The goal of the current research was to study the role of anthocyanin accumulation, O(2)-related photochemical processes and non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) in the response of desert and Mediterranean plants to drought and excessive light. Plants of Hordeum spontaneum were collected from Mediterranean and desert environments and were subjected to terminal drought for 25 days and then measured...

Introduction Familial Mediterranean Fever(FMF) is an autoinflammatory disease particularly frequent around the Mediterranean basin. Behçet disease (BD) is a autoinflammatory disease which distribution is mainly around the Mediterranean Sea, Middle East and Far East.Epilepsy is a chronic disorder of the brain that affects people in every country of the world.It is characterized by recurrent seiz...

The desiccation of the Mediterranean Sea during the Messinian Salinity Crisis 6.0-5.3 million years ago (Ma), caused a major extinction of the marine ichthyofauna of the Mediterranean. This was followed by an abrupt replenishment of the Mediterranean from the Atlantic after the opening of the Strait of Gibraltar. In this study, we combined demographic and phylogeographic approaches using mitoch...

This paper describes the dietary consumption of vegetables and legumes in Greece during the period 1950 to 2005. All dimensions of alimentary consumption patterns of vegetables and legumes are examined here with a specific focus on: a) their natural characteristics; b) technical features of the production process (primary, secondary and tertiary transformation processes); and c) socio-economic ...

A periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO) with nanorice morphology was successfully synthesized by a template assisted sol-gel method using a chain-type precursor. The PMO is composed of D and T sites in the ratio 1:2. The obtained mesoporous nanorice has a surface area of 753 m(2) g(-1), one-dimensional channels, and a narrow pore size distribution centered at 4.3 nm. The nanorice particles hav...

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In this paper we analyze the buffer occupancy in a statistical multiplexer in ATM networks for a special t y p e of traffic, namely, periodic interchangeable (PI) traffic. Certain generalized Ballot theorem is applied to analyze the problem. Explicit formulas for the expected buffer occupancy are derived.

Methods Demographic data of FMF patients, followed in the national FMF center at Sheba medical center (n=8352) and Hadassah Medical Center (n=1083) were obtained from FMF patient hospital registries. The prevalence of cancer in the general population, and in the study registries was attained from the cancer registry of Israel and analyzed according to age, origin, and cancer type. The Standardi...

plans at national, regional and global levels in different disciplines.1 Moving from “bilateral relations” toward “multilateral networks” is a new paradigm of relationship among WHOCCs, introduced by the Executive Board of WHO in January 2000. This idea2 fosters the WHOCCs to strengthen their national and international capacity for training, research and collaboration for health development. Am...

The main aspects of the building process of the Euro-Mediterranean security system are assessed in this article with the tools of analysis of the regional security systems. The Mediterranean security project is also compared with other forms and cases of regional security system. The presence of other multilateral initiatives on Mediterranean security is pointed out as a strategic tool for the ...