NUP Academic Publications - Ακαδημαϊκές Δημοσιεύσεις ΠΝΠ: Recent submissions
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Blockchain-Based Platform for Consent Management ofPersonal Data Processing in the IoT Ecosystem
(Wiley, 2019-10)In the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, the volume of data generated by devices in the user’s environment is continuallyincreasing and becoming of particular value. In such an environment the average user is bound to ...
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A probabilistic semantic analysis of eHealth scientific literature
(Sage, 2019)Introduction:eHealth emerged as an interdisciplinary research area about 70 years ago. This study employs proba-bilistic techniques to semantically analyse scientific literature related to the field of eHealth in order to ...
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Blockchain Applications in the Biomedical Domain: A Scoping Review
(Elsevier Ltd., 2019-02)Blockchain is a distributed, immutable ledger technology introduced as the enabling mechanism to supportcryptocurrencies. Blockchain solutions are currently being proposed to address diverse problems in different do-mains. ...
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Enabling Responsible Online Gambling by Real-time Persuasive Technologies
(RTU Press, 2019-01)Online gambling, unlike other offline addiction forms, provides unprecedented opportunities for monitoring users’ behaviour in real-time, along with the ability to adapt persuasive interactions and messages that would match ...
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A Blockchain-Based Notarization Service for Biomedical Knowledge Retrieval
(Elsevier Ltd., 2018-08)Biomedical research and clinical decision depend increasingly on scientific evidence realized by a number of au-thoritative databases, mostly public and continually enriched via peer scientific contributions. Given the ...
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Towards privacy in personal data management
(2009)Purpose – In order to enhance privacy protection during electronic transactions, the purpose of this paper is to propose, develop, and evaluate a personal data management framework called Polis that abides by the following ...
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Cross -cultural perceptual differences among African American, Caucasian, and Greek-Cypriot college students
(ProQuest Information and Learning Company, 2006)The purpose of this study was to examine the variables of ethnic identity, collective self-esteem, person perception, individualism, collectivism, and prejudice in Caucasian (North and South), African-American, and ...
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Risk and Protective Factors of Disordered Eating in Adolescents Based on Gender and Body Mass Index
(Int J Environ Res Public Health., 2020-12-10)The current study aimed to identify potential psychosocial risk and protective factors contributing to eating disorders in adolescents, and observe any differences between genders and Body Mass Index (BMI) categories. A ...
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Editorial for the Special Thematic Section on “Body Image and Disordered Eating in Cyprus” of the European Journal of Counseling Psychology
(The European Journal of Counselling Psychology, 2019)Dear Reader, Both body image as a construct and eating disorders as diagnoses are complex and multidimensional. Therefore, their continuous research and in-depth assessment is a necessity in order to better understand ...
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Body Image Differences Across the Life Span of Greek-Cypriot Women: An Investigation Examining Adolescence, Early and Middle Adulthood
(The European Journal of Counselling Psychology, 2019-03)The current study aimed to examine possible differences among females in three age groups (adolescent, early and middle adulthood) on body-image-related variables, media influences and self-esteem. The relationships between ...
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A distributed, plug-n-play algorithm formulti-robot applications with a priorinon-computable objective functions
(Sage, 2019-05)This paper presents a distributed algorithm applicable to a wide range of practical multi-robot applications. In such multi-robot applications, the user-defined objectives of the mission can be cast as a general optimization ...
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Studying Affective Tutoring Systems for Mathematical Concepts
(Sage, 2019-07-02)Students face difficulties in learning mathematical processes. As a result, they have negative emotions toward mathematics. The use of technology is employed to change the student’s attitude toward mathematics. Some ...
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Randomblocks: A transparent, verifiable blockchain-based system for random numbers
(Old City Publishing, Inc, 2019)Games-of-chance require high-levels of trust between participants that is often uncertain and difficult to enforce. The unique characteristics introduced by the blockchain technology can be leveraged to inform a verifiable ...
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Social Robots in Special Education: Creating Dynamic Interactions for Optimal Experience
(IEEE, 2020-04-02)Recent research has proved the positive therapeutic impacts of robot interaction with children diagnosed with the autism spectrum condition. Until now, most of the evaluated treatment methods apply one-to-one sessions ...
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Known Unknowns in an Era of Technological and ViralDisruptions—Implications for Theory,Policy, and Practice
(Springer Verlag, 2021-02-10)Technology is composed of the words “Techne” and “Logos” that refer to the artistic/ creative and the logical/scientific aspects of its dualism. And so inherent this Promethean concept lie the concepts of the Schumpeterian ...
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"Educational Robotics: Platforms, Competitions and Expected Learning Outcomes"
(IEEE, 2020-12-04)Motivated by the recent explosion of interest around Educational Robotics (ER), this paper attempts to re-approach this area by suggesting new ways of thinking and exploring the related concepts. The contribution of the ...
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A Decentralized Voting Mechanism: Engaging ERC-20 token holders in decision-making
(IEEE, 2020-07-20)This paper presents a Blockchain-based voting mechanism that has the potential to disrupt current voting systems and fuel the development of decentralized governance. More specifically, the paper presents a study on the ...
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ParkChain: An IoT Parking Service Based on Blockchain
(IEEE, 2019-08-19)The IoT ecosystem is evolving quickly, developing several applications in different sectors. The majority of these applications use centralized infrastructures something that poses several challenges especially related to ...
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A Smart Product Co-design and Monitoring Framework Via Gamification and Complex Event Processing
(ICEIS, 2019)In the traditional software development cycle, requirements gathering is considered the most critical phase. Getting the requirements right early has become a dogma in software engineering because the correction of erroneous ...
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Cross-cultural Perceptual Differences- Among African American, Caucasian, and Greek-Cypriot College Students
(VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K., 2007-11-06)This book examines the variables of ethnic identity, collective self-esteem, person perception, individualism, collectivism, and prejudice in Caucasian (North and South United States), African-American, and Greek-Cypriot ...