Universidad Técnica del Norte

Epistemic Gaps In Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventories: Community Criteria And Institutional Limits In The Ecuadorian Andes

"Epistemic gaps in intangible cultural heritage inventories: community criteria and institutional limits in the Ecuadorian Andes."

Communicating Sustainability in Ecuadorian Public Universities: A Content Analysis of Digital Media and a Framework of Educommunicational Strategies

Universities play a pivotal role in fostering sustainable practices, yet limited evidence is available on how this commitment is translated into digital communication within Latin American higher education. To address this gap, this study examines how Ecuadorian public universiti...

Playing Under Pressure: Lived Meanings, Tensions, and Re-Significations in Teachers’ Ludic Mediation Through Play and Toys

Play and toys are central resources for learning; however, their integration into schooling is typically traversed by curricular, evaluative, disciplinary, and institutional tensions, particularly in resource-limited contexts. This study examined the meanings, tensions, and re-si...

IoT-Based Air Quality Monitoring System for NO2 and O3 Concentrations Using Neural Networks in the City of Ibarra

Air quality monitoring is an essential component of urban environmental management; however, medium-sized cities such as Ibarra often lack updated measurements, limiting evidence-based decision-making. This study presents the design and implementation of an Internet of Things (Io...

Negative Campus Climate as an Institutional Risk Indicator for Student Success and Wellbeing in Higher Education: A Covariate-Adjusted Analysis of Open Survey Data

Campus climate surveys are widely administered in higher education, but their results are rarely integrated into student-success analytics. This study examines negative campus climate as an institutional risk indicator for academic satisfaction, intention to remain, and psycholog...

Educommunication and Biocultural Interpretation in Socio-Ecological Contexts: An Interpretive Trail in the “Los Arrayanes” Forest Reserve, Carchi, Ecuador

Environmental interpretation (EI) in protective forests remains an underexplored field, despite its demonstrated potential for fostering emotional place attachment and conservation attitudes. This study aims to design and evaluate in situ the “Magical Portal of Biodiversity and C...

Optimization of Furrow Irrigation in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions through Advanced Simulation Models: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Abstract Furrow irrigation is widely practiced in arid and semi-arid regions but suffers from low efficiency due to infiltration variability and water losses. This systematic review analysed 92 peer-reviewed studies (2017–2024) on short-cycle crops, identified through a reproduci...

Dimensional Analysis-Based Modeling of Cutting and Thrust Forces in Orthogonal Cutting of AISI 1045 Steel

Accurate prediction of cutting forces remains a key challenge in metal machining due to the strong coupling between geometry, material behavior, friction, and thermal effects, which limits the generality of purely empirical models. In this study, physically interpretable models w...