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(Emerald, 2018)Purpose This paper investigates how language homophily between service providers and migrant consumers affects migrant consumers' intentions to engage with financial and medical service providers. Design/methodology/approach ...
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(Springer, 2020)For a prey, its best ticket to stay alive is to get early and accurate information on predation risk and so, escape from predation at low cost. Some prey species have evolved the ability to eavesdrop signals intended for ...
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(The Economic Society of South Africa, 2008-12)This paper studies the effect that mother's education as knowledge has on child health using height for age as health measure. Using cross sectional data from de 1993 South Africa Integrated Household Survey, and health ...
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(Springer, 2018-07)Chile is considered as one of the safest countries in Latin America, with a below-the-average world crime rate. However, during the last few decades, the country has experienced a deterioration in public perceptions of ...
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(2016)Background: For several decades now an antagonism between Trypanosoma cruzi infection and tumor development has been detected. The molecular basis of this phenomenon remained basically unknown until our proposal that T. ...
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(Association of Field Ornithologists, 2004)Cover at nesting sites selected by breeding birds can reduce the risk of nest predation. Using artificial nests, we tested whether dense cover reduces nest predation upon understory birds (rhinocryptids) in temperate forest ...
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(2013)Binocular vision is a visual property that allows fine discrimination of in-depth distance (stereopsis), as well as enhanced light and contrast sensitivity. In mammals enhanced binocular vision is structurally associated ...
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(Sociedad Chilena de Obstetricia y Ginecologia, 2017)We present 4 cases of fetal death in obese pregnant women with term pregnancies, with several placental findings suggesting placental insufficiency, that could be associated with obesity. According to recent evidence obesity ...
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(SAGE, 2020)INTRODUCTION: Patient-specific instrumentation (PSI) has been developed for total ankle arthroplasty (TAA), with proven benefits. One concern regarding PSI is the need for more soft tissue dissection in order to accurately ...
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(Elsevier, 2018)Seismic rupture of the shallow plate-boundary can result in large tsunamis with tragic socio-economic consequences, as exemplified by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake. To better understand the processes involved in shallow ...
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(Public Library Science, 2016)Herbivory has been long considered an important component of plant-animal interactions that influences the success of invasive species in novel habitats. One of the most important hypotheses linking herbivory and invasion ...
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(Mosher & Linder, 2015)Purpose: To evaluate the clinical performance of refurbished resin composite restorations compared to untreated (negative control) restorations over a period of 10 years. Methods: 26 subjects (having a total of 52 composite ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Many authors have pointed out the importance of determining the impact of ride-hailing (ridesourcing) on vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT), and thus on transport externalities like congestion. However, to date there is ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017-11-30)Many authors have pointed out the importance of determining the impact of ridesourcing on vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT),and thus on transport externalities like congestion. However, to date there is scant ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2019-04)We estimate an aggregate time-varying risk aversion function using option, stock return and macroeconomic data for a sample of 8 countries. We document that, in most of the countries, the degree of risk aversion is ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2015)Self-regulation (SR) is a common way of enforcing quality in markets (such as banking, financial services and several professions) and in a variety of public and private organizations. We provide experimental evidence of ...
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(Interciencia, 2017)The present study analyzed the mediating effect of perceived social support on the relationship between acculturation stress and general health in Colombian and Peruvian immigrants in Northern Chile. Eight hundred and fifty ...
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(Interciencia Association, 2017)The present study analyzed the mediating effect of perceived social support on the relationship between acculturation stress and general health in Colombian and Peruvian immigrants in Northern Chile. Eight hundred and fifty ...
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(1995)We aimed to determine whether the angiographic characteristics of recently symptomatic carotid stenosis predict risk of subsequent ischaemic stroke independently of the degree of stenosis. First, two observers compared the ...
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(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2016)Objectives: To assess whether the association between birth weight and blood pressure (BP) increases with age using three different statistical methods. Methods: A representative sample of 1232 study participants born ...