New forms of environmental governance? A case study of Costa Rican environmental NGOs
, 2008 Increasingly development theorists and practitioners view NGOs as catalysts of sustainable development. NGOs have been regarded as champions of democratisation and promoters of new ways of engaging in politics, with considerable influence on the ...
Tahkokallio, Laura, Nygren, Anja
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The geographic origin of Helicobacter pylori isolated from Costa Rican patients [PDF]
, 2014 artículo -- Universidad de Costa Rica, Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud. 2014. La editorial prohíbe la distribución de la versión final del documento.Helicobacter pylori infects a significant proportion of the world population and it is associated ...
Ramírez Mayorga, Vanessa +4 more
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Payments for Environmental Services in Costa Rica [PDF]
Costa Rica pioneered the use of the payments for environmental services (PES) approach in developing countries by establishing a formal, country-wide program of payments, the PSA program.
Pagiola, Stefano
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New species and records of orchidaceae from Costa Rica. III [PDF]
, 2014 The establishment in Costa Rica of the great naturalist Charles H. Lankester in the 19th century brought a tremendous increase in the knowledge of Costa Rican Orchidaceae.
Jiménez, Daniel +2 more
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Genotype profiles for the Costa Rican population at 7 PCR-based loci
, 2016 Complete electronic DNA profiles of 2006 randomly selected Costa Ricans, typed for 7 PCR-based loci, are presented. Such data may prove valuable for anthropological and forensic studies of the Costa Rican population.Se presenta una versión electrónica de
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Associated language: Pura vida in Costa Rica [PDF]
, 2015 A multi-tiered theoretical framework that embraces ideas from pragmatics and interactional sociolinguistics is used to explain the various uses of pura vida in Costa Rican Spanish.
Stewart, Stuart
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In the light of a candle: Ricardo Chinchilla's contributions to the Costa Rican narrative
, 2017 Las motivaciones de Ricardo Chinchilla al escribir su libro A la luz de una candela, publicado en el 2016. En una entrevista que le realicé a este autor el 3 de marzo de 2017, él manifestó que los cuentos de este libro los escribió en una primera versión cuando estaba en el colegio, hace aproximadamente treinta años y habían permanecido inalterados ...
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CHILDREN’S USE OF SPANISH TAPS: A NATUR ALISTIC STUDY WITH MONOLINGUAL COSTA RICAN CHILDREN AGES 3;0 TO 5;6 [PDF]
, 2015 This study reports on the trends in children’s use of taps by 15 Costa Rican Spanish-speaking monolingual children between ages 3;0 and 5;6. Data were obtained through audio-recordings of the children’s naturalistic speech, yielding 1080 target-words. 80%
Vásquez Carranza, Luz Marina
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A History of Non-Violence: Insecurity and the Normative Power of the Imagined in Costa Rica [PDF]
, 2008 Huhn S. A History of Non-Violence: Insecurity and the Normative Power of the Imagined in Costa Rica. GIGA Working Papers. Vol 84. Hamburg: GIGA; 2008.Crime, violence, and insecurity are among the most important social topics in contemporary Costa Rica ...
Huhn, Sebastian
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Panbiogeographical analysis of Costa Rican freshwater fishes
, 2016 Track analysis and Parsimony analysis of endemicity (PAE) were performed to analyze the distribution pattern of Costa Rican freshwater fishes. A basic matrix (presence/absence) was prepared using the distribution of 77 freshwater fish.
Herrera Vásquez, Jonathan +2 more
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