Over the past few decades, drug and overall healthcare expenditure have risen rapidly in most countries. The present study investigates the attitudes and the factors which influence physician prescribing decisions and ...

This paper extends the literature on foreign banking by developing a model that attempts to explain the performance of Greek banks operating abroad using a balanced pooled time-series dataset. Five variables are drawn from ...

This dissertation aims at identifying the determinant factors of mortgage default in Cyprus. It begins with a theoretical study of the factors that increase non-performing mortgage loans of the housing market globally. ...

The execution of infrastructure projects in developing countries requires large investment in capital, foreign financing resources, advanced technology and not only technical but also managerial knowledge. The process of ...

The purpose of this research was to analyse and compare the total quality management system by the framework of European Foundational Quality Management (EFQM) excellence model of five luxury hotels in Paphos. Main objectives ...

The main aim of this article is to identify the factors affecting the level of tourist satisfaction in Pafos. Namely, the study proposes that these factors are quality of services, low cost, aesthetic appeal/nature and ...

Background: The shift from asylum to community care for mental health patients has burdened the providers of primary health care and, more than all, families. As a result, numerous studies [Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr ...

This note is concerned with the design of fast totally self-checking checkers for m-out-of-(2m ± 1) codes. The new method uses only three levels of gates, and is based on the partitioning of the input lines into m blocks ...

In this paper, we are evaluating several accelerating techniques for content-based image retrieval, suitable for the Color and Edge Directivity Descriptor (CEDD). To date, the experimental results presented in the ...

This paper deals with the extraction of a new low level feature that combines, in one histogram, color and texture information. This feature is named FCTH - Fuzzy Color and Texture Histogram - and results from the combination ...

The purpose of this thesis is a feasibility study of a real estate development project. The researcher aims to investigate the different parameters affecting the feasibility of a project such as the External environment, ...

This paper we backtest the FHS VaR model on three types of portfolios invested over a period of two years. The first set of backtests consists of LIFFE financial futures and options contracts traded on LIFFE. In the second ...

Purpose – Thirty years after its creation, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has become a prime example of a norm-building process that transcends the traditional avenues of public international law, while compelling ...

Purpose – This paper examines three important interrelated issues that arise in the context of financial investigations: (i) the access of law enforcement agencies to centralised bank account registries that have been ...

This study carried out for understanding the evolution of the Bank of Cyprus Public Company via the ratio analysis of banking activities in the run up to the global financial crisis. More specifically this study tested ...

This study examines the changes in the ratio analysis of banking activities and testing with Z-score the effect of bankrupts comparing with the Marfin Popular Bank of Cyprus over the last years, focusing on the effects of ...

In recent years, in connection with the transition to a market economy there are many deep changes in the economy of Ukraine. The main changes are the elaboration due to refinement, and sometimes a change of priorities, ...

Although the self-help groups of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) in Greece have existed for more than twenty years, research on them in Greece is limited. This first study was conducted September ...

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 ...

A crucial question to anyone engaged in analysing the inflationary process in a country, is how much has the Government contributed to the generation and maintenance of the high demand pressures. The creation of demand ...