Greek Academics want Universities to revoke Putin Honorary Degrees [The National Herald, March 2022]

Title:

Greek Academics want Universities to revoke Putin Honorary Degrees 

Published:

The National Herald, 13 March 2022

https://www.thenationalherald.com/greek-academics-want-universities-to-revoke-putin-honorary-degrees/

 

From the article:

Russian President Vladmir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is reason for Greek universities to strip him of honorary degrees he was awarded, a group of academics have said in a petition as they seek more signatures.

 

The Exceptional Case of Post-Bailout Portugal: A Comparative Outlook [Scholarly Article - South European Society and Politics, February 2021]

Title:

The Exceptional Case of Post-Bailout Portugal: A Comparative Outlook 

 

Authors:

Elisabetta De Giorgi 

Assistant Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences (DiSPeS) of the University of Trieste

&

José Santana-Pereira

Assistant Professor at ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute’s Department of Political Science and Public Policy, and Researcher at CIES-Lisbon University Institute

 

Published:

South European Society and Politics, 3 February 2021

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13608746.2021.1872152

 

Abstract:

The analysis explores government, party system and political attitudes as dimensions revealing Portugal’s exceptionalism during its post-bailout period (2015–19) vis-á-vis three other South European countries, Greece, Italy and Spain. It shows that government stability was greater in Portugal, no party system revolution took place and political trust recovered more quickly than in the other countries. In contrast, Portugal is not dissimilar from the other cases regarding the prevalence of populist attitudes, even though populist actors did not achieve electoral success before 2019. The article includes an update on political attitudes and government-opposition relations during the covid-19 pandemic and introduces the other articles in this collection.

GREECE - Students, teachers defy weeklong ban on protests [Ekathimerini, 28 January 2021]

Title:

Students, teachers defy weeklong ban on protests

 

Published:

Ekathimerini, 28 January 2021

https://www.ekathimerini.com/261750/gallery/ekathimerini/news/students-teachers-defy-weeklong-ban-on-protests

 

From the article:

Thousands of students and teachers in Greece held demonstrations in Athens and second-largest city Thessaloniki on Thursday against proposed education reforms, defying a weeklong public ban on protests imposed as part of measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. 

Excavations led by Istanbul University - 1,700-year-old statue of a female from the Hellenistic period in the ancient Greek city of Perge

Title:
1,700-year-old statue of a female from the Hellenistic period in the ancient Greek city of Perge

Published:
Greek City Times, 31 July 2020
https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/07/29/1700-year-old-statue-of-a-female-from-the-hellenistic-period-in-the-ancient-city-of-perge/

From the article:
* Archeologists uncovered a 1,700-year-old statue of a female from the Hellenistic period in the ancient city of Perge, now in Turkey’s Mediterranean Antalya province, on Monday.

* The excavations in Perge are headed by Sedef Cokay Kepçe, an archeology professor at Istanbul University, the ministry said, adding that the 3rd-century figure will be placed in the Antalya Museum once the work is complete.

medRxiv, 28 May 2020 - Modelling the SARS-CoV-2 first epidemic wave in Greece: social contact patterns and impact assessment of social distancing interventions

Title:
Modelling the SARS-CoV-2 first epidemic wave in Greece: social contact patterns and impact assessment of social distancing interventions

Authors:
Vana Sypsa, Sotirios Roussos, Dimitrios Paraskevis, Theodore Lytras, Sotirios Tsiodras & Angelos Hatzakis

Published:
medRxiv, 28 May 2020
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.27.20114017v1
[Keep in mind that this article is a prepring. In other words, it has not been peer reviewed.]

Abstract:
"In Greece, a nationwide lockdown to mitigate the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was imposed on March 23, 2020. As by the end of April the first epidemic wave is waning, it is important to assess the infection attack rate and quantify the impact of physical distancing. We implemented a survey to assess social mixing patterns before the epidemic and during lockdown. We estimated R0 from surveillance data and assessed its decline as a result of physical distancing based on social contacts data. We applied a Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered model to estimate the infection attack rate and the infection fatality ratio (IFR). As multiple social distancing measures were implemented simultaneously (schools/work/leisure), we assessed their overall impact as well as their relative contribution. R0 was estimated 2.38 (95%CI: 2.01,2.80). By April 26th, the infection attack rate was 0.12% (95% CrI: 0.06%,0.26%) and the IFR 1.12% (95% CrI: 0.55%,2.31%). During lockdown, daily contacts were reduced by 86.9% and the effective reproduction number reached 0.46 (95% CrI: 0.35,0.57). The reduction in R0 attributed to lockdown was 81.0% (95% CrI: 71.8%,86.0%) whereas the reduction attributed to each measure separately ranged between 10%-24%. We assessed scenarios with less disruptive social distancing measures as well as scenarios where measures are partially lifted after lockdown. This is the first impact assessment of the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 in a European country. It suggests that only multiple measures implemented simultaneously could reduce R0 below 1. Measuring social mixing patterns can be a tool for real-time monitoring of the epidemic potential."

Athens, Greece - 'DEATH MESSAGES' Ancient ‘cursed’ tablets from 2,500 years ago found at bottom of a ‘poisoned well’

Title:
'DEATH MESSAGES' Ancient ‘cursed’ tablets from 2,500 years ago found at bottom of a ‘poisoned well’

Author:
Sean Keach

Published:
The Sun, 4 February 2020

From the article:
"A total of 30 lead tablets were found at the Ancient Greek well, which dates back 2,500 years.  

The well is located in the area of Kerameikos, which served as Athens' main bruail ground in ancient times."

To read this article:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/10886761/ancient-greece-cursed-tablets-poisoned-well/