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Optimal cut‐off scores for mild cognitive impairment and dementia of the Spanish version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in Costa Rican older adults [PDF]
Alzheimers DementAbstractBackgroundAlzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) burden in Costa Rica is expected to become one of the highest in the region. Early detection will help optimize resources and improve primary care interventions. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) has shown good sensitivity for detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), but ...
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Rhotic Variation in Costa Rican Spanish
Cadernos de Linguística, 2021 The class of sounds classified under the umbrella term “rhotic” demonstrate considerable variability across, languages, dialects, and speech styles. This is no exception in Spanish, where rhotics have received considerable attention. Among dialects of Spanish, the pronunciation of rhotics in Costa Rican Spanish is a highly salient feature of this ...
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ANALYSING COSTA RICAN AND SPANISH STUDENTS’ COMPARISONS OF PROBABILITIES AND RATIOS
STATISTICS EDUCATION RESEARCH JOURNAL, 2023 We present an exploratory study of Costa Rican and Spanish students’ (11–16-year-olds) competence to compare probabilities in urns and compare ratios in mixture problems. A sample of 704 students in Grades 6 through to Grade 10, 292 from Costa Rica and 412 from Spain, were given one of two forms of a questionnaire with three probability comparison and ...
CARMEN BATANERO +2 more
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Subjective reactions to phonological variation in Costa Rican Spanish [PDF]
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1984 The results of a subjective reaction test on a sample of 440 Costa Ricans indicate that in societies where educational levels are not generally high, social status groups may be differentiated phonologically by the use of prestigeful features rather than by stigmatized ones, contrary to findings regarding social dialects in the United States ...
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Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, Volume 43, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has intensified debates on whether innovation system (IS) frameworks remain relevant for governing sustainability transformations. This article argues that IS are essential for understanding how directionality toward sustainability emerges through learning, institutional change, and ...
Cristina Chaminade +1 more
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People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1943-1956, June 2026.Abstract Remote sensing studies show that ephemeral forest regeneration is widespread in the tropics, limiting the climate and biodiversity benefits from net increases in forest cover. Socioeconomic, biophysical and landscape variables can help explain the spatial distribution of reforestation reversals.
Francis H. Joyce
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The Semiotics of Religious Allusions in the Costa Rican National Variant of the Spanish Language
RUDN JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES, SEMIOTICS AND SEMANTICS, 2017 The article is devoted to the reconstruction of religious allusions in the Costa Rican national variant of the Spanish language and analysis of its semiotics. The main research objectives include identifying and systematizing of religious allusions, explaining their motivation and defining patterns of using religious lexical units in the Costa Rican ...
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Nikiforova +1 more
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The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Volume 107, Issue 2, April 2026.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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Sustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 2427-2442, April 2026.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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Hydrological Processes, Volume 40, Issue 3, March 2026.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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