Cuba: transition of disintegration?

The Role of the State in a ‘Democratic’ Transition: Cuba

The nutrition transition in Cuba in the nineties: an overview.

OBJECTIVE To describe and analyse the changes in diet, physical activity and body composition of the Cuban population during the 1990s and the health implications of these changes. DESIGN AND SETTING Data on national food balance and physical activity are from government agencies and the Ministry of Public Health; nation-wide and local representative surveys were used to analyse body composit...

Cuba and the Gulf Pact: a Transition Integration Project

The recent fainting spell that Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader, suffered during a speech he was making at a mass rally in Havana has renewed the interest in studying a post-Castro scenario. Castro’s mortality, a taboo topic in Cuba, as well as the course its government and system will take after his death or physical incapacity, is again in many Cuban officials’ minds, whether they will admit it...

Disintegration of the scrophulariaceae.

A molecular systematic study of Scrophulariaceae sensu lato using DNA sequences of three plastid genes (rbcL, ndhF, and rps2) revealed at least five distinct monophyletic groups. Thirty-nine genera representing 24 tribes of the Scrophulariaceae s.l. (sensu lato) were analyzed along with representatives of 15 other families of Lamiales. The Scrophulariaceae s.s. (sensu stricto) include part or a...

Disintegration of cylindrical measures

We show that the existence of disintegration for cylindrical measures follows from a general disintegration theorem for countably additive measures.