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      Association between health literacy and adherence to medications among older adults (2020) 

      Figueroa Saavedra, Carla Soledad; Otzen Hernández, Tamara Francisca; Figueroa Delgado, Viviana; Sanhueza, Patricio; Candia, Jeremy (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2020-05)
      Background: Lack of compliance with medication prescription is common among older adults and hamper an adequate management of chronic conditions. Aim: To study the association between health literacy and medication adherence ...
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      Older people in Chile: The new social, economic and health challenge for the 21stcentury (2020) 

      Troncoso-Pantoja, Claudia; Leiva Ordoñez, Ana María; Martínez-Sanguinetti, María Adela; Nazar, Gabriela; Concha-Cisternas, Yeny; Martorell, Miquel; Ramírez-Alarcón, Karina; Petermann-Rocha, Fanny; Cigarroa, Igor; Díaz, Ximena; ... (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2020-06)
      Ageing will be one of the most significant social transformations of the 21stcentury worldwide. In the last 40 years, Chile has tripled its older adult population. As a result, by 2050 the country will have the highest ...
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      Citius, altius, fortius; is it enough to achieve success in basketball? (2020) 

      García-Rubio, Javier; Carreras, Daniel; Feu Molina, S.; Antúnez, Antonio; Ibáñez, Sergio J. (MDPI AG, 2020-10-09)
      The NBA Draft Combine includes a series of standardized measurements and drills that provide NBA teams with an opportunity to evaluate players. The purpose of this research was to identify the Combine tests that explain ...
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      Chemical, physical, and sensory attributes of Sauvignon blanc wine fermented in different kinds of vessels (2020) 

      Gil i Cortiella, Mariona; Ubeda, C.; Covarrubias, José Ignacio; Peña-Neira, Álvaro I. (Elsevier Ltd, 2020-12)
      The use of vessels that are alternative to conventional cylindrical stainless steel tanks and traditional oak barrels during winemaking has increased in recent years. Examples of these alternative vessels include fashionable, ...
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      A country's response to tackling plastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems: The Chilean way (2020) 

      Urbina, M. A.; Luna-Jorquera, Guillermo; Thiel, Martin; Acuña-Ruz, Tomás; Amenábar Cristi, María A.; Andrade, C.; Ahrendt, Camila; Castillo, Cristóbal; Chevallier, Adrien; Cornejo-D'Ottone, M.; ... (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020-10-04)
      Marine plastic pollution is worse than expected, and we are starting to realize its full extent and severity. Solving the plastic pollution problem is not easy, as it requires the action and commitment of all sectors of ...
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      Psychometry and estimation of cutoff points of Jefferson Scale of empathy in dental students (2020) 

      Díaz, Víctor P.; Reyes, Alejandro; Calzadilla, Aracelis; Torres, Pilar A.; González, Eugenia; Bilbao, Jorge Luis; González, Farith; Estrada, Nuvia; Fortich, Natalia; Sepúlveda, Wilmer; ... (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2020-10-09)
      Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the 3-dimensional latent model of empathy on the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy instrument (version S), and to verify the existence ...
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      Indigenous raised agricultural fields in paicaví, la araucanía, Chile, and their socio-economic implications during the early colonial period: A preliminary view (2020) 

      Dillehay, Tom Dalton; Zavala, José Manuel; Saavedra, José; Rojas, Arturo (Universidad de Tarapaca, 2020-06)
      Raised agricultural fields in the delta of the Paicaví River in the Araucanía region of south-central Chile are described and considered preliminarily in terms of their social and economic implications for the Early Colonial ...
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      40 years of Estudios Pedagogicos: Bibliometric analysis (2020) 

      Perez-Gutierrez, Mikel; Lagos-Hernández, Roberto Iván (Universidad Austral de Chile, 2020)
      The aim of this paper was to carry out a bibliometric analysis of the articles published in Estudios Pedagogicos journal from 1976 to 2015. Thus, all published issues were checked, collecting the basic bibliographic ...
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      Socio-educational Implications of Creativity from Pedagogical Mediation: A critical review (2020) 

      Sandoval-Obando, Eduardo; Arévalo Toro, Sergio; Gálvez Poblete, Carolina; Moreno-Doña, Alberto (Universidad Austral de Chile, 2020)
      The school continues to be a routine and normative space, notoriously neglecting socio-emotional, cultural, historical, and even political aspects of learning. We believe that the school must integrate educational alternatives ...
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      Factors contributing to severe infection and mortality from severe sepsis and septic shock in elderly persons (2020) 

      Senén, Cecilia; Hernández Ramirez; Villanova, Nicolás (Instituto de Altos Estudios de Salud Publica, 2020)
      The incidence of sepsis and its attendant mortality risk are both increased significantly with advanced age. Because the proportion of the population living beyond 65 years is expected to outpace population growth in ...
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      Visualizing NMR-shielding effect in fullerene-ZnPc aggregates: Characteristic patterns of ZnP-based hosts and encapsulation nature from DFT calculations (2020) 

      MacLeod-Carey, Desmond; Rodríguez-Kessler, P. L.; Muñoz-Castro, Alvaro (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2020-10-09)
      The formation of supramolecular aggregates incorporating C60 fullerenes can be followed and characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements. Here, we unravel the particular patterns provided by zinc-porphyrin ...
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      Professional formation of midwives in Chile: Years of history (2020) 

      Muñoz, Lucila Cerda (Sociedad Chilena de Obstetricia y Ginecologia, 2020-04)
      Introduction: The study demonstrates the evolution of the training of Midwives in Chile to provide quality humanized health care to women throughout their life course in the area of sexual, reproductive and newborn health. ...
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      Mechanical and antimicrobial polyethylene composites with CaO nanoparticles (2020) 

      Silva, Cristián; Bobillier, Felipe; Canales, Daniel A.; Sepúlveda, Francesca; Cament, Alejandro; Amigó, Nicolás; Rivas, Lina María; Ulloa, María Teresa; Reyes-Contreras, Pablo; Ortiz, J. Andrés; ... (MDPI AG, 2020-09-18)
      Low-density polyethylene composites containing different sizes of calcium oxide (CaO) nanoparticles were obtained by melt mixing. The CaO nanoparticles were synthesized by either the sol-gel or sonication methods, obtaining ...
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      Co0superparamagnetic nanoparticles stabilized by an organic layer coating with antimicrobial activity (2020) 

      Santana, Paula A.; Castillo, Carolina A.; Michea, Sebastián A.; Venegas-Yazigi, D.; Paredes-García, Verónica (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020-09-18)
      Cobalt (Co) is one of the most promising materials in nanotechnology due to its superior magnetic properties. However, due to the high cytotoxicity of cobalt, the activity in biological systems has been little studied. In ...
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      Synaptoprotection in Perinatal Asphyxia: An Experimental Approach (2020) 

      Herrera, María Inés; Kobiec, Tamara; Kölliker-Frers, Rodolfo Alberto; Otero-Losada, Matilde; Capani, Francisco (Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-09-23)
      Perinatal asphyxia (PA) is an obstetric complication occurring when the oxygen supply to the newborn is temporally interrupted. This health problem is associated with high morbimortality in term and preterm neonates. It ...
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      Analysis of the Zonula occludens Toxin Found in the Genome of the Chilean Non-toxigenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus Strain PMC53.7 (2020) 

      Pérez-Reytor, Diliana Celeste; Pavón, Alequis; López-Joven, Carmen; Ramírez-Araya, Sebastián; Peña-Varas, Carlos; Plaza, Nicolás; Alegría-Arcos, Melissa; Corsini, Gino; Jaña, Víctor; Pavez, Leonardo; ... (Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-09-24)
      Vibrio parahaemolyticus non-toxigenic strains are responsible for about 10% of acute gastroenteritis associated with this species, suggesting they harbor unique virulence factors. Zonula occludens toxin (Zot), firstly ...
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      Highly efficient hydrogen evolution reaction, plasmon-enhanced by AuNP-l-TiO2NP photocatalysts (2020) 

      Castillo-Rodriguez, Judith; Ortiz, Pedro D.; Isaacs, Mauricio A.; Martínez, Natalia P.; O'Shea, James N.; Hart, Jack; Temperton, Robert H.; Zárate, Ximena P.; Contreras, David; Schott V, Eduardo (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020-10-14)
      A set of AuNPs-l-TiO2NP nanoaggregates which showed efficient covering of the semiconductor's surface by AuNPs, as well as appropriate AuNP sizes for effective sensibilization were used as photocatalysts for the hydrogen ...
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      The genetics of spondyloarthritis (2020) 

      Díaz-Peña, Roberto; Castro-Santos, Patricia; Duran, Josefina; Santiago, Catalina; Lucía, Alejandro M. (MDPI AG, 2020-10-02)
      The term spondyloarthritis (SpA) encompasses a group of chronic inflammatory diseases with common features in terms of clinical presentation and genetic predisposition. SpA is characterized by inflammation of the spine and ...
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      On the relationship between baseline corticosterone levels and annual survival of the thorn-tailed rayadito (2020) 

      Quirici, Verónica; Botero-Delgadillo, Esteban; González-Gómez, Paulina L.; Espíndola-Hernández, Pamela; Zambrano, Brayan; Cuevas, Elfego; Wingfield, John C.; Vásquez, Rodrigo A. (Academic Press Inc., 2021-01-01)
      Baseline concentrations of glucocorticoids (i.e., cortisol and/or corticosterone) can moderately increase with the degree of energy demands that an individual faces. This could be a mechanism based on which glucocorticods ...
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      Assessment of landscape transformation in protected areas (2020) 

      Pereira, Sebastian Ruiz; Fernández, José Luis Muriel; Herrera, José Manuel; Olea, Jorge (Elsevier Inc., 2021-01)
      Mountain protected landscapes continuously endure conflicts of appropriation that bear inherent transformations. One type of direct intervention is by Commercial Concessions within these areas, affecting their landscape ...