• Streaming the Romance: Gendered Algorithmic Interpellation on Netflix 

  Siles González, Ignacio; Martínez Toledo, Yanet; Meléndez Moran, Ariana (2021-05-27)

  This paper broadens understanding of the relationship between algorithms and gender by examining how a group of women in Costa Rica relate to algorithmic recommendations on Netflix. Drawing on 25 interviews and an analysis ...

• Guía ilustrativa de genotipos de melón tipo Harper 

  Monge Pérez, José Eladio (2021-04-09)

• Preadipocytes are target cells for the actions of a representative gIIA phospholipase A2 which triggers proinflammatory pathways related to obesity 

  Leiguez, Elbio; Motta, Priscila; Maia Marques, Rodrigo; Lomonte, Bruno; Sampaio, Suely Vilela; Teixeira, Catarina de Fátima (2020)

  Adipose tissue secretes proinflammatory mediators which promote systemic and adipose tissue inflammation seen in obesity. Group IIA (GIIA)-secreted phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) enzymes are found to be elevated in plasma and ...

• Anestesia para técnicas de reproducción asistida 

  Delgado Rodríguez, María José (2020)

  El siguiente artículo, se basa en una revisión de artículos científicos donde se abordan los diferentes métodos anestesicos utilizados en las técnicas de reproducción asistida, las interacciones medicamentosas de los ...

• Taxonomic Keys and Plates from The Myxomycetes 

  Martin, George W.; Alexopoulos, Constantine J. (2021-04-01)

  In 1969, George W. Martin and Constantine J. Alexopoulos published a remarkable work on myxomycetes. Their monograph on this group of organisms became one of the references to the taxonomy and geographical distribution of ...

• Energy flow structure and role of keystone groups in shallow water environments in Isla del Coco, Costa Rica, Eastern Tropical Pacific 

  Fourriére, Manon; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José; Cortés Núñez, Jorge; Taylor, Marc H.; Ayala Bocos, Arturo; Azofeifa Solano, Juan Carlos; Arauz Vargas, Randall; Heidemeyer, Meike; López Garro, Andrés; Zanella, Ilena; Wolff, Matthias (2019)

  Isla del Coco (Costa Rica) forms part of the five oceanic islands of the Eastern Tropical Pacific and is well known for its high biodiversity and great endemism. While several marine biological and oceanographical surveys ...

• New reports of echinoderms on the Caribbean continental slope of central America 

  Cambronero Solano, Sergio; Benavides Morera, Rosario; Solís Marín, Francisco Alonso; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José (2019)

  The Caribbean is considered a unique biogeographic region that represents an important hotspot of marine diversity in the Atlantic Ocean. The Caribbean Continental Slope of Central America (CCCA) is a largely unexplored ...

• Cuando la conservación no puede seguir el ritmo del desarrollo: Estado de salud de los ecosistemas coralinos del Pacífico Norte de Costa Rica 

  Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José; Beita Jiménez, Andrés; Mena González, Sebastián; Fernández García, Cindy; Cortés Núñez, Jorge; Sánchez Noguera, Celeste; Jiménez Centeno, Carlos; Guzmán Mora, Ana Gloria (2018)

  When conservation can keep up with development´s pace: Health status of coral ecosystems in the North Pacific of Costa Rica. Coral reefs are diverse and productive ecosystems, despite this, they are being threatened by ...

• Determinants of reef fish assemblages in tropical Oceanic islands 

  Quimbayo, Juan Pablo; Dias, Murilo S.; Kulbicki, Michel; Mendes, Thiago C.; Lamb, Robert W.; Johnson, Andrew F.; Aburto Oropeza, Octavio; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José; Ayala Bocos, Arturo; Ferreira, Carlos E. L.; Garcia, Eric; Luiz, Osmar J.; Mascareñas Osorio, Ismael; Pinheiro, Hudson T.; Rodríguez Zaragoza, Fabián; Salas De la Fuente, Eva María; Zapata, Fernando A.; Floeter, Sergio R. (2019)

  Diversity patterns are determined by biogeographic, energetic, and anthropogenic factors, yet few studies have combined them into a large‐scale framework in order to decouple and compare their relative effects on fish ...

• Propuesta de escenarios para la gestión de los servicios ofrecidos a los usuarios del Departamento Consular del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto de Costa Rica 

  Mora Ugalde, Sara (2021)

  Este trabajo consiste en la propuesta de escenarios de acción elaborados con la finalidad de ofrecer al Departamento Consular del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto (MREC), información para tomar decisiones sobre ...

• Evaluación del efecto del ambiente generado en 4 sistemas productivos sobre el rendimiento y adaptabilidad de 4 cultivares de chile dulce tipo Bell 

  Ramírez Matarrita, Roberto (2021-02-25)

  Se evaluaron cuatro cultivares de chile dulce tipo Bell (Capsicum annum), en cuatro sistemas productivos, en la Estación Experimental Enrique Jiménez Núñez, ubicada en Cañas, Guanacaste, durante los meses de diciembre del ...

• KI 67 como factor pronóstico de recurrencia después de radioterapia adyuvante en pacientes con cáncer de mama temprano en el Hospital México del 01 de enero del 2010 al 31 de diciembre del 2011 

  Recinos Villanueva, Guillermo (2021-03-10)

  El objetivo principal del estudio es determinar si el Ki67 muestra algún valor pronóstico para el tiempo de recurrencia en las pacientes con carcinoma de mama estadio clínico temprano que recibieron adyuvancia con radioterapia ...

• Benefits of protection on reef fish assemblages in a human impacted region in Costa Rica 

  Beita Jiménez, Andrés; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José; Mena González, Sebastián; Guzmán Mora, Ana Gloria (2019)

  In recent years, there has been a health decrease in marine ecosystems. Due to this accelerated degradation, there is a more pressing need to investigate the effectiveness of MPAs in these degraded zones. In this work, we ...

• Coordinated hunting behaviors of mixed-species groups of piscivores and associated species at Isla del Coco National Park (Eastern Tropical Pacific) 

  Auster, Peter J.; Cortés Núñez, Jorge; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José; Beita Jiménez, Andrés (2019)

  Studies of mixed-species groups of animals can reveal emergent complexities of collective behaviors. In this study we collected data on mixed-species hunting groups composed primarily of piscivorous fishes (species ...

• Streptomyces sp. M54: an actinobacteria associated with a neotropical social wasp with high potential for antibiotic production 

  Matarrita Carranza, Bernal; Murillo Cruz, Catalina; Avendaño Vega, Roberto; Ríos Marín, María Isabel; Chavarría Vargas, Max; Gómez Calvo, María Luisa; Tamayo Castillo, Giselle; Araya Barrantes, Juan José; Pinto Tomás, Adrián A. (2021-01-17)

  Abstract Streptomyces symbionts in insects have shown to be a valuable source of new antibiotics. Here, we report the genome sequence and the potential for antibiotic production of ‘‘Streptomyces sp. M54’’, an Actinobacteria ...

• Pentamera fonsecae n. sp. a new species of sea cucumber from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica (Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida: Thyonidae) 

  Solís Marín, Francisco Alonso; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José; Conejeros Vargas, Carlos Andrés; Caballero Ochoa, Andrea Alejandra (2020)

  Pentamera fonsecae n. sp. is described from seven specimens as a new species of Thyonidae from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. It is distinguished from its congeners by having tables with ladder-shaped spires in the body ...

• Growth and natural mortality of Diadema mexicanum A. Agassiz, 1863, from west-central Mexico 

  Fernández Rivera Melo, Francisco Javier; Espino Barr, Elaine; López Rocha, Jorge Alberto; Reyes Bonilla, Héctor; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José (2020)

  Abstract: Population parameters of Diadema mexicanum have not yet been studied; therefore, the objective of this work was to describe, for the first time, the growth and mortality by age of this sea urchin. The growth curve ...

• Impact of El Niño 2015-2016 on the coral reefs of the Pacific of Costa Rica: the potential role of marine protection 

  Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José; Sánchez Noguera, Celeste; Arias Godínez, Gustavo; Araya Arce, Tatiana; Fernández García, Cindy; Guzmán Mora, Ana Gloria (2020)

  Introduction: El Niño 2015-2016 was considered one of the most severe worldwide, causing the third global event of coral bleaching. Previous high-intensity El Niño events (1982-83 and 1997-98) caused high coral mortalities ...

• Myxomycetes of Thailand 

  Ko Ko, Thida Win; Hanh, Tran T.M.; Stephenson, Steven L.; Mitchell, David William; Rojas Alvarado, Carlos Alonso; Hyde, Kevin David; Lumyong, Saisamong; Bahkali, Ali H. (2010)

  After the first report of myxomycetes from Thailand in 1902, there were only a few papers dealing specifically with these organisms over the following 85 years. In 2004, intensive ecological studies of myxomycetes began ...

• Caracterización clínica y de los hallazgos en líquido cefalorraquídeo, de pacientes inmunocompetentes e inmunosupresos, con meningitis o encefalitis viral, diagnosticados por métodos moleculares en el Hospital San Juan de Dios, en el período de enero del 2018 a junio del 2020 

  Araya Segura, Silvia (2021-03)

  Justificación y objetivos: Las infecciones del Sistema Nervioso Central suponen un problema importante de salud. En Costa Rica, existen vacíos importantes en torno a los datos de los casos de meningitis y encefalitis de ...

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