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    • Lara, Tomás; Yáñez, Alexis; Céspedes Umaña, Sandra Lorena; Hafid, Abdelhakim Senhaji (MDPI, 2021)
      In the face of cooperative intelligent transportation systems (C-ITS) advancements, the inclusion of vulnerable road users (VRU), i.e., pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists, has just recently become a part of the ...
    • Rosenkranz, Andreas; Marian, Max; Profito, Francisco J.; Aragón, Nathan; Shah, Raj (MDPI, 2021)
      Artificial intelligence and, in particular, machine learning methods have gained notable attention in the tribological community due to their ability to predict tribologically relevant parameters such as, for instance, the ...
    • Cartagena Villalobos, Óscar Andrés; Parra Flores, Sebastián Alfonso Iván; Muñoz Carpintero, Diego; Marín, Luis G.; Sáez Hueichapan, Doris Andrea (IEEE, 2021)
      The existing uncertainties during the operation of processes could strongly affect the performance of forecasting systems, control strategies and fault detection systems when they are not considered in the design. Because ...
    • Tobar Reyes, Julio Cesar; Andueza Castro, Luis; Jiménez Silva, Antonio; Bustamante Plaza, Roger Abdón; Carvajal Herrera, Juan Carlos (Wiley, 2021)
      Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the amount of micromotion of dental implants under immediate loading supported by Titanium (Ti) and Cobalt-Chrome (CoCr) superstructures. Material and methods: A model ...
    • Álvarez, Ricardo; Rahmann Zúñiga, Claudia Andrea; Cifuentes, Nicolás; Palma Behnke, Rodrigo Ernesto Eduardo (IEEE-Inst. Electrical Electronics Engineers, 2021)
      Transmission network expansion planning (TNEP) has become increasingly challenging due to the worldwide transformation of power systems, with the fast deployment of renewable energies as one of the key drivers. Given current ...
    • Ávarez Garretón, Camila; Boisier Echeñique, Juan Pablo; Garreaud Salazar, René Darío; Seibert, Jan; Vis, Marc (Copernicus, 2021)
      A decade-long (2010-2020) period with precipitation deficits in central-south Chile (30-41 degrees S), the so-called megadrought (MD), has led to streamflow depletions of larger amplitude than expected from precipitation ...
    • Vargas Cordero, Iván; Giustiniani, Michela; Tinivella, Umberta; Vilar Muñoz, Lucía Alejandra; Alessandrini, Giulia (MDPI, 2021)
      In recent decades, the Chilean margin has been extensively investigated to better characterize the complex geological setting through the geophysical data. The analysis of seismic lines allowed us to identify the occurrence ...
    • Glaas, Carole; Vidal, Jeanne; Genter, Albert (Elsevier, 2021)
      Image logs and the continuous coring of 8 geothermal wells in the Central Upper Rhine Graben (URG) are used for the structural characterization of 3 geothermal reservoirs at Soultz-sous-Forets, Rittershoffen and Illkirch ...
    • Contreras, Andrés; Peypouquet Urbaneja, Juan Gabriel (Amer Inst Mathematical Sciences-Aims, 2021)
      This research is concerned with evolution equations and their forward-backward discretizations. Our rst contribution is an estimation for the distance between iterates of sequences generated by forward-backward schemes, ...
    • Hernández Morales, Pablo; Wurl, Jobst; Greene Ruiz, Carlos; Morata Céspedes, Diego Antonio (MDPI, 2021)
      Geo-thermalism has been widely recognized on the Baja California Peninsula, especially during the last decade. The current research, carried out on Bahia Concepcion, evidences the existence of geothermal springs, which get ...
    • Panay Schweizer, Belisario; Baloian Tataryan, Nelson; Pino Urtubia, José Alberto; Peñafiel, Sergio; Frez, Jonathan; Fuenzalida, Cristóbal; Sansón, Horacio; Zurita Alarcón, Gustavo Nyles (MDPI, 2021)
      Foot traffic, conversion rate, and total sales during a period of time may be considered to be important indicators of store performance. Forecasting them may allow for business managers plan stores operation in the near ...
    • Ruiz-Tagle, Andrés; López Droguett, Enrique Andrés; Groth, Katrina M. (Wiley, 2021)
      In the last decade, Bayesian networks (BNs) have been widely used in engineering risk assessment due to the benefits that they provide over other methods. Among these, the most significant is the ability to model systems, ...
    • Music Tomicic, Juan Andrés; Soto Ramírez, Felipe Ignacio (Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Facultad de Ingeniería, 2021)
      This study aims to characterize a series of highrise reinforced concrete wall buildings located in Antofagasta, Chile, by means of a set of structural indexes commonly used in professional activities in our country and ...
    • Bórquez, Roxana; Fuster Gómez, Rodrigo (MDPI, 2021)
      Energy and water have faced important levels of conflicts in the last 20–25 years in Chile. However, the way that they have been politically addressed in the last decade differs. These differences emerge from how these ...
    • Fuente Stranger, Alberto Patricio de la; Meruane Naranjo, Carolina Beatriz; Suárez, Francisco (Elsevier, 2021)
      High Andean wetlands of the elevated plateaus of the Andes Mountains of Chile, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia are true oases that sustain life in this arid region. Despite their ecological value, they have been rarely studied ...
    • Shah, Raj; Mittal, Vikram; Matsil, Eliana; Rosenkranz, Andreas (SAGE, 2021)
      Lithium-ion batteries have enabled electric vehicles to achieve a foothold in the automobile market. Due to an increasing environmental consciousness, electric vehicles are expected to take a larger portion of the market, ...
    • Leyton, Alison; Araya, Michael; Tala, Fadia; Flores, Liset; Lienqueo Contreras, María Elena; Shene, Carolina (MDPI, 2021)
      Seaweed processing generates liquid fraction residual that could be used as a low-cost nutrient source for microbial production of metabolites. The Rhodotorula strain is able to produce antimicrobial compounds known as ...
    • Aguilar Bolados, Héctor Esteban; Yazdani Pedram, Pedram; Quinteros Jara, Eduardo Andres; Cuenca Bracamonte, Quimberly; Quijada Abarca, Juan Raúl; Carretero González, Javier; Avilés, Francis; Lopez Manchado, Miguel A.; Verdejo, Raquel (Elsevier, 2021)
      This work reports the synthesis of poly (monomethyl itaconate) grafted multi-layer graphene oxide (PMMI-g-GO) by atom transfer radical polymerization using activators regenerated by electron transfer (ARGET-ATRP). PMMIg-GO ...
    • Hörcher, Daniel; Tirachini Hernández, Alejandro Andrés (Elsevier, 2021)
      Public transport provision requires substantial organisational efforts, careful planning, financial contributions from the public, and coordination between millions of passengers and staff members in large systems. Efficient ...
    • Garain, Avishek; Basu, Arpan; Giampaolo, Fabio; Velásquez Silva, Juan Domingo; Sarkar, Ram (Springer, 2021)
      The outbreak of a global pandemic called coronavirus has created unprecedented circumstances resulting into a large number of deaths and risk of community spreading throughout the world. Desperate times have called for ...