December 2022

Executive Summary: The discovery of carbon nanotubes, graphene and other allotropes of carbon have given rise to a new era of condensed matter physics of real life low dimensional systems that were once thought to be only in the imagination. Many old theoretical treatments and ideas on these exotic materials have come to life in experiments[1-5] […]

Executive Summary: The conservation of Ecuador's biological diversity is fundamental for national sustainable development but can only be guaranteed to the extent that the breadth and multiplicity of interrelationships between species and the environment are known, as well as the impact that human activities cause to the environment and habitats. He

Executive Summary: The determining factors of global changes are: the decline of biodiversity, changes in atmospheric composition, changes in land cover and changes in climate. Of these factors, the last two are the most important in Andean basins, since they can trigger hydroclimatic extremes and cause

Executive Summary: The Spatial Data Infrastructure of the University of Cuenca is a project that has been maturing since 2008 and that has allowed many other functionalities to be explored around it. Thus, as a result of several investigations, they have achieved products such as the IDE Red CEDIA , the GT-IDE, LaVCiTE, OntoRisk, among others, where the

Executive Summary: Chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a global public health problem. NCDs, including obesity, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, cancer, share characteristics in relation to changes in the intestinal microbiota associated with an increase in the permeability of the intestinal epithelium. Within this context, short chain fatty acids (SCFAs)

Executive Summary: Long-term goal In the long term, it is planned to have: (1) A consolidated research group in modeling and simulation, (2) Supported by high-performance computing tools, (3) that serve as a basis to generate educational processes and dissemination of knowledge in the line of granular micro-mechanics with a view to generating capacity

Executive Summary: The changes in coverage and the increase in land use, in addition to the degradation of ecosystems, have promoted the National System of Protected Areas (SNAP), to increase the care and conservation of endemic or biodiversity areas through the use of monitoring tools. One of the main tools used to

Executive Summary: Technological development and industrialization have brought with them secondary effects that little by little have been damaging the atmosphere, whose importance is vital for the survival of all living beings and climate balance. Countless reports from both governmental and non-governmental organizations, at different levels, have highlighted the need to develop

Executive Summary: The development of simple and reliable biosensors for enzyme immobilization is essential and represents one of the emerging areas in nanotechnology. The detection of biomolecules is of enormous interest in areas of health, environment and food, in this sense there is a growing interest in the use of nanomaterials for this purpose, and

Executive Summary: This project contributes to the long-term goal of obtaining continuous data on the use of road infrastructure and public space. Municipalities carry out automated vehicle counts on avenues, but pedestrians and cyclists are not recorded. Open data approaches are also not used, so the information collected is not accessible