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This article rescues from oblivion the fragments and news that have been preserved from the lost dramatic works of Juan Pablo Forner: Scene I of Act III of the tragedy Las Vestales, and the data on the composition and plot of La Cautiva Española. Included, in a critical edition with textual notes, are the two texts that the native of Merida himself managed to preserve from these two of his creations, the fragment of Las Vestales included in the «Ilustraciones» to the second of his Discursos filosóficos sobre el hombre, and his Carta de don Juan Pablo Forner [...] a Don Ignacio López de Ayala [...] sobre haberle desaprobado su drama intitulado La Cautiva española. With this work we wanted to contribute to improve the knowledge we have today of the written production bequeathed by Forner to posterity, and to disseminate it among today’s interested readers.

By means of a narratological exercise established through the reading of Beloved and Medea, this article seeks to understand the mechanisms that form tragedy as a literary genre, to analyze how fiction could constitute a resource for symbolic reparation of the agency of systematically marginalized communities, by virtue of the use of revenge as a device of vindication.

This article seeks to show and gather various criteria that are concerned with understanding beauty from a multifaceted perspective, spanning the traditional to what can be understood as creative, abrupt, and controversial. On one hand, ugliness can arise from clear aesthetic enjoyment, like a scream that shocks the standards of beauty. On the other hand, beauty becomes an ambiguous and nihilistic entity, oscillating between opposite poles, which triggers different reactions in the viewer, and it is mainly how different art trends elaborate their content. Dali does not escape this phenomenon and his art reflects this aesthetic ambivalence; which will be analyzed in several of his works.

The main purpose of this article is to present a synthesis of the main theoretical discussions regarding the presence of the kitsch object in mass culture and cultural industry and its place within camp aesthetics. First, it will include an interpretation of the theoretical principles that have guided the discussions. Second, it will consider the similitudes and differences between Kitsch and camp. Finally, a third objective will be to discuss the relevance of Camp aesthetics in contemporary mass culture.

This article reviews the action labeling in the Dramatic Action Analysis (AAD, in its Spanish acronym) for acting, according to its use in the Dramatic Arts School at the University of Costa Rica. It proposes that the action labeling may be addressed from a pragmatic view. At the same time, it justifies the validity of the analysis based on cognitive and socio-cognitive aspects.

The collection of poems Bestiarium, by the Cuban poet Dulce María Loynaz and who kept it unpublished for decades, delivers a fauna that appropriates what would later be seen as a contestatory discourse to challenge the power that underestimates the poet. If as a student she was suspended for not providing additional information, by this means, the chosen animals go, with their presence, to challenge authority and, at the same time, to approach the intimacy of the lyrical voice. It does not seem to be just an example of zoolatry on the part of Loynaz; the particularity of the faunal selection attached to the inscribed feeling warns that there is an ulterior motive that needs to be revealed. The poet’s word, transmuted into verse, affirms its originality and shifts the center of power to the periphery. Bestiarium would be subscribed, then, under three different registries: its social function, its didactic function and, not least important, its poetic function.

The story "Valle alto" by Yolanda Oreamuno (1916-1956), a Costa Rican writer, is framed within the first half of the 20th century, and corresponds to the artistic protests against the patriarchal normative impositions of the time. In this article, it is proposed that social constructs establish what is allowed and what is censored in terms of female behavior, her sexuality and her desire, which impact not only her behavior, but also in her thoughts. Consequently, there is a dispute between a space that refers to what is due, which is manifested from the actions of the protagonist and in her attempt to control her erotic fantasies before the male figure, and what is desired. However, through the interaction of nature with the female body, the norms cease to rule and allow instinct to take control. As such, an erotic, sensitive and normative liberation is configured.

The present article encompasses some of the more prominent qualitative results of the dissertation “Categorización y relaciones de inclusión en escolares costarricenses”, which was developed for the authoress to obtain a Master Degree in Linguistics from the University of Costa Rica. From a cognitive semantic approach, it describes data that reveal the distinction between semantic and conceptual structure; at the same time, it accounts for the great creativity and productivity of child lexicon, as well as some social and cultural aspects that affect the way school aged children construct categories and establish semantic relationships.

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection is a public health problem worldwide. The aim of this study was to determine the clinical characteristics of patients with HIV-SIDA infection under follow-up at the outpatient clinic of the Homero Castanier Crespo Hospital. A retrospective sectional, analytical, observational, and quantitative study was done. All patients with HIV infection on control and follow-up at the outpatient clinic were included in the study. The total number of patients followed - up was 54. Predominant male (72.2%), heterosexual (75.9%), and higher frequency of cases in the age range of 18 to 35 years. Occupationally the group studied was diverse. In female patients (N: 16) housewives predominated (10/15) (66.6%). Most had been diagnosed in the last 5 years. Regarding the control viral load at one year of treatment, 48.1% had undetectable viral load (less than 40 copies / mL), viral load between 40 to 10,000 copies/mL 16.7%, more than 10,000 copies/mL 7.4% and 27.8% were under treatment less than 1 year. About 50% had a CD4 T lymphocyte count greater than 200 mm3. The antiretroviral combination in most patients (77.8%) was tenofovir / emtricitabine / efavirenz

The COVID-19 disease has affected the entire world, becoming one of the worst pandemics of our generation, as well as being a great social and health challenge. This mainly affects the respiratory system, however, studies have shown that it compromises the cardiovascular system, which has generated a big concern, since this would imply greater vulnerability in patients with underlying cardiovascular pathologies, which represent a significant percentage of the population. Furthermore, the presence of comorbidities, such as hypertension, diabetes, and coronary artery disease, has been shown to be associated with higher mortality rates. This not only affects chronic cardiovascular patients, but it can also cause cardiovascular alterations in patients without a history of cardiovascular disease, so it is necessary to monitor cardiac biomarkers in these patients for a better approach in their development. Clinical studies have shown that the cardiovascular pathologies associated with COVID-19 are heart failure, myopericarditis, cardiogenic shock, acute cardiac injury, coagulation and thrombosis disorders, arrhythmias, acute coronary syndrome, and Kawasaki disease. This study is based on a comprehensive review of complications associated with COVID-19 and its possible mechanisms of action, for a better understanding of medical and health personnel (PROSPERO ID 316364)