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    • Herrera, Emilio A.; Ebensperger, Germán; Hernández, Ismael; Sanhueza, Emilia M.; Llanos, Aníbal J.; Reyes, Roberto V. (Academic Press Inc., 2019)
      Nitric oxide (NO) is the main vasodilator agent that drives the rapid decrease of pulmonary vascular resistance for the respiratory onset during the fetal to neonatal transition. Nevertheless, the enhanced NO generation ...
    • Tala, Fadia; López, Boris A.; Velásquez, Marcel; Jeldres, Ricardo; Macaya, Erasmo C.; Mansilla, Andrés; Ojeda, Jaime; Thiel, Martin (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      Current knowledge about the performance of floating seaweeds as dispersal vectors comes mostly from mid latitudes (30°–40°), but phylogeographic studies suggest that long-distance dispersal (LDD) is more common at high ...
    • Rajivgandhi, Govindan; Maruthupandy, Muthuchamy; Muneeswaran, Thillaichidambaram; Anand, Muthusamy; Quero, Franck; Manoharan, Natesan; Li, Wen Jun (Academic Press Inc., 2019)
      The ability of a natural stabilizing and reducing agent on the synthesis of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs)was explored using a rapid and single-pot biological reduction method using Nocardiopsis sp. GRG1 (KT235640)biomass. ...
    • Pincheira-Brown, Pablo; Selaive, Jorge; Nolazco, Jose Luis (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
      We explore the ability of core inflation to predict headline CPI annual inflation for a sample of eight developing economies in Latin America over the period January 1995–May 2017. Our in-sample and out-of-sample results ...
    • Riquelme, N.; Zúñiga, R. N.; Arancibia, C. (Academic Press, 2019)
      Consumer demand for ‘natural’ products has led the food industry to substitute synthetic ingredients with others of natural origin. Nanoemulsions are thermodynamically unstable systems, so an emulsifier is necessary to ...
    • Doraszelski, Ulrich; Escobar, Juan F. (Society for Economic Theory, 2019)
      Copyright © 2019 The Authors.We characterize a class of dynamic stochastic games that we call separable dynamic games with noisy transitions and establish that these widely used models are protocol invariant provided that ...
    • Flores, K.; López, Z.; Levicoy, D.; Muñoz Ramírez, Carlos; González Wevar, Claudio; Oliva, M. E.; Cárdenas, L. (Springer Verlag, 2019)
      In the Southern Ocean, many parasites of vertebrates (mainly helminth groups) have been recognized as endemic species, but parasites of marine invertebrates remain almost unknown. It is reasonable to assume that digenean ...
    • Farhang-Sahlevani, Saeed; Pandiyarajan, Thangaraj; Sanhueza, Felipe; Akbari-Fakhrabadi, Ali; Mansilla, Héctor D.; Contreras, David; Mangalaraja, Ramalinga Viswanathan; Gracia-Pinilla, M. A. (Springer New York LLC, 2019)
      Synthesis of CeO2, ZnO, and CeO2 nanocubes decorated on the surface of ZnO ovals via a simple hydrothermal method was investigated. The crystalline nature and purity of CeO2, ZnO and CeO2 decorated ZnO were confirmed through ...
    • Massone, Leonardo M.; Herrera, Pablo A. (Springer Netherlands, 2019)
      Reinforcing bars removed from structural walls that belonged to a damaged building during the 2010 earthquake in Chile are studied under low-cycle fatigue testing. Damage of such walls was characterized by concrete crushing ...
    • Silva-Roquefort, Rebeca; Gaete-Reyes, Mariela; Campos-Medina, Luis (Universidad Austral de Chile, 2019)
      This article aims at revealing the state of the art of inclusivity in the Chilean urban-housing sphere, as well as suggesting its relevance for the construction of fairer cities. For such purpose, the methodological strategy ...
    • Fuentes Villalobos, Francisco; Farkas, Carlos; Riquelme Barrios, Sebastián; Armijo, Marisol E.; Soto Rifo, Ricardo; Pincheira, Roxana; Castro, Ariel F. (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
      Variation in Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) increases the risk for neurodegenerative diseases, schizophrenia, and other mental disorders. However, the functions of DISC1 associated with the development of these ...
    • Villalobos, Elisa; Criollo Céspedes, Alfredo; Schiattarella, Gabriele G.; Altamirano, Francisco; French, Kristin M.; May, Herman I.; Jiang, Nan; Nguyen, Ngoc Uyen Nhi; Romero, Diego; Roa, Juan Carlos; García Nannig, Lorena; Díaz Araya, Guillermo; Morselli, Eugenia; Ferdous, Anwarul (NLM (Medline), 2019)
      BACKGROUND: The primary cilium is a singular cellular structure that extends from the surface of many cell types and plays crucial roles in vertebrate development, including that of the heart. Whereas ciliated cells have ...
    • Garrido-Moreno, Valeria; Díaz Vegas, Alexis; López Crisosto, Camila; Troncoso, Mayarling Francisca; Navarro Márquez, Mario F.; García Nannig, Lorena; Estrada, Manuel; Cifuentes, Mariana; Lavandero González, Sergio (Academic Press, 2019)
      Growth differentiation factor 11 (GDF11) is a novel factor with controversial effects on cardiac hypertrophy both in vivo and in vitro. Although recent evidence has corroborated that GDF11 prevents the development of cardiac ...
    • Alfaro, Felipe; Navarro, Víctor M.; Laborda, Mario A.; Betancourt, Ronald; Miguez, Gonzalo (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2019)
      Two experiments analyzed the role of extinction cues (EC) and stimuli associated to them in the reacquisition of conditioned ethanol tolerance. Ethanol-induced ataxia was measured in 80 rat subjects using a tilting plane, ...
    • Loguercio, A. D.; Rezende, M.; Gutierrez, M. F.; Costa, T. F.; Armas-Vega, A.; Reis, A. (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      Objective: The aim of this double blind, randomized controlled trial was to evaluate the 36-month clinical performance of the layering technique (incremental [IF] vs. bulk-fill [BF]) in posterior composite resin restorations ...
    • Carreras-Sureda, Amado; Jaña, Fabián; Urra, Hery; Durand, Sylvere; Mortenson, David E.; Sagredo, Alfredo; Bustos, Galdo; Hazari, Younis; Ramos-Fernández, Eva; Sassano, Maria L.; Pihán, Philippe; van Vliet, Alexander R.; González-Quiroz, Matías; Torres, Angie K.; Tapia- (Nature Publishing Group, 2019)
      Mitochondria-associated membranes (MAMs) are central microdomains that fine-tune bioenergetics by the local transfer of calcium from the endoplasmic reticulum to the mitochondrial matrix. Here, we report an unexpected ...
    • Daniels, Harry; Tse, Hau Ming; Ortega Ferrand, Lorena; Stables, Andrew; Cox, Sarah (Routledge, 2019)
      This article is concerned with the influences that are brought to bear on the design of school buildings and the effects that the design of these buildings have on those who teach and learn in them. The article also focuses ...
    • Poblete-Christie, Octavio; López, Mauricio; Muñoz, Loreto (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2019)
      This study was aimed at analyzing, based on the participating teachers' emotional experience, the meanings constructed by them regarding the task of responding to diversity. To do this, the researchers analyzed 12 interviews ...
    • Rajivgandhi, Govindan; Maruthupandy, Muthuchamy; Quero, Franck; Li, Wen Jun (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      The synthesis of nickel oxide nanoparticles (NiO NPs)and graphene/nickel oxide nanocomposites (Gr/NiO NCs)was performed using a simple chemical reduction method. Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD)and thermogravimetric analysis ...
    • Viguier, Benoît; Jourde, Hervé; Leonardi, Véronique; Daniele, Linda; Batiot-Guilhe, Christelle; Favreau, Guillaume; De Montety, Véronique (Academic Press, 2019)
      In the hyperarid Atacama Desert (Northern Chile), the economic and social development is supported using fossil groundwater. The groundwater extraction (GWE)has significantly increased over the last 30 years, reaching ∼4.2 ...