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Colombia is considered Latin America’s most stable democracy; meanwhile, it is war-torn by the internal conflict with the guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The armed conflict with the FARC has...

Domestic Politics Peace Treaty; drug trafficking; FARC; Referendum

The use of system dynamics techniques to model the sales and operations planning (S&OP), associated with the economic and financial processes, is an innovative proposal. The objectives of this article are to model and simulate...

Adaptive & Complex Systems Computer Science and Information Technology Computer Engineering

Literature in English, British Isles Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority

In this work, we present a non-invasive electronic platform for physiological data acquisition on cattle grazing systems. The platform can be used for dairy and beef cattle to continuously monitor physiological variables such as...

Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies

One of the methods which could improve the safety performance of construction organizations is the safety climate approach which is helpful to know the existing maturity level of the safety climate and to develop plans to...

Electronic Services & Service Science Business and Management Business Information Systems

This paper presents part of a research project on the use of information technology by students and teachers to communicate with each other in online community contexts of higher education institutions. The part of this project...

Computer vision and image processing procedures could obtain crop data frequently and precisely, such as vegetation indexes, and correlating them with other variables, like biomass and crop yield. This work presents the...

Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies

This work focuses on the development of an autonomous, electronic platform based on bioacoustic techniques to monitor animal sounds related to ingestive activities and sub-activities in beef cattle. The authors have developed an...

Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies

The hypertension is a well know problem and associated with a high salt consuming is one of the commonest chronic diseases.To measure the impact of this consuming it has been applied the methodology provided by the Business Case...

Given the peculiarities of mobile computer-supported collaborative learning (MCSCL) environments, forming suitable groups in such learning environments represents a hard and time-consuming task. This is because many conditions...

Distance Education Education Educational Technologies

Leadership, innovation, and performance are essential factors to achieve the desired sustainable profitability of companies. The relationship between these variables is one of the keys to the organizational success, although...

Business and Management Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Management Hospitality, Travel, & Tourism Management

This study integrates the relationship of business ethics in marketing campaigns and the importance of the repercussion on organizational performance with the aim of creating a guide of business ethics in marketing campaigns for...

Electronic Services & Service Science Business and Management Business Information Systems

T cells use finger-like protrusions called 'microvilli' to interrogate their targets, but why they do so is unknown. To form contacts, T cells must overcome the highly charged, barrier-like layer of large molecules forming a...

T-Lymphocytes microvilli Receptors Antigen T-Cell Antigens Lymphocyte Activation Signal Transduction

Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterised by selective death of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the midbrain and motor function impairment. Gastrointestinal issues often precede motor deficits in PD, indicating that the gut-brain...

Animals Drosophila Drosophila melanogaster Parkinson Disease Drosophila Proteins Unfolded Protein Response Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases

System dynamics models can produce knowledge for decision-makers and, consequently, provide better choices. To be effective in its purpose, a model must reproduce an observed problem situation effectively. Hence, the...

Adaptive & Complex Systems Computer Science and Information Technology Computer Engineering

The proliferation of electronic health (e-Health) initiatives in Brazil over the last 2 decades has resulted in a considerable fragmentation within health information technology (IT), with a strong political interference. The...

Health Information Systems Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Health Information Systems

Early detection of breast cancer is critical to improve treatment efficiency and chance of cure. Mammography is the main method for breast cancer screening; however, it has some limitations. Infrared thermography is a technique...

Computer Science and Information Technology Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Early detection of breast cancer is critical to improve treatment efficiency and chance of cure. Mammography is the main method for breast cancer screening; however, it has some limitations. Infrared thermography is a technique...

Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Medical Technologies Medical Informatics Computer Science and Information Technology Science and Engineering