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ABSTRACT. Aquaculture farming is a complex system integrating several disciplines, including biology, engineering and economics, all which need to be correctly intertwined to have a profitable and environmentally sustainable activity. During the past recent years, scallop (Argopecten purpuratus) farmers in northern Chile have come to comprehend the hard way that aquaculture producers operate in a complex and dynamic environment where natural and economic factors are in constant change. Thus, to keep a profitable and competitive business in today's world, aquaculture farm managers are in need of relatively easy to use tools for efficient and timely decision making. Harvest size and time, mortality and growth rates, stocking rates, costs and market prices are important variables and parameters to monitor, where decisions with respect to their levels or values have to be made. In this context, non-linear and dynamic quantitative bioeconomic models should become valuable tools, for periodic decision making in the aquaculture business. This paper shows how to emulate Chilean scallop farming using a simulation model that mimics some of the industry's features. The model presented here focuses on a scallop aquaculture center that uses the common technology approach of pearl net and lanterns of the northern region of Chile, and analyses the farming strategies based on harvesting size. Also, these strategies were subject to variations in the parameters in order to identify patterns and asses the sensibility of the model to input values. Keywords: simulation, dynamic, aquaculture, Argopecten purpuratus, scallop, Chile.Modelo de simulación para el cultivo del ostión (Argopecten purpuratus) en el norte de Chile: aplicaciones para la toma de decisiones RESUMEN. La acuicultura es un sistema complejo que integra varias disciplinas, incluyendo la biología, ingeniería y economía, las cuales deben ser correctamente entrelazadas para lograr una actividad rentable y ambientalmente sostenible. Durante los últimos años, los cultivadores del ostión del norte (Argopecten purpuratus) en Chile han comprendido de la peor manera, que las actividades de acuicultura operan en un entorno complejo y dinámico, donde los factores económicos y naturales se encuentran en estado de cambio constante. Para mantener un negocio rentable y competitivo, los administradores de los centros de cultivo necesitan herramientas que sean relativamente fáciles de utilizar para facilitar la toma de decisiones de manera eficaz y oportuna. Las tallas y tiempo de cosecha, tasas de mortalidad y crecimiento, densidades de cultivo, costos y precios de mercado son variables y parámetros importantes para controlar, donde son necesarias decisiones respecto de sus niveles y valores. En este contexto modelos cuantitativos dinámicos y no-lineales deberían convertirse en herramientas valiosas para la toma de decisiones, de forma periódica, en la industria de la acuicultura. Este trabajo muestra una alternativa para emular el cultivo del ostión en Chile, mediante un modelo de s...

A neuropsychological battery for testing HIV-1-infected individuals in Spanish was developed. We refer to this battery as the HIV/University of Miami Annotated Neuropsychological test battery in Spanish (HUMANS). The HUMANS battery includes recommendations of the National Institute of Mental Health Neuropsychology Workgroup on HIV-1 infection and measures processes in the following 7 cognitive domains: attention, verbal and visual memory, information processing speed, abstraction and executive functioning, language, visuospatial and visuoconstructive, and motor. Administration requires approximately 3 to 4 hr. The English version of the battery is sensitive to HIV-1 serostatus and Centers for Disease Control clinical disease stage. We report on the test selection, translation, and adaptation of this parallel English battery into Spanish using methods to eliminate linguistically and culturally biased items in some tests. The importance of standardized neuropsychological instruments equivalent in different languages to test HIV-1-positive individuals for impairment is emphasized. Validation and reliability studies are in progress.