There is a fundamental question how homeopathy works. Part of the problem with thus question is that the context within which it is asked needs to be specified. We live in a world dominated by the Western Scientific and Philosophical Tradition, which conditions our approach to Medical Science as well as all other sciences. But this is also a tradition in which there are strong currents of heres...

This paper tests the validity of Verdoorn’s law in Greek manufacturing. Through the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) methodology, estimates of the Verdoorn law in aggregated and disaggregated manufacturing Greek data are obtained in order to explain disparities in income and growth among Greek manufacturing sectors. The results provided evidence that increasing returns to scale with certain,...

The historiography of the history of medicine is still in its infancy, and these essays can thus all be commended for the new information they bring to bear on the lives if their subjects. They form a varied collection. Laennec, Sudhoff and Sigerist are familiar names to modem medical historians; Sprengel, de Renzi, Daremberg, and Haeser wrote major works, once standard and not entirely superse...

Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) are enzymes that deadenylate nucleic acids and are broadly distributed in the plant kingdom. Many plants that contain RIPs are listed in the pharmacopoeias of folk medicine all over the world, mostly because of their toxicity. This review analyses the position occupied in traditional medicine by plants from which RIPs have been isolated. The overview starts...

Background: The Paraphilia now around the world occupy an important position in medicine. Term “paraphilia” (from Greek “para,” meaning “beside, aside,” and “philia,” “love”) is currently used psychiatry to define “anomalous” sexual interests. Objectives: Studying prevalence of paraphilic behaviors interests a sample 200 males females population aged from (18 – 45). Methods: Communication was d...

Guidelines for the care and cure of illnesses have been an integral component of medicine from its origins. Extant records of ancient medicine document precise recommendations of then available therapeutic options, which lend themselves to analysis as algorithms of diagnosis and treatment [1]. The 5000-year-old Babylonian Code of Hammurabi clearly states the compensation for a cure and the puni...

The present study investigates morphological agreement in L2 Greek verbal and nominal domains by L1 Russian, Bulgarian, and Turkish speakers, with various features such as person, number, gender, and case involved, following Tsimpli et al. 2005. Russian, Bulgarian, and Greek are similar in terms of phi-feature agreement, but different from Turkish. A further distinction will be made for the L2 ...

The purpose of this study was to translate in Greek the IBQ-G and investigate the validity and reliability of the Greek version. The Greek translation of IBQ-G has been given in a sample of employees in two public organizations at two different time points. A questionnaire which has been created for the purpose of this study also has been administered to assess similar influences behaviors. The...