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(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2009-06-01) Rodríguez Maldonado, Laura Elena; Flores Garza, Jorge Lorenzo; Hernández Sotillo, Omar Danilo; Cervantes Sandoval, Cristina María; Cervantes Sandoval, Cristina María; Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey; Pedroza Villarreal, Gabriela de Lourdes
En la actualidad la sociedad mexicana ha evolucionado a tal grado que en la mayoría de los casos el núcleo familiar ha cambiado, rompiendo así con los estereotipos culturales en los que nos desenvolvemos. Este cambio ha surgido gracias a la necesidad familiar de que la mujer colabore con el mantenimiento de la casa, es decir, deje de ser solamente ama de casa y lo combine con un trabajo. En algunos casos, los roles no solo se han unido sino que han sido invertidos. Este documental muestra el caso específico de una familia donde los roles han sido intercambiados por completo, es decir que la mujer es la que sale a trabajar mientras que el hombre cubre la función de ama de casa. Las reacciones de familiares y de la sociedad son de vital importancia para el desarrollo de esta relación por lo que son incluidas así como la opinión de un experto que nos da su punto de vista respecto a la situación en la que viven, los aspectos de la pareja y los hijos.
2030: análisis prospectivo del tratamiento de los riesgos psicosociales con perspectiva de género en el mercado laboral mexicano
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2022-11-30) Cortés Flores, Marissa Michelle; OCHMAN IKANOWICZ, MARTA BARBARA; 200876; Ochman Ikanowicz, Marta Bárbara; emiggomez; Benavides Rincón, Guillermina; Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública; Universidad Virtual en Línea
El mundo laboral ha evolucionado considerablemente a lo largo de los años, debido a reformas normativas, cambios sociales, modificaciones en la cultura organizacional, variaciones en las relaciones laborales, entre otras cosas. En este sentido, las necesidades laborales se han transformado, incluyendo el tratamiento de riesgos laborales. Comúnmente, la prevención de riesgos laborales se asocia con la atención de riesgos físicos susceptibles de ocurrir en los centros de trabajo y no se toma en cuenta el daño psíquico que pudiesen sufrir las y los trabajadores. No obstante, como se mencionó con anterioridad, las necesidades han cambiado, por lo que ahora se ha visibilizado que es importante atender no sólo los riesgos físicos potenciales, sino también atender aquellos riesgos que afectan la psique de las personas trabajadoras, dando entrada al concepto de riesgos psicosociales. Cabe mencionar que la detección de este tipo de riesgos resulta más complicada, por lo que usualmente su prevención y atención se deja a un lado. Ahora bien, en los últimos años, la mujer ha visto poco a poco acrecentada su inclusión en el mundo laboral, lo que ha traído consigo diversos cambios en cuanto a los roles tradicionales de género, puesto que ahora, no solamente atienden aquellas necesidades inherentes al hogar, sino que también ocupan el papel de proveedora. Es así que la entrada de la mujer al ámbito laboral formal y la perpetuación de los estereotipos de género, han traído consigo distintas problemáticas como la brecha salarial y la doble jornada. En consecuencia, se ha buscado aminorar estas desventajas a través de acciones varias que van desde movimientos sociales hasta reformas normativas y acciones afirmativas, en donde el común denominador es la inclusión de perspectiva de género, con la intención de lograr la paridad entre mujeres y hombres. El tema de riesgos psicosociales no queda exento de este fenómeno, puesto que se ha comprobado que ciertos riesgos psicosociales, como la dificultad de conciliación trabajo-familia y acoso sexual laboral, se presentan con mayor frecuencia en las trabajadoras. Debido a lo anterior, resulta crucial atender de manera diferenciada las necesidades de hombres y mujeres, toda vez que las demandas de cada uno son radicalmente distintas, pero igual de importantes. El presente trabajo, tiene como objetivo: Mediante un ejercicio de visión, emitir un plan de acción y recomendaciones sobre políticas públicas y acciones privadas tendientes a regular con perspectiva de género los riesgos psicosociales en el país al año 2030. La presente investigación toma como referencia el año 2030, toda vez que se pretende plantear el marco referencial que sirva como base para la agenda pública de la siguiente administración a nivel Federal en el tema en cuestión. La selección de estos dos riesgos se hizo con base en la prevalencia que éstos tienen en las mujeres. Lo anterior atendiendo al hecho de que el mercado laboral se encuentra segmentado en razón del sexo de las personas. Es decir, existen profesiones altamente feminizadas como la hotelería y manufactura, por tanto, y debido a la naturaleza de los sectores en que se desenvuelven, las mujeres trabajadoras pueden ver afectadas en mayor medida que los hombres por los siguientes riesgos psicosociales: Acoso sexual, acoso laboral, discriminación por razón de sexo, dificultades de conciliación trabajo – familia, doble presencia y burnout. Lo anterior atiende al hecho de que la cultura preventiva sobre riesgos psicosociales se ha focalizado en una atención androcentrista, en donde meramente sólo se abordan aquellos problemas estereotípicamente masculinos, atendiendo lo femenino solamente en cuanto las funciones de reproducción (Pérez, 2020). Cabe mencionar que el análisis realizado en el presente documento solamente contempla el mercado laboral formal y presencial, toda vez que no existen estadísticas certeras sobre el tema en comento en el mercado laboral informal ni tampoco en modalidad remota. Además, toda vez que sólo un pequeño porcentaje de las organizaciones en el país aplica la modalidad remota, resulta más conveniente y útil emitir recomendaciones enfocadas al trabajo presencial. Aunado a ello, resulta preciso señalar que el enfoque seleccionado para el presente trabajo es el de perspectiva binaria de género; no obstante, al término de la investigación, se evidenció que existen distintos enfoques que pueden contribuir a la solución del problema en cuestión. Ejemplo de ello es la atención de la problemática haciendo énfasis en término de la inclusión social, con el objetivo de tener una visión integral del problema y sus soluciones para no centrarse únicamente en la vertiente binaria. Otra opción es la aplicación de una perspectiva de género interseccional, en donde se tomen en cuenta distintos factores como el contexto histórico, social, político, edad, orientación sexual, discapacidad, entre otros, para analizar la interconexión entre dichas variables y su impacto en la situación de vulnerabilidad de las personas. Para de esta manera poder analizar las implicaciones y acciones que pueden llevarse a cabo teniendo en consideración estas diferencias específicas y necesidades particulares. A pesar de que este tipo de enfoques no se realizan en el presente documento, sí se mencionan como líneas de investigación que resultaría importante desarrollar con posterioridad y serían complementarios a este trabajo. Resulta necesario señalar que en México no existe investigación profunda alguna en este respecto (contrario a países europeos y latinoamericanos como Argentina y Chile) por lo que, un trabajo de investigación enfocado a esta temática en específico, puede ser utilizado como punto de partida para continuar investigaciones de esta índole, así como ser tomado como base para la emisión de diversas políticas públicas, así como acciones puntuales en la iniciativa privada e incluso puede llegar a ser el marco referencial para el establecimiento de la agenda pública. Después de analizar detenidamente cada uno de los diferentes métodos de construcción de escenarios de futuro y tomando en consideración el objetivo general del presente proyecto de investigación, se concluyó que la aplicación del método de backcasting es la mejor opción. Lo anterior atendiendo a que mediante el proyecto en cuestión se pretende lograr lo siguiente: Mediante un ejercicio de visión, emitir un plan de acción y recomendaciones sobre políticas públicas y acciones privadas tendientes a regular con perspectiva de género los riesgos psicosociales. En este entendido, la idea de analizar la situación actual, así como el escenario de futuro seleccionado para poder explorar las distintas acciones que pueden llevarse a cabo con la finalidad de alcanzar dicho escenario, resulta lo más conveniente; pues de esta manera se estará en posibilidades de plantear un plan de acción para lograr el futuro seleccionado y así emitir las recomendaciones sobre políticas públicas y privadas que se pretenden. Primeramente, se explicarán de manera exhaustiva diversos conceptos necesarios para el correcto entendimiento del presente trabajo de investigación. Se procederá al desarrollo de un análisis PESTLE, que contendrá datos de la situación actual en la nación mexicana en cuanto a acoso sexual laboral, dificultad de conciliación trabajo - familia y riesgos psicosociales en general, analizando datos tanto pre como post pandemia. Posteriormente, se aplicará la metodología de backcasting, con la finalidad de seleccionar un futuro deseado en el tema en comento y elaborar un plan de trabajo preciso y funcional con recomendaciones al respecto, que sirvan como marco referencial para los actores involucrados en el tema.
3D printed nutritious food: printability, rheology, and novel approaches towards modification of their structural properties
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2021-12-02) Maldonado Rosas, Rubén; Tejada Ortigoza, Viridiana Alejandra; puemcuervo/tolmquevedo; Morales de la Peña, Mariana; Campanella, Osvaldo H.; School of Engineering and Sciences; Campus Monterrey; Cuan Urquizo, Enrique
A study in extrusion-based 3D printing of nutritious food is presented in this dissertation. This study covers the design of a novel food-ink formulation, printability and rheology. Also, the mechanical analysis of post-processed printed products. Chapter 1 includes the motivation, problem statement and context of this study. It also includes the theoretical framework regarding 3D customized food and 3D food printing techniques’ basic principles. Chapter 2 includes the engineering parameters for extrusion of 3D printed food materials. Then Chapter 3 contains the Hypothesis, Objectives and Reserch Plan followed during this project. Manuscript 1 (Chapter 4) is entitled "3D printed nutritious food: printability, rheology, and novel approaches towards modification of their structural properties." Herein correlations among the printability of formulations and their rheological properties were established. This manuscript is planned to be published in the journal Additive Manufacturing. Chapter 5 presents the mechanical properties of the post-processed materials. The abstract and acceptance letter for an oral presentation accepted in the conference Congreso Iberoamericano de Ingeniería en Alimentos (CIBIA XIII) is presented in Chapter 6. Finally, it is included a disclosure regarding scientific material and an appendix section containing complementary information collected during data organization and analysis. This dissertation showed rheological properties describing promising applications for novel ingredients. Pregelatinized starch results on printing quality can be used to provide guidance for future Three-Dimensional Food Printing (3DFP) studies, especially for those where a hydrocolloid is used as an additive to improve printing behavior of the food-ink formulations.
3G (migrando a LTE) vs WiMAX, complementos o rivales: aplicación de un estudio de caso en México
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2010-05-01) Jiménez Pérez, Ricardo; Ibarra Yúnez, Alejandro; Torres Arcadia, Carmen Celina; Rodríguez Dagnino, Ramón Martín; Maranto Vargas, Daniel; Programa de Graduados en Mecatrónica y Tecnologías de la Información; División de Mecatrónica y Tecnologías de Información; Campus Monterrey
La industria de las telecomunicaciones, en los últimos años, ha evolucionado significativamente tanto para las operadoras relacionadas con la oferta de servicios como para los usuarios. En este sentido, la telefonía móvil está siendo considerada como referencia obligada para observar cuál es la madurez de ciertas operadoras con respecto a los factores económicos, regulatorios, organizacionales, de servicios y tecnológicos. Los usuarios actuales de telefonía móvil están observando las posibilidades que les proporcionan los diferentes competidores, así como los costos que representaría en adquirir una tecnología en específico. Las tecnologías móviles están evolucionando para aprovechar la disponibilidad del espectro en la mayoría de los países del mundo y así establecer alternativas en el ofrecimiento de mayor ancho de banda para un mercado que está en constante crecimiento o para un nicho en particular. Los usuarios actuales de telefonía móvil están observando las posibilidades que les proporcionan los diferentes competidores, así como los costos que representaría en adquirir una tecnología en específico. Las tecnologías móviles están evolucionando para aprovechar la disponibilidad del espectro en la mayoría de los países del mundo y así establecer alternativas en el ofrecimiento de mayor ancho de banda para un mercado que está en constante crecimiento o para un nicho en particular. La importancia se centra en analizar un estudio de caso en México, que ha contemplado el despliegue de WiMAX en ciertas ciudades y el cual, con base en opiniones de expertos, ofrecerá una mayor visión del estado de esa tecnología no sólo en el país sino en el mundo. El modelo propuesto para analizar los despliegues generalizados de 3G y WiMAX es una adaptación y propuesta propia basada en el modelo de Bouwman, Haaker & De Vos (2008).
4d printing research trends and applications in the medical field: a scientometric analysis
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2022-07-28) Padilla Aguirre, Karen Marcela; RODRIGUEZ SALVADOR, MARISELA; 20562; Rodríguez Salvador, Marisela; emijzarate, emipsanchez; Urbina Coronado, Pedro Daniel; Elizondo Noriega, Armando; Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias; Campus Monterrey
Innovation plays a key role on a company’s either success or failure. But innovation is not just the creating or adopting new technologies; it is also directly connected with a solid strategic planning. Competitive technology intelligence is based on the systematic and ethical process of gathering, analyzing and transforming information into actionable knowledge. It aims to support decision making and strategic planning, because the knowledge produced by this methodology constitutes an early warning for research, development and innovation [19]. Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a technique of additive manufacturing that has revolutionized engineering, product design and manufacturing, as it allows the rapid conversion of digital 3D model information into physical static objects [45]. However, in the last few years a new possibility has been introduced to add ’time’ as a new dimension to create 4D printing. The medical field keeps changing and progressing at a high speed with new technologies emerging every day. 4D printing on the medical field is an area where it is necessary to provide decision makers with an overview of technological knowledge that helps them generate innovation opportunities. On this thesis, a Competitive technology intelligence approach was executed to identify trends in 4D printing technologies applied to the medical field, in order to provide relevant information through a technological landscape to support decision makers to uncover innovation opportunities. The results of the analysis revealed that most of the research developed is on the materials category, which relates completely to the fact that smart materials are the key difference between 3D and 4D printing. Most of the researches focus on shape memory polymers, hydrogels and liquid crystal elastomers. On the processes category researched is focused on the physical configuration of the printing model, printing parameters and adapting machines to modify the printing configurations. As for the applications, three main subcategories were identified, hollow tubes/stents, tissue engineering and drug delivery. According to the growth kinetics it is a field that although is fairly new, keeps growing and will keep gaining attention.
A C-MEMS based electroosmotic microreactor for anisotropic AuNPs synthesis: Proof of concept
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2020-05-28) Ortiz Castillo, José Eric; ORTIZ CASTILLO, JOSE ERIC; 885252; Pérez González, Víctor Hugo; ilquio; Martinez Chapa, Sergio Omar; Gallo Villanueva, Roberto Carlos; School of Engineering and Sciences; Campus Monterrey
Anisotropic gold nanoparticle synthesis has aroused great attention in the scientific community in the last two decades. These nanomaterials have unique properties that make them suitable for a wide range of applications in the biomedical field such as optical sensing, biomedicine, chemical catalysis, etc. Therefore, there have been several efforts in the seek of novel and green synthetic methodologies for gold nanoparticles. The control of the concentration of reactants and the kinetics of the reaction are two crucial parameters for the developing of a good synthetic procedure. Microfluidics offers different approaches to deal with the materials synthesis at a microscale with a higher synthetic control at a molecular level. A proof of concept for the synthesis of anisotropic gold nanoparticles was carried on a C-MEMS based electroosmotic microreactor. This microfluidic design was used previously specifically as a bidirectional electroosmotic flow micropump. The velocity profile produced by this microfluidic device was employed to mix the reaction components for the chemical synthesis of anisotropic gold nanoparticles. The reactor was studied with an experimental design and computational modelling. Finally, the anisotropic gold nanoparticles were characterized by UV-Vis and TEM microscopy.
A CMOS cantilever platform using adsorption-induced surface stress and piezoresistive transduction for biosensing
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2012-12-01) Rendón Hernández, Adrián Abdalá; Rendón Hernández, Adrían Abdalá; 315444; Martínez Chapa, Sergio Omar; Dieck Assad, Graciano; Camacho León, Sergio; School of Engineering and Information Technologies Graduate Program; Campus Monterrey
This work proposes a biosensing platform based on a microcantilever operating in static mode. The microcantilever transforms the adsorption-induced surface stress into a deflection which is then transformed in an electrical signal by means of a piezoresistive element that is embedded in the structure. A non-destructive and independent-of-fabrication-processes method to characterize residual stress within composite micromachined beams has been proposed. The method was validated by comparing available experimental data and simulation results from fourteen microbeams obtaining an average of 27% absolute error concerning the maximum deflection of the structures. A multipysics model incorporating a suspended beam, a piezoresistor and a Wheatstone bridge has been created in Comsol and used to explore performance of different piezoresistor geometries. A serpentine piezoresistor compared favorably among different geometries and showed a sensibility of 116Ω/µm. Finally, several Bandgap references were designed to be used in conjunction with the Wheatstone bridge in order to get low sensibilities to temperature and voltage supply variations. The best reference showed sensibilities of 18 ppm/ ◦C and 3.2mV/V. This platform was entirely designed to be fabricated in a CMOS process, and is expected to be used in the future to detect and quantify different analytes for environmental monitoring, food industry and biomedicine.
A comparative study of deep learning-based image captioning models for violence description
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2019-10-10) González Martínez, Fernando; CONANT PABLOS, SANTIAGO ENRIQUE; 56551; Conant Pablos, Santiago Enrique; emijzarate; Hugo Terashima, Marín; González Mendoza, Miguel; Nimrod González, Franco; Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias; Campus Monterrey
The safety and security of people will always hold one of the top positions for governments, countries, states, enterprises, and families. One of the greatest advances in the field of security technologies was the invention of surveillance cameras, giving public and private owners the possibility to observe recorded past events to protect their property. Giving undeniable proof of events that occurred when they were not present. It is safe to say that most corporations and some homes have some type of security technology, from the simplest surveillance system to more complicated technologies, such as facial and fingerprint recognition. With these types of security systems, there exists a drawback, the volume of data generates from each of them. When talking about surveillance cameras we have thousands of hours being recorded and stored for later access to review any past event. The problem arises when the volume of data generated surpasses the capability of humans to analyze it. However, should humans decide to analyze it, human errors become a factor too, as the quantity and nature of the data could overwhelm, and cause humans to miss an event that should not be missed. In this work, the events contain violence and suspicious behavior, such as robberies, assaults, street riots, and fights, among others. Thus, presenting the need for a system that can recognize such events happening and generate a brief description for a faster interpretation by the humans using the system. The field of image captioning and video captioning have been present in computer science for the past decade. Image captioning works by converting an image and words into features using deep learning models, combining them, and creating predictions from what the model believes should be the output for a given state. Given the time for which this task has existed, Image Captioning has been through many changes in the development of its models. The basic model utilizes convolutional neural networks for image analysis and recurrent neural networks for sentence analysis and generation. The addition of attention further improved the results from these models by teaching models where to focus when analyzing images and sentences. Finally, the creation of the Transformer, which has dominated the field in most tasks, thanks to the ability to perform most of its calculations in parallel, thus being faster than past models. The performance improvements can be seen thanks to previous works that are on top of the leaderboards for image recognition, text generation, and captioning. The purpose of this work is to create and train models to generate descriptions of normal and violent images. The models proposed in this work are Encoder-Decoder, Encoder-Decoder using Attention layers, and Transformers. The dataset used as a base for this work is the Flickr8k dataset. This dataset is a collection of around 8000 images with 5 descriptions each, obtained through human consultation. For this work, we extended the dataset to include violent images and their descriptions. The descriptions were obtained by asking a group of three persons to describe the image shown, mentioning subjects, objects, actions, and places as best they could. The images were retrieved by using Microsoft’s Bing API. The models were then evaluated using BLEU-N, METEOR, CIDEr, and ROUGE-L. These are machine translation evaluation metrics that are used to compare generated sentences to reference sentences and obtain an objective metric. Results show that the models can generate sentences that describe normal and violent images. However, the Soft-Attention model obtained the best performance over normal and violent images. Given our results, these models can generate descriptions of violent and normal images. The availability of these models could help analyze images found on the web, giving a brief description before opening images containing violent content. The results obtained can be used as a base to further improve these models and the possibility of creating models that can analyze violent videos. This could result in a system that is capable of analyzing images and videos in the background and generating a brief description of the events found in them, potentially leading to better reaction times from security and increased crime prevention.
A comparison of control schemes for an articulated 2 degree-of-freedom robot manipulator optimized via genetic algorithms
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2010-05-01) Arriaga González, Jonathan; Arriaga González, Jonathan; 268989; Soto, Rogelio; Meza, José Luis; Rodríguez, Ernesto; Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey
Robot manipulators play an important role in actual industrial processes. The trajectory following of robot manipulators is a non-linear problem that still requires much research [34]. This research work focuses on the control of the dynamics of an articulated robot manipulator. A 2 degree-of-freedom (DOF) articulated robot manipulator is simulated, each of the two links of the robot having its respective controller. Two different kind of control objectives for the robot's links are considered, position control and velocity control. Four control schemes for the robot's dynamics were selected. For position, a PID Controller [24] and a Fuzzy Self-tuning (FST) PID Controller [14] are considered. On the other hand, for velocity control the FST PD+ Controller [35] and the Fuzzy Sliding Mode (FSM) Controller [12, 16, 28] were chosen. Controller's performance and robustness in relevant tasks are evaluated and compared in order to determine which control scheme fits best for each task. Empirical adjustment of most controller's parameters always depend on the time and tests invested in tuning the controller, it is time consuming and subject to human error. As a fair comparison is intended, controller's parameters are optimized via Genetic Algorithms [22]. With this method, the tuning of parameters is not subtle to human error and the comparison can avoid possible erroneous conclusions. Optimization of parameters of all controllers was carried out successfully. Pa-rameters set by the GA are interpreted and show several details about the structure of the considered controllers. Performance comparison of controllers is discussed and conclusions about the complexity of controllers and its equivalence when performing some tasks is presented.
A comparison of Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey's EFL exit examinations and the TOEFL
Guajardo Walsh, María Beatriz; María Beatriz Guajardo Walsh; Schwartz, Ronald; Gartz, Irene; Ronald Scwartz; Irene Gartz
A comparison of the TOEFL with the placement tests used in the English language program at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Torres de Molina, María Guadalupe; María Guadalupe Torres de Molina; Schwartz, Ronald; Ronald Scwartz
A computer-aided framework for manufacturability analysis of robot-made assemblies
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2003-05-01) Barrón Cano, Olivia Maricela; BARRON CANO, OLIVIA MARICELA; 66618; Gordillo Moscoso, José Luis; Sucar Sucar, Luis Enrique; Molina Gutiérrez, Arturo; Sánchez García, José Manuel; ITESM
It has been proven that manufacturing enterprises could obtain signi cant savings, both in time and money, by making changes during the early phases of design of their products. This fact has lead to the development of a number of methodologies and software systems tailored to give designers tools to analyze manufacturability during the design stage. Two different approaches could be taken for analyzing the manufacturability of a given design. One is to use metrics based on different factors, like number of operations, complexity of the involved operations, etc. The other one is to simulate the manufacturing process to see if it is feasible to build the design without having to do a physical mock-up. In the case of robotic assembly of electro-mechanical devices, the second approach is more useful because detailed assembly plans are generated in order to do the analysis. In order to test if a given design could be manufactured by a speci c robotic cell, designers must answer a number of questions about sequencing, stability, xturing, grasping, motion planning and tool accessibility. Although several tools have been developed for computing some of the answers required by designers, they have been developed in an isolated fashion making hard the integration of their results. Each tool uses its own ob ject models, sets of constraints, scale factors, and base units leading to incompatibility problems when designers have to use the output from one tool as the input for another one. Unfortunately, these problems make designers would rather answer their questions empirically, one by one, and thus a system that integrates these tools is need. Such a system will relieve designers from the integration burden allowing them to focus on the creative aspects of their jobs. This thesis describes a computer-aided framework that enables the integration of software tools for manufacturability analysis. Based on a given description of the assembly, a feasible assembly sequence, a robotic cell model, a set of software tools and a description of the order in which the tools must be called, the framework is capable of giving detailed plans for the assembly (if they exist) or feedback about the manufacturability problems (when it is impossible to make the assembly in the given cell). The framework is designed in such a way the software tools do not have to be run locally, instead they could be run in any place in the world which can be accessed trough Internet. Two Web-accesible computer systems were implemented to accomplish this research; the rst one was developed as a mean to gure out the problems that must be tackled down to integrate several software tools, and the second one was developed to show the feasibility of building the proposed framework. The ma jor contributions of this research can be characterized as follows: De nition and formal speci cation of a central assembly-oriented data model which includes information about assemblies, robotic cells and constraints. The data model is based on a comprehensive domain ontology that enables the interoperation of manufacturability analysis software tools by managing information for chaining processes, storing solutions and giving feedback to the user. De nition of a modular framework for integration of software tools and feedback mechanisms. A black box integration approach is used allowing the software tools to be implemented in any computer language as long as they use the standard input/output system to read variables and output results. Constraint management is used as a communication mechanism between the tools. The integration of their solutions is made by testing each solution generated to keep coherence with the requirements of all the tools. Sockets are used to communicate with the software tools, so they could be run in any computer plugged to the World-Wide Web at any location around the world. A simple example was set and four tests were run in order to prove the main characteristics of the framework. Also, a survey was designed and applied to expert assembly designers to have an evaluation of the system's usefulness.
A computer-based method to estimate the level of sensitivity of typical somatosensorial responses
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2024-11) Cepeda Zapata, Luis Kevin; Alonso Valerdi, Luz Maria; emipsanchez; Angulo Sherman, Irma Nayeli; Muñoz Ubando, Luis Alberto; School of Engineering and Sciences; Campus Monterrey; Ibarra Zaratre, David Isaac
Understanding somatosensory responses is fundamental to human interaction with the environment, yet quantitative tools for assessing typical tactile responses remain underdeveloped. This thesis introduces a novel computer-based method to evaluate somatosensory processing through electroencephalographic data, focusing on responses to different tactile stimuli. The project will be conducted in three stages: 1) registration of typical somatosensory evoked responses due to touch, air, and vibration in incremental intensities using electroencephalography, 2) validation of the prototypes to evoke tactile evoked potentials, 3) development and evaluation of a classification model to differentiate tactile stimuli and intensities. The study involved the creation of a database of Electroencephalographic recordings from 34 healthy adult volunteers exposed to air, vibration, and caress stimuli, under four diffrent intensity levels intensity levels. The neural responses were analyzed using Discrete Wavelet Transform and classified with machine learning models including K-Nearest Neighbors, Random Forest, and Multilayer Perceptron. For a generalized classification model, an accuracy of 72.6% was achieved for distinguishing stimulus type, 39.3% accuracy for intensity classification and 33.4% for both stimulus type and intensity. Individual classifiers for each subject had an increase in accuracy of 6-10%. Additionally, a deep learning model, EEGNet, was implemented, yielding similar results for stimulus type but lower performance for intensity. Analysis revealed significant inter-subject variability, with subject-specific models outperforming generalized ones, highlighting the need for individualized approaches in somatosensory assessments. This study offers a novel dataset and model framework, which enhances the understanding of neural tactile processing to advance sensory-based interfaces and diagnostic tools in neurophysiological research.
A data analytics approach for university competitiveness: the QS rankings
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2020-06) Estrada Real, Ana Carmen; ESTRADA REAL, ANA CARMEN; 791773; Cantú Ortiz, Francisco Javier; emipsanchez/puemcuervo; Sucar Succar, Luis Enrique; Galeano Sánchez, Natalíe María; Hernández Gress, Neil; Monroy Borja, Raúl; School of Engineering and Sciences; Campus Estado de México; Ceballos Cancino, Héctor Gibrán
In recent years, higher education has been facing the entrance to the internationalmarket due to globalization, this has developed a highly competitive environment, in whichmany institutions have used university rankings as a tool to attract the best academic andstudent talent from all over the world. In this work we take as a base the ranking of QSWord University Rankings and QS Best Student Cities, to apply data science techniques.Extract information on the performance of the most attractive institutions and cities forstudents worldwide, and develop a methodology that allows the stakeholders of the insti-tutions and cities to improve their services for the benefit of students interested in receivingan education of global quality. We accumulated ten years of university rankings (2011-2020) and six years of city rankings (2014-2019), we carried out an exploratory analysisof the indicators and their influence with the final score, later we trained a multiple regres-sion model and panel data to make predictions in the score. Finally, in order to predictthe position, we carry out groupings and train various machine learning algorithms. Withthis work we show a methodology that allows administrators to plan long-term institutionalimprovements to offer a better education and improve their performance in world rankings.
A deep-learning application for epithelial cells image detection
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2021-09-16) Anaya Alvarez, Sergio Eduardo; CORTES CAPETILLO, AZAEL JESUS; 366841; Cortes Capetillo, Azael Jesus; tolmquevedo/mscuervo; Güemes Castorena, David; Lozoya Santos, Jorge de Jesús; School of Engineering and Sciences; Campus Monterrey
Urinary particles are used to evaluate the different urinary tract diseases in patients. Currently, doctors use the traditional methods for urinalysis such as urine dipstick, urine culture and microscopy. Microscopy is an effective method for the diagnosis and treatment of many kidney and urinary tract diseases. However, manual microscopic examination of urine is labor-intensive, subjective, imprecise, and time-consuming. In this project, we proposed the development of a different deep learning models classifier for an automated microscopic urinalysis system for epithelial cells. A dataset was constructed from scratch taking urine samples from the Hospital Ginequito obtaining a total of 857 images. Then, the images were labeled into urine samples with and without epithelial cells for binary classification. Last, we created three deep learning models using the InceptionV3 architectures with different series of fully connected layers randomly initialized and ReLU activation, a dropout rate of 0.2 and a final sigmoid layer for classification. The best model obtained a training accuracy of 81.89% with sensitivity of 77.84%, specificity of 85.94% and precision of 84.70% and a validation accuracy of 84.28% with a sensitivity of 87.50%, specificity of 81.25% and precision of 82.35%. It was concluded that microscopic urinalysis can be done automatically, this opens the door for the classification of more urine particles with improved metrics.
A Digital Lean Thinking Framework & Human-Centric Modelling Approach for Patients Processes Continuous Improvement
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2022-02-04) Rodríguez Estrada, Regina; Romero Díaz, David Carlos; dnbsrp; Ruiz Soto, Gabriela María; Montesinos Silva, Luis Arturo; School of Engineering and Sciences; Campus Ciudad de México
Lean is a management and engineering methodology that promotes customer-centric value-added creation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence. It provides an organisational culture focused on leadership, communication, empowerment, and teamwork-oriented to customer satisfaction. Furthermore, it offers practical methods and tools to create highly efficient and effective processes for operational excellence. The Lean Healthcare Paradigm aims to create extraordinary patient care in the form of the highest quality, safety, and empathy with the patients, and the easiest and timely access to healthcare services at an affordable cost. It allows hospitals to improve the quality of their healthcare services by reducing errors, risks, and waiting times. Moreover, with the emergence of new digital tools, Lean Hospitals have started their Digital Transformation journey towards a novel Digital Lean Healthcare Paradigm in the pursuit of the next level of operational excellence and patient satisfaction. However, in the healthcare sector, it has been found that hospitals tend to struggle with their “digital transformation” for different reasons, either because they focus only on implementing digital technologies without having control over their processes, or because they do not take into account the needs of the patient, or simply they stay halfway. Thus, this thesis aims to create a Digital Lean Thinking Framework & Human-Centric Modelling Approach for healthcare organisations with a focus on patient-centredness to provide hospitals with a clearer and practical guide on how to carry out their “Digital Lean Healthcare Transformation”. Likewise, the proposed framework emphasises the need to follow a continuous improvement method such as the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Cycle to have a more structured strategic planning with clear objectives, tasks, methods, timelines, and responsibilities. Finally, the case study of this thesis focuses on enriching and validating the proposed Digital Lean Thinking Framework & Human-Centric Modelling Approach for Patients Processes Continuous Improvement by “improving” the medical consultation process of a patient in the Gynaecology area of a private hospital in Monterrey, Mexico.
A framework to foster innovation-driven enterprises creation in the university: the case of the Monterrey region in Mexico.
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2021-12-01) Téllez Girón Barrera, Alejandro; Güemes Castorena, David; puemcuervo/tolmquevedo; Cortés Capetillo, Azael Jesús; School of Engineering and Sciences; Campus Monterrey; Hincapié Montoya, Edwin Mauricio
Emerging countries face a series of challenges on their agenda, one of them being the socio-economic development of their region. One well-known way to create a competitive economy is by introducing innovative technologies, products, or services. Entrepreneurship can be classified into small and medium enterprises and innovation-driven enterprises (IDE). Both types of entrepreneurship are required for an economy; however, the second leads to high-quality job creation and economic prosperity. Three main actors can boost IDE's creation by looking at the triple helix model: industry, government, and the university. In this research, the university plays the leading role in promoting the creation of these companies due to a transformation towards the entrepreneurial university where teaching and research are not the sole objectives. Conceiving a new company by transferring technology from an academic institution is known as a university spin-off. Notwithstanding, this practice has not been studied in emerging countries. Therefore, this research focuses on shedding some light on how the entrepreneurial university can foster the creation of these companies. The steps in this process were (i) identifying the significant elements for the creation of university spin-offs with a literature review and a validation of the elements with the Fuzzy Delphi method, (ii) modeling the current process of spin-off creation in two universities in the Monterrey region using the Total Interpretive Structural Modeling tool, (iii) and identifying the current and potentials drivers of the system employing the MICMAC method. Consequently, a framework was obtained outlining seven key points to support university decision-makers in fostering the creation of these companies. The results show ten significant elements for creating university spin-offs. Subsequently, the following recommendations were obtained by analyzing how these elements interacted in two universities in the Monterrey region and identifying their current and future influence on the system. The findings show that focusing on adding the innovation dimension to the entrepreneurial vision of the university and creating specific policies regarding innovation-driven enterprises were the initial aspects that decision-makers should consider. Subsequently, planning a process for accessing profit-seeking capital and engaging the university's applied research capacity was critical. Next, improve the support mechanisms for spin-offs without overlooking the fact that they depend on the previous elements, followed by working to close the gap in the culture regarding the commercialization of technology. Lastly, do not ignore the strategic management, and that regional context can be a support during this process.
A historical overview of English language teaching in Monterrey : The I.T.E.S.M. case
Medina de Puente, Laura; Laura Medina de Puente; Gartz, Irene; Irene Gartz
A hybrid metaheuristic optimization approach for the synthesis of operating procedures for optimal drum-boiler startups
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2020) Garduño Hernández, Emilio; BATRES PRIETO, RAFAEL; 589386; NOGUEZ MONROY, JUANA JULIETA; 202512; PONCE CRUZ, PEDRO; 31857; Batres Prieto, Rafael; RR; Noguez Monroy, Juana Julieta; Ponce Cruz, Pedro; Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias; Campus Ciudad de México
A steam generator serves as a power generation equipment that uses the expansive power of the steam to generate electricity. The startup process of a steam generator plays an important role in the ability of a power plant to adjust its electricity generation to changes in demand. As renewable generation plants increase, the levels of variability in electricity production increase. Fast startups become instrumental as they enable traditional power generation plants to provide the quantity of electricity missing when variable renewable energies cannot satisfy demand. A main equipment involved in the startup process of the steam generator is the drum boiler. However, if the startup process is carried out too fast, excessive thermal stresses can occur and provoke damage to the components of the drum boiler. This thesis proposes a dynamic optimization methodology to synthesize operating valve profiles that minimize the startup time of the drum boiler while avoiding the excessive formation of thermal stresses. Since valve operations influence the time-varying behavior of the steam, dynamic simulation is needed in order to evaluate the operating procedure. This thesis proposes a dynamic optimization approach with a hybrid-metaheuristic algorithm that generates the optimal startup procedure of a drum boiler. The proposed algorithm is based on two important elements of two metaheuristic algorithms. Namely, the search zone in the cooling element from the simulated annealing algorithm and the efficient computational performance provided from the tabu search algorithm memory structures. A case study evaluates the proposed approach by comparing it against results previously published in the literature.
A knowledge structure to support manufacturing tacit knowledge management: a chemical company case study
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2007-11-30) Flores Guerrero, Miguel; FLORES GUERRERO, MIGUEL; 709592; Guerra Zubiaga, David Apolinar; Chapa Gómez, Héctor Javier; Ramírez Mendoza, Ricardo A.; Campus Monterrey
Knowledge Management is a research area widely explored, researches have been leaded in diverse fields, and the Manufacture is no exception, it has emerged as one of the branches of Knowledge Management research. From the manufacture branch has been identified and defined a knowledge super class, the Manufacturing Knowledge, which has been explored by various authors proposing models, and developing systems to manage the knowledge related to the manufacturing industries of a wide range of products like metal-mechanic, pharmaceutical, electronic, automotive, chemical and petro-chemical. The present thesis work explores a Case Study developed in a Chemical Facility located in Monterrey urban area, this facility is dedicated to the manufacturing of synthetic yarns for the textile industry. The facility object of study, is facing a problem traduced in the loss of knowledge from its employees, which is not structured and not captured, it means that exists in an intangible tacit way, this loss is either caused by the employees turnover as well as employees retirement. The problem has turned into an opportunity, since the management is interested in the development of a proposal of a tool that manages and captures the tacit knowledge related to the manufacturing activities, and that resides within employees in the form of Learning, Experiences and Skills developed. Based on previous researches, and in complementary literature in this thesis work is presented a proposal of a Manufacturing Tacit Knowledge Model and a Knowledge Repository, which defines knowledge classes that can be easily identified by the users. The defined classes are based on common terminology of the different areas from a facility that are involved in the manufacturing process. The final product of this thesis work, the named IK Textiles Knowledge is intended to be a tool that can capture the knowledge from the employees, also be the source for knowledge searches when required by employees to improve decision making and prevent potential events; and also provide privileges to the employees to modify and challenge the knowledge that is stored in the repository.