Knowledge is seen as central to process, product innovation and improvement, to executive decision making and to organisational adaptation and renewal. The problems associated with unreliable and difficult access to the ...

Recent years have seen the development of theoretical models of the structure of interest rate models. The modeling and forecasting of interest rates is an especially prime and challenging. It is one of the most prime ...

Purpose – The goal of this paper is to assess the reliability and validity of a new instrument/ scale named Students Attitudes toward Entrepreneurship Courses (SATEC) consists of 45 items grouped into eight components that ...

The aim of the paper is to stimulate the discussion around the recent increase in NPLs across several industrial countries by proposing a remedy framework for the resolution of non-performing loans (NPLs). The framework ...

Remote pest population monitoring is of major importance within the context of precision agriculture. Information acquired from the field has been proved essential for proper decision making and pest management against ...

This paper presents a design proposal for the fortress and the surrounding area of the city of Thessaloniki and will be a part of a general planning and management schedule based on environmental aspects. In this way, the ...

Recent governmental interventions in Public Administration, (such as annulment of Ministry of Public Order and alteration to Sub Ministry of Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization, annulment of General ...

Long-term predictions are indispensable for planning and strategy. Yet little is known about their value, their limitations or the most appropriate way of making and using them. This paper examines these issues and proposes ...

The proposed EU LGBTI strategy will need to revolve around the main axes on which the Commission’s List of Actions16 was based. The latter document did not lack breadth of coverage: it was comprehensive, with the proposed ...

This project aims to understand the need for building up capital requirements for banks. In particular, the role of the institutional framework for the operation of banks is to ensure all the conditions required for the ...

In September 1922, after more than three years of war in Asia Minor, the Greek army was defeated by the Nationalist Turkish powers led by Mustafa Kemal. The atrocities from the part of the Turkish armed forces against the ...

E-commerce is the buying and selling of a product or service over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer network. The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard ...

The crucial questions which center monetary analysis are : What determines the money supply? Can the Central Bank act to influence that supply? If yes, how? These questions have generated a good deal of controversy in the ...

The increasing world supply of immigrant investor programs (Golden visa and Cash-for-citizenship programs), exchanging residency rights or citizenship for a substantial investment into the economies of the granting countries ...

The key variables in international trade policy are imports and exports elasticities with respect to income and prices. Thus their estimation has drawn~particular attention in the post war period. Most of the studies ...

In this work, we show that the structural features of the Twitter online social network can divulge valuable information about the political affinity of the participating nodes. More precisely, we show that Twitter followers ...

This work is a study of the problem of reverse discrimination in EC law. In particular, the question that this book aims to answer is whether reverse discrimination emerging in the context of the Community’s internal ...

Depression is regarded as one of the most common mental disorders, but available data point out that only less than one third of adults with depression obtain appropriate professional treatment. This is attributed (amongst ...

This article presents the findings from a systematic review of the literature on the factors that contribute to the treatment efficacy of substance use disorders. The introduction includes a clarifications of the terms ...

The concept of a Smart City has been theorized and envisioned in the 1990s, but it was in the last decade where the concept became a reality. The European Union with its Horizon 2020 innovation and research program made ...