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We estimate the de facto exchange rate regimes for the seven most important Latin American economies (LA-7) between 1998 and 2011. We use the methodology developed by Zeileis, Shah and Patnaik (2010) because, unlike othe...

Peptides modulate many processes of human physiology targeting ion channels, protein receptors, or enzymes. They represent valuable starting points for the development of new biologics against communicable and non-commun...

Plants have emerged as a valuable source for neuroprotective compounds like flavonoids. These polyphenolic com pounds decrease neurotoxicity and the development of neurodegeneration. Potentiation of α7 nicotinic recepto...

Using the example of our own work about astronomies in the Argentinian Chaco, we show the fruitfulness of a regional approach to ethnoastronomical studies. Our interest is to highlight the relevance of thinking the astro...

Purple carrots (Daucus carota ssp. sativus var. atrorubens Alef.) accumulate anthocyanins in their roots, petioles and other plant parts. These flavonoid pigments represent an excellent dietary source of antioxidant and ...

Among the South American Arid Diagonal (SAAD), the Argentine Arid Diagonal (AAD) constitutes an area with low precipitations (less than 500 mm) and extends from the north of the country (on the border with Bolivia), to P...

The temporal dynamics in biological systems displays a wide range of behaviors, from periodic oscillations, as in rhythms, bursts, long-range (fractal) correlations, chaotic dynamics up to brown and white noise. Herein, ...

Computer-aided drug discovery and design involve the use of information technologies to identify and develop, on a rational ground, chemical compounds that align a set of desired physicochemical and biological properties...

In this survey article we present some of Janusz Czelakowski’s most influential contributions to the theory of quasivarieties. The material includes his work on: definability of principal congruences, characterizations...

This work presents the initial steps for the development of a serious game aimed at training users of upper limb prosthesis. In this initial phase, a virtual environment consisting of a soccer stadium was developed using...

In the context of global warming, droughts are increasingly threatening our societies. They last for months or even years, affecting wide areas and large numbers of people, with single drought events sometimes causing ec...

Ex vivo-generated antigen-loaded dendritic cells (DC) have been shown to be immunogenic in patients with cancer. Loading DC with autologous whole tumor antigens is a strategy to arm DC against tumor without human leukocy...

As a global conflict, the First World War was fought in and from different world locations and at different levels, including through the realms of symbolism. To mobilize human and material resources, justify the war and...

Beyond the unique sound of howler monkey vocalizations, their vigorous loud calling displays are perplexing given the otherwise sedentary lifestyle of these primates. Here we provide potential explanations for this energ...

Los requerimientos para capturar información sobre la forma del cuerpo humano están creciendo rápidamente y no solo se limitan a estudios ergonómicos o diseño, sino que también resultan de interés para aplicacione...

The pattern of somatic growth reflects the variable allocation of energy and materials throughout ontogeny, with direct impact on an individual’s fitness, and is therefore expected to be adaptive with regard to the dif...

E-learning systems present to students learning material carefully prepared and organized by teachers to meet some course goals. However, further relevant information that can help students to complete their learning pro...

Hunting and gathering remained the main mode of subsistence of humanity for hundreds of thousands of years, beginning some 1.8 million years ago, and until the Neolithic Revolution (some 10,000 years ago), when agricultu...

Intracellular levels of cyclic nucleotide second messengers are regulated predominantly by a large superfamily of phosphodiesterases (PDEs). Most of the different PDE variants play specific physiological functions; in fa...

HD 195592 is an O-type supergiant star, known as a well-established runaway. Recently, a Fermi γ-ray source (2FGL J2030.7+4417) with a position compatible with that of HD 195592 has been reported. Our goal is to explore...

Particle filters have been widely used as a solution to the Bayesian filtering problem, propagating in time a Monte Carlo (MC) approximation of the a posteriori filtering measure. In many situations, the exact statistics...

Population coding is the quantitative study of which algorithms or representations are used by the brain to combine together and evaluate the messages carried by different neurons. Here, we review an information-theory b...

Heteroduplex-based genotyping methods have proven to be technologically effective and economically effi cient for low- to medium-range throughput single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) determination. In this chapter we des...

Layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly microencapsulation is a promising method to protect and deliver probiotics, although its implementation has mostly been confined to the lab scale. This study develops a scalable method ...