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Medical Errors in Cyprus: The 2005 Eurobarometer Survey
(Professor Despina Sapountzi-Krepia, 2012)Background: Medical errors have been highlighted in recent years by different agencies, scientific bodies and research teams alike. We sought to explore the issue of medical errors in Cyprus using data from the Eurobarometer ...
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Merger and Acquisition of small companies
(Real Estate Program, School of Architecture, Land and Enviromental Sciences, Neapolis University Pafos, 2016)Any business has two basic variants of the growth strategy - own organic development or acquisition of external structure. In the process of constant development based on the existing management of the company strategy ...
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Mergers and acquisitions: prospects and impacts for accounting/audit firms in Cyprus
(Business Administration Program, School of Economics Sciences and Business, Neapolis University Paphos, 2015)The purpose of this research work is to examine whether there is a need and space for mergers and acquisitions regarding accounting/audit firms in Cyprus. The study analyzes the new economic environment and the stricter ...
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A Meta-Analysis on Export Promotion Programs: New Outcomes
(Springer International Publishing, 2016)Since the economic crisis of 2008 the situation in Europe has worsen, leading small export companies to close down due to the depression, while governments cut their budgets. As a result, export promotion programs (EPPs) ...
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Metaforecasting: Ways of improving forecasting accuracy and usefulness
(Elsevier, 1988)Forecasting has a long history. An understanding of such history coupled with the study of the empirical evidence can provide invaluable information for improving the accuracy and usefulness of predictions. Statistical ...
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Metastrategy: Learning and avoiding past mistakes
(Elsevier, 1997)Lately there has been a renewed interest in strategic planning after more than a decade of focusing on operational concerns such as total quality, downsizing, benchmarking and reengineering. Will strategic planning provide ...
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Migrant domestic workers in Cyprus: An evaluation of their sexual and reproductive health needs. A pilot study
(2008)Background: Literature suggests that the employment of female domestic workers is not based on the labour needs of the country, but mainly on the needs of working women. There are approximately 23,000 female migrant domestic ...
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Minimizing the Torsional Response of RC Buildings Under Earthquake Loading
(South-East European Conference on Computational Mechanics, 2006)In this work a number of design approaches for 3D Reinforced Concrete (RC) buildings are formulated as structural optimization problems and are assessed in terms of the performance under earthquake loading. In particular ...
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Misinformation about COVID-19: Psychological Insights
(MDPI, 2021)Definition: While the precise conceptualization of the term misinformation remains a subject of debate, the current entry defines misinformation as any type of information which is misleading or false, regardless of ...
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The "MMM" and financial pyramids as a whole
(Barchelor in Accounting Banking and Finance, Shcool of Business, Neapolis University Pafos, 2015-09)In the middle of the 90's Russia has experienced a period of massive creation of the financial pyramids. This period has become an integral part of the story of Russia in transition period. Nevertheless, the Russian financial ...
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Mobile Elderly Living Community (MELCO): The Development of the Social Community Model: a Case Study
(2013)Background: Elderly prefer to be in their own homes rather than being in hospital or residential homes. Communication between elderly and community nurses is essential in caring and mutual interaction and modern technologies ...
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Mobility in WSNs for Critical Applications
(IEEE, 2011)Recent critical application sectors of sensor networks like military, health care, and industry require the use of mobile sensor nodes, something that poses unique challenges in aspects like handoff delay, packet loss, and ...
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Mobility Management in WSNs using Fuzzy Logic: An Industrial Application Scenario
(IEEE, 2012)Mobility management in Wireless Sensor Networks is considered to be of an up most importance for today's critical applications. In this paper, we present a soft mobility management solution where the mobility procedures ...
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Model of Pareto financial investments optimal portfolio
(Banking investment and finance Program, School of Economics Sciences and Business, Neapolis University Paphos, 2014)Investment portfolio issues take a leading position in modern economic science due to their relevance in a developed market. However, the conditions of the Russian economy does not allow fully apply the general principles ...
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The modernization of State as a Condition for Development and Investments' Attraction
(Κέντρο Επιμόρφωσης Μελετών Έρευνας και Ανάπτυξης, 2007)It is generally accepted that private productive in vestments constitute a valuable reinforcement for every economy and especially for the economies of small countries, countries which suffer from public burdens (loans ...
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Modification of the Physical Activity Self-efficacy Scale (PASES) in Greek children population
(Παπαζήση, 2013)This study modified the Physical Activity Self-efficacy Scale (PASES) in Creek children population. 142 Greek children of 4th grade (68 boys and 74 girls, Μ age: 9.65, SD: 0.45) participated. The scale was given to them ...
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The Modified Contingent Valuation Method for Evaluating the Willingness of the Citizenry to Participate in Excavation and the Restoration of the Ancient Theatre of Lefkada
(David Publishing, 2016)This proposed project is not viable in profitable terms to private enterprise, so it applied a modified version of the CVM (Contingent Valuation Method) to realize this project. A survey was conducted in Lefkada Island ...
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Monitoring Thermal Comfort in Outdoor Urban Spaces for Bioclimatic Conditions Improvement
(2008-06)This paper examines the microclimatic conditions and the feeling of thermal comfort in two different open spaces in the town of Drama, through constant record of the environmental parameters of temperature and relative ...
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Moral and cognitive reasoning features in congenitally blind children: comparisons with the sighted
(Wiley, 1988)Moral and cognitive reasoning (within the Piagetian theory) aspects of congenitally blind children ranging in age from 6 to 12 years were examined and compared with those of a sighted sample, matched in age and socio-economic ...
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Moralia in the Lives
(Waltert de Gruyter, 2008)One tends to look into the Moralia for examples of Plutarch’s views on poetry, or his uses of theatrical language. There is indeed quite a big amount of quotations from tragic poets, and Plutarch comments on them developing ...