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authors: Ronda-Pupo, Guillermo Armando
title: Cuba—U.S. scientific collaboration: Beyond the embargo
date: 2021-07-22
journal: PLoS One
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255106
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doc_id: 19369
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Cuba and the U.S. have the oldest Academies of Sciences outside Europe. Both countries have a long history of scientific collaboration that dates to the 1800s. Both scientific communities also share geographical proximity and common scientific research interests mainly in Biotechnology, Meteorology, and Public Health research. Despite these facts, scientists from both nations face serious barriers to cooperation raised by the U.S. embargo established in 1961 that prohibits exchanges with Cuba. The study aims to analyze the effects of U.S. policy on scientific collaboration with Cuban scientific institutions. The results of the bibliometric analysis of Cuba-U.S. joint publications in the Web of Science, and Scopus databases between 1980 to 2020 indicate sustained growth of scientific collaboration between scientists of both nations over the past forty years. The results also show that after the 1980 Smithsonian Institution and the Cuba’s Academy of Sciences agreement significantly increased scientific collaboration between U.S. scientists with their Cuban peers. President Barack Obama’s approach to normalizing the U.S. Cuba relations in 2015 enhanced Cuban scientific production with U.S. scientists by exceeding the number of collaborative papers published during any preceding U.S. Presidential administration. By 2020, Cuba had expanded its scientific links to 80% of the countries in the world. Cuban and U.S. scientists converted from adversaries into partners, showing that science is an effective diplomatic channel. A particularly important question for the future is how robust is the collaboration system in the face of greater political restrictions?

Cuba and the U.S. have a long history of scientific collaboration that dates to the 1800s. Cuban naturalist Felipe Poey deposited many of his specimens, results of his studies on fish species in the waters around Cuba, in such U.S. institutions as Smithsonian and Harvard University [1] . In the late 19th Century the Cuban scientist Carlos Finlay's scientific collaboration with Jesse Lazear of Johns Hopkins University corroborating Finlay's theories presented 20 years earlier on mosquitoes as the vector for yellow fever transmission [2] . Those actions paved the way for closer collaboration between scientists in the United States and Cuba. The Cuban science system shows important achievements, particularly in human health care and biotechnology [3] . https://www.nejm.org/action/showMediaPlayer?doi=10.1056% alliances, and the geographical diversification of its international collaboration network have allowed Cuba to continue to develop its science ecosystem [23] . Beyond the legal restrictions, Cuban and U.S. scientists have managed to continue to share and build bridges of cooperation by advancing joint research projects. The scientific engagement and knowledge exchange between the scientific communities of both nations acts to moderate political barriers [2] . Thus, it is interesting to shed light on the results of that winding scientific relationship by answering the following questions: 

The data consists of joint publications of Cuban-U.S. scientists between 1980 and 2020, inclusive in the publication databases WoS and Scopus. The data was retrieved on April 30, 2021. We used the query Advance search in WoS Core Collection CU = (Cuba) and PY = 1980-2020 and DT = (article or review or proceedings paper), Citation Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. We did not include the Emerging Sources Science Citation Index because it only indexed documents from 2015 onwards, and may introduce bias favoring the Obama 2015 stage. We analyzed the results and filtered the data using the label Country/region to select the Cuban papers that were published with the participation of at least one U.S. researcher. This procedure was also used to retrieve the overall Cuban productivity excluding the U.S. collaboration. To retrieve the productivity from the Scopus database we search using Affiliation Country = Cuba, and filtered the results by Year: (1980-2020), Document Type. (Article, Conference Paper, and Review), and Country/Territory (United States) to select the Cuban scientific productivity in collaboration with the U.S, also the Cuban scientific productivity without the participation of the U.S. In both queries we retrieved two datasets. One dataset that includes only the Cuba-U.S. joint publications. The second retrieved the overall Cuban scientific production excluding the articles with the participation of U.S.

The results from the WoS, and Scopus databases were combined using the R program bibliometrix [26] , an open-source tool for quantitative research in Scientometrics. This program brings many advantages, it removes duplicates, and it is possible to run several bibliometric based analyses.

The dataset covers the Cuban publications in the WoS, and Scopus from 1980 to 2020, inclusive. We include the past 41 years for several reasons. From 1960 to 1980, the U.S.-Cuba scientific collaboration was restricted. The Cuban science system collaborated mainly with socialist countries from Eastern Europe [23] . The 41-year time span is a significant time frame because it includes the Cuban scientific output ten years before the collapse of the USSR, and it spans the five main milestones in the Cuba-U.S. scientific collaboration. For the analysis of the historical evolution of the Cuban international scientific collaborative network (Fig 3) , we also retrieved the information 1900-1979 using the same queries in WoS, and Scopus.

2.3.1 Scientific production. One accepted measure of scientific production is defined as the number of peer-reviewed documents (articles, proceedings papers, and reviews) published by a science system in scholarly journals. For the present study, the Cuban scientific production is the total of peer-reviewed papers published by Cuban scientists in the WoS, and Scopus. We used two measures: 1) Cuban overall scientific productivity excluding the papers with the participation of the U.S., 2) The Cuba-U.S. joint scientific production. Previous studies analyzed the Cuban scientific output in scholarly journals [27] , the productivity in biotechnology [28] , the Cuban productivity of publications and patents [3] . The results of the study will shed light on the Cuban scientific productivity in collaboration with U.S.

Collaboration in research is defined as "the working together of researchers to achieve the common goal of producing new scientific knowledge" [29] . Beaver and Rosen pioneered the study of scientific collaboration in bibliometrics [30, 31] . Bibliometric studies use co-authorship to analyze scientific collaboration [32, 33] . Katz and Martin [29] claim that co-authorship is the accurate method to study scientific collaboration. First, it is invariant and verifiable [29] . Once a co-authored paper is published it will never change. Second, it is a relatively inexpensive and practical method for quantifying collaboration [29] . Third, the size of the sample that is possible to analyze using co-authorships can be very large and the results should be therefore more significant than those from case studies [29] .

The number of international addresses in co-authored peer-reviewed papers grew exponentially in the past 20 years [34] . [35] found that the co-authors' nationality is one of the moderating variables in the relationship between collaboration and productivity. Scientific collaboration enhances the quality of scientific research, improves the efficiency and effectiveness of that research, and is increasingly necessary, as the scale of both budgets and research challenges grow [36] . Fostering collaboration with more developed nations is a driver to increase productivity. Emerging economy countries use international scientific collaboration as a driver to foster their scientific productivity [37] . [33] found that scientific collaboration is also a driver to increase the number of citations of papers. [38] confirmed that the international collaborative papers receive more citations than domestic ones. [23] reported that the Cuban science system fostered scientific productivity and impact on natural sciences through international scientific collaboration.

The Cuba-U.S. scientific collaboration between 1960 and 2020 has been difficult. The scientific communities of both countries have made efforts to collaborate in projects of joint scientific interest. The scientific collaboration between the U.S. and Cuba has attracted interest [7, 12, 21, 39] . The literature on this topic is split into two main research streams. The first, analyzed opportunities and joint interests [7, 18, 20, 21, 25, 40] . The second explored the threads and weaknesses to overcome the political restrictions to a normal U.S-Cuba scientific collaboration and the advantages that scientific collaboration would bring to both countries [1, 12, 14, 39] . The dynamics of the evolution of the scientific collaborative activity between the Cuban and the U.S. science systems can be summarized in five important historical moments: 1. 1961 . The freeze of the relationship after the 1959 Cuban revolution. 2. 1980 . The agreement of the Smithsonian Institution and the Cuba's Academy of Sciences. 3. 1990 . The agreement between the New York Botanical Garden and the Cuba's Academy of Sciences.

4. 1999. Clinton's approach through the people-to-people policy (p2p) [1] . 5. 2009 . The visit of U.S. science leaders, led by AAAS President Peter Agre to the Cuban Academy of Sciences [4] . 6 . 2015. President Obama encouraged a reestablishment of diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Cuba [2] .

It is important to elucidate whether the U.S. scientific approaches to the Cuban scientific actors enhanced Cuba-U.S. joint scientific productivity. Also, if the improvement of Cuba-U. S. scientific links advanced the growth of the size of the Cuban international scientific collaborative network.

RQ1: To answer the research question 1, we used Kruskall Wallis (K-W) nonparametric tests to compare the effects of the U.S. approaches with the Cuban scientific community on Cuba-U.S. joint scientific production. As there is no post hoc test built into the K-W test, to check for mean ranks differences of the pairs of U.S. Cuba agreements, contacts or policies on Cuba-U.S. joint productivity we used a Bonferonni corrected p � 0:0125 0:05 4 À � to indicate statistical significance [41] . RQ2: To answer research question 2, we use the power-law regression model using Eq 1 [23, 42, 43] , where k and α are constants, ℴ is the standard error of the estimate. α is the scaling exponent (slope of the log-log regression line) using the Marquardt-Levenberg algorithm [44] , S is Cuba-U.S. scientific collaborative network, C is the Cuban overall international scientific collaborative network excluding the U.S. The statistical assumptions of the test are the source population normality (Shapiro-Wilk), the constant variance of the dependent variable in the source population regardless of the value of the independent variable, and the independence of residuals (Durbin-Watson Statistic). To evaluate the goodness of fit of the model, we used the Predicted Residual Error Sum of Squares (PRESS).

A scaling or power-law relation exist between two variables, x and y, if they are correlated by a power-law given by equation y = ax b , where b is the scaling factor and a is a constant [43, 45] . [45, 46] proved that any pair of coupled exponential or linear processes will exhibit a power-law relation with exponent n and intercept s that is predictable from the exponents and intercepts of the individual exponential processes [45, 47] .

For practical interpretation of results, if the exponent α = 1, the correlation is linear, both variables grow at the same rate. If α<1, there is a sublinear scaling correlation suggesting a cumulative disadvantage [48] . The x variable is growing faster than y. For the present study, it would suggest that the growth of the Cuban overall international scientific collaborative network (C) does not influence the grow of Cuba-U.S. scientific collaboration (S). Conversely, if α>1, there is a superlinear correlation [23, 38, 42, 45, 49] . It would suggest the presence of a cumulative advantage or preferential attachment [23, 38, 42, 45, 50] , then y variable is growing faster than x. In our case of study, the growth of the Cuban overall international scientific collaborative network (C) enhance the Cuba-U.S. scientific collaboration (S).

As any pair of couple exponential processes exhibit a power-law relationship, it is important to ascertain the existence of a true power-law correlation. To this aim we followed [51] . The procedure uses the parameters α (scaling exponent) and r (Pearson correlation) from Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) to calculate the scaling correlation through Standardized Major Axis (SMA) see Eq 2 below. If α SMA �α OLS , the variables are highly correlated. When no scaling correlation exists always α SMA >α OLS .

3 Results Table 1 shows the Cuba-U.S. joint scientific output for the period 1980-2020 in the WoS, and Scopus. Three fields, Clinical Medicine, Physics & Astronomy, and Biology, account for 64,6% of the overall productivity of Cuban-U.S. scientific collaboration. This result suggests that U.S. collaboration has been significant in the domains of Natural and Health Sciences. This is consistent with the results reported by [52] , showing a correlation between scientific production and collaboration levels.

Given to common disease problems and geographical proximity it is not surprising that clinical medicine is among the highest collaboration rate. It is less obvious that physics and astronomy should also shows a high collaboration rate. Within the field, the subfields nuclear & particle physics, and applied physics account for 80.5% of the U.S.-Cuba collaborative productivity ( Table 2 ). The mean number of authors per publication in this field is 767. The mean 

Cuba-U.S. scientific collaboration of authors per paper in the subfield Nuclear & Particle Physics is 878, Applied Physics 700, and General Physics 826. The results reveal the highly collaborative and international nature of these disciplines. We thus infer that U.S. scientists involved in these projects collaborate indirectly with Cuban scientists without violating the legal restrictions imposed by the U.S. government. In support of this conclusion, we see little collaboration in the related, but less collaborative fields of mathematics and statistics. These fields do not require large capital investments and so do not depend on the kinds of large team projects common in some areas of physics and astronomy. Nevertheless, the collaboration implies at least an indirect relationship between institutions from both nations. Something similar occurs in the Clinical Medicine field. The areas Neurology & Neurosurgery, Cardiovascular system & hematology, Tropical Medicine, and General & Internal Medicine account for 47.2% of the overall productivity in this field. The mean number of authors per paper is 26. Because Cuba is a tropical country it represents a natural laboratory to develop research in tropical medicine where there has been more than a century of collaboration between U.S. and Cuban scientists going back to work on yellow fever in the late 19th century [9] . This is a strong attractor to do research in cooperation with Cuban scientists. An intriguing inference that will require further validation is that once established these cooperative relationships endure despite political obstacles. 

A Kruskal-Wallis (K-W) nonparametric test was conducted to test for statistically significant differences between each Cuba-U.S. scientific agreement/policy on Cuban scientific productivity because there were unequal variances in ns across groups. The test indicates that the U.S. agreements differed in Cuba-U.S joint scientific production χ 2 (4, N = 40) = 37.129, p (Asymp. Sig.) = 0.001, Tables 3 and S1.

As there is no post hoc test built into the K-W test to check for mean ranks differences of the pairs of U.S. Cuba agreements or policies on Cuban productivity Post hoc Mann-Whitney tests compared the four pairs of U.S.-Cuba scientific approaches/agreements on Cuba-U.S. joint publications, using a Bonferonni corrected p � 0:01 0:05 4 À � to indicate statistical significance S1 Table. We compared the effects of the U.S. agreements or policies with Cuba's Academy of Sciences on Cuba-U.S. joint productivity during the period 1980-2020 for statistical significance Table 4 . The mean ranks for Cuba-U.S. joint publications during the Obama 2015 approach to the normalization of relations with Cuba (13.50, n = 6) was significantly higher than that of the Smithsonian-CAS 1980 agreement (5.50, n = 10), z = 3.288, p = 0.001, r = 0.83, a much larger than typical effect size difference according to [53] .

Also, the mean ranks for Cuba-U.S. joint publications during the Obama 2015 approach (12.50, n = 6) was significantly higher than that of the New York Botanical Garden-CAS 1980 agreement (5.00, n = 9), z = 3.185, p = 0.001, r = 0.82, a much larger than typical effect size difference according to [53] . The mean ranks for Cuba-U.S. joint publications during the Obama 2015 approach (13.50, n = 6) was significantly higher than that of Clinton's 1999 people to 

Cuba-U.S. scientific collaboration people policy (5.50, n = 10), z = 3.256, p = 0.001, r = 0.81, a much larger than typical effect size difference according to [53] . The mean ranks for Cuba-U.S. joint publications during the Obama's 2015 approach (9.50, n = 6) was significantly higher than that of the AAAS 2009 approach to CAS (3.50, n = 6), z = 2.882, p = 0.004, r = 0.83, a much larger than typical effect size difference according to [53] . The Obama approach toward normalization of U.S. relations with Cuba in 2015 is the one that influenced the most in the increase of Cuban scientific production in academic cooperation with the U.S. scientific institutions S2 Table. It is interesting to note that Cuban productivity rates increased steadily throughout the period investigated. Obama's political shift in 2015 implemented specific actions such as 1) Cuban-developed medications to enter normal FDA regulatory channels [2] . 2) The U.S. Department of the Treasury granted licenses for clinical trials in the U.S. of specific Cuban medications [2] . 3) The U.S. National Institute of Health initiated a small number of relatively small grants to be administered by CRDF Global, a U.S. Non-Government Organization that implements international scientific cooperation programs [2] . The Department of Health and Human Services and the Cuban Ministry of Public Health signed a memorandum of understanding supporting cooperation and research in public health [54] . (Fig 3G) , suggesting a growth of the Cuban scientific international links. In this stage, Cuba expanded the scientific links to 80% of countries acknowledged by the United Nations. 1980 through 2020 the density of the network grew steadily across the years. Table 5 shows the top ten Cuban academic partners. The U.S. is ranked among the top four scientific partners from 1990 on. It is also noteworthy that Spain replaced the USSR as the most significant Cuban academic partner after the USSR collapsed in 1989. Also, Brazil and Mexico became the most important Cuban partners in Latin America. From 2010 onwards, China appears among the ten top Cuban academic partners.

We ran a power-law correlation to find out if the U.S.-Cuba scientific collaboration enhanced the growth of the Cuban international scientific collaboration network. The statistical assumptions of source population normality (Shapiro−Wilk, p = 0.781), the constant variance of the dependent variable in the source population regardless of the value of the independent variable (p = 0.05), and the independence of residuals (Durbin−Watson = 2.467) were checked and met. The scaling correlation is statistically significant t(1,4) = 13.91, R 2 = 0.98, p = 0.0008 S1 Fig. To evaluate the goodness of fit of the model, we used the Predicted Residual Error Sum of Squares (PRESS = 0.03). Also, the results show that α SMA �α OLS , supporting the variables are highly correlated according to a power-law.

The result indicates there is a superliner scaling correlation between the size of the Cuban international scientific collaborative network and the growth of the Cuba-U.S. scientific collaboration, suggesting the Cuban international scientific collaborative links foster the growth of the Cuba-U.S. scientific collaboration. The Cuba-U.S. scientific collaboration grew by 2 2.40 ±0.13 or 5.28 times with a doubling of the size of Cuban international scientific collaboration network Figs 4 and S1. The increase in the size of the Cuban international collaborative network indirectly enhanced collaboration with U.S scientific institutions.

In practical terms, The Cuban science system enhanced its absorptive capacities by fostering its overall international scientific collaboration network. The preferential attachment mechanism acts as an attractor to U.S. scientific institutions through the betweenness [55] of countries in the structure of the Cuban international academic collaboration network. For example, betweenness occurs when the Cuban scientists collaborate with scientists of country B and those of country B collaborate with the U.S. scientists, so Cuban scientists also collaborate with the U.S. scientists through the Cuba-B-U.S. relationship. The new countries entering the network increase the probability that Cuban scientists to collaborate with their U.S. colleagues. 

Cuban scientific productivity from 1980 through 2020 shows a sustained and steady increase.

The following approaches could explain this increment.

Intellectual capital is the value of an organization member's knowledge, skills, business training, or any proprietary information that may provide the organization with a competitive advantage [56] . Intellectual capital is most commonly clustered into three categories: human capital, social or relationship capital, and structural capital. According to [57] the countries with dense social capital (highly connected) have an advantage over less connected in creating and sharing intellectual capital [58] . [59] reported that intellectual capital combined with social capital positively influences innovative capability. The most important strength of the Cuban science system is that Cuban scientists are well trained [7] and committed to science. That is why, Cuban researchers overcome the scarceness of resources to do research. They do high-quality research in mainstream research fields with a minimum of resources by participating in international projects that involve a high number of international researchers from developed countries, including from the U.S. An important attraction is the opportunity to collaborate with high-profile scientists from the U.S. and Europe, which accelerates the transfer of new methodologies and concepts. The Cuban Science system has highly competitive researchers in many scientific fields doing frontier research, mainly in health and natural sciences. A management framework of the Cuban Academy of Sciences with the Higher Education Ministry integrates the Higher Education institutions, Research Centers in the country's provinces with the leading National Research Centers in Havana. The Cuban scholars who have left Cuba could be a strength; they offer a significant opportunity because those scholars maintain their links with their colleagues on the island; they continue collaborating and serve indirectly as bridges between their hosting scientific institutions in Europe, North America, or Latin America to the scientists in Cuba. This strategy's main weakness is that the longer the Cuban scholars remain away from home, collaboration with Cuba may decline [60] . This effect is like the strategies used by pool game players. They aim at a third ball to strike a second ball that is better positioned for the basket. Cuban scientists collaborate with scientists from third-party countries that belong to the U.S. mainstream collaborative networks. That way they also cooperate indirectly with U.S academics. This empirical evidence suggests that the growth of the Cuban international collaboration network with the U.S. is not only the consequence of a specific research policy strategy but also an emergent strategy caused by the Cuban and the U.S. scientist's initiatives. This idea leads to the question does the scientific diaspora is a driver to foster scientific collaboration between the scientific communities of the country of origin and the hosting country?

The preferential attachment approach suggests that the network nodes link with a higher probability to those nodes that already have a larger number of links [61, 62] . The probability of a particular scientist acquiring new collaborators increases with the number of his or her past collaborators [50] . The U.S. science system is the node with the highest degree of centrality in the world scientific collaboration network. When the U.S. scientists collaborate with colleagues in countries that also participate in the Cuban international scientific collaborative network, the Cuban collaboration network with the U.S. academic institutions grows, through the preferential attachment mechanism. Owing to its central position, the U.S. connects to many other countries, serving as a bridge to connect Cuban scientists with other countries with semi peripheric or peripheric positions. The Cuban science system enhances its absorptive capacities by engaging in large international collaborative networks that mitigate the scarceness of resources needed to perform high-quality research in mainstream subjects. The size and density of the international collaborative network serves as an umbrella that hides the Cuba-U.S. bilateral collaboration.

The engagement of Cuban scientists in important international research projects in areas such as physics and astronomy, and clinical medicine, which are both highly networked and capital intensive, overcome legal constraints and enhances direct bilateral academic collaboration. The network embeddedness serves as an invisible bridge that facilitates the U.S. scientific collaboration with Cuban colleagues without violating restrictions imposed by the law of their homelands. This empirical evidence suggests that developing countries included in highly dense collaboration networks have a path to overcome some of the obstacles imposed by resource scarcity and also, to avoid or mitigate entry barriers raised by legal, economic, or socio-cultural limitations.

In Latin America, the Brazilian science system shows the highest degree of centrality. This country has become the most crucial scientific partner for Cuba over the past thirty years. This collaborative relationship has also enhanced the flow of new scientific knowledge and methodologies into the Cuban science system. The Cuba-Brazil academic collaboration also helps foster Cuban absorptive capacities by the preferential attachment mechanism.

It is important to also point out that there is a threshold of scientific development necessary to successfully absorb and integrate into these knowledge flows. The Cuban science system has long exceeded this threshold and is, therefore, able to take full advantage of the global knowledge ecosystem. An important issue for future work will be to better define and operationalize these knowledge thresholds and to improve our understanding of the processes of knowledge diffusion with the goal of providing a template to guide development policies in other national settings.

The results show that the Cuban-U.S. joint scientific production, measured as the number of articles, reviews, and proceedings paper published in the Web of Science, and Scopus increased steadily over the past forty years Tables 1 and 2, and Fig 1. The results also suggest that scientific contacts between the U.S. scientific leaders and the Cuban scientific authorities have had important accomplishments: First, the increase of cooperation between both scientific communities leading to a significant increase of joint publications S1 Table. Second, the growth of the Cuban international scientific collaboration network S1 Fig, enhancing Cuban research capabilities, and overcoming resource scarcity to thereby enabling research in mainstream subject matters.

The results confirm that scientific collaboration has been an effective diplomatic channel between Cuba and the U.S. Both scientific communities increased their collaborative efforts to solve scientific questions of primary common interest [14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 25] , no matter the political party in the Oval Office or the prohibitions imposed by the U.S. Embargo on Cuba [39] . Cuba-U.S. scientists managed to turn adversaries into partners for the advancement of science [53] S1 Fig. The U.S. and Cuban scientists have proven to be an effective way to restore diplomatic relations between the two nations [16, 22, 53] . This is the most powerful message that science transmits. Science has no political color, science is committed to solving the research problems that affect humanity.

The empirical evidence presented here shows that the Obama Administration's lowering of barriers has had the largest positive effect on Cuban collaborative scientific relationships S1 Fig, and S1 Table. With the return of Democrats to the White House in 2021, the hope of a reestablishment of the U.S. diplomatic relations with Cuba is back. The results suggest that the Cuban-U.S. collaboration networks are resilient to restrictive policies [1, 15] . But a particularly important question for the future is how robust is the collaboration system in the face of greater political restrictions?

The use of the general license (www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/ pages/cuba.aspx) in effect which includes academics, allows U.S. university scientists, to travel to Cuban scientific institutions, if they work on academic pursuits during the visit, with the intention to produce scientific publications. This would significantly increase the development of research in joint and mutually beneficial scientific interests [7, 9, 10, 12, 39] . The use of the U.S. Treasury Department would help for transferring scientific equipment to Cuba. Using this license, it was possible the installation of a global positioning system (GPS) receiver to measure atmospheric water vapor at the Grupo de Óptica Atmosférica de Camagüey (GOAC) at the Camagüey Meteorological Center in Camagüey, Cuba [7, 10] .

[10] summarized the opportunities of the above-mentioned license from the U.S. Treasury Department: "E. 

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