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Las Noticias Centroamericanas. Volumen 3 Completo
(SALTRA / IRET-UNA, 2006-11)
Las Noticias Centroamericanas. Volumen 3 Completo. 2006
Enfermedad renal crónica: evaluación del conocimiento actual y factibilidad de colaboración regional en investigación en América Central
(SALTRA / IRET-UNA, 2006-11)
El número de pacientes con enfermedad renal crónica (ERC) y enfermedad renal terminal (ERT) está incrementándose tanto en los países desarrollados como en los países en desarrollo, por lo que ha aumentado considerablemente ...
Efectos del clorpirifos en la salud de trabajadores bananeros de la Lima, Honduras
(SALTRA / IRET-UNA, 2006-09)
El clorpirifos es un insecticida organofosforado de toxicidad aguda moderada, de amplio uso en la agricultura y el ambiente doméstico. Hallazgos toxicológicos y epidemiológicos recientes de asociaciones a neuropatía ...
Seismogenic zone structure beneath the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, from three-dimensional local earthquake P- and S-wave tomography
(Geophysical Journal International, 2006)
The subduction plate interface along the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, generates damaging large (Mw > 7.5) earthquakes. We present hypocenters and 3-D seismic velocity models (VP and VP/VS) calculated using simultaneous ...
The Mw 6.4 Damas, Costa Rica, Earthquake of 20 November 2004: Aftershocks and Slip Distribution
(Seismological Society of America, 2006-08)
The earthquake of 20 November 2004 was located north of Damas Island in the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, within the Costa Rica Deformed Belt. The earthquake was located at 24 km depth and reported with a magnitude (Mw) of ...
A regression analysis of Q'eqchi' Maya medicinal plants from southern Belize
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2006)
Amiguet, V.T., Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, P.O. Box 450, Ottawa, Ont. K1N 6N5, Canada; Arnason, J.T., Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, P.O. Box 450, Ottawa, Ont. K1N 6N5, Canada; Maquin, P., ...
Mortality among a Cohort of Banana Plantation Workers in Costa Rica
(Taylor & Francis, 2006)
The nematocide 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP), widely used in Costa Rica during the late 1960s and 1970s, causes sterility in men and is a possible carcinogen. Mortality among a cohort of Costa Rican banana plantation ...
Food niche overlap among neotropical frugivorous bats in Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica., 2006)
Food habits of 15 species of frugivorous bats were studied at La Selva Biological Station, Costa
Rica. Eight hundred and fifty-four (854) fecal samples and 169 samples from fruit parts and seeds discarded
by bats beneath ...
Dung beetle and terrestrial mammal diversity in forests, indigenous agroforestry systems and plantain monocultures in Talamanca, Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica., 2006)
In order to explore the importance of indigenous agroforestry systems for biodiversity
conservation, we compared the abundance, species richness and diversity of dung beetles and
terrestrial mammals across a gradient of ...
Stingless Bees in applied pollination: practice and perspectives
(Apidologie, 2006-06-22)
At present, numbers of both wild and managed bee colonies are declining rapidly, causing global concern for pollination services. Stingless bees play an important ecological role as pollinators of many wild plant species ...