Within the project NOPTILUS, a fully functional system/methodology had been developed that allows the cooperative, fully-autonomous navigation of teams of AUVs when deployed in Static or Dynamic Underwater Map Construction ...

Current multi-AUV systems are far from being capable of fully autonomously taking over real-life complex situation-awareness operations. As such operations require advanced reasoning and decision-making abilities, current ...

Biomedical research and clinical decision depend increasingly on a number of authoritative databases, mostly public and continually enriched via peer scientific contributions. Given the dynamic nature of data and their ...

This paper proposes a new method for visual multimedia content encryption using Cellular Automata (CA). The encryption scheme is based on the application of an attribute of the CLF XOR filter, according to which the original ...

With the recent evolution of technology, the number of image archives has increased exponentially. In Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), high-level visual information is represented in the form of low-level features. ...

Ο βασικός σκοπός της παρούσας μεταπτυχιακής διατριβής είναι η μελέτη της έννοιας και της συμβολής του Nudge Marketing στη λήψη αγοραστικών αποφάσεων, ειδικά σε ό,τι αφορά την ψηφιακή πραγματικότητα. Η ώθηση, ως μια τεχνική ...

Δεκαπέντε χρόνια μετά από την εισαγωγή στα συμπεριφορικά οικονομικά της Θεωρίας της Ώθησης, μιας κεντρώας πολιτικής και φιλοσοφικής θεωρίας, που περιγράφεται στο ομώνυμο βιβλίο Nudge των Richard Thaler και Cass Sunstein, ...

In this work, the nonlinear analysis of an existing industrial steel structure (Sodium building), and its retrofitting using SSCD dampers is demonstrated. Specific numerical complications of incremental dynamic (IDA) and ...

Background and aims: Increased nurse-physician collaboration is a factor in improved patient outcomes. Limited autonomy of nurses has been proposed as a barrier to collaboration. This study aims to explore nurse-physician ...

Η παρούσα ερευνητική εργασία ασχολείται με τη διερεύνηση του βαθμού ύπαρξης συσχέτισης ανάμεσα στη Συναισθηματική Νοημοσύνη του Διευθυντή - Ηγέτη ενός εκπαιδευτικού οργανισμού με την αποτελεσματικότητά του, καθώς και με ...

Διανύεται η εποχή της ραγδαίας ανάπτυξης του διαδικτύου, των ψηφιακών μέσων κοινωνικής δικτύωσης και των νέων τεχνολογιών επιφέροντας σημαντικές αλλαγές στον τρόπο λειτουργίας και στις αγοραστικές αποφάσεις των καταναλωτών. ...

Les lois de développement qui ont été périodiquement mises en oeuvre en Grèce n'ont pas toujours comporté d'incitations financières. Cette absence pouvait s'expliquer de plusieurs manières, soit que l'on ait préféré alors ...

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the PETI Committee, examines: (i) the obstacles that rainbow families (same-sex ...

The new Government announced the five priorities of its governmental program that refer to matters of foreign affairs, defence economic and developmental policies, to the institutions and t public administration, Education, ...

Popper's theory of simplicity has three great merits advocating it: it has intuitive appeal, it proposes a clear criterion for judging the relative simplicity of rival hypotheses, and, finally, it answers the question ...

The concept of a system has been identified in a large number of disciplines; biology, management science, economics, sociology, political science, theology, law, etc., have profited by the apparatus associated with ...

In Part I, we extended the work of Ashby [1,2] to develop an analytical framework for determining the relation betweén system size and system stability. It was established that, for linear dynamic systems, as the number ...

The diverse experiences of severely mentally ill persons, most of the times, have not been taken into account, or integrated to the treatment procedures. This meta-synthesis aimed to examine what is like to live with severe ...

The diverse experiences of severely mentally ill persons, most of the times, have not been taken into account, or integrated to the treatment procedures. This meta-synthesis aimed to examine what is like to live with severe ...