Menno Pradhan is with the Nutritional Science Department at Cornell University and the Economics Department at Free University in Amsterdam, and Laura B. Rawlings is a Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist in the World Bank’s Latin America and the Caribbean Region. Their e-mail addresses are [email protected] and [email protected], respectively. The authors would like to thank th...

Five new species of Trigonopeltastes Burmeister and Schaum, 1840 are described: Trigonopeltastes arborfloricola sp. n. from Nicaragua, Trigonopeltastes formidulosus sp. n. from Costa Rica, Trigonopeltastes henryi sp. n. from Costa Rica, Trigonopeltastes mombachoensis sp. n. from Nicaragua, and Trigonopeltastes warneri sp. n. from Belize and Guatemala. An updated key to species of Trigonopeltast...

Although information about seasonality and prevalence of influenza is crucial for development of effective prevention and control strategies, limited data exist on the epidemiology of influenza in tropical countries. To better understand influenza in Nicaragua, we performed a prospective 2-year cohort study of influenza-like illness (ILI) involving 4,276 children, 2-11 years of age, in Managua,...

El presente artículo es un estudio léxico y semántico de las voces origen náhuatl registradas en el Diccionario la lengua española (DLE). La metodología utilizada contrastiva, debido a que se analizan los artículos léxicos presentes DLE con etimología náhuatl, marca Nicaragua. objetivo general advertir tratamiento palabras procedencia DLE, especial reparo su ortografía significado. Entre princi...

Results of an ethnopharmacognostic study of snakebite treatments in eastern Nicaragua are presented. Data and specimens were collected during several years of field studies. Field work consisted of plant collecting trips and interviews of snakedoctors. The annual mortality from snakebites in eastern Nicaragua is about 25% and most bites are caused by the fer-de-lance (Bothrops asper). The vascu...

Introduction. Genetic diversity, registration, and traceability of cacao planting material are the essential tripod to support its sustainable cultivation. In Nicaragua, cocoa is mostly obtained from seeds, which leads great variability in yield, bean quality, tolerance pests diseases. Farmers, technical staff, development projects, investors depend on a limited supply elite trees as reliable s...

Las preguntas que se desarrollaron en este artículo fueron ¿Cuáles son las condiciones de los adultos mayores Nicaragua? ¿Cuál es la relación del derecho alimentos al resto derechos humanos? fundamentos constitucionales y leyes soportan pensión alimentos? A partir revisión repositorios nacionales e internaciones, análisis artículos científicos, tesis monográficas referencia especialista el tema...

En los últimos años el Internet ha jugado un rol importante en la dinámica de economía países, por tal motivo, presente trabajo denominado “El uso del y su relación con crecimiento económico: Análisis para Nicaragua” tuvo como objetivo establecer que existe entre económico Nicaragua.
 El modelo establecido determinar las variables fue bajo cuadrático, variable dependiente al económico, med...

Este trabajo describe la historia reciente de Nicaragua y analiza los factores políticos, económicos sociales que hicieron posible finalización cuatro décadas dictadura en este país centroamericano.

The Central American equine epizootic and epidemic of Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) that began in June 1969 near the Guatemala-El Salvador border has been welldocumented (1-S). That outbreak spread southeast, reaching Guanacaste, Costa Rica, by 1970, and north, reaching southern Texas in 1971. The last known cases of equine infection by the exotic equine-virulent subtype I-AB strain of V...