XII RESEARCHERS ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM

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1 XII RESEARCHERS ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM 8:00 am Registration & Breakfast Biblioteca Museo Gobernador Pedro Rosselló 8:45 am Welcoming Dra. Sharon A. Cantrell, Associate Vice Chancellor, Center for Graduate Studies & Research Dr. Roberto Lorán, Vicer Chancellor, Universidad del Turabo 9:00 am Panel: Estableciendo una agenda de investigación e innovación Biblioteca Museo Gobernador Pedro Rosselló Amphitheater Moderator: Dr. Dennis Alicea, Chancellor, Universidad del Turabo Participants Panel: Dra. Emma Fernández Professor, UPR-RCM Dr. Marcelino Rivera Dean, Escuela de Negocios y Empresarismo Dr. Walter Silva Director, Oficina de Cumplimiento e Integridad en la Investigación, UPR Dra. Lilliam Lizardi Professor, UNE Dr. José R. Pérez Jiménez Director, Instituto Interdisciplinario de Investigación, UT 11:00 am Poster Sessions Salón de Actos 12:00 pm Lunch Salón de Actos 1:30 4:00 pm Concurrent Sessions Section Topic Classroom 1 Negocios y empresarismo NES Negocios y empresarismo NES Liderazgo educativo, y estrategias educativas y NES 163 ambientes de aprendizajes 4 Estrategias educativas y ambientes de aprendizajes NES Ciencias sociales y humanas NES Panel Cuerpos: aproximaciones textuales a la NES 261 construcción de lo femenino 7 Panel Please, don't make me read it!! NES Ingeniería aplicada NES Telecomunicaciones y redes NES Sistemas biológicos, químicos y ecológicos NES Sistemas biológicos, químicos y ecológicos, y salud NES 264 pública y ambiental 12 Energía y tecnologías limpias NES 265 4:30 pm Activity: Acknowledgement to Scientific Authors and Distinguished Professor/Researcher Biblioteca Museo Gobernador Pedro Rosselló Amphitheater 5:30 pm Cocktail Biblioteca Museo Gobernador Pedro Rosselló Terrace

2 Oral Presentations Concurrent Sessions 1:30-4:00 pm Nuevo Edificio de Salones (NES) Section 1 Business and Entrepreneurship-Moderator: Miguel Cotto NES 161 1:30 Implementation of information management systems to Angel M. Ojeda Castro increase university students mathematics skills 1:45 Redes sociales en la era de los dispositivos móviles: el Alex J. Camacho Martínez simulacro de la privacidad 2:00 Análisis de la relación entre los índices financieros y el José O. Cruz Rodríguez ingreso neto: un enfoque de factores y de panel de datos 2:15 Knowledge transfer in buyer-supplier relationships: the Amarilis Delgado Santana case of multinational corporations (MNCS) and their local suppliers in 2:30 Organizational commitment of retail sales personnel Dennis Arroyo 2:45 Political marketing and the selling of the candidate and José A. Flecha visual effects in decision making process 3:00 The importance of service quality in social enterprises: the Evelyn Lopez case of credit unions in 3:15 A study on how marketing is defined by marketing managers within companies. Frank Lozada-Contreras Section 2 Business and Entrepreneurship-Moderator: César Sobrino NES 162 1:30 Why Foreign Subsidiary Divestment Take Place? Evidences Luis Manuel Baquero Rosas from Pharmaceutical Production Affiliates Descriptive Study 1:45 Trust in the Cloud: A Behavioral Perspective for Technology Mónica Ocasio Velázquez Adoption in Organizations 2:00 El efecto de la imagen del PAÁS de origen y la personalidad Reneé Ortíz Ramos de marca en la intención de compra: un estudio transcultural 2:15 Relationship between generic competitive strategies in Jesús Sánchez Cortés electronic commerce and the adoption of e-commerce: Internet banking. 2:30 Capacity analysis within the fraud triangle José A. Sánchez Ríos and Walter López 2:45 Business Sustainability Index - a research network and Juan Carlos Sosa Varela international research project 3:00 Social media use in the non-profit sector Ivette M. Soto Velez 3:15 Factores que influyen en la adopción de las tecnologías de Anidza Valentín Rodríguez código abierto en las instituciones de educación superior 3:30 Financial Techniques for Determining Fair Value, its application in the Financial Statements and Possible Implications for Business Blanca Vega Castro March 7th,

3 Section 3 Educational Leadership and Instructional Strategies and Learning Environments- Moderator: Pilar Dávila Santos NES 163 1:30 Effectiveness of the induction seminar to university life from the perspective of students enrolled in a teacher preparation program 1:45 PRIMER: Transforming Authentic Research on Environmental Microbiology 2:00 Multi-sector integration towards sustainable agriculture Production 2:15 The effectiveness of the use of the Educosoft Learning Management System to teach Math in 2:30 The relationship of the method of problem-based learning in satisfaction, attitude toward the integrated science and academic performance of student-teachers of the elementary level 2:45 A Research Committee at Universidad del Turabo-School of Health Sciences: its beginnings and plans 3:00 Diffusion of Engineering Education Innovations through a Summer Faculty Development Program Judith Gonzalez and Nellie Pagán José R. Pérez-Jiménez, Joaquín A. Chong Philip Murray Finley Pilar Del S. Dávila Santos Wilfredo E. De Jesus-Monge Juan C. Morales Section 4 Educational Strategies and Learning Environments-Moderator: Olga Quintero NES 164 1:30 The integration of web 2.0 tools in Puerto Rican academic Gerinaldo Camacho-Camacho libraries 1:45 Aspects of elementary science teacher's performance that Beverly Pérez Maldonado impact positively the learning in education: a collection of experiences 2:00 Conocimiento y prácticas educativas del maestro preescolar Isaris Quiñones Pérez acerca de los procesos de lectura y escritura 2:15 The use of tutoring to improve the passing rates in Rolando García González mathematics placement exams: a success story 2:30 Política educativa en : una mirada a las reformas Everlidis Vargas March 7th,

4 Section 5 Social and Human Sciences-Moderator: Victor M. García NES 165 1:30 Gender disparities in mortality: challenges for health equity Teresa Pedroso in 1:45 PASOS Program: an HIV prevention program at Universidad del Turabo Nirka Morales and Raquel López 2:00 Violence exposure and mental health among adults in Oscar Gonzalez 2:15 Impact of bilingualism on age related dementia and M. E. Medina-Callarotti Alzheimer's disease 2:30 Tengo, no soy, una discapacidad: programa para desarrollo Amaris Sanchez-Larragoity de identidad en adolescentes con Distrofia Muscular 2:45 History and psychology: tools to evaluate the effectiveness of a government executive in. José R. Gómez Blanco Section 6 Panel- Cuerpos: aproximaciones textuales a la construcción de lo femenino- Moderator: Beatriz Cruz-Sotomayor NES 261 1:30 Misogyny vs defense of women in medieval Lorna Polo Alvarado 1:45 Female voice and scientific corpus: the case of Oliva Beatriz Cruz Sotomayor Sabuco's Nueva filosofía (1587) [Voz femenina y corpus científico: el caso de la Nueva filosofía de Oliva Sabuco (1587)] 2:00 De comadronas y médicos: historiografía puertorriqueña Sylvia M. Casillas Olivieri sobre el cuidado del embarazo y parto, :15 Chronicle of bodies: an approach to the writings of Edgardo René Rodríguez-Ramírez Rodríguez Juliá 2:30 Discusión Section 7 Panel- Please, don't make me read it!!-moderator: Carlos Acevedo NES 261 3:00-4:00 Please, don't make me read it!! Varios March 7th,

5 Section 8 Applied Engineering-Moderator: Yahya Masalmah NES 262 1:30 Virtual reality: a tool for treating phobias of heights Alcides Alvear 1:45 CubeSats Propulsion Systems Gelsón Diaz 2:00 Acceleration test for Cubesatellites Gelsón Díaz 2:15 Effects of hydrophobic surfaces on flow boiling in Jose A. Montoya Segnini microchannels 2:30 MatLab implementations for solving the Navier Stokes Freddy Perez Equations in order to simulate flight behavior in the Ionosphere 2:45 Building a scientific satellite using students - the QBUS Project Hien Vo Section 9 Telecommunications and Networking-Moderator: Yahya Masalmah NES 262 3:15 A converged grid and cloud computing network design for José Orlando Nogueras HSI 3:30 A framework of hyperspectral image compression using neural networks Rafael Rivera and Christian Martínez 3:45 Information assurance in emergency and vehicular MANETS Jeffrey l. Duffany 4:00 Service reliability, availability and survivability models and assessment on vulnerable stochastic networks José A. Santiváñez Section 10 Biological, Chemical and Ecological Systems-Moderador: Abniel Machín NES 263 1:30 Stable hydrogen isotopes reveal breeding grounds and molt Fred C. Schaffner patterns of Neotropical landbirds wintering at Jobos Bay, 1:45 A comparison of terrestrial arthropod diversity among María F. Barberena-Arias habitats dominated by herbaceous and by woody vegetation in three areas located in the northern karst region in 2:00 Putative alkane degraders prevails across ecosystems in Yomarie Bernier-Casillas 2:15 Avian assemblages and monitoring of the reproductive E. Emilio Font success of the bananaquit along an urban gradient in the metropolitan area of San Juan 2:30 Yeast involved in the degradation of plant residues as a Jean García-Díaz potential biofuels source 2:45 Sulfidogenic bacteria prevails along life zones at El Yunque Edaris Rodriguez Izquierdo rainforest in. 3:00 Evaluating habitat preferences of migrant and resident bird communities in a subtropical dry forest Waleska Vázquez Carrero March 7th,

6 Section 11 Biological, Chemical and Ecological Systems, and Environmental and Public Health- Moderador: María Cotto NES 264 1:30 The distribution of rainfall on oceanic tropical islands Ronald T. Richards 1:45 Regiocontrolled ring opening of monoprotected 2,3-epoxy- 1,4-diols using alkynyl aluminum reagents. Synthesis of differentially monoprotected alkynyl triol derivatives Raúl R. Rodríguez-Berrios 2:00 Sediment toxicology and heavy metal phytoremediation potential of three mangrove species in península La Esperanza, Las Cucharillas Marsh Natural Reserve, Cataño, 2:15 Effect of primary contact recreation in the quality of surface waters of Río Sabana in the northeast of 2:30 Synthesis and characterization of lead selenide particles using benzoic acid as the capping ligand 2:45 Occurrence of antibiotic resistant bacteria in a water filtration plant in 3:00 Risk assessment and microbial diversity of a tropical marsh polluted with heavy metals 3:15 Developmental exposure of Drosophila melanogaster to lead (Pb2) alters normal sleep patterns in the adult 3:30 Developmental exposure of Drosophila melanogaster to lead (Pb2+) results in altered gene expression of ecdysonereceptor signaling pathway in the larval brain. Juan C. Musa and Marixa Maldonado Miriam Salgado -Herrera Mitk'El B. Santiago Mariann Vazquez Juan C. Musa Beatriz Cardona Zoé Márquez Section 12 Energy and Clean Technology-Moderator: Dayna Ortiz NES 265 1:30 Standard diesel and biodiesel blends combustion efficiency Amaury Malave and emissions study 1:45 Wind and photovoltaic energies: promises and realities for Roberto Callarotti 2:00 Gas turbine monitoring techniques Miguel Delgado 2:15 Smart glazing applications to reduce the air conditioning Christina T. De Freitas De Jesús 2:30 Potencial de recuperación energética de neumáticos Eddie N. Laboy Nieves desechados en 2:45 Passive devices for air cooler condensers Gerardo Carbajal 3:00 Optimization of heat pipes for air cooled condensers Jaime Carreras Purcell applications in power plants 3:15 Nanofluids enhancement of the thermal performance of a mesh heat pipe Kenie Plaud March 7th,

7 Poster Sessions 11:00-12:00 pm Salón de Actos MGM Building Poster 1 Anti-tumor curcumin chalcone analogues enhance cellmediated Joanne S. Altieri Rivera cytotoxicity against human prostate cancer 2 Immunoenhancement effect of homeopathic preparation Piyali Bhattacharyya against human prostate cancer 3 Synthesis and characterization of graphene to be used in the María del C. Cotto-Maldonado development of electrodes for Li-ion batteries 4 Polysaccharopeptide of mushroom Coriolus versicolor as a Jose W. Rodríguez potential treatment against HIV-1 infection 5 New photocatalysts for hydrogen production Abraham E. García 6 Silicon nanowires grown on copper foils for the development Francisco Márquez of Li-ion batteries 7 University's counselors as transformative leaders for the Elba J. Guzmán-Faría student's success 8 Bioinformatics for the arsenate respiratory reductase among Lirianys Figueroa Vélez Firmicutes (Bacteria) 9 Bisulfite conversion and methyl-cytosine protection at CpG Solymar Landrau-Giovannetti sites of neural and glial genes 10 Structure of Ammonia-Oxidazing Archaea through an Dana Michelle Malavé Miller elevation gradient at El Yunque Rain Forest in 11 Adjuvant effect of toll-like receptors agonists in genetic Osmarie Martínez immunization with pa27l against smallpox 12 Biodiesel production from vegetable oils new Dayna M. Ortiz Rodríguez 13 DypB, a reliable biomarker for bacterial lignin degradation Jonathan Otero Colón 14 Immunological role of L3L gene in DNA vaccination against Maite Ramírez smallpox 15 Gen cote, a reliable biomarker for the Bacilli Gricel Ruiz Ocasio 16 Photocatalytic photodegradation of p-aminobenzoic acid Loraine Soto-Vázquez mediated by catalytic nanostructures 17 Non-tangible material of multi-pole dielectric gas compound Jose I. Reyes Avecedo used for storage electric charge in gas capacitors 18 Bioprospecting among bacterial endophytes Abisrael Morales Feliciano March 7th,