In this work, we evaluated the effects of cultivation practices and sites (representing four locations in Crete, Greece) on soil organic carbon sequestration in established citrus orchards, olive groves, and uncultivated ...

Comprehension constitutes the main purpose of reading, one of the most important human skills. Furthermore, reading and therefore comprehension are perplexing procedures, that are built through the interaction of the ...

becomes increasingly important that children should grow up with basic competence and familiarity with numbers. Yet, a significant amount of evidence suggests that many children encounter major problems in learning ...

The behaviour of the digital consumer differs from that of the digital-internet consumer. Not with the regard to the procedure that the average consumer follows, but mostly to the «why» and «how» a consumer prefers and ...

The term «investment», as we have stated ίn former monographs, is used to describe the locking-up of capital ίn order tο make profit during a long-term period, at the risk of failure and suffering a loss.

This paper discusses the effectiveness of EU economic measures towards the pandemic crisis in the case of Greece. As the pandemic crisis was an exogenous and symmetric crisis, EU member states decided to take supply and ...

Behavioural and interpersonal skills most often cited as essential for successful knowledge acquisition. Little is known, however, about the roles played by 'dispersed leadership' in the process of knowledge acquisition. ...

Purpose: This paper examines the relationship between the dimensions of dispersed – self‐management – leadership and a number of work environment dimensions conducive to creativity and productivity. Design/methodology/approach: ...

This study aims to take into account regional gross value added, to assess the per formance of this macroeconomic component for all thirteen Regions of Greece. We apply two diferent methods for the period between 2010 ...

In this paper we present a solution to the problem of positioning a team of Micro Aerial Vehicles for a surveillance task in an environment of arbitrary and unknown morphology. The problem is addressed taking into account ...

This paper presents a distributed algorithm applicable to a wide range of practical multi-robot applications. In such multi-robot applications, the user-defined objectives of the mission can be cast as a general optimization ...

The Invisible Hand of Divine Providence in Christian Theology leads mankind continuously with teleological aim. Adam Smith's Invisible Hand of Political Economy leads society to the highest level of prosperity, where the ...

Considering the implications of moral leadership on corporate accounting practices and agency problems in male dominated financial services, we tested relations between ethical leadership behaviours and agency problems and ...

Les ff. 74-79 du cod. Vat. gr. 1891 contiennent plusieurs textes qui, à première vue, semblent. relat.ifs à la Métropole de Thessalonique Quelques-uns de ces textes seulement ont. retenu l'attention des chercheurs au cours ...

This study empirically investigates the relationship between independent directors’ cash compensation and the likelihood of corporate fraud. Using data of 2542 Chinese firms and 17239 firm years from 2010 to 2017, the ...

As cities become more complex while shaped by population growth and urbanization, standardized plan-making practices with clear instructions for their utilization are essential. With the aim of ensuring safety, accessibility, ...

The purpose of this study is to compare the effects on enjoyment that a creative program of gymnastics has between senior university students. The sample consisted of 267 senior university students. The students participated ...

This study examines the role that personality plays in the four determinants of agency problems, known in the literature as direct wealth transfer, asset substitution, underinvestment and overinvestment. The study involves ...

This paper examines the determinants of profits of Greek banks operating abroad by developing an integrated model that includes a set of determinants informed by the literature on the profitability of both multinational ...

Value at risk is becoming increasingly popular as a management and regulatory tool. But before this acceptance goes much further, we need to assess its reliability under financial market conditions. Most VAR models deal ...