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    • New economies and innovation for developing countries: The case of Intel in Costa Rica 

      Vargas Alfaro, Leiner; Lindegaard, Klaus (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2002-05)
      The paper presents the specialisation patterns and indexes of the Central American economies based on the CAN database of CEPAL and reports on recent research on these issues and compare this “Intel Island” observation ...

    • New insights into Kawah Ijen’s volcanic system from the wet volcano workshop experiment 

      Gunawan, Hendra; Caudron, Corentin; Pallister, John; Primulyana, Sofyan; Christenson, Bruce; Mccausland, Wendy; Van Hinsberg, Vincent; Lewicki, Jennifer; Rouwet, Dmitri; Kelly, Peter; Kern, Christoph; Werner, Cynthia; Johnson, Jeffrey B.; Saing, Ugan; Suparjan; Budi Utami, Sri; Kamil Syahbana, Devy; Heri Purwanto, Bambang; Sealing, Christine; Martínez Cruz, María; Maryanto, Sukir; Bani, Philipson; Laurin, Antoine; Schmid, Agathe; Bradley, Kyle; Agung Nandaka, I Gusti Made; Hendrasto, Mochammad (Geological Society London Special Publications, 2016-02-25)
      Volcanoes with crater lakes and/or extensive hydrothermal systems pose significant challenges with respect to monitoring and forecasting eruptions, but they also provide new opportunities to enhance our understanding of ...

    • New insights into Neutrophil Extracellular Trap (NETs) formation from porcine neutrophils in response to bacterial infections 

      Bonilla, Marta C.; Quiros, Oriana N.; Wendt, Michael; Hennig-Pauka, Isabel; Mörgelin, Matthias; von Köckritz-Blickwede, Maren; de Buhr, Nicole (MDPI, 2022-08-11)
      Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (A.pp, Gram negative) and Streptococcus (S.) suis (Gram positive) can cause severe diseases in pigs. During infection, neutrophils infiltrate to counteract these pathogens with phagocytosis ...

    • New Record of the Small Hive Beetle, Aethina tumida, in Africanized Honey Bee Colonies in Costa Rica 

      Calderón, Rafael; Ramírez, Marianyela (Bee World, 2019-02-27)
      The small hive beetle (SHB) Aethina tumida Murray (Insecta: Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) is a honey bee parasite native to sub-Saharan Africa (Hepburn & Radloff, 1998). It was first described by Murray in 1867. In 1996, SHBs ...

    • New records of historical tsunamis obtained from Costa Rican newspapers 

      Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Murillo Gutiérrez, Anthony; Rivera Cerdas, Fabio (American Geophysical Union, 2020-12-14)
      Costa Rica has few records of historical tsunamis, due to traditionally low populated coasts and moderate tsunami potential, among other reasons. As part of the writing of the first tsunami catalog of Costa Rica, the authors ...

    • New records of Pteris (Pteridaceae) from the Neotropics 

      Rojas Alvarado, Alexander; Chaves-Fallas, José Miguel (Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica), 2014)
      As a result of studies on neotropical Pteris L., we report new records of Pteris albertiae and P. longifoliafrom Costa Rica; P. longipetiolulata from Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, and Venezuela; and P. muricatopedatafrom ...

    • New records of snipe eels (Anguilliformes: Nemichthyidae) from the Pacific coast of lower Central America 

      Cruz Mena, Oscar Isaac; Angulo, Arturo (Marine Biodiversity Records vol.9 no.1 1-6 2016, 2016)
      Background: New records of occurrence of two snipe eels (Avocettina bowersii and Nemichthys scolopaceus), poorly known for the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Panama are herein reported. Results: Specimens, 45 in total (28 ...

    • New records, validated name, and redefinition in Azolla (Salviniaceae, Pteridophyta) from Costa Rica 

      Rojas Alvarado, Alexander; Piedra Castro, Lilliana María; Icaza-Osorio, Carolin ; Castillo Chinchilla, Maikol (Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia), 2024)
      In studies of herbarium specimens and living material, we observed that several species in the genus Azolla Lam. are present in different wetlands of Costa Rica, which instigated the search for applicable names of each ...

    • New sighting of seagrasses in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (Bahía Potrero, Costa Rica) 

      Samper-Villarreal, Jimena; Vega-Alpízar, Jose Luis; Cortés, Jorge; Rojas-Ortega, Gustavo (Elsevier B.V., 2018-07-22)
      Seagrass meadows provide a multitude of ecosystem services, yet they are currently threatened and declining worldwide due to anthropogenic impacts. Current knowledge of seagrass presence in the Eastern Tropical Pacific ...

    • New species and records of Cloeodes Traver, 1938 (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae) from Costa Rica 

      Vásquez-Bolaños, Oscar; Sibaja-Araya, Fabián; Guevara-Mora, Meyer (Pensoft (Bulgaria), 2020)
      The nymph of Cloeodes danta sp. nov. is described from male and female nymphs collected from highland streams in the Caribbean Slope of the Costa Rica Central Volcanic Mountain Range. Adults are unknown. In addition, C. ...

    • New species of Potamocoris Hungerford (Heteroptera, Potamocoridae) from Costa Rica and a key to the species 

      Herrera, Federico; Springer, Monika (Magnolia Press, 2014-11)
      A new potamocorid species, Potamocoris sitesi NEW SPECIES, with its two wing morphs (coleopteroid and macropterous) are described from Costa Rica. Descriptions are supported with photographs and illustrations. Parameres ...

    • “New” forest services and property rights 

      Segura Bonilla, Olman; Johnson, Bjorn (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2003-02)
      Forest sector and environmental services from forest were not really important in national economies nor in economic policies, until recently. The development of the forest sector activities were at first linked in ...

    • Ni patadas ni ideología, la crisis nos exige inteligencia y solidaridad 

      Vargas Alfaro, Leiner (La República, 2020-03-24)
      En una muy reciente columna publicada por el periódico “La Nación” se demanda a gritos medidas para salvar el empleo y proteger al sector privado ante la crisis económica del Coronavirus, que compartimos será un antes y ...

    • “Ni travestis ni transformistas, nosotras somos mujeres transgénero" : el acceso al empleo formal como un derecho humano 

      Salvatierra Jiménez, Pablo Antonio (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2019)
      La presente investigación indaga en la realidad laboral de un grupo de tres mujeres transgénero habitantes del cantón central de la provincia de San José. El diseño de la investigación fue cualitativo. El estudio se ...

    • Nicaragua entrega "Orden Augusto César Sandino" a José Figueres 

      Universidad Nacional (Editorial Universidad Nacional, 1986-12-31)
      Explica cómo el gobierno de Nicaragua le hace entrega del premio: "Orden Augusto César Sandino" a José Figueres Ferrer como un merecido premio en su lucha por la libertad en Costa Rica, cuyo proceder es validado también ...

    • Nicaragua tan violentamente dulce 

      Cordero S., Gloria (2013-09-10)

    • Nicaragua, nunca más… 

      Morales Gamboa, Abelardo (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021-07)
      Si uno cree que el realismo mágico solo tenía que ver con las viejas estructuras feudales de América Latina, debería ir a Nicaragua a mirar de cerca el escenario en una puesta postmodernista. En Nicaragua parece que no ...

    • Nicolás Guillén, poeta de la negritud 

      Barzuna Pérez, Guillermo (2012-11-09)

    • Nicoya earthquake rupture anticipated by geodetic measurement of the locked plate interface 

      Protti, Marino; González, Victor; Newman, Andrew; Dixon, Timothy H.; Schwartz, Susan; Marshall, Jeffrey S; Feng, Lujia; Walter, Jacob; Malservisi, Rocco; Owen, Susan E. (Nature Research, 2013-12-22)
      The Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica is one of the few places on Earth where the seismically active plate interface of a subduction zone is directly overlaid by land rather than ocean. At this plate interface, large megathrust ...

    • NICOYA, COSTA RICA, TRANS-PENINSULA GPS EXPERIMENT AND INTER-PLATE COUPLING 

      Iinuma, Takeshi; Protti, Marino; Obana, Koichiro; Miyazaki, Shinichi; González, Victor; Van der Laat, Rodolfo; Kato, Teruyuki; Kaneda, Yoshiyuki; Hernández, Enrique (2003-06-30)