Cuba has been called the world’s largest open-air antique car museum. To anyone who visits Cuba, it is all but impossible to miss the pre-1960s American-made cars that daily ply the roads (Figure 1). The vintage cars from such manufacturing giants as Ford, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, and Chrysler as well as long-forgotten DeSotos, Nashs, Packards, Studebakers, and Edsels are ubiquitous on Cuban road...

Yovani Marrero Ponce, Miguel A. Cabrera Pérez, Vicente Romero Zaldivar, Marival Bermejo Sanz, Dany Siverio Mota, and Francisco Torrens 5 1 Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Chemical–Pharmacy. Central University of Las Villas, Santa Clara, 54830, Villa Clara, Cuba 2 Department of Drug Design, Chemical Bioactive Center. Central University of Las Villas, Santa Clara, 54830, Villa Clara, Cuba 3 Fa...

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality in Cuba. Lifestyle risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) in Cubans have not been compared to risk factors in Cuban Americans. Articles spanning the last 20 years were reviewed. The data on Cuban Americans are largely based on the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES), 1982-1984, while more recent data on epidem...

Assessing the biomass based electricity potential of developing nations like Cuba can help to reduce the fossil fuels dependency and the greenhouse gas emissions. The data included in this study present the evolution of electricity production and greenhouse gas emissions in Cuba. Additionally, the potentialities to produce biomass based electricity by using the most significant biomass sources ...

The parallel version of the multidimensional numerical integration package Cuba is presented and achievable speed-ups discussed.

The Wattius species occurring in the West Indies are revised for the first time. Wattius cucullatus (Pascoe), previously reported from Cuba, is diagnosed and restricted to Brazil. Wattius asperulus (Pascoe), currently a synonym of Wattius cucullatus, from Colombia is diagnosed and resurrected. All species found in the West Indies are endemic to the islands and form a single informal species-gro...

Mycoplasmas were isolated from chickens with respiratory problems during field investigations of a concentrated respiratory disease outbreak in western Cuba, 1997. A high percentage of mycoplasma cultures from tracheas and air-sac lesions yielded pure cultures of Mycoplasma pullorum. The aim of the present work was to investigate the heterogeneity among M. pullorum isolates from Cuba and strain...

Essential oil of Cymbopogon citratus collected from Brazil and Cuba was tested to a chemical characterization and then was tested on the post-embryonic development of Musca domestica. The chemical composition analysis by GCMS of the oils from Brazil/Cuba allowed the identification of 13 and 12 major constituents respectively; nine of them common to both. In the both oils, the main components we...

1 Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 2 Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Bologna University, Bologna, Italy, 3 Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, 4 Comité Espeleológico de Matanzas, Sociedad Espeleológica de Cuba, Matanzas, Cuba, 5 Associazione di Esplora...

1 Tissue Repair and Cyto-Protection Research Laboratory, Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, P.O. Box 6162, Havana, Cuba 2 Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA), University of Arizona College of Medicine, AZ, USA 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute for Wound Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 4Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechno...