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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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A Lost Opportunity? Collective Demands and Migrant Farmworkers in Costa Rica during the Pandemic
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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Abstract Knowing about species interactions is essential for ecological research, conservation efforts, resource management, and maintaining healthy ecosystems, but many of these, such as reports of predation, may not always be published in easily located resources—if they are published at all.
Matthijs P. van den Burg, Hinrich Kaiser
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Sinopsis en inglés y en francés de la obra de Carmen Naranjo
Este trabajo forma parte de una investigación titulada Carmen Naranjo: una metáfora viviente, la cual comprende un apartado sobre la obra publicada de la costarricense Carmen Naranjo (1931) en tres idiomas -español, inglés y francés-, con el fin de que ...
Virginia Borloz Soto
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"Ser apolítico es como ser nonato, difunto u orate". Emilia prieto y su noción de política
En este artículo se realiza un breve recorrido por algunos de los ensayos publicados en la primera mitad del siglo XX por Emilia Prieto Tugores en las siguientes revistas culturales y publicaciones periódicas costarricenses: Repertorio Americano, Diario ...
Ruth Cubillo Paniagua
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ABSTRACT Female empowerment and its use in development contexts has histories in coloniality. Gender programs typically imply an individualistic, depoliticized concept. This article examines whether such initiatives can be supportive for empowerment. We apply an embedded qualitative case study of Bean Voyage's program to support female coffee producers
Annelie M. Gütte +3 more
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In this cultivation‐based study, two novel moderately thermophilic Nitrospira enrichments were obtained from the geothermal field Las Máquinas in the Neuquén Province, Argentina. Both nitrite oxidizers, belonging to lineage V or the novel taxonomic lineage VIII, contain quorum‐sensing genes and a high genome GC content of 60.6% and 69.4%.
Eva Spieck +10 more
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Gains from trade: The Costa Rican case
One of the oldest and most interesting questions in the economic literature is how to quantify the gains from trade. Recently, Costinot & Rodríguez-Clare (2014) (CRC) developed a methodology that uses the World Input Output Database (WIOD) to compute ...
Alonso Alfaro Ureña
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Conceptual diagram of hydrological and geochemical processes within the Santa Elena Ophiolite, Costa Rica. It highlights watershed cross‐sections, soil genesis, hyperalkaline Type II waters (pH > 11.6) with calcite crust and trapped H2/CH4 gases, seepage into surface waters, storm‐impacted stream profiles, weathered vs.
Alexandra May +8 more
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How Strong is the Case for Dollarization in Costa Rica? A Note on the Business Cycle Comovements with the United States [PDF]
We evaluate the proposal for official dollarization in Costa Rica by applying a new approach to measure the business cycle comovements with the United States. While the literature often focuses on the correlation of shocks, we point out that the response
Frank Westermann, Nannette Lindenberg
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