Dysmenorrhea, originally Greek, is explained in the literature as in the following: Dys means difficult, painful or abnormal, meno means month and rrhea means flow or discharge [1]. Clinically, it refers to pain during menstruation severe enough to prevent daily activities and to require taking analgesics [2]. Briefly, it means painful periods. One of the most important gynaecological complaint...

Deverbal nouns exhibit both nominal and verbal syntactic behaviour: they operate as concrete nouns, but also participate in verbal constructions where they require arguments and accept aspectual modification. We first describe the phenomenon and discuss theoretical analyses proposed in the literature, and then propose a methodology for applying the theoretical results to parsing of nominal phra...

The study explores first language (L1) influences on the mechanisms of spelling in English as a foreign language (EFL). We hypothesized that the transparency of L1 orthography influences (a) the amount of hesitation associated with spelling irregular English words, and (b) the size of units EFL spellers operate. Participants were adult speakers of three languages differing by the degree of tran...

This paper traces the complex relationship between classical literature and Christian doctrine in first four centuries. In earliest period of Christianity, we can identify two attitudes Christians towards Greek literature: hostile attitude shown by Tatian, Theophilus, Tertullian, openness to culture philosophy demonstrated Justin Martyr, Athenagoras Athens, Minucius Felix. A notable change happ...

We introduce a new method to construct approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems using semidefinite programming. It consists of expressing each combinatorial object in the original problem as a constellation of vectors in the semidefinite program. When we apply this technique to systems of linear equations mod p with at most two variables in each equation, we can show tha...