Introduction: Even though there is a substantial development and utilization of pattering methods in the science of marketing, a direct comparison of multivariate methods in group/cluster identification in the field of ...

Introduction: There is substantial growth and employment of pattering methods in statistics, although a direct comparison of multivariate methods in group/cluster identification in the field of Consumer Behavior in ...

Bag-of-visual-words (BOVW) is a representation of images which is built using a large set of local features. To date, the experimental results presented in the literature have shown that this approach achieves high retrieval ...

Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) integrates both spectroscopic and imaging methods to produce spatially localized spectra from within the sample or patient. Although MRSI is a relatively new imaging technology ...

The rapid advances made in the field of radiology, the increased frequency in which oncological diseases appear, as well as the demand for prevailing medical checks, led to the creation of a large database of radiology ...

The rapid advances made in the field of radiology, the increased frequency in which oncological diseases appear, as well as the demand for regular medical checks, led to the creation of a large database of radiology ...

Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are widely used in everyday life to perform a variety of operations, such as e-mail exchange, connection to social media, bank/financial transactions, and so on. Moreover, ...

The present study investigates the tendency of farmers in the greater area of Central Macedonia in Greece, to participate in a program of environmental management. The aim is to determine the amount of Willingness to Pay ...

The aim of this study is to estimate externalities created round a cultural heritage preservation site. A research was conducted concerning the ruins of an ancient ‘Sacred Way’ (Iera Odos) located in Attica, Greece. The ...

The economic crisis in the EU had severe impacts not only on the performance of the domestic economy but also on the living standard for the citizens. The extended spread of this crisis resulted in limitation in the ...

The economic crisis in the EU had severe impacts not only on the performance of the domestic economy but also on the living standard for the citizens. The extended spread of this crisis resulted in limitation in the ...

This paper investigates how vegetation, mainly through evapotranspiration, affects the improvement of microclimatic conditions in urban areas and, more specifically, it examines the case for the city of Chania in Crete. ...

The exact dating of the death of Nicetas Choniates bristles with problems, because of the lack of any direct information about the last years of his life.Moreover,the problem becomes even more complex since Nicetas Choniates ...

The control of flexible structures for those systems with actuators that are modeled by second order dynamics is examined. Two modeling approaches are investigated. First a stability and performance analysis is performed ...

Mobility is one of the most important challenges in a wireless sensor system. Usually, continuous connectivity of a Mobile Node (MN) is achieved by supporting handoff from one connection point to another. In order to ...

In this study, we investigate the ranking convergence pattern of 24 accounting journals across 13 established academic journal lists by applying the Phillips and Sul (Econometrica 75(6), 1771–1855, 2007; J Appl Econom ...

The last few years, the economic divergences which were observed in macroeconomic performances of the EU's Member States as well as the low rate of their economic adaptation within the EMU, had raised concerns about the ...

The green wedges that followed the finger plan proposed (1947) do not have the same boundaries as those that are present today, but they still exist despite insufficient planning measures and an overall decline of open ...

This paper classifies the streets of the city of Orestiada, Greece, and examines the correlation between the geometric characteristics of streets and the appropriate height of trees that form the street tree lines so that ...

This work was supported by an NIH award R01 NS065049 and James S. McDonnell Foundation award #220020190 to LB.