Klammt open elastic activator and twin blocks in Class II malocclusion treatment. by Eduardo Maikel Curbeira Hernández, Clotilde de la Caridad Mora Pérez

“…<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1pt 7.0865pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Tahoma;">Background</span></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><strong>:</strong> Klammt open elastic activator and twin blocks have been two of the most worldwide studied functional appliances; however, there are different opinions about their effect on the cranium-facial complex. …”
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Evaluation of the pharmacological treatment of arterial hypertension associated to heart failure in Camarones town. by Pedro Miguel Milián Vázquez., Idalmis Pérez Alemán, Carlos Martín Álvarez, Maira Quirós Enríquez., Lidia Vázquez Montero

“…<strong>Background:</strong> Arterial hypertension is a risk factor for many cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. …”
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Scientific investigations on Integral General Medicine during the historic evolution of this specialty. Cienfuegos, 1988-2005. by Margarita Roméu Escobar, Beatriz Sabina Roméu, Pilar Almaguer Sabína, Gloria Lara Calderín

“…<strong>Background:</strong> The program of the doctor and nurse of the family has undergone several structural, organizational, methodological, of socioeconomic context and of political priority changes and it is unknown the influence of such evolution on the works of conclusion of the Integral General Medicine specialty in Cienfuegos. …”
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Rhinoplasty by Bernardo Canto Vidal, Tania Canto Vigil, Luis Gerardo García Moreno

“…<strong>Background: </strong>The nose occupies the central and most important part of the face for the surgeons performing esthetic surgery. …”
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Results of rhinoplasties of the nasal tip in Cienfuegos by Bernardo Félix Canto Vidal, Angel Viera Docil

“…<strong>Background:</strong> the rhinoplasty of the nasal tip is one of the most difficult and challenging plastic surgeries the surgeon dedicated to the nasal deformities faces. …”
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Cellular changes in bulbar conjunctiva and Vitamin A deficiency. Connection with clinical signs. by Roxana del Carmen Gómez Vilela, Marta Rosa González Deben, Luis Cruz Medina, Dunia Reyes Hernández, Gladys Barberis Pérez

“…<strong>Background:</strong> Vitamin A deficiency is followed by keratinization of the mucous membrane that covers the digestive, urinary and respiratory ways. …”
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Methodological Guide for Professional Development of Nurses of the Surgical Emergency Units by Marlene Llanes Montero, Pedro Miguel Milián Vázquez, Lidia Vázquez Montero, Carlos Martín Álvarez, María de los Ángeles López Torres, Ana Margarita Quintero Alonso

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> professional development is a priority in Cuban health policy, as a way to promote the quality care of patients.…”
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Alarm sings for primary immunodeficiency diagnosis. A proposal adapted to the Cienfuegos province by Yosvany Castillo Leyva, Alain Alonso Remedios, Grace de Lara García, Daynelis Pardo Martínez, Albert Vera Razumova

“…<strong>Foundation:</strong> immunodeficiency diseases are a heterogeneous group of disorders that reflect one or more components of the immune system quantitative and / or qualitative deficit. …”
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Level of Knowledge of the Diabetic Patient about the Prevention of Diabetic Foot. by Georgina Jiménez Estrada, María Teresa Martínez Barroso, Marta Gómez Arcila, Hilda Carmouce Cairo

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> The education of the diabetic patient is a fundamental factor for the diabetes mellitus, even in its condition of chronic disease, it will not reach major complications. …”
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Hepatic resections by means of digitoclasia: outcome in twenty patients. by Antonio Ríos Rodríguez, Nancy Capin Sarria, Lidia Torres Aja

“…<strong>Background:</strong> Hepatic surgery currently shows impressive advances. …”
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Knowledge assessment of Cienfuegos´ health workers on human toxocariasis. by Martina S. Jiménez Suárez, Blanca Elena Duménigo Ripoll

“…<strong>Background:</strong> Human toxocariasis is one of the most worldwide extended zoonosis. …”
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Risk factors for macrosomy in newborn children with pregnant diabetes mothers. by Cristóbal Torres González, Esteban Hernández Barrios, Joselin Moreno Torres, Angel Rodríguez Cabrera, Vivian Vázquez Martínez

“…<strong>Backgroud:</strong> Diabetes represents one of the medical conditions complicating pregnancy more frequently, and has the major repercussion not only on mother and foetus but also in the new born child. …”
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Adherence to good practices in membrane premature rupture. Perinatology Service. University Hospital “Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima”, Cienfuegos city. From January to December 2002.... by Yusimi Miranda Pérez, Norma Mur Villar, Liudmila de Armas Rey, Yosleidy Capote Fragoso

“…<strong>Fundament:</strong>Nursing good practice demands standardizationof care,in such a way that they guide and unite the different ways of performance. …”
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The employment of optic coherence tomography in the diagnosis of papilledema by Yaney González Yglesias, Carlos E. Mendoza Santiesteban, Lillian G. León Veitía, Yosbelkys Martín Páez

“…<strong>Background:</strong> The optic coherence tomography constitute one of the most revolucionary tool in the ophtalmic diagnosis in the latest years, and is very useful in the papilledema studies. …”
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Educational and therapeutic intervention in children with deforming buccal habits. by Jeny Fernández Martínez, Clotilde de la Caridad Mora Pérez, Raúl López Fernández

“…<strong>Background:</strong> Buccal deforming habits are caused by many factors, which make more important the implementation of strategies aimed at reducing their incidence. …”
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A mouse model of immunosuppression facilitates oral Candida albicans biofilms, bacterial dysbiosis and dissemination of infection by Raja Veerapandian, Anuja Paudyal, Sarah M. Schneider, Sonny T. M. Lee, Govindsamy Vediyappan, Govindsamy Vediyappan

“…Intriguingly, we found co-occurrence of Enterococcus faecalis in the tongue, liver, and stool of immunosuppressed control and C. albicans infected organs. …”
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Efficacy of new technologies as teaching aids in morphological sciences. by María Teresa Martínez Barroso, Georgina Jiménez Estrada, Marta Gómez Arcila, Luis Orlando Pérez González

“…<strong>Background: </strong>Information society and new technologies have an impact on every part of educative process allowing the enlargement of teaching activities aimed to develop psychomotor, cognitive, emotional and social skills of teachers. …”
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Anticipations of the Crisis: On the Similarities between post-Keynesian Economics and Regulation Theory by Mark Setterfield

“…Specifically, it is shown that important strands of both PKE and RT characterize and were successful in anticipating the crisis as resulting from the exhaustion of a financialized growth process.…”
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How and why to study mountains: topics and types of research between limits and opportunities by Laura Bonato

“…The research conducted in the Piedmontese highlands, despite their differences in terms of assumptions and concretisation, in fact highlights the predominant thematic strands through which mountains are studied in this area. …”
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Self-Discipline Makes Policy Advice Better by Gert G. Wagner

“…Abstract There is a differentiated literature on policy advice, but it is largely disconnected from the literature (and the underlying research landscape) on academic communication, which originally dealt only with the natural sciences. And both strands of the discussion are barely connected to the figure of the „public intellectual“ who has played an important role in the humanities and social sciences for decades. …”
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