Browsing by Subject "Monitoring"

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    • A Vision for Global Biodiversity Monitoring With Citizen Science 
      Pocock, Michael; Chandler, Mark; Bonney, Rick; Thornhill, Ian; Albin, Anna; August, Tom; Bachman, Steven; Brown, Peter; Fernandes Cunha, Davi; Grez Villarroel, Audrey; Jackson, Colin; Peters, Monica; Romer Rabarijaon, Narindra; Roy, Helen; Zaviezo, Tania; Danielsen, Finn (Academic Press Inc., 2018)
      Global biodiversity monitoring is urgently needed across the world to assess the impacts of environmental change on biodiversity. One way to increase monitoring is through citizen science. ‘Citizen science’ is a term that ...
    • Accumulation of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins in the bivalve Aulacomya ater and two carnivorous ... 
      Compagnon, Deida; Lembeye, Georgina; Marcos, Narvis; Ruiz-Tagle, Nathaly; Lagos, Néstor (1998)
      In the early fall of 1996, a bloom of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium catenella occurred in a fjord in the southern part of Chile that resulted in very high levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxicity (up ...
    • Critical wind turbine components prognostics: a comprehensive review 
      Rezamand, Milad; Kordestani, Mojtaba; Carriveau, Rupp; Ting, David S. -K.; Orchard Concha, Marcos; Saif, Mehrdad (IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers, 2020)
      As wind energy is becoming a significant utility source, minimizing the operation and maintenance (O&M) expenses has raised a crucial issue to make wind energy competitive to fossil fuels. Wind turbines (WTs) are subject ...
    • ERPs and their brain sources in perceptual and conceptual prospective memory tasks: Commonalities and ... 
      Cruz San Martín, Gabriela; Miyakoshi, Makoto; Makeig, Scott; Kilborn, Kerry; Evans, Jonathan (Elsevier, 2016)
      The present study examined whether Event-Related Potential (ERP) components and their neural generators are common to perceptual and conceptual prospective memory (PM) tasks or specific to the form of PM cue involved. We ...
    • Landsat image and sample design for water reservoirs (Rapel dam Central Chile) 
      Lavanderos, Leonardo; Pozo, María Eugenia; Pattillo, Carlos; Miranda, Hernán (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990)
      Spatial heterogeneity of the Rapel reservoir surface waters is analyzed through Landsat images. The image digital counts are used with the aim or developing an aprioristic quantitative sample design.Natural horizontal ...
    • Optimal ownership structure and monitoring in entrepreneurial firms 
      Loyola Fuentes, Gino; Portilla, Yolanda (Elsevier, 2020)
      We model the agency problem existing in an entrepreneurial firm between its founder and an outside investor and characterize the optimal corporate governance design. The analysis describes the relationship between two ...
    • Selective attraction of Vespula germanica (Hymenoptera: vespidae) to feeding baits enhanced with isobutanol ... 
      Curkovic Sekul, Tomislav; Vergara, Javier; Araya Clericus, Jaime; Contreras, Américo (Universidad de Concepción, 2017)
      Vespula germanica (F.) has a negative impact on agriculture, beekeeping, and tourism in Chile. Therefore, environmentally-friendly strategies need to be implemented to control this serious pest. The objective of this study ...
    • Survey of organophosphorus pesticide residues in virgin olive oils produced in Chile 
      Fuentes, Edwar; Báez, María E.; Díaz, Juan (2010)
      Dimethoate, diazinon, parathion methyl, pirimiphos methyl, malathion, fenthion, chlorpyriphos, methidathion and azinphos methyl were determined in 71 olive oil samples produced in Chile from different varieties of olives ...
    • Tools for physical activity assessment in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Evaluación de la actividad ... 
      Torres Castro, Rodrigo; Céspedes, Cristian; Vilaró, Jordi; Vera-Uribe, Roberto; Cano-Cappellacci, Marcelo; Vargas, Diego (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)
      © 2017, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. The prevalence and mortality of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is increasing in Chile, constituting a public health problem. Pulmonary and systemic ...
    • Visitrack: A pervasive service for monitoring the social activity of older adults living at home 
      Gaete, Alonso; Gutiérrez Figueroa, Francisco; Ochoa Delorenzi, Sergio; Guerrero, Pablo; Wyzykowski, André (Springer, 2017)
      Advances in medical science allow people to live longer and more independently than some decades ago. However, this does not directly help older adults improve their mental wellbeing. Several studies show that elderly ...