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Task-specific signatures in the expert brain: Differential correlates of translation and reading in professional interpreters.
Insights on the neurocognitive particularities of expert individuals have benefited from language studies on professional simultaneous interpreters (PSIs). Accruing research indicates that behavioral advantages in this ... -
Techno-Economic Forecasts of Lithium Nitrates for Thermal Storage Systems.
Thermal energy storage systems (TES) are a key component of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants that generally use a NaNO3/KNO3 mixture also known as solar salt as a thermal storage material. Improvements in TES materials ... -
Territorial development and mining. Insights and challenges from the Chilean case.
As mining activity generally occurs far away from metropolitan areas, governments tend to forget the problems that communities in mining regions face. Centralized government systems and, more importantly, a lack of a robust ... -
The Ahumada promenade of Enrique Lihn: traversing the fantasy of the chilean economic miracle.
Enrique Lihn’s El Paseo Ahumada is formatted like a 28-page newspaper and emulates the sensationalist tone of the tabloid press, with news pieces and photographs reflecting day-to-day life on the Paseo Ahumada, a pedestrian ... -
The anisotropic chiral boson.
We construct the theory of a chiral boson with anisotropic scaling, characterized by a dynamical exponent z that takes positive odd integer values. The action reduces to that of Floreanini and Jackiw in the isotropic case ... -
The Army of the Andes: Chilean and Rioplatense Politics in an Age of Military Organisation, 1814-1817.
This article analyses the organisation of the Army of the Andes, created in Mendoza between 1814 and 1817 with the aim of reconquering Chile from the royalists. The first section studies the role of José de San Martín as ... -
The association between flavor capsule cigarette use and sociodemographic variables: Evidence from Chile.
Purpose The objective of this article is to examine the factors associated with smoking of flavor capsule cigarettes in Chile, where the popularity of these products has increased dramatically, a trend increasingly observed ... -
The babadook of Jennifer Kent: The Duality of Human and the staging of monster.
The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how the dimension of monstrosity, ever latent in the individual and collective subconscious, transforms itself into a creature who incarnates the irrationality within childhood. ...