Technology, Science, and Culture: A Global Vision, Volume II

*Universidad de las Américas Puebla*

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**Technology, Science, and Culture: A Global Vision, Volume II 2019**

From the success of the first volume of this series, we are enthusiastic to continue our discussions on research topics related to the fields of Food Science, Intelligent Systems, Molecular Biomedicine, Water Science, and Creation and Theories of Culture. Our aims are to discuss the newest topics, theories, and research methods in each of the mentioned fields, to promote debates among top researchers and graduate students and to generate collaborative works among them.

To reach these objectives, we organized a 1-day forum where recognized specialists in each field interacted with doctorate students generating very fruitful discussions. Thus, Dr. Rafael Vazquez-Duhalt, from the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center of Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, brought to the discussion one of his research streams and talked about viral structures in nanomedicine. Dr. Stella Maris Alzamora, from the Exact and Natural Sciences Faculty of Universidad de Buenos Aires, exposed the opportunities and challenges on mild intervention technologies tending to increase shelf life and/or safety of fresh fruits. Dr. Damian Helbling, from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Cornell University, discussed about water quality, commenting on the importance of characterizing emerging chemical contaminants and explaining why it is mandatory to remediate the water from these compounds, pointing out some tools to achieve it. For his part, Dr. Hemant Tagare, from Yale University, introduced Cryo-EM single-particle reconstruction algorithms, which is a method for reconstructing 3D structures of biological macromolecules. Dr. Gary Hall, from Coventry University, discussed about anti-bourgeois theory, showing how to

speak differently about technology, science, culture, and everything.

kick to continue deepening on each research topic covered in this forum.

America and the Caribbean region, suffers from both weather extremes.

ing a very positive synergy among all attendants.

Other activities in this forum included the participation of graduate students from different doctorates. Graduate students exposed their research works generat-

This book is the result of all these discussions, where we hope to give the initial

The number and impact of water-related natural disasters have increased since the middle of last century. As result of increased climate variability and the effects of global warming, the hydrometeorological risk has increased and spread, while the resilience of societies, in many cases, is not adequate. Consequently, the risk has increased. Floods and droughts, particularly in a changing climate, require greater understanding to generate better forecasts and proper management of these phenomena. Mexico, like other countries in the world, and of course in Latin

Editors

Sergio Picazo-Vela Luis Ricardo Hernández

Knowledge Area Co-editors Erwin Josuan Pérez Cortés Nelly Ramírez Corona José Luis Sánchez Salas Enrique Ajuria Ibarra Roberto Rosas Romero
