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Alfaro Vargas, Roy. "La ficción de Iván Molina Jiménez." LETRAS, no. 53 (April 15, 2013): 201–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/rl.1-53.9.

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   El estudio analiza la narrativa de ciencia ficción de Iván Molina Jiménez, a partir de un cuerpo teórico para abordar el análisis y la producción literaria de ciencia ficción, desde una adecuada poiesis. Se plantean los principios alrededor de la noción de novum, para la producción literaria de este tipo. Luego, se analizan algunos textos de ciencia ficción de Molina, y se muestran deficiencias de tal producción para así iniciar la construcción de las bases de la ciencia ficción costarricense. This article analyzes the tales of science fiction by Iván Molina Jiménez

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Cubillo Paniagua, Ruth. "Representations of poverty and social inequality in the Costa Rican social fiction narratives of the 1940s Generation." Memorias, no. 30 (August 15, 2016): 10–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.14482/memor.30.9079.

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Znamenski, Andrei. "Joseph Grigulevich: A Tale of Identity, Soviet Espionage, and Storytelling." Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 44, no. 3 (2017): 314–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18763324-20171267.

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This paper explores the life of Joseph Grigulevich (1913–1988), a famous early Soviet illegal intelligence operative, who conducted various “special tasks” on behalf of Stalin’s foreign espionage network. These included the murder of dissident Spanish communist Andreas Nin (1938), a participation in the assassination of Leon Trotsky (1940), posing as a Costa Rican ambassador (1949–1952), and an abortive project to assassinate Joseph Bros Tito (1952). In contrast to conventional espionage studies that are usually informed by diplomatic, political, and military history approaches, I employ a cul

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Botía, Alejandro. "El evangelio antropocénico según Anacristina Rossi." Hispanic Review 92, no. 2 (2024): 247–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hir.2024.a929139.

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RESUMEN: A partir de los cuentos "Abel" (2013), "La Incompleta" (2015) y "La esperada" (2019), de la escritora costarricense Anacristina Rossi, este artículo explora la manera en que esta trilogía narrativa reconfigura, desde la ciencia ficción, las nociones de identidad, naturaleza y sentido de lo humano. Con base en las teorías de la ecocrítica, la ecocrítica poscolonial y el ecofeminismo se analizan las estrategias discursivas con que Rossi interconecta las preocupaciones antropocénicas sobre la sostenibilidad de la civilización con la idea del fin del mundo y un nuevo génesis, a fin de des

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Nieto, Sonia. "Symposium: Fact and Fiction: Stories of Puerto Ricans in U.S. Schools." Harvard Educational Review 68, no. 2 (1998): 133–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/haer.68.2.d5466822h645t087.

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Puerto Rican communities have been a reality in many northeastern urban centers for over a century. Schools and classrooms have felt their presence through the Puerto Rican children attending school. The education of Puerto Ricans in U.S. schools has been documented for about seventy years, but in spite of numerous commissions, research reports, and other studies, this history is largely unknown to teachers and the general public. In addition to the research literature, a growing number of fictional accounts in English are providing another fertile avenue for understanding the challenges that

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ROSERO-BIXBY, LUIS, WILLIAM H. DOW, and ADRIANA LACLÉ. "INSURANCE AND OTHER SOCIOECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF ELDERLY LONGEVITY IN A COSTA RICAN PANEL." Journal of Biosocial Science 37, no. 6 (2004): 705–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021932004006996.

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Official figures show that life expectancy in Costa Rica is longer than in the United States (US), in spite of the fact that per capita health expenditure is only one-tenth that of the US. To check whether this is for real and to explore some of its determinants, 900 Costa Ricans aged 60+ were followed from 1984 to 2001. Follow-up household visits were made, deaths were tracked in the national death registry, and survival status in the voting registry was double-checked. In addition, the survivors were contacted in 2002. Two-thirds of the panel had died by December 2001. Kaplan–Meier curves, l

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Rojas Cerdas, Didier. "Prestigio de la lengua inglesa en Costa Rica." LETRAS, no. 78 (July 5, 2025): 161–84. https://doi.org/10.15359/rl.2-78.7.

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An analysis is presented of the results of a survey carried out to explore the apparent prestige of the English language in Costa Rica. We researched the perception of English as a language that generates opportunities for employment and economic growth. We surveyed 122 Costa Ricans from 15 to 66 years old. The data obtained suggest that English appears to have prestige in Costa Rica, and that it is well received by many as a foreign language that should continue to be taught in public institutions.

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Céspedes-Garro, Carolina, Gerardo Jiménez-Arce, María-Eugenia G. Naranjo, Ramiro Barrantes, Adrián LLerena, and Autor Institucional. "Ethnic background and CYP2D6 genetic polymorphisms in Costa Ricans." Revista de Biología Tropical 62, no. 4 (2014): 1659. http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v62i4.12916.

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Yu, Shengxin, Ana Baylin, and Edward A. Ruiz-Narváez. "Micro- and Macronutrient Intake in Elderly Costa Ricans: The Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES)." Nutrients 15, no. 6 (2023): 1446. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15061446.

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Costa Rica, a middle-income country in Central America, has a life expectancy similar or even higher than richer countries. This survival advantage is more evident among the elderly, who have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world. Dietary factors may play a role in this extended longevity. We have shown that a traditional rural diet is associated with longer leukocyte telomere length—a biomarker of aging—among elderly Costa Ricans. In the present study, we used data from the Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES) to characterize further rural and urban diets of the eld

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Ruiz-Narváez, Edward A., Ana Baylin, Jorge Azofeifa, Alejandro Leal, and Luis Rosero-Bixby. "Diet and Leukocyte Telomere Length in a Population with Extended Longevity: The Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES)." Nutrients 13, no. 8 (2021): 2585. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13082585.

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Elderly Costa Ricans have lower mortality rates compared to their counterparts from developed countries. Reasons for this survival advantage are not completely known. In the present study, we aimed to identify dietary factors associated with leukocyte telomere length (LTL), a marker of biologic aging, in the elderly population of Costa Rica. We conducted prospective analysis in 909 participants aged 60+ years from the Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES). We used a food frequency questionnaire to assess usual diet. We calculated dietary patterns using Principal Component Anal

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Chen, Wei, John M. Brehm, Nadia Boutaoui, et al. "Native American Ancestry, Lung Function, and COPD in Costa Ricans." Chest 145, no. 4 (2014): 704–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1378/chest.13-1308.

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Bravo, Vanessa. "Applying the Situational Theory of Publics to the first external voting process for Costa Ricans abroad: Lessons for international public relations and public diplomacy / Aplicación de la Teoría Situacional de los Públicos al primer proceso de voto en el." Revista Internacional de Relaciones Públicas 5, no. 10 (2015): 124–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5783/revrrpp.v5i10.327.

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Using information gathered from 40 interviews with Costa Ricans who live abroad (some who decided to vote in the newly granted external voting right and others who did not vote in the Costa Rican National Elections of 2014), the variables that impacted the voting intention and/or behavior of these Costa Rican diaspora members were categorized using the independent variables presented by the Situational Theory of Publics: problem recognition, constraint recognition (internal and external constraints), and level of involvement. This theory was used to better understand what is moving these poten

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Sheets, Payson, Kenneth Hirth, Fred Lange, Fred Stross, Frank Asaro, and Helen Michel. "Obsidian Sources and Elemental Analyses of Artifacts in Southern Mesoamerica and the Northern Intermediate Area." American Antiquity 55, no. 1 (1990): 144–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/281500.

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Obsidian sources, and the proportions of those sources represented in site collections, are known poorly in the southeast mesoamerican periphery. The Honduran sources of La Esperanza and Güinope are described and “fingerprinted” chemically, and their utilization is explored in selected sites in Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Although prehistoric Nicaraguans and Costa Ricans used obsidian from sources as far away as Honduras and Guatemala, most of their cutting tools were made from local materials, using informal manufacturing techniques. The analytical results indicate two sources of new

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Firestone, Daniel N., Luis Jiménez-Briceño, Joachim O. Reimann, Gregory A. Talavera, William H. Polonsky, and Stephen V. Edelman. "Predictors of Diabetes-Specific Knowledge and Treatment Satisfaction Among Costa Ricans." Diabetes Educator 30, no. 2 (2004): 281–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014572170403000221.

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Yang, Mingxuan. "So Near Yet So Far: Nicaragua and Costa Rica's Divergent Fate in Pursuing Democracy." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 20, no. 1 (2023): 184–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/20/20231344.

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This paper compared the democratic development of Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Although two neighboring Latin American countries with similar culture, language, and historical root, their trajectories of political development are divergent. While Costa Ricas democracy has consolidated, Nicaragua is still struggling in authoritarian rule with dismal socioeconomic development. The paper found that the two seemingly similar countries different fates result from various factors from the role of military, and political systems to the disparity of socioeconomic development. Costa Ricans stable democrat

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Picado Madrigal, Karla, and Raquel Ramírez Porras. "Cortesía juvenil del podcasting: dos casos costarricenses." LETRAS, no. 77 (January 1, 2025): 181–204. https://doi.org/10.15359/rl.1-77.7.

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Politeness is examined in two podcasts of young Costa Ricans, considering their speech acts and courtesy strategies. This analysis is based on the postulates of Brown and Levinson on the theory of politeness strategies, and the perspective of speech acts proposed by Searle. The results show how positive politeness is used more than negative politeness; speakers try to conserve the positive face of their listeners, thereby preserving trust and friendship within the conversation.

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Fantin, Romain, Cyrille Delpierre, Michelle Kelly-Irving, and Cristina Barboza Solís. "Early socioeconomic conditions and severe tooth loss in middle-aged Costa Ricans." Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 46, no. 2 (2017): 178–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdoe.12351.

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Modrek, Sepideh, William H. Dow, and Luis Rosero-Bixby. "Long-term association of economic inequality and mortality in adult Costa Ricans." Social Science & Medicine 74, no. 2 (2012): 158–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.10.034.

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Ohnishi, Teruaki, Shree Ram Khadka, Gustavo Hernandez Sanchez, and Tanka Nath Dhamala. "Environmental Attitude of Young Nepalese and its Comparison with the Attitude of Environmentally Developed Costa Ricans." International Journal of Sociology of Education 2, no. 1 (2013): 26–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4471/rise.2013.20.

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Cognition surveys on environmental attitudes were carried out in Costa Rica and Nepal for university students, and they were compared to each other from the viewpoint of cultural background. The surveys were made in classrooms using questionnaires consisted of about 60 questions. Summed results were shown for both nations on the view of values and knowledge regarding environmental problems, attitudes to the environmental deterioration, ethical responsibility to the problems, probable outcome of environmental condition in future, and so on. From the comparison between two nations, Nepalese were

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Azevedo, Daniel Abreu de, and Bruno Lessa Meireles. "Territorial and Electorate Size Influence: Participation/Competitiveness in Costa Rica’s 2016 Local Scale Elections." Cuadernos de Geografía: Revista Colombiana de Geografía 30, no. 1 (2021): 25–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/rcdg.v30n1.79637.

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In recent years, political geography has begun to revisit traditional geographical theories using quantitative methodologies. Size, location, density, position, and other important geographic characteristics have reemerged as central data points in the analysis of political phenomena. In this article, we analyze possible relationships between size (territorial and electoral) and electoral outcomes (competitiveness and participation) in Costa Rica’s 2016 local (canton) elections. In this effort, we seek to revisit a tradition abandoned by some currents of geography, often erroneously associated

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Ríos Quesada, Verónica. "De las representaciones de las (pos)guerras centroamericanas en la narrativa costarricense contemporánea." LETRAS, no. 49 (March 12, 2011): 63–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/rl.1-49.4.

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Las novelas Te llevaré en mis ojos de Rodolfo Arias y Limón Reggae de Anacristina Rossi representan tanto las guerras como la posguerra en Centroamérica. Inauguran un cronotopo: costarricenses en la experiencia revolucionaria centroamericana desde una mirada femenina no ligada a una subjetividad heroica. Sin embargo, en esas obras no se logra mostrar a la sociedad costarricense en el contexto transnacional, por lo que se refuerzan los cronotopos escindidos con respecto a Centroamérica que caracterizan al imaginario simbólico costarricense. The novels Te llevaré en mis ojos by Rodolfo Arias and

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Brockett, Charles D., and Robert R. Gottfried. "State Policies and the Preservation of Forest Cover: Lessons from Contrasting Public-Policy Regimes in Costa Rica." Latin American Research Review 37, no. 1 (2002): 7–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100019348.

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AbstractThis study evaluates the impact of state policies on forest cover in Costa Rica, focusing on the influence of public policies on private incentives for preserving forest cover. Three periods are analyzed: the “laissez-faire period” when high rates of deforestation were largely unrestrained; the “interventionist period” when state policies created protection for some wildlands, especially with the creation of parks and reserves, but when many regulatory policies produced mixed results at best; and the current “hybrid period” featuring major policy changes and mixing market-oriented and

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Drews, Carlos. "Wild Animals and Other Pets Kept in Costa Rican Households: Incidence, Species and Numbers." Society & Animals 9, no. 2 (2001): 107–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853001753639233.

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AbstractA nationwide survey that included personal interviews in 1,021 households studied the incidence, species, and numbers of nonhuman animals kept in Costa Rican households. A total of 71% of households keep animals.The proportion of households keeping dogs (53%) is 3.6 higher than the proportion of households keeping cats (15%). In addition to the usual domestic or companion animals kept in 66% of the households, 24% of households keep wild species as pets. Although parrots are the bulk of wild species kept as pets, there is vast species diversity, including other birds, reptiles, mammals

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Ogliastri, Enrique, John Ickis, and Ramiro Casó. "Integrative/ distributive negotiations in Latin America: latent class analysis." Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración 33, no. 3/4 (2020): 463–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/arla-04-2020-0084.

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to test the universality of the behavioral theory of negotiation developed in the United States, particularly the integrative/distributive models, and to find negotiators' prototypes in international negotiations conducted in a Latin American country.Design/methodology/approachAn open questionnaire was administered to a convenience sample of 104 resident foreigners (expatriates) who reported the negotiation patterns of Costa Ricans. The qualitative data were coded in 52 variables (inte-rater reliability Fleiss' Kappa K= 0.65). A total of ten variables were s

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Silva, Eduardo. "Selling Sustainable Development and Shortchanging Social Ecology in Costa Rican Forest Policy." Latin American Politics and Society 45, no. 03 (2003): 93–127. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-2456.2003.tb00251.x.

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Abstract Costa Ricans have worked hard to weave the norms and principles of sustainable development into their nation's environmental policies, especially with respect to natural renewable resources, such as the forest. As a result, the nation is known as a leader in innovative environmental initiatives. But sustainable development is a complex, evolving concept. This paper analyzes how the emphasis on biodiversity conservation during the 1990s and early 2000s has, rhetoric notwithstanding, neglected the social equality, or livelihood, component of sustainable development. This trend stands in

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Buckingham, Louisa. "Race, space and commerce in multi-ethnic Costa Rica: a linguistic landscape inquiry." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2018, no. 254 (2018): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2018-0031.

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Abstract Costa Rica officially became a multi-ethnic, pluricultural nation in 2015. Representatives from the principal minorities, in particular Afro-Costa Ricans and indigenous peoples, played an important role in contesting the erstwhile dominant narrative of Costa Rican’s white European settler heritage. One of the intended consequences of the constitutional amendment was to ensure greater salience of ethnic minorities in public policy and social life. This study investigates the public display of linguistic and cultural diversity on commercial and community signage in six urban centres of

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Arrieta-Bolaños, Esteban, Juan José Madrigal-Sánchez, Jeremy E. Stein, et al. "4-Locus high-resolution HLA allele and haplotype frequencies in Costa Ricans from Guanacaste." Human Immunology 80, no. 7 (2019): 415–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.humimm.2019.05.005.

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A. J., Mohd Firdaus. "Abolishing Military and Cultivating Pacifism in Costa Rica: Reflective but Limited Peace?" Journal of Strategic Studies & International Affairs 2, no. 2 (2022): 13–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/sinergi.0202.2022.02.

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Existing literature on peace, security and civil-military relations in Latin America only recently recognises the historical institutional sources of Costa Rican exceptionalism. While the Cold War's security predicament and the military dictatorship are common antecedents for most Central American states, Costa Rican demilitarisation and pacifism origins are unique and incomparable. Rather than treating post-1948 civil war development as exceptionalism, this paper seeks to normalise their success. The paper examines the political development of Costa Ricans in the 1950s and whether José María

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Rojas Alvarado, Carlos, Sergio Molina-Murillo, and Robin G. Doss. "Perceptions of the use and value of fungi by two groups of young adults from Central America." UNED Research Journal 11, no. 3 (2019): 345–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.22458/urj.v11i3.2619.

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Introduction: Integrated efforts for the management and conservation of natural resources require the availability of socio-cultural information. However, perceptional studies are rarely used along with biological data to design methodologies of biodiversity conservation. Objective: To explore the potential of perceptional information on fungi as a tool for developing culture-sensitive methods of management and conservation. Methods: Through a survey-based design, ethnomycological information from urban settings in Honduras and Costa Rica was collected and evaluated for a group of young adults

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Glei, Dana A., Noreen Goldman, Carol D. Ryff, and Maxine Weinstein. "Physical Function in U.S. Older Adults Compared With Other Populations: A Multinational Study." Journal of Aging and Health 31, no. 7 (2018): 1067–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0898264318759378.

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Objective: We compare physical performance from three U.S. national surveys and nationally representative surveys in England, Taiwan, and Costa Rica. Method: For each performance test, we use local mean smoothing to plot the age profiles by sex and survey wave and then fit a linear regression model to the pooled data, separately by sex, to test for significant differences across surveys controlling for age and height. Results: Age profiles of performance vary across U.S. surveys, but levels of lung function (peak expiratory flow) and handgrip strength in the United States are as high as they a

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Vega-Solano, Jaritza, Karol Madriz-Morales, Adriana Blanco-Metzler, and Eduardo Augusto Fernandes-Nilson. "Estimation of the economic benefits for the public health system related to salt reduction in Costa Rica." PLOS ONE 18, no. 2 (2023): e0279732. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279732.

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Excessive salt and sodium intake are strongly associated with high blood pressure and increased risk of cardiovascular disease. High blood pressure in turn is the main risk factor for the global burden of morbidity and mortality. The prevalence of this disease in the adult population of Costa Rica in 2018 was 37.2%. Costa Rica has limited information on the economic costs for the public health system and related of the prevalence of this type of disease mediated by dietary factors such as salt intake. Objective: to estimate the economic benefits for the public health system related to salt red

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García-Castro, Juan Diego, and Rolando Perez Sanchez. "Fear of Crime and Cultivation Effect. Social and Psychological Predictors." Universitas Psychologica 17, no. 3 (2018): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.upsy17-3.fcce.

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Within the framework of the study of cultivation, the present research attempts to study the association between general TV consumption, particular TV news, and fear of crime. The analysis considers narrative transportation and system justification as psychological predictor variables; in addition, sex, level of crime in the area of residence, and social class as social covariates. Participants were 516 young (M = 20.5 years, SD = 4.7) Costa Ricans. A hierarchical regression analysis (stepwise) was made. Results indicated that people who experienced more narrative transportation, less system j

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Rosero-Bixby, L., F. Coto-Yglesias, and W. H. Dow. "Pulse blood pressure and cardiovascular mortality in a population-based cohort of elderly Costa Ricans." Journal of Human Hypertension 30, no. 9 (2015): 555–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/jhh.2015.117.

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Kabagambe, Edmond K., Ana Baylin, Xinia Siles, and Hannia Campos. "Comparison of dietary intakes of micro- and macronutrients in rural, suburban and urban populations in Costa Rica." Public Health Nutrition 5, no. 6a (2002): 835–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/phn2002372.

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AbstractObjective:To compare, along with behavioural habits, the potential atherogenicity of diets in rural and urban areas in Costa Rica.Design:Subjects (n= 503) were randomly selected from the general population in Costa Rica. A validated food-frequency questionnaire that inquired about dietary intake in the previous year was administered once to each subject. Each subject provided plasma and an adipose tissue biopsy, which were used as biomarkers for carotenoid, tocopherol and/or fatty acid intakes. Each subject also answered another questionnaire on personal profile and household character

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Ziolkowski, Fabrice. ": Costa-Gavras: The Political Fiction Film . John J. Michalczyk." Film Quarterly 38, no. 4 (1985): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.1985.38.4.04a00210.

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Low, Setha M. "Cultura in the modern city: the microgeographies of gender, class, and generation in the costa rican plaza." Horizontes Antropológicos 6, no. 13 (2000): 31–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0104-71832000000100003.

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This article examines the microgeographies of everyday life in Parque Central and Plaza de la Cultura, two plazas located in the central city of San José, Costa Rica. These locales are created by the individual temporal and spatial attributes of plaza users whose daily movements and activities define these spaces. The growing differences of these locales in terms of the users' class, gender, and age, and their corresponding social activities, is reinforced by differences in local interpretations of the concept of cultura. These social, behavioral, and ideological differences have created spati

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Hunninghake, Gary M., Jessica Lasky-Su, Manuel E. Soto-Quirós, et al. "Sex-stratified Linkage Analysis Identifies a Female-specific Locus for IgE to Cockroach in Costa Ricans." American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 177, no. 8 (2008): 830–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1164/rccm.200711-1697oc.

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Arrieta-Bolaños, Esteban, Juan José Madrigal-Sánchez, Jeremy E. Stein, et al. "5-Locus high-resolution HLA allele and haplotype frequencies in Costa Ricans from the Central Valley." Human Immunology 80, no. 7 (2019): 413–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.humimm.2019.05.006.

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Arrieta-Bolaños, Esteban, Juan José Madrigal-Sánchez, Jeremy E. Stein, et al. "4-Locus high-resolution HLA allele and haplotype frequencies in Costa Ricans from African-Caribbean descent." Human Immunology 80, no. 7 (2019): 411–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.humimm.2019.05.007.

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Silva Atencio, Gabriel, and Mauricio Vladimir Umaña-Ramírez. "Predictive models in pandemic times and their impact on the analysis of crime." Journal of Applied Research and Technology 21, no. 3 (2023): 484–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/icat.24486736e.2023.21.3.1944.

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Through the descriptive analysis on the Open Data of the Costa Rican Judicial Power, alarming results are reflected in the number of complaints imposed in the Judicial Investigation Organism (OIJ), exceeding fifty thousand complaints in 2019. Based on those numbers, the objective for this research is to generate a data analysis model that allows to potentiate these statistics and to indicate in advance the regions with the most remarkable propensity to suffer crimes in the next five years, to promote the proactivity of both the citizen and the police to be alerted and to avoid upcoming crimes.

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Olander, Marcia. "Costa Rica in 1948: Cold War or Local War?" Americas 52, no. 4 (1996): 465–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1008474.

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The years following World War Two produced a strong resurgence of U.S. intervention in Central America and the Caribbean couched in Cold War terms. Although the U.S. intervention in Guatemala to overthrow the government of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 has generally been seen as the first case of Cold War covert anti-Communist intervention in Latin America, several scholars have raised questions about U.S. involvement in a 1948 Costa Rican civil war in which Communism played a critical role. In a 1993 article in The Americas, Kyle Longley argued that “the U.S. response to the Costa Rican Revolution of

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Rueda-Salazar, Sarahí, Jeroen Spijker, Daniel Devolder, and Cecilia Albala. "The contribution of social participation to differences in life expectancy and healthy years among the older population: A comparison between Chile, Costa Rica and Spain." PLOS ONE 16, no. 3 (2021): e0248179. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248179.

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We study the health trajectories of the population aged over 60, comparing between one European and two Latin American countries (Spain, Chile and Costa Rica) which have similar longevity patterns. Our focus is on functional limitation and mortality risks, considering differences by gender, education and social participation. Data come from national panel surveys (EPS, CRELES, SHARE). Multistate modelling is used to estimate transition probabilities between two health states: healthy to unhealthy, unhealthy to healthy as well as the transition to death from healthy or unhealthy states, to esti

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Madrigal-Solís, Helga, Silvia Echeverría-Sáenz, Yanina Pizarro-Mendez, et al. "What do we Think About Water? Public Perception of the Current Situation of Water Resources in Costa Rica: an Indicator of Water Understanding and Management." Uniciencia 34, no. 1 (2020): 159–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/ru.34-1.10.

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The objective of this research was to determine the level of knowledge and perception of the Costa Rican population about water for human consumption, general concepts, the impact of human activities, the occurrence of extreme events and water management and governance. In 2016, a quantitative-descriptive study of population perception was carried out through a semi-structured survey in which 800 people were consulted, through calls to landlines. It was found that the Costa Ricans: a) perceived that water is a public good and that there is greater availability of water than there is in reality

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Barboza Solís DDS, MSc, PhD, Cristina, and Romain Fantin MSc. "The Role of Socioeconomic Position in Determining Tooth Loss in Elderly Costa Rican: Findings from the CRELES Cohort." Odovtos - International Journal of Dental Sciences 19, no. 3 (2017): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/ijds.v19i3.29851.

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Objective: Differences in health status between socioeconomic groups continue to challenge epidemiological research. To evaluate health inequalities in tooth loss, using indicators of socioeconomic position (education level, occupation and subjective economic situation), in a large representative sample of elderly Costa Ricans, can contribute to conceive better adapted public health interventions. Methods: Data are from the Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES Pre-1945), a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of elders. 2827 participants were included in th

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Madrigal-Solís, H., S. Echeverría-Sáenz, Y. Pizarro-Mendez, et al. "What do we Think About Water? Public Perception of the Current Situation of Water Resources in Costa Rica: an Indicator of Water Understanding and Management." Uniciencia 34, no. 1 (2020): 152–69. https://doi.org/10.15359/ru.34-1.10.

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The objective of this research was to determine the level of knowledge and perception of the Costa Rican population about water for human consumption, general concepts, the impact of human activities, the occurrence of extreme events and water management and governance. In 2016, a quantitative-descriptive study of population perception was carried out through a semi-structured survey in which 800 people were consulted, through calls to landlines. It was found that the Costa Ricans: a) perceived that water is a public good and that there is greater availability of water than there is in reality

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Colón-Ramos, Uriyoán, Edmond K. Kabagambe, Ana Baylin, Alberto Ascherio, Hannia Campos, and Karen E. Peterson. "Socio-economic status and health awareness are associated with choice of cooking oil in Costa Rica." Public Health Nutrition 10, no. 11 (2007): 1214–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980007699571.

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AbstractObjectiveTo examine the socio-economic and lifestyle determinants of cooking oil choice in Costa Rica during the last decade (1994–2004).DesignCross-sectional study. Subjects (total n = 2274) belonged to the control population of a large case–control study; they were recruited yearly. Data about type of oil used for cooking, dietary intake, socio-economic and demographic characteristics were collected.SettingA dietitian visited all subjects and conducted the interviews at their homes; all subjects lived in the Costa Rican central valley region.SubjectsAdult, free-living, rural and urba

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Ziolkowski, Fabrice. "Review: Costa-Gavras: The Political Fiction Film by John J. Michalczyk." Film Quarterly 38, no. 4 (1985): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1212405.

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Valverde DDS, Anabelle, Tatiana Vargas DDS, MSc, and Ottón Fernández DDS, MSc. "Validación de un instrumento para conocer el nivel de satisfacción de pacientes rehabilitados con prótesis removible." Odovtos - International Journal of Dental Sciences 17, no. 3 (2015): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/ijds.v17i3.22147.

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The survey is an element of health data collection. The validity of the questionnaire is essential to achieve useful evidence, being a crucial aspect in identifying and correcting sources of bias during data collection. Verbal and cognitive tests are recognized as a tool to assess whether questions cause problems for both, the interviewer and the interviewee. The aim of this study was to validate the OHIP-49 and OHIP-19 instruments in a sample of Costa Ricans applying cognitive tests such as probing and thinkalouds and then a standard pretest. In a sample of 15 individuals rehabilitated with d

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Aguirre, Juan. "Culture, health, gender and coffee drinking: a Costa Rican perspective." British Food Journal 118, no. 1 (2016): 150–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bfj-08-2015-0298.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the effect of culture, gender and perceived health benefits on coffee drinking in Costa Rica. Design/methodology/approach – A telephone survey (n=1,328) was conducted in the province of San Jose, where the capital city is located. This location has a population of 845,000, with a 99 per cent, confidence, 1 per cent error and 50 per cent response distribution, the total usable surveys were 1,199. The analytical procedure, consisted of three steps; instrument validation, consumer profile development and developing ordinal logistic modelling. Fin

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Monge-Nájera, Julian. "The power of short lectures to improve support for biodiversity conservation of unpopular organisms: an experiment with worms." UNED Research Journal 9, no. 1 (2017): 145–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.22458/urj.v9i1.1690.

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Public opinion is important in obtaining support for the conservation of biodiversity, and invertebrates have a "public relations problem" because -for reasons that are both cultural and biological- they are poorly known and often unpopular. In this article I present the results of an experiment on the power of a short lecture to improve attitude towards invertebrates, using the case of velvet worms. Velvet worms are "living fossils" that have inspired a wide range of cultural expressions, probably because of the adhesive net they use to capture prey. For the experiment, a group of 141 Costa R

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