BACKGROUND Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA) is an important health problem all around the world especially in developing countries. In the Mediterranean countries another prevelant reason of anemia is Thalassemia. Certain strategies had been established as a government policy to reduce prevalence in North Cyprus, such as pre-marital screening of Thalassemia. The prevalence of thalassemia trait has ...

Patients with Familial Mediterranean Fever by LightCycler Real-Time PCR, Elena Rossou, Anastasia Kouvatsi, Charalampos Aslanidis, and Constantinos Deltas ( Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus; 2 Department of Molecular Genetics C’, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus; 3 School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thes...

A. Panayides1, M.S. Pattichis2, C. S. Pattichis1, C. P. Loizou3, M. Pantziaris4, and A. Pitsillides1 1Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 3Department of Computer Science, Intercollege, Limassol, Cyprus 4The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicos...

This article contributes to an understanding of how the world outside Global North is complicit in visibility politics that render spaces harm relevant or irrelevant reproduction racism. Extending insights from decolonial theorising, we examine colonial matrix produces ongoing legacies violence and racism through case Cyprus. As a peripheral location, Cyprus has been invisible this story yet ha...

Pierre Vieyres, Laboratory Prisme, University of Orleans, Bourges, France Juan Sandoval, Laboratory Prisme, University of Orleans, Bourges, France Laurence Josserand, Laboratory Prisme, University of Orleans, Bourges, France Cyril Novales, Laboratory Prisme, University of Orleans, Bourges, France Marco Chiccoli, Laboratory Prisme, University of Orleans, Bourges, France Nicolas Morette, Laborato...

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76 www.thelancet.com/infection Vol 9 February 2009 Nicole Léger and Jérôme Depaquit emphasise “the importance of preventing an extension of this anthroponotic species in Europe”, a point also stressed by Dujardin et al, since leishmaniasis is not placed under public health surveillance in Europe. We certainly agree with the authors that the indigenous transmission of Leishmania donovani to Cypr...

Today’s complex cloud applications are composed of multiple components executed in multi-cloud environments. For such applications, the possibility to manage and control their cost, quality, and resource elasticity is of paramount importance. However, given that the cost of different services offered by cloud providers can vary a lot with their quality/performance, elasticity controllers must c...

Following the failure of the 2004 UN-led referendum, the entry of a divided Cyprus into the European Union has introduced an unprecedented anomaly within the Union’s system. This paper argues that this anomaly entails a complex pattern of contradictions between EU law and the European Union’s political perspective on Cyprus that has weakened both EU law and the European Union’s conflict-resolut...