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

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

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.

Other activities in this forum included the participation of graduate students from different doctorates. Graduate students exposed their research works generating a very positive synergy among all attendants.

This book is the result of all these discussions, where we hope to give the initial kick to continue deepening on each research topic covered in this forum.

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

The UNESCO Chair on Hydrometeorological Risks, held at the University of Americas Puebla, is devoted to the analysis, measurement, modelling, and management of extreme hydrometeorological events in the context of a more urbanized world, climate change, and further vulnerable regions and is focused on the development of basic and applied research for the design of adaptation and mitigation measures, dissemination, and preparation of decision-makers as well as the public. Its activities keep a gender focus, directed in particular to reduce the vulnerability of women to hydrometeorological disasters.

The Chair acts in the following fields:


A detailed description of the UNESCO Chair on Hydrometeorological Risks, members, and publications, can be obtained at its Website https://www.udlap.mx/ catedraunesco/

The Chair publishes a quarterly newsletter, in Spanish and English, that can be consulted at https://www.udlap.mx/catedraunesco/newsletters.aspx

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The UNESCO Chair on Hydrometeorological Risks, held at the University of Americas Puebla, is devoted to the analysis, measurement, modelling, and management of extreme hydrometeorological events in the context of a more urbanized world, climate change, and further vulnerable regions and is focused on the development of basic and applied research for the design of adaptation and mitigation measures, dissemination, and preparation of decision-makers as well as the public. Its activities keep a gender focus, directed in particular to reduce the vulnerability

A detailed description of the UNESCO Chair on Hydrometeorological Risks, members, and publications, can be obtained at its Website https://www.udlap.mx/

The Chair publishes a quarterly newsletter, in Spanish and English, that can be

of women to hydrometeorological disasters.

The Chair acts in the following fields:

4. Gender and hydrometeorological risks.

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1. Hydrometeorological risks and climate change.

2. Modelling and forecasting of hydrometeorological risks. 3. Integrated management of hydrometeorological risks.

consulted at https://www.udlap.mx/catedraunesco/newsletters.aspx

**VII**

Contents

*Rafael Vazquez-Duhalt*

*Hemant D. Tagare*

*and Ana Eugenia Ortega-Regules*

*Gary Hall*

Mild Intervention Technologies for Increasing Shelf

Viral Structures in Nanomedicine 1

Life and/or Safety of Fresh Fruits: Opportunity and challenge 15

Characterization and Remediation of Emerging Chemical Contaminants 27

A Gentle Introduction to Cryo-EM Single-Particle Reconstruction Algorithms 43

Anti-Bourgeois Theory 57

Trolox Protection Against Oxidative Stress in *Caenorhabditis elegans* 73

Essential Oil Encapsulated by Complex Coacervation 83 *Ruth Hernández-Nava, Nancy Ruíz-González and María Teresa Jiménez-Munguía*

Essential Oil Interactions that Weaken *Salmonella* and *Listeria* 93

Alginate Beads with Essential Oil: Water and Essential Oil Release Behavior 105

and Mean Square Error 115

An approach for River Delta Generation using L-Systems 123

*Stella M. Alzamora, Paula L. Gómez, Silvia Raffellini, Eunice Contigiani, Gabriela Jaramillo, Angela Rocío Romero Bernal and Lucas González*

Water Quality in the Twenty-First Century: New Tools for the

*Damian E. Helbling, Corey M.G. Carpenter and Yuhan Ling*

*Marco Antonio González-Peña, José Daniel Lozada-Ramírez,* 

Effect of Oil Content in the Physicochemical Characteristics of Spray-Dried Powders of Anise (*Pimpinella anisum* L.)

Looking for the Killer Combination: pH, Protein, and Thyme

*Leonor Lastra Vargas, Aurelio López-Malo and Enrique Palou*

A Simplified Generative Model based on Gradient Descent

*Maria J. Paris, Enrique Palou and Aurelio López-Malo*

*Luis Oswaldo Valencia-Rosado and Oleg Starostenko*

*Omar López-Rincón and Oleg Starostenko*
