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Aplicación de Control Borroso a un Sistema de Suspensión Magnética: Comparación Experimental

Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática Industrial RIAI, 2010
Resumen: Este trabajo presenta un esquema de control lógico borroso de regulación de posición aplicado a un sistema de suspensión o levitación magnética de una esfera metálica.
Javier Ollervides, Víctor Santibáñez, Miguel Llama, Alejandro Dzul   +3 more
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Articulating Sovereignties: Struggles for Subaltern Hegemony in Ecuador and Bolivia

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the cycles of articulation and disarticulation between working‐class and indigenous‐campesino movements in Ecuador and Bolivia. While the former advances national‐popular sovereignty, aiming to strengthen the state against imperialism, the latter defends community‐territorial sovereignty against internal colonialism ...
Diego Andreucci, Diana Vela‐Almeida, Geovanna Lasso, Marie Theresa Jasser   +3 more
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Bioethics knowledge in third year dentistry students

Revista Científica Estudiantil 2 de Diciembre, 2020
Introduction: Bioethics constitutes a new dimension of Ethics, as a generator of a new type of moral community, coherent and committed, which contributes to improving the odontologist-patient relationship.
Livan Hierrezuelo-Fuentes, Lianet Kamila Salinas Gimeno, José Orlando Ramírez Fleites, Robert Alejandro Rodriguez Fonseca, Elina Muñiz Manzano, Ligia Leiva Lima   +5 more
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Evaluating Youth Participatory Action Research in the Americas: Comparative Insights on Empowerment, Methodologies, and Social Change

Journal of Adolescence, Volume 98, Issue 3, Page 698-723, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) positions adolescents as co‐researchers to investigate and address social issues affecting their lives. While YPAR has gained global prominence, comparative research examining how it is conceptualized and practiced across regional contexts remains limited.
John Diaz, Paola Velasquez Quintero, Cody Gusto, Ivan Muñoz‐Echeverri, Camilo Norena Herrera, Laura Valencia   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Metaheuristic Algorithm Performance Through Structured Population and Evolutionary Game Theory

Mathematics
Diversity is crucial for metaheuristic algorithms. It prevents early convergence, balances exploration and exploitation, and helps to avoid local optima. Traditional metaheuristic algorithms tend to rely on a single strategy for generating new solutions,
Héctor Escobar-Cuevas, Erik Cuevas, Alberto Luque-Chang, Oscar Barba-Toscano, Marco Pérez-Cisneros   +4 more
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Institutionalised Indigeneity, State Formation and Crisis: Lessons From the Indio Institucionalizado in Evo Morales' Bolivia

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the institutionalisation of indigeneity in Bolivia under the governments of Evo Morales (2006–2019) as a central component of the MAS project of crafting state hegemony. We trace the emergence of what we call the indio institucionalizado from the social mobilisations of the 1990s and 2000s through the Constitutional ...
Aiko Ikemura Amaral, Angus McNelly
wiley   +1 more source

Forwarding forest restoration: Seven key socio‐ecological issues for advancing forest restoration in a world in flux

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 3, Page 569-581, March 2026.
Abstract Restoring forests can help conserve biodiversity, mitigate climate change and enhance human well‐being. Despite financial and political support for global forest restoration initiatives, projects continue to face persistent challenges and trade‐offs between environmental, climatic and socio‐economic goals.
Mariana Hernandez‐Montilla, Katie Devenish, Lucas Alencar, Rayna Benzeev, Pooja Choksi, Ida N. S. Djenontin, Matthew E. Fagan, Harry Fischer, Paola Isaacs Cubides, Thais Linhares Juvenal, Matilda Kabutey‐Ongor, Judith Kamoto, Andrew Kinzer, David Kroeker‐Maus, Stephanie Mansourian, Felipe Melo, Daniel C. Miller, Sandy Nofyanza, Adithya Pradeep, Florian Reiner, Warrangkana Rattanarat, Niken Sakuntaladewi, Conghe Song, Laura Vang Rasmussen, Johan A. Oldekop   +24 more
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Agent-Based Evacuation Modeling: Enhancing Building Safety in Emergency Scenarios

Smart Cities
Buildings and their supporting infrastructure are vulnerable to both natural and human-made disasters, which pose significant risks to the safety of the occupants.
Miguel Islas-Toski, Erik Cuevas, Marco Pérez-Cisneros, Héctor Escobar   +3 more
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A Cuckoo Search Algorithm for Multimodal Optimization

The Scientific World Journal, 2014
Interest in multimodal optimization is expanding rapidly, since many practical engineering problems demand the localization of multiple optima within a search space.
Erik Cuevas, Adolfo Reyna-Orta
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Between Deliberation and Interpretation: Social Movements’ Democratic Rationalities in Legal Discourse

Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 115-129, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Scholarship on democratization often reduces social movements’ legal engagement to deliberative rationality, obscuring how transformation operates through distinct yet complementary procedural logics. This article argues that movements democratize law through dual‐track engagement: Political deliberation universalizes moral demands via ...
Diego Alonso Ramírez Pérez
wiley   +1 more source