Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions

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    • Proposals of rehabilitation and management actions for the protection of sclerophyllous forests affected ... 
      Castillo Soto, Miguel; Plaza Valencia, Álvaro (Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Turquia, 2022)
      The damage and effects of fire on the native vegetation of Central Chile have been increasing in recent years due to drought conditions and the state of abandonment of the Mediterranean forests. The objective of this ...
    • Medicina de precisión y transhumanismo: una mirada desde la Bioética 
      Kottow Lang, Miguel (Universidad El Bosque, Colombia, 2022)
      Purpose/Background. To present the concatenation of medical digitalization that unravels from the goal of therapeutic improvement through precision medicine and moves on to enhancement medicine beyond the normal function ...
    • TIC-320687387 B: a long-period eclipsing M-dwarf close to the hydrogen burning limit 
      Gill, Samuel; Ulmer Moll, Solene; Wheatley, Peter J.; Bayliss, Daniel; Burleigh, Matthew R.; Acton, Jack S.; Casewell, Sarah L.; Watson, Christopher A.; Lendl, Monika; Worters, Hannah L.; Sefako, Ramotholo R.; Anderson, David R.; Alves Rodrigues, Douglas; Bouchy, Francois; Bryant, Edward M.; Eigmueller, Philipp; Gillén, Edward; Goad, Michael R.; Grieves, Nolan; Guenther, Maximilian N.; Henderson, Beth A.; Jenkins, James S.; Mishra, Lokesh; Moyano, Maximiliano; Osborn, Hugh P.; Tilbrook, Rosanna H.; Udry, Stephane; Vines, José I.; West, Richard G. (Oxford, 2022)
      We are using precise radial velocities from CORALIE together with precision photometry from the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) to follow-up stars with single-transit events detected with the Transiting Exoplanet ...
    • Did a 3800-year-old M-w similar to 9.5 earthquake trigger major social disruption in the Atacama Desert? 
      Salazar Sutil, Diego Rodrigo; Easton Vargas, Gabriel; Goff, James; Guendon, Jean L.; González Alfaro, José; Andrade, Pedro; Villagrán, Ximena; Fuentes Alburquenque, Mauricio Eduardo; León, Tomás; Abad, Manuel; Izquierdo, Tatiana; Power, Ximena; Sitzia, Luca; Álvarez, Gabriel; Villalobos, Ángelo; Olguín, Laura; Yrarrazaval Ascencio, Sebastián Alonso; González, Gabriel; Flores, Carola; Borie, César; Castro Rojas, María Victoria; Campos, Jaime (AMER Assoc Advancement Science, 2022)
      Early inhabitants along the hyperarid coastal Atacama Desert in northern Chile developed resilience strategies over 12,000 years, allowing these communities to effectively adapt to this extreme environment, including ...
    • Working group recommendations for the practice of teleneuropsychology in Latin America 
      Crivelli, Lucía; Quiroz, Yakeel T.; Calandri, Ismael L.; Martin, María E.; Velilla, Lina M.; Cusicanqui, María I.; Coto Yglesias, Fernando; Llibre Rodríguez, Juan J.; Armele, Monserrat; Román, Fabián; Barceló, Ernesto; Dechent, Claudia; Carello, María Agostina; Olavarría Vera, Loreto; Yassuda, Mónica S.; Custodio, Nilton; Dansilio, Sergio; Sosa, Ana L.; Acosta, Daisy M.; Brucki, Sonia M. D.; Caramelli, Paulo; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea Maria; Nitrini, Ricardo; Carrillo, María C.; Allegri, Ricardo F. (Oxford, 2022)
      Objective Teleneuropsychology (teleNP) could potentially expand access to services for patients who are confined, have limited personal access to healthcare, or live in remote areas. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic ...
    • "Cuerpo y representación: Coordenadas de los irrepresentable en las corporalidades contemporáneas" 
      Sánchez Bachmann, María José (Universidad de Chile, 2020)
      En la actualidad, la teoría representacional tiende a caer en una lógica dual en cuanto a la representación/no-representación, en el sentido de que éstas categorías, más bien descriptivas, no logran dilucidar claramente ...
    • La letra con sangre entra: Periodismo y literatura en Tinta roja de Alberto Fuguet 
      Quezada Medina, Aleister Camilo (Universidad de Chile, 2021)
      La tesis se centra en el impacto de la novela Tinta Roja de Alberto Fuguet para la enseñanza del periodismo en Chile, la literatura de los bajos fondos, y para la carrera del propio autor, quien con dicha obra establece ...
    • Community voices: the importance of diverse networks in academic mentoring 
      Deanna, Rocío; Merkle, Benthann Garramon; Chun, Kwok Pan; Navarro Rosenblatt, Deborah; Baxter, Ivan; Oleas, Nora; Bortolus, Alejandro; Geesink, Patricia; Diele Viegas, Luisa; Aschero, Valeria; Leone, María José de; Oliferuk, Sonia; Zuo, Rui; Cosacov, Andrea; Grossi, Mariana; Knapp, Sandra; López Méndez, Alicia; Welchen, Elina; Ribone, Pamela; Auge, Gabriela (Nature, 2022)
      Mentor relationships are crucial to retention, success, and wellbeing of women and underrepresented minority scientists in academia. A network of diverse mentors may support achieving long-term career goals, advancement, ...
    • Regulación de la funcionalidad de las células dendríticas en el tracto intestinal a través de la activación ... 
      Geisse Anguita, Antonia (Universidad de Chile, 2021)
      El sistema inmune intestinal está constituido por diferentes tipos celulares, que actúan de manera coordinada para controlar finamente la inmunidad y tolerancia. Perturbaciones en este equilibrio entre inmunidad y ...
    • A multi-country survey on the impact of COVID-19 on dental practice and dentists’ feelings in Latin America 
      Moraes, Rafael R.; Cuevas Suárez, Carlos E.; Escalante Otárola, Wilfredo G.; Fernández, María R.; Dávila Sánchez, Andrés; Grau Grullon, Patricia; Fernández Godoy, Eduardo; López, Tania M.; Grazioli, Guillermo; Arana, Luis A.; Rondón, Luis F.; Torrez, Willy B.; Lima, Giana S.; Schuch, Helena S.; Correa, Marcos B.; Demarco, Flavio F. (BMC, 2022)
      Background The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly influenced the routine of healthcare workers. This study investigated the impact of the pandemic on dental practice and dentists' feelings in Latin America. Methods: A ...
    • The ecology and evolution of the monito del monte, a relict species from the southern South America temperate ... 
      Fontúrbel, Francisco E.; Franco, Lida M.; Bozinovic, Francisco; Quintero Galvis, Julián F.; Mejías, Carlos; Amico, Guillermo C.; Vázquez, M. Soledad; Sabat, Pablo; Sánchez Hernández, Juan C.; Watson, David M.; Sáenz Agudelo, Pablo; Nespolo, Roberto F. (Wiley, 2022)
      The arboreal marsupial monito del monte (genus Dromiciops, with two recognized species) is a paradigmatic mammal. It is the sole living representative of the order Microbiotheria, the ancestor lineage of Australian marsupials. ...
    • Primordial gravitational waves from excited states 
      Fumagalli, Jacopo; Palma Quilodrán, Gonzalo; Renaux-Petel, Sébastien; Sypsas, Spyros; Witkowskia, Lukas T.; Zenteno, Cristóbal (Springer, 2022)
      We show that a scalar excited state with large occupation numbers during inflation leads to an enhancement of tensor modes and a characteristic pattern of order-one oscillations in the associated stochastic gravitational ...
    • High-temperature phonon-mediated superconductivity in monolayer Mg2B4C2 
      Singh, Sobhit; Romero, Aldo H.; Mella Riquelme, José; Eremeev, Vitalie; Muñoz, Enrique; Alexandrova, Anastassia N.; Rabe, Karin M.; Vanderbilt, David; Muñoz Sáez, Francisco Javier (Nature, 2022)
      A two-dimensional material - Mg2B4C2, belonging to the family of the conventional superconductor MgB2, is theoretically predicted to exhibit superconductivity with critical temperature T-c estimated in the 47-48 K range ...
    • Barriers and facilitators to influenza vaccination observed by officers of national immunization programs ... 
      González Block, Miguel Ángel; Díaz Portillo, Sandra Patricia; Arroyo Laguna, Juan; Comes, Yamila; Crocco Abalos, Pedro; Fachel-Leal, Andrea; Noboa, Laura; Riva Knauth, Daniela; Rodríguez Zea, Berenice; Ruoti, Mónica; Sarti, Elsa; Puentes, Esteban (Cadernos Saude Publica, Brasil, 2022)
      Influenza is a severe, vaccine-preventable disease. Vaccination programs across Latin American countries show contrasting coverage rates, from 29% in Paraguay to 89% in Brazil. This study explores how national influenza ...
    • Impact of biomass burning and stratospheric intrusions in the remote South Pacific Ocean troposphere 
      Daskalakis, Nikos; Gallardo Klenner, Laura; Kanakidou, María; Nuss, Johann Rasmus; Menares Menares, Camilo; Rondanelli Rojas, Roberto; Thompson, Anne M.; Vrekoussis, Mihalis (Copernicus, 2022)
      The ozone mixing ratio spatiotemporal variability in the pristine South Pacific Ocean is studied, for the first time, using 21-year-long ozone (O-3) records from the entire southern tropical and subtropical Pacific between ...
    • Palmitic and stearic acids inhibit chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) in POMC-like neurons In vitro 
      Espinosa Lemunao, Rodrigo; Gutiérrez, Karla; Ríos Castillo, Javiera; Ormeño, Fernando; Yantén, Liliana; Galaz Davison, Pablo; Ramírez Sarmiento, César; Parra Ortiz, Valentina; Albornoz, Amelina; Alfaro, Iván E.; Burgos, Patricia; Morselli, Eugenia; Criollo Céspedes, Alfredo; Budini, Mauricio (MDPI, 2022)
      The intake of food with high levels of saturated fatty acids (SatFAs) is associated with the development of obesity and insulin resistance. SatFAs, such as palmitic (PA) and stearic (SA) acids, have been shown to accumulate ...
    • Honeybee pollen from southern Chile: phenolic profile, antioxidant capacity, bioaccessibility, and inhibition ... 
      Bridi, Raquel; Echeverría, Javier; Larena, Arturo; Núñez Pizarro, Paula; Atala, Elías; Costa De Camargo, Adriano; Oh, Won Young; Shahidi, Fereidoon; García, Olga; Ah-Hen, Kong S.; Montenegro, Gloria (Frontiers Media, 2022)
      Honeybee pollen (HBP) chemical composition is highly variable conforming to the floral and geographical origin of the pollen grains. The beneficial effects and functional properties of the HBP are well-known and have been ...
    • Insect fluctuating asymmetry: an example in bolivian peridomestic populations of triatoma infestans (Klug, ... 
      Vilaseca, Carolina; Pinto, Carlos F.; Órdenes Claveria, Rodrigo; Laroze, David; Méndez Torres, Marco Antonio; Benítez, Hugo A. (MDPI, 2022)
      Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) is a morphometric tool used to measure developmental instability in organisms which have been exposed to stress or other adverse conditions. Phenotypic variability in response to stressors are ...
    • Evidence of low within-pair genetic relatedness in a relict population of Thorn-tailed Rayadito despite ... 
      Botero Delgadillo, Esteban; Quirici, Verónica; Ippi, Silvina; Vásquez, Rodrigo A.; Kempenaers, Bart (Wiley, 2022)
      Investigating whether mating patterns are biased in relation to kinship in isolated populations can provide a better understanding of the occurrence of inbreeding avoidance mechanisms in wild populations. Here, we report ...
    • Pharmacological blockade of NLRP3 inflammasome/IL1β-positive loop mitigates endothelial cell senescence and ... 
      Romero, Alejandra; Dongil, Pilar; Valencia, Inés; Vallejo, Susana; San Hipólito Luengo, Álvaro; Díaz Araya, Guillermo; Bartha, José L.; González Arlanzón, María M.; Rivilla, Fernando; Cuesta, Fernando de la; Sánchez Ferrer, Carlos; Peiró, Concepción (International Society on Aging and Disease, 2022)
      The clinical relevance of IL-1 beta in chronic inflammation underlying atherosclerosis has been reinforced by recent evidence associating pharmacological inhibition of the cytokine with lower cardiovascular risk. Previously, ...