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Universidad del Norte, Colombia
Education•Barranquilla, Colombia•
About: Universidad del Norte, Colombia is a education organization based out in Barranquilla, Colombia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 3562 authors who have published 4355 publications receiving 37861 citations. The organization is also known as: University of the North, Colombia & Uninorte.
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TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the activation of the ERK‐1/2 is required in RSV‐induced early gene expression, and inhibition of ERK pathways significantly decreases RSV infection of these cells compared to controls.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an evaluation of the socioeconomic stratification (SES) system of households based on the physical characteristics of the dwelling and its surroundings is implemented in order to set subsidies to public services.
Abstract: In Colombia, a socioeconomic stratification (SES) system of households based on the physical characteristics of the dwelling and its surroundings is implemented in order to set subsidies to public services. Many studies use this classification as a proxy variable for the household income, mainly because of the ease to retrieve data. This investigation proposes an evaluation of the SES as an explanatory variable for the household income. Ordered logit regressions were estimated for the cities of Bogota, Medellin, Cali and Barranquilla, where the dependent variable corresponds to the SES. Even though there is a positive correlation between SES and household income, the relation depends on certain characteristics of the household as it size, vehicle availability and percentage of workers and students. The results were validated by comparing trip generation models. By including the significant attributes from the ordinal regressions, trip generation models with income and SES had similar fit, which suggests that using the SES as a proxy variable for the income, might be appropriate as long as their correspondence is checked according to household characteristics.
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01 Jun 2016TL;DR: In this article, a hierarchical hierarchical model for human action recognition using body joint locations is introduced, which can categorize complex actions in videos, and perform spatio-temporal annotations of the atomic actions that compose the complex action being performed.
Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a new hierarchical model for human action recognition using body joint locations. Our model can categorize complex actions in videos, and perform spatio-temporal annotations of the atomic actions that compose the complex action being performed. That is, for each atomic action, the model generates temporal action annotations by estimating its starting and ending times, as well as, spatial annotations by inferring the human body parts that are involved in executing the action. Our model includes three key novel properties: (i) it can be trained with no spatial supervision, as it can automatically discover active body parts from temporal action annotations only, (ii) it jointly learns flexible representations for motion poselets and actionlets that encode the visual variability of body parts and atomic actions, (iii) a mechanism to discard idle or non-informative body parts which increases its robustness to common pose estimation errors. We evaluate the performance of our method using multiple action recognition benchmarks. Our model consistently outperforms baselines and state-of-the-art action recognition methods.
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TL;DR: Clinical features and histopathological findings in fatal cases with dengue (DENV) and chikungunya (CHIKV) co-infection identified at the Colombian National Institute of Health between September 2014 and October 2015 are reported.
Abstract: We report clinical features and histopathological findings in fatal cases with dengue (DENV) and chikungunya (CHIKV) co-infection identified at the Colombian National Institute of Health between September 2014 and October 2015. Seven such cases were documented. Dengue serotype 2 virus was identified in six cases. All patients were adults and comorbidities were present in four. Fever, arthralgia or myalgia was present in all cases. The frequency of rash, haemorrhage, oedema, and gastrointestinal symptoms was variable. Laboratory findings such as thrombocytopenia, renal failure, and leukocyte count were also inconsistent between cases. Post-mortem tissue examination documented focal hepatocellular coagulative necrosis in three cases, incipient acute pericarditis in one and tubulointerstitial nephritis in one. This study provides evidence of mortality in patients with DENV and CHIKV co-infection. Fatal cases were characterised by variable clinical and laboratory features. Evaluation of histopathology of autopsy tissues provided evidence of the pathological consequences of the disease.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative experimental analysis of a conventional flat plate solar collector (FPSC) and an identical prototype with thermal storage system by PCM is presented Thermal performance of the devices was studied from experimental and mathematical approaches.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Sid E. O'Bryant | 41 | 168 | 8123 |
Francisco Rothhammer | 39 | 191 | 8247 |
Juan Carlos Niebles | 37 | 70 | 9751 |
Miguel A. Labrador | 36 | 193 | 5951 |
Alcides Chaux | 35 | 121 | 4795 |
Calogero M. Santoro | 30 | 157 | 3041 |
Toby Miller | 30 | 378 | 4694 |
Diego Viasus | 29 | 75 | 2069 |
Carlos Lizama | 28 | 183 | 2617 |
Robert Pitt | 28 | 234 | 4015 |
Camilo Montes | 28 | 74 | 2878 |
James Hall | 27 | 114 | 2785 |
Luis A. Cisternas | 26 | 154 | 2012 |
Antonio Rodríguez Andrés | 26 | 91 | 2151 |
Ana C. Fonseca | 26 | 120 | 2608 |