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    • Torres, Wilson; Almazán, José Luis; Sandoval, Cristián; Boroschek, Rubén (Springer Netherlands, 2019)
      © 2019, Springer Nature B.V.The seismic assessment of heritage structures with complex architecture, such as masonry churches, remains a challenging task. In most cases, an accurate and reliable assessment of this type of ...
    • Sauré, Denis; Vielma, Juan Pablo (INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences, 2019)
      © 2019 INFORMS.Questionnaires for adaptive choice-based conjoint analysis aim at minimizing some measure of the uncertainty associated with estimates of preference parameters (e.g., partworths). Bayesian approaches to ...
    • Bernstein, Fernando; Modaresi, Sajad; Sauré, Denis (INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences, 2019)
      © 2017 INFORMS.We consider an online retailer facing heterogeneous customers with initially unknown product preferences. Customers are characterized by a diverse set of demographic and transactional attributes. The retailer ...
    • Casassus Montero, Simón; Pérez, Sebastián; Osses, Axel; Marino, Sebastián (Oxford University Press, 2019)
      © 2019 The Author(s).The mass of the gaseous reservoir in young circumstellar discs is a crucial initial condition for the formation of planetary systems, but estimates vary by orders of magnitude. In some discs with ...
    • Pępczyńska, Marzena; Díaz-Calderón, P.; Quero, Franck; Matiacevich, Silvia; Char, C.; Enrione, Javier (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
      © 2019 Elsevier LtdNon mammalian gelatin under low moisture conditions could potentially be used in encapsulation technologies in food and pharmaceutical applications. This work explored the interactions between salmon ...
    • Lund Plantat, Fernando; Scheihing, Bruno H. (American Physical Society, 2019)
      © 2019 American Physical Society.A canonical quantization procedure is applied to elastic waves interacting with pinned dislocation segments ("strings") of length L via the Peach-Koehler force. The interaction Hamiltonian, ...
    • Bustamante, Sebastián; Hàn, Hiêp; Stein, Maya (Wiley-Liss Inc., 2019)
      © 2018 Wiley Periodicals Inc. We show that for every η > 0 there exists an integer n 0 such that every 2-coloring of the 3-uniform complete hypergraph on n ≥ n 0 vertices contains two disjoint monochromatic tight cycles ...
    • Cortés, Joaquín; Valencia, Eliana; Araya, Paulo (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
      © 2019 Elsevier B.V.The different qualitative and quantitative behaviors of copper-ceria (dual surface) and supported noble metal catalysts for the PROX reaction are compared. Through Monte Carlo simulations the effect of ...
    • Casassus Montero, Simón; Marino, Sebastián; Lyra, Wladimir; Baruteau, Clément; Vidal, Matías; Wootten, Alwyn; Pérez, Sebastián; Alarcon, Felipe; Barraza, Marcelo; Cárcamo, Miguel; Dong, Ruobing; Sierra, Anibal; Zhu, Zhaohuan; Ricci, Luca; Christiaens, Valentin; Cieza, Lucas (Oxford University Press, 2019)
      © 2018 The Author(s)The large crescents imaged by ALMA in transition discs suggest that azimuthal dust trapping concentrates the larger grains, but centimetre–wavelengths continuum observations are required to map the ...
    • Brahm, R.; Espinoza N., Arturo; Rabus, M.; Jordán, A.; Díaz, M. R.; Rojas, F.; Vučković, M.; Zapata, A.; Cortés, C.; Drass, H.; Jenkins, James Stewart; Lachaume, R.; Pantoja, B.; Sarkis, P.; Soto, M. G.; Vasquez, S.; Henning, Th; Jones, M. I. (Oxford University Press, 2019)
      © 2018 The Author(s).We report the discovery of K2-161b, which was first identified as a planetary candidate from Kepler K2 photometry of Campaign 14, and whose planetary nature and orbital parameters were then confirmed ...
    • Amigo, Nicolás; Palza Cordero, Humberto; Canales, Daniel; Sepúlveda, Francesca; Vasco, Diego A.; Sepúlveda, Francisco; Zapata, Paula A. (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      © 2019 Elsevier LtdStarch nanoparticles (SNp) with a diameter of ca. 70 nm were synthesized and used as fillers to prepare high density polyethylene (PE) composites by in situ polymerization. The effect of these particles ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Kwak, Chulkwang; Muñoz, Claudio; Poblete, Felipe; Pozo, Juan C. (Elsevier Masson SAS, 2019)
      © 2018 Elsevier Masson SASThe Boussinesq abcd system is a 4-parameter set of equations posed in Rt×Rx, originally derived by Bona, Chen and Saut [11,12] as first order 2-wave approximations of the incompressible and ...
    • Bernales, Alejandro (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
      © 2019 Elsevier B.V.The make-take preferences of investors depend on high-frequency trading (HFT) competition, under which HFT firms endogenously acquire speed and informational advantages. In the case where there are many ...
    • Barra de la Guarda, Felipe (American Physical Society, 2019)
      © 2019 American Physical Society.We show that a cyclic unitary process can extract work from the thermodynamic equilibrium state of an engineered quantum dissipative process. Systems in the equilibrium states of these ...
    • 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 ...