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Exploring farmer preferences towards innovations in the vanilla supply chain
(2021-11)The vanilla supply chain is characterized by high risk crop management and unstable supply. In order to meet global vanilla demand while improving production sustainability, new approaches considering agro-ecological ... -
Exploring low enthalpy geothermal energy in Costa Rica: A pilot project to improve tourism energy matrix efficiency
(2022-12)Geothermal energy has been an important and stable part of the renewal energy matrix of Costa Rica for more than 25 years. However, the exploitation has been centred in high enthalpy energy for electric power generation, ... -
Exploring new alleles involved in tomato fruit quality in an introgression line library of solanum pimpinellifolium
(2016-08-17)We have studied a genomic library of introgression lines from the Solanum pimpinellifolium accession TO-937 into the genetic background of the “Moneymaker” cultivar in order to evaluate the accession’s breeding potential. ... -
Exploring the boundaries of Solar Home Systems (SHS) for off-grid electrification: Optimal SHS sizing for the multi-tier framework for household electricity access
(2019-04-15)With almost 1.1 billion people lacking access to electricity, solar-based off-grid products like Solar Home Systems (SHS) have become a promising solution to provide basic electricity needs in un(der)-electrified regions. ... -
Exploring the relationship between foreign language anxiety and students’ online engagement at UK universities during the Covid-19 pandemic
(2022-08-04)Although foreign language anxiety (FLA) and student engagement have both been found to have significant effects on a number of behavioural and academic outcomes for language students (Awan et al. 2010, Gargalianou et ... -
Exploring the role of verbal fluency in L2 Vocabulary Learning: Evidence from university students in the United Kingdom
(2022-05-01)Research in second/foreign (L2) vocabulary learning has recently started to take into account the role of learners’ individual differences in working memory, motivation, language aptitude, phonological awareness, amongst ... -
Exploring the venom of the forest cobra snake: Toxicovenomics and antivenom profiling of Naja melanoleuca
(2017-01-06)A toxicovenomic analysis of the venomof the forest cobra, N. melanoleuca,was performed, revealing the presence of a total of 52 proteins by proteomics analysis. The most abundant proteins belong to the three-finger ... -
Exploring why Costa Rica outperforms the United States in life expectancy: A tale of two inequality gradients
(2016)Mortality in the United States is 18% higher than in Costa Rica among adult men and 10% higher among middle-aged women, despite the several times higher income and health expenditures of the United States. This comparison ... -
Explosion mechanisms at Arenal volcano, Costa Rica: An interpretation from integration of seismic and Doppler radar data
(2012-01-21)We execute an integrated analysis of broadband seismic and Doppler radar data to gain insights into the subsurface mechanisms that drive repetitive, mildly explosive activity of Arenal volcano (Costa Rica). We find large ... -
Explosión de nacimientos
(1986-11-15)Sean cuales fueren las causas, lo cierto es que en 1985 ocurrió un inusitado incremento en la natalidad; ocurrieron 8.000 nacimientos más que en 1984. -
La explosión demográfica
(2004)Se dice y se repite con razón que el recurso más valioso de una nación es su gente. Esta es una gran verdad, cuando se refiere a la calidad de las personas, pero no a su cantidad. Los simples números de personas, y su ... -
Explosión demográfica. Ni la política ni el futbol escaparán al remezón demógrafico
(1997-10-12)En Costa Rica han ocurrido dos grandes expansiones o "booms" de nacimientos en el presente siglo. El primero tuvo lugar en la década de 1950. El segundo es menos conocido y tuvo lugar entre 1975 y 1985. Estas dos oleadas ... -
Explotacion Temprana de Recursos Costeros en el Sitio Black Creek (4,000-2,500 AP), Caribe Sur de Costa Rica
(2011)Prácticas socioeconómicas relacionadas con la explotación de recursos cos-teros entre el 3830 y el 2355 cal. A.P. (2-δ), se infieren a partir dos compo-nentes estructurales del sitio Black Creek en la costa sur del Caribe ... -
La explotación del tinte de caracol y la lucha de los indígenas por su preservación en el Pacífico de Costa Rica (Siglos XVI al XIX)
(2017)Esta investigación pretende analizar el proceso de extracción del tinte de cara col en el Pacífico de Costa Rica a lo largo de los siglos XVI al XIX, con el fin de ex plicar los efectos económicos, sociales y ambientales ... -
Expo ARTQUIS
(2011-11-01)Una de las actividades, que se organizaron dentro del marco de la celebración de los 40 años de la fundación de la Escuela, fue una exposición de expresiones artísticas de arquitectos, arquitectas y estudiantes de arquitectura. ... -
Exporting consumption: Lifestyle migration and energy use
(2020-03)This paper examines how international population movements from highly developed to less developed countries spread environmentally-impactful consumption habits around the world. Lifestyle migration, a phenomenon whereby ...