Preface It felt like the last chance. Fidel Castro, because of his illness, was no longer the official head of state and it seemed as though Cuba was ready for transition. Four years had passed since my last visit to Havana, and I expected some change. After a lot of unnecessary anxiety and two passes over my destination in the circuitous route from Philadelphia to Cuba via Kingston, I was met ...

There are a large variety of cause of liver cirrhosis and numerous classifications , as related to the present disease, have been adopted in foreign countries , and among them a purely morphological, an etiological and a functional classification of liver cirrhosis are to be mentioned. In the Pan American Congress cf Gastroenterology held at Havana in 1956, the morphological classification conc...

For wireless channels, interference mitigation techniques are typically applied at the packet transmission level. In this paper, we present the Havana framework which supports integrated adaptive-QoS in wireless packet networks by responding to impairments over multiple time scales that are present at the flow/session level. The Havana framework is based on three different control mechanisms th...

Cohort Profile: The 10/66 study A. Matthew Prina,* Daisy Acosta, Isaac Acostas, Mariella Guerra, Yueqin Huang, A.T. Jotheeswaran, Ivonne Z. Jimenez-Velazquez, Zhaorui Liu, Juan J. Llibre Rodriguez, Aquiles Salas, Ana Luisa Sosa, Joseph D. Williams and Martin Prince King’s College London, Centre for Global Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, London, UK, Universidad...

The US Army Yellow Fever Board was established to discover the etiology of yellow fever. In Cuba in 1900, the Board completed a series of classic experiments that showed the role of the mosquito in yellow fever transmission. Attending Private John Kissinger, who volunteered to be infected with yellow fever, are (from left) Major William C. Gorgas, the sanitation officer for Havana who would go ...

In the spring of 1856, I met Mr. Christy accidentally in an omnibus at Havana. He had been in Cuba for some months, leading an adventurous life… and visiting all sorts of people from whom information was to be had.

This article uses a qualitative historical analysis to scrutinise previously underutilised documents housed in the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores Cuba (MINREX) archive Havana examine Cuban-Soviet relations during 1991, final tumultuous year of close Havana-Moscow relations. Specific focus will be given MINREX reaction August 1991 coup Moscow and its aftermath. offer several new findings. P...