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Large‐Scale Forest Restoration Accompanied by Biodiversity Recovery in Costa Rica's Redistributive Payment for Ecosystem Service Program [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal change biology.
Transforming recorded sound into meaningful ecological insights requires carefully designed methodologies. This workflow diagram describes the steps of our analysis (contained within circles labeled 1–7), which builds on best practices to correct for potential biases.
Delgado G   +15 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Students’ Perceptions of Ethics in Applied Linguistics Research at a Costa Rican Public University

open access: yesActualidades Investigativas en Educación, 2022
This article examines students’ perceptions of ethics and ethical training in research on second language acquisition. The role of ethics in applied linguistics and research has received little attention, despite its relevance.
William Charpentier-Jiménez
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Streptococcus equi subspecies zooepidemicus Meningitis, Septicemia, and Brain Infarcts in a Costa Rican Infant

open access: yesCureus, 2021
Streptococcus equi, an equine commensal bacterium, is a rare etiology of septicemia and meningoencephalitis in humans and is extremely infrequent in children. Scarce literature has been published about its clinical presentation, treatment and outcomes in
Fabricio Sevilla-Acosta   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Modelling the Effect of Salt Concentration on the Fate of Listeria monocytogenes Isolated from Costa Rican Fresh Cheeses

open access: yesFoods, 2021
“Turrialba cheese” is a Costa Rican fresh cheese highly appreciated due to its sensory characteristics and artisanal production. As a ready-to-eat dairy product, its formulation could support Listeria monocytogenes growth. L.
G. Posada-Izquierdo   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

¿Valiente y viril? Masculinidades, cuerpo e identidad en la literatura costarricense (1888-1954)

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2022
The formative period of Costa Rican literature has been typically characterized within the productions of costumbrist realism that yearn for and promote the values of a traditional patriarchal society, which has founded central
Sergio Coto-Rivel
doaj   +1 more source

Trade liberalization and foreign direct investment: an applied general equilibrium model for Costa Rica [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
This paper quantifies the welfare impact of unilateral trade liberalization and computes the optimal tariff structure for Costa Rica in the presence of trade-policy-induced international capital flows and foreign capital taxation.
Abrego, Lisandro
core   +1 more source

Monitoring bank performance in the presence of risk [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper proposes a managerial control tool that integrates risk in efficiency measures. Building on existing efficiency specifications, our proposal reflects the real banking technology and accurately models the relationship between desirable and ...
Epure, Mircea   +1 more
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Nacionalismo conflictivo: exclusión-asimilación en Trocitos de carbón, de Carlos Gagini (Troubled Nationalism: Exclusion-Assimilation in Trocitos de carbón, by Carlos Gagini)

open access: yesLetras, 2017
Se analiza Trocitos de carbón (1923), de Carlos Gagini, una de las primeras muestras de un nacionalismo inclusivo que tiene en cuenta las provincias periféricas de Guanacaste, Puntarenas y Limón. Al mismo tiempo, el texto materializa los remanentes de un
Silvia Solano Rivera
doaj   +1 more source

Referencialidad e ironía en El crimen de Alberto Lobo, de Gonzalo Chacón Trejos (Referentiality and Irony in El crimen de Alberto Lobo, by Gonzalo Chacón Trejos)

open access: yesLetras, 2017
El artículo analiza dos aspectos particulares de la novela El crimen de Alberto Lobo, de Gonzalo Chacón Trejos, que se postula como histórica. En primer lugar, se estudia la relación entre la construcción del universo ficcional y las condiciones propias ...
Gustavo Camacho Guzmán
doaj   +1 more source

Imaginar un futuro después de la extinción: Cantos de las guerras preventivas de Fernando Contreras Castro

open access: yesAmerika, 2020
This article analyzes Cantos de las guerras preventivas by Costa-Rican author Fernando Contreras Castro, from the point of view of speculative fiction, and recent debates on the Anthropocene, and the question about de the future after the end.
Alexandra Ortiz Wallner
doaj   +1 more source

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