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    • Farías Nazel, Pablo (Taylor and Francis, 2017)
      The factors that influence electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) in social networking sites (SNSs) in Latin American countries still need to be understood. This paper looks at factors included by prior research, as well as two ...
    • Laengle Scarlazetta, Sigifredo; Loyola Fuentes, Gino; Merigó Lindahl, José (IEEE, 2017)
      Portfolio selection is the theory that studies the pro-cess of selecting the optimal proportion of different assets. The firstapproach was introduced by Harry Markowitz and was based ona mean-variance framework. This paper ...
    • Cancino del Castillo, Christian; Zurita Alarcón, Gustavo (Springer, 2017)
      Increasingly more companies support their strategies and value propositions offering their clients some services that require physical mobility and teamwork by their staff. This article proposes a type of Location-based ...
    • Castillo, Rodrigo L. (Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2017)
      © 2017 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Hypoxia is a pathophysiological condition associated with several responses at the cardiovascular, pulmonary and vascular levels, which may develop into chronic diseases. This is relevant ...
    • Lo Vecchio, Andrea; Liguoro, Ilaria; Dias, Jorge Amil; Berkley, James A.; Boey, Chris; Cohen, Mitchell B.; Cruchet, Sylvia; Salazar-Lindo, Eduardo; Podder, Samir; Sandhu, Bhupinder; Sherman, Philip M.; Shimizu, Toshiaki; Guarino, Alfredo (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)
      © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Background Rotavirus (RV) is a major agent of gastroenteritis and an important cause of child death worldwide. Immunization (RVI) has been available since 2006, and the Federation of International ...
    • Bórquez Quintas, Margarita; Contreras, María P.; Vivaldi Véjar, Ennio; Born, Jan; Inostroza, Marión (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2017)
      Operant extinction is learning to supress a previously rewarded behavior. It is known to be strongly associated with the specific context in which it was acquired, which limits the therapeutic use of operant extinction ...
    • Sastry, Sangeeta; Masroor, Nadia; Bearman, Gonzalo; Hajjeh, Rana; Holmes, Alison; Memish, Ziad; Lassmann, Britta; Pittet, Didier; Macnab, Fiona; Kamau, Rachel; Wesangula, Evelyn; Pokharel, Paras; Brown, Paul; Daily, Frances; Amer, Fatma; Torres, Jaime; O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel; Gun (Elsevier B.V., 2017)
      © 2017 The Author(s) Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are a major concern to healthcare systems around the world. They are associated with significant morbidity and mortality, in addition to increased hospitalization ...
    • Romero Dapueto, Carolina; Castillo, Rodrigo L. (Nova Science, 2017)
      Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is one of the most frequently studied entities of lung injury due to its prevalence in the Units of critically ill patients, because of their varied etiology and its evolution, ...
    • Algarin, Cecilia; Karunakaran, Keerthana Deepti; Reyes, Sussanne; Morales, Cristian; Lozoff, Betsy; Peirano, Patricio; Biswal, Bharat (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2017)
      © 2017 Algarin, Karunakaran, Reyes, Morales, Lozoff, Peirano and Biswal. Iron deficiency continues to be the most prevalent micronutrient deficit worldwide. Since iron is involved in several processes including myelination, ...
    • Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis; Lares Asseff, Ismael (Nova Science, 2017)
      In Latin America the Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics areas are recently emerging fields and the main focus of the research is to evaluate ethnic differences to apply adapted guidelines to manage personalized ...
    • Varela Figueroa, Nelson; Bernal, Fernando (Nova Science, 2017)
      AIDS is caused by infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which when untreated produces a critical decline in CD4+ T cells, triggering a progressive dysfunction of the immune system and the development of ...
    • Ortiz L., Lina; Moreno, Mauricio; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis (Nova Science, 2017)
      Although pharmacogenomics has had a good development in most of medical specialties, in Psychiatry has been particularly successful. Thus, it is extremely useful in psychiatric patients, given how common is the use of ...
    • Tobar Bachler, Nicolás; Porras Espinoza, Omar; Smith, Patricio C.; Barros, L. Felipe; Martínez, Jorge (Wiley, 2017)
      Hyperglycemia is a risk factor for a variety of human cancers. Increased access to glucose and that tumor metabolize glucose by a glycolyticprocess even in the presence of oxygen (Warburg effect), provide a framework to ...
    • Torrealba, Natalia; Aranguiz, Pablo; Alonso, Camila; Rothermel, Beverly A.; Lavandero González, Sergio (Springer New York LLC, 2017)
      © 2017, Springer International Publishing AG. The heart must function continuously as it is responsible for both supplying oxygen and nutrients throughout the entire body, as well as for the transport of waste products to ...
    • Apt Baruch, Werner (Elsevier, 2017)
      Although Chagas disease has existed for at least 9000 years, its treatment is recent: the internationally accepted drugs nifurtimox and benznidazole date from the 1970s. Both drugs are effective in acute cases, in congenital ...
    • Redal, María A.; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis (Nova Science, 2017)
      The ultimate goal of pharmacogenomic research is to predict individual's responses to drug therapy and subsequently adapt pharmacotherapeutic strategies. Therefore, the current challenge for personalized therapy is to ...
    • Capurro, Daniel; Echeverry, Aisen; Figueroa, Rosa; Guiñez, Sergio; Taramasco, Carla; Galindo, César; Avendaño, Angélica; García, Alejandra; Hartel, Steffen (IOS, 2017)
      Despite the continuous technical advancements around health information standards, a critical component to their widespread adoption involves political agreement between a diverse set of stakeholders. Countries that ...
    • Torres, Viviana; Cerda, Mauricio; Knaup, Petra; Löpprich, Martin (IOS, 2016)
      PURPOSE: An important part of the electronic information available in Hospital Information System (HIS) has the potential to be automatically exported to Electronic Data Capture (EDC) platforms for improving clinical ...
    • Roco A., Ángela M.; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis; Miranda, Carla E. (Nova Science, 2017)
      Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the number one cause of death globally. Most cardiovascular diseases can be prevented by addressing behavioral risk factors such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet and obesity, physical ...
    • Cayún, Juan P.; Miranda, Carla E.; Lavanderos, Alejandra; Martínez, Matías F.; Escalante, Paula I.; Suárez, Marcelo I.; Cerro, Roberto A.; Sandoval, Christopher A.; Cerpa, Leslie C.; Moreno, Paulina A. (Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2017)
      © 2011 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.In South America, in recent years, some studies have established allelic frequencies of the most relevant pharmacogenes. Several studies in South America have ...