Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

In the last years, mobile computing has considerably impacted the area of information technologies. The growth of mobile platforms has brought one of the most important advancements: positioning of mobile devices which relates to the users mobility and involves the process of sensing positions, through GPS and QR codes (Lliteras, Challiol, &Gordillo, 2013). This article includes the results of a bibliographical study that allows assessing how the systems and technologies that facilitate indoor positioning work. The work is qualitative. It highlights the importance of generating guidelines to develop this apps, as well as to continue investigating new wireless systems and location systems toimprove present precision levels.

Objetivo. El objetivo de la Revista Educación de la Universidad de Costa Rica es difundir lainvestigación científica y promover la reflexión académica en diversos campos del quehaceruniversitario.

This research is a serious and detailed analysis of the principle of interdiction of arbitrariness, which is established within the Constitutional State of Law in an important fence for the protection and guarantee of those administered in the occasion of their daily interrelation with the public powers constituted. The proposal developed here shows an extensive coverage of the aforementioned principle - which without diluting its essential content - to maximize its operation, in order to seek to achieve a greater framework of legal protection, this in clear protection of the defendants.

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La Coordinación de Investigación se complace en presentar el volumen 17, número 29 de la Revista Pensamiento Actual.

The members of the Spanish poetic generation of the novísimos are known for practicing culturalism; namely, the use of references from High and Mass Cultures. One of its most representative members is Antonio Colinas. His cultural references function as a reflexion on existentialist issues such as the survival of the human being through art, the passing of time, and Mediterranean-life oriented... In this article I analyze the most important objective correlative and dramatic monologues—two characteristic features of culturalism—in Colinas’s poetic corpus. The objective correlative (a term developed by T. S. Eliot) is a mechanism that “externalizes” or “objectifies” the poet’s thoughts through objects, characters or the reconstructed situations in the poem. The dramatic monologue is a particular type of the objective correlative that mediates the poet’s thoughts through the voice of a fictional or historical subject.

This work pretends to analyze aesthetic, corpo-technical, social and political elements of Breakdance, that is, dancing movements done and perceived as a street art in a national context. It is focused on postmodern perspective, cultural experience and social condition. The idea is to develop a concept of construction and Neoliberalism. The forms and socio-cultural values within the globalization dynamics frame are analyzed, besides, the effects of neoliberal impact on the planning and developing of public policy on Costa Rican youngsters, that is,  “Juventudes” a set of governmental policies focused on the Costarican youth. The idea is to see from the specificity of dancing as an art, involving the dancer's corporeality and its corresponding implications to the social "Other". The concepts exclusion and discrimination are two perceptions in which this artistic activity allows to discern this activity within a social dynamic. The idea is to observe and analyze the trajectory of the national breakdance crew called "Handspro" as a main objective of this study.                                                                           

From a philosophical theory perspective, a speech of irrationality of actions is not new. Though, rationality is an ideal not a rule. It challenges traditional paradigms of the explanatory power of rational action. Elsterian proposal of rationality seeks proposing a new vision of rationality of actions taking into account those occasions in which behaviors are considered to be rational, though they are not. This aspect of rationality of actions, enquiries the possibility of acting rationally, a doubt of the explanatory power that has sustained the rationality in the different theories of actions.

Sodium nitrite or potassium is one of the main components to produce sausage or processed meat. It is an important ingredient to preserve and to stimulate taste buds. World Health Organization (October 2015) has reported that processed meat is classified as a carcinogen; there is evidence that makes a correlation with colorectal cancer in human beings consuming them. As part of the regulation and control of nitrite in Costa Rica, there are technical restrictions (Reglamento Técnico RTCR 411:2008 Productos Cárnicos Embutidos: Salchicha, Salchichón, Mortadela y Chorizo), it stipulates that it must have fewer than 125 mg/kg of sodium or potassium nitrite in the products. This study shows a content of nitrite in 30 lots of sausages with the same formula, in the same production. It was found that the average of sodium nitrite was 88±6 mg/kg, being 121±2 mg/kg the highest result and 38±2 mg/kg for the lower value of the lots. The results show that none of the samples has broken any regulations. On the other hand, the concentrations of nitrite perform fluctuating in different lots due to variables or process steps that should be improved to reduce fluctuation because it not depends on the standard formula. It depends on different factors like chemical product variables, stages of the process, and curing salt. They must be under a strict control, nitrites especially.                                  

The Good Living in the Andean and Amazonian territories comes from a thousands of years lifetime, surviving as an alternative practical process, built against a dominant development model. In this context, eco-socioeconomics emerges from contemporary challenges to think of sustainable societies, unlike what is now constituted as a consumer, individualistic and instrumental society. The article seeks to discuss issues of the theoretical reference on the Good Living, dialoguing with sustainable economic practices. Methodologically, research is used with theoretical revision and interdisciplinary approach, from the dialectic categories of subjectivity, collectivity and human-nature dynamics. The results show a theoretical construct that emphasizes an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach, especially when the theme of the Good Living can represent forms of life of Latin American's traditional communities. They also show a systemic, para-economic (besides the consumption vision) look at Good Living.