Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions

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    • On the effectiveness of ventilation to mitigate the damage of spherical chambers subjected to confined ... 
      Hernández, Francisco; Hao, Hong; Zhang, Xihong (SAGE, 2019)
      This article presents a comparative study on the effectiveness of ventilation to mitigate blasting effects on chambers subjected to confined detonations of high explosives. The pressure time-history that acts on the chamber ...
    • Comparing vector competence of Mepraia gajardoi and Triatoma infestans by genotyping Trypanosoma cruzi ... 
      Sandoval Rodríguez, Alejandra; Rojo, Gemma; López, Angélica; Ortiz, Sylvia; Saavedra, Miguel; Botto Mahan, Carezza; Cattan Ayala, Pedro; Solari, Aldo (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
      © 2018 Elsevier B.V. Chagas disease is a vector-borne disease caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, and transmitted by triatomine insects to several mammal species. In Chile, the wild triatomine species are the endemic ...
    • Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Nacella limpets reveal novel evolutionary characteristics of mitochondrial ... 
      Gaitán-Espitia, Juan D.; González Wevar, Claudio; Poulin, Elie; Cardenas, Leyla (Academic Press Inc., 2019)
      © 2018 Elsevier Inc. Mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) provide valuable phylogenetic information and genome-level characters that are useful in resolving evolutionary relationships within major lineages of gastropods. ...
    • Outcome measures for pediatric laryngotracheal reconstruction: International consensus statement 
      Balakrishnan, Karthik; Sidell, Douglas R.; Bauman, Nancy M.; Bellia-Munzon, Gaston F.; Boesch, R. Paul; Bromwich, Matthew; Cofer, Shelagh A.; Daines, Cori; Alarcón, Alessandro de; Garabedian, Nöel; Hart, Catherine K.; Ida, Jonathan B.; Leboulanger, Nicolás; Manning, P.; Mehta, Deepak K.; Monnier, Philippe; Myer, Charles M.; Prager, Jeremy D.; Preciado, Diego; Propst, Evan J.; Rahbar, Reza; Russell, John; Rutter, Michael J.; Thierry, Briac; Thompson, Dana M.; Torre, Michele; Varela, Patricio; Vijayasekaran, Shyan; White, David R.; Wineland, Andre M.; Wood, Robert E.; Wootten, Christopher T.; Zur, Karen; Cotton, Robin T. (John Wiley and Sons, 2019)
      Objectives: Develop multidisciplinary and international consensus on patient, disease, procedural, and perioperative factors, as well as key outcome measures and complications, to be reported for pediatric airway reconstruction ...
    • Exploring atmospheric stagnation during a severe particulate matter air pollution episode over complex ... 
      Toro A, Richard; Kvakić, Marko; Klaić, Zvjezdana B.; Koračin, Darko; Morales S, Raúl G.E.; Leiva G, Manuel A. (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      © 2018 Elsevier LtdA severe air quality degradation event occurred in the Santiago Metropolitan Area (SMA), Chile, in June 2014. Meteorological and air quality measurements from 11 stations in the area as well as numerical ...
    • Analysis of Availability and Access of Anti-myeloma Drugs and Impact on the Management of Multiple Myeloma ... 
      Pessoa de Magalhães Filho, Roberto José; Crusoe, Edvan; Riva, Eloisa; Bujan, Willen; Conte, Guilhermo; Navarro Cabrera, Juan Ramon; Garcia, Diana Katerine; Vega, Guilhermo Quintero; Macias, Jose; Oliveros Alvear, Jose Willian; Royg, Mercedes; Neves, Lidiane Andino (Elsevier Inc., 2019)
      © 2018 Elsevier Inc. Latin American countries represents a large fraction of patients who are treated for multiple myeloma in the world and difficulties of access to new agents and real-world practice are important issues. ...
    • International assessment of inter- and intrarater reliability of the International Frontal Sinus Anatomy ... 
      Villarreal, Ricardo; Wrobel, Bozena B.; Macias-Valle, Luis F.; Davis, Greg E.; Prihoda, Thomas J.; Luong, Amber U.; McMains, K. Christopher; Weitzel, Erik K.; Yao, William C.; Brunworth, Joe; Clark, David W.; Nair, Salil; Valdés, Constanza J.; Halderman, Ashleigh; Jang, Yangsoo (John Wiley, 2018)
      Background: Inconsistencies in the nomenclature of struc tures of the frontal sinus have impeded the development of a validated “reference standard” classification system that surgeons can reliably agree upon. The ...
    • Novel Alpha-Synuclein Oligomers Formed with the Aminochrome-Glutathione Conjugate Are Not Neurotoxic 
      Huenchuguala, Sandro; Sjödin, Birgitta; Mannervik, Bengt; Segura-Aguilar, Juan (Springer New York LLC, 2019)
      © 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.Aminochrome induces neurotoxic alpha-synuclein oligomer formation relevant to the etiology of Parkinson’s disease. Oxidative stress produces aminochrome ...
    • From Snapshots to Movies: The Association Between Retirement Sequences and Aging Trajectories in Limitations ... 
      Azar, Ariel; Staudinger, Ursula M.; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea; Madero-Cabib, Ignacio; Calvo, Esteban (SAGE, 2019)
      Objective: This study analyzes the dynamic association between retirement sequences and activities of daily living (ADLs) trajectories between ages 60 and 70. Method: Retirement sequences previously established for 7,880 ...
    • Seasonal modulation of the adrenocortical stress responses in Chilean populations of Zonotrichia capensis 
      Clark, Aaron D.; Addis, Elizabeth; Vásquez, Rodrigo A.; Wingfield, John C. (Springer Verlag, 2019)
      © 2018, Dt. Ornithologen-Gesellschaft e.V. To persist in a landscape, organisms are often faced with evolutionary tradeoffs between individual survival and reproduction. In environments where breeding opportunities are ...
    • First trimester screening for preterm and term pre-eclampsia by maternal characteristics and biophysical ... 
      Sepúlveda Martínez, Alvaro; Rencoret, Gustavo; Silva, María C.; Ahumada, Paz; Pedraza, Daniel; Muñoz, Hernán; Valdés, Enrique; Parra Cordero, Mauro (Blackwell, 2019)
      AIM: To develop a combined predictive model for preterm and term pre-eclampsia (PE) during the first trimester of pregnancy.
    • Revisiting the relationship between longevity and lifetime education: global evidence from 919 surveys 
      Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, Claudio E.; Orazem, Peter F. (Springer New York LLC, 2019)
      © 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. The contrasting results from previous research motivate this reexamination of the longevity-schooling relationship. The study uses a different identification ...
    • Research on green supply chain: a bibliometric analysis 
      Amirbagheri, Keivan; Núñez Carballosa, Ana; Guitart Tarrés, Laura; Merigó Lindahl, José (Springer, 2019)
      Recently, the emergent concept of green supply chain has received increasing attention. Although popular among scholars, many literature reviews have only examined GSC from a general point of view or focused on a specific ...
    • Effect of breathing type on electromyographic activity of respiratory muscles during tooth clenching at ... 
      Miralles Lozano, Rodolfo; Gamboa Caicha, Natalia; Gutiérrez Reyes, Mario; Santander, Hugo; Valenzuela Fernández, Saúl; Bull Simpfendorfer, Ricardo; Fuentes del Campo, Aler; Córdova Mella, Rosa (Taylor and Francis, 2019)
      Objective: To compare the effect of breathing type on electromyographic (EMG) activity of respiratory muscles during tooth clenching at different decubitus positions. Methods: Forty young men participants were included, ...
    • Twenty years of Soft Computing: a bibliometric overview 
      Merigó Lindahl, José; Cobo, Manuel J.; Laengle Scarlazetta, Sigifredo; Rivas, Daniela; Herrera Viedma, Enrique (Springer, 2019)
      The journal Soft Computing was launched in 1997, and it is dedicated to promote advancements in soft computing theories, which includes fuzzy sets theory, neural networks, evolutionary computation, probabilistic reasoning ...
    • Do tax cuts encourage rent seeking by top corporate executives? Theory and evidence 
      Andersen, Dana C.; López Vega, Ramón (Blackwell, 2019)
      This paper explores the role of tax policy in shaping incentives for executive effort(labor supply) and rent seeking within the firm. We develop a theoretical model thatdistinguishes between effort and rent-seeking responses ...
    • Conformational and physicochemical properties of quinoa proteins affected by different conditions of ... 
      Vera, A.; Valenzuela, M. A.; Yazdani-Pedram Zobeiri, Mehrdad; Tapia, C.; Abugoch James, Lilian (Elsevier, 2019)
      Quinoa proteins (QP) have promise as a potential source of novel food ingredients, and it is of great interest to know how high-intensity ultrasound (HIUS) treatments affect the properties of QP. This work aimed to study ...
    • The sonic application of universal adhesives in self-etch mode improves their performance on enamel 
      Muñoz, M. A.; Luque Martínez, I.; Hass, V.; Gutiérrez Reyes, Mario; Reis, A.; Loguercio, A. D. (Elsevier, 2019)
      The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of sonic application of universal adhesives on the enamel microshear bond strengths (SBS), in situ degree of conversion (DC) and etching pattern. Ninety-six extracted ...
    • Maternal transfer of anti HPV 6 and 11 antibodies upon immunization with the 9-valent HPV vaccine 
      Guevara, Ana María; Suárez Pacheco, Eugenio; Victoria, Alejandro; Ngan, Hextan Y.S.; Hirschberg, Angélica Lindén; Fedrizzi, Edison; Bautista, Oliver; Shields, Christine; Joshi, Amita; Luxembourg, Alain (Taylor and Francis, 2019)
      Background: This exploratory analysis was conducted to characterize the level of HPV types 6/11 antibodies in peripartum maternal blood and in cord blood of infants born to women who received 9-valent HPV (9vHPV) vaccine ...
    • Knowledge management: A global examination based on bibliometric analysis 
      Gaviria Marín, Magaly; Merigó Lindahl, José; Baier Fuentes, Hugo (Elsevier, 2019)
      Knowledge management (KM) is a field of research that has gained wide acceptance in the scientific community and management literature. This article presents a bibliometric overview of the academic research on KM in the ...