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The day of the week effect patterns on stock market return and volatility: Evidence for the Athens Stock Exchange
(2005)This paper investigates the day of the week effect in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) General Index over a ten year period divided into two subperiods: 1995-2000 and 2001-2004. Five major indices are also considered: ...
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Dispersed Leadership Predictor Of Knowledge Acquisition
(IEDC, International Economic Development Council, 2002)Behavioural and interpersonal skills most often cited as essential for successful knowledge acquisition. Little is known, however, about the roles played by 'dispersed leadership' in the process of knowledge acquisition. ...
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Do Female Managers Cultivate More Ethical Leadership Practices? An Investigation on Agency Problems
(International Conference on Management, Leadership & Governance, 2016-04)Considering the implications of moral leadership on corporate accounting practices and agency problems in male dominated financial services, we tested relations between ethical leadership behaviours and agency problems and ...
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Does Personality Influence Agency Problems? The Role of the ‘Big Five’ Personality Dimensions
(Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2016-11)This study examines the role that personality plays in the four determinants of agency problems, known in the literature as direct wealth transfer, asset substitution, underinvestment and overinvestment. The study involves ...
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DUTH at ImageCLEF 2011 Wikipedia Retrieval
(ImageClef, Wikipedia Retrieval Task, 2011)As digital information is increasingly becoming multimodal, the days of single-language text-only retrieval are numbered. Take as an example Wikipedia where a single topic may be covered in several languages and include ...
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E-marketing in the Hotel Industry: Marketing Mix Strategies
(2015)Does the hotel industry fully exploit the e-marketing capabilities? The purpose of this study is to investigate the Internet marketing strategies and practices that are used in the hotel industry. Namely, it examines the ...
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Education: the model of the Inclusive Leader
(Neapolis University Paphos, 2018)Entrepreneurship and innovation are parameters whose theory beyond business could also be used in the field of education. Using action research as a methodological approach we tried to convert a traditional Cypriot Secondary ...
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Evaluating citizens’ actual perceptions and expectations and assessing e-Service Quality Gap in Public Sector related to e-Government Services
(Neapolis University Paphos, 2018)Purpose - The main purpose of this article is to explore the inter-relationships of major constructs related to citizens’ satisfaction regarding e-Service Quality in Public Sector. The plan of the document is to evaluate ...
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The first study exploring pharmacist's perceptions about their role in CVD prevention in Cyprus
(Journal of clinical & experimental cardiology, 2018-06)Statement of the Problem: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the main killer, associated with 31% of all deaths in 2015 worldwide. In Cyprus, the mortality caused by CVD reached 38% in the same year. Specifically, in women ...
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A Fuzzy Rank-Based Late Fusion Method for Image Retrieval
(Springer-Verlag, 2012)Rank-based fusion is indispensable in multiple search setups in lack of item retrieval scores, such as in meta-search with non-cooperative engines. We introduce a novel, simple, and efficient method for rank-based late ...
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GARCH models in Risk Management. MEASURING VOLATILITY
(Butterworth Heinemann, 2000-02)Abstract The objective of this chapter is to examine the ARCH family of volatility models and its use in risk analysis and measurement. An overview of unconditional and conditional volatility models is provided. The former ...
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How Accurate and Reliable (Certain) Are Medical Predictions?
(2015)Unpredictability and uncertainty reigns over most of medicine. Should women be screened for mammography and men for prostate cancer? The answer is not obvious as a growing number of researchers and doctors assert that the ...
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Image Encryption Using the Recursive Attributes of the eXclusive-OR Filter on Cellular Automata
(Springer-Verlag, 2012)A novel visual multimedia content encryption method based on cellular automata (CA) is presented in this paper. The proposed algorithm is based on an attribute of the eXclusive-OR (XOR) logic gate, according to which, ...
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The impact of interpersonal trust and power on the attributes of knowledge acquisition: What is their predictive power?
(MCIL Publishing, Oxford University, 2003-09)Little is known on the combined effect of interpersonal trust and power factors on the traits and skills of knowledge acquisition. A survey of 140 first line managers was conducted to investigate the relationship between ...
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The Impact of Leadership and Power on Perceptions of Creativity in the Workplace
(ACL, Academic Conferences Ltd, 2006)The objective of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of leadership and power on perceptions of creativity in the workplace. The paper also investigates the level of prediction on perceptions of creativity ...
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The Impact of Organisational Bureaucracy ori the Determinants of Knowledge Acquisition
(ACL, Academic Conferences Ltd, 2006)The objective of this paper is to empirically investigate through an industry survey, the impact of organisational bureaucracy on the determinants of knowledge acquisition. The results show that a pyramidical structure has ...
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The Impact of Transformational and Transactional Leadership on Organisational Bureaucracy
(ACL, Academic Conferences LTD, 2005)The objective of this paper is to empirically investigate through an industry survey, the effect of transformational and transactional leadership on the dimensions of organisational bureaucracy. Results indicate that the ...
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The Influence of Transformational and Transactional Leadership on the Determinants of the Work Environment for Creativity
(ACI, Academic Conferences International, 2004)The objective of this paper was to empirically investigate through an industry survey, the impact of transformational and transactional leadership on the work environment dimensions that support creativity. Results ...
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Innovation as a powerful tool for Problem Solving: The key role of Universities
(Neapolis University Paphos, 2018)Innovative entrepreneurial attempts are rather limited in Cyprus, compared to the EU average. Since its conception in 2011, the Enterprise Liaison Office at Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) works vigorously towards ...
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Interpersonal Trust Predictor of Knowledge Acquisition in Selfmanaging Teams: The Consequences for Performance
(MCIL Publishing, Oxford University, 2002-09)Although both trust and the ability of employees to work in an autonomous manner are often cited as being essential for effectiveness of self-managed teams, little is known on the effect of interpersonal hust on knowledge ...