Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions

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    • Review shows that parental reassurance and nutritional advice help to optimise the management of functional ... 
      Salvatore, Silvia; Abkari, Abdelhak; Cai, Wei; Catto-Smith, Anthony; Cruchet Muñoz, Sylvia; Gottrand, Frederic; Hegar, Badriul; Lifschitz, Carlos; Ludwig, Thomas; Shah, Neil; Staiano, Annamaria; Szajewska, Hania; Treepongkaruna, Suporn; Vandenplas, Yvan (Blackwell, 2018)
      Aim: Regurgitation, infantile colic and functional constipation are common functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) during infancy. Our aim was to carry out a concise review of the literature, evaluate the impact of ...
    • Universal Recommendations for the Management of Acute Diarrhea in Nonmalnourished Children 
      Guarino, Alfredo; Lo Vecchio, Andrea; Amil Dias, Jorge; Berkley, James A.; Boey, Chris; Bruzzese, Dario; Cohen, Mitchell B.; Cruchet Muñoz, Sylvia; Liguoro, Ilaria; Salazar Lindo, Eduardo; Sandhu, Bhupinder; Sherman, Philip M.; Shimizu, Toshiaki (Lippincott Williams, 2018)
      Objective: Despite a substantial consistency in recommendations for the management of children with acute gastroenteritis (AGE), a high variability in clinical practice and a high rate of inappropriate medical interventions ...
    • Gestational weight gain recommendations for Chilean women: a mathematical optimization approach 
      Garmendia Miguel, María Luisa; Matus, O.; Mondschein, S.; Kusanovic, J. P. (Elsevier, 2018)
      Objectives: We examined if the guidelines for gestational weight gain (GWG) proposed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) are the most suitable for Chilean women. Study design: Secondary analysis of records of single ...
    • Results of liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma in a multicenter latin American cohort study 
      Piñero, Federico; Costa, Paulo; Boteon, Yuri L.; Hoyos Duque, Sergio; Marciano, Sebastian; Anders, Margarita; Varón, Adriana; Zerega, Alina; Poniachik Teller, Jaime; Soza, Alejandro; Padilla Machaca, Martín; Menéndez, Josemaría; Zapata, Rodrigo; Vilatoba, Mario; Muñoz, Linda; Maraschio, Martín; Fauda, Martín; McCormack, Lucas; Gadano, Adrián; Boin, Ilka; Parente García, José; Silva, Marcelo (Mexican Assoc Hepatology, 2018)
      Background and aims. Background and aims. He Background and aims. terogeneous data has been reported regarding liver transplantation (LT) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Latin America. We aimed to describe treatment ...
    • Topical Application of Connexin43 Hemichannel Blocker Reduces Carotid Body-Mediated Chemoreflex Drive in Rats 
      Andrade, David C.; Iturriaga, Rodrigo; Toledo, Camilo; Lucero, Claudia M.; Díaz, Hugo S.; Arce-Álvarez, Alexis; Retamal, Mauricio A.; Marcus, Noah J.; Alcayaga Urbina, Julio; Del Rio, Rodrigo (Springer New York LLC, 2018)
      © 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature. The carotid body (CB) is the main arterial chemoreceptor involved in oxygen sensing. Upon hypoxic stimulation, CB chemoreceptor cells release ...
    • Acute Effects of Systemic Erythropoietin Injections on Carotid Body Chemosensory Activity Following Hypoxic ... 
      Andrade, David C.; Iturriaga, Rodrigo; Jeton, Florine; Alcayaga Urbina, Julio; Voituron, Nicolas; Del Rio, Rodrigo (Springer New York LLC, 2018)
      © 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature. The carotid body (CB) chemoreceptors sense changes in arterial blood gases. Upon stimulation CB chemoreceptors cells release one or more transmitters ...
    • In situ antimicrobial behavior of materials with copper-based additives in a hospital environment 
      Palza Cordero, Humberto; Nuñez, Mauricio; Bastías, Roberto; Delgado, Katherine (Elsevier, 2018)
      Copper and its alloys are effective antimicrobial surface materials in the laboratory and in clinical trials. Copper has been used in the healthcare setting to reduce environmental contamination, and thus prevent healt ...
    • Age-dependent saccadic models for predicting eye movements 
      Le Meur, Olivier; Coutrot, Antoine; Le Roch, Adrien; Helo, Andrea; Rama, Pia; Liu, Zhi (IEEE Computer Society, 2018)
      © 2017 IEEE. How people look at visual information reveals fundamental information about themselves, their interests and their state of mind. While previous visual attention models output static 2-dimensional saliency maps, ...
    • Memory sites: Visiting experiences in Santiago de Chile 
      Piper Shafir, Isabel; Montenegro, Marisela; Fernández, Roberto; Sepúlveda, Mauricio (SAGE, 2018)
      Studies on Chilean memory sites have focused on the spaces created to remember the human rights abuses carried out during the dictatorship. However, the ways in which people experience and appropriate these readings of the ...
    • Group affiliation and ownership concentration as determinants of capital structure decisions: contextualizing ... 
      Saona, Paolo; San Martín, Pablo; Jara Bertín, Mauricio (Routledge, 2018)
      This study considers the firm’s affiliation with business groups and the ownership structure as determinants of leverage decisions in Chilean firms. The major findings show that group-affiliated firms take advantage of ...
    • Dilemmas and Conflicts of Various Professional Roles within a Human Service Agency 
      Sanfuentes Astaburuaga, Matías; Espinoza, Thiare; Navarro, Bárbara (Wiley, 2018)
      The purpose of this article is to analyze the workplaceexperience of three groups of professionals at the ChileanNational Service for Minors (Servicio Nacional de Menores,SENAME) through the study of the tensions and ...
    • Performance pay and catering incentives 
      Marcet Orellana, Francisco (Elsevier, 2018)
      This paper explores how boards of directors design executive compensation to cater to investor demand. Following the literature of catering incentives and using a comprehensive dataset of accounting-based performance goals, ...
    • Findings when converting a summative evaluation instrument to a formative one through collaborative learning ... 
      Zurita Alarcón, Gustavo; Baloian Tataryan, Nelson; Jerez, Óscar; Peñafiel, Sergio; Pino Urtubia, José (Springer, 2018)
      Although illiteracy has been in constant decline over the last decades,there are too many reports about people having problems to identify the mainideas contained in texts they read. Reading comprehension is essential for ...
    • El efecto de los advergames, los banners y el tipo de usuario sobre la actitud hacia la marca y la intención ... 
      Farías Nazel, Pablo (Fundacao Escola de Comercio Alvares Penteado, 2018)
      Objetivos – Esta investigación busca analizar la efectividad de los advergames en comparación con los banners. Asimismo, se pretende analizar si el tipo de usuario (alguien que solo navega casualmente por Internet vs. ...
    • Logarithmic aggregation operators and distance measures 
      Alfaro Garcia, Victor G.; Merigó Lindahl, José; Gil Lafuente, Anna María; Kacprzyk, Janusz (Wiley, 2018)
      The Hamming distance is a well-known measure that isdesigned to provide insights into the similarity betweentwo strings of information. In this study, we use the Ham-ming distance, the optimal deviation model, and the ...
    • Misreporting, optimal incentives, and auditing 
      Loyola Fuentes, Gino; Portilla, Yolanda (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)
      We propose a model that rationalizes the adoption of a misreporting system allowing managerial earning manipulation. A key element of our approach is the possibility of a tacit collusion between the board and the top ...
    • A bibliometric analysis of venture capital research 
      Cancino del Castillo, Christian; Merigó Lindahl, José; Torres, Juan P.; Díaz Solís, David (Emerald, 2018)
      Purpose: The purpose of this study is to present the evolution of academic research in venture capital (VC) research between 1990 and 2014. Design/methodology/approach: The study analyzes the most influential journals in ...
    • The effects of ownership structure and intragroup loans on leverage: evidence from family firms in Chile 
      Barría Jara, Mauricio Adrián; Pinto Gutiérrez, Cristian; Núñez, Paula (Routledge, 2018)
      This article examines the effects of family control and pyramidal ownership on firms’ capital structure decisions. After studying a sample of listed family and nonfamily firms in Chile, we find that families take a ...
    • Weighted-selective aggregated majority-OWA operator and its application in linguistic group decision making 
      Yusoff, Binyamin; Merigó Lindahl, José; Ceballos, David; Peláez, José I. (Wiley, 2018)
      This paper focuses on the aggregation operations inthe group decision-making model based on the conceptof majority opinion. The weighted-selective aggregatedmajority-OWA (WSAM-OWA) operator is proposed as anextension of ...
    • Micro-entrepreneurship Debt Level and Access to Credit: Short-Term Impacts of a Financial Literacy Program 
      Martínez A., Claudia; Puentes Encina, Esteban (Springer, 2018)
      Using a randomized control trial, we evaluated the effect of a financial literacy program on the level of debt and on formal access to credit in Chile. We use a sample of beneficiaries of a publicly run micro-entrepreneurship ...