Éditeur(s) : P.N.M. Pub. Co. P.N.M. Pub. Co. ( Port-of-Spain Trinidad )
Résumé : Cover title.
(Funding) Eric Williams Memorial Collection
Trinidad and Tobago
West Indies

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20592107
AFM7945

Éditeur(s) : Edinburgh: William Oliphant & Sons Edinburgh: William Oliphant & Sons
Résumé : Dr. Blyth's memories of missionary life in Jamaica
(Funding) Support for the development of the technical infrastructure and partner training provided by the United States Department of Education TICFIA program.

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285.4 Ja Bly

Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles Études caribéennes
Résumé : L’article s’intéresse à la construction de l’identité noire en Jamaïque lors de l’indépendance obtenue du Royaume-Uni en 1962. Dominée par les Euro-créoles, paupérisée et confrontée à une offre politique nationale inadaptée, la population africaine souffre de l’absence d’une identité noire institutionnalisée, diluée dans le « nationalisme multiracial créole ». Ce travail met en lumière l’importance de l’histoire et des problématiques de la mémoire dans le processus de construction des identités sociales et souligne le rôle central de la culture dans les luttes de pouvoir.
The article deals with the status of a Black identity in Jamaica when it became independent from the United Kingdom in 1962. Dominated by the Euro-Creoles, pauperized and facing an inadequate political offer, the African population suffers from the lack of an institutionalized blackness, melted into “Creole multiracialism”. This study highlights the importance of history and memory issues in the process of building up social identities, and underlines the central role of culture in conflicts of power.
Jamaïque

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Résumé : Does the language in which the instructions are formulat- ed affect the execution of a bilingual's motor task? The first experiment studies whether the language used for the instructions influences the motor performances among bilingual children in situation of learning. Eighty bilin-gual French/Creole children (age means 10.4) were distributed into two experimental groups to learn how to perform a motor task. One group received instructions in French and the other one in Creole. The data suggest that the language of presentation affects the execution of a motor task. Both groups had the same performance level at the beginning of the experiment. We noticed that the group taught in Creole obtained better performances than the group taught in French at the end of the learning situation. The results are discussed in terms of their implications to physical education and motor rehabilitation of bilinguals. The two following experiments reported in the present paper concern (i) the differential imagery value of French and Creole and (ii) the influence of language on the recall of sequences of patterned movements in a bilingual population. Creole words were obtained a higher imagery value than French words, certainly because Creole is an oral and vernacular language. Motor recall scores were better when the sequence was presented in Creole compared to French. The generation of visual images by Creole would facilitate the memorization and recall of new sequences of movements. The effect of language on imagery value of words and motor recall among bilingual French–Creole subjects was discussed in terms of nature of information encoding in each language. The goal of the fourt and last study tries to know the language impact on the movement imagery ability of guadeloupean children. A person is able to represent verbal information with an image (Denis, 1989; Paivio, 1986). The language can he influence this ability on bilingual individuals? If Creole has more to do with image than French (Michelot, 2000), this survey considers a distinct language influence on the mental images vividness specified by guadeloupean children. 123 secondary school pupils (average age 13.45) altogether accepted to fill in the Movement Imagery Questionnaire of Hall and Pongrac (1983). This test enables to measure the rapidity of visual and kinaesthetic images. The “Creole” group (59 children; average age 13. 43) got the MIQ translated in Creole and the “French” group (64 children; average age 13.46) the French version of the test. Finally, language does not generally influence the movement imagery capacity. Yet, the kinaesthetic images are more vivid in French than in Creole for the subjects tested, aged from 11 to 13. The subjects aged from 14 to 16 have, only in Creole, more vivid visual images than the subjects aged from 11 to 13. The language affects the movement imagery ability with age of this guadeloupean children.
L'exécution d'une tâche motrice chez des bilingues est-elle affectée par la langue dans laquelle les consignes sont formulées ? Une première expérience a été menée en vue d'analyser si la langue de présentation des consignes influence les performances motrices d'enfants bilingues en situation d'apprentissage. Quatre-vingt bilingues français/créole (âge moyen : 10,4 ans) ont été répartis dans deux groupes expérimentaux afin d'apprendre à réaliser une tâche motrice, l'un recevant les consignes en français et l'autre en créole. Les données suggèrent que la langue de présentation affecte l'exécution d'une tâche motrice. Le groupe enseigné en créole obtient de meilleures performances en fin d'apprentissage comparativement à celles obtenues par le groupe enseigné en français, alors que les deux groupes ont au départ un niveau comparable. Ces résultats sont discutés sur le plan de leur implication pour l'éducation physique et la réadaptation motrice des bilingues. Les deux expérimentations suivantes évaluent (i) la valeur d'imagerie de mots et (ii) le rappel moteur d'enchaînements auprès de bilingues français–créole en faisant varier la langue de présentation. Les mots en créole, supposés susciter plus facilement des images mentales visuelles, car le créole est une langue orale et vernaculaire, ont effectivement obtenu une cote plus élevée que les mots français sur l'échelle de valeur d'imagerie. L'évocation d'images visuelles facilitant la mémorisation et la planification de séquences de mouvements, les performances de rappel obtenues à partir des consignes en créole ont été supérieures à celles obtenues en français. Les effets de la langue de présentation sur la valeur d'imagerie des mots et le rappel moteur d'enchaînements de morphocinèses auprès des participants bilingues sont discutés en termes de nature d'encodage de l'information verbale dans chacune des langues. L'objectif de cette quatrième et dernière recherche est de connaître l'impact de la langue sur la capacité d'imagerie du mouvement d'enfants guadeloupéens. Un individu peut se représenter des informations verbales sous une forme imagée (Denis, 1989; Paivio, 1986). La langue peut-elle influencer cette capacité chez des individus bilingues ? Le créole étant plus imagé que le français (Michelot, 2000), nous prévoyons une influence distincte de la langue sur le degré de vivacité des images mentales. Cent-vingt-trois collégiens guadeloupéens (âge moyen 13.45) ont rempli un questionnaire d'imagerie du mouvement (MIQ de Hall et Pongrac, 1983) mesurant la vivacité d'images visuelles et kinesthésiques. Un groupe «créole» (59 enfants; âge moyen 13.43) l'a passé en créole et un groupe «français» (64 enfants; âge moyen 13.46) en français. Finalement, la langue n'influence pas la capacité d'imagerie mentale de notre échantillon. Mais la vivacité des images kinesthésiques est supérieure en français chez les sujets de 11 à 13 ans et celle des images visuelles des sujets de 14 à 16 ans est supérieure à celle des sujets de 11 à 13 ans seulement en créole. La langue semble influencer la capacité d'imagerie mentale des sujets en fonction de l'âge.
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Recent works display that large scale image classification problems rule out computationally demanding methods. On such problems, simple approaches like k-NN are affordable contenders, with still room space for statistical improvements under the algorithmic constraints. A recent work showed how to leverage k-NN to yield a formal boosting algorithm. This method, however, has numerical issues that make it not suited for large scale problems. We propose here an Adaptive Newton-Raphson scheme to leverage k-NN, N³, which does not suffer these issues. We show that it is a boosting algorithm, with several key algorithmic and statistical properties. In particular, it may be sufficient to boost a subsample to reach desired bounds for the loss at hand in the boosting framework. Experiments are provided on the SUN, and Caltech databases. They confirm that boosting a subsample -- sometimes containing few examples only -- is sufficient to reach the convergence regime of N³. Under such conditions, N³ challenges the accuracy of contenders with lower computational cost and lower memory requirement.
IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing
Southampton, United Kingdom

hal-00959125
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https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00959125/file/BNNB_mlsp2013.pdf

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It is becoming clear that the female brain has an inherent plasticity that is expressed during reproduction. The changes that occur benefit the offspring, which in turn secures the survival of the mother’s genetic legacy. Thus, the onset of maternal motivation involves basic mechanisms from genetic expression profiles, to hormone release, to hormone-neuron interactions, all of which fundamentally change the neural architecture – and for a period of time that extends, interestingly, beyond the reproductive life of the female. Although multiple brain areas involved in maternal responses are discussed, this review focuses primarily on plasticity in the maternal hippocampus during pregnancy, the postpartum period and well into aging as it pertains to changes in cognition. In addition, the effects of prolonged and repeated stress on these dynamic responses are considered. The maternal brain is a marvel of directed change, extending into behaviors both obvious (infant-directed) and less obvious (predation, cognition). In sum, the far-reaching effects of reproduction on the female nervous system provide an opportunity to investigate neuroplasticity and behavioral flexibility in a natural mammalian model.
ISSN: 0018-506X

hal-01169791
https://hal-univ-rennes1.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01169791
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DOI : 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.06.004

Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles Études caribéennes
Résumé : Cette étude démontre que l’écriture du roman The Swinging Bridge constitue une action de récupération de la mémoire féminine indienne qui réactive les liens entre Indo-Trinidadiens du Canada et Indo-Trinidadiens vivant à Trinidad tout en rétablissant une relation avec l’Inde des origines. Elle montre que, dans l’espace du roman, des relations s’établissent entre le centre historique réel ou mythique des établissements dispersés, et des sociétés d’installation par le biais d’une intrigue qui amène personnages et lecteurs à la conscience de former un peuple en diaspora.Elle analyse les procédés littéraires d’une récupération de la mémoire qui révèle, rectifie et réorganise dans une nouvelle cohérence des fragments épars réintroduisant dans la mémoire collective les qualités ancestrales d’indépendance de la femme indienne. Elle révèle le caractère hybride de l’identité culturelle diasporique qui se construit tout au long du roman puis analyse les enjeux pour l’écrivain féminin postcolonial diasporique de cet acte de représentation.Elle conclut que cette représentation constitue une réécriture contre discursive de l’Histoire trinidadienne et qu’elle introduit la définition d’un continuum identitaire indo-américain qui contribue à résorber la dislocation et la fragmentation qui caractérisent cet espace essentiellement diasporique.
This work proposes to read The Swinging Bridge as a process by which a hybrid Indo-Trinidadian Diaspora is created. It argues that the novel’s recovery of memory constitutes a process by which individual memories turn into a collective diasporic memory which re-establishes links between Indo-Trinidadians dispersed in Canada and Trinidad. We demonstrate that rebinding to the Trinidadian space and recovering part of the memory of the Indian historical centre set the three spaces in a diasporic relation.This study also demonstrates that the novel’s narrative semantics rejects cultural conflict, as well as essentialism and creates a hybrid cultural identity. It establishes that the construction of diaspora at work in The Swinging Bridge advocates for the appreciation routes rather than roots and is compatible with the idea of a multi-locational diasporic consciousness.
Caraïbes
Trinité

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Éditeur(s) : Jamaica Observer Jamaica Observer ( Kingston, Jamaica )
Résumé : Dr Stephanie McKenzie is an associate professor, English Programme, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada.

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Éditeur(s) : Chatto & Windus Chatto & Windus ( London ( Piccadilly ) )
Résumé : (Statement of Responsibility) by Daniel Defoe.
(Citation/Reference) Lovett, R.W. Robinson Crusoe,
Spine title: Robinson Crusoe.
"The text ... is restored in this edition by a careful collation with the early copies of both parts of the work."--Pref., signed John Major.
Some ill. engraved by Gorway, J. Jackson, and Thos. Williams. 9.4.
"A poet's memorial of Robinson Crusoe," Bernard Barton, p. -xii.
Distinctive red cover with title in rustic style letters, Robinson Crusoe; coastline of island on right; line of footprints on left and illustrated by George Cruikshank .
Parts I and II of Robinson Crusoe.
England -- London

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Éditeur(s) : The College of The Bahamas The College of The Bahamas ( Nassau, Bahamas )
Résumé : (Statement of Responsibility) The College of The Bahamas
Memorial service held at the Performing Arts Centre, The College of The Bahamas, Wednesday, March 28, 2012

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Éditeur(s) : Florida International University. Department of African New World Studies. Florida International University. Department of African New World Studies.
North America -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Caribbean
Caribbean

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
Alkali feldspar thermochronologic modeling with the 40Ar/39Ar method has generated marked advances in knowledge of the mechanisms for argon diffusion in feldspars. While the goal in many cases has been to extrapolate the observed and modeled argon behavior in feldspars to natural geological settings, scientific debate surrounding the true feasibility of such extrapolations and indeed, the validity of thermochronologic modeling in itself, have provided much impetus to improve laboratory techniques to test, and increase basic understanding of, argon diffusion. Two cornerstones for the debate over the feasibility of alkali feldspar thermochronology for modeling natural, geologic processes have been: 1. is volume diffusion the main mechanism for argon movement in feldspars? and 2. if volume diffusion is a viable mechanism, does argon then reside in discrete ‘domains' within the feldspar lattice? We describe a study of alkali feldspars from a profile through a well-controlled brittle fault zone in western Norway; the feldspars document argon loss during deformation and strongly suggest the existence of argon ‘domains' within the feldspars, at least during laboratory step heating. The progressive change in the character of argon diffusion is recognizable in the logr/ro diffusion data from the feldspars and is mimicked by physical changes observed optically in the feldspars through progressive degrees of brittle deformation. Modeling results indicate a reduction in size of the biggest domains and the appearance of smaller domains during the strongest stages of deformation. Whether or not this reveals the existence and the transformation of the domain structure in naturo is difficult to prove from our data alone, but interestingly, this behaviour corresponds directly to the physical (optical) appearance of more intense crack networks and subgrains in progressively more brecciated feldspars. Because the thermochronologic histories derived from modeling the feldspar data conform very well to the known tectonic history of the area, the feldspars appear to have successfully retained physical (optical and isotopic) records of episodic tectonic processes operating from ductile through lowtemperature brittle regimes in rocks with a Caledonian history overprinted by several later (younger) geologic events. However, because the ‘cold' brecciation is the last tectonothermal event recorded by these rocks, it is impossible to truly test for the existence of diffusion domains in naturo. Argon loss appears to have been effective only in the most highly brecciated (deformed) samples where the combination of the connected crack network, increased fluid flow and higher temperatures enhanced diffusion via fast diffusion pathways and thus, volume diffusion from the lattice. Only minor argon loss occurred in zones of lower brittle strain, although some development of cracks and brittle features is evident. Independent of the existence of diffusion domains, this study highlights the possible pitfalls when cooling histories are deduced from brecciated feldspars in which age and diffusion charateristics have been decoupled: while the geochronological memory has survived and is identical to that of nonbrecciated feldspars (suggesting no loss and minor effects of deformation), the diffusion characteristics have been completely transposed by brecciation and the appearance of new domains. Modeling feldspars with these latter characteristics would effectively utilise a new feldspar diffusion structure with an ‘old' (relict) age memory.
ISSN: 0016-7037

hal-00198283
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Éditeur(s) : London: House of Commons London: House of Commons
Résumé : 1. Extract of a despatch from the Earl of Belmore to Viscount Goderich; dated Jamaica, 10 February 1832. 2. Copy of a despatch from the Earl of Belmore to Viscount Goderich; dated Jamaica, 19 March 1832. 3. Copy of a despatch from Viscount Goderich to the Earl of Belmore; dated Downing Street, 19 May 1832. 4. Copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Baptist Missionary Society to Viscount Goderich dated 24 April 1832. 5. Copy of a memorial from the Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society to Viscount Goderich; dated 23 April 1832.
(Funding) Support for the development of the technical infrastructure and partner training provided by the United States Department of Education TICFIA program.

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Pam 326 Ja Gre

Résumé : Marine monument on McCalla Hill, at the United States Naval Base.
1900-1920
CHC5017
Guantánamo (Cuba)

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Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles Études caribéennes
Résumé : Dans la mémoire collective des Antilles, les moulins ne semblent être qu’une image isolée, sans contexte ni humain ni historique, une machine veuve de son travail et de sa fonction, une réalité déjà morte, puisque dénuée de sens et donc ignorée des regards. L’objectif de l’article est de redonner aux moulins l’importance qu’ils ont perdue dans la mémoire collective, de réintroduire la conscience de la nature même des machines, de leurs relations mutuelles, mais aussi de leurs relations avec l’homme et des valeurs impliquées dans ces relations. Étudier les machines, c’est comprendre les évènements passés, interpréter les paysages et surtout rendre hommage aux Hommes.
In the collective memory of the West Indies, mills seem to be an image without human or historical context i.e. a machine deprived of its former significance it had for production of a commodity. Mills are not viewed in their former context as an important relict of the past. The purpose of the article is to give back to mills the importance that they have lost in the collective memory by reintroducing their relationship with man and the values involved in these relationships. Studying the function of machines leads to an understanding of past events, helps to interpret landscapes and especially pays tribute to the role of man.
Martinique

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urn:doi:10.4000/etudescaribeennes.461
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Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Oxford University Press (OUP)
Résumé : International audience
BACKGROUND: A prospective study of infectious encephalitis was conducted in France in 2007. In total, 253 patients were enrolled with a proven etiological diagnosis for 52%. The cohort of surviving patients with encephalitis was assessed for sequelae and impairment 3 years after enrollment. METHODS: Patients, their family, and general practitioners (GPs) were interviewed by phone to document persisting symptoms, return to work, and past and current leisure activities, with standardized questionnaires. The IQCODE (Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly) was completed with relatives. The global outcome was determined in all patients with the Glasgow outcome scale. RESULTS: In 2010, 20 patients (10%) were unavailable for follow-up, 2 (1%) were excluded, and 18 (9%) had died since hospital discharge. Data were available for 167 survivors and 9 patients whose death was related to the encephalitis. The outcome was favorable in 108 of 176 patients (61%) (71 with complete resolution), 31 (18%) were mildly impaired, 25 (14%) were severely impaired, and 3 (1%) were in a vegetative state. The most frequent symptoms were difficulty concentrating (42%), behavioral disorders (27%), speech disorders (20%), and memory loss (19%). Fifteen of 63 patients (24%) previously employed were still unable to resume work. Long-term outcome was significantly associated with comorbid conditions, age, level of education, and the causative agent of encephalitis. CONCLUSIONS: Most patients with encephalitis experienced a favorable outcome 3 years after hospital discharge. However, minor to severe disability persists in a high number of cases with consequences for everyday life. Physical and mental impairment should be evaluated in all patients with encephalitis, and neuropsychological rehabilitation implemented whenever needed.
ISSN: 1058-4838

hal-00875190
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00875190
DOI : 10.1093/cid/cis226
PUBMED : 22460967

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD D-side publications, Evere, Belgium
Résumé : International audience
This article underlines the learning and discrimination capabilities of a model of associative memory based on artificial networks of spiking neurons. Inspired from neuropsychology and neurobiology, the model implements top-down modulations, as in neocortical layer V pyramidal neurons, with a learning rule based on synaptic plasticity (STDP), for performing a multimodal association learning task. A temporal correlation method of analysis proves the ability of the model to associate specific activity patterns to different samples of stimulation. Even in the absence of initial learning and with continuously varying weights, the activity patterns become stable enough for discrimination.
Proceedings of 14 European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN 2006)

hal-00115420
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00115420
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00115420/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00115420/file/esann06_HAL.pdf
ARXIV : cs.NE/0611104

Éditeur(s) : Diana Paton Diana Paton ( United Kingdom )
Résumé : From: http://obeahhistories.org/project/ The website is part of the project ‘Spiritual Politics in Caribbean History’, led by Diana Paton and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, which ran from January 2012 to January 2013. Diana Paton is Reader in Caribbean History at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University. She is the author of No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780-1870 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004), and co-editor, with Pamela Scully, of Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World (Durham: Duke University Press 2005). For her publications on obeah and Caribbean religion, please see the publications page. Gemma Romain specialises in researching Caribbean and Black British history. She currently works as a Research Associate for The Equiano Centre, Department of Geography, UCL and also undertakes freelance historical research and public engagement. She was Vera Douie Fellow at the Women’s Library during 2011, documenting interwar Black histories within the collections of the Women’s Library and was previously Leverhulme Early Career fellowship at Newcastle University. Her publications include Connecting Histories: A Comparative Exploration of African-Caribbean and Jewish History and Memory in Modern Britain (Kegan Paul, 2006) and co-edited with David Cesarani, Jews and Ports Cities, 1590-1990: Commerce, Community and Cosmopolitanism (Vallentine Mitchell, 2006). Gemma wrote the initial drafts of most of the text on the website. Maarit Forde worked with Diana on an earlier phase of this project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. She researched obeah prosecutions and prosecutions under the Shouters Prohibition Ordinance in the Port of Spain Gazette, co-organized the conference that led to the publication of Obeah and Other Powers, and co-edited the book. Previous research on this project has also been funded by Newcastle University and the British Academy.

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Mixtures of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are present in indoor environments. Studies of the developmental effects of exposure to these chemicals in large prospective mother-child cohorts are required, with data on prenatal exposure and long-term follow-up of the children. We aimed to investigate the relationship between prenatal and childhood exposure to PBDEs and neurodevelopment at the age of six years. We determined the levels of PBDEs and other neurotoxicants in cord blood and dust collected from the homes of children for 246 families included in the PELAGIE mother-child cohort in France. We assessed two cognitive domains of the six-year-old children using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-IV. Verbal comprehension scores were lower in children from homes with higher concentrations of BDE99 (βDetects < median_vs_NonDetects = −1.6; 95% CI: −6.1, 2.9; βDetects≥median_vs_NonDetects = −5.4; −9.9, −1.0; ptrend = 0.02) and of BDE209 (β2nd_vs₁st_tertile = −1.8; 95% CI: −6.1, 2.5; β3rd_vs₁st_tertile = −3.2; −7.5, 1.2; ptrend = 0.15) in dust, particularly for boys (ptrend = 0.02 and 0.04, respectively). Working memory scores seemed to be lower in children with higher BDE99 concentrations in dust (ptrend = 0.10). No association was observed with cord blood levels of BDE209. Our findings are in agreement with those of four previous studies suggesting adverse cognitive outcomes among children associated with early-life exposure to penta-BDE mixtures, and provide new evidence for the potential neurotoxicity of BDE209. Several countries are in the process of banning the use of PBDE mixtures as flame-retardants. However, these compounds are likely to remain present in the environment for a long time to come
ISSN: 0161-813X

hal-01286255
https://hal-univ-rennes1.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01286255
https://hal-univ-rennes1.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01286255/document
https://hal-univ-rennes1.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01286255/file/Childhood%20exposure%20to%20polybrominated%20diphenyl-accepted.pdf
DOI : 10.1016/j.neuro.2016.03.002

Résumé : Monument in Havana, Cuba, dedicated to the victims of the explosion of the USS Maine (1895), dedicated on 8 Mar. 1925. Creators: Félix Cabarrocas and Moisés de Huerta (1881-1962). Written on recto: "República de Cuba", "No.9600", "Secretaría de Obras Públicas", "Oct. 7. 1929", "Vista general del monumento al Maine." Embossed stamp (mark) on recto: "Library of Manuel R. Bustamante" (donor). Notations on verso include illegible address and "Maine Monument -- Havana, Cuba."
1920-1930
CHC5017
Havana (Cuba)

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