The Social Cartography of Chapiquiña: Revindicating Indigenous Territorial Rights in the Highlands of Arica, Chile by Joselin Leal Landeros, Alan Rodríguez Valdivia

“…Methods of social cartography serve to make visible mental “geo-graphies” which are invisible to the Chilean state. This process led us to infer the hypothesis that the process of rural-urban migration from these Aymara communities to the city of Arica is not a process of indigenous de-territorialization. …”
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Migrant's health needs in receiving countries from a bio-psycho-social approach by Angela Yánez Corrales, Laura Andrea de la Fuente Flores, María Cecilia Toffoletto, María Patricia Masalan Apip

“…<p>At present, the Chilean government is making an effort to guarantee the new citizens their rights, with different costumes and in general with a different life style. …”
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Tecnica e libertà fra Praga e Santiago by Andrea Cerroni

“…With the 1973 Chilean coup there was a total change in the economic order, from Allende’s socialist experiment (original in its “balancing” of center and periphery) to the full adoption of neoliberalism, which was accompanied by a simultaneous transition in the IT field. …”
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Implications des consultants qualité dans l’institutionnalisation du nouveau mode de pilotage du système éducatif chilien by Manuel González Carpanetti, Gilles Monceau

“…The research to be reported here relates to the experience of a group of chilean quality consultants. These consultation practices, the tools they mobilize and the institutional transformations they produce constitute a new ground for education research. …”
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TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION OF INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES IN CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING IN CHILE. A CASE STUDY by PEDRO MUÑOZ, VIVIANA LETELIER, LUMINITA BIBIRE, LUIS MUÑOZ

“…The methodology and tools used for its implementation are described and related to obtained results within the Chilean context. It concludes that this teaching method contributes with learning enhancement in terms of strengthening of technical and transversal competencies, while also resulting in a significant improvement of grades, as well as a marked reduction in the absenteeism rate. …”
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Modeling Overlapped Mutual Funds’ Portfolios: A Bipartite Network Approach by Jaime F. Lavin, Mauricio A. Valle, Nicolás S. Magner

“…This paper studies the topology of the Chilean mutual fund industry using networks methods. …”
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The crisis of the señorial society and the status malaise of the elites in Chile by Danilo Martuccelli

“…Taking Chilean society as a case study, this article is inserted in discussions on political power and economic elites, drawing attention to the importance of status. …”
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Exploring Preservice Teachers’ Perceived Emotions, Professional Accountability, and Action-Taking Dispositions Towards Language Assessment Scenarios by Claudio Díaz Larenas, Mabel Ortiz Navarrete, Tania Tagle Ochoa, Juan Fernando Gómez Paniagua, Marcela Quintana Lara, Lucia Ramos Leiva, Rocío Acevedo Rivera

“…This exploratory case study investigates the emotional responses, professional accountability, and action-taking dispositions of 150 Chilean prospective English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers towards language assessment scenarios. …”
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A frustratingly easy way of extracting political networks from text. by Naim Bro

“…Based on a corpus of 1009 Chilean political news articles, the study validates the graph extraction method using 'legislative agreement', i.e., the proportion of times two politicians vote the same way. …”
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Application of the factorial analysis to specially Discriminate geographic variables by Arnobio Germán Poblete, Juan L Minetti, María José Vera

“…The additional purpose of this investigation is to provide a contribution to the understanding of the regime of the interannual variability of rainfall in the Argentinean and Chilean territory analyzed from a sandy point of view. …”
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From natural threat to disaster: A historical construction of the earthquake and tsunami of 1960 in Saavedra by Cristián Inostroza-Matus, Francisco Molina-Camacho, Hugo Romero-Toledo

“…Through the revision of texts of explorers, military reports, maps, autobiographies, scientific research projects, site visits, and the support of system of geographic information, this article seeks to reconstruct the process of the conformation of territory in Saavedra, highlighting the direct relationship that exists between the invasion of the Mapuche territory Lafkenche by the Chilean State and the worst disaster in its history more than a decade later.…”
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APLICACIÓN DEL ANÁLISIS FACTORIAL PARA DISCRIMINAR ESPACIALMENTE VARIABLES GEOGRAFICAS by Arnobio Germán Poblete, Juan Leonidas Minetti, María José Vera

“…The additional purpose of this investigation is to provide a contribution to the understanding of the regime of the interannual variability of rainfall in the Argentinean and Chilean territory analyzed from a sandy point of view. …”
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Hyperinsulinemia, cancer and maqui berry: The promise of nutritional supplementation by Brett Deters, Mir Saleem

“…According to the latest research, the Chilean maqui berry, Aristotelia chilensis, has been shown to reduce postprandial insulin levels by as much as fifty percent. …”
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Antioomycete Nanoformulation for Biocontrol of English Walnut Crown and Root Rot Caused by <i>Phytophthora cinnamomi</i> by Aldo Salinas, Iván Montenegro, Yusser Olguín, Natalia Riquelme, Diyanira Castillo-Novales, Alejandra Larach, Laureano Alvarado, Guillermo Bravo, Alejandro Madrid, Juan E. Álvaro, Ximena Besoain

“…This research is the first to study the use of nanoemulsions from native Chilean plants to control <i>P. cinnamomi</i>, showing potential to reduce the use of synthetic fungicides, contributing to safer and more ecological phytosanitary management.…”
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Affect and subjectivity of child welfare policy workers in Chile by Javiera Garcia-Meneses, Giazú Enciso-Domínguez

“…This article seeks to affectively analyze the labor subjectivity of workers in the Chilean child protection program. We carried out a digital ethnography with six workers of the Servicio Nacional de Menores [National Service for Minors]. …”
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Switching Stable Kidney Transplant Recipients to a Generic Tacrolimus Is Feasible and Safe, but It Must Be Monitored by Fernando González, René López, Elizabeth Arriagada, René Carrasco, Natalia Gallardo, Eduardo Lorca

“…Replacing brand name products with generics is a controversial issue that we studied after a Chilean Ministry of Health mandate to implement such a switch. …”
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Neutrophil Migration in the Activation of the Innate Immune Response to Different Flavobacterium psychrophilum Vaccines in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) by Camila J. Solís, Matías Poblete-Morales, Sergio Cabral, Juan A. Valdés, Ariel E. Reyes, Ruben Avendaño-Herrera, Carmen G. Feijóo

“…At present, there is only one commercial vaccine in Chile, made with two Chilean F. psychrophilum isolates and another licensed in Europe. …”
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Octodon degus laboratory colony management principles and methods for behavioral analysis for Alzheimer’s disease neuroscience research by B. Maximiliano Garduño, Todd C. Holmes, Todd C. Holmes, Robert M. J. Deacon, Xiangmin Xu, Xiangmin Xu, Xiangmin Xu, Patricia Cogram, Patricia Cogram

“…The Chilean degu (Octodon degus) is a medium sized, long-lived rodent with traits that make them a natural model for neuroscience research. …”
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Nacionalismo militarista cotidiano en las escuelas de la dictadura chilena: usos rituales de los actos cívicos y las efemérides (1973-1980) by Sebastián Neut Aguayo, Pablo Neut Aguayo

“…Objective: This article analyzes how the Chilean dictatorship tried to instill a militaristic nationalism in the country’s school’s daily life, showing how this nationalism was reappropriated and, in some cases, resisted by part of the student body and the teaching staff. …”
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Rapid Identification and Simultaneous Quantification of Aristolochic Acids by HPLC-DAD and Confirmations by MS in Aristolochia chilensis Using a Limited Biomass by Michael Araya, Samantha García, Marcia González-Teuber

“…Six aristolochic acids were identified in the Chilean species Aristolochia chilensis using high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to a diode array detector (HPLC-DAD) and subsequent confirmation with mass spectrometry (MS). …”
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