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A first estimation of Tsunami Hazard of the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica from Local and Distant Seismogenic Sources
(IV Assembly of the Latin American and Caribbean Seismological Commission, LACSC 2022, 2022-10-04)Costa Rica has experienced 41 tsunamis since 1746, 36 of them at the Pacific coast and only 5 at the Caribbean coast. However, the oldest record belongs to the Caribbean coast, as well as the only tsunami that has caused ... -
A first estimation of tsunami hazard of the Pacific coast of Costa Rica from local and distant seismogenic sources
(Springer, 2021-06-04)Costa Rica has been affected by several local and distant tsunamis in the past, but the historical information is scarce and incomplete. Its Pacific coast stretches for over a thousand kilometers, and tsunami hazard has ... -
A lightweight environment for 2D visual applications
(EasyChair, 2019)People and organizations constantly use a wide variety of devices and formats to produce large volumes of data. This involves a series of challenges related to processing and transforming data into valuable knowledge to ... -
A management plan for the sport fishery of Parachromis dovii (Pisces: Cichlidae) in Hule lake, Costa Rica
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2000-06)A first attempt to regulate the fishing activity while preserving the species and its habitats is presented for Hule lake. We intensively sampled the "guapote" between March 1996 and April 1997 using monofilament gill nets ... -
A methane sink in the Central American high elevation páramo: Topographic, soil moisture and vegetation effects
(Elsevier B.V., 2020-03-15)Methane (CH4) is a strong greenhouse gas with a global warming potential 23 times larger than that of carbon dioxide. Characterizing ecosystems as either sources or sinks for methane and their magnitudes informs on biosphere ... -
A Microscopic Model for a One Parameter Class of Fractional Laplacians with Dirichlet Boundary Conditions
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021)We prove the hydrodynamic limit for the symmetric exclusion process with long jumps given by a mean zero probability transition rate with infinite variance and in contact with infinitely many reservoirs with density α ... -
A mixed virtual element method for a pseudostress-based formulation of linear elasticity
(Elsevier B.V., 2019)In this paper we introduce and analyze a mixed virtual element method (mixed-VEM) for a pseudostress-displacement formulation of the linear elasticity problem with non homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. We follow ... -
A mixed virtual element method for quasi-Newtonian stokes flows
(SIAM, 2018)In this paper we introduce and analyze a virtual element method (VEM) for an augmented mixed variational formulation of a class of nonlinear Stokes models arising in quasi-Newtonian fluids. While the original unknowns are ... -
A mixed virtual element method for the boussinesq problem on polygonal meshes
(Global Science Press, 2021)In this work we introduce and analyze a mixed virtual element method (mixed-VEM) for the two-dimensional stationary Boussinesq problem. The continuous formulation is based on the introduction of a pseudostress tensor ... -
A mixed virtual element method for the Brinkman problem
(Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences vol.27 no.4 707-743 2017, 2017)In this paper, we introduce and analyze a mixed virtual element method (mixed-VEM) for the two-dimensional Brinkman model of porous media flow with non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. More precisely, we employ ... -
A Monte Carlo Study of the Photon Spectrum due to the Different Materials Used in the Construction of Flattening Filters of LINAC
(Hindawi, 2017-07-10)Different types the spectrum of photons were studied; they were emitted from the flattening filter of a LINAC Varian 2100 C/D that operates at 15 MV. The simplified geometry of the LINAC head was calculated using the MCNPX ... -
A new Costa Rican species of Drosophila visiting inflorescences of the hemi-epiphytic climber Monstera lentii (Araceae)
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2018-09)Drosophila monsterae sp. nov. is described from 11 males and 13 females collected from the inside of closed inflorescences of Monstera lentii (Araceae) at 1810 m altitude in the Forest Reserve of Cerro de La Carpintera, ... -
A new giant species of placented worm and the mechanism by which onychophorans weave their nets (Onychophora: Peripatidae)
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2010)Onychophorans, or velvet worms, are poorly known and rare animals. Here we report the discovery of a new species that is also the largest onychophoran found so far, a 22cm long female from the Caribbean coastal forest of ... -
A new giant velvet worm from Costa Rica suggests absence of the genus Peripatus (Onychophora: Peripatidae) in Central Americ
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2020-02-03)Introduction: Neotropical onychophoran taxonomy and diversity has been poorly investigated. Recent studies have discovered problems in species classification: they have questioned the accepted genera and the actual number ... -
A New Hybrid of Serpocaulon (Polypodiaceae) from Costa Rica
(Bio One Research Evolved, 2013)A new hybrid Serpocaulon 3 sessilipinnum A. Rojas & J.M. Chaves is described. The new taxon has characters intermediate between S. fraxinifolium (Jacq.) A.R. Sm. and S. ptilorhizon (Christ) A.R. Sm., which are related ... -
A new species of Elaphoglossum Schott ex J. Sm. (Dryopteridaceae) from Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica), 2017-12)Una especie nueva de Elaphoglossum Schott ex J.Sm. Dryopteridaceae) para Costa Rica.Una especie nueva de ElaphoglossumSchott ex J. Smde la sección UndulataChrist es descrita aquí: Elaphoglossum pallidosquamum A. Rojas & ... -
A new species of Seticeros from Costa Rica (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Prioninae)
(Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), 2011)A new species of Seticeros Perger & Santos-Silva, 2010 (Prioninae: Callipogonini) from San Isidro del General, San José, Costa Rica is described and illustrated. A key to the species of Seticeros is added. -
A new vanilla species from Costa Rica closely related to V. planifolia (Orchidaceae)
(European Journal of Taxonomy, 2017-02-22)We describe a new vanilla species growing in sympatry with Vanilla planifolia Jacks. ex Andrews (Orchidaceae) in the province of Limón, Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. The morphology of the reproductive and vegetative organs ... -
A novel host-adapted strain of SalmonellaTyphimurium causes renal disease in olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) in the Pacifc
(Springer Nature, 2019-06)Salmonella spp. are frequently shed by wildlife including turtles, but S. enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium or lesions associated with Salmonella are rare in turtles. Between 1996 and 2016, we necropsied 127 ... -
A posteriori error analysis of a mixed virtual element method for a nonlinear Brinkman model of porous media flow
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020-06-25)In this paper we present an a posteriori error analysis of a mixed-VEM discretization for a nonlinear Brinkman model of porous media flow, which has been proposed by the authors in a previous work. Therein, the system ...