Genetics can provide invaluable information on the ancestry of the current inhabitants of Cyprus. A Y-chromosome analysis was performed to (i) determine paternal ancestry among the Greek Cypriot (GCy) community in the context of the Central and Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East; and (ii) identify genetic similarities and differences between Greek Cypriots (GCy) and Turkish Cypriots (TCy)....

Jacqueline Llanos, Raúl Morales, Alfredo Núñez, Doris Sáez, Matías Lacalle, Luis 3 Gabriel Marín, Roberto Hernández, and Fernando Lanas 4 1 Electrical Engineering Department, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile 5 2 Section of Railway Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands 6 3 Energy Center, Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiag...

Distribution A: Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. Approval Confirmation 96 ABW/PA # 96ABW-2010-0451, dated August 12, 2010 This paper was published in the Journal of Applied Physics, March 2011. One or more of the authors is a U.S. Government employee working within the scope of their position; therefore, the U.S. Government is joint owner of the work and has the right to cop...

This study examines the effects of English training abroad (hereafter ETA) on labor market outcomes in South Korea. ETA has become increasingly popular in many non-English speaking countries and refers to short-term language study training abroad where students spend anywhere from 6 months to 2 years taking language courses at an educational institutions. In this article, I conduct survival ana...

Thomas J. Forbes, MD,* Dennis W. Kim, MD, PHD,† Wei Du, PHD,* Daniel R. Turner, MD,*† Ralf Holzer, MD,‡ Zahid Amin, MD,¶ Ziyad Hijazi, MD,¶ Abdolrahim Ghasemi, MD,§ Jonathan J. Rome, MD, David Nykanen, MD,# Evan Zahn, MD,# Collin Cowley, MD,** Mark Hoyer, MD,†† David Waight, MD,‡‡ Daniel Gruenstein, MD,§§ Alex Javois, MD, Susan Foerster, MD,¶¶ Jacqueline Kreutzer, MD,## Nancy Sullivan, MS, CCRC...

In cases in which there is no standard orthography for a language or language variant, written texts will display a variety of orthographic choices. This is problematic for natural language processing (NLP) because it creates spurious data sparseness. We study the transformation of spontaneously spelled Egyptian Arabic into a conventionalized orthography which we have previously proposed for NL...

The epsilon toxin, produced by Clostridium perfringens, is responsible for enterotoxemia in ruminants and is a potential bioterrorism agent. In the present study, 15 regions of the toxin were recognized by antibodies present in the serum, with different immunodominance scales, and may be antigen determinants that can be used to formulate subunit vaccines.

SN SOME of its public statements in recent years, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has stressed the objective of promoting market discipline of the risks assumed by banks through the influence of uninsured depositors.’ The FDIC has attempted to accomplish this by allowing the uninsured depositors of some failed banks to suffer losses. In practice, the cases in which uninsured de...

Using bank level data for 80 countries in the 1988-1995 period, this paper examines the extent of foreign ownership in national banking markets. The net interest margins, overhead, taxes paid, and profitability of foreign and domestic banks are compared. The functioning of foreign relative to domestic banks is very different in developing and developed countries, with foreign banks achieving hi...

This paper uses a unique database to test the effect of ATM surcharges on large versus small banks. Specifically, we examine the impact of ATM surcharges on bank customer incentives to switch accounts, from smaller banks to larger banks, in order to avoid ATM surcharges. We find that ATM surcharges increase the market share of deposits of large banks and decrease the market share of the smaller...