C. Presentations at IX Researchers' Annual Meeting (2011)

A. Publications
Abraham, A. C. Moyer, J. T., Villegas, D. F., Odegard, G. M., Haut Donahue, T. L. (2011)
Hyperelastic properties of Human Meniscal Attachments. Journal of Biomechanics 44: 413-
418.
Aponte, B., Flores, F. R. (2011). Methodologies to improve competitiveness in SMEs: Applied
Studies. Alowee! Creative Studio.
Barberena-Arias, M. F., Ortiz-Zayas, J., Abad, C., Almodóvar, G., López, L., Rodríguez, M.,
Samó, M., Dávila, G., Troche, L. (in press).Comparación de la fauna de artrópodos terrestres
entre pastizales y bosques dominados por el tulipán africano, en tres zonas del karso norteño
en Puerto Rico. Acta Científica.
Berríos Pagan, M. (2011) Comparative Study of the Use of Extensible Business Reporting
Language (XBRL) in Projects for the Supervision of Banking Institutions. Journal of
Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. (Forthcoming).
Bosque, A., Schaffner, F. C. (2010) Use of cost-benefit analysis for risk reduction valuation as a
mechanism to enhance risk management decision making in developing countries In: Laboy-
Nieves, E., Goosen, M. A., Emmanuel E. (Eds) Environmental and Human Health: Risk
Management in Developing Countries, Taylor and Francis, pages 61-72.
Cáceres-Acosta, N. M., Salgado-Herrera, M., Laboy-Nieves, E., Emmanuel, E. (2010) Viability
of the up flow anaerobic sludge process for risk management of wastewater treatment. In:
Laboy-Nieves, E., Goosen, M. A., Emmanuel E. (Eds) Environmental and Human Health:
Risk Management in Developing Countries, Taylor and Francis, pages 251-273.
Callarotti, Roberto (2010) Energy Efficiency in the Electrical Heating of Methane Hydrate
Reservoirs. SPE Proceedings SURIPC 10: 1-12.
Cantrell, S. A., Báez-Félix, C. (2010) Fungal Molecular diversity of a Puerto Rican subtropical
hypersaline microbial mat. Fungal Ecology 3: 402-405.
Cantrell, S. A., Dianese, J. C., Fell, J., Gunde-Cimerman, N., Zalar, P. (2011) Unusual Fungal
Niches. Mycologia (in press).
Cantrell, S. A., Hanlin, R. T. (2010) Color variation in two neotropical species of Scutellinia.
Caribbean Journal of Sciences 46 : 96-101.
Cantrell, S. A., Lodge, D. J., Cruz, C. A., García, L. M., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R., Molina, M. (in
press) Differential abundance of microbial functional groups along the elevation gradient
from the coast to the Luquillo Mountains. Ecological Bulletin.
Cosme-Colón, I. N., Emmanuel, E., Laboy-Nieves, E. (2010) Application of low-cost sorbents to
remove chromium from industrial wastewater discharges. In: Laboy-Nieves, E., Goosen, M.
A., Emmanuel E. (Eds) Environmental and Human Health: Risk Management in Developing
Countries, Taylor and Francis, pages 235-250.
Cotto, M. C., Emiliano, A., Nieto, S., Duconge, J., Roque-Malherbe, R. (2009) Degradation of
phenol by mechanical activation of a rutile catalyst. Journal of Colloid and interface Science
339: 133-139.
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Cotto, M. C., Emiliano, A., Nieto, S., Duconge, J., Roque-Malherbe, R. (2009) Degradation of
phenol by mechanical activation of a rutile catalyst. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
339: 133-139.
Duffany, J. (2009) Equivalence Class Subset Algorithm. World Academy of Science,
Engineering and Technology 53: 545-550.
Duffany, J. L. (2010) Artificial Intelligence in GPS Navigation Systems. Journal Technology
and Engineering 1: 382-387.
Duffany, J. L. (2010) Complexity Layers in Graph Coloring. Journal World Academy of
Science, Engineering and Technology 63.
Féliz Rodríguez, O., Fernández, F., Soto Torres, R. (2011) Impact of information technology
certifications in Puerto Rico. Management Research: The Journal of the Iberoamerican
Academy of Management 9:137-153.
Ferrer Moreno, E. (2010) A model for evaluating information society and digital divide in Puerto
Rico. In: Business and Entrepreneurship in Puerto Rico, pages 47-57.
Ferrer Moreno, E. (2010) ICT Policy and perspectives of Human Development in Latin America:
the Peruvian Experience. Journal of Technology Management & Innovation 4: 161-170.
Ferrer, E. (2009) Assessing Information Society Indicators: The Puerto Rico Case. International
Handbook of Academic Research and Teaching 7: 204-207.
Ferrer, E., Nieves, R. (2011) Toward a new model of light electronic medical record for
homeless patients. IJSHIM 4: 1-8.
Figueroa Domínguez, C. M., Ramaswamy, M., Márquez Martínez, E., García Cleal, M. (2010) A
Framework for Information Security Awareness Programs. Journal Issues in Information
System 11: 402-409.
Fonseca Lind, S., Ramaswamy, M., Márquez Martínez, E. (2009) Towards a Framework for
Information Technology Governance in Puerto Rico. Issues in Information Systems 10: 33-
39.
Gil de Lamadrid, K. (2010) Caguas. Transformaciones territoriales desde el período colonial
hasta el año 1952. Publicaciones Puertorriqueñas.
Goosen, M. F. A., Laboy Nieves, E., Schaffner, F. C., Abdelhadi, A. (2009) Environmental
Management, Sustainable Development and Human Health. CRC Press.
Goosen, M. F. A., Laboy Nieves, E., Schaffner, F. C., Abdelhadi, A. (2009) The environment,
sustainable development and human wellbeing: An overview. In: Goosen, M. F. A., Laboy
Nieves, E., Schaffner, F. C., Abdelhadi, A. (Eds) Environmental Management, Sustainable
Development and Human Health. CRC Press, pages 3-13.
Goosen, M. F. A., Laboy Nieves, E., Schaffner, F. C., Abdelhadi, A. (2009) Environment,
sustainable development and human health. Proceedings of the 14 th International Conference
on Productivity and Quality Research, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime
Transport, Alexandria, Egypt.
Guzmán, J., Colón, P., Vega, J. C., Díaz, Á. G. (2011) Reverend T Bayes vs. Reverend P Value
Some Fundamental Issues on Two Paradigms. Chilean Journal of Statistics. ISSN 0718-7912.
(Forthcoming)
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Hijazi Y., Svedberg, E.B., Heinrich, T., Khizroev, S. (2011) Comparative Corrosion Study of
binary Oxide and Nitride Overcoats Using In-Situ Fluid-Cell AFM. Journal of Materials
Characterization 62: 76-80.
Laboy-Nieves, E. N. (2011) Neumáticos desechados: ¿un problema ambiental o una oportunidad
energética para Puerto Rico? Dimensión Ingeniería y Agrimensura Año 25, 3:15-20.
Laboy-Nieves, E., Goosen, M. F. A., Emmanuel, E. (2010) Environmental and Human Health:
Risk Management in Developing Countries. Taylor and Francis.
Laboy-Nieves, E., Oms J. A. (2010) Tsunami hazards: A case study of risk management in the
Caribbean Region. In: Laboy-Nieves, E., Goosen, M. A., Emmanuel E. (Eds) Environmental
and Human Health: Risk Management in Developing Countries, Taylor and Francis, pages
41-60.
Lau, M., Kuruganty, S. (2010) A Spreadsheet Illustration of the Transient Stability Analysis of
Power Systems. eJournal of Spreadsheets in Education 3: 1-15.
Lau, M., Kuruganty, S. (2010) Spreadsheet Implementing for Solving Boundary - Value
Problems in Electromagnetics. eJournal of Spreadsheets in Education 4: 1-8.
Lau, M. A., Kuruganty, S. P. (2011) Fault analysis in power systems. In: Lau, M. A., Sugden, S.
J. (Eds) Applications of spreadsheets in Education. The Amazing power of a single tool.
Bentham eBooks, pages 41-63.
Lau, M. A., Sugden, S. J. (2011) Applications of spreadsheets in Education. The Amazing power
of a single tool. Bentham eBooks
Lau, M. A., Singhose, W. E. (2011) Optimal control of dynamical systems. In: Lau, M. A.,
Sugden, S. J. (Eds) Applications of spreadsheets in Education. The Amazing power of a
single tool. Bentham eBooks, pages 41-63.
Lebrón, A., Sosa, J. C. (2010) Cultural Impact on Management Styles: A cross-cultural study
between manages of Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic. Journal Global Business and
Economic Anthology 1: 14-31.
López Moreno, W., Márquez, E., Gúzman, J., Colón, P. A. (2010) Geometric model to optimize
the teaching of pharmaceutical industrial sector administrators in Puerto Rico. Journal Oikos
(in press)
López, V., Morant, C., Márquez, F., Zamora, F., Elizalde, E. (2009) Anodic Aluminium Oxide
Membranes Used for the Growth of Carbon Nanotubes. Journal of Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology 9: 6396-6400.
López, W., Márquez, E., Guzmán J., Colón, P. A. (2011). “Modelo geométrico para optimizar el
adiestramiento de los administradores en el sector industrial farmacéutico de Puerto Rico”,
OIKOS N o 29, 91-112, Escuela de Administración y Economía, Universidad Católica Silva
Henríquez (UCSH), Santiago de Chile. [http//edicionesucsh/oikos/]
Malavé, K., Cotto Maldonado, M. C. (2010) Communicating environmental risks in developing
countries. In: Laboy-Nieves, E., Goosen, M. A., Emmanuel E. (Eds) Environmental and
Human Health: Risk Management in Developing Countries, Taylor and Francis, pages 13-
28.
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Márquez, F., Morant, C., López, V., Zamora, F., Campo, T., Elizalde, E. (2011) Alternative route
for the synthesis of silicon nanowires via porous anodic alumina masks. Nanoscale Research
Letters 6:495
Márquez, F., Campo, T., Cotto, M., Polanco, R., Roque, R., Fierro, P., Sanz, J. M., Elizalde, E.,
Morant, C. (2011) Synthesis and Characterization of Monodisperse Magnetite Hollow
Microspheres. Soft Nanoscience Letters 1: 25-32.
Márquez, F., López V., Morant, C., Roque-Malherbe, R., Domingo, C., Elizalde, E., Zamora, F.
(2010) Structure and Characterization of Vertically Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube
Bundles. Journal of Nanomaterials DOI:10.1155 /2010/189214.
Márquez, F., Morant, C., Campo, T., Sanz, J.M., Elizalde E. (2010) Ordered Metal Nanotube
Arrays Fabricated by PVD. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 10: 1-5.
Márquez, F., Morant, C., Sanz, J. M., Elizalde, E. (2009) Post-Synthesis Alignment of
Chemically Modified Carbon Nanotubes in Magnetic Fields. Journal of Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology 9: 6127- 6131.
Márquez, F., Sabater, M. J. (2011) Electron Confinement Effect of Laser Dyes within Dendritic
Structures. Journal of Encapsulation and Adsorption Sciences 1: 1-6.
Márquez-Linares, F.,Uwakweh, O.,López, N., Chávez, E.,Polanco, R.,Morant, C., Sanz, J.
M.,Elizalde, E., Neira, C., Nieto, S., Roque-Malherbe, R. (2011) Study of the surface
chemistry and morphology of single walled carbon nanotube-magnetite composites. Journal
of Solid State Chemistry 184: 655–666.
Martínez Segura, G. (2010) The First Online Chemistry Laboratory Experience at the
Universidad del Turabo. In: Moving the Laboratory online situating the online Laboratory
Learning Experience for the Future Success, The Sloan Consortium, pages 369-378.
Martínez, E. (2011) The predictive value of placement and remediation on student persistence
and achievement of first-time freshmen at a post-secondary institution in Puerto Rico. Glossa
6: 37-78
Morales, C., Malave, A. (2011) Modeling Energy Savings in Low Income Residencies.
Sustainable Development and Planning 5: 883-895.
Morales, Juan C. (2009) Implementing a Robust, yet straight forward direct assessment process
that engages 100% of the Faculty. Proceedings of ASME-IMECE 7:25-34.
Morant, C., Márquez, F., Campo, T., Sanz, J. M., Elizalde, E. (2010) Niobium and hafnium
grown on porous membrane-ces. Journal Thin Solid Films 518: 6799-6803.
Ojeda-Castro, A., Ramaswamy, M., Rivera-Collazo, Á., Jumah, A. (2011) Critical factors for
successful implementation of data warehouse. Issues in Information Systems 12: 88-96.
Ortiz Fournier, L. V., Márquez, E., Flores, R., Rivera Vázquez, J. C., Colón P. A. (2010)
Integrating educational institutions to produce intellectual capital for sustainability in
Caguas, Puerto Rico. Journal Knowledge Management Research & Practice 8: 203-215.
Oyola Núñez, Edna M. (2011) Aprendizaje en Servicio para Docentes y Estudiantes, Casa de los
Poetas Colección Cantagallo, pages 110.
Paredes, M., Pinzón, S. (2010) On the codifferential of the Kähler form and cosymplectic metrics
on maximal flag manifolds. Turkish Journal of Mathematics 34: 305-316.
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Paredes, M., Pinzón, S. (2010) Some remarks about cosymplectic metrics on maximal flag
manifolds. In Geometric and Topological Methods in Quantum Field Theory. Cambridge
University Press, pages 394-404.
Paredes, M., Pinzón, S. (2010) Tournments and parabolic almost complex structures on flag
manifolds. Contemporary Mathematics 509: 221-231.
Paredes, M., Villamizar, J., Bautista, L., Rodríguez D. (2011) The structure of the computational
signal algebra and its application in digital image processing. Revista Dna, 78: 118-132.
Pérez Velázquez, C. M. (2009) Can Ginkgo Biloba combat diseases. Puerto Rico Health
Sciences Journal 28: 66-74.
Pratt Lugo, S. (2011) La figura de «el otro» en la obra periodístico-literaria de Ryszard
Kapuściński (1932-2007). Glossa 6: 102-125.
Quintana, D. A. (2011) Animación a la lectura estrategias para un Puerto Rico Lector.
BIBESCO Revista Oficial de la Asociación de Bibliotecarios Escolares de Puerto Rico
(ABESPRI), XI (1) (Años 2006 - 2008), p.3 -5.
Quintero, G. E., Félix Rivera, M., Bolaños-Rosero, B. (2009) Analysis of environmental factors
and their effects on fungal spores in the atmosphere of a tropical urban area (San Juan, Puerto
Rico). Aerobiología. 26:113-124.
Quiñones, P., Carbajal, G. (2011) Capillary column enhanced CHF microgravity flow boiling.
International Journal of heat and Mass Transfer 55:260-271.
Ramos, J. Y., Laboy-Nieves, E. (2010) The potential of Thillandsia sp. to monitor PAHs from
automobile sources in Puerto Rico. In: Laboy-Nieves, E., Goosen, M. A., Emmanuel E.
(Eds) Environmental and Human Health: Risk Management in Developing Countries, Taylor
and Francis, pages 171-184.
Rivera-Vázquez, J. C., Ortiz-Fournier, L. V., Félix Flores R. (2009) Overcoming cultural barriers
for innovation and knowledge sharing. Journal of Knowledge Management 13: 257-270.
Romero, E., Warrington, R., Neuman, M. (2009) Energy scavenging sources for biomedical
sensors. Physiological Measurement 30: R35-R62.
Romero, E.,Neuman, M.R.,Warrington, R.O (2011) Rotational Energy harvester for Body
Motion. Micro Electro Mechanical Systems 10.1109/MEMSYS.2011.5734678.
Roque-Malherbe, R. (2011) Surface Area and Porosity Characterization of Porous Polymers In:
Porous Polymers, Silverstein, M. S., Cameron, N., Hillmyer, M. (Eds.), J. Wiley and Sons
Inc., New York.
Roque-Malherbe, R. M. A. (2009) The Physical Chemistry of Materials Energy and
Environmental Applications, CRC Press, UK.
Roque-Malherbe, R. M. A., Ivanov, V., Cotto, M. C., Emiliano, A. (2009) Codiffusion and
counterdiffusion of para-xylene and ortho-xylene in a with 10MR/12 MR interconnected
channels. An example molecular traffic control. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A:
Chemical. 313: 7-13.
Roque-Malherbe, R., Lozano, C., Polanco, R., Márquez, F., Lugo, F., Hernández-Maldonado, A.,
Primera-Pedrozo, J. (2011) Study of the adsorption of carbon dioxide on a Cu-nitroprusside
polymorph. Journal of Solid State Chemistry 184: 1236–1244.
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Roque-Malherbe, R., Polanco, R., Márquez, F. (2010) Study of the Interaction between Silica
Surfaces and the Carbon Dioxide Molecule. Journal J. Phys. Chem C 114: 17773–17787.
Roque-Malherbe, R., Uwakweh, O.N.C., Lozano, C., Polanco, R., Hernández-Maldonado, A.,
Fierro, P., Lugo, F., Primera-Pedrozo, J. N. (in press) Structural effects and interactions of
carbon dioxide molecules adsorbed on Ni-Zn-&-Cd-nitroprussides. Journal of Physical
Chemistry C.
Rosa, C. F. (2011) Destrezas profesionales adicionales para que un egresado de los programas de
contabilidad compita favorablemente por un empleo en el sector privado de empleos en
Puerto Rico. Cuaderno de Investigación en la Educación 26 (Forthcoming).
Sanchez Ríos, J. A., López Moreno, W. (2011) El Triángulo del fraude y sus efectos sobre la
integridad laboral. Anales de Estudios Económicos y Empresariales 21.
Saenz, O. A., Chen, C.-S., Centeno, M., Giachetti, R. E. (2009) Defining Enterprise Systems
Engineering. International Journal of Industrial Systems Engineering 4: 483-501.
Saenz, O., Reyes-Tosta, M. (2010) Evaluation Model for a Math and Science Partnership
Project. Scientific International Journal 7: 4-21.
Santiváñez, J., Melachrinoudis, E. (2009) Location of a Reliable center on a Tree Network.
Operational Research 7: 419-445.
Santiváñez, J., Melachrinoudis, E., Helander, M. E. (2009) Network Location of a Reliable
Center using the Most Reliable Route Policy. Computers and Operations Research 36: 1437-
1460.
Schaffner, F. (2010) Book Review: An Inventory of Breeding Seabirds of the Caribbean. Auk
127: 720-721.
Schlör, H., Fisher, W., Hake, J. F., Laboy-Nieves, E. (2010) Adjusted Genuine Savings and
Human Development Index: A two dimensional indicator for sustainability. In: Laboy-
Nieves, E., Goosen, M. A., Emmanuel E. (Eds) Environmental and Human Health: Risk
Management in Developing Countries, Taylor and Francis, pages 73-88.
Sobrino Rodríguez, C. R. (2010) The Effects of Inflation Targeting on the Current Account: An
Empirical Examination. Journal Economics Bulletin 30: 1105-1112.
Sobrino, C. R. (2011) Current Account, Productivity, and Terms of Trade Shocks in Norway,
Applied Economics Letters 18: 1745-1750.
Sosa, J. C., Ortiz, M. (2010) El efecto del País de Origen en la intención de Compra: Un Modelo
Multidimensional. Journal Multidisciplinary Business Review 3: 20-32.
Sosa, J. C., Svensson, G., Mysen, T. (2011) La Calidad de la Relación en la Cadena de
Suministros. INCAE Business Review 2: 2-9.
Sosa, J. C., Svensson, G., Mysen, T. (2011) A construct of META-RELQUAL in Puerto Rican
Business Relationships. ESIC Market Journal 140: 27-55.
Toro Ruiz. A. (2010) Historia Social e Ideologías de las Sociedades y otros Ensayos sobre
Historia de Georges Duby. Glossa 5:62-75.
Valentín Rivera, O. O., Márquez, E., Colón, P. A. Díaz, A. G. (2010) Geografic System
Information: Analysis information tools to atract capital invertion in Caguas. Revista de
Inteligencia Empresarial 1: 2-9.
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Vargas, J. M., Bogozi, A., Noel, J., Hijazi, Y., Vlasov, Y.A., Larkins, G.L., (2011)
Reliability of Suspended Bridges on Superconducting Microstrip Filters using MEMS
Switches. Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions 21: 567-570.
Villafañe-Deyack, E., Laboy-Nieves, E. (2010) Degradation of PCBs and spilled oil by
bioenhancing agents. In: Laboy-Nieves, E., Goosen, M. A., Emmanuel E. (Eds)
Environmental and Human Health: Risk Management in Developing Countries, Taylor and
Francis, pages 185-200.
Villegas, D. (2009) Collagen Morphology in Human Meniscal Attachments. Journal Connective
Tissue Research 51: 327-336.
Vujisic, Z. (2010) Transcending the Limitations of Worldview and Achieving Mental Health,
Self-Actualization and Tolerance Through Religious Psychotherapeutic Methodologies: A
Call for Scientific Investigation. Glossa 5:320-329.
Vujisic, Z. (2011) Signature presence. Glossa 6: 126-130.
B. Presentations at national and international scientific meetings
Acevedo-Peña, M., Cantrell, S. A., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2009) Mycological Society of America
Annual Meeting, Snowbird, Utah. Accountability of fungal molecular signatures from
microbial mats in TRFLP profiles.
Aponte Torres, B. (2011) 1 er Congreso Internacional de la Facultada de Ciencias Administrativas
y Sociales, Universidad de Veracruz, Xalapa, México. La mercado técnica, la publicidad y
las relaciones públicas como factor de competitividad en las organizaciones.
Benitez Laboy, J., Nieto, S. (2011) AGMUS Research Symposium, Sna Juan, Puerto Rico.
Synthesis and characterization of cathode materials for intermediate temperature solid oxide
fuel cell (It-Sofc).
Bernier, Y., Cantrell, S., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2011) Junior Technical Meeting (PRISM 2011),
Universidad Interame-ricana, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Biodegradation of arsenic and other
organic compounds in the Ma’rtín Peña drainage by microorganisms.
Berríos, M. (2010) 4 th International Multi-conference on society, cybernetics and informatics,
Orlando, Florida. Comparative study of the use of XBRL in projects for the supervision of
banking.
Berríos, M. (2010) AIB-LAT Conference, Río de Janeiro, Brazil. IFRS Readiness in Latin
American business curricula.
Berríos, M. (2010) Corporate Governance and the Global financial Crisis Conference,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The relationship between bank risk and financial performance
How much did risky lending contribute to the global financial crisis?
Bonilla, C., Campo, T., López, V., Zamora, F., Elizalde, E., Morant, C., Márquez, F. (2011) 43 rd
World Chemistry Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Synthesis of silicon naonwires via porous
alumina masks.
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Bonilla, C., García, A., Ducongé, J., Campo, T., Elizalde, E., Morant, C., Márquez, F. (2011)
43 rd World Chemistry Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Synthesis and Characterization of
Crystalline Fe2O3 Nanowires by Oxidation of Iron Substrates.
Bonilla, C., García, A., Ducongé, J., Campo, T., Elizalde, E., Morant, C., Márquez, F. (2011)
43 rd World Chemistry Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Synthesis and Catalytic Activity of
Iron Oxide Nanowires.
Bonilla-Rivera, C. E., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2009) American Society of Microbiology 109 th
General Meeting, Metro Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sulfidogenic communities at El Yunque
Rain Forest in Puerto Rico.
Bonilla, N., Romero E. (2011) AGMUS Research Symposium, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Energy
harvesting on a flag with piezoelectric material.
Bosch-Ramírez, A., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2009) American Society of Microbiology 109 th
General Meeting, Metro Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Diversity and abundance of sulphatereducing
bacteria in hypersaline microbial mats (Cabo rojo, Puerto Rico).
Bou, N. (2009) American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Convention, New Orleans,
Louisiana. Phonological Awareness role in the treatment of phonological disorders.
Cáceres Acosta N. M., Salgado M. (2010) 10 th Wastewater and Environmental Seminar, Rio
Grande, Puerto Rico. Application of the up flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Process in
Wastewater Treatment An Alternative for the Management of Ecological Risk.
Cáceres Acosta N. M., Salgado M. (2010) Femmes et science en Haiti Diagnostic et perspective,
Univesitate Quisqueya, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Application of the up flow Anaerobic Sludge
Blanket Process in Wastewater Treatment An Alternative for the Management of Ecological
Risk.
Calderón-Ortiz, E., Márquez, F., Roque-Malherbe, R., Morant, C., Campo, T., Sanz, J. M. (2009)
20 th European Confe-rence on Diamond-like Materials, Carbon Nanotubes and Nitrides,
Athens, Greece. Ferite functionalized carbon nanotubes and their response to magnetic
fields.
Camacho-Hernández, M. (2009) VIII Encuentro de Política Social y Trabajo Social, Antigua,
Guatemala. La participación de organizaciones sin fines de lucro en la política pública de
Puerto Rico.
Camacho-Hernández, M. (2009) VIII Encuentro de Política Social y Trabajo Social, Antigua,
Guatemala. Reflexiones sobre la dimensión política de la participación en política pública
de organizaciones sin fines de lucro de Puerto Rico.
Campo, T., Gálvez, S., Morant, C., Márquez, F., Herrera, G. M., Elizalde E. (2011) 43 rd World
Chemistry Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Field Emission properties of carbon nanotubes
grown on TiN/Si substrates.
Campo, T., López, V., Zamora, F., Bonilla, C., Elizalde, E., Morant, C., Márquez, F. (2011) 43 rd
World Chemistry Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Synthesis of silicon nanowires via porous
anodic alumina masks.
Campo, T., Márquez, F., Cotto, M., Elizalde, E., Morant, C. (2011) 43 rd World Chemistry
Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Silicon nanowire growth on SiO2 nanospheres for Li-ion
battery anodes.
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Cantrell, S. A. (2010) 9 th International Mycological Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland. Microbial
Mats: An unusual fungal niche.
Cantrell, S. A. (2010) VI Brasilian Mycological Congress, Brasilia, Brazil.Tropical Storms and
their impact on forest floor mycobiota.
Cantrell, S. A., Acevedo, M., Duval, L., Gunde-Cimerman, N., Soler, M., Tkavc, R. (2009)
Mycological Society of America Annual Meeting, Snowbird, Utah. Unusual Fungal Niches
Symposium. Fungal signatures from hypersaline microbial mats.
Cantrell, S. A., Duval, L., Acevedo, M., Soler, M. (2009) American Society of Microbiology
109 th General Meeting, Metro Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Molecular and functional
signatures of fungi from tropical hypersaline microbial mat in Puerto Rico.
Cantrell, S. A., Lodge, D. J. (2011) VII Latin American Mycological Congress, San José, Costa
Rica. Global Climate Change, tropical storms and forest floor microorganisms.
Cantrell, S. A., Lodge, D. J., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2010) 9 th International Mycological
Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland. Forest Floor fungal community changes with simulated
cyclone disturbances.
Cantrell, S. A., Lodge, D. J., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2011) 79 th Annual Meeting of the
Mycological Society of America, Fairbanks, Alaska. Climate, vegetation and soil fungi. A
story from a subtropical elevation gradient.
Carbajal, G. (2011) CIEMADES, Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico. Analysis of
solar air conditioning in Puerto Rico.
Carrasquillo, J., Sosa, J. C., Santos Corrada, M. (2011) CLADEA, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Las
políticas de devoluciones de mercancía y su impacto en la conducta fraudulenta del
consumidor.
Carazo-Carrión, A., Laureano-Córdova, D. L., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2011) 111 th American
Society for Microbiology General Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. Community Profiling
of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea across Mangroves in Puerto Rico.
Carazo-Carrión, A., Laureano-Córdova, D. L., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2011) LTER
Fungal/Microbial Genomics working group, Albuquerque. New Mexico. Community
Profiling of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea across Mangroves in Puerto Rico.
Carazo-Carrión, A., Laureano-Córdova, D. L., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2011) IV Frontiers in
Environmental Microbiology, Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico. Community
Profiling of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea across Mangroves in Puerto Rico.
Chávez Corona, C., Ferrer Moreno, E.m Rodríguez Henríquez, F. (2011) ReConFig 2011,
Cancún, México. Hardware design of a 256-bit prime field multiplier suitable for computing
bilinear pairings.
Contreras-Medina, L. D., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2011) IV Frontiers in Environmental
Microbiology, Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico. Diversity and distribution of
bacteria in sediment at the Jobos Bay National Estuarine.
Cosme Colón, I. (2010) Femmes et science en Haiti Diagnostic et perspective, Univesitate
Quisqueya, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Aplicación de sorbentes de bajo costo para la remoción de
cromio de descargas de aguas usadas industriales revisión de literatura.
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Cosme, G., Malave, A. (2011) COPIMERA, San Jose, Costa Rica. Evaluación de Ejecución y
Experiencias de Sistema Fotovoltaico de Escala Comercial Interconectado a la Red Eléctrica:
25 Años Después
Costa, A., C., Polanco,., Roque-Malherbe, R. (2011) 43 rd World Chemistry Congress, San Juan,
Puerto Rico. Study of the Interaction between Dealuminated Natural Clinoptilolites and the
Carbon Dioxide Molecule.
Cotto, M., Masa, A., García, A., Ducongé, J., Campo, T., Elizalde, E., Morant, C., Márquez, F.
(2011) 43 rd World Chemistry Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. ZnCd Based Photocatalysts
for Hydrogen Production from Water under Visible-UV Light.
Cotto, M., Campo, T., Elizalde, E., Morant, C., Márquez, F. (2011) 43 rd World Chemistry
Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hydrothermal Synthesis and Photocatalytic Activity of
Titanium Oxide Nanowires.
Cotto, M., Campo, T., Elizalde, E., Morant, C., Márquez, F. (2011) 22 nd European Conference on
Diamond, Diamond-like materials, Carbon Nanotubes and Nitrides, Bavaria, Alemania.
Silicon Nanowires Grown on SiO2 Nanospheres and their Applications in Ion-Li Batteries.
Cruz, F. J., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2011) IV Frontiers in Environmental Microbiology,
Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico. Genetics homologues for Firmicutes arsenatereducing
prokaryotes in nature.
Díaz, F., Santana, J. A., Roque-Malherbe, R. M. A., Ishikawa, Y. (2011) 43 rd World Chemistry
Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. A van der Waals DFT calculations of Co2 interaction with
silica surface.
Duconge, J., Bonilla, C., Cotto, M., Herrera, G. M., Campo, T., Elizalde, E., Morant, C.,
Márquez, F. (2011) 43 rd World Chemistry Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hydrothermal
Synthesis of Crystalline CuO Nanowires.
Ducongé, J., Bonilla, C., García, A., Herrera, G. M., Cotto, M., Campo, T., Elizalde, E., Morant,
C., Márquez, F. (2011) 43 rd World Chemistry Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Synthesis
and Characterization of Copper Oxide Nanowires.
Duffany, J. L. (2009) 7 th Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institution,
San Cristobal, Venezuela. Real time traffic information via mobile ad-hoc networks.
Duffany, J. L. (2009) International Conference on Computer and Information Technology,
Tokyo, Japon. Equivalence class subset algorithm.
Duffany, J. L. (2009) World Congress on Science, Engineering and Technology, Dubai, United
Arab Emirates. Optimal Solution of constraint satisfaction problems.
Duffany, J. L. (2010) IADIS International Conference Information Systems, Porto, Portugal.
Estimation of Future Broadband Infrastructure Requirements.
Duffany, J. L. (2010) International Conference on Computer Sciences, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Complexity Analysis of Some Known Graph Coloring Instances.
Duval, L., Visscher, P. T., Cantrell, S. A. (2009) Mycological Society of America Annual
Meeting, Snowbird, Utah. Degradation of exopolymeric substances by the microbial
communities from hypersaline microbial mats.
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Ferrer Moreno, E. L. (2010) 18 th World Congress of the International Commission of
Agricultural Engineering, Quebec, Canada. Decision Support Systems for Environmental
Management and Conservation: A Gis-Based Model.
Ferrer, E (2009) International Conference on eGoverment and eGovernance Ankara, Turkey. A
strategic framework for analyzing digital divide from a domestic perspective.
Ferrer, E. (2011) CINVESTAV-IPN Conputer Science Department Seminar, Ciudad de México,
DF, México. Acceleration of finite field arithmetic with an application to reverse engineering
genetic networks.
Ferrer, E. (2011) 3 er Congreso de Investigación en Disciplinas de Negocios (CoIDINE),
Universidad del Turabo, gurabo, Puerto Rico. Measuring the quality of academic journals in
the field of Information Systems.
Ferrer, E., Nieves, R. (2011) Intellectbase International Consortium, San Antonio, Texas.
Patient-driven light electronic medical record: toward a new model for homeless patients.
Ferrer, E., Nieves, R. (2011) IJAS Conference, Bad Hofgastein, Austria. A new model for
mobile electronic medical record system.
Ferrer, E., Lazo, S. (2011) IJAS Conference, Roma, Italia. Higher Education in the age of cloud
computing: social and technological concerns.
Gómez-Millán, I. Santiago-Rivera, I., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2009) American Society of
Microbiology 109 th General Meeting, Metro Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Prevalence of
dissimilatory arsenate-reducing prokaryotes in nature.
González, G., Cantrell, S. A., Silver, W. L., Lodge, D. J. and Richardson, B. A. (2009) LTER All
Scientist Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado. Climate, biota and ecosystem processes along an
elevation gradient in Puerto Rico.
González, G., Lodge, D. J., Cantrell, and Richardson, B. A. (2009) LTER All Scientist Meeting,
Estes Park, Colorado. A Canopy Trimming Experiment effects on invertebrates, microbes
and decay.
González, G., Lodge, D. J., Cantrell, S. A. (2011) ESA Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. A canopy
trimming experiment in Puerto Rico: Effects on invertebrates, microbes and decay.
Guzmán, J., Colón, P., Díaz, A. G. (2009) 3 er Congreso Internacional de Gestión de
Conocimiento, Habana, Cuba. Reverend T Bayes and Reverend P Value A note on some
fundamental issues.
Herrera, G. M., Campo, T., glavez, S., Morant, C., Márquez, F. (2011) 43 rd World Chemistry
Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Field-emission properties of single-Wall carbón nanotubes
grwon on Ti/Si substrate.
Herrera, G. M., Campo, T., Cotto, M., Sanz, J. M., Elizalde, E., Morant, C., Márquez, F. (2011)
43 rd World Chemistry Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Synthesis and Characterization of
Monodisperse Magnetite Hollow Nanospheres.
Herrera, G. M., Campo, T., Cotto, M., Sanz, J. M., Elizalde, E., Morant, C., Caudales, R.,
Márquez, F. (2011) 43 rd World Chemistry Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Preparation of
Hollow Magnetite Nanoparticles and their Applications as Drug Carriers.
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Herrera, G. M., Félix, H., Campo, T., Cotto, M., Sanz, J. M., Elizalde, E., Morant, C., Márquez,
F. (2011) 43 rd World Chemistry Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Synthesis and
Characterization of Au Coated TiO2 nanowires as SERS solid substrates.
Hodson, B., Bou, N. (2010) American Speech-Language and Hearing Association, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Adaptation of Dr. Hodson cycles approach for Puerto Rican Spanish
Phonology.
Huertas González, F. R. (2011) Seminario Internacional “El Caribe y sus relaciones con España
Políticas y Sociedades en Transformación, Siglos XIX-XX”. Sociedad, Cultura y Deporte en
el Puerto Rico del Siglo XX
Latorre-Castro, L. O., Alonso-Fernández, C. I., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2009) American Society of
Microbiology 109 th General Meeting, Metro Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Richness and
endemicity of sulphate-reducing bacteria across neotropical terrestrial environments.
Lau, M., Kuruganty, S. (2009) ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Austin, Texas. The
use of Spreadsheets in teaching the power-flow problem.
Laureano-Cordova, D., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2011) IV Frontiers in Environmental Microbiology,
Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico. Neotropical island biogeography for sulphate
reducing bacteria.
Laureano-Cordova, D. L., Latorre-Castro, L. O., Rodríguez-Ortiz, B., Rodríguez-Colón, M.,
Pérez-Jiménez J. R. (2011) 111 th American Society for Microbiology General Meeting, New
Orleans, Louisiana. Richness and Endemicity of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in Neotropical
Environments.
Laureano-Cordova, D. L., Latorre-Castro, L. O., Rodríguez-Ortiz, B., Rodríguez-Colón, M.,
Pérez-Jiménez J. R. (2011) LTER Fungal/Microbial Genomic Working Group, Albuquerque,
New Mexico. Richness and Endemicity of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in Neotropical
Environments.
Lebrón Rolón, A. (2010) Business and Economics Society International Conference, Nassau,
Bahamas. Cultural impact on management styles a cross-cultural study between Puerto Rico
and Dominican Republic.
Lodge, D. J., Cantrell, S. A., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2011) 79 th Annual Meeting of the
Mycological Society of America, Fairbanks, Alaska. Forest floor fungal community changes
with simulated hurricane disturbances.
Llorens Gómez, A. L. (2009) XII taller Internacional de gestión tecnológica e innovación y su
aplicación en las organizaciones y 3er Congreso Internacional de Gestión de Conocimiento
Habana, Cuba. Estudio de brecha digital empresarial en la región noreste de Puerto Rico
Propuesta conceptual de un modelo de adopción de tecnologías de información en micro y
pequeñas empresas.
Lozano, C. M., Lugo, F., Hernández-Maldonado, A., Polanco, R., Roque-Malherbe, R. (2011)
43 rd World Chemistry Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Surface chemistry and morphology
of Ni, Zn, Cd-nitroprussides adsorption spaces.
Lozano, C., Polanco R., F., Hernandez-Maldonado, A., Primera, J., Roque-Malherbe, R., (2011)
43 rd World Chemistry Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Adsorption of carbon dioxide on a
Cu-nitroprussides polymorph.
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Lozano, C., Polanco, R., Lugo, F.,ández-Maldonado,., Roque-Malherbe, R. (2011) 43 rd World
Chemistry Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Adsorption of carbon dioxide on Ni, Zn-&-Cdnitroprussides.
Lozano, C., Polanco, R., Márquez, F., Lugo, F., Hernández-Maldonado, A., Primera-Pedrozo, J.
N., Roque-Malherbe, R. (2011) VII Congreso Internacional Interdisciplinario de
Investigación Cinetífica, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. Cyanometallate
derivatives: Novel materials for small molecules gases adsorption and storage.
Lugo, F. N., Roque-Malherbe, R. M., Polanco, R., Hernández-Maldonado, A., Primera-Pedrozo,
J., Lozano, C. 43 rd World Chemistry Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Study of carbon
dioxide adsorption on a Cu-nitropruside polymorph.
Marín Cruz, G. E., Ferrer, E. (2009) Sexto Simposio Iberoamericano en Sistemas, Cibernética e
Informática, Orlando Florida. Modelo Estratégico para la Implementación de un Programa de
Concienciación y Entrete-nimiento para la Seguridad de la Información.
Márquez, E. (2010) IACIS Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada. A Technological Infrastructure
Development Assessment to Enable a Knowledge Society into a Smart City.
Márquez, F. Morant, C., Sanz, J. M., Elizalde, E. (2009) 10 th International Meeting in Inorganic
Chemistry, Barcelona, España. Synthesis of Niobium nanowire arrays AAO membranes.
Márquez, F., Morant, C., Campo, T., Elizalde, E., Sanz, J. M., Roque, R., Ducongé, J. (2010)
NANOSMAT-5, Reims, Francia. Synthesis and characterization of magnetite nanospheres.
Márquez, F., Morant, C., Campo, T., Sanz, J. M., Elizalde, E. (2010) NANOSMAT-5, Reims,
Francia.Crystalline iron oxide nanowire synthesis by termal oxidation.
Márquez, F., Morant, C., Sanz, J. M., Elizalde, E., Campo, T., Uwakweh, O. (2010) 21st
European Conference on Diamond, Diamond-like materials, Carbon nanotubes, and Nitriles,
Budapest, Hungría. Mössbauer study of single walled carbon nanotube-magnetite
composites.
Márquez, F., Roque, R., Uwakweh, O., Morant, C., Campo, T., Elizalde, E. (2010) 21st
European Conference on Diamond, Diamond-like materials, Carbon nanotubes, and Nitriles,
Budapest, Hungría. Synthesis, characterization and aligment of chemically modified carbon
nanotubes.
Martínez, C., Romero, E., Sundararajan, V. (2011) AGMUS Research Symposium. Energy
generation using flag flutter.
Méndez, D. (2011) Congreso Latinoamericano de College Board. Santo Domingo, República
Dominicana. Estrategias Pedagógicas para el Desarrollo de la Ciudadanía Global.
Méndez, D., Solá Candelario, A., Oyola Núñez, E. M. (2010) 15ª Conferencia anual del College
Board, Centro de Convenciones de Puerto Rico. Tres profesores, tres cursos y el aprendizaje
en servicio.
Morales, C., Malave, A. (2011) 3 rd Energy and Sustainability Conference, Alicante, España.
Modeling Energy Savings in Low Income Residencies.
Morant, C., Campo, T., Márquez, F., Sanz, J. M., Elizalde, E. (2009) 20 th European Conference
on Diamond-like Materials, Carbon Nanotubes and Nitrides, Athens, Greece. Measuring
mechanical properties of SWNT by AFM.
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Neira, C.,-Cobas, L., Nieto, S., Polanco, R., Roque-Malherbe, R. (2011) 43 rd World Chemistry
Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. In-situ XRD high temperature structural study of proton
conduction in BaCe0.95Y0.05O3-d BaCe0.95Yb0.05O3-dperovskites.
Nieto, S., Fuentes-Cobas, L., Neira, C., Polanco, R., Roque-Mlaherbe, R. (2011) VII Congreso
Internacional Interdisciplinario de Investigación Científica, Santo Domingo, República
Dominicana. Structural and phase transformation study of proton conduction in
BaCe0.95Y0.05O3-d and BaCe0.95Yb0.05O3-d perovskites by Raman and in situ XRD high
temperatures.
Nieto, S., R., Katiyar, S., Roque-Malherbe, R. (2011) 43 rd World Chemistry Congress, San Juan,
Puerto Rico. In-situ Raman high temperature structural study of proton conducting
BaCe0.95Y0.05O3-d and BaCe0.95Yb0.05O3-d perovskites.
Nieto, S., Neira, C., Roque-Malherbe, R. (2011) 43 rd World Chemistry Congress, San Juan,
Puerto Rico. Raman study of the phase transformation of BaCe0.95Y0.05O3-d and
BaCe0.95Yb0.05O3-d perovskites.
Ojeda-Castro, A., Ramaswamy, M., Rivera-Collazo, A., Jumah, A. (2011) 51 st Annual IACIS
International Conference, Mobile, Alabama. Critical factors for successful implementation of
data warehouse.
Oquendo, D., Carrero, J., Romero, E. (2011) Junior Technical Meeting (PRISM 2011),
Universidad Interamericana, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Wireless sensing platform.
Ortiz Rivera, M. M. (2011) IX Encuentro Centroamericano y del Ca-ribe Políticas Sociales y
Trabajo Social, Cartagena, Colombia. Legislación y prestación de servicios a las mujeres
víctimas sobrevivientes de violencia doméstica: la experiencia de las organizaciones sin fines
de lucro.
Paredes, M. (2010) 35th University of Arkansas Spring Lecture Series: Minimal surfaces and
mean curvature flow, Fayetteville, Arkansas. The combinatorial geometry of classical flag
manifolds.
Paredes, M. (2011) 26th Summer Conference on General Topology and its Applications, The
City University of New York, New York. The Combinatorial Geometry of Classical Flag
Manifolds.
Pérez, C. M. (2010) ADA, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Parkinson disease. Medical nutrition therapy.
Pérez, C. M. (2011) Convención Anual American Dietetic Association –PR, San Juan, Puerto
Rico. Can Ginkgo biloba combat diseases?
Pérez-Jiménez, J. R., Arroyo-Cruz, L. V., Cruz-Soto, V. J. (2011) 111 th American Society for
Microbiology General Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. Tropical Bioprospecting Venture
for Training in Biotechnology.
Pérez-Jiménez, J. R., Bonilla, C. E. (2009) American Society of Microbiology 109 th General
Meeting, Metro Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Neotropical island biogeography for sulphatereducing
bacteria.
Pérez-Jiménez, J. R., Laureano,-Cordova, D. (2011) 79th annual Meeting of the Mycological
Society of America, Fairbanks, Alaska. Molecular biogeography of fungi across tropical
coastal ecosystems.
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Plumber, J. R. A., Alarcón, O., Pérez, C., Rodríguez, J. P., Ronda, M., Tofani Montalvo, J.
(2011) 31er Foror Annual de Investigación y Educación, Recinto de Ciencias Médicas, San
Juan, Puerto Rico. Children’s health: respiratory disparities caused by air quality.
Quintero, E., Antongiorgi, H., Bolaños, B. (2010) LACEEI, Arequipa, Perú. Comparison of daily
indoor and outdoor fungal spore’s concentration: Will staying indoors prevent the exposure
to outdoors aeroallergens?
Quintero, E., Cantrell, S. A. (2010) AGMUS, Research Symposium, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Molecular identification of airborne fungal spores in Caguas, Puerto Rico.
Rivera, A., Cordero, R., Romero, E. (2011) AGMUS Research Symposium, San Juan, Puerto
Rico. Micro-rotational electromagnetic generator for machine health monitoring.
Rivera, A., Cordero, R., Romero, E. (2011) Junior Technical Meeting (PRISM 2011),
Universidad Interamericana, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Micro-rotational electromagnetic
generator for machine health monitoring.
Rivera, C., Roque, R., Ríos, A., Polanco, R., (2011) 43 rd World Chemistry Congress, San Juan,
Puerto Rico. Synthesis and Adsorption Space of Ni-oxalic-acid Metal Organic Framework.
Rivera, H., de Jesús, V., Romero, E. (2011) AGMUS Research symposium, San Juan, Puerto
Rico. Design of a low-cost single-axis solar tracking apparatus.
Rodríguez Colón, I. (2011) NERRS/NERRA Annual meeting, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
Inference of habitat connectivity via habitat use by resident and migratory birds in Jobos Bay
(JBNERR), Puerto Rico.
Rodríguez Colón, I., Schaffner, F. C. (2011) 18 th Regional Meeting, Society for the Conservation
and Study of Caribbean Birds (SCSCB), Freeport, Bahamas. Inference of habitat connectivity
by diurnal migrations by Neotropical migratory warblers at Jobos Bay, Puerto Rico.
Rodríguez Colón, I., Schaffner, F. C. (2011)129 th Stated Meeting of the American
Ornithologists’ Union, Jacksonville, Florida. Multiple habitat use, corridor behavior and
diurnal migrations by Neotropical migrant warblers at Jobos Bay, Puerto Rico.
Rodríguez, J., Quiñones, Z. (2010) ICSB Small Business Policy Pre-Conference. Profiles and
opportunities of SME’s and Entrepreneurs in Puerto Rico and Caribbean.
Romero, E. (2010) 32nd International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and
Biology Society, Buenos Aires Argentina. Powering Biomedical devices with body motion.
Romero, E., Neuman, M., Warrington R. (2009) 9 th International Workshop on Micro and
nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications, Washington,
DC. Kinetic energy harvester for body motion.
Romero, E., Neuman, M., Warrington R. (2011) MEMS 2011, Cancún, México. Rotational
energy harvester for body motion.
Romero, E., Warrington, R., Neuman, M. (2009) Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
World Congress, Munich, Germany. The use of body motion for powering biomedical
devices.
Roque-Malherbe, R., Polanco, R. (2011) 43 rd World Chemistry Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Study of the Interaction between Silica Surfaces and the Carbon Dioxide Molecule.
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Roque-Malherbe, R., Ivanov, V. (2009) 5th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and
Liquids, Rome, Italy. Diffusion, Codiffusion and Counterdiffusion of para-xylene and
ortho-xylene in a zeolite showing interconnected 10 MR and 12 MR Channels.
Roque-Malherbe, R., Ríos, A., Fuentes, L, García, G., Fierro, P. (2011) 43 rd World Chemistry
Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Structure and Magnetic Properties of Ni-oxalic-acid Metal
Organic Framework.
Rosa, C. F. (2010) 7 mo Congreso Educativo Investigación, Tecnología y Desarrollo, San Juan,
Puerto Rico. Proyecto de vinculación empresarial que contribuye a disminuir el
distanciamiento entre las ofertas de empleo en el sector privado en el área contable y su
preparación profesional en las universidades.
Rosa, C. F. (2010) Simposio La universidad en discusión: conocimiento y proyecto de futuro,
San Juan, Puerto Rico. Proyecto de vinculación empresarial que contribuye a disminuir el
distanciamiento entre las ofertas de empleo en el sector privado en el área contable y la
preparación de estas profesiones por las Universidades del Sistema Universita-rio Ana G.
Méndez.
Ruiz-Ocasio, G., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2009) American Society of Microbiology 109 th General
Meeting, Metro Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Identification of spore-forming bacteria in
coastal environments.
Sánchez, M., sosa, J. C., Berríos, M., Sobrino, C. (2011) CLADEA, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Determinantes de la ca-lidad de relación en la cadena de suministros.
Santana, J. A., Díaz-Castro, F., Roque-Malherbe, R. (2011) 43 rd World Chemistry Congress, San
Juan, Puerto Rico. DFT calculations on the interaction between a simulated silica surface
and the carbon dioxide molecule.
Santana, J., Diaz-Castro, F., Ichikawa, H., Roque-Malherbe, R. (2011) 43 rd World Chemistry
Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico. DFT calculations of the interaction between the silica
surface and the carbon dioxide molecule.
Santiago-Rivera, I., Gómez-Millán, I., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2009) American Society of
Microbiology 109 th General Meeting, Metro Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Phylogeography of
Crenarchaeota across lifes zones of the tropical rain forest (El Yunque, Puerto Rico).
Santivañez, J., Melachrinoudis, E. (2009) XI ISOLDE, Santa Barbara, California. The reliable
maximin-maxisum location problema on a tree network.
Schaffner, F. C. (2010) 1 er Congreso Comunitario de Sostenibilidad, Caguas, Puerto Rico.
Alianzas Naturales.
Schaffner, F.C., Sanchez Colon, Y. M. (2011) 18 th Regional Meeting, Society for the
Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (SCSCB), Freeport, Bahamas. Population trends
in West Indian whistling ducks and other Dendrocygna at Laguna Cartagena, Puerto Rico.
Soler, M., Cantrell, S. A. (2009) Mycological Society of America Annual Meeting, Snowbird,
Utah. Are fungi capable to degrade complex carbohydrates in hypersaline microbial mats?
Sosa, J. C., Díaz, G. (2010) CLADEA, Cartagena Colombia. Determinantes de la industria
farmaceutica internacional.
Sosa, J. C., Svensson, G., Mysen, T. (2011) CBIM Annual Academic Workshop, San Juan,
Puerto Rico. Relqual in Puerto Rican in Business relationships.
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Sosa, J. C., Svensson, G., Mysen, T. (2011) Academy of Marqueting of Science, Coral Gables,
Florida. Quality constructs impact on perceived satisfaction in Puerto Rican Business
relationships.
Sosa Varela, J. C. (2009) IV Foro Internacional La gestión de la Mercadotecnia y los negocios
internacionales Tendencias hacia la sostenibilidad. Cultural patterns in consumer-oriented
electronic commerce on the Word Wide Web. A comparison between virtual stores of United
States, Brazil and Mexico.
Sosa Varela, J. C. (2010) Semanas Internacionales de Desarrollo Directivo: empresa y
tecnología, Escuela de Organización Industrial de Madrid. Globalización y la conducta del
consumidor internacional.
Sosa Varela, J. C., Ortiz, M. (2009) CLADEA, Guayaquil, Ecuador. El Efecto del país de origen
en la intención de compra.
Sosa Varela, J. C., Ortiz, M. (2010) V Foro Internacional de Investigación, Universidad de
Colima México. Antecedentes del efecto del país de origen en la intención de compra.
Sosa Varela, J. C., Santarriaga, M, Soto, F., Passwan, A. (2011) Academy of Marketing Science,
Coral Gables, Florida. Consumer perceptions of samll and large retail stores: a comparison of
Mexican and Puerto Rican consumers.
Tkavc, R., Zalar, P., Cantrell, S. A., Gunde-Cimerman, N. (2009) Mycological Society of
America Annual Meeting, Snowbird, Utah. Fungal Communities in Microbial Mats in
Adriatic Sečovlje Salterns (Slovenia).
Torres, N., Ferrer, E. (2011) Computing Alliance for Hispanic-Serving Institutions Annual
Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Toward a new model of electronic medical record system
for homeless patients.
Torres-Cordero, G. S., Laureano-Córdova, D. L., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2011) 111 th American
Society for Microbiology General Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. Sulfidogenic
Communities across Neotropical Habitats in Response to Substrates.
Vázquez-Suarez, V. A., Laureano-Cordova, D. L., Cruz, F. J., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2011) 111 th
American Society for Microbiology General Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. Prevalence
of Crenarchaeota across Neotropical Habitats.
Vázquez-Suarez, V. A., Laureano-Cordova, D. L., Cruz, F. J., Pérez-Jiménez, J. R. (2011) IV
Frontiers in Environmental Microbiology, Universidad del turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico.
Prevalence of Crenarchaeota across Neotropical Habitats.
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