EL TAWANTINSUYU EN ACONCAGUA (CHILE CENTRAL)

Assessing environmental drivers of microbial communities in estuarine soils of the Aconcagua River in Central Chile.

Aconcagua River basin (Central Chile) harbors diverse economic activities such as agriculture, mining and a crude oil refinery. The aim of this study was to assess environmental drivers of microbial communities in Aconcagua River estuarine soils, which may be influenced by anthropogenic activities taking place upstream and by natural processes such as tides and flood runoffs. Physicochemical pa...

El Cerebelo En El Autismo

Autism is considered as a neurodevelopmental disorder which affects boys more than girls, in a proportion 4:1 respectively. Autism presents neuroanatomical abnormalities located in the frontal cortex, the amygdala and the cerebellum. Autistic cerebellar postmortem studies have revealed a reduced number of Purkinje cells as well as a reduced Purkinje cell size when compared with non-autistic sub...

A High Altitude Archaeological Survey in Northern Chile Reconocimiento Arqueológico De Montañas Andinas En El Norte De Chile

This paper presents the results of an investigation of ten mountains undertaken in 1983 in Lauca and Isluga National Parks in northern Chile. Archaeological sites were surveyed on five of the summits and ethnographic information was collected in villages located near them. An Inca figurine, made out of mullu shell (spondylus) was discovered on the surface at one of the sites. The survey helps e...

Conflacionismo epistemológico: Los estudios sobre el pentecostalismo aymara en Chile (1975-1998)

The Aymara Pentecostalism is one of the most important religious movements in Chile. In the last decades it has been produced a considerable amount of sociological and anthropological research about this movement and this has resulted in the emergency of a particular field. However, these studies have not the thematized the relevance of the theoretical assumptions that underlie in their analysi...

Los sistemas de información y su efecto en el desempeño organizacional en empresas de la Octava Región de Chile