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Asset recovery in the European Union: implementing a “no safe haven” strategy for illicit proceeds
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022)Purpose This paper aims to explore existing and proposed methods for enhancing asset recovery and targeting the proceeds of illicit trades and other types of criminal activity in the European Union (EU). Consistent and ...
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Associations between body dissatisfaction, importance of appearance, and aging anxiety with depression, and appearance-related behaviors in women in mid-life
(J Women Aging, 2021-01)The impacts of body dissatisfaction have been widely studied among adolescent girls, but much less in women in mid-life. In this study, we evaluated the associations between body dissatisfaction, psychological health and ...
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Asymmetrical Sovereignty, European Integration, and the Grey Zone of European Union Politics
(2016-04)This study highlights both the significance and impact of the developing changes in the last decades around Europe, the notion-related adjustments that remain to be carried and in parallel to provide a more general explanation ...
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Attempting to Revise the Treaty of Lausanne: Greek Foreign Policy and Italy during the Pangalos Dictatorship, 1925–1926
(Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 2014)In June 1925, General Theodoros Pangalos imposed his dictatorship on Greece. During his 14-month rule, he set as one of his basic foreign policy goals the revision of the territorial settlement imposed on Greece and Turkey ...
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Attitudes and perceptions of general population towards mental illness; drawing future mental health services
(Editografica, 2011-05)Despite the magnitude of mental health problems worldwide, many cases of deinstitutionalization have failed to achieve their targets for a number of reasons including lack of appropriate community psychiatric services and ...
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An Attitudinal Factorial Model Explaining the Export Attitudes of Managerial Staff
(Denver, CO : Association of Global Business, 2012)The attitudinal factorial model with positive and negative attitudes which is proposed in this study adds depth to the factorial models already existing in the literature, since it includes general export attitudes, export ...
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Audit committee independence and financial expertise and earnings management: evidence from China
(Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2020-12)his paper investigates the effect of the audit committee’s independence and financial expertise on financial reporting quality. In particular, we investigate the relationship between the audit committee’s independence and ...
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Audit committee independence and financial expertise and earnings management: Evidence from China
(Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2020-12)This paper investigates the effect of the audit committee's independence and financial expertise on financial reporting quality. In particular, we investigate the relationship between the audit committee's independence and ...
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Audit Committee’s Cash Compensation and Earnings Management: The Moderating Effects of Institutional Factors
(Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2021)This paper investigates the relationship between the audit committee’s cash compensation and accrual earnings management. Using a sample of Chinese listed firms over the period 2007 to 2017, findings show a positive ...
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Automatic Image Annotation and Retrieval Using the Joint Composite Descriptor
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), United States, 2010)Capable tools are needed in order to successfully search and retrieve a suitable image from large image collections. Many content-based image retrieval systems employ low-level image features such as color, texture and ...
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Automatic Minimization of the Rigidity Eccentricity of 3D Reinforced Concrete Buildings
(Taylor & Francis, 2007)The objective of this paper is to obtain the optimum design of 3D reinforced concrete buildings in terms of their performance under earthquake loading. This goal is achieved by considering the minimization of the ...
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Automatic summarization and annotation of videos with lack of metadata information
(Elsevier, 2013)The advances in computer and network infrastructure together with the fast evolution of multimedia data has resulted in the growth of attention to the digital video’s development. The scientific community has increased the ...
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Automation or autonomy in organizational design.
(Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1979-04-23)Today there is growing criticism of the Input/Output (I/O) model as a conceptual tool for explaining and understanding how systems are functioning. These models have been particularly useful-mainly in engineering, where ...
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Autonomous Navigation of Teams of Unmanned Aerial or Underwater Vehicles for Exploration of Unknown Static & Dynamic Environments
(MED’13, 2013)In this paper, we present a new approach that is able to efficiently and fully-autonomously navigate a team of Unmanned Aerial or Underwater Vehicles (UAUV’s) when deployed in exploration of unknown static and dynamic ...
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Averages of Forecasts: Some Empirical Results
(Informs, 1983-09)An altemative to using a single forecasting method is to average the forecasts obtained from several methods. In this paper we investigate empirically the impact of the number and choice of forecasting methods on the ...
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Back to the Future. A Behavioural Perspective on Technical Analysis into PIGS Countries
(2015-07)In this paper, we investigate the possible presence of the behavioural phenomenon in the stock markets of some members of the European Union who are historically known as PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain). We used ...
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Backtesting Derivative Portfolios with Filtered Historical Simulation (FHS)
(Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2002)Filtered historical simulation provides the general framework to our backtests of portfolios of derivative securities held by a large sample of financial institutions. We allow for stochastic volatility and exchange rates. ...
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Backtesting Derivative Portfolios with Filtered Historical Simulation (FHS)
(European Financial Management, 2002)Filtered historical simulation provides the general framework to our backtests of portfolios of derivative securities held by a large sample of financial institutions. We allow for stochastic volatility and exchange rates. ...
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Bag-of-visual-words vs global image descriptors on two-stage multimodal retrieval
(ACM SIGIR 2011, 2011)The Bag-Of-Visual-Words (BOVW) paradigm is fast becoming a popular image representation for Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), mainly because of its better retrieval effectiveness over global feature representations ...
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The Balkans and the Olympic Games: A challenge and an opportunity for the development of Greece
(Κέντρο Επιμόρφωσης Μελετών Έρευνας και Ανάπτυξης, 1998)During the last years there is a constant increase of the percentage of those who «proclaim» that Greece should «penetrate» politically into the Balkans; due to recent political changes, the Balkans offer the opportunity ...