Within recent years there has been growing debate among scholars about the possibility for normalizing trade relations between Cuba and the United States. This debate has increased within the past ten years after Cuba began instigating several watershed changes within its macroeconomic policy framework, with numerous liberalization measures. This paper will attempt to analyze the socio-economic...

Rivulus berovidesi, a new killifish species, is described from a small stream in Sierra de Cajalbana, northwestern Cuba. It is readily distinguished from Rivulus cylindraceus Poey by the combination of an exclusive color pattern and meristic characters such as a d-type frontal scalation pattern (versus e-type pattern in Rivulus cylindraceus). The current diagnosis of Rivulus berovidesi based on...

More than 160 Cuban doctors and nurses arrived in Sierra Leone on Oct 2, 2014, to support local teams in controlling the Ebola epidemic. 300 more are being trained in Cuba at present and will be on their way to Liberia and Guinea in the coming weeks. The worldwide response to the Ebola epidemic has been slow and small. More nurses and doctors are certainly needed, not only from Cuba, but also f...

1 IRD-Unité BioTrans, IMEP, Boîte 441. Fac. Sci. & Tech. St. Jérôme, Université Paul Cézanne. Av. Escadrille Normandie-Niemen F-13397 Marseille cedex 20, France. 2 Unité de Recherches Cidricoles, Biodegradation des Fruits et Légumes, INRA, Le Rheu, France. 3 Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, Depto. Biotecnología, Av. San Rafael Atlixco 186, Col. Vicentina, 09340, México DF....

Daŕıo G. Santiago-Pérez, C. Trallero-Giner, R. Pérez-Álvarez, ∗ and Leonor Chico Universidad de Sancti Spiritus “José Mart́ı Pérez”, Ave. de los Mártires 360, CP 62100, Sancti Spiritus, Cuba Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Ave. Universidad 1001, CP 62209, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México Department of Theoretical Physics, Havana University, Havana 10400, Cuba Instituto de Ciencia de Mater...

We find a class of nonlocal operators constructed by attaching a disorder operator to fermionic degrees of freedom, which can be used to generate q-deformed algebras following the Schwinger approach. This class includes the recently proposed anyonic operators defined on a lattice. ∗ICSC-World Laboratory; On leave of absence from Grupo de Fisica Teórica, Instituto de Cibernética, Matemática y Fi...

E. RAMENTOL1, N. VERBIEST2, R. BELLO3, Y. CABALLERO1, C. CORNELIS2,4 and F. HERRERA4 1Department of Computer Science, University of Camagüey, Cuba, E-mail:[email protected], [email protected] 2Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University, Belgium, E-mail: [email protected] 3Dept. of Computer Science, Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba, E-mail: [email protected]...

This paper reviews 20 years of experience and scientific contributions of the Cuban meningococcal BC vaccine (VA-MENGOC-BC®) obtained by the Finlay Institute in Havana, Cuba. The vaccine is the first of its type in the world that is safe, effective, and commercially available for preventing meningococcal disease caused by serogroup B meningococcus; it is also effective against serogroup C. VA-M...

The Cuban fauna of the genus Berosus Leach, 1817 is reviewed based on newly collected material as well as historical and type specimens. Nine species are recognized, including three recorded from Cuba for the first time: Berosus infuscatus LeConte, 1855, Berosus interstitialis Knisch, 1924 (= Berosus stribalus Orchymont, 1946 syn. n.) and Berosus metalliceps Sharp, 1882. Only one of the nine Cu...

INTRODUCTION To reach the goal of eliminating tuberculosis as a public health problem in Cuba, the epidemiological evolution of the disease and of strategies designed to prevent and manage it to date must be well understood. In this context, in 1970, changes were introduced in Cuba's National Tuberculosis Control Program. OBJECTIVE Review background and evolution of Cuba's strategy for tubercul...