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How Does Vulnerability Framing by Microfinance Institutions Leverage Funding Success in Crowdfunding?

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study draws on framing theory to investigate how microfinance institutions (MFIs) strategically construct a vulnerability‐oriented organisational identity and how this framing influences their funding decisions during the pre‐campaign phase of prosocial crowdfunding.
Ana Paula Matias Gama, Ricardo Emanuel‐Correia, Fábio Duarte, Mário Augusto   +3 more
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Cultural Strength Mechanisms: Family Ethnic Socialization, Ethnic Identity, Familism Links to Rural US Latino/a Youth Prosocial Behaviors Across Time

Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Cultural strength‐based models propose that family ethnic socialization promotes prosocial development in Latino/a youth through cultural values such as ethnic identity and familism. However, longitudinal research testing these serial pathways remains scarce, and prosocial behavior is understudied in rural, emerging immigrant ...
Alexia Carrizales, Gustavo Carlo, Yumary Ruiz, Zoe E. Taylor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resilience and Empathy in Dental Students: A Comparative Cross‐Sectional Study in Two Latin American Universities

Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To examine the association between resilience and empathy in dental students and to explore how specific resilience dimensions relate to different components of empathy in two Latin American universities. Methods This cross‐sectional study included students from two countries: Argentina (n = 200) and Costa Rica (n = 222).
María Jorgelina Ulloque, Laura Sánchez Jiménez, Sara Huerta‐González, Rubén Eduardo Vázquez‐García, Lindsey W. Vilca, Silvina Villalba, José Gamarra‐Moncayo, Yolanda Dávila‐Pontón, Iván Eduardo Insignares‐Arango, Alma Rosa Quiroz Guerra, Víctor P. Díaz‐Narváez   +10 more
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A new old species of Tetracera (Dilleniaceae) from Espinhaço Range, Brazil

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Tetracera is the only genus within Dilleniaceae with a pantropical distribution. During efforts for a taxonomic revision of the neotropical species, we identified incongruences between application of names and their taxonomic identities, based on protologue and type specimen analysis. Here we describe a new species for the genus bearing a single carpel
Michelly D. F. Araújo, João V. L. Monzoli, Leandro L. Giacomin, Claudio N. Fraga   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Atención educativa de la Comunidad Sorda: aportes para la formación profesional, Universidad de Costa Rica

Actualidades Investigativas en Educación
Este ensayo académico tiene como objetivo explorar las dinámicas de las ofertas y servicios educativos a nivel nacional, así como las situaciones que han influido en la educación de las personas sordas y con pérdida auditiva.
Yanúa Ovares Fernández, Irene Salazar Carvajal, Ana Gabriela González Chacón, Geannina Ramírez Hidalgo, Nancy Barboza Zuñiga   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Caracterización de los síntomas de Thanatephorus sp. en el cultivo de papa (Solanum tuberosum)

Agronomía Mesoamericana
Introducción. Thanatephorus sp. es un basidiomiceto, con un amplio rango de hospederos, que puede formar estructuras de resistencia con una alta variabilidad genética. Objetivo. Caracterizar la sintomatología causada por el fitopatógeno Thanatephorus sp.
María Cecilia Aguilar-Zamora, Carlos Sánchez Romero, Francisco Brenes Brenes, Eduardo Granados Brenes   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ethnobotanical and genetic assessments of Central American avocado landraces reveal novel sources of biodiversity and ancient migration patterns

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Avocados are a multibillion‐dollar global commodity, but their growing export market pressures local farmers to abandon local fruit tree diversity in favor of commercial cultivar production. Interviews with rural avocado farmers and households from the Southern Mexican Highlands, Pacific Coastal Honduras, and Western Nicaragua, as well as the genetic ...
Kevin Wann, Heather B. Thakar, Courtney A. Hofman, Hector Neff, Logan Kistler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

De la neuroplasticidad a las propuestas aplicadas: estimulación temprana y su implementación en Costa Rica

Revista Costarricense de Psicología, 2016
La discusión en torno a la influencia del ambiente sobre la ontogenia ha alimentado la interrogante sobre cuál es el grado en el que, a través de la manipulación del contexto, se modifican las características de los individuos.
Johanna Sibaja-Molina, Tracy Sánchez-Pacheco, Mijail Rojas-Carvajal, Jaime Fornaguera-Trías   +3 more
doaj  

Sampling for Socially‐Inclusive Adoption Studies (SSAS): A new interdisciplinary sampling method for DNA‐fingerprinting‐based crop varietal adoption studies

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
DNA fingerprinting is becoming the standard measurement procedure in crop adoption studies in the Global South, yet the lack of systematic and intentional sampling regarding which farmer to go to the plot with may bias results from these methods. We introduce a methodological innovation, Sampling for Socially Inclusive Adoption Studies (SSAS), to offer
Yoselyn Hernandez Chaves, Luis A. Sanchez Chacon, Martina Occelli, Sergio Puerto, Ruth Castro‐Vásquez, Bethany F. Econopouly, Joyce Estrada‐Gamboa, Erica Lopez, Vanessa Mora, Deborah Rubin, Kelly R. Robbins, Roberto Camacho, Hale A. Tufan   +12 more
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