Pub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00-80
Itamar Harris, M. D. L. Á. O. D. Rosario, A. James, D. Bruneau
Phase change materials (PCM) are materials with the ability to store a large amount of energy (latent heat) during their change from solid to a liquid phase. This takes place at a certain melting temperature. Amid the global energy crisis, multiple applications of these materials have been studied at the theoretical, numerical and experimental approach, obtaining promising results in terms of an increase in the efficiency of these systems. However, the application of these materials is being studied since there are no rules or predictions of the feasibility of its application in diverse weather conditions. The tropical climate condition is one of the least studied in this context. In this work, a review of the main findings of recent studies conducted in tropical climate conditions is presented. Additionally, an analysis of the main challenges and opportunities of the application of PCM in the climate of Panama is performed. It was concluded that some applications in passive cooling and solar water heating systems might have the potential for their implementation. However, further studies are required to take into account other applications.
{"title":"Introduction to the Application of Phase Change Materials under Tropical Climate of Panama","authors":"Itamar Harris, M. D. L. Á. O. D. Rosario, A. James, D. Bruneau","doi":"10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00-80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00-80","url":null,"abstract":"Phase change materials (PCM) are materials with the ability to store a large amount of energy (latent heat) during their change from solid to a liquid phase. This takes place at a certain melting temperature. Amid the global energy crisis, multiple applications of these materials have been studied at the theoretical, numerical and experimental approach, obtaining promising results in terms of an increase in the efficiency of these systems. However, the application of these materials is being studied since there are no rules or predictions of the feasibility of its application in diverse weather conditions. The tropical climate condition is one of the least studied in this context. In this work, a review of the main findings of recent studies conducted in tropical climate conditions is presented. Additionally, an analysis of the main challenges and opportunities of the application of PCM in the climate of Panama is performed. It was concluded that some applications in passive cooling and solar water heating systems might have the potential for their implementation. However, further studies are required to take into account other applications.","PeriodicalId":388062,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference (IESTEC)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132032571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00-77
Yazmin Lisbeth Mack Vergara, V. John
Concrete production is the highest among building materials and will increase since we need it for housing and infrastructure. This material demands significant volumes of water for activities in its life cycle other than for concrete mixing. On the other hand, water resources are scarce; the annual local availability is limited, and the demand is growing. A case study is presented where water figures for concrete production activities from literature, were used to calculate the concrete water footprint from cradle to gate by applying a simplified life cycle approach. Then, using the results from the case study, a global concrete water footprint is estimated using annual concrete production figures. The global concrete water footprint was estimated in ~18 billion m3 (6.32-30.43 billion m3). Consequently, study of concrete water footprint is fundamental to establish actions to improve water efficiency.
{"title":"Global Concrete Water Footprint","authors":"Yazmin Lisbeth Mack Vergara, V. John","doi":"10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00-77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00-77","url":null,"abstract":"Concrete production is the highest among building materials and will increase since we need it for housing and infrastructure. This material demands significant volumes of water for activities in its life cycle other than for concrete mixing. On the other hand, water resources are scarce; the annual local availability is limited, and the demand is growing. A case study is presented where water figures for concrete production activities from literature, were used to calculate the concrete water footprint from cradle to gate by applying a simplified life cycle approach. Then, using the results from the case study, a global concrete water footprint is estimated using annual concrete production figures. The global concrete water footprint was estimated in ~18 billion m3 (6.32-30.43 billion m3). Consequently, study of concrete water footprint is fundamental to establish actions to improve water efficiency.","PeriodicalId":388062,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference (IESTEC)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132589334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00078
Favela Herrera Marie Karen Issamar, R. Roberto
The objective of this article is to identify trends in publications about new and emerging labor risks (NER) in the context of the evolution of the industry to analyze what is known so far of the subject, what has been investigated and which aspects remain unknown. Thematically is analyzed existing information on the evolution of occupational risks depending on the advancement of technology in manufacturing, considering keywords and the combination thereof, in Spanish and English during the period 2000-2019 in different sources of consultation such as magazines, articles, degree papers and conference proceedings. With this review it has been possible to identify a relationship between technological progress and a tendency to develop new and emerging labor risks in the industrial field; as a result, researchers from countries such as Spain, Germany, England, Canada and India have collaborated in their identification and have proposed different methods of measurement, which contribute to be frames of reference for future research. The effects that digitalization is having in the industry, are manifested through the so-called Industry 4.0, with technologies such as the Internet of Things, information in the cloud, Big Data, simulation, etc., and are revolutionizing the functioning of the industry, which in turn and given the organizational nature tends to change workplaces as well as the processes and practices of conventional work, creating traditional occupational hazards and other designated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (for its acronym in English OHSA) as new and emerging labor risks (NER).
{"title":"New and Emerging Occupational Risks (NER) in Industry 4.0: Literature Review","authors":"Favela Herrera Marie Karen Issamar, R. Roberto","doi":"10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00078","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this article is to identify trends in publications about new and emerging labor risks (NER) in the context of the evolution of the industry to analyze what is known so far of the subject, what has been investigated and which aspects remain unknown. Thematically is analyzed existing information on the evolution of occupational risks depending on the advancement of technology in manufacturing, considering keywords and the combination thereof, in Spanish and English during the period 2000-2019 in different sources of consultation such as magazines, articles, degree papers and conference proceedings. With this review it has been possible to identify a relationship between technological progress and a tendency to develop new and emerging labor risks in the industrial field; as a result, researchers from countries such as Spain, Germany, England, Canada and India have collaborated in their identification and have proposed different methods of measurement, which contribute to be frames of reference for future research. The effects that digitalization is having in the industry, are manifested through the so-called Industry 4.0, with technologies such as the Internet of Things, information in the cloud, Big Data, simulation, etc., and are revolutionizing the functioning of the industry, which in turn and given the organizational nature tends to change workplaces as well as the processes and practices of conventional work, creating traditional occupational hazards and other designated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (for its acronym in English OHSA) as new and emerging labor risks (NER).","PeriodicalId":388062,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference (IESTEC)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131756113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00019
R. Vergara, I. Arrocha, R. Herrera
The gram-negative bacteriumBurkholderia Glumaeis the causal agent of the disease called bacterial panicle blight,which causes grain rot, in our case rotting of rice, which is themain crop in Panama. It was first reported in our country in2005 causing losses greater than 40 %. This study focuses onthe comparison of various nonlinear mathematical models oftenused to describe the growth dynamics of these kinds of bacteriaand seeks to determine the best fit. The state parameters ofthese models will be optimized via the metaheuristic ParticleSwarm algorithm, which is an iterative method that seeks tooptimize a function, in order to select the mathematical modelthat allows modeling the growth of the bacteria and analysis ofits characteristics, such as replication patterns, among others.
{"title":"Selection of a Primary Model to Describe the Growth Curve of Burkholderia glumae","authors":"R. Vergara, I. Arrocha, R. Herrera","doi":"10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00019","url":null,"abstract":"The gram-negative bacteriumBurkholderia Glumaeis the causal agent of the disease called bacterial panicle blight,which causes grain rot, in our case rotting of rice, which is themain crop in Panama. It was first reported in our country in2005 causing losses greater than 40 %. This study focuses onthe comparison of various nonlinear mathematical models oftenused to describe the growth dynamics of these kinds of bacteriaand seeks to determine the best fit. The state parameters ofthese models will be optimized via the metaheuristic ParticleSwarm algorithm, which is an iterative method that seeks tooptimize a function, in order to select the mathematical modelthat allows modeling the growth of the bacteria and analysis ofits characteristics, such as replication patterns, among others.","PeriodicalId":388062,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference (IESTEC)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134283186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00127
Danny Murillo, M. Fernández
In this work, we present the results related to the analysis of 99 academic journals in Panama. The analysis is focused mainly of 37 scientific journals that are in digital format and online platforms. This analysis is quantitative and descriptive, which is of different bibliometric indicators that use extracted data from Googles Scholar such as, citations, number of publications and index in order to create a comparative table of local journals. The work also presents some information about the integration in databases of the magazines, basic elements such as ISSN, use of online platforms identifying the limited scope and visibility of the Panamanian magazines. A comparative analysis of local journals is made with university of Costa Rican magazines, showing how distant our university is in productivity and impact of the publications in constrat our Costa Rican colleague. The results are intended to be a diagnosis of the journals of our universities, as well as to identify the failures to work on improving the visibility, quality, scope, and impact of our journals at national and international level.
{"title":"Analysis of Bibliometric Indicators of Panama Magazines to Know Their Scope and Projection of Citations and Impact in the National Context","authors":"Danny Murillo, M. Fernández","doi":"10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00127","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we present the results related to the analysis of 99 academic journals in Panama. The analysis is focused mainly of 37 scientific journals that are in digital format and online platforms. This analysis is quantitative and descriptive, which is of different bibliometric indicators that use extracted data from Googles Scholar such as, citations, number of publications and index in order to create a comparative table of local journals. The work also presents some information about the integration in databases of the magazines, basic elements such as ISSN, use of online platforms identifying the limited scope and visibility of the Panamanian magazines. A comparative analysis of local journals is made with university of Costa Rican magazines, showing how distant our university is in productivity and impact of the publications in constrat our Costa Rican colleague. The results are intended to be a diagnosis of the journals of our universities, as well as to identify the failures to work on improving the visibility, quality, scope, and impact of our journals at national and international level.","PeriodicalId":388062,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference (IESTEC)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133016992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00014
L. Latorre-Vásquez, D. Mejía-España, Diana Melisa Chaves-Morillo, Leydy Viviana Córdoba-Solarte, D. Trejo-Escobar, Luis Valencia-Flórez
The potato as a basic food of the population, has a great diversity of varieties and genotypes, that in their great majority are little cultivated, as is the case of native potatoes. To potentiate the crop and contribute to the conservation of biodiversity, the morphological and nutritional characterization of tubers of 24 genotypes of potato was carried out. The Gower similarity coefficient was used for the analysis of mixed data (qualitative and quantitative variables). The hierarchical classification analysis made it possible to group the genotypes into four groups with similar characteristics. Group 1 was characterized by short dormancy times and percentages of dry matter less than 20 g/100g, rare forms of tubers, deep eyes and magnesium contents distinguished group 2, group 3 evidenced presence of secondary colorations in tuber flesh and calcium and zinc contents; finally, group 4 identified two genotypes with opposite characteristics. The knowledge of the morphology of the tuber and its nutritional properties contribute to promote the crop, its use and preservation.
{"title":"Morphological and Nutritional Characterization of Tubers of 24 Genotypes of Native Potato","authors":"L. Latorre-Vásquez, D. Mejía-España, Diana Melisa Chaves-Morillo, Leydy Viviana Córdoba-Solarte, D. Trejo-Escobar, Luis Valencia-Flórez","doi":"10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00014","url":null,"abstract":"The potato as a basic food of the population, has a great diversity of varieties and genotypes, that in their great majority are little cultivated, as is the case of native potatoes. To potentiate the crop and contribute to the conservation of biodiversity, the morphological and nutritional characterization of tubers of 24 genotypes of potato was carried out. The Gower similarity coefficient was used for the analysis of mixed data (qualitative and quantitative variables). The hierarchical classification analysis made it possible to group the genotypes into four groups with similar characteristics. Group 1 was characterized by short dormancy times and percentages of dry matter less than 20 g/100g, rare forms of tubers, deep eyes and magnesium contents distinguished group 2, group 3 evidenced presence of secondary colorations in tuber flesh and calcium and zinc contents; finally, group 4 identified two genotypes with opposite characteristics. The knowledge of the morphology of the tuber and its nutritional properties contribute to promote the crop, its use and preservation.","PeriodicalId":388062,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference (IESTEC)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132331623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00-66
Norma L. Miller, J. Sánchez-Galán, B. Fernández
This paper reports the use of an intelligent tutoring system (STI) at the Technological University of Panama by students applying to the university during 2018. All participating students had the opportunity to interact via Internet with a mathematics focused STI, to assess the level of their mathematical knowledge and receive personalized tutoring to improve it. This article describes the usage of the STI by a cohort of aspiring students, as well as the most relevant aspects revealed by their interaction with the learning platform. Results suggest that use of the STI may reduce some of the initial differences found within the cohort, and that this effect is strongly correlated with the time spent in the platform, but not with the level of initial knowledge. The significance of this work is twofold: fist, it introduces the use of an STI as a complementary learning tool for second and third level education in Panama, whilst shedding light on the low math levels of students aspiring to enter the university.
{"title":"Use of an Intelligent Tutoring System for Mathematics by Students Who Aspire to Enter the Technological University of Panama","authors":"Norma L. Miller, J. Sánchez-Galán, B. Fernández","doi":"10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00-66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00-66","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports the use of an intelligent tutoring system (STI) at the Technological University of Panama by students applying to the university during 2018. All participating students had the opportunity to interact via Internet with a mathematics focused STI, to assess the level of their mathematical knowledge and receive personalized tutoring to improve it. This article describes the usage of the STI by a cohort of aspiring students, as well as the most relevant aspects revealed by their interaction with the learning platform. Results suggest that use of the STI may reduce some of the initial differences found within the cohort, and that this effect is strongly correlated with the time spent in the platform, but not with the level of initial knowledge. The significance of this work is twofold: fist, it introduces the use of an STI as a complementary learning tool for second and third level education in Panama, whilst shedding light on the low math levels of students aspiring to enter the university.","PeriodicalId":388062,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference (IESTEC)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122072176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00-78
M. C. Austin, D. Bruneau, A. Sempey, L. Mora
An experimental study in a naturally ventilated building was conducted in August 2016. It aimed to highlight the energy charge and discharge of a concrete-slab floor submitted to the day-night-cycles heat exchanges in the southwestern part of France and to identify the heat transfer phenomena that take place in both processes (charge and discharge). To highlight the energy charge and discharge processes, heat flux, temperature, and airspeed measurement techniques were implemented. Measurement zones were distributed all over the concrete-floor surface. To identify the heat transfer phenomena that take part in the charge and discharge process, some important dimensionless numbers were used, along with correlation analysis. Experimental data showed that during the charge period, on the floor surface, radiative heat exchanges were significantly higher compared to convection. The contrary was found during the discharge period. After correlation analysis with dimensionless numbers, results showed that forced and natural convection coexist during the discharge period, where more accurate correlations with the Peclet number than with the Rayleigh number were found. This may suggest that forced convection is stronger than natural convection. Yet, airspeed levels encountered suggest that it is natural convection that should take place rather than forced convection.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00107
José Rolando Serracín P., Héctor Montes Franceschi, Iveth Moreno, R. Caballero
This article presents the processes performed to obtain a medical image in three dimensions (3D), reconstructed from a stack of 2D medical images, acquired through a computerized axial tomography (CAT). Additionally, it is described the integration of a haptic tool within the developed system for the interaction and manipulation of the 3D virtual solid, generated in the application developed in this work, by a user who operates this tool (Phantom Omni).
{"title":"Computer Application for 3D Reconstruction from Medical Images and Integration of a Haptic Tool","authors":"José Rolando Serracín P., Héctor Montes Franceschi, Iveth Moreno, R. Caballero","doi":"10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00107","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the processes performed to obtain a medical image in three dimensions (3D), reconstructed from a stack of 2D medical images, acquired through a computerized axial tomography (CAT). Additionally, it is described the integration of a haptic tool within the developed system for the interaction and manipulation of the 3D virtual solid, generated in the application developed in this work, by a user who operates this tool (Phantom Omni).","PeriodicalId":388062,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference (IESTEC)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123576381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00113
Yen-Air Caballero-González, L. Muñoz, A. G. Muñoz-Repiso
This document presents some results obtained in the development of the pilot experience "My first steps in robotics". The activity is part of a doctoral research aimed at promoting programming skills and computational thinking through robotics in the early stages of school. In the formative experience participated teachers and students of pre-school education from a school in Salamanca, Spain, during the academic year 2016-2017. The proposed activities were based on solving problems through programming challenges with the Bee-Bot® robot. In order to collect data, questionnaires, rubrics, field diaries and interviews were used. The results show teachers and students favorably accepted the robotics resource used and the learning activities. In the same way, the performance achieved by the students marked a favorable level according to the evaluation scale used. Therefore, the development of the pilot experience was effective and useful in strengthening the research activities that were subsequently carried out.
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