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Corpses and Capital: Narratives of Gendered Violence in Two Costa Rican Novels

open access: yesStudies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2008
In a region prone to violence and political corruption, Costa Rica has been touted as an ecological paradise, a stable democracy, and an egalitarian society.
Laura Barbas Rhoden
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Costa Rican Exceptionalism: Nostalgia, Costumbrismo, and Patriotism in Maikol Yordan de viaje perdido (Miguel Gómez, 2014)

open access: yes, 2023
Costa Rica’s film scene has boomed since the twentieth century when only nine feature-length, fiction productions were released, and every year since 2009 the nation has witnessed several new cinematic releases.
Harvey-Kattou, L.
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The Costa Rican business sector’s concepts of the transfer of German dual training [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This article analyzes the tripartite social dialogue of an inter-institutional commission in Costa Rica, which took place from February 27 to September 1, 2017.
Láscarez Smith, D.   +3 more
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The Challenging conversation: Peace culture regarding Costa Rican sexual education. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Este documento presenta una reflexión sobre el impacto de los partidismos dirigidos a la identidad y la polarización de discursos sobre la educación sexual en la educación pública costarricense, así como la difusa conceptualización de la llamada ...
de Mézerville López, Claire Marie
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Sponsorship sales is not only a sport, but an institutional business as well: evidence from two professional football clubs in Latin-America.

open access: yesEstudios de Administración, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to identify the impact of institutionalization, legitimacy, learning behaviors, and other organizational characteristics on the efforts made by sport clubs signing sponsorship contracts.
José Francisco Navarro Picado
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Narratives from the Pineapple Republic. On national self-understanding and sustainability paradoxes in Costa Rica as detected in Adrián Jiménez Brais’ play PIÑA

open access: yesRevista Académica Arjé
The following article analyzes the play PIÑA (2023) by Costa Rican author Adrían Jiménez Brais. Based on an understanding of literature as a repository of social knowledge, where urgent narratives, discourses and issues are made visible and negotiated ...
Susanne Schlünder
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Funciones del presente histórico en dos textos narrativos tradicionales costarricenses

open access: yesRevista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2020
The purpose of this article is to determine the funtions of the historical present in two traditional Costa Rican narrative texts. The analisis shows that there is not a single function of the historical present in these texts, but several, such as that
Adolfo Constenla Umaña
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Importance of using genetic data to inform conservation captive breeding: A tale of two species of threatened macaws (Ara spp.)

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Unmanaged captive populations of threatened species often harbor hidden genetic risks, so using genomic tools, we audited a large private macaw collection and uncovered extensive hybridization and high inbreeding. Our findings provide an actionable framework for how routine genetic screening can be used to mitigate these risks, manage captive breeding ...
George Olah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Catalogue of Costa Rican Hepaticae and Anthocerotae [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This catalogue contains literature reports and new records of Costa Rican Hepaticae and Anthocerotae, proceeding from monographs, revisions, floristic inventories, ecological bryophyte studies and herbarium specimens.
Dauphin, Gregorio
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