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(Universidad de Chile, 2018-07)This paper analyses how family control affects diversification decision on Chilean firms, its characteristics and limitations. Specifically, we introduce the potential agency frameworks such as pyramidal ownership, family, ...
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(Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2019)© 2018 Western Economic Association International This paper introduces a model in which greater inequality reduces growth in economies with low levels of financial development but that this effect is attenuated in economies ...
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(American Institute of Physics, 2020)We study the impact of deserting a pre-established path, determined by a navigation software, on the overall city traffic. To do so, we consider a cellular automaton model for vehicular traffic, where the cars travel ...
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Does gender and birth order matter when parent specialize in child’s nutrition?.Evidence from Chile (Elsevier, 2000)Parental decisions have a profound effect on a child’s human capital development. Given the family’s endowment, the way parents decide how to allocate household resources has a direct impact on the child’s health ...
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(Maney Publishing, 2005)ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to evaluate the associations between head posture (head extension, normal head posture, and head flexion) and anteroposterior head position, hyoid bone position, and the sternocleidomastoid ...
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(Springer, 2010)Pollinator-mediated selection is one of the most important factors driving adaptation in flowering plants. However, as ecological conditions change through habitat loss and fragmentation, the interactions among species ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)We set up a model where two retailers compete downstream and buy their inputs from a single producer. Retailers may collude downstream, when fixing the retail price and cooperate upstream by jointly negotiating the wholesale ...
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(Universidad de ChileHeidelberg University, 2017)In 2010 a malicious computer worm attacked Iranian nuclear facilities in Natanz. It was the first computer worm that caused physical damage, and because of this, Iran had to suspend its nuclear program approximately for ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2017-10)Using a panel dataset that considers a large number of developing and developed economies, we find robust evidence supporting the hypothesis that higher levels of intraregional trade lead to a more diversified exporting ...
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(Wiley, 2016)Objective Levator ani muscle avulsion is found in 15-30% of parturients and is associated with recurrence of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) following surgery, although most published evidence on recurrence relates to postoperative ...
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(Oxford, 2021)The jackknife method gives an internal covariance estimate for large-scale structure surveys and allows model-independent errors on cosmological parameters. Using the SDSS-III BOSS CMASS sample, we study how the jackknife ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2018-06-06)This paper aims to empirically test whether joining the European Union has increased the happiness level in nations. 12 European countries are analyzed over the time-period 1998-2017, and data is obtained from the World ...
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(Springer-Verlag France, 2014)Sagittal balance and its relationship with back pain and functional outcomes has become an important factor in the management of thoracolumbar fractures. The kyphosis threshold at the thoracolumbar junction (TLJ) that ...
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(Springer, 2020)Land-use change can raise the risk of human exposure to zoonotic diseases by increasing abundance of reservoir hosts. In this study, we conducted a meta-analysis on the associations between land-use change and the abundance ...
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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 ...
