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    • Lanis, Alejandro; Padial Molina, Miguel; Selman, Andrea; Álvarez del Canto, Orlando (Quintessence Publishing, 2015)
      Passive fit between prosthesis and implants or abutments is a significant factor in preventing mechanical and biologic failures of implant-supported prostheses. Therefore, impression techniques must transfer the 3D implant ...
    • Emery, Xavier (2007)
      In the analysis of regionalized data, irregular sampling patterns are often responsible for large deviations (fluctuations) between the theoretical and sample semi-variograms. This article proposes a new semi-variogram ...
    • Neff, Roni A.; Kanter, Rebecca; Vandevijvere, Stefanie (Project Hope, 2015)
      An estimated 30 percent of the global food supply is lost or wasted, as is about 40 percent of the US food supply. There are valuable synergies between efforts to reduce food loss and waste and those promoting public ...
    • Neff, Roni A.; Kanter, Rebecca; Vandevijvere, Stefanie (Project HOPE, 2015)
      © 2015 Project HOPE-The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.An estimated 30 percent of the global food supply is lost or wasted, as is about 40 percent of the US food supply. There are valuable synergies between efforts ...
    • Rodovalho, Edmo; Quaglio, Osvail; Felsch Junior, Walter Schmidt; Pascual, Rodrigo; de Tomi, Giorgio; Soares Tenório, Jorge Alberto (Elsevier, 2020)
      The waste management practices currently applied by the mining industry have been widely questioned regarding safety and efficiency. It is not by chance that the mining industry is considered one of the sectors with less ...
    • Sturla Zerene, Gino; Figueroa Benavides, Eugenio; Sturla, Massimiliano (Elsevier, 2020)
      Chile is the largest copper producing country of the world; and almost 50% of the copper it exports to the rest of the world is exported as copper concentrates to be smelted and refined abroad. However, 70% of the weight ...
    • Alonso, Faustino; Nazzal, Carolina; Cerecera, Francisco; Ojeda, José Ignacio (SAGE Publications Inc., 2019)
      © The Author(s) 2018. Health inequalities are marked in Chile. To address this situation, a health reform was implemented in 2005 that guarantees acute myocardial infarction (AMI) health care for the entire population. We ...
    • Miranda, Melissa; Méndez, Marco; Brito, Alex; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando (Elsevier, 2014)
      Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of combined calcium and iron versus single iron supplementation on iron status in Bolivian schoolchildren. Methods: Children ages 6 to 10 y old (N = 195), were ...
    • Bergel, Alexandre; Infante, Alejandro; Maass Olea, Sergio Andrés; Sandoval Alcocer, Juan (Elsevier, 2018-09)
      Expandable collections are collections whose size may vary as elements are added and removed. Hash maps and ordered collections are popular expandable collections. Expandable collection classes offer an easy-to-use API, ...
    • Borie Polanco, Consuelo Fiorella; Galarce Gálvez, Nicolás Elías; Yévenes Coa, Karina; Yáñez López, José Manuel; Robeson Camus, James; Carbonero Martínez, Alfonso (Univ Antioquia, Colombia, 2021)
      Background: Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (SE) is one of the major causes of food-borne disease worldwide, mainly associated with the consumption of poultry products, such as eggs. Several control methods have ...
    • Tan, Yikun; Lafontaine Rivera, Jimmy G.; Contador, Carolina A.; Asenjo de Leuze, Juan; Liao, James C. (Elsevier, 2011-01)
      Dynamic models of metabolism are instrumental for gaining insight and predicting possible outcomes of perturbations. Current approaches start from the selection of lumped enzyme kinetics and determine the parameters within ...
    • Arroyuelo Billiardi, Diego; Navarro, Gonzalo; Sadakane, Kunihiko (SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, 2006)
      The LZ-index is a compressed full-text self-index able to represent a text T-1...u, over an alphabet of size sigma = O(polylog(u)) and with k-th order empirical entropy H-k(T), using 4uH(k)(T) + o(u log sigma) bits for any ...
    • Correa Tobar, Ana María (Universidad de Chile, 2021)
      Los Tiempos y Listas de Espera son un problema en todos los sistemas de salud, especialmente en los Públicos. La literatura reporta que es un desbalance entre la oferta de prestaciones por parte de los proveedores y la ...
    • Valenzuela Báez, Rodrigo; Barrera Ramírez, Cynthia; Espinosa, Alejandra; Llanos Vidal, Paola; Orellana, Paula; Videla Cabrera, Luis (Elsevier, 2015)
      alpha-Linolenic (ALA) and linoleic (LA) acids are precursors of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs), FAs with important biochemical and physiological functions. In this process, desaturation reactions catalyzed ...
    • Pedreschi, Franco; Kaack, Karl; Granby, Kit (2004)
      Reduction of acrylamide formation in potato chips was investigated in relation to frying temperature and three treatments before frying. Potato slices (Tivoli variety, diameter: 37 mm, width: 2.2 mm) were fried at 150°C, ...
    • Navas Flores, Andrés (BELGIAN MATHEMATICAL SOC TRIOMPHE, 2006-06)
      We prove two theorems of reduction of cocycles taking values in the group of diffeomorphisms of the circle. They generalize previous results obtained by the author concerning rigidity for smooth actions on the circle of ...
    • Merino, M.; Núñez Vergara, Luis; Squella Serrano, Juan (WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH, 1999-11)
      A flavoenzyme cytochrome c reductase NAD(P)H mixture has been used to modify a carbon paste electrode. The modified electrode was characterized by cyclic voltammetry varying the scan rate and temperature. Cathodic and ...
    • Rivera Meza, Mario; Quintanilla González, María Elena; Tampier de Jong, Lutske (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2012-04)
      Aims: To mimic, in an animal model of alcoholism, the protective phenotype against alcohol consumption observed in humans carrying a fast alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH1B*2) and an inactive aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2*2). ...
    • Echeverría, F.; Valenzuela, R.; Espinosa, A.; Bustamante, A.; Álvarez, D.; González Mañan, Daniel; Ortiz, M.; Soto Alarcón, Sandra A.; Videla Cabrera, Luis (Elsevier Inc., 2019)
      © 2018 Elsevier Inc. High-fat diet (HFD)-fed mice show obesity with development of liver steatosis and a proinflammatory state without establishing an inflammatory reaction. The aim of this work was to assess the hypothesis ...
    • Morales, Rodrigo; Buytaert-Hoefen, Kimberley A.; González Romero, Dennisse; Castilla, Joaquín; Hansen, Eric T.; Hlavinka, Dennis; Goodrich, Raymond P.; Soto, Claudio (ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 2008-12-12)
      The link between a new variant form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) and the consumption of prion contaminated cattle meat as well as recent findings showing that vCJD can be transmitted by blood transfusion have raised ...