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The genera of Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Costa Rica

Revista de Biología Tropical, 2004
Keys in Spanish and English are given for the genera of Chrysomelinae known from Costa Rica. For each genus, a list of species compiled from collections in the University of Costa Rica, the National Biodiversity Institute, and the entomological ...
R. Wills Flowers
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Sampling for Socially‐Inclusive Adoption Studies (SSAS): A new interdisciplinary sampling method for DNA‐fingerprinting‐based crop varietal adoption studies

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
DNA fingerprinting is becoming the standard measurement procedure in crop adoption studies in the Global South, yet the lack of systematic and intentional sampling regarding which farmer to go to the plot with may bias results from these methods. We introduce a methodological innovation, Sampling for Socially Inclusive Adoption Studies (SSAS), to offer
Yoselyn Hernandez Chaves, Luis A. Sanchez Chacon, Martina Occelli, Sergio Puerto, Ruth Castro‐Vásquez, Bethany F. Econopouly, Joyce Estrada‐Gamboa, Erica Lopez, Vanessa Mora, Deborah Rubin, Kelly R. Robbins, Roberto Camacho, Hale A. Tufan   +12 more
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Improved Cerrado Wetland Mapping Through Seasonal Moisture Metrics, Terrain Information and Semantic Segmentation

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Brazil's Cerrado valley wetlands—swamp savanna and gallery forest—are highly important for the biome's water cycle and carbon storage and are susceptible to degradation from the impacts of land use expansion and the climate crisis. In support of their detailed monitoring and assessment, we developed and tested a transferable mapping approach that ...
Felix Beer, Hugo do Nascimento Bendini, Mateus de Souza Miranda, Vu‐Dong Pham, Leila Maria Garcia Fonseca, Cássia Beatriz Rodrigues Munhoz, Sebastian van der Linden   +6 more
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Association of the severity and progression rate of periodontitis with systemic medication intake

Frontiers in Oral Health
Background/purposeInformation on the systemic medication profiles of patients with periodontitis is limited. Therefore, this retrospective cross-sectional study aimed to analyze the relationship between the severity and rate of progression of ...
Daniela Batista-Cárdenas, Agatha Araya-Castillo, María Paula Arias-Campos, Ana Paula Solís-Rivera, Jeniffer Jiménez-Matarrita, Lucía Piedra-Hernández, Luis Madriz-Montero, Karol Ramírez   +7 more
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Climate Vulnerability and Renewable Energy Consumption: The Moderating Role of Financial Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between climate vulnerability (CVUL) and renewable energy consumption (RECO) and tests the moderating effect of financial development (FD) on this relationship. The analysis is, particularly, relevant for the 162 panel countries observed between 1995 and 2022, which face diverse climate risks and exhibit ...
Sorin Gabriel Anton
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SEXISM AND ACADEMY: MANIFESTATIONS OF SEXISM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COSTA RICA

, 2021
En el periodo 2018-2019, el Centro de Investigación en Estudios de la Mujer (ciem) lideró una importante iniciativa para problematizar el sexismo en la Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR). Desde el enfoque cualitativo, se consultó a mujeres estudiantes, docentes y administrativas sobre esta forma de discriminación en el contexto ...
Chaves Groh, María José, Chaves Groh, María José   +1 more
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Climate Action Delay Discourses in the Sports Sector: Insights From Interviews With Athletes and Staff

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is a major contradiction between the current model of international elite sport and efforts to mitigate climate change. This study investigates climate action delay discourses within the sports sector by analyzing 28 semi‐structured interviews with athletes and sports federation employees.
Pascal Stegmann, Manuel Suter
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Social Action and the Humanities in the University of Costa Rica

, 2020
This reflection aims to establish the relationship between Social Action, which is an activity of the University of Costa Rica, with its way of being, excellence or character; that is nothing more than Humanism. The text consists of four sub-themes: some aspects about the University of Costa Rica, about the concept of Social Action, define humanism and
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Does Economic Growth Drive Equitable Water and Sanitation Access? Assessing Inequality Reduction Across 64 Nations

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López, Samara López‐Ruiz, Gabriela Cuadrado‐Quesada   +2 more
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Carbon VIX, Climate Risk and Financial Stability New Evidence From Developing Countries

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effects of the carbon VIX and climate risk on financial stability through the banking Z‐score in developing economies. Using the Dynamic Panel Threshold Model of 106 developing countries from 2012 to 2022, the results reveal that both carbon VIX and climate risk exert a significant negative influence on banking ...
Alanoud Al‐Maadid, Mohamed Sami Ben Ali, Kamal Si Mohammed, Omer Salih Mohammed Abker   +3 more
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