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    • NFC Approach: Towards a Simple Interaction 

      Nava-Díaz, Salvador W.; Chavira, Gabriel; Hervás, Ramón; Villarreal, Vladimir; Bravo, José; Martón, Sergio; Castro, Manuel (2009-07-01)
      Nowadays, there are devices with great computing capabilities and these in different places around us. This technology opens us new possibilities and allows us the simple and easy interaction between user and computer. We ...
    • NFC Approach: Towards a Simple Interaction 

      Nava-Diaz, Salvador; Chavira, Gabriel; Hervas, Ramon; Villarreal, Vladimir; Bravo, Jose; Martin, Sergio; Castro, Manuel (01/01/2009)
      Nowadays, there are devices with great computing capabilities and these in different places around us. This technology opens us new possibilities and allows us the simple and easy interaction between user and computer. We ...
    • NFC en Contextos Asistenciales: Un Complemento a la Enfermedad de Alzheimer 

      Bravo, Jose; Peña, Rocio; Casero, Gregorio; Fuentes, Carmen; Hervas, Ramon; Vergara, Marcos; Nava, Salvador; Villarreal, Vladimir; Chavira, Gabriel (2as Jornadas Científicas sobre RFID2as Jornadas Científicas sobre RFID, 11/05/2008)
      Los enfermos de Alzheimer requieren una gran atención por parte de los cuidadores, que no pueden distraerse ni un solo segundo para escribir los incidentes que van ocurriendo en la jornada diaria. Por esta razón, toda ...
    • Nitrous Oxide Fluxes from a Commercial Beef Cattle Feedlot in Kansas 

      A. Aguilar, Orlando; Maghirang, Ronaldo; W. Rice, Charles (2014-03-10)
      Emission of greenhouse gases, including nitrous oxide (N2O), from open beef cattle feedlots is becoming an environmental concern; however, research measuring emission rates of N2O from open beef cattle feedlots has been ...
    • Novel tunable optical filter employing a fiber loop mirror for synthesis applications in WDM 

      Vargas, Salvador; Vázquez, Carmen; Sánchez Pena, José Manuel (11/12/2001)
      A novel optical filter employing a fiber loop mirror within an amplified ring resonator is presented. The fiber loop mirror allows tuning by changing the coupling factor of a coupler. The device can be used as a building ...
    • Novel tuneable filter based on MZ and an amplified ring resonator for OFDM networks 

      Vargas, Salvador; Vázquez, Carmen (1999-11-08)
      A novel reconfigurable fibre based tuneable filter is proposed. The module relies on a cascaded connection of Mach-Zehnders and an amplified fibre ring resonator. MHz range adjustable FHWM bandwidths and high crosstalk are ...
    • Numerical analysis of the straightening process of thin plate structures by elastic FEM based on the inherent strain method 

      Vega, Adán; Camaño, Alexandra; Blandón, Juan; Serizawa, Hisashi; Hidekazu Murakawa, Ninshu Ma (2012-12)
      Welding distortion is practically an expected feature in shipbuilding, with a few exceptions; when thick plates are used, for example. Nowadays, the trend is to use thinner plates in order to reduce weight, aiming to reduce ...
    • Numerical study of inherent deformation produced in thick plates through bending by line heating 

      Liang, Wei; Itoh, Shinsuke; Vega, Adán; Murakawa, Hidekazu (2006-06)
      In ship building, line-heating is widely employed as an effective method to form steel plate with complex 3-dimensional carved geometries. However the plate bending by line heating is strongly dependent on skills. To ...
    • A numerical study of parameters governing an inherent deformation database of plates formed by line heating 

      Vega, Adán; Serizawa, Hisashi; Rashed, Sherif; Murakawa, Hidekazu (2008-08)
      As an overall strategy to improve the accuracy of the forming process, the authors pay attention to those factors which may influence the inherent deformation of plates formed by line heating. In order to identify those ...
    • nventario del consumo de energía para evaluar alternativas de ahorro energético en el edificio 2 del Campus Víctor Levi Sasso de la Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá 

      Henríquez, Felix; Carrizo, Keivan; Mogollón, Luis; Berbey-Alvarez, Aranzazu (Universidad de Valladolid, 2021)
      El Edificio 2 se encuentra ubicado en el Campus Víctor Levi Sasso de la Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá y tiene una superficie construida de 2,361 m2aproximadamente. A partir del inventario realizado, se estima ...
    • Object Recognition in Noisy RGB-D Data 

      Rangel, José Carlos; Morell, Vicente; Cazorla, Miguel; Orts-Escolano, Sergio; García Rodríguez, José (01/01/2015)
      The object recognition task on 3D scenes is a growing research field that faces some problems relative to the use of 3D point clouds. In this work, we focus on dealing with noisy clouds through the use of the Growing Neural ...
    • Object recognition in noisy RGB-D data using GNG 

      Rangel, José Carlos; Morell, Vicente; Cazorla, Miguel; Orts-Escolano, Sergio; García-Rodríguez, José (Pattern Analysis and ApplicationsPattern Analysis and Applications, 04/26/2016)
      Object recognition in 3D scenes is a research field in which there is intense activity guided by the problems related to the use of 3D point clouds. Some of these problems are influenced by the presence of noise in the ...
    • On the Design and Development of Climbing and Walking Robots for the Maritime Industries 

      Armada, Manuel; Prieto, M.; Akinfiev, T.; Fernández, Roemi; Montes Franceschi, Héctor (2005-06-27)
      Modern robotic systems are increasingly powerful in terms of sensor fusion and mobility. Present technological progress allows advanced robots to cope progressively much better also with complex environments such as those ...
    • Ontological Context-Awareness for Adaptive Augmented Reality 

      Hervás, Ramón; Bravo, José; García-Lillo, Alberto; Fontecha, Jesús; Villarreal, Vladimir (2011-07-03)
      This paper presents a proposal for supporting daily user needs by simple interactions with the environment through an augmented-reality perspective and applying proactive adaptation through knowledge representation using ...
    • Optical reconfigurable demultiplexer based on Bragg grating assisted ring resonators 

      Vargas, Salvador; Vázquez, Carmen (08/11/2014)
      A polarization independent reconfigurable optical demultiplexer with low crosstalk between adjacent channels and high number of potential allocated channels is designed on silicon on insulator technology. On to off state ...
    • Optical router for optical fiber sensor networks based on a liquid crystal cell 

      Vargas, Salvador; Sánchez Pena, José Manuel; Vázquez, Carmen; Aranda, Angel; Pérez, Isabel (09/04/2003)
      Optical fiber sensor networks are evolving rapidly. They are used because of the inert nature of optical fibers allowing no electromagnetic interference and safe applications in inflammable atmospheres; other relevant ...
    • OTEC Alternative for the Electric Power Generation in Panama 

      López Tenorio, Guillermo; James Rivas, Arthur; De Los Angeles Ortega, Maria; Jurado, Francisco (2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference (IESTEC)2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference (IESTEC), 2019-12-30)
      This document presents a qualitative analysis of surface temperatures of the oceanic territory of Panama. These temperatures represent an indication of the potential of the thermal resource in the oceanic territory of ...
    • Outdoor stairway segmentation using vertical vanishing point and directional filter 

      Cáceres Hernández, Danilo; Hyun Jo, Kang (10/13/2010)
      In this paper we propose to detect the localization and recognition of outdoor stairway. This problem is the most fundamental step in solving the problem of autonomous stair climbing navigation. An autonomous system must ...
    • Outer Factor 2-D MA Models for Purely Random Fields and Fields and Wold-Tipe Texture Decompositions 

      Merchán, Fernando; Turcu, Flavius; Najim, Mohamed (2007-06-29)
      In this paper, we propose a new method to compute the parameters of finite approximations of 2-D MA infinite models associated with purely indeterministic stationary fields, by using spectral factorizations. This method ...
    • Panama Metro Bus System and Metro Line 1: An externalities analysis of CO2 emissions spectre 

      Berbey-Alvarez, Aranzazu; Alvarez, Humberto; Guevara-Cedeño, Jessica; Sanz Bobi, Juan de Dios (2017-07)
      In recent years there is has been a need to reduce traffic congestion with the objective of contributing to the reduction of CO2 emissions or air pollution. This argument could be seen as a new tariff or tax to make society ...