Charles Tiebout (1956), in his work “A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures”, provides a vision of the workings of the local public sector, acknowledging many similarities to the features of a competitive market, however ...

In times of crisis the classical linkage between leadership and reform emerges with a renewed relevance. This issue has gained particular importance in the European Union due to its peculiar supranational consensus culture. ...

This research aims to investigate the bioclimatic design, sustainability and environmental behaviour of Cypriot vernacular farmhouses, as part of small-scale family-owned farmsteads. These farmhouses, located in village ...

Everyday the following question is posed: Are businesses more successful when they adapt green strategies in producing and marketing their products?. To address this issue, we should investigate to what determines the ...

In Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems, the visual content of the images is mapped into a new space named the feature space. The features that are chosen must be discriminative and sufficient for the description ...

Recent research argues that sequential forms of Cross-Cultural Training (CCT), offered pre-departure CCT as well as post-arrival CCT are more advantageous than nonsequential CCT. This study examines the impact of sequential ...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship of price changes in the southern European E.U. member states through their stock markets and especially among the exchange markets of Portugal, Italy, Ireland, ...

Background: The onset of a major depressive episode is experienced by a large number of women in the weeks or months following delivery. Postpartum depression may deem those women experiencing it incapable of taking care ...

Dans le but de consolider la paix sociale et de protéger l'intérêt général,l'Etat planifie et coordonne les activités économiques du pays, en recherchant d'assurer le développement économique -de tous les secteurs de ...

Le contraste est désormais considérable enrre la situation grecque caractérisée globalement par l'abandon d'un rrend durable de croissance, une instabilité politique chronique et de fortes tensions sociales, et celle de ...

Real estate investments as an industry has always been a domestic field, however, following many other asset categories, investments in real estate expands to the international level. The currency differs depending on where ...

More and more Internet of Things (IoT) devicesare deployed around the world, due to the convenience andextra functionality they enable. This growth, while great forthe industry as a whole, has ...

The large construction projects cause inevitable negative impact on the natural landscape of the exposed areas. Among these is the creation of disturbed surfaces with unsuitable soil material and gradients that imply ...

This study investigates the perceived value of mathematics in students from Greek Cypriot Gymnasium. It also examines individual differences in the perceived value of mathematics in relation to students’ gender, grades, ...

One of the most powerful economies in the global economic system is Japan. Nowadays the global economic system is facing many economic and political challenges. Owing to the fact that Japan is one of the most powerful ...

This dissertation will examine the circumstances that led to the loss of Mosul and other primarily Sunni cities and investigates why ISIS could not control Erbil and Kirkuk. After three days of fighting between jihadists ...

This book is designed to be used in conjunction with a set of interactive statistical programs, called ISP, which has been developed to improve and facilitate the teaching and learning of basic statistics.

The paper investigates the association between individual characteristics and teacher job satisfaction in secondary education in Cyprus. It focuses on two individual characteristics commonly linked to job satisfaction in ...

Job satisfaction among employees is a field of great interest, since it is considered a very important concept for every business. The purpose of this study is to measure the overall job satisfaction of employees at ...

Chess is an intellectually demanding game played by millions of people around the world. Yet unlike tennis or other competitive sports there are few changes in the rankings of chess players. There have only been twelve ...