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Gender, Adiposity and Age as Predictors of Quality of Life in Costa Rican University-Retirees
... Abstract This study investigated predictors for quality of life in Costa Rican university-retirees. Volunteers were 119 adults (60 female and 59 male) ages from 52 to 80 years old. Age, gender, education, ...
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Plant responses to volcanically elevated CO2 in two Costa Rican forests
... de Costa Rica – the Costa Rican volcano monitoring authority) for logistical and permit support, SINAC (Sistema Na- cional de Áreas de Conservación – the Costa Rican national parks ...
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Effect of Age at First Calving on First Lactation Milk Yield in Holstein Cows from Costa Rican Specialized Dairy Herds
... The mean of the AFC assessed in this study for pure Holstein cows, in different specialized Costa Rican dairy herds was 30.6 m. During a study performed by Cedeño and Vargas [12]; in the period from 1998 to ...
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The Conservation Status of Costa Rican Velvet Worms (Onychophora)
... and Costa Rica. Nevertheless, New Zealand is five times the size of Costa Rica (which has an estimated of more than 50 species, Morera-Brenes and Barquero- González: unpublished); by area alone, New Zealand ...
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Ultrastructural Analysis of the Ontogenetic Development of Shoot Induced from Embryonic Axes of Costa Rican Bean Varieties (Phaseolus vulgaris L ) under in Vitro Conditions by Scanning Electronic Microscopy
... Species of Phaseolus are considered recalcitrant to in vitro culture and transformation [3,4]. Successful proce- dures for the in vitro culture and plant regeneration of bean varieties have been only developed in few ...
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Foodways in transition: food plants, diet and local perceptions of change in a Costa Rican Ngäbe community
... in Costa Rica, inhabited mostly by Cabécar ...two Costa Rican indigenous communities (the Bri-Bri in Talamanca and the Ngäbe in Coto Brus) ...of Costa Rica ...
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Corporate Social Responsibility: Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Costa Rican Hotel Tourist Industry
... Sara relayed a story about one of her experiences with child sexual exploitation when an older Caucasian man brought in a Costa Rican young girl. She requested her identification and the minor did not have ...
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Identification of Supply Chain Performance Indicators: Case Study of Costa Rican Coffee Production
... for Costa Rica, especially because of the large proportion of small and medium farmers ...other Costa Rican companies would require further ...
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Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli in Costa Rican children: a 9 year retrospective study
... HNN-CCSS’s laboratory information systems: Labcore ® (Rochem Biocare, Bogotá, Colombia) and Copernico ® (Biomérieux, Marcy L’étoile, France) and collated with Microsoft Excel 2016. Diarrheic samples from outpa- tients ...
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Gauging the Ecological Health of a Costa Rican Cloud Forest: Birds as Bio-Indicators
... the Costa Rican tropical cloud forest are taken to be indicative of the overall ecological wellness, the rainforest around the Savegre Lodge can indeed be considered undisturbed and representative of ...
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Differential DNA methylation and lymphocyte proportions in a Costa Rican high longevity region
... the Costa Rican Study on Longevity and Healthy Aging (CRELES), a lon- gitudinal, nationally representative, and probabilistic sample of close to 3000 adults aged 60 years and over that were collected mostly ...
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changing system of Costa Rican pronouns of address: tuteo, voseo, and ustedo
... younger Costa Rican speakers were abandoning the use of usted in favor of one of the T pronouns, as has been found in a wide range of Spanish dialects around the ...
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Streptococcus pneumoniaeSerotype 3 among Costa Rican Children with Otitis Media: clinical, epidemiological characteristics and antimicrobial resistance patterns
... in Costa Rican children > 24 months of age, common antimicrobial agents such as amoxicillin should be considered the first therapeutic option to treat these ...
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Validation of Total Daily Energy Expenditure Calculated with Actiheart against Doubly Labeled Water Method in Costa Rican Schoolchildren
... The use of the non-invasive, low cost and easy to handle equipment to estimate the TEE in an accurate way, just as has been demonstrated by the Actiheart, is utterly important since the daily study of the TEE plays an ...
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Density structure and geometry of the Costa Rican subduction zone from 3-D gravity modeling and local earthquake data
... the Costa-Rican subduction zone provides a wide spectrum of environments with different degrees of bending-related ...northwestern Costa Rica (Hinz et ...northwestern Costa Rica in terms of ...
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Comparative Biology of Three Species of Costa Rican Haeterini
... of Costa Rican fruit-feeding understory butterflies (Cithaerias pireta, Dulcedo polita, and Pierella helvina), specifically: vertical stratification, attraction to and persistence in fruit-baited traps, ...
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Multi-methodological characterisation of Costa Rican biochars from small-scale retort and top-lit updraft stoves and inter-methodological comparison
... In Costa Rica, sev- eral field studies, mostly in banana, co ff ee and cacao agroforestry contexts have demonstrated the potential of biochar to enhance soil properties and plant ...in Costa Rica include the ...
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The Feeding Behavior of Costa Rican Velvet Worms: Food Hiding, Parental Feeding Investment and Ontogenetic Diet Shift (Onychophora: Peripatidae)
... Parental feeding investment and ontogenetic diet shift: during their first two weeks of life, the young only fed on the adhesive threads used to capture prey by the mother, rather than [r] ...
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Skin in the (Costa Rican Retirement) Game
... Changes in rainfall could also hurt the country’s agriculture sector. Costa Rica has long grown coffee in the cool central highlands and bananas in the warmer lowlands. Warmer ocean temperatures could hurt its ...
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Chemical assessment of mycotoxin contaminants and veterinary residues in Costa Rican animal feed
... LC grade acetonitrile (ACN, catalog number 100029, LiChrosolv®), methanol (MeOH, catalog number 106035, LiChrosolv®) and ethanol (EtOH, catalog number 111727, LiChrosolv®) formic acid (FA, catalog number 100241, 98– ...
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