CEPRA XII 2018

Executive Summary: Challenge that needs to be addressed: Bacterial diseases have emerged as a serious problem and represent the most important challenge facing the shrimp industry. Although various options have been developed to replace antimicrobials, such as vaccines, plant extracts, among others, these do not meet all safety, health and safety requirements […]

Executive Summary: Plastic pollution is omnipresent and has become an eminent threat to all natural environments and alarmingly the Oceans. Every day new publications appear reporting this problem worldwide, which not only represents a threat to marine life and the ecosystem (Cressey, 2016); but

Executive Summary: Melanogenesis disorders, hyper-pigmentation, age spots, as well as some forms of skin cancer are associated with the overproduction of melanin in the basal layers of the skin. The production of melanin is catalyzed in the first steps of the biochemical pathway by the enzyme tyrosinase (EC.1.14.18.1),

Executive Summary: Climate teleconnections show remote, large-scale relationships between distant points on Earth. They are known to produce anomalies and variability in the precipitation of a region. Their study is related to the ability to anticipate flood and drought events, which have impacts on agricultural activities and risk management.

Executive Summary: Background and justification. The consumption of alcohol and other drugs continues to constitute one of the main public health problems due to its consequences for the consumer and their environment, including health problems, domestic violence and loss of productivity in Ecuador. However, prevention programs and/or public action policies

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)