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BACKGROUND: During blood meal, the female mosquito injects saliva able to elicit an immune response in the vertebrate. This immune response has been proven to reflect the intensity of exposure to mosquito bites and risk of infection for vector transmitted pathogens such as malaria. The peptide gS...

La llegada de numerosos inmigrantes latinoamericanos a Chile en los últimos años abre un debate en torno a qué política debiera implementarse para integrarlos a la sociedad. La presente investigación evaluó estas actitudes, utilizando la Escala de Ideología Multicultural (EIM), y analizó variable...

Background: Regional differences in stroke mortality rates have been described in Chile. These could be related to the distribution of cardiovascular risk factors, the quality of medical care or socioeconomic status influencing incidence or case fatality rates. Our objective was to investigate va...

The Cerro El Plomo mummy is an Inca (1,500 AD) child of about 8,09 years old. The boy was found near the top of Cerro El Plomo, Santiago, in the year 1954 and is now under the care of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile. In September 2003, as part of a larger study, we examined muscle t...

The Chilean legislation establishes that patients have rights and responsibilities in regards to their healthcare. This is an important statement as it declares that people must be informed and become actively involved in their care; meanwhile, the health system needs to coordinate the provision ...

This paper studies how competition works in the fuel industry, by estimating the survival prices for the Chilean retail gasoline markets. We use a rich data set of prices available online that tracks changes in fuel costs. Every Thursday at zero hour, publicly announced new costs are in effect, t...

En este artículo, consideraremos algunas percepciones de dirigentes comunitarios judíos, árabes y musulmanes, tanto de Argentina como de Chile, acerca de los siguientes tópicos: a) cómo visualizan las relaciones entre estas comunidades, b) si creen que han existido cambios a partir de 1990 y en e...

This is article is a literature review of four entrepreneurship journal published between 2000 and 2008. A content analysis of the literature review is categorized in four competencies to be included in entrepreneurship education processes. The article use Pratt (1998) teaching model to identify ...

El presente artículo realiza un análisis sistemático de los portales web municipales de las comunas de la región metropolitana en Santiago de Chile, con el objetivo de medir el nivel de desarrollo de las propuestas de gobierno electrónico, particularmente lo referido a participación electrónica. ...

This article takes a systematic analysis of local government websites of the metropolitan region in Santiago de Chile, in order to measure the level of development of the proposals of the e-gov, particularly as regards eparticipation. To do this, the basis is the evaluation model proposed by UN f...