Costa Rica, associations

The Latin America Crop Protection Association (LACPA), represents the Crop Protection Industry through nineteen national associations in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Pern, Uruguay, and Venezuela. 

Figure 16. Depth profiles from three ODP Sites, showing Li isotopic composition variations in pore waters (open symbols) and associated sediments (filled symbols), (a) Site 918, Irminger Basin, north Atlantic (Zhang et al. 1998) (b) Site 1038, Escanaba Trough, northeastern Pacific (James et al. 1999) (c) site 1039, Middle American Trench off of Costa Rica (Chan and Kastner 2000). The average composition of seawater is noted on each profile with dashed line (note different scales). Whereas sediments have relatively monotonous compositions, pore waters have compositions reflecting different origins and processes in each site. Interpretations of the data are summarized in the text under, Marine pore fluid-mineral processes. ...

Intensified trades at the same season are associated with equatorial divergence upwelling east of 10°W, and intensification of the Guinea, Angola, and the Costa Rica thermal domes. ... 

Escamilla et al. (86), in a study of bipolar mood disorder in an isolated population from Costa Rica, using micro satellite markers spaced 6cM intervals across chromosome 18, concluded that LD methods will be useful in this case in a larger sample. The Finnish and Costa Rican populations are considered ideal, since they are relatively homogeneous and show LD over a wider recombination distance than other populations. However, LD is routinely seen for closely linked loci and around disease genes in all populations. With sufficiently closely linked markers, including haplotype level analyses (61,62), association mapping should be a powerful and informative approach in many, and possibly most, populations (57). 

The impacts of trees on soil fertility depend on nutrient recycling characteristics such as litter chemistry and decomposition rates. Tree litter can be used as mulch with different outcomes a fast mulch decomposition rate may accelerate the growth of associated crops on poor soils, while in other cases a more persistent litter may provide a steady source of nutrients and a better soil cover year round. In the experiments in Costa Rica described in the previous section, high rates of litterfall and slower decomposition resulted in high litter accumulation and high... 

Vale, S. 1998. Subarachnoid haemorrhage associated with Ginkgo biloba. Lancet 352(9161), 36. van Weeren, P., Morales, J., Rodriguez, L., Cedeno, H., Villalobos, J., and Poveda, L. 1999. Mortality supposedly due to intoxication by pyrrolizidine alkaloids from Heliotropium indicum in a horse population in Costa Rica A case report. Vet. Q. 21, 59-62. 

Work in Costa Rica with trout farmers and the national aquaculture association to improve the efficiency and yield of trout farming ... 

Felknor, S.A., Aday, L.A., Burau, K.D., Delclos, G.L. and Kapadia, A.S. 2000. Safety climate and its association with injuries and safety practices in public hospitals in Costa Rica. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 6(1), 18-25. 

A sample of 475 staff from 10 hospitals in Costa Rica, Gimeno et al. (2005) found that safety culture was related to self-reported work-related injuries. Another study of 789 hospital-based healthcare workers in the USA, found that experienced blood and body fluid exposure incidents for workers were lower when senior management support, safety feedback and training were perceived favourably (Gershon et al. 2000). In Japan, reduced needle-stick and sharp injuries to hospital workers were associated with safety culture factors, such as being involved in health and safety matters (Smith et al. 2010). In our Scottish hospital sample, we collected information on self-reports of worker injuries, as well as observed errors affecting patients. 

Gimeno, D., Felknor, S., Buiau, K.D. and Delclos, G.L. 2005. Organisational and occupational risk factors associated with work related injiuies among public hospital employees in Costa Rica. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 62, 337-43. 

Lowland Guanacaste Prov., Costa Rica 121 642 1156 coastal SDTF and associated riparian vegetation Janzen and Liesner, 1980... 

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