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Relevance of the carotid body chemoreflex in the progression of heart failure
(Hindawi Publishing Corp., 2015)Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a global health problem affecting millions of people. Autonomic dysfunction and disordered breathing patterns are commonly observed in patients with CHF, and both are strongly related to poor ... -
Objeción de conciencia en la práctica médica
(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2015)Medical practice implies the controversial encounter of diverse circumstances in which eventual conflicts between physicians and patients’ values as well as between physicians’ values and legal or institutional rules arise. ... -
Dendriform Pulmonary Ossification
(American Association of Respiratory Care, 2015)Dendriform pulmonary ossification is a rare condition often diagnosed by either surgery or postmortem examination. We report a 43-y-old man with a history of nonproductive cough for 1 y. His physical examination was ... -
El Niño and Fishing Location Decisions: The Chilean Straddling Jack Mackerel Fishery
(2017)Fishery management of straddling stocks is conditional on available knowledge about relevant environmental shocks, such as El Niño events, affecting stock behavior. But knowledge of these issues is scant, particularly in ... -
Precautionary saving: A taxonomy of prudence
(2017)We extend Gunning (2010) by analyzing the effect of risk on saving. We derive a general prudence index that determines the threshold for the future risk that makes saving increase. We relate our results to the utility ... -
Distributional impacts of climate change on basin communities: an integrated modeling approach
(2017)Agriculture is one of the most vulnerable economic sectors to the impacts of climate change, specifically those related with expected changes in water availability. By using a hydro-economic model, this study assesses the ... -
Measuring chronic multidimensional poverty
(2017)This paper adopts a new approach to the measurement of chronic multidimensional poverty. It relies on the counting approach of Alkire and Foster (2011) for the measurement of multidimensional poverty in each time period, ... -
Brain state-dependent recruitment of high-frequency oscillations in the human hippocampus
(2017-09)Ripples are high-frequency bouts of coordinated hippocampal activity believed to be crucial for information transfer and memory formation. We used intracortical macro electrodes to record neural activity in the human ... -
Understanding Taiwan’s Agricultural Protectionism
(2017)The following article aims to discern whether partial protectionism in Taiwan’s meat markets can still be explained as a function of Taiwan’s ‘strong state argument’, which was developed to understand the nation’s policies ... -
Fertility, kinship and the evolution of mass ideologies
(2017)Traditional human societies are organised around kinship, and use kinship networks to generate large scale community projects. This is made possible by a combination of linguistic kin recognition, a uniquely human trait, ... -
Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Symptom Prevalence and Local Distribution after an Earthquake with Scarce Data
(2017)After a major earthquake, the assignment of scarce mental health emergency personnel to different geographic areas is crucial to the effective management of the crisis. The scarce information that is available in the ... -
Language as a coordination tool evolves slowly
(2016)Social living ultimately depends on coordination between group members, and communication is necessary to make this possible. We suggest that this might have been the key selection pressure acting on the evolution of ... -
Fare evasion in public transport: A time series approach
(2017)An econometric model is presented that identifies the main variables explaining evasion of fare payment on a public transport system. The model uses a cointegration approach. The model parameters are estimated using data ... -
Attending to the heart is associated with posterior alpha band increase and a reduction in sensitivity to concurrent visual stimuli.
(2017)Attentional mechanisms have been studied mostly in specific sensory domains, such as auditory, visuospatial, or tactile modalities. In contrast, attention to internal interoceptive visceral targets has only recently begun ... -
Diferencias en la percepción de inseguridad a nivel cognitivo y emocional de acuerdo al perfil socio demográfico y político. Estudio del gran Concepción, Chile
(2016)El presente estudio evalúa la percepción de inseguridad en el conurbano del Gran Concepción, el segundo centro urbano más poblado de Chile. Se evaluó la probabilidad estimada de ser víctima de delito (dimensión cognitiva) ... -
"Scenographies of Evil " From the aesthetics of horror to infamous characters
(2017)The war will be, precisely, the favorable scenario for the abuse of corpses for political reasons where two elements, which are consubstantial to Evil, converge. The first one points to the negation of the Other as a human ... -
A nonlinear model for multilayered rubber isolators based on a co-rotational formulation
(2017-01)This article proposes a geometrically nonlinear co-rotational model aimed to characterize the mechanical behavior of elastomeric seismic isolators. The model is able to capture the axial and lateral coupling in both axial ... -
Parallel construction of wavelet trees on multicore architectures
(2017-06)The wavelet tree has become a very useful data structure to efficiently represent and query large volumes of data in many different domains, from bioinformatics to geographic information systems. One problem with wavelet ... -
A combined photovoltaic and novel renewable energy system: An optimized techno-economic analysis for mining industry applications
(2017-04)The productivity of the mining industry in Chile, currently the main driver of Chilean economy, is closely tied to foreign demand for ores. Ore-processing is known for involving energy–intensive processes, such as comminution, ... -
Low-temperature curing strength enhancement in cement-based materials containing limestone powder
(2017-06)With the ongoing sustainability movement, the incorporation of limestone powder in cementitious binders for concrete in the U.S. has become a subject of renewed interest. In addition to accelerating the early age hydration ...