The wave of private capital flows toward developing countries in the early 1990s resembles to a great extent the earlier episode of the late 1970s. Despite some important differences in inflow composition, both episodes were characterized by a high concentration of flows in a relatively small number of countries, mainly in Latin America and East Asia. Also, both episodes ended in a major financ...

We used the near infrared spectrometer ISAAC at the ESO Very Large Telescope to map the velocity field of Centaurus A (NGC 5128) at several position angles and locations in the central 20 of the galaxy. The high spatial resolution (∼ 0. 5) velocity fields Based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory, Paranal, Chile (ESO Program 63.P0271A) Affiliated to Space Science Depa...

The extracts of several plants of Central Chile exhibited anti-Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes activity. Most active extracts were those obtained from Podanthus ovatifolius, Berberis microphylla, Kageneckia oblonga, and Drimys winteri. The active extract of Drimys winteri (IC50 51.2 microg/mL) was purified and three drimane sesquiterpenes were obtained: polygodial, drimenol, and isodrimenin. ...

The temperate deciduous species Nothofagus glauca (Phil.) Krasser exhibits characteristics commonly found in fire-adapted vegetation, yet the role of fire in the evolutionary history of the vegetation in south-central Chile has not been well investigated. We examined the effects of a wildfire on early succession in a Nothofagus glauca forest in the Coastal Cordillera of south-central Chile by c...

Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) atacamensis, a new species in the subgenus Nyssorhynchus, is described and validated using morphological characters of the male and female adult, male genitalia and immature stages. Molecular characterization employing sequences of the ITS2 rDNA and COI mtDNA are provided. The new taxon is compared with Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) pictipennis (Philippi) from central Chil...

Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal/Animal Science Department/Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile/Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago, Chile. 2 Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmaceúticas, Universidad de Chile. Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Universidad de Chile. * Corresponding autor: [email protected] ___________________________________________________...

Invited Editors 1 Universidad de Chile, Department of Management Control and Information Systems, Santiago, Chile, [email protected] 2 University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Information and Decision Sciences, Chicago, United States, [email protected] 3 Texas A&M International University, School of Business, United States, [email protected] 4 Universidad de Chile, Department Managemen...

Carlos Conca1, Mario Durán2, Jacques Rappaz3 1 Departamento de Ingenierı́a Matemática, Facultad de Ciencias Fı́sicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 170/3 – Correo 3, Santiago, Chile 2 Facultad de Matemáticas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 306, Santiago 22, Chile Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau, France 3 Département de Ma...

D. Laroze1,2,3,, P. Vargas1, D. Altbir4, and M. Vázquez3 1Departamento de Fı́sica, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Marı́a, Casilla 110-V, Chile 2Instituto de Fı́sica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaı́so, Casilla 4059, Chile 3Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Campus Cantoblanco E–28049, Spain 4Departamento de Fı́sica, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Av. Ecuador 3493,...