Earth and Environmental Sciences
Carbon dioxide (CO2) has gained importance in the last decade; large quantities of this toxic gas are stored in the atmosphere, altering the daily life of people and contributing to global w…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Background: Chronic kidney disease is a progressive and irreversible loss of kidney function. Panama, according to CSS statistics, there are more than 2,200 patients for the year 2020 in dia…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a group of diseases that affect kidney function. Recently, a growing number of people suffering from it have been detected in regions of Central America, with…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The search and implementation of less polluting alternatives of energy production has been more demanding, as the long-term impact of human beings on our environment becomes more visible. Th…
Animal Sciences
The objective of this work was to evaluate the environmental quality of a forested area of Parque Natural San Francisco, throughout the measurement of the ecological attributes of diurnal bu…
Microbiology
The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao L.) is of vital cultural importance to the Guna people, inhabitants of the Comarca Guna Yala, in Panama, where cacao fruit is used for consumption and attribu…
Translational Medical Science
According to the World Health Organization, air quality is considered one of the greatest sanitary challenges related to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases such as asthma, pulmonary can…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The development of this work was carried out in the forests of Panama in the community of Ustupu to determine the biodiversity of insects that are attracted with colorful dishes and in this…
Microbiology
Thirty - six strains of Staphylococcus aureus were isolated from the oropharynx mucous of pets. For this purpose, 40 samples were collected throughout oropharyngeal swab in dogs, cats and ro…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
We carried out an archaeological investigation to determine if the authorship of the petroglyphs located in Caldera, province of Chiriquí, is really from the group known as the Dorasques. To…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Objective: Oxygen is essential for life and is an element with a double physiological profile, indispensable for life and for the environment; it can also become toxic, as unstable molecules…
Animal Sciences
The catch size of Anadara tuberculosa is key to establish its condition and state of exploitation at the Chame mangroves. There are many families at El Espave community, in Chame, that depen…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The lack of a reading habit in young people is one of the most relevant, internationally unresolved social problems. The project aims to demonstrate that those who read have good spelling an…
Energy consumption and refrigerants employed in air conditioning are an environmental concern due to global warming and ozone layer destruction. However, this problem can be minimized by the…
The excessive use of the herbicide atrazine has become one of the main problems in surface and groundwater contamination around the world. This compound can be degraded by several microorgan…
Biomedical Engineering
A survey of the degree of sensitivity of Anopheles Albimanus to organophosphate and carbamate insecticides was made in the locations of Aguas Claras in the region of Madugandi and Felipillo…
Plantations of Guandu bean (Cajanus cajan, Fabaceae) are attacked by the fungus Colletotrichum cajani (Glomerellaceae, Ascomycota) which causes severe anthracnose in stems, leaves and pods o…
Materials Science
Mangrove ecosystems play an important role in maintaining marine life, stabilizing coastal environments and sustaining human well-being. However, mangroves are constantly threatened by human…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
New evidences have revealed that the protozoan parasite Plasmodium falciparum uses a communication net based on the releasing extracellular vesicles from infected red blood cells. The conten…