Cuban Studies 16

Cuban Clave Rhythms

Several geometric, graph theoretical and combinatorial techniques useful for the teaching, analysis, generation and automated recognition of rhythms are proposed and investigated. The techniques are illustrated on the six fundamental 4/4 time clave and bell rhythm timelines most frequently used in African, Brazilian and Cuban music. It was found that Pressing's measure of rhythm complexity agre...

Cuban efforts bolstered

bird flu but were not diagnosed because their symptoms were too mild. The findings suggest some populations have developed natural resistance to the virus. The study of more than 45,000 people in Vietnam, reveals that up to 750 people are likely to have become infected with the strain after handling sick birds. Anna Thorson, who led the study, said the real figure potentially extended into thou...

Affirmative action, Cuban style.

Ebola control: the Cuban approach.

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...

Deciphering Dengue: The Cuban Experience

C R ED IT :O G O B A R A D O U M B O María G. Guzmán, head of the virology department at the Tropical Medicine Institute Pedro Kourí (IPK), in Havana, Cuba,has more than 20 years of experience working on virology.With her husband and a group of distinguished collaborators, her work on dengue viruses in Cuba and abroad has contributed to knowledge of the pathogenesis, diagnosis, epidemiology, an...