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Water quality in Costa Rica
(2019)This book provides an overview of surface and groundwater quality and impacts on human consumption, agriculture and ecosystem services in each country, thereby creating a hemisphere-wide picture of the current status and ... -
Water stable isotopes reveal the hydrological response of Costa Rican glacial lakes to climate variability
(2022)Lakes are generally considered a key information source for understanding paleoclimate. Here, we use stable water isotopes (δ2H and δ18O) in a high-elevation tropical glacial lake to inform about modern climate variability ... -
Weather and climate socio-economic impacts in Central America for the management and protection of world heritage sites and the Diquis Delta culture in Costa Rica (a case study)
(Advances in Geosciences, 35, 157–167, 2014, 2014-01-10)The Central America region hosts a valuable amount of World Heritage Sites (WHS), many of them located in areas of floods, landslides, drought, high winds, intense precipitations, and earthquakes. The effective management ... -
Weaving sociocultural change and cognitive development together
(2007)In her book Weaving Generations Together, Patricia Greenfield presents an account of the nature and course of human development that suggests a tight relationship with sociocultural change. During two extensive stays in ... -
Web technologies of the self: The arising of the "blogger" identity
(2012-07)Drawing on Michel Foucault's theories of subjectivity, this paper conceptualizes early blogging and online diary writing as “technologies of the self,” that is, procedures through which practitioners enacted certain ... -
Webinar: Trata de Personas en Costa Rica: elementos para su comprensión actual
(2021-12-02)Webinar elaborado por personas investigadoras del Centro de Investigación en Estudios de la Mujer (CIEM) de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Esta actividad tiene como propósito la concientización de las personas en torno al ... -
Webinar: Trata de Personas en Costa Rica: Persecución y sanción del delito
(2022-12-14)Webinar "Trata de Personas en Costa Rica: Persecución y sanción del delito", organizado por los proyectos "Apoyo a la investigación para la efectiva sanción al Delito de Trata de Personas, especialmente en mujeres y niñas, ... -
Welfare Regimes in Latin America: Capturing Constellations of Markets, Families and Policies
(2008-06)This article presents both a theoretical framework and a methodology that attempt to capture the complex interactions among labor markets, families, and public policy that currently constitute Latin American welfare regimes. ... -
What do Chilean and Costa Rican psychologists believe and advise about parenting?
(2017)This research investigates the subjective theories of 12 Chilean and Costa Rican psychologists who work with children, with the purpose of describing and interpreting their explanations about child rearing. Episodic ... -
What is the Language of Science? New Consensus Statements in Spanish
(2023-12-04)Reflections are presented about the publication of the first two consensus statements in Spanish. Publication of this type of information is key to promote evidence-based practice in human movement science professionals. -
What skills and knowledge do university mathematics teacher education programs give future teachers in Costa Rica?
(2020)High-quality teaching is crucial for improving mathematics education. Teaching mathematics requires specific knowledge, including knowledge of both content and pedagogy. In this study, we analyzed the knowledge for ... -
Who Cares in Nicaragua? A Care Regime in an Exclusionary Social Policy Context
(2011-09-14)In Latin American countries with historically strong social policy regimes (such as those in the Southern Cone), neoliberal policies are usually blamed for the increased burden of female unpaid work. However, studying the ... -
Why and How to Build Universal Social Policy in the South
(2018-06-15)In Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income. Focusing on the economic and political implications of ... -
Willingness and performance of older adults using Information and Communication Technologies for cognitive activity and social interaction
(2018)This study is part of a project aimed at designing a learning intervention to enable older Costa Ricans to use Informa- tion and Communication Technologies (ICT) for enhancing cognitive activity and social interaction. ... -
Working memory capacity in a go/no-go task: Age differences in interference, processing speed, and attentional control.
(2013)We tested the limits of working-memory capacity (WMC) of young adults, old adults, and children with a memory-updating task. The task consisted of mentally shifting spatial positions within a grid according to arrows, their ... -
Working Paper 27: The Double Challenge of Market and Social Incorporation: Progress and Bottlenecks in Latin America
(2012)Latin American countries have historically failed to secure market incorporation (e.g. people’s participation in the cash nexus, which in turn requires the creation of a sufficient number of formal well-paying jobs) and ... -
Workshop: Sweat Rate Measurement in Athletes
(Proceedings of the XXXI FIMS Sports Medicine World Congress, Medimond International Proceedings, 2010-10)Both laboratory and field tests for measuring sweat rate in athletes have been performed more and more often this past decade. This workshop gave the attendants a hands-on opportunity to test two volunteers who exercised ... -
Worldwide Research Trends in Landslide Science
(2021)Abstract: Landslides are generated by natural causes and by human action, causing various geomorphological changes as well as physical and socioeconomic loss of the environment and human life. The study, characterization ...