In the history of Cuban anthropology, little attention has been paid to several women who have, nevertheless, obtained professional recognition from international academic community. Calixta Guiteras Holmes is one such case, with her unique characters. Another less known but equally relevant woman was Carolina Poncet de Cárdenas, formed a generation highly active female pedagogues and folkloris...

Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis is a bacterium that produces crystalline, protein toxins whose activity has been exploited to develop environmentally safe biopesticides that are important in mosquito control. B. t. subsp. israelensis has six genes encoding toxic proteins on a 137 kDa plasmid, including: cry4A, cry4B, cry10A, cry11A (formerly cry4D), cyt1Aa, and cyt2Ba (Ben-Dov et al.,...

Pyogenic granuloma (also known as lobular capillary hemangioma) is a benign and vascular lesion of the skin and mucous membranes that is frequently seen in the head and neck region. Although the etiology of the condition is still unknown, some conditions, such as trauma, poor oral hygiene, viral or fungal infections, and periodontal and gingival diseases, are considered to be related to the for...

Described by Antonin Poncet in 1897, Poncet’s disease is a non-destructive (non-erosive) inflammatory arthritis secondary to mycobacterial infection, without an identified infectious agent the affected joints. Neuromeningeal localization of tuberculosis (TB) rare but remains most severe with hight mortality and permanent neurological damage. Association rheumatism TB rare, even less neuromening...

Oligodendrocytes are the myelin-forming cells in the central nervous system. In the brain, oligodendrocyte precursors arise in multiple restricted foci, distributed along the caudorostral axis of the ventricular neuroepithelium. In chick embryonic hind-, mid- and caudal forebrain, oligodendrocytes have a basoventral origin, while in the rostral fore-brain oligodendrocytes emerge from alar terri...

René Leriche (1879-1955) was a 20(th) century French surgeon generally known in medicine for the syndrome that carries his name, namely the Leriche syndrome in the aorto-iliac occlusive disease. This paper is published to mark the commemoration of 60 year since Leriche's death. Although Dr. Leriche's legacy resides in the domain of vascular medicine, his research enclosed bone pathology and sur...

Avulsion fractures of tibial spine, leading to discontinuity of anterior cruciate ligament fibers has been well described in literature in both pediatric and adult population. These fractures are also called as tibial eminence fractures or ACL avulsion fractures. They represent a variant of anterior cruciate ligament injury. Poncet in 1895 was probably the first person to document these types o...

In this work, we improve an existing pseudospectral algorithm, in order to extend its properties to a multidomain patching of a rotating cavity. Viscous rotating flows have been widely studied over the last decades, either on industrial or academic approaches. Nevertheless, the range of Reynolds numbers reached in industrial devices implies very high resolutions of the spatial problem, which ar...