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 ...

L'idéologie en général, et l'idéologie juridique en particulier sont fondées, on le sait, sur deux vieux bastions du libéralisme: la liberté et l'égalité. L'ordre juridique, d'autre part, parait être basé sur l'obligation ...

The current study aimed to identify potential psychosocial risk and protective factors contributing to eating disorders in adolescents, and observe any differences between genders and Body Mass Index (BMI) categories. A ...

This study investigates the concept of risk management in the small and medium enterprise sector. The literature review conducted reveals the definition of the concept of risk management, its application in various areas ...

A number of studies have explored the role of associative/event-based (thematic) and categorical (taxonomic) relations in the organization of object representations. Recent evidence suggests that thematic information may ...

In this paper the issue of the professional identity of Greek teachers in Secondary Education was explored. The factors which affect the work of teachers, the way teachers view their work and themselves as professionals ...

Various psychological factors have been found to be associated with the onset of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Despite this, there remains a lack of acceptance for a biopsychosocial model of intervention, specifically ...

Employee commitment and motivation is one of the cornerstones of human resource management since it is closely linked to human behavior and performance in the organization. It identifies the most critical attitudes of ...

Purpose: The leaders’ communication skills, as they emerge in negotiations, contribute decisively to sustainability of business. This study identifies a set of characteristics, abilities, and skills that leaders possess ...

Over the recent decades the increasing number of migration flows has exerted and continues to exert great pressure on the health system and on the welfare structures of Greece. The bases for the development of a rudimentary ...

In cross-cultural interview, difficulties often arise, and derive from the fact that, social workers and interviewees come from much different worlds, and some major sub-cultural differences- such as socio-economic group, ...

The property market in Cyprus is of enormous importance to the economy as it plays an important role in the wealth of households and portfolio investors alike (Boydell and Clayton, 1993). During the last decade in Cyprus, ...