Recent Submissions

  • Microscopic Image Processing for the Analysis of Nosema Disease 

    Calderón, Rafael A.; Dghim, Soumaya; Travieso-González, Carlos M.; Gouider, Mohamed Salah; Ramírez-Bogantes, Melvin; Prendas Rojas, Juan Pablo; FIGUEROA-MATA, Geovanni (IGI Global., 2019)
    In this chapter, the authors tried to develop a tool to automatize and facilitate the detection of Nosema disease. This work develops new technologies in order to solve one of the bottlenecks found on the analysis bee ...
  • Stingless bees of Costa Rica 

    Aguilar Monge, Ingrid; Herrera González, Eduardo; Zamora Fallas, Luis Gabriel (Springer, 2012-11-19)
    The keeping of stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponini) or meliponiculture is carried out in a rustic and traditional way in Costa Rica. This is an activity present in several regions of the country, especially among the ...
  • Costa rican pot-honey: Its medicinal use and antibacterial effect 

    Zamora Fallas, Luis Gabriel; Arias, María Laura; Aguilar Monge, Ingrid; Umaña Rojas, Eduardo (Springer, 2012-11-19)
    There are very few records on the use of pot-honey by indigenous people of Costa Rica. Our evaluation concerns antimicrobial activity of honey samples from Tetragonisca angustula, Melipona beecheii and Apis mellifera, ...