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• JULIO-SEPTIEMBRE

  Vol. 28 No. 3 (2024)

• APRIL-JUNE

  Vol. 28 No. 2 (2024)

  This number of the Magazine Man Science and Technology offers several proposals related to the main cultures in Guantanamo -coconut and cocoa. Also, it is possible to note the work related to environment preservation in many ecosystems of Guantanamo province. It shows studies about the application of products to improve the quality of the cultures taking the pest control as a base. Besides, this number introduces teaching proposals, from Chemistry teaching in the University of Guantanamo, addressed to the environmental topic treatment. This second number shows some collaborations received from other Cuban provinces.

• JANUARY-MARCH

  Vol. 28 No. 1 (2024)

  This issue covers fifteen scientific articles from the Mountain Development Center, El Salvador municipality, Guantánamo province, derived from local research and master's studies; all related to agri-food development, to environmental culture, to the integration of the different actors that have to do with local development. Furthermore, actions aimed at technology and its implementation in agricultural production are proposed, programs are modeled for the improvement and training of actors in the agricultural sector, native species of Cuban flora are identified, as therapeutic alternatives to traditional and local medicine. All these themes projected with a single objective, transforming agriculture based on ecological, economic and sociocultural principles, which presupposes the need for updated and creative knowledge in accordance with the real circumstances of each territory and in pursuit of a process more accurate and efficient decision-making in the organization and execution of the production process.

• OCTOBER-DECEMBER

  Vol. 27 No. 4 (2023)

  Number 4, 2023 is conformed by a majority of articles related to crops, biofertilizers, pests which affect different plantations constituting food for humans and cattle. Besides, the problems of meet supply through sheep production and the forest preservation are treated.

  Other works are related to environmental protection from the profession, watersheds, and so on, as well as the agriculture’s economy, rural women empowerment, and ecological tourism.

• JULIO-SEPTIEMBRE

  Vol. 27 No. 3 (2023)

• APRIL-JUNE

  Vol. 27 No. 2 (2023)

• JANUARY-MARCH

  Vol. 27 No. 1 (2023)

• OCTOBER-DECEMBER

  Vol. 26 No. 4 (2022)

  The fourth issue of the year 2022 presents a wide variety of articles by this time. Not only the usual topics on agriculture and veterinary science, but also topics related to environmental education, wind energy generation and government management: Evaluation of phytotoxicity of industrial waste from bioassays with vegetables; Educational programs for the development of environmental initiative versus contemplation of the ecological crisis; Urgency of eliminating non-payment chains, a guarantee of financial health in the Cuban agricultural sector; Spatio-temporal characteristics of aeroavalanches in Guantanamo province in the period 1980-2021; Aerial vegetation and weed seed bank in the sugarcane ecosystem of Guantanamo province; Answer of Varieties of Sugar Cane, to Micorrizas's inoculation; Sensitivity studies from economic and financial feasibility of Punta de Maisí wind farm project; Environmental management from the university-government-business communication relations system, based on science and innovation; Green map as an alternative for environmental improvement in the community of Raposo. Guantanamo; Characterization of the Semideciduo Micrófilo forest in the Southern Coast of Maisí; Insect diversity in Pinus cubensis G. forests at Empress Agroforestry Baracoa; Structure and composition of woods species in mountain rainforest, study case in UEB Quibijan; Obtaining seedlings of Anacardium occidentale L with the use of bioproducts to rehabilitate areas degraded by mining; Environmental guidance management in the initial training of graduates in Physical Culture; Control of the Phytophthora capsici Leonian in the cultivation of pepper (Capsicum spp.) in the state of Jalisco, Mexico

• JULY-SEPTEMBER

  Vol. 26 No. 3 (2022)

   

   

• APRIL-JUNE

  Vol. 26 No. 2 (2022)

  The second issue of the Man, Science and Technology Magazine approaches several topics, this time with studies about “the lungs of the World”: forests, such as on the works: Evaluation of the influence of a forest fire in Pinus cubensis Griseb forests; Structural characterization of a microphyllous evergreen forest in Veguita del Sur, Imias, Guantanamo; Estimate of the carbon and nitrogen retained in the lumberman biomass of dychrostachys cinerea var. Africana brenan & brummitt.

  There are more and more research results related to environmental education from, which are evident in:  Public Health services in Cuba,  The culture of the social invention for the environmental education in health-care professionals; The utility of the virtualization in the environmental education for Medicin's students; Environmental dimension in dental services: reflections and conceptions for the comprehensive management of hazardous waste; The culture of the social innovation in nursing professionals for the environmental conservation.

  Researches related to results of products to solve some problems in agriculture and the production of livestock consumption are always appreciated: Use of effluent from biodigesters from pig effluents as organic fertilizers; Effect of the probiotic Biolac on the productive and health parameters in pre-fattening pigs.

  Some researchers show his products in the works: Response of coffee seedlings Coffea arábiga (L.) to the use of mycorrhizae and CTA-Humus®; Creation of in vivo germplasm bank of indigenous coconut varieties in the municipality of Baracoa; Distribution of Raoiella indica Hirst. in Guantánamo province.

  Other works are more theoretical in nature, but not less interesting or necessary: Management of the Delegation and the Municipal Agricultural Company in the agricultural development of the municipality of El Salvador; Some considerations about agrarian extension in Cuba: point for a debate.

   

• JANUARY-MARCH

  Vol. 26 No. 1 (2022)

  The current issue of the Man, Science and Technology Magazine opens a new volume, number 26, with the presence of studies belonging to other Cuban provinces such as Granma which evidences that, despite the territorial differences, the problems and the need for urgent solutions are common all over the country.  Several articles are aimed at protecting the environment: environmental governance, environmental awareness, the fight against the environmental boomerang effect caused by the indiscriminate use of antimicrobials, the development of an environmental culture and resilience after any meteorological phenomena, as well as the necessary risk perception in a selected community.  Some works have to do with forests protection and conservation, the use of live fences to protect different cultures, the properties of a sialitic brown soil, among others that also discourse about soils in Guantanamo.  Another obvious point is the production of food such as coconut and cocoa, two fundamental importable items in Guantánamo, tomato cultivation and its diseases, as well as the industrial yield of sugarcane.  As usual, there are collaborations from health professionals related to the protection of human health: The Human Papillomavirus and another research centered on food sustainability and human nutritional health.

• OCTOBER-DECEMBER

  Vol. 25 No. 4 (2021)

  The fourth number of the magazine Man, Science and Technology closes the year on high, presenting important articles of Guantanamo and Santiago de Cuba provinces’ authors. As is usual, it includes several research results related to food production, such as coconut tree (which is used not only as a human food but also as animal food), chickpea, bean and kidney bean, environmental conservation and education in rainforests, though integrative teaching tasks applied in Chemistry classes, the electric generation process, and other less frequent related to human sickness and severe local storms.

• JULY-SEPTEMBER

  Vol. 25 No. 3 (2021)

  The third issue of the Man, Science and Technology Magazine arrives, on this occasion, with a wide variety of topics that constitute a matter of concern for the Guantanamo scientific community and other latitudes.

  The environment, that space in which the cycle of life takes place, which demands all the attention and care, is present in the articles: Biophysical integrity of the Maisi-Yumuri protected area; Impact of the environmental degradation in the antimicrobial resistance; Flood risk due to heavy rains in Guantanamo Province; and Health-care professionals' role in the environmental information management.

  Animal production for human consumption is constantly called upon to rise its yields, in order to satisfy the growing demand of a population that is constantly increasing, that is why, researchers have dedicated themselves to seeking results in their works: Grassland indicators in plant-animal interface according to season and grazing methods; and Determination of the sheep’s highest incidence diseases in five Guantanamo’s municipalities.

  Forest resources report important gains to the national economy.  The articles: Explanatory note to apply silvicultural headlines and forest use in the 13 de Agosto Business Unit, Sierra Cristal; Spatial organization and forest inventory to test predictive methods of biomass potential in charcoal production; and Explanatory note to apply silvicultural guidelines and forest use in the Basic Forestry Company Mayari, show on the control of these resources.

  Three works lead to the knowledge of the inherited culture, in the consumption of fruits, viands, vegetables in a natural way or prepared in ancestral recipes: Recipes for traditional sweets and drinks, a compilation based on people’s empirical knowledge; Diagnosis of the culture of fruit consumption in communities of the Costa Rica Popular Council, Guantanamo, Cuba; and Horticulture and its relationship with the sociocultural expressions which link people all over the World.

  Producing foods of plant origin, which contribute so much to health and are a source of food for both animals and humans, is also a task of some of the researchers who present their results in the journal: Agronomic and economic behavior of hard corn genotypes (Zea mays L.) in La Troncal, Ecuador; Effect of the Efficient Microorganisms (ME) in the creation and development of beans cultivation in camp conditions.

  Cuba faces great challenges in the production of medicines due to the obstacles caused by the blockade of the government of the United States of America and the lack of liquidity for the acquisition of raw materials in the international market.  The usefulness of Natural and Traditional Medicine in fragile ecosystems is the work that presents the experience of some doctors in the use of alternative medicine for the solution of some health problems.

   

• APRIL-JUNE

  Vol. 25 No. 2 (2021)

  The second issue of Man, Science and Technology offers 15 varied articles, mainly focused in animal and vegetable origin food production as well as the protection of the environment, two urgent issues in the midst of the famine global situation which has been predicted as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic that is hitting the world.

  On this occasion, the magazine has collaborations from the Holguín province and Ecuador, which enrich the content of this issue and broaden the readers vision who assiduously follow each publication.

  Entomofauna inventory in Pinus Cubensis G. forests in the Agroforestry Company Sierra de Cristal introduces the reader to the knowledge of the most representative orders in this area of ​​study: Coleoptera and Lepidoptera.

  Other studies focus on how to improve soils and productions to contribute to food activity, such is the case of the articles: Nutritional characterization of organic residues in the sugar cane of La Troncal canton;  Effect of CTA-Humus® in obtaining Rhizophora mangle seedling for the rehabilitation of areas degraded by mining;  Response of Cedrela odorata L seedlings with the use of Glomus cubense and the CTA-Humus® soil conditioner;  Obtaining Anacardium occidentale L seedlings through the use of the Vigortem® bioproduct for the rehabilitation of areas degraded by mining;  Diagnostic of problematics and solution alternatives in sheep–goats production system in the oriental region of Cuba;  Statistical analysis of the solitary bee’s species Megachile armaticeps;  Agroproductive behaviour of eleven bean varieties (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in Guantanamo province;  Evaluation of the influence of the application of liquid worm humus and Microorganisms Efficient in the cultivation of beans (Phaseolus vulgaris, L) under dry conditions.;  Effect of Copetua Extract dose (Tagetes erecta) on the control of White Fly (Bemisia tabaci), in common bean bat 304 (Phaseolus vulgaris (l.) and Minimal costs associated with tray rearing of amblyseius largoensis (muma) for the control of polyphagotarsonemus latus (banks) in pepper.

  Other works are related to actions aimed at educational work with human capital to achieve values ​​and skills: The environmental education as a pedagogical weapon against the current ecological crisis; Developmental considerations of the ethical value environmental responsibility in agricultural producers from Guantanamo; The environmental perspective in the sphere of action of the Balanced Scorecard and Qualified workforce for sustainable agriculture in Guantánamo.

   

• JANURY-MARCH

  Vol. 25 No. 1 (2021)

  The magazine Man, Science and Development first issue for 2021 offers attractive proposals to readers and, above all, to researchers who look for these publications because of its usefulness.

  Four works aim to solve the problem of pests affecting agriculture:  Effect of Tagetes erecta L. (Copetua) extract dose on aphids, Neem oil (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) an alternative to chemical insecticides, QuitoMax and CTA Stymulant Incidence Vs. geminivirus (TYLCV) in tomato's crop, and Evaluation of Pucciniamelanocephala (Sydow and P. Sydow) incidencein five varieties of sugarcane.

  Other works have to do with the agricultural topic: Determination of the propagation method by cassava genotype to yield increase, Growth regulators effect on the Velazco-5 coffee hybrid somatic embryogenesis, and Evaluation of industrial performance and organoleptic properties in Coffea arabica L. varieties in El Salvador municipality, Guantánamo, Cuba.

  Other four works bring the reader closer to the topic of the adequate use of lands and natural resources as well as its existence and diversity: Improvement of saline soils physico-chemical indicators from Sustainable Land Management practices, Agroforestry managment ameid to sustainability at Los Lirios farm, Environmental management at the littoral plain of the managed resource protected area Cuchillas del Toa, and Floristic diversity of a semi-deciduous microphile forest in the Imias municipality, Guantanamo.

  Three articles show the Health-care professionals training in environmental ethics and local development, aimed to a better professional preparation:   Health-care professionals in intensive accompaniment as social invention for local development, The environmental ethical valuation of Health-care professionals for the nature coexistence, and Health-care professionals' contribution to local development in rural and mountainous ecosystems.

  Besides, this issue introduces:  Public telephony and tropical cyclones. An analysis from hurricane Matthew.  It shows a joint analysis between Meteorology and Telecommunications in Guantanamo specialists about the severe damages caused by a powerful meteorological event.

   

   

   

   

• SPECIAL-NUMBER

  Vol. 24 (2020)

  This a special issue dedicated to some researches on agro-ecology, livestock, environmental protection, and food production, of vital importance nowadays; among others.  Authors take part of the University of Guantanamo, House of Study and Progress, teaching staff. This institution celebrated its 40 Anniversary in 2020. This special issue is a tribute to this university.

  Readers will be able to document themselves in agroforestry topics such as: Mathematical model to determine the Influence of bolus wood defects on Pinus cubensis yield in the Baracoa Agroforestry Company; Floristic diversity at the Xeromorph Coastal and Subcoastal scrub of the Baitiquirí Ecological Reserve, Entomofauna associated to Pinus cubensis G. in areas of the Cupeyal del Norte Conservation Department; Ecological aspects of the River Los Plátanos riverside forest;  Effects of different organic substrates in the production of Caesalpinea violacea seedlings in tubes; Influence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on the Swietenia mahagoni L. Jacq growth and nutrition; Characterization of the mangrove in the Paraguay coastal sector, Guantanamo, Cuba; Evaluation of the environmental vulnerability at the National Park “Alejandro de Humbolt”; Proposals for actions for sustainable use of non-wood forest products in the Baitiquirí Ecological Reserve, Guantanamo; Impact environmental in the structure of the rainforest on metamorphic complex;  Impacts of Sustainable Land Management in productive yields of the Demonstration Area for the Conservation of Soil, Water and Forest.

  Related to food production, two studies are present about beef and milk production improvement: Morphological characterization of the Mucubal breed and the Bramuco F1 and F2 genotypes; Milk composition, variation according to breed and lactation.

  An important exportable line in Guantanamo is, undoubtedly, the production of coffee: Technological alternatives for the improvement of the processing and commercialization of Arabica washed coffee in the “Asdrúbal López” Coffee Processing Company, introduces the reader in this sense.

  Related to an economical transport and some ways to avoid its negative influence on the environment is presented the work: Study of the locomotives effect on the environment in Guantánamo Province.

• OCTOBER-DECEMBER

  Vol. 24 No. 4 (2020)

  The Man, Science and Technology Magazine presents its fourth issue of the year 2020. This time, the articles are focused on interesting topics which are derived from necessary studies for human development.

  The imminent need for the production of food, from vegetable and animal origin, in these times of pandemic, in which a famine threatens globally, is represented in articles such as: Technological evaluation of the soil preparation of Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.); Response of the green beans (Vigna unguiculata L.)  to the simple and combined applications of FitoMas-E® and EcoMic®, Grassland indicators in plant-animal interface according to season and grazing methods; Strengthening local agricultural management through a sustainable and resilient agriculture model; Efficient microorganisms’ effect vs. Vitafer probiotics in controlling enteric disorders in swine pre-fattening; Procedure to improve planning for short-term financing of agricultural business.

  Another issue that worries the Guantanamo scientific community is the study of the different ecosystems, as well as their protection.  These articles have to do with this topic: Characterization of floristic species biodiversity in the Hatibonico Ecological Reserve; Biodiversity of woody flora in a submontane rainforest fom Alejandro de Humbolt National Park; Ecological restoration proposal for a coastal and sub-coastal xeromorphic scrub in the semi-arid zone of Guantánamo; Severe local storming in Yateras Municipality; Theoretical foundations for the observance of the virtues and the environmental ethical values.

  Of equal interest are the works related to the rational use of natural resources such as wood: Commercial volume table for Pinus cubensis in the “Omar Ranedo” sawmill, Guantánamo Agroforestry Company; NC ISO application: 50001/2011 in Pueblo Nuevo Sawmill, Imias, during the last three years.

  Some impacts in the First Edition graduates in the Agrarian Extension specialty, Holguín, Cuba, is a collaboration received from the eastern province of Holguín and in this case a subject related to knowledge management is addressed through a postgraduate specialty.

  Concern for human health is also represented in number 4 by means of the work: Early diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer by the clinic laboratory studies and the influence of environmental factors This is one of the cancers that is becoming more and more frequent nowadays.

• JULY-SEPTEMBER

  Vol. 24 No. 3 (2020)

  The challenges that the modern world imposes on Science are increasing every day.  According to the man overcomes his goals, he sets other higher ones. Our scientists must solve several problems in their environment in order to satisfy the growing demands in the different areas of social and economic life.

  The third number of the Man, Science and Technology Magazine shows some works on important topics related to reduction of the irrigation rule in plantain crop, monitoring agroecosystems affected by salinity, climatic change and epidemiology of the Acute Respiratory Infection, sustainability of the cacao agroecological management, environment-Meningoencephalitis relationship, development of the rural tourism in Guantánamo's Southern Coastal Strip through agroecology, induction of the integrated management approach in local development projects, incidence of predominant species of fruit flies of the Tephritidae family in a community, perception about Pelibuey ovine management, environmental university extension actions system, sustainable environmental management in farms of fragile mountains agroecosystems, organic alternative for the production of lettuce, behavior of CO2 during the clean energy generation, biological effectiveness of the insecticide Ciantraniliprol for the Trips control, evolution of the access to lands in usufruct in Cuba: impacts and restrictions.

• APRIL-JUNE

  Vol. 24 No. 2 (2020)

  This time the Magazine Man, Science and Technology is born amid a great global problem that concerns the international scientific community: a virus, that has become a pandemic, puts the humanity on edge and danger of extinction. COVID-19 came to light by the end of 2019 and, since then, it did not stop till reaching alarming numbers of infections worldwide, In despite of everything this virus has changed in the course of people’s lives as a result of this disease, the researchers  has not stop working and creating their scientific production.

  With certain limitations, the second issue of Man, Science and Technology has been published. Readers would delve into various topics that become reasons for search of many men and women of science, related to the environment, environmental conditions and their influence on human health, food production, sustainable socio-economic development, local meteorological events, electric energy saving, gender approach, among others which will allow the reader to know about some results of the scientific activity in Guantanamo, as well as collaborations from other provinces.

• JANUARY-MARCH

  Vol. 24 No. 1 (2020)

  Cuba is a small country, constantly besieged by the United States Empire, a policy that has been strengthening during the Trump Administration. Despite what growing in the midst of all the difficulties imposed by this situation means for Cuba, science is a permanent concern for professionals and they put all their efforts on it to achieve their dreams and hopes.

  Guantanamo Province implements the Guidelines for the Economic and Social Policy of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and the Revolution through sustainable development programs, taking advantage of the Eastern Cuban benefits and using scientific research as a direct productive force, all this closely related to technology for producing and applying knowledge to reach a wide diffusion in order to achieve a higher socio-economic development in harmony with the environment.

  This number of the Magazine Man, Science and Technology collects several works that show how human activity affects ecosystems, being the climate change its most evident result with serious consequences on soil salinization, the viral diseases proliferation such as arbovirosis, the disappearance of endemic bird species, the depletion of fossil energy sources that entails the need of using renewable energy sources, among others.

• OCTOBER-DECEMBER

  Vol. 23 No. 4 (2019)

  The works that we present are sustained in the prosperous and sustainable local development as a political task of enormous importance, backed by the economic and social management system, presenting as a base element the prominence of the Guantanamo potential. This development is managed and concrete from scientific research, oriented towards local transformations with a comprehensive and systemic approach, with the perspective of a harmonious, economic-productive, sociocultural and environmental action.

• JULY-SEPTEMBER

  Vol. 23 No. 3 (2019)

  New approaches are presented that allow expanding the possibilities of solving the ever-increasing needs of the population, without jeopardizing the possibilities of the coming societies, through sustainable systems from the points of view: productive, ecological, economic, socially fair and culturally acceptable; with high levels of citizen participation.

• JANUARY-MARCH

  Vol. 23 No. 1 (2019)

  This issue covers the studies of agricultural biodiversity in different Credit and Service Cooperatives located in several municipalities of Guantánamo province, as well as the potential of the coffee agribusiness and urban waste for use as fertilizers or amendments of soil properties and so improve agricultural production. It also has to do with the multiplication and in vitro conservation of native genotypes of agricultural biodiversity with the main objective of genotypically conserving plants which are in danger of extinction or difficult accessibility for some producer in the different mountain agroecosystems of Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa massif and, at the same time, agroecological practices are proposed for the adaptation to climate change that contribute to the sustainability and conservation of the varieties.

• APRIL-JUNE

  Vol. 23 No. 2 (2019)

  The articles of this issue bring together studies aimed at the sustainability of the environment and the preservation of the fragile ecosystems that characterize Guantanamo province, by means of proposals which contribute to achieve an agro-ecological culture in producers, the resilience to drought and the use of organic substances in substitution of traditional chemical agents. The special significance includes the studies related to the management of wood resources and the implementation of Thematic Maps in the use of the soil and its physical and chemical characteristics, in order to propitiate higher efficiency in making decisions in the productive areas.

• Special Number

  Vol. 22 (2018)

  This special issue offers the reader a group of studies carried out by the specialists of the Mountain Development Center during 2018, motivated by the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the institution's founding, in charge of the research, development and innovation activity, with the purpose of contributing to the transformations of mountain communities in the social, economic and environmental order. The main topics were related to the making of multimedia related to the work developed by this scientific center in its 25 years, as well as the conservation of the Toa basin, the evaluation of the quality of the crops, inventories of the flora and fauna in coffee and cocoa agroecosystems, the use of bionatural products to achieve higher quality productions, all aimed at achieving sustainable development.