This paper investigates the relationship between the effective tax rate on bank income and bank profit efficiency. Our sample consists of 3,472 observations from 533 publicly quoted commercial banks operating in 46 countries ...

In recent years there is an intense effort around the world for integrating children considered as having special needs in their neighborhood schools. The function of special education in Cyprus has been criticized as ...

Στο 10o Συνέδριο το 1956 στο Ντουμπρόβνικ, ο Le Corbusier απουσίαζε. Σε επιστολή που έστειλε υποστήριξε τη νέα γενιά των αρχιτεκτόνων «ως τους μόνους ικανούς να βρίσκονται σε άμεση επαφή με τα προβλήματα της μεταπολεμικής ...

We examine the performance of various types of technical trading rules in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE). In particular, this study examines the predictability of daily returns for the ASE by using the various moving ...

An endogenous growth model is presented that combines two well-known 'sources of growth': technological progress arising from R&D investments and accumulation of human capital. The model produces steady state growth of per ...

Governments are expected to subsidy activities that would improve environmental conditions. In this respect, subsidies promoting the spread of new environment friendly technology are in effect in most parts of the world. ...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the existence of historical Market anomalies in the Athens Stock Market (ASE). The market anomalies that are going to be explored are technical ones concerning the trading rules ...

A text localization technique is required to successfully exploit document images such as technical articles and letters. The proposed method detects and extracts text areas from document images. Initially a connected ...

Theatre and drama deserve a special place among the various influences on Plutarch, since the theatre has a double impact. Its capacity to both offer good teaching material in its substance and good literary models makes ...

Since its birth, property taxation has been a major source of revenue. Taxation in general, is an important conduit to generate revenue and also a tool to redistribute wealth. It can act as a tool to manage land use, urban ...

This article deals with the role of the therapeutic relationship in psychotherapy of patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) (APA, 2013). Firstly, the paper refers to the therapeutic relationship in BPD in ...

Strategy theories make great claims about their ability to contribute to business success, but how realistic are those claims? We only have to look back to re engineering and its promised miracles, for a lesson in how far ...

This paper presents four consumer demand models. The Rotterdam, the Linear Expenditure, the Indirect Addilog and the Translogarithmic. In the first part their derivation and theoretical properties are outlined. Afterwards ...

Forecasting has clearly become a field in its own right; its growth and change continue at a rather fast pace, as the number of published books and papers on the topic increases and as more experience about forecasting ...

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 ...