso. Nuestro estudio evidencia la presencia de la especie en localidades y en rangos altitudinales que anteriormente eran desconocidos. Además, presentamos datos de historia natural que permiten ampliar el conocimiento de la ecología de especie.","PeriodicalId":42541,"journal":{"name":"Avances en Ciencias e Ingenieria","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85397016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana Lucia Caicedo Laurido, Ángel G. Muñoz Solórsano, X. Chourio, Cristian Andrés Tobar Mosquera, Sadid Latandret
{"title":"Seasonal-To-Interannual Variability of Sea-Surface Temperatures in The Inter-Americas Seas: Pattern-Dependent Biases in The Regional Ocean Modeling System","authors":"Ana Lucia Caicedo Laurido, Ángel G. Muñoz Solórsano, X. Chourio, Cristian Andrés Tobar Mosquera, Sadid Latandret","doi":"10.18272/aci.v13i2.2046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v13i2.2046","url":null,"abstract":"The Inter-Americas Seas (IAS), involving the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and a section of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean bordering Central America, Colombia and Ecuador, exhibits very active ocean-land-atmosphere interactions that impact socio-economic activities within and beyond the region, and that are still not well understood or represented in state-of-the-art models. On seasonal-to-interannual timescales, the main source of variability of this geographical area is related to interactions between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, involving to anomalous sea-surface temperature (SST) patterns like El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and regional features in the Caribbean linked to the bi-modal seasonality of the Caribbean Low-Level Jet. This study investigates seasonal-to-interannual IAS surface-temperature anomalies in observations, and their representation in am eddy-permitting, 1/9o-resolution simulation using the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS), interannually-forced by the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis. Here, rather than analyzing model biases locally (i.e., gridbox-by-gridbox), a non-local SST pattern-based diagnostic was conducted via a principal component analysis. The approach allowed to identify magnitude, variance and spatial systematic errors in SST patterns related to the Western Hemisphere Warm Pool, ENSO, the Inter-American Seas Dipole, and several other variability modes. These biases are mainly related to errors in surface heat fluxes, misrepresentation of air-sea interactions impacting surface latent cooling in the Caribbean, and too strong sub-surface thermal stratification, mostly off the coast of Ecuador and northern Peru.","PeriodicalId":42541,"journal":{"name":"Avances en Ciencias e Ingenieria","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86833339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low Energy Consumption on Post-Moore Platforms for HPC Research","authors":"Pablo Josue Rojas Yepes","doi":"10.18272/aci.v13i2.2108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v13i2.2108","url":null,"abstract":"The increase in computational capacities has helped in the exploration, production and research process, this has allowed the use of applications that were infeasible years ago. This increase brings us a new Era (known as Post-Moore Era) and a wide range of promising devices, devices such as Single Board Computers (SBC) or Personal Computers (PC) that achieve performance that a decade ago was only found on a Server. This work presents high performance computing devices with low monetary cost and low energy cost that meet the needs for the development of research in Artificial Intelligent (AI) applications, in-situ data analysis and simulations that can be implemented on a large scale, these devices are compared in different tests, presenting advantages such as its performance per watt consumed, smart form, among others.","PeriodicalId":42541,"journal":{"name":"Avances en Ciencias e Ingenieria","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89358943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Roberto Silva, English-Or English, Español Español
{"title":"Mhpm Solution to Mhd Fluid Flow Through Porous Medium with an Exponentially Variable Permeability","authors":"Roberto Silva, English-Or English, Español Español","doi":"10.18272/aci.v13i2.2259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v13i2.2259","url":null,"abstract":"This article involves the study and analysis of the fully developed flow of a magnetorheological fluid through a non-isotropic porous medium under the effect of an external, uniform, and transversal magnetic field. Permeability is taken as an exponential distribution function of the transverse direction. The Darcy-Brinkman-Lapwood-Lorentz equation for the fluid flow in porous media has been used and solved under non-slip boundary conditions by Modified Homotopy Perturbation Method and the results validated by the Numerical Shooting Method. Finally, the analysis of results is made of the influence on the velocity, volumetric flow, and wall shear stress.","PeriodicalId":42541,"journal":{"name":"Avances en Ciencias e Ingenieria","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83143869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluación de marcadores microsatélites (SSRs) heterólogos en Rubus niveus para estudios de diversidad genética en las Islas Galápagos","authors":"Pablo Alarcón Bolaños","doi":"10.18272/aci.v13i2.2293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v13i2.2293","url":null,"abstract":"Rubus niveus o mora es una especie originaria de Asia. Esta planta se ha dispersado por varios continentes por sus usos antropogénicos y sus características biológicas. La alta adaptabilidad que presenta le ha permitido establecerse en nuevos ambientes y volverse invasora, como es el caso de las Islas Galápagos, Ecuador. Desde su llegada a estas islas, la mora ha ido desplazando plantas nativas, y hasta el momento ninguno de los métodos de control utilizados ha resultado efectivo. Estudiar la diversidad genética de esta planta usando marcadores moleculares podría servir para explicar el éxito de su invasión y para desarrollar medidas de control efectivas. Por lo expuesto, en el presente estudio se evaluó la viabilidad de marcadores microsatélites heterólogos para el análisis de la diversidad genética de esta especie en las Islas Galápagos. Para ello se colectaron y analizaron 68 muestras de diferentes localidades de las islas Santa Cruz, San Cristóbal, Isabela y Floreana, y 10 muestras del Ecuador continental. Se escogieron 15 marcadores microsatélites y todos amplificaron exitosamente, demostrando transferibilidad de una especie a otra. Los 15 loci resultaron monomórficos para las muestras amplificadas de las Islas Galápagos y Ecuador continental. Estos resultados no permitieron determinar la diversidad genética de la mora en las muestras estudiadas. Nuestro estudio con microsatélites y otros similares en especies del género Rubus, encontraron loci monomórficos. Por lo tanto, sugerimos llevar a cabo el secuenciamiento del genoma de la mora y así utilizar otros marcadores moleculares como los polimorfismos de un solo nucleótido para dilucidar el nivel de diversidad de esta especie. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":42541,"journal":{"name":"Avances en Ciencias e Ingenieria","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87898457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}