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CONTRASTING RESULTS OF POTENTIAL TSUNAMI HAZARDS IN MUISNE, CENTRAL COAST OF ECUADOR [PDF]

Science of Tsunami Hazards, 2017
After the 7.8 Mw Earthquake occurred in Ecuador on April 16 of 2016, the Ecuadorian Government declared the whole Island of Muisne into a risk hazard zone by a potential Tsunami impact and subsequent flooding.
Theofilos Toulkeridis, Humberto Parra1, Fernando Mato, Mario Cruz D’Howitt, Washington Sandova, Oswaldo Padilla Almeida, Willington Rentería, Fabián Rodríguez Espinosa, Rodolfo Salazar Martínez, Jessica Cueva Girón, Adriana Taipe Quispe, Lucía Bernaza Quiñonez   +11 more
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Diseño e Implementación de un Sistema Electrónico con Interface a PC para Automatizar una Máquina de Escribir Braille

Maskay, 2015
El presente artículo describe el diseño e implementación de un sistema electrónico que automatiza a una máquina de escribir Braille. Se compone de una interfaz gráfica programada mediante el entorno de desarrollo NetBeans con Java y el control de ...
Andrea Noboa, Diana Noboa, Edgar Tipán, Alexander Ibarra   +3 more
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EVALUATION OF SEISMIC AND TSUNAMI RESISTANCE OF POTENTIAL SHELTERS FOR VERTICAL EVACUATION IN CASE OF A TSUNAMI IMPACT IN MANTA AND SALINAS, CENTRAL COAST OF ECUADOR [PDF]

Science of Tsunami Hazards, 2021
The current study is a pioneer work of an improved technical risk assessment, where alternative solutions are proposed of how lives may be better saved during a potential tsunami impact in the coastal cities of Manta and Salinas in the central coast of ...
Theofilos Toulkeridis, Irma Narciza Barahona-Quelal, Edisson Oscar Pilco- Paguay, Diana Maribel Cacuango-Casco, Brayan Steven Guilcaso-Tipán, Wilson Paúl Sailema-Hurtado   +5 more
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Weaponizing Kinship: A Demographic Analysis of Bereavement in the Colombian Conflict

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The ongoing Colombian armed conflict has produced widespread homicides and enforced disappearances, as armed actors used violence to terrorize communities and consolidate power. Family bereavement—one of the most pervasive and enduring consequences of this violence—remains critically understudied from a quantitative perspective.
Enrique Acosta, Diego Alburez‐Gutierrez, Maria Gargiulo, Catalina Torres   +3 more
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A Global Analysis of Domestic Military Policies Governing Responses to Public Health Emergencies

World Medical &Health Policy, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Throughout the COVID‐19 pandemic, militaries mobilized at an unprecedented scale to support domestic response efforts. This was consistent with the growing trend of asset mobilization for military operations other than war during public health emergencies.
Kuang Yu Hu, Ciara M. Weets, Rory D. Wilson, Gunnar V. Ljungqvist, Rebecca Katz   +4 more
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Agrarian counterpoint

American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 171-182, May 2026.
Abstract In Colombia's northeastern borderlands, agrarian economies shape how disease risk and stigma are understood and managed. As shown in ethnographic fieldwork in and around the Catatumbo region, cutaneous leishmaniasis—a sandfly‐transmitted disease that produces chronic skin lesions—appears in two radically different guises across adjacent ...
Javier Lezaun, Lina Pinto‐García
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Mexicans in Exile: Patterns of Exile and the Surveillance of Mexican Returnees During the 1970s and 1980s

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT En esta investigación se propone explicar cómo fue el exilio de los mexicanos en los sexenios de Luis Echeverría Álvarez (1970–1976) y José López Portillo (1976–1982), cómo fueron los intentos de retornos y qué tensiones generaron. Se plantea que el exilio fue una experiencia de desactivación política favorable para el gobierno que dispuso de ...
Soledad Lastra
wiley   +1 more source

Desempeño de Algoritmos Gusano en la Navegación de una Plataforma Robótica Móvil

Maskay, 2013
El presente trabajo presenta la implementación de algoritmos de navegación denominados gusano 1 y gusano 2 sobre la plataforma robotica móvil de iRobot Create, los cuales se brindaron la capacidad de autonomía para navegar dentro de entornos desconocidos.
Luis Alvarez, Juan Figueroa, Rodolfo Gordillo, Luis Chacon   +3 more
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Implementación de un chatbot con NLP para recibir pedidos en una plataforma de delivery

Revista Tecnológica, 2022
El uso de chatbots cada vez es más recurrente en una variedad de negocios, debido a la escalabilidad al momento de atender clientes y generar procesos de compra automáticos.
Miguel Langarano Guerrero, Franklin Montaluisa Yugla, Milton Navas Moya   +2 more
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Unraveling the effects of wet and dry areas on carbon emissions in an intermittent Mediterranean stream

Limnology and Oceanography, Volume 71, Issue 3, March 2026.
Abstract Stream hydrological regimes are increasingly altered by water extraction, land‐use change, and climate change, leading to prolonged streambed desiccation in many regions. These alterations significantly impact biogeochemical processes within stream networks.
Alba Camacho‐Santamans, Biel Obrador, Camille Minaudo, Lídia Cañas, Yao Wang, Fernanda Mejía‐Peralta, João M. M. Bega, Jorge J. Montes‐Pérez, Daniel von Schiller   +8 more
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