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Here to Stay”? Golden Dawn, From the Political Margin to the Political Foreground
(2014)“When we won 5.3% in the Municipality of Athens [in 2010], they said it was circumstantial. We told them that we are here to stay. And from Athens we will spread to all of Greece. When on May 6 [2012] we won 6.9 per ...
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‘Horses for Courses’ in demand forecasting
(Elsevier, 2014-02-22)Forecasting as a scientific discipline has progressed a lot in the last 40 years, with Nobel prizes being awarded for seminal work in the field, most notably to Engle, Granger and Kahneman. Despite these advances, even ...
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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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How Rewarding is Technical Analysis? Evidence from Athens Stock Exchange
(Springer, 2006)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of various technical trading rules in the Athens Stock Market. We test two of the simplest and most popular trading rules- Moving Averages and MACD Indicator. We ...
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Hypertension: empirical evidence and implications in 2014
(Open Heart, 2014-05-28)High blood pressure (HBP) or hypertension (HTN) is one of the leading causes of cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality throughout the world. Despite this fact, there is widespread agreement that the treatment of HBP, ...
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If we cannot forecast how can we plan?
(Elsevier, 1981)The purpose of this article is to deal directly and explicitly with the issues and problems currently facing forecasting, planning and strategy and to discuss how the challenges of the 1980s can be realistically and ...
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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 Empirical Accuracy Studies On Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
(International Statistical Institute (ISI), 1995-12)This paper examines a major area of statistics: the application of time series analysis to forecasting, particularly as it applies to the areas of business and economics. This area is unusual in the social sciences in that ...
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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 Perceived Community Prosperity on Job Satisfaction of Black and White Workers
(Academy of Management, 1976)Data collected from black and white workers in three organizations indicate that workers living in communities with different perceived levels of prosperity have different job satisfaction. A relatively less affluent ...
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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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In-service Education: Educating Primary Teachers in Human Rights in Greece
(The learning teacher magazine, 2017-06)Since the early 1990s, the Greek Ministry of Education gradually introduced several innovative programmes such as Health Education. Health Education aims to protect, improve and promote mental and physical health and social ...
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Inclusion or Exclusion? The Role of Special Tutoring and Education District Committees in Special Secondary Education Units in Cyprus
(2018-06)The paper examines the role of the Special Tutoring and Education District Committee (STEDC) in moving children in, as well as out of, Special Secondary Education Units (SSEUs) in Cyprus. SSEUs were introduced as part ...
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Incorporating Technical Analysis Into Behavioral Finance: A Field Experiment in the Large Capitalization Firms of the Athens Stock Exchange
(EuroJournals Publishing, 2008)In this paper we try to apply Technical Analysis methodology into the Behavior Theory for the large capitalization firms of the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE). In Behavioural and in Technical Theory we observe a combination ...
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Inflation persistence and optimal positive long-run inflation
(2007)Within New Keynesian economics, the optimality of a monetary policy that aims at zero inflation is surprisingly robust. Optimal monetary policy has this character despite the inefficiency of the nonstochastic steady state ...
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Inflationary Expectations And Stock-Bond Yield Differentials
(Palgrave Macmillan Journals, 1980)Global inflationary trends have for many decades eroded the purchasing power of money and have become embodied in the structure of security yields. This article explores the uses of various data formats to represent ...
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The influence of managerial power and credibility on knowledge acquisition attributes
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2005)Purpose – This paper examines the relationship between credibility, the dimensions of power and a number of knowledge acquisition attributes. Design/methodology/approach – The study involves a questionnaire-based survey ...
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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 ...