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(2003)This study investigated the role of neuropeptide Y (NPY) in mediating cardiovascular responses to reduced oxygenation in the late gestation ovine fetus by: (1) comparing the effects on the cardiovascular system of an ...
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(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018)© 2018 The Physiological Society. Key points: Perinatal hypoxia causes pulmonary hypertension in neonates, including humans. However, in species adapted to hypoxia, such as the llama, there is protection against pulmonary ...
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(Academic Press Inc., 2019)Nitric oxide (NO) is the main vasodilator agent that drives the rapid decrease of pulmonary vascular resistance for the respiratory onset during the fetal to neonatal transition. Nevertheless, the enhanced NO generation ...
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(Emerald, 2020)Purpose While companies have increasingly encouraged employees to adopt a customer orientation, less attention has been given to the impact that customer orientation has on employees' job outcomes and performance. Previous ...
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(American Accounting Association, 2010)This paper examines the effect of task complexity on a firm’s decision to outsource and the mediating role of performance measure noise. Using insights from agency and transaction cost economics theories, we predict that ...
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(Springer, 2017)Ischemic preconditioning (IPC) limits myocardial infarct size through the activation of the PI3K-Akt signal cascade; however, little is known about the roles of individual PI3K isoforms in cardioprotection. We aimed, ...
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(MDPI, 2021)Polyphosphates (polyP) are polymers of orthophosphate residues linked by high-energy phosphoanhydride bonds that are important in all domains of life and function in many different processes, including biofilm development. ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2021)In this thesis, we show how future cosmological observations can provide us access to unveil the mechanism responsible for the origin of the structure in our universe. The primordial perturbations sourced by quantum vacuum ...
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(Elsevier, 2016)In this paper we address the question of minimal cognition by investigating the origin of some crucial cognitive properties from the very basic organisation of biological systems. More specifically, we propose a theoretical ...
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The role of regulatory T lymphocytes in the induced immune response mediated by biological vaccines (Elsevier GmbH, 2006)Immunotherapy has become a novel therapeutic alternative for various kinds of tumours. Recently, we have finalized the first phase I clinical study in Chile for the treatment of advanced malignant melanoma, using dendritic ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2006)This paper continues the empirical research line started by Crepon et al. (Crepon, B., Duguet, E. and Mairesse, J. (1998) Research, Innovation, and Productivity: An Econometric Analysis at the Firm Level. Economics of ...
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(MDPI, 2021)This review aims to explore the role and value of serology testing in the context of COVID-19 immunization policies in Latin American countries and the barriers and challenges to the adequate use and uptake of this tool. ...
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(Elsevier, 2011)Increasing evidence suggests that vascular resident endothelial progenitor cells (VR-EPCs) are present in several organs, playing an important role in postnatal neovascularization. Here, we isolated and characterized VR-EPCs ...
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(Seismological Soc Amer, 2021)The 22 May 1960 Mw 9.5 Valdivia megathrust earthquake, with a rupture length close to 1000 km in the central–south Chile, is the largest recorded earthquake in the modern times. The city of Valdivia is located about 300 ...
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(2012)The highly dynamic remodeling and cross talk of the microtubule and actin cytoskeleton support neuronal morphogenesis. Small RhoGTPases family members have emerged as crucial regulators of cytoskeletal dynamics. In this ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)This paper explores the role of social networks in determining labor market participation and salaried employment of Bolivian women and men. We define social networks as the share of neighbors that have jobs, and find ...
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(MDPI, 2021)The mining industry is facing emerging challenges as a result of the increase in energy consumption and environmental demands. These facts have promoted the use of renewable energy sources, such as wind, geothermal and, ...
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(Springer, 2020)The role and relevance of speech synthesis and speech recognition in social robotics is addressed in this paper. To increase the generality of this study, the interaction of a human being with one and two robots when ...
