Papers by Miguel Ángel Mora
Ha sido invitado como compilador por la Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, dada su trayecto... more Ha sido invitado como compilador por la Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, dada su trayectoria y experiencia investigativa en la formación de profesores universitarios y en temas relacionados con la educación superior en general. Sus publicaciones recientes se encuentran en páginas como Researchgate, Academia, Google Scholar y el CvLac de Minciencias, donde está categorizado como Investigador Senior.
Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Apr 1, 1975
Entreculturas. Revista de traducción y comunicación intercultural
Esta monografía colectiva es una obra integrada en la colección Tecnología, Traducción y Cultura,... more Esta monografía colectiva es una obra integrada en la colección Tecnología, Traducción y Cultura, de la editorial Tirant lo Blanch de Valencia, con el número 2. En ella se cuenta con 5 capítulos que indagan en las dificultades que rodean a la traducción subordinada y audiovisual desde un punto de vista eminentemente práctico.
Terminàlia, 2018
La gradual incorporacio d'Espanya (1999) i Russia (2003) en el Proces de Bolonya ha revelat l... more La gradual incorporacio d'Espanya (1999) i Russia (2003) en el Proces de Bolonya ha revelat la necessitat de l'estudi del lexic especialitzat unificat. La metodologia seguida en aquest treball combina l'analisi terminologica i els estudis de linguistica de corpus i s'aplica al domini de processos i recursos academics i condueix a una terminologia paral·lela (espanyol-rus) mes accessible.
Research in computer-assisted translation is already established in the field of scientific and t... more Research in computer-assisted translation is already established in the field of scientific and technical translation and has widely proved its effectiveness and increase in productivity for translators as well as in the quality of translations. However, there is a considerable lack of comprehensive studies on the implications of using computer assisted translation (CAT) in the field of legal translation, especially in terms of the performance obtained under this working environment. This work aims to contribute to the studies of technology applied to translation by providing data from an analysis on the performance of CAT tools on specialized legal texts such as sales contracts.
The demand for Japanese larch (Larix kaempferi) seeds has increased in Korea but their supply has... more The demand for Japanese larch (Larix kaempferi) seeds has increased in Korea but their supply has been limited due to sporadic natural seed production. To enhance seed production, stem girdling was applied to 42-yearold Japanese larches, resulting in remarkable enhancement of strobilus production in terms of the rate of strobilusbearing tree and the number of strobilus per tree. Metabolic alterations in the girdled and the control trees were interrogated through GC/MS analysis. In the girdled tree, the contents of 14 individual metabolites including polar and non-polar compounds were significantly increased compared to the control. In the cambium and phloem tissues of girdled trees, the contents of pimaric acid, phosphoric acid, sucrose, and two different unknown compounds were enhanced, while the levels of malic acid, inositol, two different disaccharide, 11-trans-Octadecenoic acid and 4 different unknown compounds were decreased compared to the control. The girdled trees showed to...
Nanomaterials
The pursuit of ever-more efficient, reliable, and affordable solar cells has pushed the developme... more The pursuit of ever-more efficient, reliable, and affordable solar cells has pushed the development of nano/micro-technological solutions capable of boosting photovoltaic (PV) performance without significantly increasing costs. One of the most relevant solutions is based on light management via photonic wavelength-sized structures, as these enable pronounced efficiency improvements by reducing reflection and by trapping the light inside the devices. Furthermore, optimized microstructured coatings allow self-cleaning functionality via effective water repulsion, which reduces the accumulation of dust and particles that cause shading. Nevertheless, when it comes to market deployment, nano/micro-patterning strategies can only find application in the PV industry if their integration does not require high additional costs or delays in high-throughput solar cell manufacturing. As such, colloidal lithography (CL) is considered the preferential structuring method for PV, as it is an inexpens...
Sustainability
Sunlight is arguably the most promising continuous and cheap alternative sustainable energy sourc... more Sunlight is arguably the most promising continuous and cheap alternative sustainable energy source available at almost all living places of the human world. Photovoltaics (PV) is a process of direct conversion of sunlight into electricity and has become a technology of choice for sustainable production of cleaner and safer energy. The solar cell is the main component of any PV technology and transparent conducting oxides (TCO) comprising wide band gap semiconductors are an essential component of every PV technology. In this research, transparent conducting thin films were prepared by solution combustion synthesis of metal oxide nitrates wherein the use of indium is substituted or reduced. Individual 0.5 M indium, gallium and zinc oxide source solutions were mixed in ratios of 1:9 and 9:1 to obtain precursor solutions. Indium-rich IZO (A1), zinc-rich IZO (B1), gallium-rich GZO (C1) and zinc-rich GZO (D1) thin films were prepared through spin coating deposition. In the case of A1 and ...
Advanced Education
This paper presents an experiment which focused on determining if a telecollaborative project wor... more This paper presents an experiment which focused on determining if a telecollaborative project work would help enhance students' foreign language skills and cross-cultural competence. Students from Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and the Polytechnic University of Valencia worked together during the fall term in 2020, in which 56 Ukrainian and Spanish students were engaged in a telecollaborative programme-32 were master degree students at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, whereas the remaining 24 were bachelor engineering students at Polytechnic University of Valencia. Our students were engaged in a project work which consisted in the creation of a blog on the topic 'Sustainable Development Today'. The tools used in this project were mostly Google applications such as Classroom, Hangouts, Blogger, Drive, and Docs. In order to measure their progress, students took pre-tests before the project started and a post-test after its completion. These tests focused on assessing learners' language competence in English and also their cross-cultural competence. The language test used was designed by Cambridge University Press, whereas the cross-cultural test had been created by the Organizational Behavior Group (Piasentin, 2012). The latter focused on learners' willingness to engage, cognitive flexibility and openness, emotional regulation, tolerance of uncertainty, self-efficacy, and ethnocultural empathy. As expected, the students who participated in this virtual exchange programme enhanced their competence on both foreign language cross-cultural competences by taking an active part in the telecollaborative project work.
Proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction and Mining (ISARC 2015), Jun 18, 2015
Technology implementation has become crucial to reduce costs and diminish errors in construction ... more Technology implementation has become crucial to reduce costs and diminish errors in construction projects. In massive projects such as tunneling construction, computational modeling can be useful for several planning, execution and control activities during the lifecycle of the project. An analysis of the building requirements was done in a particular case study with the aim of evaluating how the current computational schemas support tunneling activities during the construction phase. Then, these requirements were compared with the model view definitions (MVD) used by the industry foundation classes version 4 (IFC4) from BuildingSmart. Finally, based on this comparison, an assessment on how ifc4 supports tunneling activities was performed. The construction of the new subway station "Estacion Ñuñoa" (one of the new ten stations of the subway system of Santiago, Chile), was used as the case study. Its building requirements, specifications and tasks were gathered and studied. Since excavation and structural support of the tunnel represent the largest investment of the project the analysis was performed on these tasks. This study summarizes the information requirements of these tasks and whether or not they are supported by the ifc4. Based on our findings, a proposal to include the not-supported information requirements in the current ifc4 schema is presented.
Journal of Nanomaterials
In this work, zinc oxide (ZnO) and titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanostructures were grown on different... more In this work, zinc oxide (ZnO) and titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanostructures were grown on different cellulose paper substrates, namely, Whatman, office, and commercial hospital papers, using a hydrothermal method assisted by microwave irradiation. Pure ZnO and TiO2 nanostructures were synthesized; however, the growth of TiO2 above ZnO was also investigated to produce a uniform heterostructure. Continuous ZnO nanorod arrays were grown on Whatman and hospital papers; however, on office paper, the formation of nanoplates originating nanoflower structures could be observed. TiO2 nanoparticles homogeneously covered all the substrates, in some conditions forming uniform TiO2 films. Structural characterization was carried out by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) coupled with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Raman spectroscopy. The optical characterization of all the materials was carried out. The produced materials were investigated for multifunctiona...
Sensors
Electronic skin (e-skin) is pursued as a key component in robotics and prosthesis to confer them ... more Electronic skin (e-skin) is pursued as a key component in robotics and prosthesis to confer them sensing properties that mimic human skin. For pressure monitoring, a great emphasis on piezoresistive sensors was registered due to the simplicity of sensor design and readout mechanism. For higher sensitivity, films composing these sensors may be micro-structured, usually by expensive photolithography techniques or low-cost and low-customizable molds. Sensors commonly present different sensitivities in different pressure ranges, which should be avoided in robotics and prosthesis applications. The combination of pressure sensing and temperature is also relevant for the field and has room for improvement. This work proposes an alternative approach for film micro-structuration based on the production of highly customizable and low-cost molds through laser engraving. These bimodal e-skin piezoresistive and temperature sensors could achieve a stable sensitivity of −6.4 × 10−3 kPa−1 from 1.6 ...
PloS one, 2018
The widespread use of neonicotinoid insecticides in recent years has led to increasing environmen... more The widespread use of neonicotinoid insecticides in recent years has led to increasing environmental concern, including impacts to avian populations. In Texas and across their range, Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) habitat frequently overlaps cultivated cropland protected by neonicotinoids. To address the effects of neonicotinoid use on bobwhites in Texas, we conducted a historical analysis from 1978-2012 in Texas' ecological regions using quail count data collected from North American Breeding Bird Survey and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and neonicotinoid use data from the U.S. Geological Survey. We considered bobwhite abundance, neonicotinoid use, climate, and land-use variables in our analysis. Neonicotinoid use was significantly (p<0.05) negatively associated with bobwhite abundance in the High Plains, Rolling Plains, Gulf Coast Prairies & Marshes, Edwards Plateau, and South Texas Plains ecological regions in the time periods following neonicotinoid introd...
Advanced Electronic Materials
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), Jan 25, 2017
Digital Microfluidics (DMF) has emerged as a disruptive methodology for the control and manipulat... more Digital Microfluidics (DMF) has emerged as a disruptive methodology for the control and manipulation of low volume droplets. In DMF, each droplet acts as a single reactor, which allows for extensive multiparallelization of biological and chemical reactions at a much smaller scale. DMF devices open entirely new and promising pathways for multiplex analysis and reaction occurring in a miniaturized format, thus allowing for healthcare decentralization from major laboratories to point-of-care with accurate, robust and inexpensive molecular diagnostics. Here, we shall focus on DMF platforms specifically designed for nucleic acid amplification, which is key for molecular diagnostics of several diseases and conditions, from pathogen identification to cancer mutations detection. Particular attention will be given to the device architecture, materials and nucleic acid amplification applications in validated settings.
Integrated environmental assessment and management, Jan 6, 2016
Protected areas (PAs) are critically important means to preserve species and maintain natural eco... more Protected areas (PAs) are critically important means to preserve species and maintain natural ecosystems. However, the potential impacts of chemical pollution on PAs are seldom mentioned in the scientific literature. Research on the extent of the occurrence of chemical pollution inside PAs and in-depth assessments of how chemical contaminants may adversely affect the maintenance of species abundance, species survival, and ecosystem functions are scarce to non-existent. We investigated the (1) occurrence of chemical contaminants inside 119 PAs in Latin America from publically available databases and (2) reviewed case studies of chemical contaminants and pollution in four Latin American PAs. Cases of chemical pollution/ contamination inside Latin American PAs were mostly originated from sources such as mining, oil and gas extraction. To date, the focus of the research on chemical pollution research inside Latin American PAs has been primarily on the detection of contamination, typical...
Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology, Jan 26, 2016
We measured concentrations of selected metals (Al, Ba, Cu, Mn, Hg, Sr, V, and Zn) in water, sedim... more We measured concentrations of selected metals (Al, Ba, Cu, Mn, Hg, Sr, V, and Zn) in water, sediments, and fish from Lake Chapala and a reference site to evaluate potential negative effects on wildlife, particularly fish-eating birds. Fish metal concentrations ranged from 0.05 µg/g wet weight (ww) for Al and Cu to 64.70 µg/g ww for Sr. There was a positive and significant correlation between fish length and metals particularly for Ba, Cu, Mn, and Zn in Lake Chapala (p < 0.05). However, there were no significant correlations between metal concentrations and δ(15)N values in fish indicating no biomagnification through the food web. Overall, metal concentrations in water, sediments, and fish were similar to and in some cases below those reported for Lake Chapala over the last 20 years. Also, metal concentrations were below those that could be of concern for negative effects on fish and wildlife of Lake Chapala.
Los Caminos De La Lengua Estudios En Homenaje a Enrique Alcaraz Varo 2010 Isbn 978 84 9717 137 3 Pags 83 92, 2010
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