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  2. List of Mediterranean countries - Wikipedia

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    The Mediterranean countries are those that surround the Mediterranean Sea or located within the Mediterranean Basin. [1] Twenty sovereign countries in Southern Europe , Western Asia and North Africa regions border the sea itself, two island nations completely located in it ( Malta and Cyprus ), in addition to two British Overseas Territories ...

  3. Mediterraneanism - Wikipedia

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    This "defensive" form of Mediterraneanism arose mostly as a response to the then-popular theory of Nordicism, a racial theory popular at the time among Northwestern European and Germanic racial theorists, as well as racial theorists of Northwestern European descent in countries such as the United States, that viewed non-Nordic people, including ...

  4. Race and health - Wikipedia

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    Thus, people of African and Mediterranean descent are found to be more susceptible to sickle-cell disease while cystic fibrosis and hemochromatosis are more common among European populations. [57] Some physicians claim that race can be used as a proxy for the risk that the patient may be exposed to in relation to these diseases.

  5. Mediterranean race - Wikipedia

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    The Mediterranean race (also Mediterranid race) is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on the now-disproven theory of biological race. [1] [2] [3] According to writers of the late 19th to mid-20th centuries it was a sub-race of the Caucasian race. [4]

  6. Southern Europe - Wikipedia

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    The geographical and ethno-cultural borders of southern Europe are the Pyrenees, the Alps, and the Balkan Mountains to the north and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Southern Europe is the southern region of Europe. [1] It is also known as Mediterranean Europe, as its geography is marked by the Mediterranean Sea.

  7. Fixation index - Wikipedia

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    where is the probability of identity by descent of two individuals given that the two individuals are in the same subpopulation, and ¯ is the probability that two individuals from the total population are identical by descent. Using this definition, F ST can be interpreted as measuring how much closer two individuals from the same ...

  8. Eastern Mediterranean - Wikipedia

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    Nicolas Sanson, Map of Eastern Mediterranean, 1651. The eastern Mediterranean region is commonly interpreted in two ways: The Levant, including its historically tied neighboring countries, Balkans and islands of Greece. The region of Syria with the island of Cyprus (also known as the Levant), Egypt, Greek Dodecanese and Anatolian Turkey. [11]

  9. Decompression practice - Wikipedia

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    Descent faster than the specified maximum will expose the diver to greater ingassing rate earlier in the dive, and the bottom time must be reduced accordingly. In the case of real-time monitoring by dive computer, descent rate is not specified, as the consequences are automatically accounted for by the programmed algorithm.