The purpose of the article is to provide an idea role that Cyprus played in rivalry between Ottoman Empire at height its development sixteenth century, and Christian forces Mediterranean basin, particular, Republic Venice. Battle Lepanto one stage this rivalry, which culminated major changes strategic economic balance eastern Mediterranean. refers causes war for Lepanto, also points important t...

Manicures can result in nail damage via instrumentation, nail polish, nail polish removers, and artificial nails. We report nail weakness, brittleness, and thinning in five subjects after the application of a new manicure system called gel polish and removal with acetone and manual peeling. All subjects complained that the polish was very difficult to remove and that their nails became much thi...

BACKGROUND Ultraviolet (UV)-curing nail polishes based on acrylates or methacrylates are currently also available for non-professional use. The Swedish Medical Products Agency recently prohibited one brand of UV-curing polish, because several consumers reported undesirable effects after using it. OBJECTIVES To investigate whether consumers with undesirable effects after using the UV-curing na...

Since 2004, Polish food has become firmly embedded in the Irish foodscape as Polish shops opened up in cities and towns across Ireland. The aim of this article is to develop an understanding of the significance and meaning of these Polish shops within the Irish foodscape. In order to achieve this I will take a more-than-representational approach focusing on the practices, sensory reactions and ...

This paper examines Voice Onset Time (VOT) of Polish voiceless stops in natural speech of members of the Polish transnational community in the United Kingdom. The results presented here are part of a larger sociophonetic project and suggest that aspirated voiceless plosives in Polish, characterized by longer mean VOTs, are associated with a cosmopolitan transnational identity. In contrast, shor...

We consider the efficient simplification of regular expressions and suggest a quantitative comparison of heuristics for simplifying regular expressions. To this end, we propose a new normal form for regular expressions, which outperforms previous heuristics while still being computable in linear time. This allows us to determine an exact bound for the relation between the two prevalent measures...

BACKGROUND The aim of the current investigation was to evaluate the sedentary lifestyle of the Polish population and its link with prolonged sitting in light of individual and environmental factors. METHODS The sample consisted of 1505 Polish people between 18 and 64 years old. The Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) survey was conducted with the Polish version of International Physi...

This paper continues the work [6]. For a Polish group G the notions of G-continuous functions and whirly actions are further exploited to show that: (i) A G-action is whirly iff it admits no nontrivial spatial factors. (ii) Every action of a Polish Lévy group is whirly. (iii) There exists a Polish monothetic group which is not Lévy but admits a whirly action. (iv) In the Polish group Aut (X,X, ...

The aim of the paper is to present recent — as of July 2009 — developments in the construction of the National Corpus of Polish. The main developments are: 1) the design of text encoding XML schemata for various levels of linguistic information, 2) a new tool for manual annotation at various levels, 3) numerous improvements in search tools.