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Urban vegetation change after a hundred years in a tropical city (San José de Costa Rica) [PDF]
Rev. Biol. Trop. (Int. J. Trop. Biol. ISSN-0034-7744) Vol. 58 (4):
1367-1386, December 2010, 2015 Urban vegetation is of key importance because a large proportion of the human population lives in cities. Nevertheless, urban vegetation is understudied outside central Europe and particularly, little is known about the flora of tropical Asian, African and Latin American cities.
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Genres as Social Affect: Cultivating Moods and Emotions through Playlists on Spotify
Social Media + Society, 2019 This article bridges work on media technologies and affect theories through an analysis of how users appropriate playlists on Spotify. Our study draws on 30 interviews with users of music streaming services in Costa Rica and an analysis of their accounts
Ignacio Siles +3 more
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Estimation of the yield curve for Costa Rica using combinatorial optimization metaheuristics applied to nonlinear regression [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 The term structure of interest rates or yield curve is a function relating the interest rate with its own term. Nonlinear regression models of Nelson-Siegel and Svensson were used to estimate the yield curve using a sample of historical data supplied by the National Stock Exchange of Costa Rica.
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Valores extremos de inflación en Costa Rica [PDF]
arXivMaintaining low, non-negative and stable inflation levels is a necessary condition for the stability of the economy as a whole, because the monetary authorities of most industrialized countries, including the Central Bank of Costa Rica since 2005, they have oriented their monetary policy precisely to that task.
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Climate-driven statistical models as effective predictors of local dengue incidence in Costa Rica: A Generalized Additive Model and Random Forest approach [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Climate has been an important factor in shaping the distribution and incidence of dengue cases in tropical and subtropical countries. In Costa Rica, a tropical country with distinctive micro-climates, dengue has been endemic since its introduction in 1993, inflicting substantial economic, social, and public health repercussions.
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LX.—A collection of freshwater fishes made by Mr. C. F. underwood in Costa Rica [PDF]
, 1908 C. Tate Regan
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XII.—New species of Heterocera from Costa Rica.—IX [PDF]
, 1911 William Schaus
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O Mundo da Saúde, 2012 Se monitoreó la calidad del agua de la Quebrada Sanatorio (Tierra Blanca, Cartago, Costa Rica), durante abril, junio, agosto y octubre de 2011. Se establecieron tres puntos de muestreo utilizando una metodología de estratificación. Se realizó un análisis
Juan Salvador Chin Pampillo +4 more
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e-Ciencias de la InformaciónEl ensayo da a conocer el proceso de creación del Grupo RDA Costa Rica, surgido a raíz del proyecto de investigación entre la Universidad de Costa Rica y el Sistema Nacional de Bibliotecas (SINABI), para el cual se firmó un convenio institucional entre ...
Iria Briceño-Alvarez +5 more
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