Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions

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    • Video Intervention Therapy for primary caregivers in a child psychiatry unit: a randomized feasibility trial 
      Leyton, Fanny; Olhaberry, Marcia; Morán, Javier; Cerda, Cecilia de la; León, María José; Sieverson, Catalina; Alfaro, Ángela; Hernández, Camila; Alvardo, Rubén; Steele, Howard (BMC, 2021)
      Background During child psychiatry hospitalization, working with the families or attachment figures is a challenge, most of the children who are admitted to these units come from multi-problem families, with limited research ...
    • Molecular cloud catalogue from (CO)-C-13 (1-0) data of the Forgotten Quadrant Survey 
      Benedettini, M.; Traficante, A.; Olmi, L.; Pezzuto, S.; Baldeschi, A.; Molinari, S.; Elia, D.; Schisano, E.; Merello, M.; Fontani, F.; Rygl, K. L. J.; Brand, J.; Beltrán, M. T.; Cesaroni, R.; Liu, S. J.; Testi, L. (EDP Sciences, 2021)
      Context. New-generation spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way plane have been revealing the structure of the interstellar medium, allowing the simultaneous study of dense structures from single star-forming objects or ...
    • Comprehensive data validation of a combined weekly time use and travel survey 
      Aschauer, Florian; Hossinger, Reinhard; Jara Díaz, Sergio Rodolfo; Schmid, Basil; Axhausen, Kay; Gerike, Regine (Elsevier, 2021)
      A well-known problem in Household Travel Surveys (HTS) is item-nonresponse, which occurs when complete trips are not reported or only partial information for trips is given. This article presents a comprehensive data ...
    • Canopy spraying of abscisic acid to improve fruit quality of different sweet cherry cultivars 
      Time, Alson; Ponce, Claudio; Kuhn, Nathalie; Arellano, Macarena; Sagredo, Boris; Donoso, José Manuel; Meisel, Lee Ann (MDPI, 2021)
      Abscisic acid (ABA) plays a major role in promoting ripening in sweet cherry, a non-climacteric fruit. Exogenous application of ABA has been performed to study fruit ripening and cracking, but this growth regulator is not ...
    • The distance exponent for Liouville first passage percolation is positive 
      Ding, Jian; Gwynne, Ewain; Sepúlveda Donoso, Avelio (Springer, 2021)
      Discrete Liouville first passage percolation (LFPP) with parameter xi > 0 is the random metric on a sub-graph of Z(2) obtained by assigning each vertex z a weight of e(xi h(z)), where h is the discrete Gaussian free field. ...
    • N-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Their Lipid Mediators as A Potential Immune-Nutritional Intervention: ... 
      Herrera Vielma, Francisca; Valenzuela Báez, Rodrigo; Videla Cabrera, Luis Alberto; Zúñiga Hernández, Jéssica (MDPI, 2021)
      In recent years, the beneficial effect of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFAs) intake on human health has been widely accepted in the field of immunonutrition. Today, we find a diversity of supplements based on n-3 ...
    • Association between gender inequality and population-level health outcomes: Panel data analysis of organization ... 
      Veas, Cecilia; Crispi Galleguillos, María Francisca; Cuadrado Nahum, Cristóbal Alfonso (Elsevier, 2021)
      Background: Gender plays a well-recognized role in shaping health inequities. However, the population-level health consequences of gender inequalities have not been measured comprehensively. The goal of this study was to ...
    • Manganese-Oxidizing Antarctic Bacteria (Mn-Oxb) release Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) as secondary Mn(II) ... 
      Jofré, Ignacio; Matus, Francisco; Mendoza, Daniela; Nájera De Ferrari, Francisco; Merino, Carolina (MDPI, 2021)
      Manganese (Mn)-oxidizing bacteria (MnOxb) are an essential group of microorganisms that oxidize soluble Mn(II) to form precipitate Mn(III) minerals, playing a crucial role in soil formation. The Fildes Peninsula is one of ...
    • Circulating current control for the modular multilevel matrix converter based on model predictive control 
      Urrutia, Matías; Cárdenas Dobson, Jesús Roberto; Clare, Jon; Watson, Alan (IEEE-Inst. Electrical Electronics Engineers, 2021)
      In this work, a continuous-control-set model predictive control (CCS-MPC) strategy, with a saturation scheme for protection, is presented for regulating the circulating currents of a modular multilevel matrix converter ...
    • The young stellar population, distance, and cloud-cloud collision induced star formation scenario of the ... 
      Kalari, Venu M. (IOP, 2021)
      The Trifid Nebula is a young, nearby star-forming region where star formation is proposed to have been triggered by cloud-cloud collision (CCC), based on observations of molecular clouds. It offers a unique opportunity to ...
    • The SREBP (Sterol Regulatory Element-Binding Protein) pathway: a regulatory bridge between carotenogenesis ... 
      Gómez, Melissa; Baeza Cancino, Marcelo Enrique; Cifuentes Guzmán, Víctor; Alcaíno Gorman, Jennifer (Sociedad de Biología de Chile, 2021)
      Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous is a basidiomycete yeast that naturally produces the red-orange carotenoid astaxanthin, which has remarkable antioxidant properties. The biosynthesis of carotenoids and sterols share some ...
    • Systematic review: genetic, neuroimaging, and fluids biomarkers for frontotemporal dementia across Latin ... 
      Durán Aniotz, Claudia Andrea; Orellana, Paulina; Rodríguez, Tomas León; Henríquez, Fernando; Cabello, Victoria; Aguirre Pinto, María Francisca; Escobedo, Tamara; Takada, Leonel T.; Pina Escudero, Stefanie D.; López, Oscar; Yokoyama, Jennifer S.; Ibáñez, Agustín; Parra, Mario A.; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea Maria (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) includes a group of clinically, genetically, and pathologically heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorders, affecting the fronto-insular-temporal regions of the brain. Clinically, FTD is ...
    • Evaluación de factibilidad estratégica, técnica y económica para el desarrollo de un centro privado de ... 
      González Escudero, Gadiel Antonio (Universidad de Chile, 2021)
      La presente evaluación tuvo como finalidad determinar la factibilidad estratégica, técnica y económica para el desarrollo de un centro privado de rehabilitación dedicado a consumidores de sustancias psicoactivas mediante ...
    • Identificación de estilos artísticos a través de redes convolucionales y análisis de arquetipos 
      Garay Roos, Osvaldo Nicolás (Universidad de Chile, 2021)
      La motivación de este trabajo surge de la posibilidad de encontrar un método de categorización de obras artísticas según su estilo artístico. Esto se debe a que, además de los fines prácticos que esto puede tener, tales ...
    • Congenital transmission of apicomplexan parasites: a review 
      Rojas Pirela, Maura Lina; Medina, Lisvaneth; Rojas, María Verónica; Liempi Manquel, Ana Isabel; Castillo Rivas, Christian Raúl; Pérez Pérez, Elizabeth; Guerrero Muñoz, Jesús; Araneda, Sebastián; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Apicomplexans are a group of pathogenic protists that cause various diseases in humans and animals that cause economic losses worldwide. These unicellular eukaryotes are characterized by having a complex life cycle and the ...
    • Temperature differently affected methanogenic pathways and microbial communities in sub-Antarctic freshwater ... 
      Lavergne, Céline; Aguilar Muñoz, Polette; Calle, Natalia; Thalasso, Frederic; Astorga España, María Soledad; Sepúlveda Jauregui, Armando; Martínez Cruz, Karla; Gandois, Laure; Mansilla, Andrés; Chamy Maggi, Rolando; Barret, Maialen; Cabrol, Lea Jeanne Marie (Elsevier, 2021)
      Freshwater ecosystems are responsible for an important part of the methane (CH4) emissions which are likely to change with global warming. This study aims to evaluate temperature-induced (from 5 to 20 ◦C) changes on microbial ...
    • A dusty filament and turbulent CO spirals in HD 135344B-SAO 206462 
      Casassus, Simon; Christiaens, Valentin; Carcamo, Miguel; Pérez, Sebastián; Weber, Philipp; Ercolano, Barbara; van der Marel, Nienke; Pinte, Christophe; Dong, Ruobing; Baruteau, Clement; Cieza, Lucas; van Dishoeck, Ewine F.; Jordán, Andrés; Price, Daniel J.; Absil, Olivier; Arce Tord, Carla Alessandra; Faramaz, Virginie; Flores, Christian; Reggiani, Maddalena (Oxford, 2021)
      Planet-disc interactions build up local pressure maxima that may halt the radial drift of protoplanetary dust, and pile it up in rings and crescents. ALMA observations of the HD 135344B disc revealed two rings in the thermal ...
    • Avian species richness in cities: a review of the Spanish-language literature from the Southern Cone of ... 
      Muñoz Pacheco, Catalina Beatriz; Villasenor, Nelida (Springer, 2021)
      South America sustains an important part of the world's terrestrial biodiversity and its population is highly urbanized. Global syntheses have revealed a paucity of urban ecological research in the region; however, local ...
    • Desarrollo de modelos en elementos finitos parametrizados de paneles tipo sándwich con núcleos ultralivianos ... 
      Gálvez Sidgman, Vicente (Universidad de Chile, 2021)
      Los metamateriales son materiales artificiales con propiedades inusuales procedentes de su estructura diseñada y no de su composición, esto implica que sus propiedades son diferentes a las de los materiales que lo componen. ...
    • Activation of the NLRP3 Inflammasome Increases the IL-1 beta Level and Decreases GLUT4 Translocation in ... 
      Americo Da Silva, Luan; Aguilera, Javiera; Quinteros Waltemath, Oscar Alberto; Sánchez Aguilera, Pablo Ignacio; Russell, Javier; Cadagan Fuentes, Cynthia Angelica; Meneses Valdés, Roberto Andrés; Sánchez Vergara, Jeannette Romina; Estrada Hormazábal, Manuel; Jorquera, Gonzalo; Barrientos Briones, Genaro Christian; Llanos Vidal, Paola (MDPI, 2021)
      Low-grade chronic inflammation plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance (IR), and skeletal muscle has a central role in this condition. NLRP3 inflammasome activation pathways promote low-grade chronic ...