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Innovation, R&D and Productivity in the Costa Rican ICT Sector: A Case Study [PDF]

This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the relative ...
John Hewitt, Ricardo Monges-Gonzalez
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Scaling of Short‐Duration, Summer Rainfall Event Temporal Profiles With Warming Over Great Britain

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
Temperature scaling has been used to analyse the temporal profiles of short‐duration, summer rainfall events in Great Britain, for sub‐hourly observed and convection‐permitting climate model (CPM) data. Results show an increase with dewpoint temperature of event total rainfall depth, maximum intensity, concentration and front‐loading.
Alexandra Seawell, Hayley J. Fowler, Stephen Blenkinsop, Caspar J. M. Hewett, Roberto Villalobos Herrera, Marie Hundhausen, Haider Ali   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aprendizaje Organizacional en aduanas durante crísis sanitarias: El caso del servicio nacional de aduanas de Costa Rica frente al COVID 19

Gobierno y Administración Pública
Este artículo examina los aprendizajes organizacionales y el rol de la discrecionalidad administrativa en el Servicio Nacional de Aduanas de Costa Rica durante la pandemia por COVID-19, una situación crítica que desafió la capacidad adaptativa del sector
Laura Sariego-Kluge, María Luisa Ramirez, Madelyn Chavarría Muñoz, Olivier Traña Duarte   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Borders Manifest: Racializing the Nicaraguan Refugee in Costa Rica [PDF]

, 2019
I look to border responses of North American countries as refugees and migrants move across them to argue that border responses racialize the foreign other in receiving countries.
Twidwell, Theodore B.
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A new species of Ptiloglossa from Mexico, with new records of Ptiloglossa cyaniventris from Panama and Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) [PDF]

, 2014
A new bee species of the genus Ptiloglossa Smith (Colletidae: Diphaglossinae: Caupolicanini) is described and figured from Jalisco, Mexico, while new records are provided for Ptiloglossa cyaniventris Friese from Panama and a single locality in Costa Rica.
Ayala, Ricardo, Engel, Michael S.
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Demystifying Non‐Western Administrative Traditions: An Empirical Comparison of Administrative Systems in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
wiley   +1 more source

Consumo de cigarrillos electrónicos en Latinoamérica: aspectos epidemiológicos y toxicológicos

Población y Salud en Mesoamérica
Introducción: El uso de cigarrillos electrónicos (CE) ha crecido en Latinoamérica, especialmente entre personas jóvenes, pese a la escasa evidencia sobre sus efectos a largo plazo y la presencia de compuestos tóxicos en los líquidos de vapeo (LP).
Fabio Andrés Chaves-Campos, Fabiana Tabash-Porras, Fernando Ortíz-Morales, Maripaz Castro-Murillo   +3 more
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Single Mothers and Poverty in Costa Rica [PDF]

Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty because of ...
Gindling, T. H., Oviedo, Luis
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Face to Face in Costa Rica [PDF]

, 2010
While still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield College write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries
Weller, Felicia
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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski, Łukasz Walas, Marzenna Guzicka   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source