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    • Cordaro Cárdenas, Enrique Guillermo; Venegas Aravena, Patricio; Laroze, David (Copernicus Gesellschaft MBH, 2021)
      Several magnetic measurements and theoretical developments from different research groups have shown certain relationships with worldwide geological processes. Secular variation in geomagnetic cutoff rigidity, ...
    • López Vilos, Nicolás Alberto; Valencia Cordero, Claudio; Azurdia Meza, César Augusto; Montejo Sánchez, Samuel; Baraldi Mafra, Samuel (MDPI, 2021)
      Jamming attacks in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) scenarios are detrimental to the performance of these networks and affect the security and stability of the service perceived by users. Therefore, the evaluation of the ...
    • Lapere, Rémy; Mailler, Sylvain; Menut, Laurent; Huneeus Lagos, Nicolás Jorge (Elsevier, 2021)
      Ice and snow in the Central Andes contain significant amounts of light-absorbing particles such as black carbon. The consequent accelerated melting of the cryosphere is not only a threat from a climate perspective but ...
    • Carrasco, V.; Amarelle, V.; Lagos Moraga, S.; Quezada, C. P.; Espinoza González, Rodrigo Andrés; Faccio, R.; Fabiano, E.; Pérez Donoso, J. M. (BMC, 2021)
      Background Microbes are present in almost every environment on Earth, even in those with extreme environmental conditions such as Antarctica, where rocks may represent the main refuge for life. Lithobiontic communities are ...
    • González Soto, Pablo Alberto; Sehnbruch, Kirsten; Apablaza, Mauricio; Méndez Pineda, Rocío; Arriagada, Verónica (Springer, 2021)
      This paper proposes a methodology for measuring Quality of Employment (QoE) deprivation from a multidimensional perspective in six Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and ...
    • McWethy, David B.; Garreaud Salazar, René Darío; Holz, Andrés; Pederson, Gregory T. (MDPI, 2021)
      The unprecedented size of the 2017 wildfires that burned nearly 600,000 hectares of central Chile highlight a need to better understand the climatic conditions under which large fires develop. Here we evaluate synoptic ...
    • González Inostroza, Pablo Ernesto; Rahmann Zúñiga, Claudia Andrea; Álvarez, Ricardo; Haas, Jannik; Nowak, Wolfgang; Rehtanz, Christian (MDPI, 2021)
      Renewable generation technologies are rapidly penetrating electrical power systems, which challenge frequency stability, especially in power systems with low inertia. To prevent future instabilities, this issue should ...
    • Lobos Roco, Felipe Andrés; Hartogensis, Óscar; Vila-Guerau Arellano, Jordi; Fuente Stranger, Alberto Patricio de la; Muñoz Vidal, Ricardo Rodrigo; Rutllant Costa, José Ángel Juan; Suárez, Francisco (Copernicus Gesellschaft MBH, 2020)
      We investigate the influence of regional atmospheric circulation on the evaporation of a saline lake in the Altiplano (also known as the Andean Plateau) region of the Atacama Desert. For that, we conducted a field experiment ...
    • Jokubauskaite, Simona; Hoessinger, Reinhard; Jara Díaz, Sergio Rodolfo; Peer, Stefanie; Schneebaum, Alyssa; Schmid, Basil; Aschauer, Florian; Gerike, Regine; Axhausen, Kay W.; Leisch, Friedrich (Springer, 2021)
      The value of travel time savings (VTTS) representing the willingness to pay to reduce travel time, consists of two components: the value of liberating time [equal to the value of leisure (VoL)] and the value of time assigned ...
    • Carrillo Rosúa, Javier; Morales Ruano, Salvador; Roberts, Stephen; Morata Céspedes, Diego Antonio; Belmar, Mauricio (MDPI, 2021)
      The mineralogy and mineral chemistry of carbonates from various hydrothermal deposits, including volcanic-hosted Au-Cu epithermal, "Chilean Manto-type" Cu(-Ag), stratabound Mn, and Ag-Ba vein deposits from Spain and Chile, ...
    • Lapere, Rémy; Menut, Laurent; Mailler, Sylvain; Huneeus Lagos, Nicolás Jorge (Copernicus, Germany, 2021)
      Central Chile faces atmospheric pollution issues all year long as a result of elevated concentrations of fine particulate matter during the cold months and tropospheric ozone during the warm season. In addition to public ...
    • Petersen, Florian; Lange, Dietrich; Ma, Bo; Grevemeyer, Ingo; Geersen, Jacob; Klaeschen, Dirk; Contreras Reyes, Eduardo Eliseo; Barrientos Parra, Sergio Eduardo; Tréhu, Anne M.; Vera, Emilio; Kopp, Heidrun (American Geophysical Union, USA, 2021)
      The aftershock distribution of the 2014 Mw 8.1 Iquique earthquake offshore northern Chile, identified from a long-term deployment of ocean bottom seismometers installed eight months after the mainshock, in conjunction with ...
    • Aguayo, Rodrigo; León Muñoz, Jorge; Garreaud Salazar, René Darío; Montecinos, Aldo (Nature, 2021)
      The decrease in freshwater input to the coastal system of the Southern Andes (40-45 degrees S) during the last decades has altered the physicochemical characteristics of the coastal water column, causing significant ...
    • Basso Sotz, Leonardo Javier; Salinas, Vicente; Sauré Valenzuela, Denis Roland; Thraves Cortés-Monroy, Charles Mark; Yankovic, Natalia (Springer, 2021)
      During the current COVID-19 pandemic, active testing has risen as a key component of many response strategies around the globe. Such strategies have a common denominator: the limited availability of diagnostic tests. In ...
    • Hiep, Han; Kiwi Krauskopf, Marcos Abraham; Pavez Signe, Matías Nicolás (Elsevier, 2021)
      Words are sequences of letters over a finite alphabet. We study two intimately related topics for this object: quasi-randomness and limit theory. With respect to the first topic we investigate the notion of uniform ...
    • Oliveira, André Souza; Dos Santos, Raphael Oliveira; Dos Santos Silva, Bruno Caetano; Nani Guarieiro, Lilian Lefol; Angerhausen, Matthias; Reisgen, Uwe; Sampaio, Renelson Ribeiro; Souza Machado, Bruna Aparecida; López Droguett, Enrique Andrés; Ferreira da Silva, Paulo Henrique; Coelho, Rodrigo Santiago (MDPI, 2021)
      In this study, GMAW and CMT welding technologies were evaluated in terms of their technological lifecycles based on their patent datasets together with the S-curve concept, and the joints were evaluated in terms of their ...
    • Glaas, Carole; Patrier, Patricia; Vidal, Jeanne; Beaufort, Daniel; Genter, Albert (MDPI, 2021)
      Clay minerals are the signature of hydrothermal alterations related to fluid circulation in volcanic and crystalline rocks. In the French part of the Upper Rhine Graben, in the deep-seated granites, illitic minerals ...
    • Leyton, Allison; Flores, Liset; Shene de Vidts, Carolina María; Chisti, Yusuf; Larama, Giovanni; Asenjo de Leuze de Lancizolle, Juan; Armenta, Roberto E. (MDPI, 2021)
      Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), and carotenoids are needed as human dietary supplements and are essential components in commercial feeds for the production of aquacultured seafood. Microorganisms ...
    • Farkas, Carlos; Mella, Andy; Turgeon, Maxime; Haigh, Jody J. (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      An unprecedented amount of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing has been performed, however, novel bioinformatic tools to cope with and process these large datasets is needed. Here, we have devised a bioinformatic pipeline that inputs ...
    • González, Pablo A.; Gutiérrez, Laura L.; Oyanedel, Juan Carlos; Sánchez Rodríguez, Héctor (SAGE, 2021)
      This article presents an exploratory model to classify public attitudes towards health systems financing and organization. It comprises 5 factors (pay-as-you-use, solidarity, willingness to contribute, mixed financing, and ...