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    • Meruane Naranjo, Viviana; Fernandez, Ignacio; Ruiz, Rafael O.; Petrone, Giuseppe; Lopez-Droguett, Enrique (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019)
      © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Sandwich structures are subjected to imperfect bonding or debonding caused by defects during the manufacturing process, by fatigue, or by impact loads. In this context, their safety and ...
    • Comte, Diana; Farias, Marcelo; Roecker, Steven; Russo, Raymond (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
      © 2019 Elsevier B.V.Aftershocks of the 16 September 2015 M8.3 Illapel earthquake in central Chile were recorded for a period of one year by the Chile-Illapel Aftershock Experiment (CHILLAX) seismic network. An initial ...
    • Pastén, César; Castillo, Emilia; Chong, Song Hun (Springer Verlag, 2019)
      © 2019, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.This paper proposes and validates a thermo-mechanical ratcheting mechanism that explains the cumulative displacement of soil–continuum interfaces when subjected ...
    • Kolozvari, Kristijan; Biscombe, Lauren; Dashti, Farhad; Dhakal, Rajesh P.; Gogus, Aysegul; Gullu, M. Fethi; Henry, Richard S.; Massone, Leonardo M.; Orakcal, Kutay; Rojas, Fabian; Shegay, Alex; Wallace, John (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      © 2019 Elsevier LtdA number of finite element modeling approaches for reinforced concrete (RC) structural walls have recently become available for both research purposes and design applications. Five conceptually-different ...
    • Vargas, Luis; Mac-Lean, Claudia; Huge, Jean (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2019)
      © 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited.Purpose: In the past few decades, sustainability in higher education has become ever more prevalent, although the diversity in pace of adoption and the wide range of interpretations and ...
    • Wolff Rojas, Patricio; Grana, Manuel; Ríos, Sebastián A.; Yarza, Maria Begoña (Hindawi Limited, 2019)
      © 2019 Patricio Wolff et al.Hospital readmission prediction in pediatric hospitals has received little attention. Studies have focused on the readmission frequency analysis stratified by disease and demographic/geographic ...
    • Oliveira Duarte, Heitor; López Droguett, Enrique; Chagas Moura, Márcio das; Campos Siqueira, Paulo Gabriel Santos; de Lira Júnior, José Claudino (Taylor and Francis Inc., 2020)
      © 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.The environment is a complex system where humans, materials (e.g. pollutants), and ecological (e.g. plants, animals, microbes) and meteorological conditions interact with each ...
    • Zaupa, Alessandro; Byres, Nicholas; Dal Zovo, Chiara; Acevedo, Cristian A.; Angelopoulos, Ioannis; Terraza, Claudia; Nestle, Nikolaus; Abarzúa-Illanes, Phammela N.; Quero, Franck; Díaz-Calderón, Paulo; Olguín, Yusser; Akentjew, Tamara L.; Wilkens, Camila A.; Padilla, (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      © 2019 Elsevier B.V.Tissue regeneration is witnessing a significant surge in advanced medicine. It requires the interaction of scaffolds with different cell types for efficient tissue formation post-implantation. The ...
    • Cordell, Darcy; Unsworth, Martyn J.; Diaz, Daniel; Reyes-Wagner, Valentina; Currie, Claire A.; Hicks, Stephen P. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019)
      ©2019. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.The subduction zone of central Chile (36°S) has produced some of the world's largest earthquakes and significant volcanic eruptions. Understanding the fluid fluxes and ...
    • Lee, Jeong Eun; Lee, Seokho; Baek, Giseon; Aikawa, Yuri; Cieza, Lucas; Yoon, Sung Yong; Herczeg, Gregory; Johnstone, Doug; Casassus Montero, Simón (Nature Publishing Group, 2019)
      © 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. Complex organic molecules (COMs), which are the seeds of prebiotic material and precursors of amino acids and sugars, form in the icy mantles of ...
    • Cifuentes, Nicolás; Rahmann, Claudia; Valencia, Felipe; Alvarez, Ricardo (Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019)
      © 2019 Institution of Engineering and Technology. All rights reserved.The stability of future power systems will be challenged by high shares of converter-based generation technologies (CBGTs). To prevent instability ...
    • Coulibaly, Saliya; Taki, Majid; Bendahmane, Abdelkrim; Millot, Guy; Kibler, Bertrand; Clerc Gavilán, Marcel (American Physical Society, 2019)
      © 2019 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.Spontaneous emergence of self-organized patterns and their bifurcations towards a regime of complex dynamics in nonequilibrium dissipative systems is a paradigm ...
    • Lister, M. L.; Homan, D. C.; Hovatta, T.; Kellermann, K. I.; Kiehlmann, S.; Kovalev, Y. Y.; Max-Moerbeck, W.; Pushkarev, A. B.; Readhead, A. C.S.; Ros, E.; Savolainen, T. (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2019)
      © 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We present results from a parsec-scale jet kinematics study of 409 bright radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) based on 15 GHz Very Long Baseline Array ...
    • Garmendia, Asier; Graña, Manuel; Lopez-Guede, Jose Manuel; Rios, Sebastian (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
      © 2019 The prediction of readmissions in the healthcare system, i.e. patients that are discharged and come back in a short interval of time, has taken great importance as readmissions have been taken as a measure of the ...
    • Fonseca-Mairena, María Haydée; Triossi, Matteo (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
      © 2019 Elsevier B.V.We study the implementability of stable correspondences in marriage markets with externalities. We prove that, contrary to what happens in markets without externalities, no stable revelation mechanism ...
    • Capozzi, Staci L.; Bodenreider, Coline; Prieto, Ana; Payne, Rayford B.; Sowers, Kevin R.; Kjellerup, Birthe Veno (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2019)
      © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Removal of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from contaminated sediments is a priority due to accumulation in the food chain. Recent success with reduction ...
    • Zhang, Yichen; Tan, Jonathan C.; Sakai, Nami; Tanaka, Kei E.I.; De Buizer, James M.; Liu, Mengyao; Beltrán, Maria T.; Kratter, Kaitlin; Mardones, Diego; Garay Brignardello, Guido (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2019)
      © 2019. The American Astronomical Society.. We report molecular line observations of the massive protostellar source G339.88-1.26 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array. The observations reveal a highly ...
    • Galarce, Carlos; Pineda, Fabiola; Fischer, Diego A.; Flores Carrasco, Marcos; Vargas, Ignacio T.; Sancy, Mamie; Pizarro, Gonzalo E. (Electrochemical Science Group, 2019)
      © 2019 The Authors.Plumbing systems can be affected by Microbiologically Induced Corrosion (MIC). Through this process, microorganisms can modify water quality and jeopardize consumers' health by releasing metal from pipes' ...
    • Zapata, Luis A.; Garay Brignardello, Guido; Palau, Aina; Rodríguez, Luis F.; Fernández-López, Manuel; Estalella, Robert; Guzmán, Andres (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2019)
      © 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.. For the past few decades, there has been great interest in determining if even the most massive stars in our galaxy (namely the spectral O-type stars) are ...
    • Madariaga, Raul; Ruiz Tapia, Sergio; Rivera, Efrain; Leyton, Felipe; Baez, Juan Carlos (Birkhauser Verlag AG, 2019)
      © 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.We have studied the spectra of large subduction earthquakes in Chile at short epicentral distances. In this work, we concentrate on the Mw 8.2, Iquique earthquake of 1 April 2014. For ...