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This basket is the perfect tote for your fresh farmers market goodies! Handmade and hand-woven, this beautiful carryall will be convenient for daily use for years. Each purchase supports artisans at Bolga Basket Weavers in Ghana.
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Artisans in the Bolgatanga region of Ghana, West Africa, weave beautiful and durable baskets from thick, tough elephant grass. A classic icon of African craftsmanship, most Bolga baskets hold up to daily use for years on end. Today, Bolgatanga, known as the crafts center of Northern Ghana, with its surrounding villages comprise the largest producers of leather works and straw baskets in the country. Basket weaving around Bolgatanga in Upper East Region serves as an example of the craft skills of women in the north. The sales of these baskets have allowed many impoverished farmers in the Bolgatanga region of Ghana, West Africa to attain a sustainable way of living.
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I haven't been able to find any way to get these for under 75US shipped (i.e. retail w/ free shipping). Anyone seen them on sale or know of any sites with decent coupon codes that carry them?
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also interested. free bump.
Once in a while Campsaver has a 20% off coupon. Usually MontBell is excluded, but sometimes it is not. I got my Dynamos there last year with the coupon. By the way, the pants have been a really good addition to my gear. I wore them quite regularly on the AT this spring, and they wore well, were very comfortable, and were a great wind block and water shedder.
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Campsaver has a HOLIDAY20 coupon (unlimited use) for 20% off all full priced items and there isn't a montbell exclusion through this weekend. Anything over 50US ships free.
The Dynamo Wind Pants come to 60US shipped after discount.
Available sizes as of writing are S-L.
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thanks brendan—i went to pull the trigger at 2pm est and the larges were already sold out!
HOWEVER, i bought the last medium. i figured with the fit guarantee, i can always swap them for the large after the sale is over if they are indeed a bit small, right? seems like they are running limited quantities for the sale for sure.
I've waited this long, what's another two weeks? :-)
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The day had been a grey one, shrouded closely by the battle-stained sky, but after dusk, the clouds had dissipated to some degree, allowing patches of satin night and ghostly, silver moonlight to be seen over the darkened earth. The world was still, as still as a world at war could ever truly be. Silence hung thick in the summer air, disturbed only by the infrequent rumbles of distant automobile engines and the occasional moaning of cattle.
The girl sat listening to this quiet and its interruptions. She sat there in her bed, leaning back upon her pillow, her blanket pulled up over her bent knees. She listened because the silence was good, and no good things last long. Not in war. One day, the stillness would be broken by the sound of artillery fire. Hopefully, that day would not be tomorrow. Similarly, one of these nights, the calm would be shattered by the shrill wail of the air raid sirens. Hopefully, that night would not be this one.
But listening for the footsteps of Death is a most exhausting activity, and at length, the girl grew weary of it. She turned her attention instead to the full moon as it slid out from behind a cloud. It stared through her window like a great, glowing blind eye, casting a square of pale light upon her bedspread. The moon did not care who lived and who died. It could not be bothered to take sides. The moon only watched, cold and unsympathetic, from a canvas of blinking stars. So it was and so it always would be.
Softly, the girl sang a song for the moon.
A slight breeze rustled in the trees outside before arriving at her open window and stirring the curtains. It was a chilly wind, much cooler than the air around it, and it made her shiver and pull her blanket up to her shoulders. When it had died away, the silence was broken once more by the clatter of a train crawling along the tracks that ran alongside the village. Only freight trains came along this route at this time of the night, slow snakes of cattle-cars winding eastward through the lightless countryside. Something about these trains unsettled her. The sounds they created made her think of the rattling of bones.
Once the clacking of the freight train had faded into the night and silence had resumed, the girl lay down and closed her eyes. The calm was not to last, however, for scarcely had she settled into the warm mattress when the reports of two gunshots announced themselves in the moonlight night. They sounded close.
She tensed, daring not to move. There came another shot, followed by a man's enraged cursing, then a spell in which nothing happened, at least nothing audible. The girl was just about to relax again when there came a sound from the forest, as if someone or something was crashing through the underbrush. This was accompanied shortly thereafter by a strange sort of whimpering and snuffling, during the course of which it became clear that whatever it was had come out of the woods, jumped the wall, and was now in the garden.
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I am interested in parsing out the information inside the windows firewall logs- is there any way to pull these in and create events or alerts based off of them?
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- Add the event IDs to Spicworks and they will be picked up by the scan
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Apr 26, 2011 at 12:42 UTC
Hmm... I'm going to have to dig into this- I can't see microsoft putting the same data from the pfirewall.log into the events. then again...
May 2, 2011 at 12:19 UTC
I think I'm going to have to ask for a feature request- the information I want I can pull using scripts and dumping the data back to a central box. From there I can parse it to get the info I want (allows, deny's, which hosts, which ports, etc) but I would have really like to have seen spiceworks have the capacity to add that information to each of the monitored hosts.
Don't get me wrong, the current event tracking is _EXCELLENT_! there's just always going to be a little something more than I want :P


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Benign tracheal stenosis (BTS) can be a life threatening condition for which surgical resection / reconstruction is often considered. Many patients presenting with BTS are poor surgical candidates and interventional bronchoscopy (IB) may be an attractive alternative to surgery in such patients.
26 patients not considered candidates for surgical resection due to physiologic impairment underwent IB for BTS between 1995 and 2002. Rigid bronchoscopic airway control was routinely utilized. Data regarding patient demographics and duration of symptom palliation were reviewed.
There were 12 males and 14 females, with a median age of 56 years. Expandable wire stents were used as primary treatment in 18 patients. Tracheal pneumatic balloon dilation was primary treatment for 5 , and laser fulguration in 3. A total of 58 procedures were performed. The mean number of procedures per patient was 2.3 with a range of 1 to 9. These included 26 stent insertions, 23 balloon dilations and 9 laser/manual debridements. Indication for intervention was dyspnea and/or stridor in 20 (77%) patients, respiratory failure due to stenosis in 2 (7%), hemoptysis with stenosis in 1 (7 %) and intractable cough with stenosis in 3 (11.5%). Four (15.3%) patients had complications (pneumothorax/2, hemoptysis/1, and airway obstruction requiring tracheostomy/1. There were no airway perforations. The 30-day mortality was 11.5% (3/26). Palliation of airway symptoms was established and maintained in 23/26 (88.4%) patients at a median follow up of 36 months (range 5 –53).
IB approaches appear to be a safe and effective management of BTS.
Patients with significant BTS who are not candidates for surgical resection may receive significant palliation of their symptoms with these IB approaches.
Endoscopic findingsNStenosis9Malacia7Granulation tissue2Pos lung TX2Wegener's disease2Squamous metaplasia1Papillomatosis1Idiopathic2
R.S. Santos, None.
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When Albina Shagimuratova was 12 years old, she heard a recording of Maria Callas singing the role of Violetta in La Traviata. "I was crying. I was really deeply moved by her singing," she tells us. "That's how I started to love opera, but I never thought I had a voice." That was then; fast-forward to today, and the 32-year-old Russian soprano is coming to Houston to make her debut in the role of Violetta with the Houston Grand Opera's production of Verdi's La Traviata. People love this opera because of the music and its story, says Shagimuratova. "This is a story all about sacrifice. It's about love too…Yes, she's sick and she's dying. It's of much more interest she's a very strong woman."
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CONCLUSIONS: Endobronchial EBV-associated leiomyomas in adults are very rare tumors that should be recognized by pulmonary physicians. They should be included in the differential of endobronchial polyps in immunosuppressed patients. They have been reported in the literature mainly in children with congenital HIV; however, they can also be seen in adults.
Reference #1 Dmello, D, Javed, A, Espiritu, J, Matuschak, G: Endobronchial Leiomyoma: Case Report and Literature Review. J of Bronchology & Interventional Pulmonology. 2009; 16:1: 49-51
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Executive attention impairment in first-episode schizophrenia
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We compared the attention abilities of a group of first-episode schizophrenia (FES) patients and a group of healthy participants using the Attention Network Test (ANT), a standard procedure that estimates the functional state of three neural networks controlling the efficiency of three different attentional behaviors, i.e., alerting (achieving and maintaining a state of high sensitivity to incoming stimuli), orienting (ability to select information from sensory input), and executive attention (mechanisms for resolving conflict among thoughts, feelings, and actions).
We evaluated 22 FES patients from 17 to 29 years of age with a recent history of a single psychotic episode treated only with atypical neuroleptics, and 20 healthy persons matched with FES patients by sex, age, and educational level as the control group. Attention was estimated using the ANT in which participants indicate whether a central horizontal arrow is pointing to the left or the right. The central arrow may be preceded by spatial or temporal cues denoting where and when the arrow will appear, and may be flanked by other arrows (hereafter, flankers) pointing in the same or the opposite direction.
The efficiency of the alerting, orienting, and executive networks was estimated by measuring how reaction time was influenced by congruency between temporal, spatial, and flanker cues. We found that the control group only demonstrated significantly greater attention efficiency than FES patients in the executive attention network.
FES patients are impaired in executive attention but not in alerting or orienting attention, suggesting that executive attention deficit may be a primary impairment during the progression of the disease.
KeywordsSchizophrenia First-episode Attention ANT Executive Cognitive
Schizophrenia is a mental illness affecting 1% of the world population and has severe deleterious effects on quality of life; mainly because symptoms begin at an early age and full recovery has not been achieved with current therapies [1]. Schizophrenia is characterized by multiple cognitive impairments including attention deficit [2]. Most psychosocial problems in schizophrenia are associated with cognitive deficiency [3, 4, 5, 6].
The majority of studies on cognition in schizophrenia involve heterogeneous samples of adults suffering from chronic schizophrenia with long histories of somatic treatments including electroconvulsive therapy. Thus, the nature of neurocognitive dysfunction is potentially confounded by the effects of age, clinical symptoms, illness duration and severity, and/or treatment. Over the past 15 to 20 years, however, there has been a growing interest in the clinical and neurocognitive characteristics of the early phases of schizophrenia, an approach that has the potential to minimize many of the interpretive difficulties associated with studying chronically ill patients [7].
Attention deficits have been reported in schizophrenia from the earliest descriptions of the disease [8]. As one of the earliest clinical manifestations of schizophrenia, attention impairment may be a primary disorder in the neuropathology of schizophrenia [9, 10]. Most data on attention deficit in schizophrenia have involved chronic patients and have found that these patients demonstrate impairment in all three attention networks (evaluated with the Attention Network Test; ANT). Yet, studies of chronic schizophrenia provide little information to shed light on which attention capacity is primarily impaired and which may explain the first manifestations of the disease.
Attention is not a single unitary system but a set of integrated processes that act on all levels of cognitive processing from sensory entry to motor exit [9, 11]. As early as Bleuler's (1911) articles, many authors have been led to consider attentional disorder as a basic manifestation of the development of the illness.
Attention in schizophrenia has been primarily studied with the Stroop test and the Continuous Performance Test (CPT). The Stroop test estimates how reaction time slows when a participant must deal with conflicting information. In the classic Stroop test, participants need to say, as fast as possible, the name of the color of words written in ink of the same or of a different color from that which is specified by the letters (e.g., the word "blue" written in green ink). Participants take longer to say the name of the color when the written words are different from the ink color. The Stroop test is presented on printed cards or on a computer screen. In the card version of this test, under conditions of conflict, patients suffering from chronic schizophrenia show slower reaction times and a higher error rate than control participants. Therefore, schizophrenic patients present an increase in degree of sensitivity to interference [12]. Studies carried out with the computer version of the Stroop test have shown that, when compared to healthy control participants, schizophrenic patients present a higher error rate in situations ranging from the neutral to the incongruent or conflicting condition [12]. Deficits in the execution of the CPT have been detected in chronic schizophrenia and in adolescent and adult patients during early stages of the illness, in nonpsychotic relatives of patients, and in offspring at risk of inheriting the illness from their schizophrenic parents [13]. The totality of these studies suggest that the sustained attention deficit, as measured by the CPT, is stable during the course of the illness, does not improve with antipsychotic treatment, and has a strong genetic component. CPT deficits would appear to be specific to schizophrenia; they are not found in depression and in adolescents that are at risk of suffering affective illnesses [13].
Current models have shown that attention is not a unitary function but the result of three different attentional networks, i.e., alerting, orienting, and executive function [14], that can be independently evaluated using the ANT [15, 16, 17]. Alerting is manifested by achieving and maintaining the alert state, orienting by the ability to direct attention to sensory events, and executive attention by efficient control of thoughts, actions, and feelings. The ANT has been widely validated across a number of cultures, ages, and morbid entities. Some recent studies exploring attention in chronic schizophrenia with the ANT have revealed contrasting results: One study reported impairment in orientation and executive attention [18], whereas others referred exclusively to a deficit in executive attention [19, 20, 21] or in alerting [22]. Still other studies have produced controversial results, reporting smaller conflict effect scores in individuals with chronic schizophrenia measured behaviorally [23] and by event-related potentials [24]. Finally, another study observed that positive syndrome patients showed less efficiency than healthy controls in the orientation network [25]. The discrepancy reported by these studies may be due to the heterogeneity of symptoms and syndromes in chronic schizophrenic patients. For example, the sample described by Gooding et al. [19] consisted of chronic schizophrenia–spectrum patients including chronic schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. However, the inconsistency can also be a consequence of differences in the progression and treatment of the disease. Studying patients with first-episode schizophrenia (FES) provides the advantage of being able to control the different factors described above. A consistent impairment in attention exists in FES [7]; nevertheless, to the best of our knowledge, attention networks in FES patients have not been evaluated with the ANT. The aim of our study was to establish which attentional network is impaired in schizophrenia during early stages of the disease treated only with one atypical antipsychotic.
Since schizophrenia is highly related to dopamine and prefrontal dysfunction in its earliest stages, we may expect that FES patients exhibit exclusive reduction in executive attention [26, 27]. Indeed, in monkeys, alerting is more influenced by norepinephrine [28] and orienting by acetylcholine [29, 30, 31]. We thus hypothesize that, contrary to patients with chronic schizophrenia, FES patients will only show a primary deficit in executive attention.
Twenty-two FES participants took part in this study. FES patients were recruited between 2004 and 2009 from Psychiatry Services of Hospital Barros Luco Trudeau and Hospital Salvador in Santiago, Chile. The 22 FES patients met the clinical and DSM-IV-TR criteria for schizophrenia in the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I). Nineteen FES patients were paranoid, two disorganized, and one catatonic. They were evaluated during a period ranging from 1 to 36 months after clinical diagnosis with no history of other episodes prior to or after diagnosis. After a psychotic episode, FES patients were rated on the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scales (PANSS). Their scores on the Positive Syndrome Scale ranged from 7 to 13 (mean = 8.5 ± 2.0) and on the Negative Syndrome Scale ranged from 7 to 28 (mean = 16.8 ± 6.2), corresponding to mild schizophrenia. During the evaluations of our study, FES patients were clinically stable, receiving a single atypical antipsychotic medication, i.e., Risperidone in 14 FES patients (dose: 4.5-9 mg/day), Olanzapine in three FES patients (dose: 20–30 mg/day), Clozapine in four FES patients (dose: 125–550 mg/day), and Quetiapine in one FES patient (dose: 250 mg/day). Computed cerebral tomography of 20 patients showed no brain abnormalities. Two patients refused to participate. FES patients showed no significant extrapyramidal symptoms upon evaluation with the Extrapyramidal Symptom Rating Scale (ranging from 0 to 10 with a maximum score of 175) and reported no visual or hearing problems. Every participant verbally confirmed that they correctly understood the procedure and the tasks. All evaluations were carried out in the University of Chile, Department of Psychiatry. Twenty healthy control participants, matched with FES patients by age, gender, and years of education, were also included in the study.
For both FES and control participants, exclusion criteria included history of: (a) brain disease other than schizophrenia, (b) mental retardation, (c) substance abuse, or (d) electroconvulsive therapy. The study was approved by the regional ethics committee for biomedical research of the University of Chile, Faculty of Medicine. Before participating in any evaluation, all participants were invited to participate by a psychiatrist who explained the study's goal and steps among other study-related information, and gave a copy of the written informed consent. All participants signed the written informed consent before starting the first evaluation.
FES participants were evaluated in three consecutive sessions. In the first session, the SCID-I was used to verify the clinical diagnosis and the PANSS was administered. In the second session, global cognition was estimated with the Dementia Rating Scale (DRS) and Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM), two standard scales evaluating cognitive efficiency in adults. In the third session, FES participants underwent the ANT.
Participants of the control group were evaluated in only two sessions. In the first session, the absence of mental disorder was verified using the SCID-I, then global cognition was estimated with the DRS and RPM. In the second session, control participants underwent the ANT. The DRS and RPM tests were administered to FES and control groups to corroborate the differences in global cognition between both groups and to determine their correlation with the efficiency of attention networks.
Cognitive assessments
Global cognition
The DRS global score estimates combined cognitive functioning with the following components: attention, initiation-perseveration, construction, conceptualization, and memory domains [32]. Some DRS items also assess overall attentional capacity [33], which can be calculated by adding the scores of the following untimed tasks to produce what we will refer to as the DRS attention score: digit span forward and backward, motor response to single commands, visual scanning, word list reading, and visual figure matching. The RPM raw score estimates reasoning by asking participants to determine the missing segment required to complete a larger pattern from a series of geometric arrangements that become progressively more difficult to solve [34].
The ANT
Statistical analysis
Analysis of demographic, clinical, and global cognition data
Gender, age, years of education, and DRS and RPM scores of FES and control groups were submitted to a t test for independent samples (alpha = .05; two-tailed). Moreover, to measure global attention with a clinical tool, we submitted the DRS subscore estimating attention in FES and control groups to a one-way ANOVA.
ANT analysis
The mean accuracy and RT in each experimental condition were submitted to two separate repeated-measures ANOVA with Target direction (Left & Right), Flanker type (Neutral, Congruent, & Incongruent), and Cue type (No, Central, Double, & Spatial cues) as within-subjects factors, and Group (FES & Control) as the between-subjects factor. The mean efficiency for alert, orientation and executive attention networks was submitted to a repeated-measures ANOVA with Network (Alert, Orientation, & Executive) as the within-subjects factor and Group (FES & Control) as the between-subjects factor. The Greenhouse-Geisser correction was applied in all comparisons.
We estimated the independence of attention networks by submitting the mean efficiency between all possible pairs of attention networks in FES and control participants to a Spearman correlation analysis. Moreover, we explored the correlation between attention network efficiency and global cognition by evaluating the mean DRS and RPM scores against the mean efficiency of each attention network in FES and control participants in another Spearman correlation analysis.
Demographic and clinical data
Demographic and clinical data of the FES and control groups
FES patients (n = 22)
Control group (n = 20)
Standard deviation
Standard deviation
Age (years)
Education level (years)
Global cognition
Results on global cognition are described in Table 1. Global cognition was significantly lower in FES participants compared to control participants in both the DRS (t(41) = 5.5, p < .001) and RPM (t(41) = 8.2, p < .001). Consistent with attention deficiency in FES, the mean overall attentional capacity estimated by the DRS's attention subscore was also significantly lower for FES participants than controls (F(1,36) = 32.7, p < .001).
The ANT
Efficiency of attention networks
Independence of attention networks
No significant correlations were found between any pair of attentional networks.
Correlation between attention and global cognition
When we compared the entire sample (i.e., FES and control participants), the RPM raw score correlated negatively with the efficiency of the Executive network (Spearman's rho = −.32, p < .04). However, when we restricted the comparison to each group, the correlation was not significant.
To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first to explore the efficiency of alerting, orienting, and executive attention in FES patients using the ANT. In our sample, FES participants were all being treated with atypical antipsychotics and no other drugs that affect cognition, constituting a relatively homogenous group of patients with schizophrenia. Our results showed that FES participants have impairment in executive attention, even when clinical manifestations of the disease are controlled by antipsychotic drugs. The efficiency of executive attention in FES participants was lower than observed for control participants. In contrast, alerting and orienting attention were not significantly impaired in FES participants. Our results are consistent with previous studies in chronic patients using the ANT [18, 19, 21]. However, studies focusing solely on male patients [23], classifying by gender [20], using event-related potentials [24], and concentrating on symptoms measured by the PANSS [25] did not report specific impairments in executive attention. This may be explained by the heterogeneity of symptoms, syndromes, and treatments in chronic schizophrenic patients, the level of nicotine that may improve attention in these patients [35], or the lack of evaluation of global cognition in some of these studies. Although our study does not endeavor to propose any causal relationships between initial executive attention damage and later difficulty with alerting or orienting, impairments in executive attention in the early stages of schizophrenia may play a crucial role in the progression of the disease.
The independence of the three attention networks evaluated with the ANT has been controversial. Although Fan et al. (2002), did not find significant correlations between the networks in their first report, they did observe interactions between them [15]. A recent study involving the analysis of 1,141 healthy persons (from different studies) [36] has shown that the level of correlation between the attention networks is influenced by experimental manipulations. The above-mentioned study identifies an interaction between the Cue and Flanker conditions in all studies, supporting the idea that attentional networks influence each other. In our study, we also found a significant Cue X Flanker interaction in both FES and control groups due to the significant improvement of performance in incongruent trials when spatial cues were present. These results did not demonstrate network-specific effects but allow for the possibility that initial impairment in executive attention may influence the functioning of alerting and/or orienting attentional networks in more advanced stages of the disease.
Similar to previous reports [18, 37, 38, 39, 40], the impairment in executive attention cannot be directly attributed to a global cognition deficiency in our study. Although the DRS total scores, DRS attention scores, and RPM scores were significantly lower for FES than for control participants, they did not significantly correlate to the efficiency of executive attention, accuracy, or RT for any condition for either group. The poorer performance in cognitive tasks observed in schizophrenia patients has also been associated with an overall cognitive slowdown, secondary to a reduction in motor and information processing speed [7, 37, 39, 41], drowsiness, and extrapyramidal symptoms induced by drugs [42, 43]. Our results could not be directly attributed to these factors because FES participants did not exhibit a significant decrease in RT for alerting and orienting networks, or any extrapyramidal problems.
Executive attention deficits have been described in several neuropsychiatric pathologies such as schizophrenia–spectrum and schizoaffective disorders [19], Alzheimer disease, 22q11 deletion syndrome, borderline personality disorder [44], post-traumatic stress disorder [45], obesity accompanied by severe psychiatric co-morbidity [46], and attentional deficit disorder [47]. These deficits may thus underpin a large range of self-regulation disorders [17]. Self-regulation refers to the ability to monitor and modulate the cognitive state, emotions, and behaviors to accomplish goal-directed tasks, and to adapt to specific cognitive and social demands [48, 49]. Our results mesh well with this proposal in suggesting that early executive attention deficits in FES patients might explain their difficulties in exerting control over thoughts, feelings, and actions [50], and over some disexecutive behaviors [51]. Further studies with larger samples and applying other cognitive assessment batteries are necessary to pinpoint the exact role of executive attention in specific cognitive problems of FES patients. Our results, however, contribute with new data that can potentially facilitate a better understanding of the physiopathology, diagnosis, and rehabilitation of schizophrenia.
In this study, we observed that FES patients are impaired in executive attention but not in alerting or orienting attention. Our findings suggest that executive attention deficit may be a primary impairment during the progression of the disease.
We thank the participants and Samantha Bangayan who edited this manuscript.
Funding: This work was partially supported by the Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica - Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico, Gobierno de Chile (grants FONDECYT #1050175 to AS; and CONICYT #PSD 72 to MP). These institutions had no further role in the design of the study; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the paper for publication.
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