M. Mattheakis, T. Oikonomou, M. I. Molina, G. P. Tsironis Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology, Department of Physics, University of Crete, PO Box 2208, 71003 Heraklion, Greece School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Department of Physics, Nazarbayev University, 53 Kabanbay Batyr Ave., Astana 010000, Kazakhstan Departamento de F́...

Saúl Ares, 2 N. K. Voulgarakis, K. Ø. Rasmussen, and A. R. Bishop Theoretical Division and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos (GISC) and Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avenida de la Universidad 30, 28911 Leganés, Madrid, Spain Department of Physics, Universit...

BACKGROUND The Cancer Registry of Crete is a regional population database that collects cancer morbidity/mortality data along with several risk factors. The current study assessed the geographical variation of lung cancer among ever and never smokers in Crete during the last 20 years. METHOD Lung cancer patient records (1992-2013) including information on medical history and smoking habits we...

V. Christophides Integrating XML Data Sources using RDF/S Schemas: The ICS-FORTH Semantic Web Integration Middleware (SWIM) V. Christophides I. Koffina G. Serfiotis Computer Science Department, University of Crete and Institute for Computer Science FORTH Vassilika Vouton, P.O.Box 1385 GR 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece in collaboration with A. Deutsch Department of Computer Science & Engineerin...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis C is a serious problem on the Greek island of Crete, where a high prevalence of antibodies against hepatitis C (anti-HCV) has recently been reported. This article reports the findings of a study carried out in Crete, which investigated the prevalence of serum autoantibodies in patients with chronic hepatitis C. PATIENTS AND METHODS One hundred and forty two patients (59 m...

Knowledge on biodiversity patterns of demersal megafaunal species in the Mediterranean and particularly in its eastern basin is still very scarce. In the present study, fine-scale diversity patterns in relation to depth were analyzed for three major megafaunal groups (fish, cephalopods and crustaceans) in three subareas of the eastern Mediterranean (Crete, Cyclades and Dodecanese islands). The ...

This study examines the quality of life in Crete, Nebraska, with the specific purpose of identifying the factors that play the largest role in determining residential satisfaction. The survey asks a number of questions pertaining to different aspects of living in Crete. The survey is adapted from a survey previously used for a similar study in Schuyler, Nebraska. Focus groups are used to identi...

Alexey A. Basharin, Maria Kafesaki, Eleftherios N. Economou, Costas M. Soukoulis, Vassili A. Fedotov, Vassili Savinov, and Nikolay I. Zheludev Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), P.O. Box 1385, 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece National Research University “Moscow Power Engineering Institute,” 112250 Moscow, Russia Department o...

The island of Crete with its mountain ranges is an excellent example of a major isolated topographic feature, which significantly modifies the regional airflow as well as the pressure and temperature fields. During summer, when northerly winds are blowing over the Aegean Sea (a large number of which are characterized as Etesians), the highly complex topography of Crete plays an important role i...

Requirements analysis usually results into a set of different specifications for the same system, which must be integrated. Integration involves elimination of discrepancies completion and validation and proceeds in stages of analysis and synthesis. Realizing that discrepancies between specifications may be due to differences in representation models and/or modeling perspectives and practices, ...