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Co-livin' criollo : retrospectiva a las opciones de vivienda puertorriqueña
(2021-05-10)A pesar de la cantidad de alternativas de vivienda que hay en Puerto Rico, la economía hoy día limita al adulto profesional las posibilidades de adquirir una vivienda propia. Por tanto, se posibilita introducir otro tipo ... -
CO2 adsorption in nickel based metal organic framework Ni-DABCO: A density functional theory and grand canonical Monte Carlo study
(2018-12-07)The continuous emissions of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide (CO2), are generating concerns over the negative effects they are having on the planet. The main goal of this project is to understand the adsorption ... -
Coastal ecosystem connectivity: watershed management, sedimentation and the response of coral reefs.
(2017-06-14)Coral reefs are among the most biologically productive and economically important ecosystem on Earth. Nevertheless, unsustainable coastal development and watershed alteration have increased soil erosion and sediment influx ... -
Coastal erosion assessment using small unmanned aerial vehicles (uavs) and numerical modeling: A case study in the western region of Puerto Rico
(2018)Coastal monitoring is fundamental to understand the morphological changes in coastal environments and the vulnerability of low-lying coasts to erosion and flooding. For this reason, this study was focused on monitoring ... -
Coastal habitat connectivity of reef fishes from southwestern Puerto Rico
(2004)In the western Atlantic, despite increasing concerns about designing and implementing an integrated approach in coastal conservation and management, the ecological relationships (i.e., habitat connectivity) for reef ... -
Coastal mycology of Puerto Rico: A survey and biological aspects of marine, estuarine, and mangrove fungi
(2005-05)This study was subdivided into the chapters listed below, which treated a number of biological aspects of the coastal mycology of Puerto Rico (PR): (1) A review chapter on mangroves and mangrove-associated plants was ... -
Cocinar es una aventura: Banco de actividades con recetas para el aprendizaje creativo de las matemáticas
(2022-11-15)Este proyecto consiste en la creación de un banco de actividades para maestros. Está orientado al aprendizaje de las matemáticas en el nivel preescolar, a través de talleres de cocina. El propósito es propiciar que los ... -
Cognitive semantics for creole linguistics : applications of metaphor, metonymy, and cognitive grammar to Afro-Caribbean creole language and cultural studies
(2016-11)The goal of the current project is to bring new methodologies developed in cognitive linguistics in recent years to bear on some key debates among creolists concerning universals, African agency, and the role of African ... -
Collybia sensu lato of the central and western regions of Puerto Rico: biotechnological capabilities, characterization and identification using traditional and molecular techniques
(2004)An eighteen month survey at the central and western regions of Puerto Rico was done to monitor Collybia sensu lato (s.l.). The genus Collybia is in the Basidiomycota division, order Agaricales. They are saprophytes and can ... -
Combined Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech Treatment’ (CAAST)
(Universidad de Puerto Rico. Recinto de Ciencias Médicas. Patología del Habla-Lenguaje, 2018-12-06)El tratamiento Combined Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech Treatment (CAAST) parte de la premisa de que la mayoría de los desórdenes neurológicos son concomitantes. Sin embargo, el implementar tratamientos de manera individual ... -
Combined flow and heat transfer characterization of open cell aluminum foams
(2005)The use of open-cell metal foams have been widely increasing given by its diverse novel properties in various areas including aerospace, electronics and automotive among others. They are a relative new class of materials ... -
Common bacterial symbionts in clonal cultures of the toxic dinoflagellate Ostreopsis lenticularis
(2006)The marine toxic dinoflagellate Ostreopsis lenticularis Fukuyo 1981 is implicated as the major vector in ciguatera fish poisoning in the southwest coast of Puerto Rico. Studies have demonstrated that bacteria play a role ... -
Commonalities in genetic signatures and signaling pathways in neurological disorders
(2017)Mathematical optimization is used to detect potential genetic differentially expressed genes and propose probable signaling structures common to Alzheimer (AD), Parkinson (PD) and Huntington’s Disease (HD). The characterizations ... -
Communicative competence in a biology course at the UPRM: A case study
(2013)Although Spanish is the official language in Puerto Rico (PR), the use of English medium courses, which are focused on specialized content areas, is very common at the University of Puerto Rico. This is due to the fact ... -
Comparación de algoritmos para clustering de "streams" de series de tiempo
(2012-05)In recent years, technological advances have resulted in a huge increment in data production as in the evolution of methods that facilitated its collection. The data that arrive continuously and massively with infinite ... -
Comparación de enfoques bayesianos objetivos para encontrar a prioris intrínsecas en pruebas de hipótesis unilateral para modelos no anidados
(2021-11-01)El problema de prueba unilateral puede formularse naturalmente como la comparación entre dos modelos no anidados, las a prioris intrínsecas para esta situación no es necesario que existan. Berger-Pericchi en [2],[3] y [4] ... -
Comparación de los métodos de imputación con respecto al poder de separación del modelo de regresión logística
(2005)An MCAR (Missing Completely at Random) mechanism was used with dif- ferent missing data proportions in order to generate iteratively missing values in some data sets obtained from the Machine Learning Database Repository ... -
Comparación de métodos directos e indirectos para estimar prácticas de “copiarse” y plagio en el Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez
(2008)A study is presented on the methodology of comparing different survey techniques based on indirect methods against direct methods to estimate the practice of copying and plagiarism of students at the University of Puerto ... -
Comparación de modelos de regresión semiparamétricos mixtos con distribución beta
(2015-05)Some studies generate data that are rates, proportions or probabilities, continuously restricted in the range (0, 1). The Beta regression allows to model this type of data and offers a number of advantages such as direct ... -
Comparación de técnicas basadas en muestreo para solucionar el problema de dos clases desbalanceadas
(2011-05)Nowadays, estimation and evaluation of classification models has increased as an area of research in pattern recognition in data bases. One of the main problems that contribute to performance deterioration of classification ...