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Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, EarlyView.Abstract Background Dietitians–nutritionists (DNs) play a key role in intensive care units (ICUs), yet their scope of practice varies across settings. This study aimed to describe the professional practices of DNs working in ICUs in Latin America and to identify factors associated with their level of professional activity.
Mirta Crovetto +18 more
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Middle to Late Miocene Contractional Deformation in Costa Rica Triggered by Plate Geodynamics [PDF]
, 2017 Contractional deformation in Costa Rica is usually attributed to the subduction of the aseismic Cocos Ridge. In this work, we review the evidences for contraction in the middle to late Miocene, prior to the arrival of the Cocos Ridge at the Middle ...
Cascante, Monserrat +8 more
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
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, 2017 Wastewater treatment aims to ensure that the effluents from domestic and industrial processes are disposed without endangering human health and with the least possible effect on the environment. In Costa Rica, the sewerage system covers only a part of the population (less than 25 %), so that many households, industries, as well as public and private ...
Barrantes Barrantes, Edwin Alberto +1 more
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, 2006 Number of Pages: 8Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Langan, Esther M., Townsend, Josiah H.
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People and Nature, EarlyView.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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Revista de Biología Tropical, 2012 En 2011 el Herbario USJ de Costa Rica cumplió 80 años y llegó a 100 000 especímenes de todos los taxa que estudia la botánica. Se anotan datos y cifras sobre historia, fundadores y contribuciones de USJ al conocimiento florístico de Costa Rica.In 2011 ...
Carlos O Morales
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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski +2 more
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Biodiversidad marina de Costa Rica: Crustacea: Infraorden Anomura
Revista de Biología Tropical, 2006 El grupo de los cangrejos anomuros es uno de los mejor conocidos de la costa Pacífica de Costa Rica, pero muy poco conocidos de la costa Caribe. En esta recopilación, basada en la literatura y en las colecciones del Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología,
Rita Vargas, Jorge Cortés
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Borders Manifest: Racializing the Nicaraguan Refugee in Costa Rica [PDF]
, 2019 I look to border responses of North American countries as refugees and migrants move across them to argue that border responses racialize the foreign other in receiving countries.
Twidwell, Theodore B.
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