Vol. 3 No. 3 (2025)

Published November 21, 2025
Investigaciones UCA. Biennial Report: Year 3, Vol. 3, 2023-2024

Inaugural speeches and conferences

Mario Ernesto Cornejo
6-7
Seminario de Difusión de Investigaciones UCA 2025 Inaugural Speech
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10275
Esmeralda Valdivieso Mora
8
Seminario de Difusión de Investigaciones UCA 2025 Opening Message
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10276

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Allison Daniela Monge León, Flor de María Mendoza Perlera, Maximino Humberto Valencia Álvarez, Iliana Maritza
9-17
Notes on the Economics of Education: Post-Pandemic, Human Capital, and Perspectives for Economic and Social Development
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10277
Mario Salomón Montesino Castro, Daniel Armando Serrano Alfaro
18-22
Theory and model of the proportionality of productive forces applied to the coverage of human labor force through fiscal policy and private investment: the case of El Salvador
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10278
José Adán Vaquerano Amaya
23-30
Analysis of psychosocial risk factors and organizational culture in employees of Salvadoran companies
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10280
Mario Salomón Montesino Castro, Juan José López Rogel
31-38
Analysis of the Dynamics Between Economic Growth and Public Debt: An Alternative Proposal for Fiscal Policy Focused on Public Expenditure
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10283
Mario Salomón Montesino Castro, Juan José López Rogel
39-46
Analysis of the impact of public spending and debt and investments on the proportionality and development of the productive forces of El Salvador
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10300
Iliana Maritza Álvarez Escobar, Natalia Naomi Rivas Castaneda, Carlos Rodrigo Mejía Lemus
47-52
Demographic Dividend for the Construction of a Care Society: An Analysis from the Economics of Education in El Salvador
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10301
Meraris Carolina López Díaz
53-57
El Salvador: Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Food Agricultural Production
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10302
Meraris Carolina López Díaz, Lorena Matilde Valle Cuéllar
58-62
Water supply and use in El Salvador analyzed from the hydro-social cycle perspective
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10303
Claudia Melissa Salgado Rodríguez, Daniel Armando Serrano Alfaro
63-69
Subnational deregulation in El Salvador: institutional, fiscal, and municipal citizenship implications
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10304
Iliana Maritza Álvarez Escobar, Damaris Ruiz, Sara Avilez
70-74
It is not an invisible hand. Rethinking care work from the community in Latin America
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10305
José Alejandro Álvarez Ramírez
75-79
Rural transformation and urban expansion: an empirical study of the urban conglomerate on the road to the port of La Libertad and the distribution of drinking water
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10306
César Edgardo Melara Gálvez, Andrya Miriam Garay Rodríguez, Gerardo Alfredo Morales Rodríguez, Erick Giovanni Varela Guzmán, Patricia Lorena Montalvo, Nataly Raquel Cuéllar Estrada, Mariana Isabel Vásquez Rivera
80-85
Financial inclusion initiative developed in the Solidarity Economy Circuit of the Southwest of El Salvador
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10307

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

Leticia Monserrat González Torné, Mestizo Mestizo, Paniagua de Solórzano Paniagua de Solórzano, Mercedes Isabel Rodríguez de Burgos
86-91
Systematic review of psychosocial care strategies to address child sexual abuse (CSA), published by organizations or institutions that work in the care of children and adolescents
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10308
Danilo Alberto Miranda Baires
92-95
Central American Political Regimes. El Salvador’s Case
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10309
Gloria Mercedes Pacas Cardoza, Diane Ceo-DiFrancesco, Alicia Fernanda Torales Rivera, Xóchitl León Oyarzábal, Óscar Kennedy Mora Sánchez
96-103
The Impact of Intercultural Telecollaboration on the Development of Global Citizenship through the Virtual Dual Immersion Network AUSJAL-AJCU
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10310
Vásquez Monzón Vásquez Monzón, Kevin Alexander Velásquez
104-107
Educational policy elements on Father López’s educational work from Fe y Alegría
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10311
Claudia Ivón Rivera Andrade
108-112
Discursive Devices in Public Security during the Bukele Administration: The Case of the State of Exception
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10312
Celina Ivette Andino Quintanilla, María Santacruz Giralt, Pedro Joaquín Sorto Vega, Xochilt Elizabeth Urrutia Anzora, Olga Vásquez Monzón
113-117
Exploratory Study on the Disposition to Learn (DTL) of Undergraduate Students at UCA
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10313
Luis Edgar Alvarenga Vásquez, Miguel Saúl Rivas Monterrosa, Lilliam Lorena Ríos González, Ingrid Melissa Amaya Bustillo, Emilio Ernesto Delgado Chavarría
118-123
Abstract of the project: “Editorial plan to Francisco Gavidia Complete Works”
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10341
Roberto Turcios, Roberto Carlos Deras Melgar, Herberth Stanley Morales Herrera, Óscar Armando Meléndez Ramírez, Gabriel Ernesto Escolán Romero, Margarita Haydeé Escalante Linares
124-128
Trends and periods of the 20th century: a historical crisis, the Salvadoran Armed Conflict
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10342
Tizziana Valdivieso, Óscar Arnulfo González Márquez, José Enmanuel Amaya Araujo
129-133
Uses of Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools by Students of the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas in their Educational Processes
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10343

Faculty of Engineering and Architecture

Carlos Mario Flores Lazo
134-139
Reutilization of Electric Vehicle Batteries: A Bibliographic Approach to Their Second Life
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10350
Yoceman Adony Sifontes Rivas
140-142
On Geometry and Integration Techniques
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10351
Lizeth Rodríguez Rodríguez, Adrián Muros Alcojor, Oriol Paris-Viviana
143-149
Comparative Analysis of the Life-cycle of Industrialized Prefabricated Buildings in Mediterranean and Tropical Latitudes
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10352
Erick Giovanni Varela Guzmán, Carlos Aníbal Juárez Ramos, Mauricio Arturo Pohl Alfaro, Néstor Santiago Aldana Rodríguez
150-154
Development of a pilot test for the digitalization of energy consumption and generation at the UCA campus. DEI Phase
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10353
Violeta Alejandra Chichique Martínez, Farhang Shadman
155-156
Effect of Pore Size Distribution on the Performance of Catalytic Series Reactions
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10354
Burgos Burgos, José Adolfo Ramos Huezo, Alexandra María Urbina, Mauricio Arturo Pohl Alfaro
157-164
Design, Construction, and Validation of a Low-Cost Three-Dimensional Deformation Field Measurement System for Structural Elements
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10355

Vice-Rectory of Social Projection

Fátima Enriqueta Rosales Zelaya, Mauricio Erazo, Jorge Alberto Rodríguez Ponce
165-173
Report on Sexual Violence Incidents in El Salvador 2019-2023
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10357
Observatorio Universitario de Derechos Humanos
174-179
Report on the State of the Right to Freedom of Speech in El Salvador 2023
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10358

Faculty of Postgraduate

Luis Alfredo Ponce Benítez, Brenda Melissa Joya Renderos
180-184
Teaching and Digital Skills: An Approach to Inequalities in Secondary Education in the Department of San Salvador
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10345
Erick William Parada Chávez
185-189
Gender Wage Gap in the Departments of San Salvador, Sonsonate, La Unión, and Morazán: Determinants and Comparison 2013–2022
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10346
Karla de los Ángeles López Cabrera
190-196
The role of local governments in the design and implementation of public policies with a territorial development approach. Case study: Mejicanos. Period: 2014 – 2019
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10347
Andrea Cristancho Cuesta
197-203
Media Elites and State Capture in El Salvador and Nicaragua, 2012-2019
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10348
Alondra Sofía Avendaño Rojas, Katherine Johana Ramírez Rivera
204-209
School-Territory Ties: Analysis of Phase 2 of the “One School, One Thousand Stories” project in the district of Torola, Morazán (2022-2023)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51378/iuca.v3i3.10349