There are few epidemiological and clinical studies about the presence of cat scratch disease (CSD) on the island of Crete. The objective of this study was to analyze a large number of patients with suspected CSD to define the frequency of Bartonella infections in Crete. From January 2005 to October 2008, we studied patients with suspected CSD from hospitals in Crete. Sera of the referred patien...

BACKGROUND Crete has been of great epidemiological interest ever since the publication of the Seven Countries Study. In 1988 a well-defined area of rural Crete was studied, with only scarce signs of coronary heart disease (CHD) despite the unfavorable risk profile. The same population was re-examined twelve years later aiming to describe the trends of CHD risk factors over time and discuss some...

Scheduling and load balancing of applications on distributed or shared memory machine architectures can be executed by optimizing algorithms in various levels of the architecture. We are viewing four di erent levels, namely, the application layer, the compiler layer, the run time layer, and the operating system layer. The approach to scheduling and load balancing ranges from very specialized an...

BACKGROUND AND AIM As first shown 40 years ago farmers from Crete had one of the healthiest lifestyles compared to other participants of the Seven Countries Study. Taking the above into account we investigated the prevalence of obesity and its indexes among farmers in Crete in 2005. METHODS AND RESULTS 502 farmers (18-79 years old) from the Valley of Messara in Crete were randomly selected an...

Costas M. Soukoulis 1, , Thomas Koschny, Jiangfeng Zhou, Maria Kafesaki, and Eleftherios N. Economou 1 Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA 2 Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser – FORTH, and Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Greece 3 Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser – FORTH, an...

Regulation 3.49. Due acknowledgement must always be made of the use of any material contained in, or derived from, this dissertation. 2 Acknowledgements I would like to thank a lot of people, whom help me in order to finish successfully this work. Firstly, I would like to thank my supervisor Dr. Andy Grant for his advice and the valuable guidance from the beginning of this project until the end...


 This article examines the epigraphic and archaeological evidence attesting staging of gladiatorial associated spectacles in Roman Crete. The indicates shows held capital province, Gortyn; colony Knossos, Hierapytna, possibly Chersonesos Kissamos. Some that took place Gortyn were extraordinary very costly, including beast fights, public executions combats with sharp weapons. cities presen...