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Hacia la transdisciplinariedad en la docencia en la Universidad de Costa Rica / Towards transdisciplinary education in the University of Costa Rica

Actualidades Investigativas en Educación, 2012
Se presentan en este ensayo fundamentos conceptuales que sirven de referencia y dan sustento a la propuesta de un posible camino que la Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) podría seguir para promover la inter y transdisciplinariedad en la docencia ...
Milena Alfaro Castegnaro, Eleonora Badilla Saxe, Ximena Miranda Garnier   +2 more
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Neurobehavioral Effects of Restricted and Unpredictable Environmental Enrichment in Rats

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2020
To study how motivational factors modulate experience-dependent neurobehavioral plasticity, we modify a protocol of environmental enrichment (EE) in rats.
Mijail Rojas-Carvajal, Mijail Rojas-Carvajal, Andrey Sequeira-Cordero, Andrey Sequeira-Cordero, Juan C. Brenes, Juan C. Brenes   +5 more
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The EU Deforestation Regulation: Challenges, Opportunities and the Potential Impacts on the Producing Countries of Cocoa and Coffee

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) is a policy that prohibits access to the EU market for commodities that are linked to deforestation. We did a systematic review to understand perceived challenges, opportunities and potential impacts of the EUDR on producing countries of cocoa and coffee.
Alexi Van Loco, Marco Campera
wiley   +1 more source

Acute stress and fear scales during the COVID-19 pandemic: development and evaluation in a Costa Rican sample

Población y Salud en Mesoamérica
Objective: In the context of the pandemic due to SARS-CoV-2, concerns were raised about how to adequately assess its impact on the wellbeing of the population.
Ana María Jurado-Solórzano, Gloriana Rodríguez-Arauz, Vanessa Smith-Castro, Mariano Rosabal-Coto, Sebastián Saborío, Henriette Raventós-Vorst, Benjamín Reyes-Fernández   +6 more
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Exploring Cultural and Individual Differences in the Hierarchy of Moral Concern: Evidence From Student Samples Across 41 Cultural Groups

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many important historical and contemporary ethical debates (e.g., on slavery, abortion and environmental protection) reflect disagreements about what we owe to different groups of individuals. Recent work in moral psychology has uncovered a seemingly replicable hierarchy of moral concern, but these studies were conducted in a few countries ...
Işıl Ayça Akkuş, Charlie R. Crimston, Kelly Kirkland, Brock Bastian, Bastian Jaeger   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Percepción de la biotecnología en estudiantes universitarios de Costa Rica

Revista de Biología Tropical, 2004
Se llevó a cabo una encuesta para estudiar la percepción y el grado de conocimiento sobre biotecnología y organismos modificados genéticamente (OMGs), en una muestra de estudiantes (n=750) de tres universidades públicas de Costa Rica: Universidad de ...
Marta Valdez, Iris Rodríguez, Ana Sittenfeld   +2 more
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Drugs from the Cloudforest: The Search for New Medicines from Monteverde, Costa Rica

Natural Product Communications, 2011
The University of Alabama in Huntsville Natural Products Research Group has been investigating the phytopharmaceutical potential of tropical rainforest higher plants from the Monteverde region of northwestern Costa Rica for the past twenty years.
William N. Setzer
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Reseña de: Lowell Gudmundson, Costa Rica después del café. La era cooperativa en la historia y la memoria (San José: EUNED, 2018).

Diálogos, 2019
Lowell Gudmundson es un historiador nacido en los Estados Unidos, pero con un profundo interés por Costa Rica y Centroamérica. Nacido en 1951, una buena parte de sus años de vida los ha pasado investigando en los archivos costarricenses y produciendo ...
David Díaz Arias
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Universal Leukoreduction in Costa Rica: Is it really urgent?

, 2019
Blood transfusion confers obvious clinical benefits; however, it has some risks and adverse results if it´s not carried out under the strict controls that guarantee the safety of the donation, storage and adequate transfusion. Leukoreduction is the process by which leukocytes are removed from donated blood, and the current standards of the American ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Farm‐Level Greenhouse Gas Balance of Commercial Coffee Production in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Coffee production is considered a potential contributor to climate change mitigation due to its perennial biomass and carbon storage capacity. However, empirical assessments of greenhouse gas (GHG) balances at the farm level remain limited for commercial coffee systems.
Isabella Salgado Faustino, Laércio Antônio Gonçalves Jacovine, Polyana Pizzi Rotta, Pablo Murta Albino Baião, Viviani Silva Lirio, Rafael da Silva Teixeira, Luís Henrique Rodrigues Silva   +6 more
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