Emerging risk-management techniques use Value at Risk (VAR) to assess the market risk of a portfolio. We propose a relative simple method to estimate VAR conditionallyto reflect new information about the volatility of ...

Silos are industrial facilities used for storing a huge range of different materials. They should be designed to resist several loading conditions, and their seismic behaviour, which strongly depends on the geometrical and ...

A thorough and practical look at how to exploit the opportunities presented by the integration of Europe into a single market. Details how the the single market environment will affect key business functions, from overall ...

Purpose – Refugee camps are not easily welcomed by local communities. The purpose of this paper is to outline a structured approach to support the decision-making process for siting refugee camps in mainland Greece using ...

This paper proposes a new approach to time series forecasting based upon three premises. First, a model is selected not by how well it fits historical data but on its ability to accurately predict out-of-sample actual data. ...

This paper uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in order to examine 252 small foreign owned equities operating in the Greek manufacturing sector. By using a number of essential factors (like the number of employees, ...

The 21st century is considered to be “the century of cities”. By the end of this century, over 80% of the global population is expected to be living in urban areas. Overpopulation has already transformed from an upcoming ...

In the traditional software development cycle, requirements gathering is considered the most critical phase. Getting the requirements right early has become a dogma in software engineering because the correction of erroneous ...

Η ταχεία αύξηση του αστικού πληθυσμού, έφερε τις πόλεις αντιμέτωπες με σοβαρές οικονομικές, κοινωνικές, περιβαλλοντικές, πολιτικές προκλήσεις. Το πρότυπο της Έξυπνης Πόλης καλείται να αντιμετωπίσει αυτά τα ζητήματα, ...

The study examines the specifics of tourism management and the impact of social media on the promotion of tourism enterprises, the formation of the image of tourist territories and tourism entities. In accordance with an ...

This study sought to investigate the impact of social network advertisements on providing actual information about products. Moreover, it also explored the effectiveness of online advertising in reaching out to consumers. ...

Recent research has proved the positive therapeutic impacts of robot interaction with children diagnosed with the autism spectrum condition. Until now, most of the evaluated treatment methods apply one-to-one sessions ...

The operational and sociomoral reasoning maturity of 70 congenitally deaf children was examined and compared with the respective maturity of a sensory unimpaired control sample, matched in age (7‐13 years) and socioeconomic ...

In this paper, a new low level feature suitable for Hand Drawn Color Sketches retrieval is presented. The proposed feature structure combines color and spatial color distribution information. The combination of these two ...

Over the past three decades, the interest of teachers and parents has focused on a variety of learning difficulties that students face in school settings. A significant number of students systematically fail in school, ...

Introduction: School performance, especially in children with SLD (SLD), is adversely affected by the coexistence of a chronic physical illness, such as Type 1 Diabetes (T1DM) (previously called juvenile diabetes or ...

Following the attainment of a place in the GreekSailing Team in the Olympics of 1960, SpyrosMakridakis set sail for New York University wherehe obtained a PhD in 1969. His first academicappointment was at INSEAD where he ...

This paper discusses the future of the Stability and Growth Pact (hereafter SGP). Although Neoclassical economic models argue that strict fiscal and monetary rules minimize moral hazard and crowding out, in practice many ...

The system approach views any organized entity as a unity composed of interdependent parts capable of sensitive and accurate interaction among themselves and with their environment. It is the mutual interaction among ...

The chief object of this paper is to study the dimension of Greek higher education quality with the help of Statistical Process Control and Quality Control’ Tools named Fishbone (Ishikawa) Diagram. More spesifically, in ...