ACI Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías

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ACI Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías is an international, multidisciplinary, and open-access scientific journal. As of 2025, it publishes original, peer-reviewed contributions both in English and Spanish, across various fields, including exact, biological, and environmental sciences, as well as engineering and multidisciplinary research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Previously, the journal organized its content into three sections: Section A – Exact Sciences, Section B – Life Sciences,and Section C – Engineering.

ISSNe: 2528-7788

ISSN: 1390-5384 

Editorial: USFQ PRESS

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Announcements

  • 2025-07-15

    Call for Papers – IABSE Ecuador 2025

    First Structural Engineering Conference - IABSE Ecuador 2025

    Submission Deadline: October 10th, 2025

    ACI Avances in Science and Engineering invites undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals, and construction industry representatives to submit original contributions to the First Structural Engineering Conference – IABSE Ecuador 2025.

    Conference Topics
    Submissions are welcome in the following areas:

    • Structural systems (concrete, steel, timber, bio-based materials, and more)

    • Steel building connections

    • High-rise buildings and bridges

    • Non-structural elements

    • Structural health monitoring

    • Seismic isolation and energy dissipation

    • Structural reliability

    • Seismic retrofit of structures

    Submissions may be in English or Spanish

    Selected articles will be presented during the conference.

    We look forward to your contributions and to fostering a dynamic exchange of scientific and technical knowledge in structural engineering!

Current Issue

Volume 17, No. 1

Published January 29, 2025

Full Issue

Editorial

  1. Dennis Cazar

    Beyond the Turing Test: the human role in the future of science

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v17i1.3886

Articles

  1. Francisco Javier Méndez Bravo, Tomàs Molina Bosch

    Equatorial synoptic climatology. Case analysis of specific surface situations affecting continental Ecuador

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v17i1.2829

  2. Dennis Cazar, Juan Sebastián Rhor Mancheno

    Toward climate-resilient agriculture: smart irrigation systems and soil moisture monitoring for crops in the Andean Region

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v17i1.3299

  3. Andrés Arévalo, Mabel Cadena, Diana Ontaneda

    Phytoplankton diversity and current trophic status of a high mountain lake in the province of Imbabura, Ecuador

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v17i1.3397

  4. Lizbeth Chávez-Reyes, Laura García-Curiel, Jesús Guadalupe Pérez Flores, Emmanuel Pérez-Escalante, Elizabeth Contreras-López, Lizbeth Anahí Portillo-Torres, Luis Guillermo González-Olivares, Carlos Ángel-Jijón

    Optimization of sourness and flavor in orange-flavored gummy candies using a simplex-lattice mixture design implemented with R

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v17i1.3414

  5. Laura Elena de Jongh Salazar , José Manuel Barriola Damborenea, María Eugenia Álvarez Bermúdez, Miguel Manuel Perez Hernández

    Design of a vanadium redox flow battery prototype

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v17i1.3423

  6. José Eduardo Solsona, Sergio Nesmachnow

    Empirical evaluation of parallel implementations of MergeSort

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v17i1.3701

  7. Felix Mejía Cajicá, John Anderson García Henao, Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernandéz, Michel Riveill

    Efficiency in the classification of chest X-ray images through generative parallelization of the Neural Architecture Search

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v17i1.3707

  8. Jose David Bañuelos Aquino, José Antonio Orizaga Trejo

    Study of syllogism in the paradigm of quantum logic

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v17i1.3709

  9. Juan Pablo Perez Leal, Andrés Sebastián Ríos, David Romo-Bucheli

    A temporal approach to urban crime forecasting using recurrent neural networks

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v17i1.3710

Review

  1. Alisson Dayana Alvarez Fueres, Gabriela Solange Muñoz Abad, Fausto Alejandro Rodríguez Bravo, Mónica Susana Delgado Yánez

    Analysis of combined intracantonal public transportation at the Río Coca Terminal: A bibliographic review

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v17i1.3338