Background. Although there is a wealth of empirical studies examining the effects and the correlates of student gender in school, teacher gender has rarely been a research focus. Since Greece is one of the few Western ...

A tachistoscopic study investigated verb;il skills among bilingual speakers, 10 fluent and 15 nonfluent, on rhyming and semantic tasks in both their native (Greek) and second (English) languages. Fluent bilinguals scored ...

Neutron diffraction and time-resolved laser-spectroscopic experiments on the light-driven proton-pump bacterio-rhodopsin revealed the location of water molecules and their functional importance. About seven water molecules ...

A new method that introduces two holomorphic potential functions (the two-phase potentials) is applied to analyze the antiplane deformation of an elliptical inhomogeneity partially-bonded to an infinite matrix. Elastic ...

In 28 controls and 142 patients subjected to a variety of antiulcer procedures, the enterogastric reflux (EGR) was quantitated by 99mTc-HIDA scintigraphy and expressed as the EGR index on 229 different occasions. The EGR ...

The visual-motor organization of the child was investigated with the primary aim of defining the relationships between the cognitive changes taking place during problem solving (mnemonic reproduction of a complex figure) ...

Assessed hand preference in 7- to 9-yr.-old and 13- to 15-yr.-old pupils with Down syndrome (n = 41) was compared with control schoolchildren (n = 50) of the same ages. A significant increase in left-handedness and ...