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    • Gaete, Ximena; Vivanco, Maritza; Lopez, Patricia; Rocha, Ana; Sepúlveda, Carolina; Codner Dujovne, Ethel (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019)
      © 2018 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons LtdBackground: Recent studies have suggested that there is an earlier age of onset of puberty in healthy boys. However, no study has determined the age of pubertal ...
    • Ramírez-Fernández, Lía; Trefault, Nicole; Carú, Margarita; Orlando, Julieta (Public Library of Science, 2019)
      © 2019 Ramírez-Fernández et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided ...
    • Montes-Atenas, Gonzalo; de Guevara, Rodrigo Ladrón; Lizama-Allende, Katherine; Valenzuela, F. (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
      © 2019 Elsevier B.V. The usual answer to the question stated in the title of this manuscript would be a definitive no due to the high stability of dissolved sulphide ions in water under strong alkaline conditions; nevertheless, ...
    • Fuentes-Ocampo, Francisco; López-Mora, Diego Alfonso; Flotats, Albert; Paillahueque, Gabriela; Camacho, Valle; Duch, Joan; Fernández, Alejandro; Domènech, Anna; Estorch, Montserrat; Carrió, Ignasi (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2019)
      © 2019, The Author(s).Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess whether digital photon counting technology in digital PET/CT influences the quantification of SUVmax in target lesions and regions of reference compared ...
    • Fuentes, Eduardo; Araya Maturana, Ramiro; Urra, Félix A. (Elsevier Inc., 2019)
      © 2019 Elsevier Inc.Platelets are anucleated cell elements produced by fragmentation of the cytoplasm of megakaryocytes and have a unique metabolic phenotype compared with circulating leukocytes, exhibiting a high coupling ...
    • Espinoza, Vicente; Rabi, Violeta; Ulloa, Valentina; Barozet, Emmanuelle (Springer New York LLC, 2019)
      © 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.Literature on informal political institutions has focused on the national level, disregarding sub-national contexts where one can expect increased ...
    • Vandevijvere, Stefanie; Barquera, Simon; Caceres, Gabriela; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Karupaiah, Tilakavati; Kroker-Lobos, Maria Fernanda; L'Abbé, Mary; Ng, See Hoe; Phulkerd, Sirinya; Ramírez Zea, Manuel; Rebello, Salome A.; Reyes, Marcela; Sacks, Gary; Sánchez Nóchez, Carme (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019)
      © 2019 World Obesity FederationThe Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI) aims to assess the extent of implementation of recommended food environment policies by governments compared with international best ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Montero, David A.; Arellano, Carolina; Pardo, Mirka; Vera, Rosa; Gálvez, Ricardo; Cifuentes, Marcela; Berasain, Mariá A.; Gómez, Marisol; Ramírez, Claudio; Vidal, Roberto M. (BioMed Central Ltd., 2019)
      © 2019 The Author(s).Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) have a major impact on public health worldwide. Particularly, hospital surfaces contaminated with bacterial pathogens are often the origin of both ...
    • González, Estefanía; Gómez-Caravaca, Ana María; Giménez, Begoña; Cebrián, Rubén; Maqueda, Mercedes; Martínez-Férez, Antonio; Segura-Carretero, Antonio; Robert Canales, Paz (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      © 2018 Elsevier LtdAn olive leaf extract (OLE) was microencapsulated with sodium alginate (SA) by spray-drying to study the evolution of oleuropein (ORP) during in vitro gastrointestinal digestion, and its bioaccessibility ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...