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Towards a Turkish-Armenian Rapprochement?

T urkish-Armenian relations have been deadlocked since Armenia gained its independence in 1991. The closed border and the lack of diplomatic ties cloud the future of bilateral relations as well as official and non-official efforts aimed at contributing to the process of normalization. However, Turkish-Armenian relations have been gaining momentum since 2002. The restoration of the Akhtamar Chur...

Armenian Information Technology Sector Industry Growth Model

The Armenian Energy Sector: Power and Politics

Rainbow Matchings and Rainbow Connectedness

Aharoni and Berger conjectured that every collection of n matchings of size n+1 in a bipartite graph contains a rainbow matching of size n. This conjecture is related to several old conjectures of Ryser, Brualdi, and Stein about transversals in Latin squares. There have been many recent partial results about the Aharoni-Berger Conjecture. The conjecture is known to hold when the matchings are m...

PW01-033 – Phenotype – genotype in Armenian children with FMF

Introduction Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is an ethnic disease for Armenian population and represents a significant health care problem. Frequency of carriers of MEFV mutations is 1:3, and the prevalence of FMF is rather high (14-100:10000). During the period between 2003 and 2012 there was a 4.5-fold increase of the total number of children with FMF. Many of these cases have severe clini...