The Turing Test, originally proposed as a simple operational definition of intelligence, has now been around for more than half a century. This paper chronicles some comments on Turing's classic article from its publication ...

O αγροτικός τουρισμός ή αγροτουρισμός αποτελεί μια μορφή εναλλακτικού τουρισμού που αναπτύσσεται στις αγροτικές περιοχές και συνδέεται με τη ζωή στην ύπαιθρο και το αγροτικό περιβάλλον. Είναι μια παραλλαγή του οικοτουρισμού ...

Η διδασκαλία για το προπατορικό αμάρτημα, όπως διαμορφώθηκε στην ορθόδοξη παράδοση από τους Έλληνες Πατέρες, διαφέρει αισθητά από την αντίστοιχη διδασκαλία των λατίνων Πατέρων και ιδιαίτερα του ιερού Αυγουστίνου. Κι’ αυτό ...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the ways that the top-down and the bottom-up approaches to planning can be combined in the practice of planning standards. In the first part, the paper examines the utilization of ...

eHealth is an interdisciplinary research area that fosters application of informatics and communication technologies for the improvement of healthcare delivery. In this paper, we present an overall analysis of eHealth ...

It is widely accepted that seismic design philosophies do not follow the efficiency of seismic analysis methods is quite remarkable. Torsionally unbalanced structures, is a common field where any of the proposed design ...

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 ...

This paper gives an overview of the APIM (Aristotle Parallel Inference Machine) research project, which aims to the design of a new multiprocessor architecture for the parallel execution of logic programs. The APIM system ...

Abstract The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2010/31/EU demands that all new buildings are nearly zero-energy (NZEBs) by the end of 2020, thus requiring from European countries to draw up national plans and ...

Personal e-health systems are the next generation of e-health applications and their goal is to assist patientsin managing their disease and to help both patients and healthy people maintain behaviours that ...

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 ...

We present a personal data management framework called Polis, which abides by the following principle: Every individual has absolute control over her personal data, which reside only at her own side. Preliminary results ...

This study provides a critical examination of how different theoretical perspectives present the concept of entrepreneurship and its relative issues evident in the creation and development of some theories, trends and ...

This study provides a critical examination of how different theoretical perspectives present the concept of entrepreneurship and its relative issues evident in the creation and development of some theories, trends and ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the degree apprenticeship of the vocational training institutes (VTIs) enhances the labor market and enables the trainees to detect the knowledge and skills that ...

Purpose – The thesis aims to investigate the preconditions of transfer pricing, its methodology, application and use in relation to international banking groups (IBGs), relating to transfer pricing manipulation and discuss ...

Knowledge has been identified as one of the most important resources that contribute to the competitive advantage of an organisation. The problems associated with poor leadership and interpersonal skills manifest themselves ...

Performance is a key concern for organisations in the rapidly changing global economy. Although both leadership and the ability of employees to work in an autonomous manner are often cited as being essential for ...

The objective of this research is to identify the barriers that the school community faces in trying to include pupils identified as having special educational needs (SEN). We recommend the application of the “Intermediate ...

Objective: To translate and validate the Cancer Related Fatigue (CRF) Scale in the Greek language. Design: A cross-sectional descriptive design was used in order to translate and validate the CRF Scale in Greek. Factor ...