Browsing by Title Facultad de Ciencias

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    • GAPS-megacities: a new global platform for investigating persistent organic pollutants and chemicals of ... 
      Saini, Amandeep; Harner, Tom; Chinnadhurai, Sita; Schuster, Jasmin K.; Yates, Alan; Sweetman, Andrew; Aristizabal Zuluaga, Beatriz H.; Jiménez, Begona; Manzano Dávila, Carlos; Gaga, Eftade O.; Stevenson, Gavin; Falandysz, Jerzy; Ma, Jianmin; Miglioranza, Karina S. B.; Kannan, Kurunthachalam; Tominaga, María; Jariyasopit, Narumol; Rojas, Néstor Y.; Amador Muñoz, Omar; Sinha, Ravindra; Alani, Rose; Suresh, R.; Nishino, Takahiro; Shoeib, Tamer (Elsevier, 2020)
      A pilot study was initiated in 2018 under the Global Atmospheric Passive Sampling (GAPS) Network named GAPS-Megacities. This study included 20 megacities/major cities across the globe with the goal of better understanding ...
    • Generalization of therapeutic gain in the treatment of premature ejaculation 
      Yulis, Sergio (1976)
      Following treatment for premature ejaculation, 23 males provided reports of sexual intercourse with females other than the one who had been a treatment partner. Analysis of the data strongly suggests that concomitant ...
    • Genetic insights into the globally invasive and taxonomically problematic tree genus Prosopis 
      Castillo, María L.; Schaffner, Urs; Van Wilgen, Brian W.; Montaño, Noé Manuel; Bustamante Araya, Ramiro; Cosacov, Andrea; Mathese, Megan J.; Le Roux, Johannes J. (Oxford University Press, 2020)
      Accurate taxonomic identification of alien species is crucial to detect new incursions, prevent or reduce the arrival of new invaders and implement management options such as biological control. Globally, the taxonomy of ...
    • Gentle introduction to Soergel bimodules I: the basics 
      Libedinsky, Nicolas (Springer, 2019)
      This paper is an introduction to the fascinating world of Soergel bimodules and it should be accessible to a broad audience. We aim to help the reader feel comfortable with Soergel bimodules and to explain some of the ...
    • Geographical distribution and ecological niche modeling of the etiological agents of human sporotrichosis ... 
      Barreto, Laura; Velásquez, Grisel; Mendoza, Mireya; Camacho, Emma; Gonçalves, Estefany; Rodríguez, Sabrina; Nino Vega, Gustavo A. (Springer, 2020)
      The geographical distribution and ecological niche of the two circulating species of the Sporothrix genus in Venezuela was established. For this, 68 isolates of Sporothrix spp. from patients of different regions of the ...
    • Geographical origin determines responses to salinity of Mediterranean caddisflies 
      Carter, Mauricio J.; Flores González, Matías; Ramos Jiliberto, Rodrigo (Public Library Science, 2020)
      Many freshwater ecosystems worldwide, and particularly Mediterranean ones, show increasing levels of salinity. These changes in water conditions could affect abundance and distribution of inhabiting species as well as the ...
    • Geography, temperature, and water: Interaction effects in a small native amphibian 
      Vidal, Marcela A.; Barría Oyarzo, Ismael; Contreras Ramos, Carolina; Bacigalupe, Leonardo D. (University of Chicago, 2020)
      Amphibian locomotor capacity is strongly linked to temperature and hydration. However, organisms in nature experience covariation of multiple environmental factors, and thus to better understand the effects of thermal and ...
    • Gestión y caracterización de los desechos líquidos generados en el Laboratorio de Caracterización Química ... 
      Llanos Bustos, Cindy Catalina (Universidad de Chile, 2019-10)
      El presente trabajo consistió en realizar un estudio de los desechos líquidos generados al interior de las instalaciones del laboratorio de caracterización química perteneciente al centro de estudios nucleares Lo Aguirre, ...
    • Global proteomic profiling of piscirickettsia salmonis and salmon macrophage-like cells during intracellular ... 
      Ortiz Severín, Javiera; Travisany, Dante; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro; Cambiazo Ayala, Verónica; Chávez Espinosa, Francisco (MDPI, 2020)
      Piscirickettsiasalmonis is an intracellular bacterial fish pathogen that causes piscirickettsiosis, a disease with numerous negative impacts in the Chilean salmon farming industry. Although transcriptomic studies of P. ...
    • Graphene Oxide-ZnO Nanocomposites for Removal of Aluminum and Copper Ions from Acid Mine Drainage Wastewater 
      Rodríguez, Carolina; Tapia, Camila; Leiva Aravena, Enzo; Leiva, Eduardo (MDPI, 2020)
      Adsorption technologies are a focus of interest for the removal of pollutants in water treatment systems. These removal methods offer several design, operation and efficiency advantages over other wastewater remediation ...
    • Group actions on Jacobian varieties 
      Rojas, Anita M. (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 2007)
      Consider a finite group G acting on a Riemann surface S, and the associated branched Galois cover πG : S → Y = S/G. We introduce the concept of geometric signature for the action of G, and we show that it captures much ...
    • Head morphometry of Orestias (Cyprinodontiformes). Response to extreme Southern Altiplano systems? 
      Rojas, Pablo; Scott, Sergio; Tobar, Ignacio; Romero, Úrsula; Vila Pinto, Irma (Springer, 2020)
      The distribution ofOrestias(Cypriniforms) species in the southern western Altiplano (17oS-22oS) is allopatric; the seven species described inhabit different freshwater systems with extreme climatic characteristics and ...
    • Hedgehog-GLI signaling regulates the behavior of cells with stem cell properties in the developing neocortex 
      Palma, Veronica Alejandra; Ruiz i Altaba, Ariel (2004)
      Stem cells are crucial for normal development and homeostasis, and their misbehavior may be related to the origin of cancer. Progress in these areas has been difficult because the mechanisms regulating stem cell lineages ...
    • Helical spin structure in iron chains with hybridized boundaries 
      Vargas, Nicolás M.; Torres, Felipe; Baker, Alexander A.; Lee, Jonathan R. I.; Kiwi Tichauer, Miguel; Willey, Trevor M.; Monton, Carlos; Schuller, Iván K. (American Institute of Physics, 2020)
      We have compared the magnetic properties of well-controlled ultra-short (<= 50nm) atomic iron (Fe) chains embedded in Fe-phthalocyanine films with those in Fe-hydrogen (H-2) phthalocyanine superlattices. Surprisingly, we ...
    • Heterozygosity-Fitness Correlations in a Continental Island Population of Thorn-Tailed Rayadito 
      Botero Delgadillo, Esteban; Quirici, Verónica; Vásquez Morales, Rodrigo; Kempenaers, Bart (Oxford University Press, 2020)
      Heterozygosity-fitness correlations (HFCs) have been used to monitor the effects of inbreeding in threatened populations. HFCs can also be useful to investigate the potential effects of inbreeding in isolated relict ...
    • Heterozygous Variants in KMT2E Cause a Spectrum of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Epilepsy 
      O’Donnell-Luria, Anne H.; Pais, Lynn S.; Faundes, Víctor; Wood, Jordan C.; Sveden, Abigail; Luria, Víctor; Jamra, Rami Abou; Accogli, Andrea; Amburgey, Kimberly; Anderlid, Britt Marie; Azzarello-Burri, Silvia; Basinger, Alice A.; Bianchini, Claudia; Bird, Lynne M.; Buchert, Rebecca; Carre, Wilfrid; Ceulemans, Sophia; Charles, Perrine; Cox, Helen; Culliton, Lisa; Curro, Aurora; Demurger, Florence; Dowling, James J.; Duban-Bedu, Benedicte; Dubourg, Christèle; Eiset, Saga Elise; Escobar, Luis F.; Ferrarini, Alessandra; Haack, Tobias B.; Hashim, Mona; Heide, Solveig; Helbig, Katherine L.; Helbig, Ingo; Heredia, Raúl; Héron, Delphine; Isidor, Bertrand; Jonasson, Amy R.; Joset, Pascal; Keren, Boris; Kok, Fernando; Kroes, Hester Y.; Lavillaureix, Alinoë; Lu, Xin; Maas, Saskia M.; Maegawa, Gustavo H. B.; Marcelis, Carlo L. M.; Mark, Paul R.; Masruha, Marcelo R.; McLaughlin, Heather M.; McWalter, Kirsty; Melchinger, Esther U.; Mercimek-Andrews, Saadet; Nava, Caroline; Pendziwiat, Manuela; Person, Richard; Ramelli, Gian Paolo; Ramos, Luiza L. P.; Rauch, Anita; Reavey, Caitlin; Renieri, Alessandra; Rieß, Angelika; Sánchez Valle, Amarilis; Sattar, Shifteh; Saunders, Carol; Schwarz, Niklas; Smol, Thomas; Srour, Myriam; Steindl, Katharina; Syrbe, Steffen; Taylor, Jenny C.; Telegrafi, Aida; Thiffault, Isabelle; Trauner, Doris A.; Linden, Helio van der; Koningsbruggen, Silvana van; Villard, Laurent; Vogel, Ida; Vogt, Julie; Weber, Yvonne G.; Wentzensen, Ingrid M.; Widjaja, Elysa; Zak, Jaroslav; Baxter, Samantha; Banka, Siddharth; Rodan, Lance H. (Cell Press, 2019)
      We delineate a KMT2E-related neurodevelopmental disorder on the basis of 38 individuals in 36 families. This study includes 31 distinct heterozygous variants in KMT2E (28 ascertained from Matchmaker Exchange and three ...
    • High copper concentration reduces biofilm formation in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans by decreasing production ... 
      Vargas Straube, María José; Beard Bórquez, Simón; Norambuena, Rodrigo; Paradela, Alberto; Vera, Mario; Jerez, Carlos A. (Elsevier, 2020)
      Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans is an acidophilic bacterium able to grow in environments with high concentrations of metals. It is a chemolithoautotroph able to form biofilms on the surface of solid minerals to obtain its ...
    • High status of mercury and selenium in false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens, Owen 1846) stranded on ... 
      Caceres Saez, Iris; Haro, Daniela; Blank, Olivia; Aguayo Lobo, Anelio; Dougnac, Catherine; Arredondo, Cristóbal; Cappozzo, H. Luis; Ribeiro Guevara, Sergio (Elsevier, 2018)
      The study was carried out to determine Hg and Se concentrations in false killer whales stranded on the Estrecho de Magallanes, Chile, South America. Tissue samples of five mature specimens were analyzed (two females and ...
    • Highly porous tungsten for plasma-facing applications in nuclear fusion power plants: a computational ... 
      Díaz Rodríguez, Pablo; Muñoz Sáez, Francisco; Rogan Castillo, José; Martin Bragado, Ignacio; Perlado, J. M.; Peña Rodríguez, Ovidio; Rivera, Antonio; Valencia, Felipe (IOP, 2020)
      Plasma-facing materials (PFMs) for nuclear fusion, either in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) or in magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) approaches, must withstand extremely hostile irradiation conditions. Mitigation strategies ...
    • Identificación de cianolíquenes del género Peltigera en dos contextos ambientales de la Reserva Nacional ... 
      Veas Mattheos, Karla Nayarett (Universidad de Chile, 2019)
      Tradicionalmente, los líquenes se definen como una asociación simbiótica mutualista entre un hongo y uno o dos organismos fotosintéticos (alga y/o cianobacteria). Investigaciones actuales han descrito una comunidad ...