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    Formulación matemática de algunos modelos físicos utilizados en la reconstrucción de un evento de tránsito y las consideraciones para su implementación

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    Los procedimientos analíticos empleados para inferir magnitudes físicas en los eventos de tránsito (modelos físicos), son siempre construcciones teóricas que permiten abordar el problema. Estos modelos pueden ser mejorados al considerar variables que antes fueron descartadas, teniendo especial cuidado en los límites de aplicabilidad para poder interpretar correctamente los resultados obtenidos.The analytic procedure used to infer physical cuantitires in traffic events (physical models), are theoretical basis that allows solving the problem. This models can be improved using previous discarded variables, taking special care of aplicatibility bounds in order to achieve best result interpretation

    On the heterochromatic number of hypergraphs associated to geometric graphs and to matroids

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    The heterochromatic number hc(H) of a non-empty hypergraph H is the smallest integer k such that for every colouring of the vertices of H with exactly k colours, there is a hyperedge of H all of whose vertices have different colours. We denote by nu(H) the number of vertices of H and by tau(H) the size of the smallest set containing at least two vertices of each hyperedge of H. For a complete geometric graph G with n > 2 vertices let H = H(G) be the hypergraph whose vertices are the edges of G and whose hyperedges are the edge sets of plane spanning trees of G. We prove that if G has at most one interior vertex, then hc(H) = nu(H) - tau(H) + 2. We also show that hc(H) = nu(H) - tau(H) + 2 whenever H is a hypergraph with vertex set and hyperedge set given by the ground set and the bases of a matroid, respectively

    Conservation status and updated census of Patella ferruginea (Gastropoda, Patellidae) in Ceuta: distribution patterns and new evidence of the effects of environmental parameters on population structure

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    The Strait of Gibraltar has important populations of the highly endangered patellid limpet Patella ferruginea. Between 2006 and 2010, an exhaustive census was carried out in Ceuta. The total coastline was divided into 17 sectors. The coast of each sector was examined by using 10 m transects. For the case of those sectors composed of breakwaters, jetties or islets, no transects were used, and instead, the total number of individuals was recorded. Each individual was measured to the nearest millimetre using a calliper. Moreover, the complete rocky shore length where the species could potentially be present was calculated, and an estimation of the total number of individuals that each sector could host was made. Results indicate that Ceuta could be home to around 44,000 individuals. The species found in Point Benzú, its westernmost limit of distribution on the North African coasts. The largest populations were recorded on the South Bay, with higher Mediterranean influence. Our results indicate that substrate roughness (topographic heterogeneity) and the area’s accessibility highly influence the abundance and population structure. Those populations located on high topographic heterogeneity substrates show higher recruitment rates and lower percentages of larger individuals, while medium to low rugosity surfaces presented the opposite pattern. Additionally, easily accessible areas (and frequented by humans) presented smaller average shell sizes. Implications of the results for conservation purposes are discussed

    Dengue severity in the elderly in Puerto Rico

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    Effect of defect accumulation on ion-beam damage morphology by electronic excitation in lithium niobate: A MonteCarlo approach

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    We present a MonteCarlo approach to the non-radiative exciton-decay model recently proposed to describe ion-beam damage in LiNbO3 produced in the electronic excitation regime. It takes into account the statistical (random) spatial distribution of ion impacts on the crystal surface. The MonteCarlo approach is necessary to simulate the evolution of the damage morphology with irradiation fluence from the single track regime to the overlapping track regime. A detailed comparison between the morphologies found for sub-threshold and above threshold irradiations is presented. Moreover, a good representation of the Avrami’s type kinetics for amorphization has been achieved and it is in fair accordance with experiment. For moderate fluences where homogeneous amorphous layers are generated, the new approach predicts that the amorphous and crystalline layers are separated by a diffuse (thick) boundary that includes a mixed amorphous-crystalline composition

    Understanding the apparent superiority of over-sampling through an analysis of local information for class-imbalanced data

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    Data plays a key role in the design of expert and intelligent systems and therefore, data preprocessing appears to be a critical step to produce high-quality data and build accurate machine learning models. Over the past decades, increasing attention has been paid towards the issue of class imbalance and this is now a research hotspot in a variety of fields. Although the resampling methods, either by under-sampling the majority class or by over-sampling the minority class, stand among the most powerful techniques to face this problem, their strengths and weaknesses have typically been discussed based only on the class imbalance ratio. However, several questions remain open and need further exploration. For instance, the subtle differences in performance between the over- and under-sampling algorithms are still under-comprehended, and we hypothesize that they could be better explained by analyzing the inner structure of the data sets. Consequently, this paper attempts to investigate and illustrate the effects of the resampling methods on the inner structure of a data set by exploiting local neighborhood information, identifying the sample types in both classes and analyzing their distribution in each resampled set. Experimental results indicate that the resampling methods that produce the highest proportion of safe samples and the lowest proportion of unsafe samples correspond to those with the highest overall performance. The significance of this paper lies in the fact that our findings may contribute to gain a better understanding of how these techniques perform on class-imbalanced data and why over-sampling has been reported to be usually more efficient than under-sampling. The outcomes in this study may have impact on both research and practice in the design of expert and intelligent systems since a priori knowledge about the internal structure of the imbalanced data sets could be incorporated to the learning algorithms

    Evidencias de aprendizaje del lenguaje gráfico arquitectónico bajo una modalidad de enseñanza a distancia

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    Uno de los ejes curriculares del plan de estudios de la licenciatura en Arquitectura de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana unidad Azcapotzalco (UAM-A) es el correspondiente al de Expresión Arquitectónica. Actualmente cuenta con 5 unidades de enseñanza aprendizaje (UEA) como apoyo al mejoramiento de capacidades en la expresión gráfica de ideas y conceptos arquitectónicos. Al inicio de la línea, en una etapa de aprendizaje, desarrollo de conocimientos y habilidades, el alumno debe experimentar el dibujo a mano alzada a través del empleo de diversos medios, sustratos y técnicas, continuando con el manejo de instrumentos de dibujo y posteriormente enfrentarse al uso de herramientas digitales que lo ayuden a profundizar en los conocimientos y habilidades adquiridas. Este trabajo refuerza la importancia del lenguaje gráfico arquitectónico, además de mostrar el proceso de transición hacia la enseñanza-aprendizaje mediada por tecnologías digitales en el marco del Programa Emergente de Enseñanza Remota (PEER), implementado por la UAM-A durante el trimestre 20-I. El PEER (2020) se ideó como un proyecto en apoyo a los estudiantes y profesores durante el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje a partir del empleo de recursos tecnológicos a distancia en respuesta a la emergencia sanitaria suscitada. A fin de evidenciar el aprendizaje adquirido a lo largo de la realización de cada una de las prácticas y ejercicios propuestos, se solicitó la realización de un ejercicio diagnóstico al iniciar el curso, mismo que tendrían que repetir después de 9 semanas, pero ahora aplicando los conocimientos y habilidades adquiridas a lo largo del curso

    Amorphization kinectics under swift heavy ion irradiation: a cumulative overlapping-track approach

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    A simple illustrative physical model is presented to describe the kinetics of damage and amorphization by swiftheavyions (SHI) in LiNbO3. The model considers that every ion impact generates initially a defective region (halo) and a full amorphous core whose relative size depends on the electronic stopping power. Below a given stopping power threshold only a halo is generated. For increasing fluences the amorphized area grows monotonically via overlapping of a fixed number N of halos. In spite of its simplicity the model, which provides analytical solutions, describes many relevant features of the kinetic behaviour. In particular, it predicts approximate Avrami curves with parameters depending on stopping power in qualitative accordance with experiment that turn into Poisson laws well above the threshold valu

    Síntesis y caracterización fisicoquímica de circonia promovida con ácido tungstofosfórico y ácido bórico utilizada como catalizador en la isomerización de n-pentano

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    En este trabajo se muestra la preparación, caracterización y evaluación de la actividad catalítica de materiales del tipo ZrO2 promovida con ácido tungstofosfórico y ácido bórico. El Zr(OH)4 se sintetizó por el método sol-gel utilizando como precursores al n-butóxido de circonio y 1-butanol, manteniendo un pH = 8 durante la síntesis. El Zr(OH)4 se impregnó con un 15% en pesodel agente ácido, calcinado a 600 ºC e impregnado  posteriormente con 0,5% en peso de platino. Se observó que los iones [PW12O40]3– y [BO3]3– permanecen fuertementeenlazados a la superficie de la ZrO2 inhibiendo el crecimiento de la partícula, retardando la sinterización del material y la aparición de la fase monoclínica.Además, con la incorporación de estos dopantes se incrementó la acidez total del material, específicamente la población de sitios ácidos fuertes, siendo este tipo de sitios los predominantes en las muestras acidificadas.La acidez desarrollada por los materiales fue la adecuada para lograr catalizar la reacción de isomerización de n-pentano con conversiones superiores al 20% y selectividades hacia el isopentano que fluctuaron alrededor del 90%
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