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This research proposed an artificial neural network model with dynamic training in order to predict both fluids outlet temperatures on a monoethanolamine heat exchangers system, doing the training, validation and testing with 31 680 data points gathered through the passive experimentation method. The 4-3-2 multilayer perceptron achieved correlations above 98.76 %, and it was corroborated that dynamic training strategy provided more accurate results than single training. Mean absolute errors of 0.419 and 0.372 K were obtained when applying the first approach (for rich amine and lean amine outlet temperatures as output variables, respectively), as compared to 2.214 and 1.181 K when implementing the second one. Since calculated deviations have no significant implication on the technological process under analysis, proposed model is considered appropriate for simulation of the studied heat exchangers performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Una preocupación que compartimos es que el aprendizaje de las matemáticas se vive de manera descontextualizada. Desde construir matemáticas nos desplazamos a contribuir a formar profesionales, constituyendo una matemática relevante. Este trabajo se realiza en la comunidad de ingenieros bioquímicos y tiene como objetivo estudiar la práctica espectrofotométrica: curva de calibración en la escuela y en un laboratorio de investigación desde un enfoque socioepistemológico. El análisis de las formas en que se ejerce la práctica espectrofotométrica se llevó a cabo considerando las dimensiones: procedimientos, intenciones, herramientas y argumentos de quienes la ejercen. Estas dimensiones se evidencian por las formas en que quien ejerce la práctica, articula el modelo con lo modelado, configurando un dipolo modélico. Vía la deconstrucción como acercamiento metodológico, se caracteriza la práctica para la elaboración de un diseño de aprendizaje. En la aplicación de este diseño se muestra el actuar de los estudiantes en la construcción de la curva de calibración, se muestran evidencias de cómo los estudiantes identifican primeramente la necesidad de ajustar linealmente los datos, articulando el modelo gráfico, logrando además diversas formas de predicción usando la regla de tres y el modelo algebraico. El estudiante descentró un dipolo constituido basado en procesos algorítmicos incorporando un nuevo dipolo basado en el análisis de los datos experimentales. Robusteció su forma de interpretar resultados en la práctica espectrofotométrica, reconstituyendo así su práctica.

La modelación matemática es la actividad que consiste en representar, manipular y comunicar objetos del mundo real con contenidos matemáticos y que permitan la simulación de procesos complejos, generen hipótesis y sugieran experimentos o métodos de validación. La modelación matemática se presenta como estrategia didáctica que permite simular e interpretar diferentes problemas y situaciones de la vida real o académica, poniendo en evidencia diferentes condiciones de aplicación de los contenidos de los cursos de matemática universitaria. Específicamente en Cálculo II, la estrategia busca solventar la necesidad de mostrar y manipular aplicaciones de los contenidos de integrales impropias, polinomios de Taylor, coordenadas polares y secciones cónicas en problemas con ejemplos concretos en las áreas de ciencias biológicas e ingeniería. Dicha implementación respondió a un paradigma que busca la innovación y la mejora continua del proceso enseñanza y aprendizaje, lo cual es pertinente debido a la existencia de una plataforma de incorporación de las TIC (Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación) en el curso de Cálculo II y que favoreció el uso de software especializado para la creación y manipulación de los modelos matemáticos.

N. El acuífero yucateco es altamente vulnerable a la contaminación, debido a las características del material geológico, del suelo y las condiciones de recarga; estas pueden modicarse por los cambios del clima. El objetivo de este trabajo fue evaluar la vulnerabilidad a la contaminación del acuífero bajo las variaciones de temperatura y precipitación derivadas del cambio climático. Se usaron los escenarios regionales de cambio climático para México en los horizontes cercano (2015-2039) y futuro (2075-2099), para calcular la evapotranspiración, la recarga y modelar la vulnerabilidad con el índice DRSTIL. Los parámetros del índice DRSTIL son profundidad del agua (D), recarga (R), suelo (S), topografía (T), impacto a la zona vadosa (I) y uso del suelo (L). Cada uno de los parámetros tiene una ponderación de 1 a 5 según su importancia. Los parámetros se dividen en clasicaciones de acuerdo al impacto de contaminación y tienen una puntuación de 1 a 10. La suma ponderada de los factores establecen los valores para los intervalos de clasicación de los grados de vulnerabilidad. Los resultados muestran que bajo los efectos del cambio climático, en comparación con el mapa actual de distribución de áreas vulnerables, se favorece el incremento de la vulnerabilidad moderada, ocupando una mayor extensión y disminución de las supercies de las áreas de alta vulnerabilidad para todos los escenarios de cambio climático, debido al cambio del uso del suelo y la reducción de la recarga.

At present widespread use of models as an auxiliary system to penetrate the essence of phenomena related to all areas of cognitive and transforming activity of man, covering as diverse as human sciences fields. In the field of education use it is becoming more common as essential to transform school practice and enrich their theoretical instrument bitter day. The paper deals with the development of theoretical modeling as a scientific method to advance the process to be transformed and characterized by establishing relationships and links between the structural components that comprise it. In this regard it is proposed as an objective socialize some theoretical and methodological considerations that favor the use of modeling method in the scientific research activity of teachers.

El propósito de este trabajo fue obtener el modelo que permite determinar el área de la sección transversal de la carga y la dimensión precisa de la banda, atendiendo a que en los manuales de diseño y explotación de transportadores de banda el área de la sección transversal de la carga se incluye dentro de un coeficiente (coeficiente constructivo o de forma), cuyos valores están tabulados y se escogen sobre la base de la experiencia, considerando la productividad deseada y valores estándares de ciertos materiales.

Physically-Based groundwater Models (PBM), such MODFLOW, are used as groundwater resources evaluation tools supposing that the produced differences (residuals or errors) are white noise. However, in the facts these numerical simulations usually show not only random errors but also systematic errors. For this work it has been developed a numerical procedure to deal with PBM systematic errors, studying its structure in order to model its behavior and correct the results by external and complementary means, trough a framework called Complementary Correction Model (CCM). The application of CCM to PBM shows a decrease in local biases, better distribution of errors and reductions in its temporal and spatial correlations, with 73% of reduction in global RMSN over an original PBM. This methodology seems an interesting chance to update a PBM avoiding the work and costs of interfere its internal structure.

Un problema comú en l'aprenentatge de les matemàtiques universitàries és la bretxa entre el formalisme i l'abstracció i l'ús d'aquests en un context específic com és l'enginyeria. Les competències adquirides a través de l'aprenentatge basat en problemes (ABP) en el model pedagòric de la Universitat d'Aalborg a Dinamarca pot ensenyar com establir un pont per a tancar aquesta bretxa. A través de l'ànàlisi dels informes finals de semestre que realitzen estudiants de primer cicle d'enginyeria, on es recontextualitzen i s'acoblen en tractar problemes interdisciplinaris complexos, descrivim i analitzem les competències aconseguides pels estudiants quan reailtzen aquest tipus de projectes. Volem mostrar com l'activitat dels estudiants dins d'aquest ambient ofereix possibilitats d'aprenentatge que van més enllà de la clàssica distinció entre aprenentatge formal i l'aplicació de les matemàtiques.

This communication intends promoting the materials science informatics, an idea that has been growing in popularity and recognition among materials scientists. It constitutes an option to integrate the nano-sciences with the market demands on data analytics skills and applications. Techniques as machine learning, data mining, and complex networks have allowed representing the thermodynamic evolution of existing alloys and compounds, from whom, new compounds have been predicted and created. In what follows, the main ideas of the nano-informatics are formulated and how the above-mentioned integration can be accomplished. Besides that, its application to superconductors and materials of interest for the photovoltaic industry is discussed.

Los programas computacionales, para la solución a problemas de la cotidianidad, son muy comunes, por la rapidez en que pueden obtenerse resultados, que por los métodos tradicionales, serían muy trabajosos y sobre todo, aquellos en que las soluciones llevan repetidos cálculos. El trabajo pretende demostrar, como a través de la programación, aplicando el método de la solución exacta, se logran resultados rápidos, precisos, sobre similitudes y diferencias entre distintas geometrías en la transferencia de calor, que demuestran el comportamiento, según parámetros, en igualdad de condiciones, (propiedades geométricas; diámetros, longitud, espesores, volúmenes) y físicas, (conductividad térmica, calor específico y densidad), apreciando cómo influyen, en resultados como, tiempos de enfriamiento, producción según las propiedades físicas y el diseño del equipo, índices de consumo, temperaturas en el centro y superficie y otras, según, el método de extrusión de tuberías plásticas, necesarios en procesos productivos que requieren de monitoreo constantes.

En la literatura científica se pueden encontrar estudios sobre la influencia de variables ambientales en la producción de hongos comestibles, sin embargo, todos estos estudios han utilizado modelos estadísticos donde se asume que la variable producción se distribuye en forma normal, supuesto que no siempre se cumple. En este artículo usan los modelos GAMLSS para estudiar la influencia de las variables humedad, temperatura, tiempo de aireación, tipo de sustrato y cantidad de sustrato sobre la producción del hongo orellana. Los modelos GAMLSS permiten que el investigador asuma distribuciones estadísticas para la variable respuesta diferentes a la normal y que se puedan modelar todos los parámetros en función de las covariables. Al aplicar GAMLSS a los datos de orellana se encontró que sólo las variables temperatura, tiempo de aireación y tipo de sustrato tienen una influencia significativa en la producción de orellana. En particular, se encontró que a mayor temperatura y tiempo de aireación la producción de orellana aumenta, adicionalmente, se estimó que la producción de orellana se duplica si la siembra se dá en sustrato de higuerilla molido. Los resultados de este artículo sirven para cuantificar los efectos de las variables ambientales en la producción industrial de orellana y para determinar combinaciones óptimas de los factores que maximicen la producción.

La armadura del Coro alto del Convento de Santa Clara de Asís ha sido víctima de la humedad, y del ataque de agentes bióticos y abióticos que han provocado su paulatina degradación. Para la identificación de los procesos patológicos asociados a estos agentes y por su carácter patrimonial se realizó un estudio de diagnóstico basado en una inspección organoléptica y en ensayos superficiales con el instrumental disponible, que permitieron identificar las causas. Mediante la modelación de la estructura en el programa SAP 2000 se obtuvieron las solicitaciones a las que se encuentran sometidos los elementos a intervenir y con el resultado se calcularon las soluciones propuestas para las patologías identificadas, fundamentalmente para la pérdida del vínculo entre la solera y el tirante.

Las antorchas de plasma se usan para producir el plasma en la manufactura de materiales e industria energética, donde las antorchas de arco de corriente directa representan los componentes principales de los procesos con plasma térmico (plasma spraying, soldadura, corte de metales, tratamiento de residuos, producción de biogás, etc.). En una antorcha de plasma de arco no trasferido, se desarrolla un arco eléctrico aplicando una corriente directa entre el cátodo y el ánodo de la antorcha. Sucesivamente, el plasma se produce calentando, ionizando y expandiendo un gas alimentado a la antorcha antes de la región del cátodo. Los trabajos de laboratorio que usan técnicas de observación y de medición son de difícil aplicación, debido a las características físicas de estos fenómenos físicos. Así las técnicas computacionales pueden representar una herramienta valiosa para investigar los procesos con plasma, aunque el trabajo computacional es extremadamente desafiante, pues estos fenómenos son interdependientes y simultáneos. En este trabajo se propone un modelo computacional para simular una antorcha de plasma bidimensional de arco no trasferido en equilibrio termodinámico local. Se modelan condiciones de estado estacionario para las ecuaciones de conservación de mecánica de fluidos, trasferencia de calor y electromagnetismo en el software Comsol Multiphysics® 5.1. En la trasferencia de calor por radiación, el plasma se asume ópticamente fino y con un coeficiente de emisión neta. El flujo laminar de gas se modela con vórtice libre en la entrada para dos tipologías de antorchas axis-simétricas, respectivamente con argón y nitrógeno como gases de trabajo.

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Trichoderma sp. is used in the ecologic protection of tomato, pepper, cucumber and other crops. An alternative for increasing the efficiency of biological systems is the use of magnetic treatment of cell cultures. In this work, the microbial kinetics under growth stimulation conditions by the action of the magnetic field on Trichoderma harzianum Rifai (A-34) in solidstate fermentation is reportead. Microbial growth is described by a primary model. Two of the most applied and least complex models were compared using the OriginPro (OriginLab Inc.) version 9.4 (2017). For the statistical validation of the models, the residual values were studied applying the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), adjusted R2, X² (Chi-square), Minimum square of residues and Test of Fischer. The normality of the residues was checked using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Coefficients describing Gompertz and Logistic models were obtained for the control experiment and the one with the fungus treated with magnetic fields in aerated solid fermentation at 30 °C. Logistic model adjusted the experimental data more adequately, so it is selected to describe biomass formation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work arose from the need to obtain a mathematical model that allows studying the possible changes that need to be made in a steam generator in order to study its behavior in unusual stationary. The main objective was the adjustment of the mathematical model chosen from the Thermal Normative Calculation, digitized, to a boiler that supplies steam to a 60 MW turbine. To achieve this objective, an extensive search was first carried out for information on the operation, the updated geometrical characteristics and the normed operating parameters of the boiler. Then, based on the aforementioned model, the equations were adapted to the pertinent thermal calculations, these being done for the nominal load and four smaller typical regimes. A comparison was made with the operating standards of the plant, which was satisfactory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Neurodegenerative diseases are being treated by modulating adenosine receptors with more effective, safe and selective antagonists. The objective of the study was to develop a methodology to obtain classification models based on decision tree algorithms and descriptors from 0D to 2D of non-congenital families of organic compounds to qualitatively predict lig-and-RAA2A affinity. For this purpose, a non-congeneric database of 315 antagonists was constructed and cured with its inhibition constant in nano molar, labeled as potent and weak. The Dragon and ISIDA / QSPR programs were used to calculate molecular descriptors and five groups of descriptors were obtained. In each group 50 descriptors were selected using the mRMR criterion. The database was divided into Training, Test and External series through a random selection and a generalized k-means cluster analysis. Classifiers were developed and validated using the WEKA program. The results were analyzed using the statistical tests of Friedman and Wilcoxon. The significant influence of parameter m of algorithm J48 on the predictivity was verified for the models that used the descriptors of the aug.a-b and hyb.aug.a groups of ISIDA / QSPR. The best performance model was obtained from the selected descriptors of the ISIDA-all group with a value of m = 6 and reached 90.6% prediction on the External series. The methodology developed to obtain classification models based on decision tree algorithms and descriptors from 0D to 2D of non-congenital families of organic compounds is effective in qualitatively predicting ligand- RAA2A affinity with accuracy, specificity and selectivity greater than 90 %. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The rise of an air and air enriched bubble in blister copper was modeled using COMSOL Multiphysics 5.3a software, with the aim of understanding the behavior of mass transfer by convective effect. The geometry consists of two subdomains, one assigned to blister copper that initially contains 1 [%] of dissolved sulfur and 0.5 [%] of dissolved oxygen and another one of air and air bubble enriched 30 and 40% of oxygen. To model the transfer of the species, the Chemical Engineering interfaces were used where the governing equations and the initial and contour conditions were defined. For the fluid flow, the equation of conservation of momentum plus the equation of continuity in laminar regime were used since it presented better resolution for the ascent velocity. For mass transport in the bubble Stefan - Maxwell equations for concentrated species were used, and for the transport of mass in molten copper the Fick Law for diluted species was used. The results of the model report the velocity profiles and concentrations of oxygen and sulfur dioxide in the bubble and concentrations of sulfur and oxygen dissolved in the blister copper. After the post-processing and analysis of results, it is concluded that the desulfurization of blister copper is controlled by the transfer of oxygen inside the bubble from its bulk to the reaction interface. The convective effect due to the rise of the bubble in the molten bath leads to a low rate of sulfur removal and oxygen dissolution of the bath on the upper and lateral surfaces of the bubble, while favoring the removal of sulfur and oxygen dissolution in the lower part where a wake is formed. With the increase of oxygen enrichment, the time in which the oxygen is depleted increases and this greater mass of oxygen removes more sulfur from the bath and dissolves more oxygen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: The aim of this work was to estimate the efficiency of milk production in 1 168 cases in Ecuadoran Sierra Sur Andina, with the implementation of neural networks with multilayer perceptrons. Materials and Methods: These cases were collected from secondary samples provided by the Official Institute of National Statistics of Ecuador, in 2016. The variables chosen for the model were total milk production on the previous day (P), as dependent variable; and total cattle heads (CH), total laborers in the field (E), and total surface attended by laborer (S), as independent variables. The selection criteria were the existence of data from individual cases, and their impact on the dependent variable. Results: The average efficiency was 8.11 %, from which the total cases detected efficiently (> 0.70) accounted for 11 (0.9 % of the sample). Later, the cases studied were classified into three groups, depending on the efficiency calculated: Group 1 (≤ 0.4 efficiency); Group 2 (> 0.4 - ≤ 0.7 efficiency); and Group 3 (> 0.7 efficiency). Conclusion: A comparison produced several statistical differences (P < 0.01) for variables total milk production/ year on the farm, total field laborers, farm size, total cows, total cattle heads, calvings, pregnant cows, and served cows. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Macroeconomic modelling has been under intense scrutiny since the Great Financial Crisis, when serious shortcomings were exposed in the methodology used to understand the economy as a whole. Criticism has been levelled at the assumptions employed in the dominant models, particularly that economic agents are homogeneous and optimising and that the economy is equilibrating. This paper seeks to explore an interdisciplinary approach to macroeconomic modelling, with techniques drawn from other (natural and social) sciences. Specifically, it discusses agent-based modelling, which is used across a wide range of disciplines, as an example of such a technique. Agent-based models are complementary to existing approaches and are suited to answering macroeconomic questions where complexity, heterogeneity, networks, and heuristics play an important role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the work, through exhaustive searches, we study the combinatorial optimization of two - dimensional UPD modeling of the variables: thickness and concentrations of nickel, iron and cobalt in a block of a Cuban lateritic deposit. The UPD method is a numerical estimator with parameters q, δ and ε that from a set of data allows to obtain a mesh model that represents the behavior of a property U of some natural or technological object that is investigated in a certain spatial domain. For a set of n points (Pi; Ui), which express the values Ui for the corresponding spatial coordinates Pi, this method allows to estimate the value of U for any coordinate P of its domain, as a linear combination of powers q of euclidian distances.

In this work, are discussed experiences in the use of mathematical modeling and testing in hydraulic engineering structures. For this purpose the results of load tests in sheet pile, evaluating horizontal and vertical deformations that occur in the same exposed. Comparisons between theoretical methods for calculating deformations and mathematical models based on the Finite Element Method are established. Finally, the coincidence between the numerical model and the results of the load test full-scale checks showed that deformations in the sheet pile under study do not use for operation under action of a new charging system.

The local polynomial method is based on assuming that is possible to estimate the value of a U variable in any of the P coordinate through local polynomials estimated based on approximate data. This investigation analyzes the probability of modeling in two dimensions the thickness and nickel, iron and cobalt concentrations in a block of Cuban laterite ores by using the mentioned method. It was also analyzed if the results of modeling these variables depend on the estimation method that is used.

Pseudo-forces originated by Earth´s rotation affect the parabolic motion of projectiles moving at the planet´s surface. These forces deviate the howitzers of their launching plane, preventing their arrival to the targeted location. This effect is called the Coriolis Effect and depends on different variables such as shell´s position, velocity, shooting direction, etc. In order to better understand the projectile´s trajectory taking this effect into account, a computational model was developed considering the movement of a shell from a non-inertial reference frame (the Earth) point of view, using the C++ programming language and some numerical methods for the resolution of the equations. Thus, the basic model used for the creation of numerical code allows graphic representation of any conditions showing the dynamic behavior of the projectile. This work further reinforces the importance of computer modeling of dynamic systems on physics education, since it helps students to approach complex physical phenomena with an understandable visual tool.

One of the problems in Physics education is related to the limited understanding of concepts among students. The main reason is the high degree of formalism in some explanations. In this paper we propose to introduce discrepant experiments in the classroom since this kind of experiments generates the need to build explanations, enhancing different learning skills. Thus, we describe a classroom experience with students from ninth semester in a physics career, around the analysis of the ascending double cone, giving an alternative approach to this situation. According to the active learning methodology, we seek to promote understanding of the rotational dynamics of rigid bodies through the generation of a physical analysis and an explanatory model made by students, which allows them to better appreciate the mathematical and physical character of the phenomenon.

Este trabajo tuvo como objetivo obtener, mediante lógica difusa, un modelo espacial de aptitud de los suelos de la ciudad de Luanda a partir de dos parámetros: litología y pendiente. Se detectaron zonas favorables para la construcción civil (infraestructuras urbanas y viales) y sectores con comportamiento diferenciado que pueden condicionar riesgos, lo que exige un reordenamiento territorial. El modelo establece orientaciones para la confección de la carta geotécnica para la ciudad de Luanda, y sirve como instrumento que ayuda en el planeamiento territorial.

The modeling method has often been developed or recognized in various processes related to training of psychologists studies. It has educational value as its application favors the appropriation of skills and capacity necessary for the performance on the student. However, the method has limitations because it does not exhaust the content praxiological psychology in the teaching-learning process. Therefore, the modeling required to be valued its limitations and potentials in order to plan actions necessary to improve or complement other methods, which serve to improve the process of scientific and professional training of psychologists, with emphasis on the labor dimension.