CERTEC, Dept. Chemical Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ETSEIB, Diagonal 647. 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Facultad de Ingeniería, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ) Calle 18, 118-250, Cali, Colombia Aquatic systems research unit, Environmental Science Center EULA-Chile, University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile Dep. of Chemistry, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colomb...

BACKGROUND A recent report has shown that the phylogenetic origin of Helicobacter pylori based on multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) was significantly associated with the severity of gastritis in Colombia. However, the potential relationship between phylogenetic origin and clinical outcomes was not examined in that study. If the phylogenetic origin rather than virulence factors were truly assoc...

BACKGROUND Approximately 5% of all breast cancers can be attributed to a mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene. The genetic component of breast cancer in Colombia has been, for the most part, studied on cases from the Bogota region. Five different founder mutations were in two studies of breast cancer patients in the Bogota region. It is important that the frequency of mutations be established am...

Over the last five years, comprehensive national surveys of the cost of post-abortion care (PAC) to national health systems have been undertaken in Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda and Colombia using a specially developed costing methodology-the Post-abortion Care Costing Methodology (PACCM). The objective of this study is to expand the research findings of these four studies, making use of their exten...

Conservation of large predator species has historically been a challenge because they often overlap in resource utilization with humans; furthermore, there is a general lack of in-depth knowledge of their ecology and natural history. We assessed the conservation status of the Orinoco crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius), defining regional habitat priorities/crocodile conservation units (RHP/CCU) ...

In this paper, a hardware in the loop simulation (HIL) is presented. This application is purposed as the first step before a real implementation of a Generalized Predictive Control (GPC) on a micro-grid system located at the Military University Campus in Cajica, Colombia. The designed GPC, looks for keep the battery bank State of Charge (SOC) over the 70% and under the 90%, what ensures the bes...

(1) Department of Biological Sciences, 109 Cooke Hall, University at Buffalo (The State University of New York), Buffalo, NY 14260, USA. js15@buffalo.edu; hlasker@buffalo.edu phone: 716-645-2881; fax: 717-645-2975 (2) Departamento de Matematicas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. sanchez@buffalo.com phone 011-571-2692265; fax 011-571-2697853 (3) Department of Geography, Univer...

Journal of Earthquake Engineering Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t741771161 Estimation of Probabilistic Seismic Losses and the Public Economic Resilience—An Approach for a Macroeconomic Impact Evaluation Omar D. Cardona a; Mario G. Ordaz b; Mabel C. Marulanda c; Alex H. Barbat c a Instituto de ...

FRANKLYN CALA-RIQUELME1, MIGUEL A. GUTIÉRREZ-ESTRADA2 & EDUARDO FLÓREZ DAZA3 1Centro Oriental de Ecosistemas y Biodiversidad (BIOECO), Museo de Historia Natural “Tomas Romay”, Enramada No. 601 esq Barnada, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. CP: 90100. E-mail: franklyncalariquelme@gmail.com 2Ecología y Biodiversidad en Ecosistemas Tropicales (EBET), Facultad Ciencias Básicas, Universidad de la Guajira, La ...

1 Departamento de Farmacia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, A.A. 14490, Bogotá, D.C, Colombia. 571-3165000 ext. 14662 2 Instituto Universitario de Bio-Orgánca “Antonio González”, Universidad de La Laguna, Avda. Astrofísico. Francisco Sánchez 2, La Laguna, 38206, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, España 3 Instituto de Química y Fisicoquímica Biológicas, Facultad de Farmacia y Bio...