8 research outputs found
Industrial, Collaborative and Mobile Robotics in Latin America: Review of Mechatronic Technologies for Advanced Automation
Mechatronics and Robotics (MaR) have recently gained importance in product development and manufacturing settings and applications. Therefore, the Center for Space Emerging Technologies (C-SET) has managed an international multi-disciplinary study to present, historically, the first Latin American general review of industrial, collaborative, and mobile robotics, with the support of North American and European researchers and institutions. The methodology is developed by considering literature extracted from Scopus, Web of Science, and Aerospace Research Central and adding reports written by companies and government organizations. This describes the state-of-the-art of MaR until the year 2023 in the 3 Sub-Regions: North America, Central America, and South America, having achieved important results related to the academy, industry, government, and entrepreneurship; thus, the statistics shown in this manuscript are unique. Also, this article explores the potential for further work and advantages described by robotic companies such as ABB, KUKA, and Mecademic and the use of the Robot Operating System (ROS) in order to promote research, development, and innovation. In addition, the integration with industry 4.0 and digital manufacturing, architecture and construction, aerospace, smart agriculture, artificial intelligence, and computational social science (human-robot interaction) is analyzed to show the promising features of these growing tech areas, considering the improvements to increase production, manufacturing, and education in the Region. Finally, regarding the information presented, Latin America is considered an important location for investments to increase production and product development, taking into account the further proposal for the creation of the LATAM Consortium for Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics, which could support and work on roboethics and education/R+D+I law and regulations in the Region. Doi: 10.28991/ESJ-2023-07-04-025 Full Text: PD
Exactitud de un estetosiómetro endoscópico laringofaríngeo (LPEER) para evaluar la mecanosensibilidad laringofaríngea: un estudio de validación en una cohorte de pacientes reclutados prospectivamente
11 páginasRecent studies have shown an association
between alterations in laryngopharyngeal mechanosensitivity (LPMS) and dysphagia, obstructive sleep apnea, and
chronic cough hypersensitivity syndrome. A previous
reliability study of a new laryngopharyngeal endoscopic
esthesiometer and rangefinder (LPEER) showed high intraand inter-rater reliability; however, its accuracy has not
been tested. We performed an accuracy study of the
LPEER in a prospectively and consecutively recruited
cohort of 118 patients at two tertiary care university hospitals. Most of the patients were suffering from dysphagia,
and all of them underwent a standard clinical evaluation
and fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing with
sensory testing (FEESST) using a new sensory testing
protocol. The sensory test included determinations of the
laryngeal adductor reflex threshold (LART), the cough
reflex threshold (CRT) and the gag reflex threshold (GRT).
Abnormalities on these reflex thresholds were evaluated for
associations with major alterations in swallowing safety
(pharyngeal residues, penetration, and aspiration)
Stratification and multi-representative optimization approach to waste composition analysis
Contemporary threats to the development of sustainable urban tourism
City tourism is one of the most frequently chosen forms of tourism and consists of many motives. On the modern tourist market, there are many negative phenomena that significantly affect the functioning of urban tourist destinations but primarily have an impact on the decisions of potential tourists about choosing cities as a tourist destination. These phenomena pose a threat to the development of both cities and tourism. They are conditioned by endogenous factors, which result from the functioning of the city, and exogenous ones, i.e., those related to socio-economic relations of the city with the environment, including tourist traffic. Cities, as a destination or transit tourist destination, are characterized by high concentrations of tourist traffic; hence the negative phenomena often affect urban tourist space with great intensity. The aim of this study is to identify threats affecting the possibility of shaping sustainable tourism in urban destinations. In the following parts, theseissues will be presented: urban tourism, sustainable tourism, classification and characterization of threats related to the sustainable development of urban tourism, along with empirical illustration of selected phenomena, after presenting the concept of sustainable urban tourism development policy. The study is of a theoretical and conceptual nature, with elements of empirical research results. The following research methods will be used: critical analysis of the literature, methods of logical operations, case studies