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Background: A decrease in functional capacity due to ageing is one of the main risk factors for falls in older people. Aim: To investigate factors associated with falls in Chilean older adults. Material and Methods: We ...
Cristi-Sánchez, Iver [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Escuela Kinesiol, Santiago, Chile]; Neira, Alejandro [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Escuela Kinesiol, Santiago, Chile]; Amenabar, Tomás; Rafols, Claudio; Monckeberg, Juan E.; Belemmi, Marcos; Neira, Mariano; Soldan, Macarena; Silvestre, Rony(OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2019)
Hip joint instability has been targeted as an important issue that affects normal hip function. The diagnosis of hip instability could be very challenging and currently, there is no definitive diagnostic test. Hip instability ...
Recent studies show basic cognitive abilities such as the rapid and precise apprehension of small numerosities in object sets ("subitizing"), verbal counting and numerical magnitude comparison significantly influence the ...
González, Rafael I. [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Ctr Nanotecnol Aplicada, Santiago, Chile]; Valencia, Felipe J. [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, DAiTA Lab, Santiago, Chile]; Ramírez, Max; Baltazar, Samuel E.; Rojas-Nunez, Javier; Allende, Sebastián; Alejandro Valdivia, Juan; Rogan, Jose; Kiwi, Miguel(ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY, 2019)
Oxygen absorption and the thermal stability of Al-147 nanoparticles were studied by means of classical molecular dynamics simulations and Monte Carlo methods. The results suggest that for the studied sizes, oxygen incorporation ...
Pezoa, David [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Escuela Med Vet]; Rivera, Dicil; Hudson, Lauren K.; Denes, Thomas G.; Hamilton-West, Christopher; Moreno-Switt, Andrea, I(MDPI, 2019)
Salmonella Infantis is considered in recent years an emerging Salmonella serovar, as it has been associated with several outbreaks and multidrug resistance phenotypes. Phages appear as a possible alternative strategy to ...
Wagemann, Elizabeth [Univ Mayor, Escuela Arquitectura, Fac Humanidades]; Encinas, Felipe; Marmolejo-Duarte, Carlos; Aguirre, Carlos(MDPI, 2019)
This article analyses how energy efficiency regulatory frameworks have been developed in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Chile, within a context of developing countries, and it discusses if this context has been able to ...
BackgroundPhysical activity is a cornerstone in the prevention and treatment of obesity. There are relatively few studies that explore the effect of accelerometer-determined moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) ...
Venegas-González, Alejandro [Univ Mayor, Ctr Observac Tierra Hemera, Escuela Ingn Forestal, Fac Ciencias, Santiago, Chile]; González-Casares, Marcos; Pompa-Garcia, Marin; Dominguez-Calleros, Pedro; Hernández-Díaz, Jose; Carrillo-Parra, Artemio; González-Tagle, Marco(PEERJ INC, 2019)
Background. Forest ecosystems are considered among the largest terrestrial carbon sinks. The dynamics of forest carbon depend on where the carbon is stored and its responses to environmental factors, as well as the physiology ...
Alburquenque, Claudio [Univ Mayor, Fac Ciencias, Escuela Tecnol Med, Santiago, Chile]; Amaro, Jose; Fuentes, Marisol; Falconer, Mary A.; Moreno, Claudia; Covarrubias, Cristián; Pinto, Cristián; Rodas, Paula I.; Bucarey, Sergio A.; Hermosilla, German; Magne, Fabien; Tapia, Cecilia V.(OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2019)
Candida albicans is commensal yeast that colonizes skin and mucosa; however, it can become an opportunist pathogen by changing from blastoconidia (commensal form) into hypha (pathogenic form). Each form activates a different ...