Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions

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    • The interaction of aquatic organisms (Mytilus Sp.) with harmful algal blooms: Composition, distribution and ... 
      García, Carlos; Oyaneder Terrazas, Javiera; Figueroa, Diego; Díaz, Carolina; Mora, Romina; Contreras, Héctor R. (Nova Science, 2017)
      For years, marine resources have been an important part of human development due to the high nutritional contribution they possess. Mussels sp. are the most consumed species in the world. As a result of requirements and ...
    • Metabolic Syndrome and Mammographic Density in Premenopausal Chilean Women 
      Martínez Arroyo, Ángela; Moreno Macías, Hortensia; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana; Garmendia Miguel, María Luisa (Routledge, 2017)
      Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) has been previously associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Mammographic density (MD) is a marker of breast cancer risk. There is little evidence ...
    • Expression of MYD88 in Adipose Tissue of Obese People: Is There Some Role in the Development of Metabolic Syndrome? 
      Cuevas, Ada M.; Lazo, Mariana; Zúñiga, Isabel; Carrasco, Fernando; Potter, Jim J.; Álvarez, Verónica; Berry, Marcos; Maluenda, Fernando; Ferrario, Mario; Clark, Jeanne M. (Mary Ann Liebert, 2017)
      BACKGROUND: The mechanism leading to the development of metabolic complications in obese individuals is not fully understood. Thus, the objective of this study was to examine differences in insulin resistance, inflammation, ...
    • The human serum metabolome of vitamin B-12 deficiency and repletion, and associations with neurological ... 
      Brito, Álex; Grapov, Dmitry; Fahrmann, Johannes; Harvey, Danielle; Green, Ralph; Miller, Joshua W.; Fedosov, Sergey N.; Shahab-Ferdows, Setareh; Hampel, Daniela; Pedersen, Theresa L.; Fiehn, Oliver; Newman, John W.; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Allen, Lindsay H. (American Society for Nutrition, 2017)
      Background:The specific metabolomic perturbations that occur in vitamin B-12 deficiency, and their associations withneurological function, are not well characterized.Objective:We sought to characterize the human serum ...
    • Role of non-coding regulatory RNA in the virulence of human pathogenic vibrios 
      Pérez Reytor, Diliana; Plaza, Nicolás; Espejo, Romilio T.; Navarrete, Paola; Bastías, Roberto; García, Katherine (Frontiers Media, 2017)
      In recent decades, the identification of small non-coding RNAs in bacteria has revealed an important regulatory mechanism of gene expression involved in the response to environmental signals and to the control of virulence. ...
    • First-year metabolic control guidelines and their impact on future metabolic control and neurocognitive ... 
      Parra, Alicia de la; García, María Ignacia; Hamilton, Valerie; Arias Pefaur, Carolina; Cabello Andrade, Juan Francisco; Cornejo Espinoza, Verónica (Elsevier, 2017)
      There is a consensus on the importance of early and life-long treatment for PKU patients. Still, differences existon target blood phenylalanine (Phe) concentrations for children with PKU in different countries and ...
    • Anthropometric indicators as predictors of total body fat and cardiometabolic risk factors in Chilean ... 
      Vásquez, F. D.; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Kain Berkovic, Juliana (Nature, 2017)
      BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE:To compare the association between anthropometric indicators of global and central obesity aspredictors of total body fat (TBF) and cardiometabolic risk factors in children.SUBJECTS/METHODS:A total of ...
    • Pompe disease: Clinical perspectives 
      Cabello Andrade, Juan Francisco; Marsden, Deborah (Dove Medical, 2017)
      Pompe disease (acid alpha-glucosidase deficiency, OMIM 232300) is a rare lysosomal storage disorder due to autosomal recessive mutations in the GAA gene. It has also been called acid maltase deficiency and glycogen storage ...
    • Glucose Promotes a Pro-Oxidant and Pro-Inflammatory Stromal Microenvironment Which Favors Motile Properties ... 
      Kallens, Violeta; Tobar Bachler, Nicolás; Molina, Jessica; Bidegain, Arantzazú; Smith, Patricio C.; Porras Espinoza, Omar; Martínez, Jorge (Wiley, 2017)
      Chronic inflammation and metabolic reprogramming have been proposed as hallmarks of cancer development. Currently, many of the functional clues between these two phenomena are studied under the integrative view of functional ...
    • Acute effect of iloprost inhalation on right atrial function and ventricular dyssynchrony in patients with ... 
      Gabrielli, Luigi; Ocaranza, María Paz; Sitges, Marta; Kanacri, Andrés; Saavedra, Rodrigo; Sepúlveda, Pablo; Sepúlveda, Luis; Rossel, Víctor; Zagolin, Mónica; Verdejo, Hugo E.; Baraona, Fernando; Zalaquett Sepúlveda, Ricardo; Chiong Lay, Mario; Lavandero González, Sergio; Castro, Pablo F. (Blackwell, 2017)
      Background: Right atrium function and ventricular function have significant prognos-tic value in pulmonary arterial hypertension patients. Acute changes in right ventricu-lar synchrony and right atrium function postiloprost ...
    • Predictors of gestational weight gain among chilean pregnant women: the chilean maternal and infant nutrition ... 
      Garmendia Miguel, María Luisa; Mondschein, Susana; Matus, Omar; Murrugarra, Ruth; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (Taylor and Francis, 2017)
      We identified factors associated with gestational weight gain (GWG) in 1,654 Chilean pregnant women with full-term pregnancies. At baseline, we collected information about sociodemographic, gyneco-obstetric, anthropometric, ...
    • Spectral model for long-term computation of thermodynamics and potential evaporation in shallow wetlands 
      Fuente Stranger, Alberto de la; Meruane Naranjo, Carolina (Blackwell, 2017)
      Altiplanic wetlands are unique ecosystems located in the elevated plateaus of Chile, Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia. These ecosystems are under threat due to changes in land use, groundwater extractions, and climate change ...
    • Exploring the prominence of Romeo and Juliet's characters using weighted centrality measures 
      Masías, Víctor Hugo; Baldwin, Paula; Laengle Scarlazetta, Sigifredo; Vargas, Augusto; Crespo, Fernando A. (Oxford University, 2017)
      Why are Romeo and Juliet prominent characters in Shakespeare’s play of the samename? Contrary to what common sense might suggest, the academic literature does notprovide a unique answer to this question. Indeed, ...
    • Hydrochemistry of the hot spring fluids of Villarrica geothermal system in the andes of southern Chile 
      Held, Sebastián; Nitschke, Fabian; Schill, Eva; Morata Céspedes, Diego; Eiche, Elisabeth; Kohl, Thomas (Geothermal Resources Council, 2017)
      The Villarrica-Quetrupillán-Lanín volcanic chain is surrounded by > 20 hot springs, located on the flanks and in the valleys around the volcanos. The hot springs that are extensively used for spa purpose discharge thermal ...
    • Self-compensation in phosphorus-doped CdTe 
      Flores, Mauricio A.; Orellana, Walter; Menéndez Proupin, Eduardo (American Physical Society, 2017)
      We investigate the self-compensation mechanism in phosphorus-doped CdTe. The formation energies, charge transition levels, and defect states of several P-related point defects susceptible to cause self-compensation are ...
    • An alternative non-cooperative transmission scheme based on coded redundant information 
      Montejo Sánchez, Samuel; Azurdia Meza, César; Souza, Richard Demo; García Fernández, Evelio; Soto, Ismael; Rebelatto, João Luiz (IEEE, 2017)
      Some of the future wireless networks are related tothe provision of higher data rates and lower energy consumption.In contrast to the clear increasing spectrum demand, bandwidthis a limited resource. Cooperative ...
    • Analysis of the exponential linear pulse in baseband digital communication systems 
      Aranda Cubillo, Jaime; Azurdia Meza, César; Montejo Sánchez, Samuel; Maciel-Barboza, Fermín M.; Jirón, Ivan (IEEE, 2017)
      In digital communication systems the use of filters that fulfill the first Nyquist criterion (Nyquist-I), guarantees that a sequence of pulses will not be affected by inter-symbol interference (ISI) if the receiver ...
    • Extreme statistics of non-intersecting Brownian paths 
      Nguyen, Gia Bao; Remenik Zisis, Daniel (University of Washington, 2017)
      We consider finite collections of N non-intersecting Brownian paths on the line and on the half-line with both absorbing and reflecting boundary conditions (corresponding to Brownian excursions and reflected Brownian ...
    • Object equivalence: Revisiting object equality profiling (An experience report) 
      Infante, Alejandro; Bergel, Alexandre (Association for Computing Machinery, 2017)
      Modern object-oriented programming languages greatly alleviate the memory management for programmers. Despite the efficiency of garbage collection and Just-In-Time program analyzes, memory still remains prone to be wasted. ...
    • Akori: A tool based in eye-tracking techniques for analyzing web user behaviour on a web site 
      Vera, Felipe; Cortés, Víctor D.; Iturrra, Gabriel; Velásquez Silva, Juan; Maldonado Arbogast, Pedro; Couve Correa, Andrés (IEEE, 2017)
      As the use of the Internet grows every year, ecommerce’s usage does as well. There is a tough competition between companies to be able to attract customers to use their services.The design of a website is crucial to ...