Free Trade Agreement: Impacts on the Costa Rican Dairy Market

Anthropogenic impacts on Costa Rican bat parasitism are sex specific

While anthropogenic impacts on parasitism of wildlife are receiving growing attention, whether these impacts vary in a sex-specific manner remains little explored. Differences between the sexes in the effect of parasites, linked to anthropogenic activity, could lead to uneven sex ratios and higher population endangerment. We sampled 1108 individual bats in 18 different sites across an agricultu...

Characterising objective pro®les of Costa Rican dairy farmers

Farmers' objectives and the factors a€ecting them were studied in 91 dairy farms in Costa Rica. Objective's hierarchies were studied using Rokeach's technique with a mixture of personal, economic and familiar goals. A canonical correlation analysis was performed to ®nd out simple and canonical correlations between farmers'/farms' characteristics and objective priorities. Factor analysis combine...

Mining the Costa Rican Web

There is much to say about the structure and composition of a local web. Identification of authorities, topics and web communities can be used to improve search engines, change a portal design or to develop marketing strategies. The Costa Rican web was chosen as a test case for web mining analysis. After the study we obtained several descriptors of the web as well as the answers to typical ques...

Costa Rican Natural History

Free and Open Source Software in Costa Rican Local Governments

This paper presents and discusses the results from an electronic survey on the use of free and open source software (FOSS) by local governments in Costa Rica. Barriers preventing the use of this type of software are also identified. Comparison of the results from this survey with those obtained from a previous one, conducted under the same project, shows that Costa Rican local governments are i...