We studied a virtual teacher community that had some crucial attributes that could lead to disruption of outdated learning and professional development norms. An analysis of factors that prevented the emergence of a learning community leads us to point to the crucial role of some moderator practices: open negotiation of hidden tensions, the sensitive use of learning opportunities to build perso...

Menstruation comprises an important procedure in women’s life. Crosscultural studies are taking place, using instruments like Menstrual Attitude Questionnaire (MAQ), which was constructed for American people and has been validated for different populations, in order to investigate menstrual aspects among women. The aim of this study is to investigate the psychometric properties of the Greek ver...

In a syllable monitoring experiment, Greek and English speakers (N = 20 per language) monitored for [ma] embedded in Greek real and nonce words; [ma] was word-initial, word-medial or word-final, and stressed, unstressed or rhythmically stressed. Both groups spotted stressed [ma] faster than unstressed [ma]; unstressed [ma] was spotted faster by Greek than English participants. Rhythmically stre...

This paper presents the first online biofeedback speech training tool for Greek designed to offer training on the production and perception of segmental and suprasegmental aspects of Greek. It is addressed to learners of Greek as an L2 and to clinical populations with articulation and phonation problems. The tool comprises four components: (i) the Phonetic Library, i.e., the acoustic, articulat...

This paper deals with the software infrastructure designed and developed to support the construction and validation of the Greek wordnet, which is currently being developed in the framework of the BalkaNet project. We describe the language resources and the tools which aim at the extraction and validation of linguistic information for wordnet development and validation. In particular, we focus ...

Since antiquity, humankind has been concerned with disease and curing disease and with health and the conditions of health. Asclepius, the Greek hero who later became the Greek god of medicine and healing, used drugs to treat many diseases and taught others, including his children, about the healing arts. Two of Asclepius’s daughters, Panacea and Hygeia, represent the two health models still in...

The importance and unique biological traits, as well as the growing financial value, of milk from small Greek ruminants is continuously attracting interest from both the scientific community and industry. In this regard the construction of a reference dataset of the milk of the Greek sheep breeds is of great interest. In order to obtain such a dataset we employed cutting-edge proteomics methodo...

The Kashmiri population is an ethno-linguistic group that resides in the Kashmir Valley in northern India. A longstanding hypothesis is that this population derives ancestry from Jewish and/or Greek sources. There is historical and archaeological evidence of ancient Greek presence in India and Kashmir. Further, some historical accounts suggest ancient Hebrew ancestry as well. To date, it has no...

BACKGROUND Receptive vocabulary is an important measure for language evaluations. Therefore, norm-referenced receptive vocabulary tests are widely used in several languages. However, a receptive vocabulary test has not yet been normed for Modern Greek. AIMS To adapt an American English vocabulary test, the Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test-II (ROWPVT-II), for Modern Greek for use wit...

Introduction The Greek Language and Alphabet as Ideological Signs The Language Issue The Greek Alphabet Description of the Study Analysis First Trend: A Retrospective View Second Trend: A Prospective View Third Trend: A Resistive View Conclusions Footnotes References About the Authors Editors' Note: If you have difficulty viewing the fonts in this article, you can first try changing the default...