Despite the known relevance of genomic structural variants to pathogen behavior, cancer, development, and evolution, certain repeat based structural variants may evade detection by existing high-throughput techniques. Here, we present ruler arrays, a technique to detect genomic structural variants including insertions and deletions (indels), duplications, and translocations. A ruler array explo...

Ioannis Zabetakis, PhD1, Smaragdi Antonopoulou, PhD2, and Constantinos A. Demopoulos, PhD3, 1Laboratory of Food Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 2Laboratory of Biology, Biochemistry and Physiology, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece, 3Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Nationa...

Why do we call it game research and not play research? For the last decade of videogame studies, most of the attention has been paid to games as formal entities. At first, games seem easier to understand: they generally have clear rules and goals. They would be perfect machineries with formal mechanics if it was not for one factor: humans and their stubborn love for misbehaving. This talk provi...

Noble metal nanoparticles have distinct optical properties arising from localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). It is wellestablished that a LSPR spectrum depends strongly on the size and shape of the nanoparticles as well as on the distance between the nanoparticles. The precise measurement of the interparticle distance-dependent LSPR spectrum has been the fundamental principle of many ana...

islamic fiqh especially imami fiqh, contains subjects that their application need a powerful government and a ruler that must be aware of divine teachings. accordingly, it should be noted that there is a strong connection between the fiqh of islam and the issue of government. here, we study some expressions of this connection, including: a) review of fiqhi texts to make the connection of fiqh a...

Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Splice Variants, Eleni Zygalaki, Aliki Stathopoulou, Christos Kroupis, Loukas Kaklamanis, Zenon Kyriakides, Dimitrios Kremastinos, and Evi S. Lianidou ( Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Athens, Athens, Greece; 2 Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens Greece; 3 Red Cross Hospital, Athens, Greece; * address correspondenc...