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    • Savin, Alexander V.; Kivshar, Yuri S.; Molina Gálvez, Mario (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2018)
      © 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd.We study the electron transport in a deformable lattice modeled in the semiclassical approximation as a discrete nonlinear elastic chain where acoustic phonons are in thermal equilibrium at ...
    • Moreno Moncada, Patricio; Videla, Javiera; Valero-Garcés, Blas; Alloway, Brent V.; Heusser, Linda E. (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier Ltd We present a high-resolution precisely dated terrestrial paleovegetation/paleoclimate record from Lago Pichilaguna, northwestern Patagonia (40°–44°S), which spans continuously from the Last Glacial ...
    • Pfeiffer, Marco; Latorre, Claudio; Santoro, Calogero M.; Gayo, Eugenia M.; Rojas, Rodrigo; Carrevedo, María Laura; McRostie, Virginia B.; Finstad, Kari M.; Heimsath, Arjun; Jungers, Matthew C.; De Pol-Holz, Ricardo; Amundson, Ronald (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier LtdThe halite-encrusted salt pans (salars) present at low elevations in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile are unique features of one of the driest and possibly oldest deserts on ...
    • Rodríguez-Echeverry, James; Echeverría, Cristian; Oyarzún, Carlos; Morales, Luis (Universidad Austral de Chile, 2017)
      © 2017, Universidad Austral de Chile. All rights reserved. There is a need for a better understanding on how biodiversity and ecosystem services are spatially related and assess to what extent the conservation of biodiversity ...
    • Lillo-Ortega, Gloria; Aldunce Ide, Paulina; Adler, Carolina; Vidal, Marcela; Rojas, Maisa (Springer Tokyo, 2018)
      © 2018, Springer Japan KK, part of Springer Nature. A severe drought has affected central Chile since 2009. Various adaptation responses have been developed, and a participatory process is required to learn from them. To ...
    • Robles, Andrés; Franco Pérez, Marco; Gázquez, José L.; Cárdenas, Carlos; Fuentealba Rosas, Patricio (Springer Verlag, 2018)
      © 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. In this work some possibilities for deriving a local electrophilicity are studied. First, we consider the original definition proposed by Chattaraj, Maiti, and ...
    • González Gómez, Paulina L.; Echeverria, Valentina; Estades Marfán, Cristián; Pérez, Jonathan H.; Krause, Jesse S.; Sabat Opazo, Pablo; Li, Jonathon; Kültz, Dietmar; Wingfield, John C. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 The Authors. Journal of Animal Ecology © 2018 British Ecological Society The timing and duration of life-history stages (LHSs) within the annual cycle can be affected by local environmental cues which are integrated ...
    • Edwards, Sandra Sofía; Delgado, María Graciela; Nader, Guilherme Pedreira de Freitas; Piel, Matthieu; Bellaïche, Yohanns; Lennon Duménil, Ana María; Glavic Maurer, Álvaro (Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018Thanks to the power of Drosophila genetics, this animal model has been a precious tool for scientists to uncover key processes associated to innate immunity. The fly immune system relies on a population of macrophage-like ...
    • Lozano Muñoz, Ivonne; Wacyk, Jurij; Perez, Claudio; Carrasco, Jaime; Martin, Marcelo Cortez San (Springer Netherlands, 2018)
      © 2018, Springer Nature B.V. Pharmacotherapy has long been used to control viral diseases. However, its success is questionable because its use can negatively impact environmental and human health. An alternative solution ...
    • Vilches-Herrera, Marcelo; Concha-Puelles, Matias; Carvajal, Nicole; Molina, Juana; Santander, Rocio; Caroli Rezende, Marcos; Lühr, Susan (Elsevier B.V., 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier B.V. The correlation between the activity, regio- and chemoselectivity of Rh-diphosphine catalyst and the ligand bite natural angle (βn) in the syngas-free hydroformylation of allyl cyanide was investigated. ...
    • Bozkurt, Deniz; Rojas, Maisa; Boisier, Juan Pablo; Valdivieso, Jonás (Springer Netherlands, 2018)
      © 2018, Springer Nature B.V. This study examines the projections of hydroclimatic regimes and extremes over Andean basins in central Chile (∼ 30–40° S) under a low and high emission scenarios (RCP2.6 and RCP8.5, respectively). ...
    • Glade-Vargas, Nataly; Hinojosa Opazo, Luis; Leppe, Marcelo (Frontiers Media S.A., 2018)
      © 2018 Glade-Vargas, Hinojosa and Leppe. The current relationship between leaf traits and environmental variables has been widely used as a proxy for climate estimates. However, it has been observed that the phylogenetic ...
    • Ruiz Fernández, Alvaro; Tejos, Ricardo; Ahumada-Gutierrez, Hernan; Muñoz-Gacitúa, Diego; Martínez Cifuentes, Maximiliano; Araya Maturana, Ramiro; Weiss López, Boris (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2018)
      Searching for a lubricant to be used in articular bone joints, a new nematic liquid crystal (NLC) was characterised. It is formed by dissolving tetradecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (TTAB), decanol (DeOH), sodium bromide ...
    • Pardo Gandarillas, María Cecilia; Ibáñez, Christian M.; Torres, Felipe I.; Sanhueza, Víctor; Fabres, Alejandra; Escobar Dodero, Joaquín; Mardones, Fernando O.; Méndez, Marco (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: The distribution and genetic composition of marine populations is the result of climatic and oceanographic factors as well as life history strategies. Studying species with wide distributions ...
    • Dumorné, Kelly; Valdebenito, Iván; Risopatron, Jennie; Figueroa, Elías; Díaz, Rommy; Farías, Jorge (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier LtdIn this study, the morphology and ultrastructure of Genypterus blacodes spermatozoa were characterized through scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Findings revealed that the G. blacodes ...
    • Lodeiro, Lucas; Contreras Ramos, Renato; Ormazábal Toledo, Rodrigo (American Chemical Society, 2018)
      © 2018 American Chemical Society. We report on several parameters that can be used to describe the 1-ethyl-3-methyl-4,5-(X2)imidazolium cations (where X = H, Br, and I) within the Canongia-Lopez and Padua Force Field (CL&P) ...
    • Simpson, Kevin; Fuentes, Paulina; Quiroz-Iturra, Luis Felipe; Flores-Ortiz, Carlos; Contreras, Rodrigo; Handford, Michael; Stange Klein, Claudia (Oxford University Press, 2018)
      © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology. Phytoene synthase (PSY) is the first committed enzyme of the carotenoid biosynthesis pathway and the most important ...
    • Vargas, Brenda; Torres Cadena, Raúl; Rodríguez Hernández, Joelis; Gembicky, Milan; Xie, Haomiao; Jiménez Mier, José; Liu, Yi Sheng; Menéndez Proupin, Eduardo; Dunbar, Kim R.; Lopez, Nazario; Olalde Velasco, Paul; Solís Ibarra, Diego (American Chemical Society, 2018)
      © 2018 American Chemical Society. Antimony and bismuth «111» layered perovskites have recently attracted significant attention as possible, nontoxic alternatives to lead halide perovskites. Unlike lead halide perovskites, ...
    • Quero, Franck; Opazo, Genesis; Zhao, Yadong; Feschotte-Parazon, Aymeric; Fernandez, Jeimy; Quintro, Abraham; Flores Carrasco, Marcos (American Chemical Society, 2018)
      © 2018 American Chemical Society.Protein-functionalized cellulose fibrils, having various amounts of covalently bonded proteins at their surface, were successfully extracted from the tunic of Pyura chilensis tunicates using ...
    • Pinto Jiménez, Manuel; Sepúlveda, Daniel; Torres, Ricardo (University of Szeged, 2018)
      © 2018, University of Szeged. All rights reserved. In this paper we study a periodic impulsive Hopfield-type neural network system with piecewise constant argument of generalized type. Under general conditions, existence ...