Yiannis Laouris

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Yiannis Lauris (born 1958) is a neurophysiologist and social entrepreneur. Trained in Germany and the United States, he is interested in and is best known for his contributions to peace and development.

Youth and training
Yiannis Laouris was born in 1958 in Paphos, Cyprus. Son of Professor Christodoulos Lauris, he attended schools in several districts of Cyprus, including the Pancyprian Gymnasium and Acropolis Gymnasium. After the 1974 coup in Cyprus, he worked as a cryptologist for the Cyprus National Guard.

Publications
Laouris, Y., Kalli-Laouri, J., & Schwartze, P. (1990). The postnatal development of the air rightsing reflex of albino rats. Quantitative analysis of normal development and the effect of preventing neck-torso and torso-pelvis rotations. Behav. Brain Res., 37, 37-44.
Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28, 652-634.
Bevan, L., Laouris, Y., Reinking, R. M., & Stuart, D. G. (1991). The effect of the stimulation pattern on the fatigue of single motor units in adult cats. J. Physiol. (London) 449, 85-108.
Enoka, R. M., Trayanova, N., Laouris, Y., Bevan, L., Reinking, R. M. and Stuart, D. G. (1992). Fatigue-related changes in motor unit action potentials of adult cats. Muscle & Nerve, 15: 138–150.
Spielmann, J.M., Laouris, Y., Nordstrom, M.A., Robinson, G.A., Reinking, R.M. and Stuart, D.G. (1993). Adaptation of cat motor neurons to sustained and intermittent extracellular activation. J Physiol 464, (1) 75-120.
Nordstrom, M.A., Gorman, R.B., Laouris, Y., Spielmann, J. M. and Stuart, D.G. (2007). Does motor neuron adaptation contribute to muscle fatigue?. Muscle Nerve, 35: 135–158.
Laouris, Y., Laouri, R. and Christakis, A. (2008). Communication praxis for ethical accountability: the ethics of the Tree of Action: dialogue and breaking down the wall in Cyprus. System. Res., 25: 331–348.
Loizou, A. & Laouris, Y. (2011). Developing Prognosis Tools to Identify Learning Difficulties in Children Using Machine Learning Technologies. Cognitive Computation, Vol 3(3), 490-500.
Roe, P, Gill J., Allen, B., Boyle, B., Heck, H, Shitta, G., Lauris, Y.(2011). Towards a technology transfer roadmap from the Coordination Action in R&D in Accessible and Assistive ICT (CARDIAC). Technology and Disability. Vol 23(3), 171-181.

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