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

Bean golden mosaic, rust, web blight, and common bacterial blight frequently limit bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) yield in the Caribbean. Results from the PROFRIJOL Caribbean Adaptation Nurseries demonstrate that CIAT and the bean breeding programs in the Caribbean have developed red mottled and light red kidney bean varieties with resistance to one or more of these diseases. The availability of molecular markers should permit the combination of specific genes conferring resistance. However, the effective use of these genes for disease resistance will require learning about the virulence patterns of pathogens. Sources of tolerance to some abiotic factors such as high temperatures have been identified. Nevertheless, bean breeding programs in the Caribbean have not yet developed bean varieties that combine disease resistance and tolerance to abiotic stress. The Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba have made collections of native Andean Caribbean bean varieties, which should prove to be the source of many valuable traits.

Several studies about web bligh control were carried out in Panama, the Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica. The pathogen´s genetic variability, bean varietal tolerance, chemical control, and sowing densities were evaluated. In Panama yield was increased through Benomyl applications and a greater sowing density. In the Dominican Republic Rhizoctonia AG 4, AG 2 2 and AG 1 groups were found. Several bean genotypes were evaluated, as well as populations from the web blight tolerant JB X MUS 14 cross. Between 20% and 40 % web blight severity was found in Costa Rica. Coverage and application of chemicals improved bean yield.

The admission of Costa Rica into the World Trade Organization, and the subscription of the Bilateral Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and the agreements with other Central American countries brought about important changes in bean commercialization in Costa Rica. This partly resulted in the creation of CCCRL as an alternative for bean commercialization. Operation and viability of this Consortium are analyzed under the new conditions for the commercialization of agricultural and arming products, both at a national and international level. Agroecological crop conditions are also examined, as well as the socio-economic and cultural characteristics of the population involved in bean production, and their possible influence on CCCRL viability.

This article exposes the problem of violence in Latin American societies through the representation found in a series of novels first published in the 90s. The analysis focused on two detective novels: Enigma de los cuerpos (1995) by Peter Elmore, Satanás (2002) by Mario Mendoza and three narco-novels: Corazón de Kaláshnikov (2009), El reino de las moscas (2012) and Música para perros (2013) by Alejandro Páez Varela. These texts consider the situation of the protagonists-victims of the criminalized novel through anarrative perspective regarding limited, clearly-defined territories, such as Lima in PeterElmore’s novel, Bogotá in Mario Mendoza’s and Ciudad Juárez in Páez Varela’s.

César Vallejo and Pablo Neruda smoked opium when they are writing Trilce (1922) and Residence on Earth (1935), respectively. There is no mention of the drug in their poetry collections, but both wrote literary texts telling their narcotic experience: a short-story in Vallejo; confessions and memoirs, in Neruda. The two poets also described the opium as a door to Asia, its customs and people. Through an analysis of Vallejo´s short story, “Cera”, included in Escalas Melografiadas (1923) and Neruda´s poem “El opio en el Este”, included in Memorial de Isla negra (1964), this paper investigates, on the one hand, the aesthetic´s concepts revealed thru the relationships between opium and the writing of these poets, and on the other hand, the connections thru opium with the Asia ad way to define the political views of the poets.

In contemporary thought, is often meant to conceive the constitution of subjectivity and subjectification process in discursive terms. This article explores a perspectival view of discursive subjectification, according to which the subjective construction of enunciation is revealed when the subject of enunciation is not explicitly a thematic subject in the statement, but remains implicit as the viewpoint focusing enunciation. From that perspectivalstandpoint of discursive subjectification, we propose a dialogue between the discourse that, in our culture, have tried to articulate a writing of the self (like confession), and a kind of subjectification more impersonal which preserves the intimate space and the vanishing point of enunciation, namely, the subject of enunciation, without over-exposing him.

The article proposes to examine and analyze a series of figures to violence in a narrative corpus of literary fiction-novels and stories published in Argentina between 1995 and 2005, in the timing of passage that can be named as an end or change centuries-making focus on the link between violence and everyday life under neoliberalism. It seeks so to size, from a symptomatic reading of these selected narratives, productive logics of power and violence in ostensibly non-use of force domains, in situations in which they insinuate themselves as potential latency or punishment: violence in market, speech and technology are some of those privileged places of exercise and playing the imperatives of neoliberal ideology both in its objective dimension and all its subjective consequences.

The present article analyzes the different interpretive possibilities of Heidegger´s Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes conference, with the purpose of clarifying the reasons and the sense of the heideggerian´s boarding of artistic phenomenon in the decade of thirty. In this way, the work exposes an analytical route centred on Plato’s rereading that the author takes forward in 1931, trying to establish a correspondence between art, politics and philosophy. To take to end the proposed aims, they turn out to be nodose to dismount and to arrange the different drafts of the conference, as well as his attachés and epilogues.

This paper attempts to show that the status of music in Jacques Derrida’s work offers a rigorous account of the figure of Self-Affection. If voice is the exemplary model of Self- Affection, as a space in which a Self ensures the stability of his presence, Derrida’s development of music as an experience of an impossible appropriation suggests a restatement of the self-affective voice. Self-Affection, as the possibility of subjectivity, would no longer be a homogeneous space enclosed on itself, but rather a spacing which establishes and prevents at the same time the monologue of voice.

En este número de la revista Actualidades Investigativas en Educación, conmemoramos el 35 aniversario de la fundación del Instituto de Investigación en Educación (INIE). Este evento nos coloca en la palestra de la indagación educativa en el país, con lo que se reitera la importancia de la Universidad de Costa Rica para el desarrollo sociocultural, político y económico. La década de 1970 fue el escenario idóneo para que un grupo de ilustres académicos de Nuestra Universidad, liderados por el Decano de la Facultad de Educación, Dr. Carlos German Paniagua y el M.Sc. Fernando Castro, Director de la Escuela de Administración Educativa, apoyados por la Dra. María Eugenia Dengo Obregón y el Lic. Marvin Herrera Araya, Ministra y Viceministro de Educación, respectivamente, promovieran la creación de un instituto especializado en la investigación en el campo educativo. El 24 de setiembre de 1979 es aprobado el Reglamento del Instituto de Investigación para el Mejoramiento de la Educación Costarricense (IIMEC). En febrero de 1980, inicia oficialmente sus labores en una oficina de la Facultad de Educación bajo la conducción del Dr. Juan Manuel Esquivel Alfaro, designado como su primer Director. Una vez fundado el Instituto, el entonces Rector, Dr. Claudio Gutiérrez Carranza, firmó un convenio de cooperación con la Ministra previamente mencionada, para financiar los programas aprobados por el IIMEC. Esta alianza con el Ministerio de Educación Pública ha sido trascendental para las labores del instituto a través de los años. En el año 2004 el IIMEC cambió su nombre a Instituto de Investigación en Educación (INIE), como fruto de la evaluación y planificación estratégica que han acompañado el crecimiento y la transformación del quehacer investigativo en dicha institución. De igual manera, fueron cruciales para el cambio las recomendaciones de la Vicerrectoría de Investigación y la conclusión, en 1999, del convenio firmado con el Ministerio de Educación Pública para realizar los diagnósticos del sistema educativo costarricense y las pruebas nacionales estandarizadas, incluidas las del bachillerato para la educación media y técnica. Hasta  la fecha el INIE ha sido dirigido por un director y siete directoras con amplia trayectoria en la investigación educativa y en el quehacer académico de la Universidad. Recientemente, en el marco de su trigésimo quinto aniversario, el Instituto de Investigación en Educación (INIE) organizó un evento académico que se ha convertido en una tradición para conmemorar nuestro papel en la educación. Así pues, los días 3, 4 y 5 de febrero del año en curso se realizó el III Congreso Internacional de Investigación Educativa: Globalización y Educación con el objetivo de analizar, compartir y divulgar los resultados de incidencia de las investigaciones educativas producidas en el último quinquenio, a nivel nacional e internacional, en el marco de la globalización. Esta actividad contó con la participación de doscientos profesionales de diversas áreas con formación y experiencia en el campo de la Educación, provenientes de Europa, América del Norte, América Central y América del Sur. En la actualidad,  el  INIE se concibe como un espacio académico inter y transdisciplinario en la investigación educativa, cuenta, además, con seis programas en áreas distintas de su quehacer y otro para la promoción de la educación continua y la acción social. De esta manera, su labor expresa el vínculo con las áreas sustantivas de Nuestra Universidad, a saber: la investigación, la docencia y la acción social.