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Abstract Latino/a adolescents report worse mental health than other ethnic–racial groups in the United States, including elevated depressive symptoms and anxiety, yet they remain less likely to access mental health services. Negative perception about mental health within Latino/a communities, shaped by negative beliefs about mental illness and limited ...
Fernanda Lima Cross +5 more
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The Influence of Spanish Lexicon on Limonese Creole: Negative Implications
After working in the construction of the railroad that communicates Limón with San José, many Afro-Caribbean people who had arrived during the 1870’s, especially from Jamaica, stayed and established themselves in Limón.
Ginneth Pizarro Chacón +1 more
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This paper describes a study of the pragmatic functions associated with onomatopoeic transcriptions of laughter used in computer-mediated communication (CMC) in Spanish, carried out through a questionnaire applied on Costa Rican university students.
Haakon S. Krohn
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Exploring Costa Rica's fungal trends: Insights from digitized specimens
Fungi are essential to tropical ecosystems but remain largely absent from conservation agendas. By analyzing over 78,000 fungal records from Costa Rica—a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot—this study reveals key patterns in fungal diversity, distribution, and seasonality.
Melissa Mardones +2 more
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COSTA RICA WITHOUT BORDERS #12
In this section we publish the Spanish version of abstracts from original articles in other languages, published by researchers from Costa Rican universities in different journals around the world.
Luis Fernando Aragón-Vargas
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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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Los conectores pragmáticos en el habla culta costarricense
Expressions such as bueno, idiay, verdad, digamos.fijáte, etc., which reccurvery frequendy in spoken Costa Rican Spanish, traditionalIy have been stigrnatized as pet words without much meaning or function.
Yamilet Solano Rojas
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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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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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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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