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Taxation and Bank Efficiency: Cross-Country Evidence
(Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 2013)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 ...
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Teachers’ Practice as a Marginalization Factor in the Process for Inclusive Education in Cyprus
(2007)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 ...
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Technical Trading Profitability in Greek Stock Market
(2008-07)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 ...
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Technological progress and human capital accumulation in a model of endogenous growth
(2010)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 ...
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Technology Replacement Induced by Government Subsidy
(1997-08)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. ...
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Testing Technical Anomalies in Athens Stock Exchange (ASE)
(2006)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 ...
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Think lucky
(2009)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 ...
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Thw performance of demand models into the Canadian economy
(Concordia University, 1977)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 ...
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Time-Series Analysis and Forecasting: An Update and Evaluation
(International Statistical Institute (ISI), 1978-12)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 ...
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To what extend is the turing test still important?
(2012)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 ...
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Tracing the concept of entrepreneurship and the role of an entrepreneur: A critical review
(Neapolis University Paphos, 2018)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 ...
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Transformational and transactional leadership enabling (disabling) knowledge acquisition of self‐managed teams: the consequences for performance
(MCB UP Ltd, 2002)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 ...
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Transformational and transactional leadership predictors of job autonomy in self-managing teams: the consequences for performance
(United Arab Emirates University. College of Business and Economics, 2002-05)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 ...
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Transforming obstacles into supporters in an attempt to promote inclusive education
(Allied Academies, 2020)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 ...
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The true challenge of economic crisis
(Κέντρο Επιμόρφωσης Μελετών Έρευνας και Ανάπτυξης, 2009)The forthcoming elections of June 72009 for the election of members of European Parliament have partially withdrawn Brussels' interest from matters of management the current economic crisis, at central level. The ongoing ...
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TsoKaDo: An Image Search Engine Performing Recursive Query Recommendation Based on Visual Information
(IARIA, 2012)This paper tackles the problem of the user’s incapability to describe exactly the image that he seeks by introducing an innovative image search engine called TsoKaDo. Until now the traditional web image search was based ...
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Turkey’s Search For A New Foreign Policy, 1923-1925: The View of Greek Diplomacy
(The Institute for Balkan studies, 2005)The first two decades of the twentieth century was a difficult period for multinational empires in Europe and the Near East, but in the Ottoman case things were even worse. Following Austria-Hungary’s annexation of Bosnia ...
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Understanding Online News: Uses and Gratifications of Mainstream News Sites and Social Media
(2015)In this study the uses and gratifications obtained from Mainstream News sites and Social Media when the users read online news is explored. A comparative work is done between the two in order to examine the differences on ...
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Understanding the Knowledge - Opportunities - Entrepreneurship Mechanism
(Edward Elgar Publishing Inc, 2016-08)The development of entrepreneurial mindset is a challenge and a goal which requires an in-depth investigation of the learning processes in meta–level, because the key factors are related to meta-cognitive processes and ...
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The Universal declaration of human rights the right for freedom of expression and its protection
(Κέντρο Επιμόρφωσης Μελετών Έρευνας και Ανάπτυξης, 1999)It is well known that, in general, human rights had suffered significant blows during the period between the two World Wars. After the end of World War 11, however, individual rights begun to be strengthened and protected, ...