This Essay builds on the available literature to date and offers a more probing examination of the international arbitrator and nationality. The opening section reiterates how arbitrator nationality relates to the traditional requirements of arbitrator impartiality, independence, and neutrality (with which the “arbitrator” is most synonymous); how arbitral rules seek diversity of nationality be...

BACKGROUND We examined epidemiological aspects of dynamic changes in incidence of ovarian cancer in women of Kazakh and Russian nationalities in Kazakhstan. METHODS The material of investigation was primary data on registered patients with malignant ovarian tumors in the whole country. The study was conducted during the period of 1999-2009. Evaluation of changes in ovarian cancer incidence in...

OBJECTIVE To record the prevalence of overweight and obesity in urban primary-school children in relation to several socio-economic and demographic factors. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING/SUBJECTS A representative sample of 729 schoolchildren (379 male and 350 female), aged 9-13 years, stratified by parental educational level, was examined in the urban region of Athens. Weight and height w...

Breast cancer is the main cause of death from malignant diseases in Latvian women. However, there have been no data concerning hereditary breast cancer from this region so far. Mutation screening of the breast cancer susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in high-risk Hungarian and Russian breast/ovarian cancer families indicated that founder effects of both genes in Central and Eastern Europe ar...

BACKGROUND Kicking performance is the most studied technical action in soccer and lower limbs kinematics is closely related to success in kicking, mainly because they are essential in imparting high velocity to the ball. Previous studies demonstrated that soccer leagues in different countries exhibit different physical demands and technical requirements during the matches. However, evidencewhet...

Electronic Library Systems (ELS) has become an inevitable part of educational institutions. Though millions of dollars are spent building and developing these systems, research findings indicates that millions of potential users may still be ignoring them. Consequently, different Technology Acceptance Models have been applied towards understanding the effect of various factors on end users acce...

The expression of nonverbal cues may differ systematically across cultures. Common cues used in distinct ways cross-culturally may be termed nonverbal accents. The data in this study indicate that nonverbal accents can help perceivers to distinguish the nationality of expressers. In Study 1, American participants could determine the nationality of Australian and American adults with above-chanc...

Using 4 samples of adolescents from 3 nations (Australia, Sweden, and the United States), the authors explored whether the gendered nature of the family socialization environment affected young people's level of group-based social egalitarianism. It was hypothesized that the greater the father's influence in the family, the greater the children's level of group-based social anti-egalitarianism....