¿Una nación en bosquejos? Procesos de identificación aymara en Chile durante el periodo transicional, 1990-1993 by Cristina Oyarzo

“…Although the circulation of the idea of nation was neither systematic nor uniform, expressions of simultaneous adherence to the Chilean State and the Aymara people coexisted, indicating a complex and ambivalent relationship between the processes of ethno-national identification in the period.…”
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Elicitation Study Based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour that analyses the intention to Adopt Electronic Commerce in the Elderly by Nadia Soto-Hernández, Elizabeth E. Grandón, Patricio Ramírez-Correa

“…The instrument is developed through an elicitation study following a qualitative methodology. Thirty-four older Chilean people were interviewed based on a questionnaire of open questions associated with consequences, social referents, and obstacles to the use of electronic commerce. …”
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Conservación neoliberal de la naturaleza en la Patagonia chilena: explorando nuevas modalidades ecoextractivistas y tensiones hidrosociales by Esteban Ortiz Robles, Robinson Torres Salinas, Alejandro Salazar-Burrows, Fabien Bourlon

“…Chilean Patagonia, a historically remote region known for its vast natural landscapes of global ecological importance, has a rich environmental history of resistance, epitomized by the monumental Patagonia Without Dams movement, which fiercely opposed transnational hydroelectric projects. …”
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Chemical Composition and Antioxidant Activity of Aloe vera from the Pica Oasis (Tarapacá, Chile) by UHPLC-Q/Orbitrap/MS/MS by Cristina Quispe, Michael Villalobos, Jorge Bórquez, Mario Simirgiotis

“…The chemical composition of Aloe vera growing in the small town of San Andrés de Pica, an oasis of warm waters and typical fruits, located in Tamarugal province in the Northern Chilean region of Tarapacá is reported. The chemical characterization was performed using liquid chromatography (UHPLC) coupled to PDA and high-resolution mass spectrometry (HESI-Q-Orbitrap®-MS) in four different plant parts of Aloe (peel, flowers, gel, and roots). …”
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Trade-off between computation time and solution quality for integrated generation and transmission expansion planning with N-1 security criterion by Lucas Y. Okamura, Carmen L.T. Borges, Gianfranco Chicco

“…The assessments are illustrated for the Chilean electrical system. The main outcome is that one of the proposed methods, in which the future cost function is maintained fixed during the generation and transmission optimization and is recalculated only in the final simulation of the system operation, achieves results very close to the fully integrated generation, transmission, and operation optimization method. …”
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¡No en mi patio trasero!: el caso de la comunidad ecológica de Peñalolén by Roberto Mardones Arévalo

“…The conflict bares light on two shortcomings of the Chilean Political System. On the one hand a lack of clarity on the politics of land use; and on the other hand, the emergence of poor quality citizenship, unable to mobilize around concrete objectives.…”
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Clinical, Socioeconomic, and Psychosocial Factors Associated with Blood Pressure Control and Adherence: Results from a Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular National Program Providing U... by Daniela Sandoval, Carolina Nazzal, Tomás Romero

“…Cross-sectional study in randomly selected 992 hypertensive patients under a Chilean national comprehensive Cardiovascular Health Program (CVHP). …”
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Leptin/Adiponectin Ratios Using Either Total Or High-Molecular-Weight Adiponectin as Biomarkers of Systemic Insulin Sensitivity in Normoglycemic Women by Carolina Bravo, Luis Rodrigo Cataldo, José Galgani, Javier Parada, José Luis Santos

“…A standard 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT; 75 g of glucose) and a short minimal-model intravenous glucose tolerance test (IVGTT; 0.3 g/kg body weight) were performed in 58 Chilean normoglycemic women (age: 27 ± 6.3 years, BMI 23.6 ± 3.2 kg/m2). …”
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The effect of short-term of fine particles on daily respiratory emergency in cities contaminated with wood smoke by R. Torres, N. Baker, G. Bernal, F. Peres, A. Maldonado, D.D. Caceres

“…<strong>BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: </strong>The goal of this study is to evaluate in a time-series study the short-term effects of particulate matter-2.5exposure on respiratory emergency visits in six central-southern Chilean cities highly contaminated by wood smoke.<br /> <strong>METHODS: </strong>Association was assessed using both distributed lag linear and non-linear Poisson models constrained to a 7-day lag period, adjusting for temporal trends and meteorological variables and stratifying seasonally into cold and warm periods.…”
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Cost-savings and health impact of strategies for prevention of Respiratory Syncytial Virus with nirsevimab in Chile based on the integrated analysis of 2019–2023 national databases... by Denis Sauré, Miguel O’Ryan, Juan Pablo Torres, Natalia Trigo, Gonzalo Diaz, Marcel Goic, Charles Thraves, Jorge Pacheco, Patricio Aguilera, Andrea Caro, Leonardo J. Basso

“…We first characterize RSV burden among Chilean infants between 2019 and 2023, focusing on medically attended lower respiratory tract infections (MA LRTI), hospital admissions (HA LRTI), and severe cases requiring ICU admission (ICU LRTI). …”
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Case report: Novel ACTN4 variant of uncertain significance in a pediatric case of steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome requesting kidney transplantation by Ignacio Alarcón, Carolina Peralta, Francisco Cammarata-Scalisi, Maykol Araya Castillo, Francisco Cano, Francisco Cano, Angélica Rojo, María Luisa Ceballos, María Luisa Ceballos, Paola Krall, Paola Krall

“…ACTN4 variants, although rare, typically manifest in early adulthood as SRNS-FSGS with autosomal dominant inheritance pattern and are associated with variable progression toward ESKD.Case–diagnosis/treatmentA 10-year-old Chilean male patient, born to a complicated pregnancy without any history of prenatal care, was incidentally found to have mild proteinuria during pre-surgery analysis. …”
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Exploring the genomic and antimicrobial resistance tapestry: comparative insights into Salmonella enterica serotypes Agona, Braenderup, Muenchen, and Panama in Latin American surfa... by Zhao Chen, Enrique J. Delgado Suárez, Raquel R. Bonelli, Celso J. B. Oliveira, Andrea I. Moreno-Switt, Aiko D. Adell, Angélica Reyes-Jara, Christopher J. Grim, Marc W. Allard, Sandra M. Tallent, Eric W. Brown, Rebecca L. Bell, Magaly Toro, Jianghong Meng

“…Mexican isolates consistently displayed a higher occurrence of genotypic antimicrobial resistance (AMR) than Chilean and Brazilian isolates. All S. Agona isolates exhibited the presence of fosA7.2, while qnrB19 emerged as the predominant AMR gene (ARG) among S. …”
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Protección del Patrimonio en Valparaiso (Chile): Proyecto "MAR VASTO" Heritage protection in Valparaiso (Chile): The "Mar Vasto" project by Maurizio Indirli, Minchel Sotero Apablaza

“…The project saw the participation of Italian (Universities of Ferrara, Padua and Trieste) and Chilean (University Federico Santa Maria, in Valparaiso, and University of Chile, in Santiago) partners, and the support of local stakeholders. …”
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