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Biodiversity Prospecting: The INBio Experience
(2004)Bioprospecting is defined as the systematic search for genes, compounds, designs, and organisms that might have a potential economic use and might lead to a product development. In 1991, Costa Rica's National Institute of ... -
Biodiversity, Agrobiodiversity and Ecosystem Change
(2011)Biodiversity is the variety of life, in all its forms. It provides the foods and medicines used around the world today, the fiber for clothes, and many of the materials for shelter and houses, and a plethora of other goods ... -
Bioeconomic approach to livestock productivity
(2021-10-12)This chapter five sets out to determine if livestock productivity can be increased through bioeconomic management. -
Bioensayo microbiano para determinar los nutrimentos disponibles en abonos orgánicos
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 1995)Se describe la metodología de un bioensayo, que utiliza el crecimiento de la población microbiana nativa del suelo en lugar de las plantas indicadoras (prueba de invernadero), para predecir el suministro de nutrimentos ... -
Bioerosion by the sea urchin Diadema mexicanum along Eastern Tropical Pacific coral reefs
(2016-07-07)Bioerosion is a natural process in coral reefs. It is fundamental to the health of these ecosystems. In the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) coral reefs, the most important bioeroders are sponges, bivalves, sea urchins and ... -
Bioethics in the Times of Contagious Populism
(2021-03-03)As I write this short piece, several social protests are happening in Costa Rica, where I live. The messages that protestors are sending out are very confusing, even contradictory. However, in the midst of this chaos, it’s ... -
Bioética en la experimentación en seres humanos en Costa Rica
(2000)Uno de los mayores avances de la civilización ha sido la discusión filosófica sobre las intervenciones que el Homo sapiens ha hecho en su propia especie, ya motivado por el afán de mejorarla, ya estimulado por el poder, ... -
Bioética: una estrategia más allá de una política de paz
(2018-08-13)El presente trabajo se encamina al análisis y reflexión de los efectos de las estrategias adoptadas por los países latinoamericanos en la formulación de políticas públicas que permiten consignar y perpetuar diferentes ... -
Biogas production and microbial communities of mesophilic and thermophilic anaerobic co-digestion of animal manures and food wastes in Costa Rica
(2022)Biomass generated from agricultural operations in Costa Rica represents an untapped renewable resource for bioenergy generation. This study investigated the effects of two temperatures and three mixture ratios of manures ... -
Biogeographical analyses to facilitate targeted conservation of orchid diversity hotspots in Costa Rica
(2020-04-13)Aim: We conduct a biogeographical assessment of orchids in a global biodiversity hotspot to explore their distribution and occurrences of local hotspots while identifying geographic attributes underpinning diversity ... -
Biogeographical assessment of myxomycete assemblages from Neotropical and Asian Palaeotropical forests
(2017-03-16)Aim Lowland/highland and Neotropical/Asian Palaeotropical assemblages of myxomycetes were compared to test the null hypothesis that neither species diversity nor species composition differs between the two ecoregions. ... -
Biological and biochemical activities of Vipera berus (European viper) venom
(1993-06)Vipera berus is widely distributed throughout the northern part of Europe and Asia. Characterization of several toxic effects of its venom in the mouse, as well as of in vitro enzymatic activities was performed. Vipera ... -
Biological and dosimetric evaluation of [11C]S-adenosyl methionine as a potential agent for prostate cancer diagnosis
(2018)Introduction: [11C]Choline ([11C]COL) has been widely used for prostate cancer diagnosis; however, this radiopharmaceutical is not recommended for patients with a low absolute PSA value (< 1 ng/mL) due to its limited ...