The topic is a very challenging and attractive one for scholarship of all ages, namely how readers, in this case young readers, should respond to and understand poetry, and most importantly, how to use poetry in their ...

Many scholars have tried to comprehend and analyse the root causes of the Greek economic crisis. In the majority of these analyses, a series of economic factors were mainly highlighted as the key to understanding the nature ...

Political identity content of Greek Cypriot adolescents in terms of values, beliefs and attitudes was explored using an inductive method to elicit data. The macro-context of Greek Cypriot society was chosen specifically, ...

n previous research on the relationships between socio-moral reasoning and political orientation, the evolving capacities in the moral-cognitive realm have been considered as the framework for the formation of different ...

In this paper we show that by assuming a constant variance/covariance matrix over the holding period, the VaR limits can often be exceeded within the relevant horizon period. To minimize this risk, we formulate the problem ...

Despite the clinical observations that indicate a possible connection between emotions, addictive behavior and treatment, there is not sufficient research on the role of positive emotions in addiction and addiction treatment. ...

Despite the clinical observations that indicate a possible connection between emotions, addictive behavior and treatment, there is not sufficient research on the role of positive emotions in addiction and addiction treatment. ...

The structural correspondence between postconventional sociomoral reasoning and postformal operational skills was examined to determine whether Stage 5 moral reasoning can be considered a hard stage in the Piagetian sense, ...

Άγανον έσχες Βασίλειε αριφρόν, φρόνημα τερπνόν, νυν δε εκβλύζεις άμα ρύακας ημίν γνώσεως ουρανίας μάκαρ, αληθώς τοις βροροίς καταχέων αυγάς γε ρημάτων τε και σοφών λόγων, μυστηπόλος σε λέξεως Βυζαντίδος.

Knowledge has been identified as an important resource that contributes to the competitive advantage of an organisation. The problems associated with irresponsible use of power manifest itself in the loss of organisational ...

The purpose of this study is to provide evidence drawn from publicly traded companies in Greece as far as the predictability of going-concern opinions, and other business situations (problem companies, tax contingent ...

This study primarily investigates differences in the market variables of companies that show corporate social responsibility (CSR) compared with those that do not. We also examine whether predictions of CSR can be ...

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BACKGROUND: Despite a plethora of information on the prevention of pressure sores, they remain a significant problem in both hospital and community settings. The need to reduce the incidence of pressure sores has been well ...

This paper describes and analyses the use of the Filtered Historical Simulation algorithm in pricing spread options. Spread options are contracts whose payoff depends on the price difference (spread) between two or more ...

The issue of ‘privatization’ is fairly new to Cyprus; it was initiated by the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the Republic of Cyprus and Troika (Eurogroup) on April 9th, 2013. Privatization of electricity ...

The intensive economic crisis the global community is facing in recent years, although initially occurred in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. The dramatic efTects on the banking system and businesses ...

Value at Risk (VaR) is increasingly popular as a management and regulatory tool. To further its acceptance it is necessary to assess its reliability under conditions likely to be encountered in financial markets. A logical ...

This paper investigates the profitability of technical trading rules in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE), utilizing the FTSE/ASE-20 index over the period 1995- 2008. We focus on a less developed and efficient stock market, ...

We examine the performance of various types of technical trading rules in the emerging Cyprus Stock Market (CSE). Furthermore, we examine the predictability of daily returns for the CSE with respect to the extent that the ...