Studies have documented biodiversity losses due to intensification of coffee management (reduction
in canopy richness and complexity). Nevertheless, questions remain regarding …

The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) represent a group of parasitic and related infectious
diseases such as amebiasis, Chagas disease, cysticercosis, echinococcosis, hookworm, …

In this study, we show that IFN-αβ can have a direct role in linking innate and adaptive
responses by providing the “third signal” needed by naive CD8 T cells responding to Ag and …

Despite their roles in intercellular communications, the different populations of extracellular
vesicles (EVs) and their secretion mechanisms are not fully characterized: how and to what …

… Arturo Valenzuela and I first used the notion of “inverse legitimation” to point to the deliberate
… the Chilean case in Arturo Valenzuela and J. Samuel Valenzuela, “Party Oppositions under …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the socioeconomic status (SES) school
segregation in Chile, whose educational system is regarded as an extreme case of a market-…

We have developed a model of cutaneous leishmaniasis due to Leishmania major that
seeks to mimic the natural conditions of infection. 1,000 metacyclic promastigotes were …

The end of World War II marked the beginning of fundamental transformations in world
affairs. The defeat of the Axis powers and the devastating toll which the war had exacted on …

Leishmania parasites are transmitted to their vertebrate hosts by infected phlebotomine sand
fly bites. Sand fly saliva is known to enhance Leishmania infection, while immunity to the …

There is as yet no adequate systematic comparative treatment of the position of labor
movements-or of other social actors-within processes of redemocratization out of authoritarian rule.'…