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ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
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Common bean genotypes differ in their iron acquisition through distinct Strategy I responses and root exudation patterns. Abstract Iron (Fe) deficiency in food crops, particularly on calcareous soils, limits productivity and human nutrition. This study investigated two common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) genotypes, Guaymí (high Fe‐accumulating, HI) and ...
F. X. Rucamumihigo +4 more
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We compared two population census methods for howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata), the visual count and acoustic triangulation methods, and found both to be accurate at predicting population size. ABSTRACT Introduction Accurate population density estimates are important for guiding conservation management practices for threatened animal species.
Laura M. Bolt +5 more
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Se estudia la traducción de literaturas periféricas a través de la poesía costarricense con dos propósitos: mostrar cómo la traducción puede configurar la imagen externa de una producción literaria nacional y describir la imagen que las traducciones le ...
Francisco Javier Vargas Gómez
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Ecological studies of how interactions, communities, and species change along elevational gradients are still missing from some key organisms and ecosystems. We quantify bee–plant interactions and bee diversity patterns along a low elevation Neotropical mountain.
Valerie E. Peters, Jenny Hsu
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Voces marginales en "Bienvenido a tu Nueva Vida" de Uriel Quesada
La narrativa costarricense actual pone en circulación una serie de temas nunca antes tratados en nuestra literatura; tal es el caso del texto de Uriel Quesada, donde la problemática gay y el homoerotismo se plantean a partir de la voz del narrador ...
Virginia Caamaño M.
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Centroamérica, una utopía de Carlos Gagini contra el Imperio
The novel La caída del águila (1920), by Costa Rican writer Carlos Gagini, uses science fiction to imagine and resignify the Central American space at a time when the consequences of World War I and the advance of the U.S. presence in Latin America favor
Sergio Coto-Rivel
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Modern confined masonry (CM) construction consists of masonry walls confined by reinforced concrete (RC) tie‐columns and tie‐beams. When built correctly, CM buildings have shown good performance in earthquake's shaking. Even though CM construction has been practised for almost a century in some Latin American countries, its use and standardisation are ...
Ahsana Parammal Vatteri +23 more
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