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Preferences for Consumption and Leisure Across Countries
The Manchester School, Volume 94, Issue 2, Page 135-144, March 2026.ABSTRACT Worktimes differ across countries and over time. The economics literature usually explains these differences by financial incentives such as wages and taxes, assuming identical and constant preference for leisure versus consumption. Non‐economic researchers recognize different attitude towards work across countries and over time and connect ...
Jim Jin, Geethanjali Selvaretnam
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Letras, 2016 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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bioRxivThe opossum Didelphis marsupialis, commonly referred to as the zorro pelón in Costa Rica, is a marsupial that holds significant representation in both Costa Rican and indigenous cultures, such as the Talamanca natives.
Yara Azofeifa Romero +1 more
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Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 12-24, February 2026.ABSTRACT Gene editing (GE), a revolutionary genetic engineering technology that makes targeted modifications to plant and animal genomes, offers the potential to address key challenges in food security, nutrition, safety, health, agricultural productivity, and sustainability, yet consumer demand for GE foods remains uncertain and complex.
Jia Han +3 more
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Voces marginales en "Bienvenido a tu Nueva Vida" de Uriel Quesada
Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2004 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
Amerika, 2020 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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A Lost Opportunity? Collective Demands and Migrant Farmworkers in Costa Rica during the Pandemic
Studies in Social Justice, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic induced an overexposure of migrant farmworkers’ poor working and living conditions in Costa Rica’s northern border area and underscored the country’s dependence on migrant labor.
Koen Voorend +2 more
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Tapuya Latin American Science Technology and SocietyHow do algorithms shape the experience of facts? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Limón, Costa Rica, this paper explores the role of algorithms in mediating three kinds of “factishes”: data truths, affective facts, and mystic revelations. The article
Ignacio Siles +2 more
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Undergraduate Education Abroad in Community Settings: Pedagogical Opportunities for Librarians [PDF]
, 2019 As undergraduate possibilities for study and service abroad increase and develop strategically to address local community needs in settings in the Global South, there is greater opportunity for academic librarians to contribute expertise in supporting ...
Kutner, Laurie
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