Pinto, Carlos F.; Torrico-Bazoberry, Daniel; Flores-Prado, Luis; Bustamante, Ramiro O.; Niemeyer, Hermann M.(2019)
The mechanisms which promote divergence in populations of phytophagous insects using alternative hosts depend on the characterization of hosts as different selective scenarios and the modeling of the demographic dynamics ...
Aspé Sánchez, Mauricio(Universidad del Desarrollo. Facultad de Gobierno, 2020-09)
Oxytocin (OXT) and arginine-vasopressin (AVP) are two phylogenetically conserved
neuropeptides that have been implicated in a wide range of social behaviors. Although
a large body of research, ranging from rodents to ...
Aging is a physiological process accompanied by cognitive decline, principally in memory and executive functions. Alterations in the connectivity of the default mode network (DMN) have been found to participate in cognitive ...
We propose a game-theoretic model of reciprocity and trust that incorporates personality traits. In the model, positive and negative reciprocity are “reciprocal preferences:” parameters of heterogeneous utility functions ...
We investigate the effect of attending selective secondary schools belonging to the Bicentenario schools program in Chile, a free education option that is intended to give vulnerable students everywhere in Chile a unique ...
Urrutia Mosquera, Jorge Andrés(Universidad del Desarrollo. Facultad de Gobierno, 13/03/2020)
Esta tesis consistió en modelar empíricamente el comportamiento del consumidor en el mercado de autos y el comportamiento de viaje de los individuos en el ámbito urbano. Para el primer caso, en particular se evalúa el ...
Barbato Epple, María Teresa(Universidad del Desarrollo. Facultad de Gobierno, 13/03/2020)
This introductory theoretical framework describes the existing literature on the
approaches that moral psychology has followed in recent years. Specifically, the
advantages and disadvantages of constructing this discipline ...
This paper proposes a methodology for measuring the quality of employment from a multidimensional and public policy perspective in Latin American developing countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, ...
Objective: There is evidence that competitive conflicts are the main form of intrasexual competition among men. The capacity to recognize visual cues of fighting ability in competitors is thought to be an important ...
A precursor of adult social functioning is joint attention (JA), which is the capacity to share attention on an object with another person. JA precedes the development of the capacity to attribute mental states to others ...
Data on the applicants’ revealed preferences when entering higher education is used
as a proxy to build the Higher Education Space (HES) of Portugal (2008–2015) and
Chile (2006–2017). The HES is a network that connects ...
This paper provides a multidimensional study based on data and text mining of prosecuted disputes on water rights in Chile, and an analysis of the state’s capacity,
particularly of the institutions related to water ...
Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of information (cultural memory). Here, we use data on the citation of academic articles ...
An econometric analysis is conducted to quantify the impact of different variables on the service quality of the Santiago, Chile bus system. The indicators tested as measures of service quality are the average bus speed, ...
El artículo presenta evidencia de la polarización ideológica a nivel político, socioeconómico y generacional en la población chilena entre 1990 y 2017. Utilizando datos de la Encuesta de Opinión Pública del Centro de ...
Los derechos humanos deben ser considerados en las políticas migratorias de los Estados modernos. Sin embargo, este asunto se tensiona con el principio de soberanía, que permite el control de las fronteras de esos Estados, ...
Each stage of the human life course is characterised by a distinctive pattern of social relations. We study how the intensity and importance of the closest social contacts vary across the life course, using a large database ...
de Grange, Louis; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Briones, Ignacio(2018)
The aggregate cost structure of the Santiago (Chile) urban bus transport industry is studied for the presence of economies of scale, return to scale and technical efficiency. Econometric models using both operator cost and ...