Central University of Ecuador

About: Central University of Ecuador is a education organization based out in Quito, Ecuador. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Medicine. The organization has 2220 authors who have published 1910 publications receiving 15052 citations.

Coproducción de imaginarios de justicia hídrica y desarrollo verde en Ecuador

Abstract: Coproducing imaginaries on water justice and green development in Ecuador Facing water injustices and extractivist policies, grassroots movements of the province of Imbabura, in the northern highlands of Ecuador, are seeking to participate in and benefit from green infrastructure projects Both the Pesillo-Imbabura regional drinking water project and the HidroIntag mini hydraulic plants project illustrate this trend However, grassroots movements often have to negotiate their initial claims in order to get involved in these projects To what extent the coproduction of sociotechnical imaginaries linked to green infrastructure projects transform water justice grassroots movements’ claims and strategies? What are the counterimaginaries that emerge at the margins of these modernizing pro-cesses? This paper analyses, from a political ecology and feminist technoscience perspectives, how the participation of water grassroots movements in green infrastructure projects means the coproduction of sociotechnical imaginaries with public authorities, private companies or development agencies, the transformation of their initial territorial claims and the emergence of counterimaginaries by resisting actors Resumen En un contexto de injusticia hidrica y de extractivismo, varios movimientos comunitarios de la provincia de Imbabura, en la sierra norte del Ecuador, buscan participar en y beneficiarse de proyectos de desarrollo verde Tanto el proyecto regional de agua potable Pesillo-Imbabura como el proyecto de minicentrales hidroelectricas HidroIntag ilustran esa tendencia Sin embargo, los movimientos comunitarios se ven obligados a negociar sus demandas iniciales para estar incluidos en esos proyectos ?En que medida la coproduccion de imaginarios sociotecnicos asociados a proyectos de desarrollo verde transforma las demandas y estrategias de los movimientos comunitarios por la justicia hidrica? ?Cuales son los contra-imaginarios producidos en la periferia de esos procesos modernizadores? Este articulo analiza, desde una perspectiva de ecologia politica, como la participacion de los movimientos comunitarios por el agua en proyectos de desarrollo verde implica la coproduccion de imaginarios sociotecnicos con las autoridades publicas, la empresa privada y las agencias de desarrollo, la transformacion de sus demandes territoriales iniciales y la emergencia de contraimaginarios por actores resistentes

FRvarPSO: A Method for Obtaining Fuzzy Classification Rules Using Optimization Techniques

Abstract: FRvarPSO is a new method for obtaining classification rules, which operates on nominal and/or fuzzy attributes. It combines LVQ, which is a supervised learning neural network. The search is performed through an optimization technique such as varPSO, considered a metaheuristic based on particles clusters of variable population. Each individual represents a possible solution to the problem. The proposed method uses a voting criterion, which affects the particle’s speed. This method is benchmarked against PART and C4.5, on 12 databases of the UCI repository and three databases of financial institutions from Ecuador. The results obtained were satisfactory.

EL diagnóstico social como aporte al peritaje forense: tendencias al 2020

Abstract: Although the expert investigation determines the reasons that affect the condition of the person after the damage because of the crime, the investigation must be carried out with a specific methodology of sources that allow the expert to base his intervention, therefore, guide the judge objectively in the judicial 1 Doctora en Ciencias Internacionales, Profesora Titular en la Universidad Central del Ecuador, Ecuador: dagus36@yahoo.com 2 Magíster en Gerencia en Sistemas, Profesor Titular en la Universidad Central del Ecuador, Ecuador: Email: amespin@uce.edu.ec 3 Magíster en Ingeniería Industrial, Profesor Titular en la Universidad Central del Ecuador, Ecuador: sbuenanio@uce.edu.ec Forma sugerida de citar: Valdivieso Salazar, Daisy Astrid; Espín León, Aldrid Marcel y Buenaño Armas, Carlos Santiago. (2017). El diagnóstico social como aporte al peritaje forense: Tendencias al 2020. Retos de la Ciencia, 1(2), pp. 141-149. Daisy Valdivieso / Aldrin Espín / Santiago Buenaño El diagnóstico social como aporte al peritaje forense 141 process. The methodology allows improving the process, reducing errors, avoiding biases in practice, reducing intervention times, scientific justification and non-revictimization; Bearing in mind that violence and robbery crimes against people in Ecuador will diminish before the year 2020, in addition, the professional obligation demands to debate on the scientific and technical function in forensic social assessment that determines the factors that affect violence and its consequence; the results will guide the judge to the restitution of a violated human right.

Dessins d'enfants and some holomorphic structures on the Loch Ness Monster

Abstract: The classical theory of dessin d'enfants, which are bipartite maps on compact orientable surfaces, are combinatorial objects used to study branched covers between compact Riemann surfaces and the absolute Galois group of the field of rational numbers. In this paper, we show how this theory is naturally extended to non-compact orientable surfaces and, in particular, we observe that the Loch Ness monster (the surface of infinite genus with exactly one end) admits infinitely many regular dessins d'enfants (either chiral or reflexive). In addition, we study different holomorphic structures on the Loch Ness monster, which come from homology covers of compact Riemann surfaces, infinite hyperelliptic and infinite superelliptic curves.