Doping use in recreational sports is an emerging issue that has received limited attention so far in the psychological literature. The present study assessed the lifetime prevalence of controlled performance and appearance enhancing substances (PAES), and used behavioral reasoning theory to identify the reasons for using and for avoiding using controlled PAES in young exercisers across five Eur...

INTRODUCTION The prevalence of H. pylori varies with geographic locations. To date there are no epidemiological data on its prevalence in Cyprus; therefore, we determined the prevalence and molecular characteristics of H. pylori infection in Cypriot patients. METHODOLOGY DNA extracted from 103 gastric biopsies was analyzed for the presence of H. pylori by PCR using primers for ureA. H. pylori...

The Cultural Journeys in the Information Society is a dynamic hypermedia environment, which proposes the Electronic Roads as a meta-form for exploring cultural information that can form Cultural Journeys. The Electronic Roads meta-form facilitates travelers to explore the information space in a natural and continuous way similar to the exploration of physical roads. This meta-form is advantageo...

Background: Cultural, social policy and legal factors contribute to HIV vulnerability amongst ethnic minorities. Insufficient knowledge on HIV transmission and prevention contributes in engaging in risky sexual behaviours that increase the risk of infection. Aim: The aim of the present study was to explore the knowledge, attitudes and perceptions amongst immigrants, foreign students and foreign...

Neuropsychology Section, Department of Neurology, University of Patras Medical School, 26504 Patras, Greece University of Patras Medical School, 26504 Patras, Greece Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Higher Educational Institute of Epirus, Ioannina, Greece Department of Rehab...

N.M. Ivanova †, R.O. Popovych ‡, C. Sophocleous ♦ and O.O. Vaneeva § †‡§ Institute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine, 3 Tereshchenkivska Str., 01601 Kyiv, Ukraine e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] ‡ Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Wien, Nordbergstraße 15, A-1090 Wien, Austria ♦ Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus, CY 1678 Nico...

estimation in labelled Petri nets Lingxi Li and Christoforos N. Hadjicostis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illi...

The article investigates the relationship between unemployment rate and development indicators: (1) the GDP per capita in Purchasing Power Parities (PPP in current international $); and (2) the Internet penetration rate, defined as the percentage of Internet users per 100 people. For 34 countries in 2013, only two simple linear regression models based on natural logarithms of data and the Ordin...

Modern Greece is severely infested by hydatid disease. In two statistical studies made by one of us (Toole, 1930, 1937) 5,107 cases of hydatid cysts, observed in Greece between 1900 and 1936, have been collected. In a recent report Maccas and Kourias (1951) completed the statistics up to 1950, adding another 6,000 cases. Seven hundred and sixteen cases were operated upon during 1949, an indicat...