The rapid progress of many countries toward gender equality in education has been welldocumented. Of 106 countries, 83 achieved the Millennium Development target of parity in primary and secondary education by 2005; only 19 countries, most in sub-Saharan Africa, are off-track to meet the target of gender equality in primary and secondary school enrolment by 2015. While the progress on meeting t...

Asymptomatic Toxoplasma infection of both man and animals is common in the Americas. This is shown by the high prevalence of Toxoplasma antibody, commonly found in 50-60% of human subjects 20-30 years old, in the absence of apparent clinical disease (I). Similarly, serologic surveys have found antibody in normal animals (2). Clinical illness also occurs, however, such as the illness that led to...

Estimating the proportions of different ancestries in admixed populations is very important in population genetics studies, and it is particularly important for detecting population substructure effects in case-control association studies. In this work, a set of 48 ancestry-informative insertion-deletion polymorphisms (INDELs) were selected with the goal of efficiently measuring the proportions...

BACKGROUND Uruguay exhibits one of the highest rates of breast cancer in Latin America, similar to those of developed nations, the reasons for which are not completely understood. In this study we investigated the effect that ancestral background has on breast cancer susceptibility among Uruguayan women. METHODS We carried out a case-control study of 328 (164 cases, 164 controls) women enroll...

The Position of Anatolian 6.1 History of the Question 6.1.1 Discovery and Recognition Hrozný (1917) showed that the chief administrative language of the Hittite Empire, attested in cuneiform documents from Hattusha in central Turkey dating from the 16th-13th centuries BCE, was Indo-European. Through the work of a number of scholars it was known by the 1930s that Hittite was not alone in ancient...

A retrospective analysis of European integration shows how political factors and economic opportunities /constraints have interacted in the progressive design of an unprecedented form of federalism. Political reconciliation of former enemies (France and Germany), modesty of the first steps of economic integration (a market for steel and coal, then of manufactured goods, prolonged by an extensio...

stuart smyth and Peter Phillips, both from the University of saskatchewan, review the consequences of an increasingly divergent regulation structure in the biotechnology sector. Regulatory decisions for genetically modified (gM) crops in north america and numerous countries in Latin and south america, australia, and asia are, in the views of the authors, predictable and efficient. in stark cont...

A you can see from our new cover page, Europa Medicophysica (EMP) is gradually changing. When it was founded in 1964, the journal received its Latin name, while the subtitle in French, English, and Italian was “The European Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation” (Figure 1) to define it as the Official Journal of the European Federation of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (EFPMR).1...

Abstract This article surveys the diasporic life and legacy of Ethiopian ecclesiastic Täsfa ?eyon. After examining his origins in Christian kingdom Ethiopia circumstances arrival mid-sixteenth-century Rome, outlines contributions to evolving Latin Catholic understanding Ethiopia. ?eyon was a librarian, copyist, teacher, translator, author, community leader, as well prominent adviser European hu...

OBJECTIVES It has been estimated that over 50% of the premature deaths occurring in Western countries can be attributed to causes rooted in lifestyle. In turn, leading a healthy lifestyle has also been associated with a wide range of psychosocial factors. Today, it is known that these differ among men and women. The present article aimed to identify, from a gender-based perspective, the psychos...