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    • Alvarado Espina, Eduardo (Asoc Española Ciencia Política & Adm-AECPA, 2018)
      This article proposes a critical-contextual interpretation to explain the decline of democracy in the neoliberal era. To that aim the main premises of the liberal and post-Marxist theories of democracy are first reviewed ...
    • Pezoa Conte, Ricardo; Leyton, Allison; Baccini, Andrea; Ravanal, María Cristina; Maki Arvela, Paivi; Grenman, Henrik; Xu, Chunlin; Willfor, Stefan; Lienqueo Contreras, María Elena; Mikkola, Jyri Pekka (Springer, 2017)
      The incentives for utilizing a versatile range of renewable feedstocks in novel ways are continuously increasing. Sulfated polysaccharides from green algae, such as ulvan, are interesting due to the rare sugar constituents ...
    • Asenjo de Leuze, Juan; Andrews Farrow, Bárbara (2010)
      Aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS) that are formed by mixing a polymer (usually polyethylene glycol, PEG) and a salt (e.g. phosphate, sulphate or citrate) or two polymers, and water can be effectively used for the separation ...
    • Fuentes, Francisco; Féraud, Gilbert; Aguirre Le-Bert, Luis; Morata Céspedes, Diego (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2005-01-03)
      Ar-40/Ar-39 geochronological method is applied to date both emplacement and subsequent very low-grade metamorphism of a thick lava series, the Veta Negra Formation from the Cordon de Chacana area, in the Coastal Range of ...
    • Gallenne, A.; Pietrzynski, G.; Graczyk, D.; Konorski, P.; Kervella, Pierre; Merand, A.; Gieren, W.; Anderson, R.; Villanova, S. (EDP SCIENCES, 2016)
      Context. Independent distance estimates are particularly useful to check the precision of other distance indicators, while accurate and precise masses are necessary to constrain evolution models. Aims. The goal is to ...
    • Duarte, Fabián; Gormaz Arancibia, Raúl; Natesan, Srinivasan (ELSEVIER, 2004)
      This article deals with the numerical approximation of Navier-Stokes equations in a domain with moving boundaries. Using the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method we transform the problem from a moving domain to a ...
    • Ochoa Delorenzi, Sergio; Gutiérrez Figueroa, Francisco Javier (IEEE Computer Society, 2018)
      E-coaching systems are a highly valuable asset for promoting healthier lifestyles. However, the design of these systems is intrinsically complex. This article proposes a loosely coupled architecture to support the modeling ...
    • Gutiérrez, Francisco J.; Ochoa Delorenzi, Sergio; Baloian Tataryan, Nelson; Zurita Alarcón, Gustavo; Loyola, Luis (Slovak Acad Sciences Inst Informatics, 2015)
      Several researchers have identified the design of collaborative systems as a particularly challenging task, because it has to consider services that are not easily identifiable by software designers. The systems that ...
    • Córdova, Angélica; Imas, Alex; Schwartz Perlroth, Daniel (Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2021)
      Organizations and policymakers increasingly rely on economic incentives to prompt participation in activities amongst those who were previously not engaged. We ran a field experiment with a recycling program to examine ...
    • Basso Sotz, Leonardo; Jara Díaz, Sergio (INST OPERATIONS RESEARCH MANAGEMENT SCIENCES, 2006-08)
      It is customary to analyze transport industry structure using two indices: (1) economies of density and (2) economies of scale with variable network size. The latter has been defined to analyze the behavior of costs when ...
    • Noton Norambuena, Carlos; Elberg, Andrés (Wiley, 2018-05)
      Conventional wisdom is that big-box retailers squeeze the profits of small suppliers. Underlying this belief is the assumption that relative market size is the primary source of bargaining leverage. Using actual wholesale ...
    • Le Floc’h, E.; Duc, P.-A; Mirabel, I. F.; Sanders, D. B.; Bosch, G.; Diaz, R. J.; Donzelli, C. J.; Rodrigues, I.; Courvoisier, T. J. L.; Greiner, J.; Mereghetti, S.; Melnick, J.; Maza Sancho, José; Minniti, D. (EDP Sciences, 2003-03)
      We present K-band imaging observations of ten gamma-ray burst (GRB) host galaxies for which an optical and/or radio afterglow associated with the GRB event was clearly identified. Data were obtained with the Very Large ...
    • Reinthaler, Johannes; Paul, Frank; Granados, Hugo Delgado; Rivera, Andrés; Huggel, Christian (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
      Glaciers on active volcanoes are subject to changes in both climate fluctuations and volcanic activity. Whereas many studies analysed changes on individual volcanoes, this study presents for the first time a comparison of ...
    • Bosnic-Anticevich, Sinthia; Costa, Elisio; Menditto, Enrica; Lourenço, Olga; Novellino, Ettore; Bialek, Slawomir; Briedis, Vitalis; Buonaiuto, Roland; Chrystyn, Henry; Cvetkovski, Biljana; Di Capua, Stefania; Kritikos, Vicky; Mair, Alpana; Orlando, Valentina; Paulino, (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019)
      Pharmacists are trusted health care professionals. Many patients use over-the-counter (OTC) medications and are seen by pharmacists who are the initial point of contact for allergic rhinitis management in most countries. ...
    • Vines, Jose (Oxford, 2022)
      Accurately measuring stellar parameters is a key goal to increase our understanding of the observable universe. However, current methods are limited by many factors, in particular, the biases and physical assumptions ...
    • Sáez Briones, Patricio; Castro Castillo, Vicente; Díaz Véliz, Gabriela; Valladares Boasi, Luis; Barra, Rafael; Hernández, Alejandro; Cassels Niven, Bruce (Frontiers Media S.A., 2019)
      The entactogen MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine, “Ecstasy”) exerts its psychotropic effects acting primarily as a substrate of the serotonin transporter (SERT) to induce a non-exocytotic release of serotonin. ...
    • Dermoune, Azzouz; Martínez Aguilera, Servet (SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS, 2006-04)
      We consider a system of multicolour disordered lattice gas, following closely the (monocolour) introduced by Faggionato and Martinelli((3,4)). We study the projection on the monocolour system and we derive an estimate of ...
    • Ferreccio, Catterina; Sancha Fernández, Ana María (I C D D R B-CENTRE HEALTH POPULATION RESEARCH, 2006-06)
      The problem of arsenic in Chile was reviewed. In Chile, the population is exposed to arsenic naturally via drinking-water and by air pollution resulted from mining activities. The sources of arsenic were identified to ...
    • Bundschuh, Jochen; Armienta, María Aurora; Morales Simfors, Nury; Alam, Mohammad Ayaz; López, Dina L.; Delgado Quezada, Valeria; Dietrich, Sebastián; Schneider, Jerusa; Tapia, Joseline; Sracek, Ondra; Castillo, Elianna; Marcó Parra, Lue-Meru; Altamirano Espinoza, Maximina; Guimarães Guilherme, Luiz Roberto; Sosa, Numa Nahuel; Khan Niazi, Nabeel; Tomaszewska, Barbara; Lizama Allende, Katherine; Bieger, Klaus; Alonso, David L.; Brandão, Pedro F. B.; Bhattacharya, Prosun; Litter, Marta I.; Ahmad, Arslan (Taylor and Francis, 2020)
      Today (year 2020), the globally recognized problem of arsenic (As) contamination of water resources and other environments at toxic levels has been reported in all of the 20 Latin American countries. The present review ...
    • Hering, Janet G.; Katsoyiannis, Ioannis A.; Ahumada Theoduloz, Gerardo; Berg, Michael; Hug, Stephan J. (American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2017)
      Treatment of drinking water for arsenic (As) removal has been implemented in centralized facilities worldwide, reflecting the increasingly stringent national and international drinking water standards for As, for which a ...