Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

Current Advances in the Medical Management of Stevens-Johnson’s Syndrome

Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are potentially life-threatening type IV immune reactions characterized by systemic inflammation mediated by cytotoxic T lymphocytes resulting in epidermal detachment and extensive necrosis. Although infrequent,...

What Do Tests Really Assess? Discrepancies and Convergences Between the UEF-1 Self-Report and Laboratory Measures of University Executive Functions

This research evaluated the UEF-1 scale, designed to measure applied executive functions (EF) in Spanish-speaking university students, by comparing it with traditional laboratory tests. Study 1, with a sample of 100 Cuban students, found mostly non-significant correlations betwee...

Semantic Fragmentation and Stochastic Assembly: A Protocol for Decentralized Language-Model Inference over Untrusted Volunteer Nodes

Peer-to-peer language-model inference has so far been pursued by splitting the model: transformer layers or tensors are distributed across machines, and intermediate activations traverse the public internet on every generated token. This places the design squarely against a bandw...

Association of Helicobacter pylori Infection with the Gastric Microbiota: A Scoping Review from a Molecular Diagnostic Perspective

Helicobacter pylori infection remains globally one of the main causes of chronic gastritis, gastroduodenal ulcer disease, and gastric adenocarcinoma. Although the stomach has been considered an almost sterile environment, molecular techniques have revealed a complex and dynamic g...

INTELIGENT VIRTUAL ASSISTANT FOR UNIVERSITY GARDEN

Building smart territories faces challenges for more efficient services and facilities, as well as supporting the intelligent development of the tourism industry in terms of data analysis and prediction, automation and intelligence, personalization and customization, intelligent...

Palynological study of Erythroxylum (Erythroxylaceae): discrimination of species of forensic/criminological interest under light microscopy

The genus Erythroxylum comprises numerous species of significant ecological, ethnobotanical, and forensic relevance. Some species, such as E. coca and E. novogranatense, are widely known for their use in illicit cocaine production, while others play important roles in traditional...

Clinical and Economic Burden of Complicated Pneumonia and Invasive Disease due to Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 19A in an Ecuadorian Pediatric Reference Hospital

Serotype 19A has emerged as an important cause of pneumococcal disease following the introduction of the 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV10). In this retrospective study of children hospitalized with culture-confirmed invasive pneumococcal disease at an Ecuadorian pe...