Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifícas, 2019)The idea of meritocracy is related to the distribution of goods and rewards based on individual talent and effort, being a principle that legitimizes the unequal distribution of resources in modern societies. Despite the ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2019)Background Conventional nonresisted therapeutic exercises for people with hemophilia involve a careful, low-intensity approach to avoid injuries. Externally resisted exercise is highly efficient for increasing muscle ...
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(Blackwell, 2019)The impact of urbanization on groundwater is not simple to understand, as it depends on a variety of factors such as climate, hydrogeology, water management practices, and infrastructure. In semiarid landscapes, the ...
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(MDPI Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019)Objectives: The aim of the present randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-arm study was to examine the effectiveness of a sub-antimicrobial dose of doxycycline (SDD) in combination with nonsurgical periodontal ...
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(National Academy of Sciences, 2019)A warming climate will affect regional precipitation and hence food supply. However, only a few regions around the world are currently undergoing precipitation changes that can be attributed to climate change. Knowing when ...
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(Academic Press Inc., 2019)In order to develop a method of identification and discrimination of Echinococcus granulosus sensu stricto from faecal samples of dogs infected with taeniid eggs (Echinococcus spp., Taenia spp.), a combined strategy of ...
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(Springer Verlag, 2019)Calbuco volcano is a Late Pleistocene composite stratovolcano and member of the Southern Volcanic Zone of the Chilean Andes (41°19′S, 72°36′W). It lies ~ 20 km west of the Liquiñe–Ofqui Fault Zone, but is not located ...
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(Routledge, 2019)We propose a ‘1-to-1’ accompaniment and teaching development model emerging from the analysis and reflection of professional experience at a Teaching and Learning Center in a Chilean university. We highlight the relevance ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2019)Candida albicans is commensal yeast that colonizes skin and mucosa; however, it can become an opportunist pathogen by changing from blastoconidia (commensal form) into hypha (pathogenic form). Each form activates a different ...
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(National Academy of Sciences, 2019)Belowground organisms play critical roles in maintaining multiple ecosystem processes, including plant productivity, decomposition, and nutrient cycling. Despite their importance, however, we have a limited understanding ...
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(Elsevier B.V., 2019)Chagas disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi. Vector survival is an important variable affecting vectorial capacity to determine parasite transmission risk. The aims of this study are to evaluate vector survival under ...
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(BioMed Central, 2019)Background: Emerging researchers in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) face many barriers, including inadequacies in funding, international exposure and mentorship. In 2012, the National Institute of Mental Health ...
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(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2019)In aerospace applications, a ground power unit has to provide balanced and sinusoidal 400 Hz phase-to-neutral voltages to unbalanced and nonlinear single-phase loads. Compensation of high-order harmonics is complex, as the ...
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(Springer, 2019)Records of extreme altitudes where several coccinellid species from South America inhabit the Andes of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru are provided. After an intensive review of several entomological ...
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(Elsevier B.V., 2019)In this study, a novel environmentally-friendly approach was developed to overcome certain limitations in the analysis of solid food samples. An experimental setup based on solid-phase microextraction apparatus coupled to ...
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(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)Objetive: To evaluate Neosaxitoxin (NeoSTX) as a local anesthetic drug, for pain control during and after piglet castration. Study design: Prospective, randomized and double-blind study. Animals: 24 commercial hybrids, ...
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(Frontiers Media S.A., 2019)Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), collectively known as Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD), are caused by a complex interplay between genetic, immunologic, microbial and environmental factors. Dysbiosis of ...
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(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)It is common practice to build Stated Preference (SP) attributes and alternatives from observed Revealed Preference (RP) choices with a view to increasing realism. While many surveys pivot all alternatives around an observed ...
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(Routledge, 2019)The relationship between theory and qualitative research has been extensively examined in the literature and has emerged as a problematic matter. This debate has been driven forward mainly in Anglo-Saxon countries and has ...
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(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019)We present a model of the electrical resistivity structure of the lithosphere in the Central Andes between 20° and 24°S from 3-D inversion of 56 long-period magnetotelluric sites. Our model shows a complex resistivity ...
