This paper extends previous studies that investigated the accessibility of different web sites of specific content, to an analysis of the whole web of a specific country (Cyprus). To our knowledge no previous study has analyzed such a big number of web sites for accessibility in a single study. More specifically this paper evaluates the compliance of 30,000 Cyprus related websites spidered by A...

Based on her study of distribution patterns, Vronwy Hankey suggested that Cyprus or Cypriots played some role in the trade of Mycenaean pottery eastwards to the Levant. She also noted that some of the Mycenaean pottery which reached both Cyprus and the Near East can-ied marks incised on handles or painted on bases. This paper examines the possible relationships between the marks, Mycenaean pott...

Acquisition of object clitics is one of the more investigated aspects of the largely understudied variety of Modern Greek spoken in the Republic of Cyprus. Previous studies on the acquisition of clitics in Cypriot Greek usually acknowledge that the linguistic reality in Cyprus involves a state of diglossia, where the sociolinguistically ‘high’ Standard Modern Greek co-exists with the ‘low’ Cypr...

BACKGROUND Several countries, including Cyprus, have passed smoke-free legislations in recent years. The goal of this study was to assess the indoor levels of particulate matter in hospitality venues in Cyprus before and after the implementation of the law on 1/1/2010, evaluate the role of enforcement, and examine the legislation's effect on revenue and employment. METHODS Several hospitality...

Diabetes and diabetes-induced complications is a rising health concern in Northern Cyprus. Of the adult population in Northern Cyprus, 12.2% has diabetes and 90% of all individuals suffering from cardiovascular disease are people with diabetes. The aim of this study was to evaluate nutritional habits of people with diabetes in Northern Cyprus in order to make the necessary recommendations to im...

A faunistic study of Phlebotominae (Diptera: Psychodidae) sand flies was carried out in northern Cyprus. A total of 12,517 sand flies (3,285 males and 9,232 females) was collected from 20 different localities in July and September 2004. Nine species belonging to genus Phlebotomus and 3 species of genus Sergentomyia were identified. Of these, the presence of the species Phlebotomus neglectus Ton...

This paper describes the health care system in Cyprus and the funding arrangements for oral health care. Some epidemiological data and costs are also presented. Although almost 83% of the population is entitled to free of charge oral health care within the public sector, only 10% make use of it. Most patients prefer to use the private sector, where they pay out of pocket on a fee-for-service ba...

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...

people in online support communities Panote Siriaraya, Caleb Tang, Chee Siang Ang, Ulrike Pfeil and Panayiotis Zaphiris* School of Engineering and Digital Arts, Kent University, Canterbury, UK; Centre for HCI Design, City University London, London, UK; Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany; Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus Uni...