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Functional properties of coffee and coffee by-products
(2012-05)
Coffee, one of the most popular beverages, is consumed by millions of people every day. Traditionally, coffee beneficial effects have been attributed solely to its most intriguing and investigated ingredient, caffeine, but ...
Upwelling Increases Net Primary Production of Corals and Reef-Wide Gross Primary Production Along the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica
(2015-12-23)
Photosynthetic production is a key ecosystem service provided by tropical coral reefs, but knowledge about the contribution of corals and other reef-associated organisms and the controlling environmental factors is scarce. ...
Neutralization of Bothrops asper venom by antibodies, natural products, and synthetic drugs: contributions to understanding snakebite envenomings and their treatment
(2009)
Interest in studies on the neutralization of snake venoms and toxins by diverse types of
inhibitors is two-fold. From an applied perspective, results enclose the potential to be
translated into useful therapeutic products ...
Steps toward cosmopolitanism in the study of media technologies
(2014)
Most scholarship on media technologies can be organized along two main dimensions of
inquiry: the production or consumption of these technologies, and their content or material
dimensions. This map of the field of inquiry ...
Actinoramide A Identified as a Potent Antimalarial from Titration-Based Screening of Marine Natural Product Extracts
(2015)
Methods to identify the bioactive diversity within natural product extracts (NPEs) continue to evolve. NPEs constitute complex mixtures of chemical substances varying in structure, composition, and abundance. NPEs can ...
Efficient syntheses of streptocarpone and (±)-a-dunnione
(2007)
An efficient divergent synthesis of both streptocarpone and racemic α-dunnione from lawsone are described. A one-pot, formal [3+2] cyclization to form a furanonaphthoquinone directly provided a common intermediate.
Assessment of the viral safety of antivenoms fractionated from equine plasma
(2004-09)
Antivenoms are preparations of intact or fragmented (F(ab')2 or Fab) immunoglobulin G (IgG) used in human medicine to treat the severe envenomings resulting from the bites and stings of various animals, such as snakes, ...
La Ovinocultura en Costa Rica: Caracterización Sectorial Año 2014
(2015)
En el primer semestre de 2014 se realizó una encuesta en Costa Rica a 184 productores de ovinos con el fin de caracterizar sus variables sociales, comerciales y zootécnicas de sus explotaciones. Se consideró variables ...
Sounds in Melipona costaricensis (Apidae: Meliponini): effect of sugar concentration and nectar source distance
(Apidologie 33 (2002) 375–388, 2002)
The principal finding presented here is that Melipona costaricensis produces sounds that vary significantly
in relation to varying sugar concentrations. Several components of the sounds produced, during the
bees’stay ...