CUBA'S BANKING CRISIS: MACROECONOMIC ANTECEDENTS, PRINCIPAL CAUSES, AND RECENT POLICY RESPONSES by Pavel Vidal Alejandro, Mario A. González-Corzo

“…Conditions in Cuba's banking and financial sector have deteriorated significantly caused by a balance of payment crisis, de-dollarisation, the centralisation of hard currency transactions, and a fixed exchange rate regime. …”
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Using ddRADseq to assess the genetic diversity of in-farm and gene bank cacao resources in the Baracoa region, eastern Cuba, for use and conservation purposes by Angel Rafael Ramirez-Ramirez, Angel Rafael Ramirez-Ramirez, Khaled Mirzaei, Miguel Menéndez-Grenot, Pablo Clapé-Borges, Georgina Espinosa-Lopéz, Igor Bidot-Martínez, Pierre Bertin

“…Less frequent are plants from cuttings, TSH progeny, and traditional Cuban cacao. A national cacao gene bank is also present in Baracoa, with 282 accessions either prospected in Cuba or introduced from other countries. …”
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Transforming food systems: a gendered perspective on local agricultural innovation in Cuba by Bárbara Benítez Fernández, Erin Nelson, Anaisa Crespo Morales, Rodobaldo Ortiz Pérez, Rodobaldo Ortiz Pérez, Rosa Acosta Roca, Rosa Acosta Roca, Regla María Cárdenas Travieso, Regla María Cárdenas Travieso

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Magnetically Treated Water in <i>Phaseolus vulgaris</i> L.: An Alternative to Develop Organic Farming in Cuba by Yilan Fung Boix, Albys Ferrer Dubois, Yanaisy Perez Quintero, Elizabeth Isaac Alemán, Cristiane Pimentel Victório, Jorge González Aguilera, Malgreter Noguera Betancourt, Luis Morales-Aranibar

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Viral shedding of SARS-CoV-2 in body fluids associated with sexual activity: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Moazzam Ali, Mercedes Bonet, Caron Kim, Nathalie Broutet, Lianne Gonsalves, Melanie Taylor, Edna Kara, Anna Thorson, Soe Soe Thwin, Rodolfo Gomez Ponce de Leon, Armando Humberto Seuc, Guilherme Amaral Calvet, Raquel de Vasconcellos Carvalhaes de Oliveira, Maité Cabrera Gámez, Gilda Monteagudo Peña, Bertha Victoria Rodríguez Pendás, Manuel Gómez Alzugaray, Gisel Ovies Carballo, Duniesky Cintra Cala, Patrícia Machado Quintaes Guimarães

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New records of Ctenolepisma calvum (Ritter,1910) (Zygentoma, Lepismatidae) from Japan by Megumi Shimada, Hiroki Watanabe, Yukio Komine, Rika Kigawa, Yoshinori Sato

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ITS1 Barcode and Phytochemical Analysis by Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry of <i>Corynaea crassa</i> Hook. f (Balanophoraceae) from Ecuador and Peru by Alexandra López-Barrera, Efrén Santos-Ordóñez, Ricardo Pacheco-Coello, Liliana Villao-Uzho, Migdalia Miranda, Yamilet Gutiérrez, Iván Chóez-Guaranda, Segundo Guillermo Ruiz-Reyes

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The relative benefits for environmental sustainability of vegan diets for dogs, cats and people. by Andrew Knight

“…The numbers of additional people who could be fed using food energy savings associated with vegan diets exceeded the 2018 human populations of the following nations: dogs-the entire European Union, cats-France or the UK, humans-every single nation or collective region on Earth, as defined by the World Bank. …”
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Estimating Total Length of Partially Submerged Crocodylians from Drone Imagery by Clément Aubert, Gilles Le Moguédec, Alvaro Velasco, Xander Combrink, Jeffrey W. Lang, Phoebe Griffith, Gualberto Pacheco-Sierra, Etiam Pérez, Pierre Charruau, Francisco Villamarín, Igor J. Roberto, Boris Marioni, Joseph E. Colbert, Asghar Mobaraki, Allan R. Woodward, Ruchira Somaweera, Marisa Tellez, Matthew Brien, Matthew H. Shirley

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