Thermocline topography, horizontal currents and “ridging” in the Eastern Tropical Pacific [PDF]
, 1958 ENGLISH: A primary objective of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission is a knowledge of the ecology of tunas which inhabit the Eastern Tropical Pacific. This paper presents some results of the work in physical oceanography, which, it is hoped, will
Cromwell, Townsend
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THE USE OF CHOICE EXPERIMENTS TO ANALYZE CONSUMER PREFERENCES FOR ORGANIC PRODUCE IN COSTA RICA [PDF]
Choice Experiments are used to elicit Costa Rican consumer preferences for different attributes of organic and conventional vegetables in a hypothetical market.
Hearne, Robert R., Volcan, Mirel
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Giving Voice to the Voiceless [PDF]
, 2018 The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences of matriculated, full time college students from a medium-sized Catholic, Liberal Arts College in the Northeast who identify as multi-racial or multi-ethnic, specifically identifying as coming ...
Palmer, Victoria L.
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Wolbachia and DNA barcoding insects: patterns, potential and problems [PDF]
, 2012 Wolbachia is a genus of bacterial endosymbionts that impacts the breeding systems of their hosts. Wolbachia can confuse the patterns of mitochondrial variation, including DNA barcodes, because it influences the pathways through which mitochondria are ...
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El elefante birmano de Uriel Quesada: una trasgresión al imaginario nacional
Káñina, 2006 Partiendo de la investigación de Carlos Sandoval sobre la inscripción del otro nicaragüense en la sociedad costarricense, se explora cómo el cuento "El elefante birmano" de Uriel Quesada trastoca las metáforas sobre la inmigración del imaginario ...
Verónica Ríos Quesada
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From Coffee Beans to Microchips: Export Diversification and Economic Growth in Costa Rica [PDF]
During the early 1980s Costa Rica experienced its worst economic crisis since World War II, which led to the abandonment of the import substitution model of development adopted in the 1960s.
Ferreira, Gustavo F.C.
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South-South Migration: The Impact of Nicaraguan Immigrants on Earnings, Inequality and Poverty in Costa Rica [PDF]
More than half of those who emigrate from developing countries move to other developing countries, yet there have been few studies of the impact of this South-South migration. In this paper, we examine the impact of migration from one developing country,
Gindling, T. H.
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Legal Minimum Wages and the Wages of Formal and Informal Sector Workers in Costa Rica [PDF]
The classic dual economy models of developing countries hold minimum wages (among other institutions) accountable for persistent dualism. They note that applying or enforcing minimum wage laws in only one sector of the economy will create wage ...
Katherine Terrell, T. H. Gindling
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100 years of tropical bryophyte and lichen ecology : a bibliographic guide to the literature from 1901 - 2000 [PDF]
, 2002 A list of 401 citations pertaining to the ecology of tropical bryophytes and lichens is presented. The bibliography includes publications addressing the biology, ecology, natural history, and physiology of bryophytes and lichens, but generally eschews ...
Merwin, Mark C., Nadkarni, Nalini M.
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