Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas: Recent submissions

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    • ABA promotes starch synthesis and storage metabolism in dormant grapevine buds 
      Rubio, Sebastián; Noriega, Ximena; Pérez, Francisco J. (Elsevier GmbH, 2019)
      © 2019 Elsevier GmbH In grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) buds, the short day (SD)-photoperiod induces endodormancy and increases the level of ABA and the expression of ABA key biosynthesis genes, which suggests that ABA could ...
    • Ice dynamics of union glacier from SAR offset tracking 
      Gomez, Rodrigo; Arigony-Neto, Jorge; De Santis, Angela; Vijay, Saurabh; Jaña, Ricardo; Rivera, Andres (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
      © 2018 Elsevier B.V. The Antarctic ice sheet is predicted to be the major contributor to sea-level rise during the XXI century. Therefore, monitoring ice dynamics of outlet glaciers in Antarctica is of great importance to ...
    • Implementing a community-based task-shifting psychosocial intervention for individuals with psychosis in ... 
      Agrest, Martin; Le, Phuong Thao D.; Yang, Lawrence H.; Mascayano, Franco; Alves-Nishioka, Silvia; Dev, Saloni; Kankan, Tanvi; Tapia-Muñoz, Thamara; Sawyer, Samantha; Toso-Salman, Josefina; Dishy, Gabriella A.; Jorquera, Maria Jose; Schilling, Sara; Pratt, Charissa; Pri (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019)
      © The Author(s) 2018.Background: Latin America, and Chile in particular, has a rich tradition of community mental health services and programs. However, in vivo community-based psychosocial interventions, especially those ...
    • Water deficit and abscisic acid treatments increase the expression of a glucomannan mannosyltransferase ... 
      Salinas, Pamela; Salinas, Carlos; Contreras, Rodrigo A.; Zuñiga, Gustavo E.; Dupree, Paul; Cardemil, Liliana (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      © 2018 The main polysaccharide of the gel present in the leaves of or Aloe vera Burm.F., (Aloe barbadensis Miller) a xerophytic crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plant, is an acetylated glucomannan named acemannan. This ...
    • Nutritional Effects of Zinc on Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes: Mechanisms and Main Findings in Human ... 
      Ruz, Manuel; Carrasco, Fernando; Rojas, Pamela; Basfi-fer, Karen; Hernández, Maria Catalina; Pérez, Alvaro (Humana Press Inc., 2019)
      © 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.Zinc (Zn) plays crucial roles in mammalian metabolism. There is increasing interest about the potential beneficial effects of Zn on the prevention or ...
    • Ovarian Function in Adolescents Conceived Using Assisted Reproductive Technologies 
      Merino, Paulina M.; Lopez, Patricia; Salinas, Abril; Pastene, Carolina; Ferrada Muñoz, Alex Eduardo; Cassorla Goluboff, Fernando; Codner Dujovne, Ethel (Elsevier USA, 2019)
      © 2018 North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Study Objective: To compare ovarian function between adolescents conceived using assisted reproductive technology (AcART) and adolescents who were ...
    • h- and p-adaptivity driven by recovery and residual-based error estimators for PHT-splines applied to ... 
      Videla, Javier; Anitescu, Cosmin; Khajah, Tahsin; Bordas, Stéphane P.A.; Atroshchenko, Elena (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      © 2019 Elsevier Ltd In this work, we demonstrate the application of PHT-splines for time-harmonic acoustic problems, modeled by the Helmholtz equation. Solutions of the Helmholtz equation have two features: global oscillations ...
    • Dental malocclusions are not just about small and weak bones: assessing the morphology of the mandible with ... 
      Toro-Ibacache, Viviana; Ugarte, Francisco; Morales, Cristina; Eyquem, Andrea; Aguilera, José; Astudillo, Williams (Springer Verlag, 2019)
      © 2019, The Author(s).Objectives: Dental malocclusions in modern populations would be the result of small and weak jaws developing under low masticatory loads. We assess the validity of this by characterising the external ...
    • A 4-year follow-up case of extrusive luxation in a patient with cerebral palsy 
      Véliz Ramírez, Andrea; Krämer Strenger, Susanne; Solar López, Melissa; Muñoz Cortes, Pamela; Corral Núñez, Camila (Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2019)
      © 2019 Special Care Dentistry Association and Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Cerebral palsy (CP) is a condition caused by brain damage before, during, or shortly after birth. Communication can be a challenge when treating patients ...
    • Sediment fill geometry and structural control of the Pampa del Tamarugal basin, northern Chile 
      Labbé, N.; García, M.; Simicic, Y.; Contreras Reyes, Eduardo; Charrier González, Reynaldo; De Pascale, G.; Arriagada, C. (Geological Society of America, 2019)
      © 2018 Geological Society of America.Determination of the sediment fill geometry and structure of basins along the western flank of the Central Andes is crucial for understanding the regional tectonic evolution and the ...
    • Economic-engineering method for assessing trade-offs between instream and offstream uses 
      Génova, Paulina; Null, Sarah E.; Olivares, Marcelo A. (American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2019)
      © 2018 American Society of Civil Engineers.Rivers provide multiple water uses and services, including offstream uses that are valued economically and instream uses, such as recreation and ecosystem preservation, that are ...
    • Live programming in practice: A controlled experiment on state machines for robotic behaviors 
      Campusano, Miguel; Fabry, Johan; Bergel, Alexandre (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
      © 2018 Context: Live programming environments are gaining momentum across multiple programming languages. A tenet of live programming is a development feedback cycle, resulting in faster development practices. Although ...
    • Pathogen risk analysis for wild amphibian populations following the first report of a ranavirus outbreak ... 
      Saucedo, Bernardo; Serrano, José M.; Jacinto-Maldonado, Mónica; Leuven, Rob S.E.W.; Rocha García, Abraham A.; Méndez Bernal, Adriana; Gröne, Andrea; van Beurden, Steven J.; Escobedo-Bonilla, César M. (MDPI AG, 2019)
      © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Ranaviruses are the second deadliest pathogens for amphibian populations throughout the world. Despite their wide distribution in America, these viruses have never ...
    • Prediction of MicroRNAs in the Epstein–Barr Virus Reveals Potential Targets for the Viral Self-Regulation 
      Serrano-Solis, Victor; Carlos, Angelica Cardoso; Maracaja-Coutinho, Vinicius; de Farias, Sávio Torres (Springer, 2019)
      © 2018, Association of Microbiologists of India.Studies involving miRNAs have opened discussions about their broad participation in viral infections. Regarding the Human gammaherpesvirus 4 or Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), ...
    • Activation of mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2) by ALDA-1 reduces both the acquisition and ... 
      Rivera Meza, Mario; Vásquez, David; Quintanilla González, María Elena; Lagos, Diego; Rojas, Braulio; Herrera Marschitz, Mario; Israel Jacard, Yedy (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      © 2018 Elsevier Ltd A number of pre-clinical studies have shown that brain-generated acetaldehyde, the first metabolite of ethanol, exerts reinforcing effects that promote the acquisition of ethanol intake, while chronic ...
    • Lp-solutions of a nonlinear third order differential equation and the Poincaré–Perron problem 
      Coronel, Aníbal; Friz, Luis; Huancas, Fernando; Pinto, Manuel (Birkhauser Verlag AG, 2019)
      © 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.In this paper we prove the well-posedness and we study the asymptotic behavior of nonoscillatory Lp-solutions for a third order nonlinear scalar differential equation. The equation ...
    • Halogens, trace element concentrations, and Sr-Nd isotopes in apatite from iron oxide-apatite (IOA) deposits ... 
      Palma, Gisella; Barra, Fernando; Reich Morales, Martín; Valencia, Victor; Simon, Adam C.; Vervoort, Jeff; Leisen, Mathieu; Romero, Rurik (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      © 2018 Elsevier LtdThe ratio of the halogens F and Cl in apatite is highly sensitive to changes in the composition of an evolving silicate melt or aqueous fluid. For this reason apatite chemistry is widely used as a monitor ...
    • Variation in dental morphology and inference of continental ancestry in admixed Latin Americans 
      Delgado, Miguel; Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Adhikari, Kaustubh; Fuentes Guajardo, Macarena; Zanolli, Clément; González José, Rolando; Canizales, Samuel; Bortolini, Maria Catira; Poletti, Giovanni; Gallo, Carla; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco; Bedoya, Gabriel; Ruiz Linares, Andrés (Wiley-Liss Inc., 2019)
      © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Objectives: To investigate the variation in dental nonmetric traits and to evaluate the utility of this variation for inferring genetic ancestry proportions in a sample of admixed Latin ...
    • The antinociceptive effect of resveratrol in bone cancer pain is inhibited by the Silent Information Regulator ... 
      Lux, Sebastian; Lobos, Nicolas; Lespay Rebolledo, Carolyne; Salas Huenuleo, Edison; Kogan Bocian, Marcelo; Flores, Christian; Pinto, Mauricio; Hernández, Alejandro; Pelissier Serrano, Teresa; Constandil, Luis (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019)
      © 2018 Royal Pharmaceutical SocietyObjectives: To study the antinociceptive effect of single and repeated doses of resveratrol in a bone cancer pain model, and whether this effect is prevented by the Silent Information ...
    • Treatment, outcomes and costs of asthma exacerbations in Chilean children: a prospective multicenter ... 
      Herrera, A. M.; Brand, P.; Cavada, G.; Koppmann, A.; Rivas, M.; Mackenney, J.; Sepúlveda, H.; Wevar, M. E.; Cruzat, L.; Soto, S.; Pérez, M. A.; León, A.; Contreras, I.; Alvarez, C.; Walker, B.; Flores, C.; Lezana, V.; Garrido, C.; Herrera, M. E.; Rojas, A.; Andrades, C.; Chal (Elsevier Doyma, 2019)
      © 2018 SEICAPObjective: To describe potential regional variations in therapies for severe asthma exacerbations in Chilean children and estimate the associated health expenditures. Methods: Observational prospective cohort ...