Another look at incorporation in Modern Greek: the case of quantifying adverbs

This paper investigates Adverb Incorporation in Modern Greek, focussing on the combination of verbs with a certain class of adverbs, namely the quantifiers 'poli', 'kala' and 'para- '. The syntactic and semantic properties of the compounds are discussed with the aim of providing a syntactic account of their derivation. It is argued that the syntactic processes are activated due to focus properties and structural deficiency of the adverbs in question

Advanced Risk Analysis for Biological Hazards in Greek PDO Food Products

The present research received fund from the Single State Action Aid for Research, Technological Development & Innovation «INVESTIGATE - CREATE – INNOVATE" project "Trust Trace" T1EDK-04028. Abstract Food safety is increasingly concern both consumers and public health authorities. Food safety management systems have been implemented in food industry in order to protect consumer’s health. Moreover, risk analysis strategies are usually included in food safety management plans. The aim of this study was to present and suggest an integrated system for risk analysis in food industry. Risk assessment combined with Next Generation Sequencing technology were performed. Greek food products which hold a PDO or PGI quality scheme (Avgotaracho Mesolonghiou and Vostizza currant) were selected as case studies because of their uniqueness and economic impact. From the results obtained, existing strategies were adequate in terms of Greek regulation for pathogens in foodstuff. However, NGS technique opens up possibilities to detect total microbiota of food products and minimize possible foodborne incidents. NGS analysis of Greek PDO products identified bacterial species (Bacillus cereus and Acitenobacter Venetianus) that can provide managers extra information about potential consumers’ exposure to biological hazards. In conclusion, by advanced risk analysis, existing limitations regarding foodborne pathogens could be addressed. Therefore, this integrated risk analysis plan should be implemented in food industry in terms of food safety. Keywords: biological hazards, food industry, NGS, risk assessment, risk factors DOI: 10.7176/FSQM/117-05 Publication date:July 31st 202

The Developing Human Connectome Project neonatal data release

The Developing Human Connectome Project has created a large open science resource which provides researchers with data for investigating typical and atypical brain development across the perinatal period. It has collected 1228 multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain datasets from 1173 fetal and/or neonatal participants, together with collateral demographic, clinical, family, neurocognitive and genomic data from 1173 participants, together with collateral demographic, clinical, family, neurocognitive and genomic data. All subjects were studied in utero and/or soon after birth on a single MRI scanner using specially developed scanning sequences which included novel motion-tolerant imaging methods. Imaging data are complemented by rich demographic, clinical, neurodevelopmental, and genomic information. The project is now releasing a large set of neonatal data; fetal data will be described and released separately. This release includes scans from 783 infants of whom: 583 were healthy infants born at term; as well as preterm infants; and infants at high risk of atypical neurocognitive development. Many infants were imaged more than once to provide longitudinal data, and the total number of datasets being released is 887. We now describe the dHCP image acquisition and processing protocols, summarize the available imaging and collateral data, and provide information on how the data can be accessed

Controlling complexity: the clinical relevance of mouse complex genetics.

Experimental animal models are essential to obtain basic knowledge of the underlying biological mechanisms in human diseases. Here, we review major contributions to biomedical research and discoveries that were obtained in the mouse model by using forward genetics approaches and that provided key insights into the biology of human diseases and paved the way for the development of novel therapeutic approaches

Microbiological Factors of Food Quality for Risk Assessments in Europe: A Systematic Review

Public authorities and consumers worldwide are increasingly concern about food quality and safety. Europe has established and suggested management systems in food industry that control hazards in food products. However, outbreak incidents by foodborne pathogens existing until now. European studies that present microbiological risk factors or studies which have conducted microbiological risk assessments about a variety of food products, which represent increased risk of harboring pathogens, are included. By using PRISMA guideline, we searched for the most recent publications from 2017-2021 referring microbiological risk assessments from online databases Scopus, PubMed and Science Direct. From 505 articles initially captured, data was extracted from 84 studies regarding microbiological risk factors in terms of food quality and safety, that are evidenced in European studies. Moreover, information about country of origin, food type, production phase and technology used for detection of pathogens, are also presented. Our results, indicate that quality systems should be further developed in order to control all possible routes of contamination in the supply chain. This work provides information to managers in food industry and scientists for further research regarding microbiological risk assessments. Keywords: microbiological risk assessment, risk factors, food quality, food safety, foodborne pathogens DOI: 10.7176/FSQM/113-03 Publication date: February 28th 2022

The acquisition of null operator structures by Greek learners of English

This paper reports on the results of an experimental study into the acquisition of null operator structures in Greek Ll/English L2. The study tested the acceptability of object gaps and (ungrammatical) pronouns A' bound by a null operator in the complement clause of easy-to-please and degree phrases as well as in infinitival relatives. The results show optionality even at advanced stages in the acceptability of ungrammatical and grammatical sentences. This apparent optionality is argued to stem from the difference between the native and the target language in the specification of uninterpretable features, which are least accessible to resetting and condition interlanguage grammars

Aspectual adverbs of quantification in Modern Greek

'Adverbs of frequency' is a term used to refer to a rather heterogeneous group of adverbials, whose role is to quantify the event denoted by the verb predicate. In Modern Greek, frequency adverbials are licensed in certain aspectual environ­ments. Despite this similarity, however, they also display differences with re­spect to their semantic properties. In this study I set out to explore the feature make-up of aspectual quantifiers and of the functional category of Aspect, re­sponsible for licensing them. The semantic behaviour of three specific adverbs will be investigated through the application of a battery of tests and a syntactic account of their distribution will be given in terms of Feature Checking Theory