New mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) and host plants for Sancti Spíritus Province, Cuba.

The aim of this paper is to provide information regarding a new registry of mealybugs and host plants in the Sancti Spíritus province of Cuba between 2005-2015. In this time period, 10 genera and 21 species of mealybugs were found (16 new records) in the ecosystems of the area studied by the Fomento Territorial Plant Protection Station. These new registries were found on 130 host plants species (40 previously unrecorded for Cuba), from 57 botanical families. This represents a notable increase in the number of genera and species of mealybugs present, as well as in the number of host plants, many of which were previously unreported in Cuba

Supplement: "Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 826, L13)

This Supplement provides supporting material for Abbott et al. (2016a). We briefly summarize past electromagnetic (EM) follow-up efforts as well as the organization and policy of the current EM follow-up program. We compare the four probability sky maps produced for the gravitational-wave transient GW150914, and provide additional details of the EM follow-up observations that were performed in the different bands

Predicting haplogroups using a versatile machine learning program (PredYMaLe) on a new mutationally balanced 32 Y-STR multiplex (CombYplex): Unlocking the full potential of the human STR mutation rate spectrum to estimate forensic parameters

We developed a new mutationally well-balanced 32 Y-STR multiplex (CombYplex) together with a machine learning (ML) program PredYMaLe to assess the impact of STR mutability on haplogourp prediction, while respecting forensic community criteria (high DC/HD). We designed CombYplex around two sub-panels M1 and M2 characterized by average and high-mutation STR panels. Using these two sub-panels, we tested how our program PredYmale reacts to mutability when considering basal branches and, moving down, terminal branches. We tested first the discrimination capacity of CombYplex on 996 human samples using various forensic and statistical parameters and showed that its resolution is sufficient to separate haplogroup classes. In parallel, PredYMaLe was designed and used to test whether a ML approach can predict haplogroup classes from Y-STR profiles. Applied to our kit, SVM and Random Forest classifiers perform very well (average 97 %), better than Neural Network (average 91 %) and Bayesian methods (< 90 %)

De aqui, de alla: Race, empire, and nation in the making of Cuban migrant communities in New York and Tampa, 1823--1924.

On February 24, 1895 war broke out in Cuba. Three years later the United States intervened in the Cuban War for Independence. Known as the Spanish-American War, the war and its aftermath would forever change the Cuban immigrant community. The dissertation examines the history of Cuban migrants in New York and Tampa before, during, and after the United States' intervention. Beginning in 1823 it looks at how events such as the Ten Years War (1868--1878), the exile of Jose Marti in 1880, and the abolition of Cuban slavery in 1886 shaped the Cuban exile and migrant community. Few studies have examined the role of the Cuban exile and migrant community in engineering, resisting, and later accepting the intervention. The dissertation uses primary sources including Spanish and English newspapers, census records, club records, oral histories and Federal Writers Project papers, along with secondary sources to reconstruct the early history of the Cuban community. In directing the theoretical gaze on the Cuban migrant community, this study disrupts traditional accounts of the war and its aftermath, as well as the early history of racialized migrants in the United States. First, it situates the war within a context of empire building that includes the responses and actions of the Cuban exile and migrant community. Second, it positions the United States as a critical site for developing the Cuban nationalist and independence movements and, for initiating a public dialogue among Cubans on US imperialism, annexation, and the building of nation in Cuba. Third, it employs race, multipositionality, and diaspora as categories of analysis for understanding Cuban identity and community formation in the United States, the relationship between African-Americans and Cuban migrants, and the negotiation of race among Cubans, in particular Afro-Cuban migrants during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Ph.D.American historyCultural anthropologyEthnic studiesLatin American historySocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/123647/2/3001013.pd

Nuevos pseudocóccidos (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) y sus hospedantes para la provincia de Sancti Spíritus, Cuba

The aim of this paper is to provide information regarding a new registry of mealybugs and host plants in the Sancti Spíritus province of Cuba between 2005-2015. In this time period, 10 genera and 21 species of mealybugs were found (16 new records) in the ecosystems of the area studied by the Fomento Territorial Plant Protection Station. These new registries were found on 130 host plants species (40 previously unrecorded for Cuba), from 57 botanical families. This represents a notable increase in the number of genera and species of mealybugs present, as well as in the number of host plants, many of which were previously unreported in Cuba.El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo informar sobre los nuevos pseudocóccidos y sus hospedantes para la provincia de Sancti Spíritus (Cuba) durante el período 2005-2015. En estos diez años se informaron 10 géneros y 21 especies de pseudocóccidos (16 nuevos informes) en los ecosistemas atendidos por la Estación Territorial de Protección de Plantas de Fomento, sobre 130 especies de plantas hospedantes, agrupadas en 57 familias botánicas. Se registra un incremento notable de los géneros y especies de pseudocóccidos presentes, así como de sus plantas hospedantes, muchas de las cuales no estaban informadas para Cuba