Despite the Chilean economic success and the high number of women appointees in executive positions, a wide gender gap still exists in the political and economic realms, which is even broader than in the rest of Latin America. This study looks at the labor market, an area in which the gender divide is strong and prevents women’s progress. It examines (1) the situation of Chilean women at work s...

The begining of phosphatic deposits study was dated around 1963 through the survey developed at Bahia Tongoy, and later on at Pachingo in 1989. In this article, a synthesis of the main geological, physico-chemical, and agronomic features of these materials is presented, remarking some of these properties, and agronomical applications obtained after the accomplished research. Location of deposit...

It has been demonstrated that HLA-B*5701 screening reduces the risk for hypersensitivity reaction to abacavir in HIV-infected patients. Since B*5701 prevalence varies among different populations, it is important to determine the carrier frequency prior to its use for the screening of HIV-infected patients.The aim of this study was to determine HLA-B*5701 carrier frequency in Chilean general pop...

The article draws attention to the historical and social processes that influenced peculiarities of development Ukrainian culture, in particular, formed specifics church-educational life liturgical-choral practice Galicia late nineteenth first half twentieth centuries. close cooperation spiritual artistic elite was emphasized, which resulted improvement level art education, intensification acti...

The article examines the problem of using complete idioms with colors in English and Ukrainian. covers definition various approaches to their study use by famous linguists. authors present a classification idioms, particular semantic structural. In addition, syntactic constituents consisting color is considered. researching discusses implicit nature term "implicit meaning" considered as meaning...

The Chilean Electronic Market for Annuities was created in 2004 in order to correct several malfunctions of the market for annuities. The Chilean Pension System is composed of two phases. On the accumulation phase, savings are collected and managed by asset managers. The payout phase consists in pension payments mainly in the form of annuities and programmed withdrawals. The market for annuitie...

OBJECTIVE To determine the level of agreement between the American (Chilean) and British food composition tables in estimating intakes of macronutrients and antioxidants. DESIGN, SETTING AND SUBJECTS Information based on a food-frequency questionnaire with emphasis on antioxidants was collected from 95 Chileans aged 24-28 years. Nutritional composition was analysed using the British table of ...

UNLABELLED Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are multifactorial diseases with a genetic background. Recent results have shown that a non-synonymous, single nucleotide polymorphism (rs11209026, c.1142G>A, p.Arg381Gln) located in the IL-23R gene is associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The prevalence of IBD is rapidly rising in Chile and there is no information about th...