The option to delay individual actions makes coordination between a large number of agents with payoff strategic complementarities more difficult because it increases the incentive to free-ride on the information provided by the observation of the aggregate level of activity. * Boston University ** Central Bank of Italy Comments lvaro Aguirre and by participants of workshops in Barcelona, Sao P...

1 Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 2 Anatomy and Developmental Biology Program, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 3 Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases, Santiago, Chile, 4 UC Center for Investigation in Oncology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de C...

Extended Abstract The study La Economía del Cambio Climático en Chile (Economy of Climate Change in Chile) (CEPAL, 2009) shows the impacts of Climate Change in Chile using the results from the GCM model HadCM3, with two GHG scenarios (A2 and B2). As projected in these scenarios, for the near future period it is expected a raise in temperature in Central and South Chile in the order of 1-2°C and...

Studies of leaf traits often focus on tradeoffs between growth and resource conservation, but little is known about variation in the mechanical traits that influence resource conservation. This study investigates how leaf mechanical traits vary across matorral vegetation in central Chile, how they correlate with environmental factors, and how these trends compare at a broader geographic scale. ...

It has been previously established that native smooth-shelled mussels in southern South America possess close evolutionary affinities with Northern-Hemisphere Mytilus edulis L. 1758 (McDonald et al. (1991) [5]). This result has since been challenged by authors claiming that Chilean mussels should be considered a local subspecies of M. galloprovincialis Lmk. 1819. Moreover, morphological, physio...

The position and intensity of the southern westerly wind belt varies seasonally as a consequence of changes in sea surface temperature. During the austral winter, the belt expands northward and the wind intensity in the core decreases. Conversely, during the summer, the belt contracts, and the intensity within the core is strengthened. Reconstructions of the westerly winds since the last glacia...

C. ARRIETA, S. URIBE, C. SING-LONG, J. RAMOS, A. VARGAS, P. IRARRAZAVAL, AND C. TEJOS DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE, SANTIAGO, CHILE, BIOMEDICAL IMAGING CENTER, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE, SANTIAGO, CHILE, DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE, SANTIAGO, CHILE, DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, PONTIF...

C. SING-LONG, V. PAROT, C. LIZAMA, S. URIBE, C. TEJOS, AND P. IRARRAZAVAL DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE, SANTIAGO, CHILE, BIOMEDICAL IMAGING CENTER, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE, SANTIAGO, CHILE, DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE, UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE, SANTIAGO, CHILE, DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY, PONTIFICIA UNIVE...

3D quantification of wall shear stress and oscillatory index using finite-element interpolations in 4D flow MR data of the thoracic aorta. Julio Andres Sotelo, Jesús Urbina, Cristian Tejos, Israel Valverde, Daniel Hurtado, and Sergio Uribe Biomedical Imaging Center, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Santiago, Chile, Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Ch...