The paper is an attempt to approach the imaginary dimension of ‘making a home’ in the urban periphery; in sites that are still under construction, in places whose character is still undefined and fleeting. ‘Making a home’ ...

img(Anaktisi) is a C#/.NET content base image retrieval application suitable for the web. It provides efficient retrieval services for various image databases using as a query a sample image, an image sketched by the ...

This paper presents an image retrieval suite called img(Rummager) which brings into effect a number of new as well as state of the art descriptors. The application can execute an image search based on a query image, either ...

The coronavirus pandemic has significantly impacted the operations of MSMEs as it affects both the demand and supply of products and services provided by these MSMEs. Apart from its effect on the demand and supply, it also ...

Economists are describing crises affect in numbers how crises has affected counties all over the world, but how do companies are finding solutions to overcome crises when financial resources are less available and does ...

Emotional Intelligence (El) is arguably one of the most passionately debated constructs in the field of social sciences. Yet to date, there has been a very little consensus on what it is, what it measures and its unique ...

This paper examines a major area of statistics: the application of time series analysis to forecasting, particularly as it applies to the areas of business and economics. This area is unusual in the social sciences in that ...

The twenty first century was full of surprises. A deadly virus called Covid-19 has risen that threatens the humanity and plagues each corner of the world. By the occasion of this current crisis many questions were raised ...

Little is known on the combined effect of interpersonal trust and power factors on the traits and skills of knowledge acquisition. A survey of 140 first line managers was conducted to investigate the relationship between ...

The objective of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of leadership and power on perceptions of creativity in the workplace. The paper also investigates the level of prediction on perceptions of creativity ...

This study investigates the relationship between the macroeconomic variables and the Greek Stock Market. From the opening of Greek stock market and specifically from 1876, it can be observed that the returns of Athens stock ...

The objective of this paper is to empirically investigate through an industry survey, the impact of organisational bureaucracy on the determinants of knowledge acquisition. The results show that a pyramidical structure has ...

Trees in cities have an important positive effect on people’s lives. One such positive effect is the amelioration of microclimate. The aim of this research is to assess the correlation between parameters that affect the ...

Data collected from black and white workers in three organizations indicate that workers living in communities with different perceived levels of prosperity have different job satisfaction. A relatively less affluent ...

This study aims to assess the importance of rewarding experienced and high performing staff. During the times when the amount of financial rewards is restricted by the economic climate, retaining high performers with rewards ...

Social media networks such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter offer a variety of channels for the hotel business to sell products and services. Social networking sites include media technologies that ...

Coronavirus has evolved from a regional issue in China into a global “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” with a significant number of cases being recorded at an international and European level. On 11March ...

The aim of the current study was to examine mental health effects of the first wave of COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease-19) in Cyprus. Accordingly, 388 individuals aged 18–65+ responded to the Components of Mental Health ...

The global economy is still recovering from the most severe financial and economic crisis since the 1930s. The crisis initially started in the United States, but rapidly took global proportions, spreading quickly around ...

The objective of this paper is to empirically investigate through an industry survey, the effect of transformational and transactional leadership on the dimensions of organisational bureaucracy. Results indicate that the ...