Cyprus, a European Union member state, is a small island in the Mediterranean with a population approaching 900,000 people. Cancer is the second leading cause of death; more therapeutic options for any patient with the disease are available in a central oncology centre in the capital of the island (Nicosia) and fewer therapeutic options (e.g. chemotherapy and hormone therapy only) in a few othe...

BACKGROUND Asthma is one of the main non-infectious diseases of the respiratory system with substantial economic burden worldwide. The objective of this study was to estimate the economic burden of adult asthma in Cyprus during 2015. METHODS A retrospective probabilistic prevalence-based cost of illness model was developed to calculate the economic burden of asthma including direct and indire...

Background Q fever is caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium, Coxiella burnetii [1,2]. This disease is regarded as endemic worldwide, with the exception of New Zealand [3-6]. Cattle, sheep and goats are considered to be the primary source of transmission for humans [7,8]. Humans are infected mainly by inhalation of contaminated aerosols or by the ingestion of infected milk and/or fresh ...

Deaf children have been integrated into secondary schools in Cyprus since 1990. This article reports the results of a major study carried out in Cyprus, the aim of which was to evaluate for the first time the support services available for deaf children receiving their education in secondary general schools. For the purposes of our study, four types of questionnaires were designed and administe...

The incidence of fatality over the period 2010-2014 from automobile accidents in North Cyprus is 2.75 times greater than the average for the EU. With the prospect of North Cyprus entering the EU, many investments will need to be undertaken to improve road safety in order to reach EU benchmarks. The objective of this study is to provide local estimates of the value of a statistical life and inju...

We survey an algebraic approach to proving impossibility results in distributed computing. The approach is emerging around monotone groups, a new class of algebraic groups we define here as a tight suit to monotone Read&Modify&Write (or RMW) operations in a distributed system. The yields of this approach have been the first impossibility results for implementations of monotone RMW operations th...

A case of tick borne relapsing fever contracted in Cyprus and imported into England is reported. This is the first report of the diagnosis being established by finding the organism in the bone marrow.

This paper aims to represent an assemblage of choppers and chopping tools collected from the Morphou Bay Prehistoric Survey in Cyprus, together with their natural environment. Two new possible Early Paleolithic sites, Orga-Kourvelia Vasilia-Mosphilia, which are very close, have been identified. In total, 13 pebble open door possibility that first human activity Cyprus could be dated earlier tha...

This paper examines the intellectual and sociological contribution of Sitas as a diasporic public who bridges navigates between continents. Sitas's creative, scientific, critical engagement in postcolonial thinking connects Cyprus to Africa, drawing from both his country origin, Cyprus, South where he excelled dramatist, poet, sociologist intellectual. ‘in-betweenness’ seems be basis for vantag...