HEPHAESTUS Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Translation and validation of the Cancer-Related Fatigue Scale in Greek in a sample of patients with advanced prostate cancer
(2016)Objective: To translate and validate the Cancer-Related Fatigue (CRF) Scale in the Greek language.Design: A cross-sectional descriptive design was usedin order to translate and validate the CRF Scale inGreek. Factor analyses ...
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The effects on anxiety and quality of life of breast cancer patients following completion of the first cycle of chemotherapy
(Sage, 2017)Objectives: Breast cancer patients as part of their treatment need to undergo various forms of chemotherapy. This is considered as a burdensome experience for many patients often leading to significant levels of anxiety. ...
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Combining Color and Spatial Color Distribution Information in a Fuzzy Rule Based Compact Composite Descriptor
(Springer, 2011)In this paper, a novel low level feature for content based image retrieval is presented. The proposed feature structure combines color and spatial color distribution information. The combination of these two features in ...
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Employing Cellular Automata for Shaping Accurate Morphology Maps Using Scattered Data from Robotics’ Missions
(Springer, 2015)Accurate maps are essential in the case of robot teams, so that they can operate autonomously and accomplish their tasks efficiently. In this work we present an approach which allows the generation of detailed maps, suitable ...
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Cellular Automata Ants
(Springer, 2017)During the last decades much attention was given to bio-inspired techniques able to successfully handle really complex algorithmic problems. As such Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithms have been introduced as a ...
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Migrant domestic workers in Cyprus: An evaluation of their sexual and reproductive health needs. A pilot study
(2008)Background: Literature suggests that the employment of female domestic workers is not based on the labour needs of the country, but mainly on the needs of working women. There are approximately 23,000 female migrant domestic ...
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Sexual harassment at workplace
(Cyprus Nurses & Midwives Association, 2008)According to the Equal Treatment of Men and Women in the Employment and Professional Educational Laws 2002-2006, four forms of discrimination exist because of gender: 1. Direct gender discrimination 2. Indirect gender ...
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Review of epidemiology of depression and implications for community nursing practice
(2010)Depression is regarded as one of the most common mental disorders, but available data point out that only less than one third of adults with depression obtain appropriate professional treatment. This is attributed (amongst ...
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Gender Discrimination and Nursing: Α Literature Review
(Elsevier, 2011)This article aims to examine gender stereotypes in relation to men in nursing, discuss gender discrimination cases in nursing, and explore methods used for promoting equal educational opportunities during nursing studies. ...
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Greek-Cypriot mental health nurses’ professional satisfaction and association with mild psychiatric symptoms
(Australian College of Mental Health Nurses Inc., 2013)The present descriptive correlational study aims to explore among Greek-Cypriot mental health nurses (MHNs) the level of professional satisfaction, potential differences with regard to vocational characteristics, and ...
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Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of immigrants from third countries in Cyprus, on HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health. The implication of nursing ethics to healthcare
(Technological Educational Institute of Athens, 2013)Background: Cultural, social policy and legal factors contribute to HIV vulnerability amongst ethnic minorities. Insufficient knowledge on HIV transmission and prevention contributes in engaging in risky sexual behaviours ...
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Mobile Elderly Living Community (MELCO): The Development of the Social Community Model: a Case Study
(2013)Background: Elderly prefer to be in their own homes rather than being in hospital or residential homes. Communication between elderly and community nurses is essential in caring and mutual interaction and modern technologies ...
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Content based radiology image retrieval using a fuzzy rule based scalable composite descriptor
(2010)The rapid advances made in the field of radiology, the increased frequency in which oncological diseases appear, as well as the demand for regular medical checks, led to the creation of a large database of radiology ...
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Accurate Image Retrieval Based on Compact Composite Descriptors and Relevance Feedback Information
(World Scientific Publishing Company, 2010)In this paper a new set of descriptors appropriate for image indexing and retrieval is proposed. The proposed descriptors address the tremendously increased need for e±cient content-based image retrieval (CBIR) in many ...
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Investigating the Behavior of Compact Composite Descriptors in Early Fusion, Late Fusion and Distributed Image Retrieval
(2010)In Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems, the visual content of the images is mapped into a new space named the feature space. The features that are chosen must be discriminative and sufficient for the description ...
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A novel cellular automata based technique for visual multimedia content encryption
(Elsevier, 2010)This paper proposes a new method for visual multimedia content encryption using Cellular Automata (CA). The encryption scheme is based on the application of an attribute of the CLF XOR filter, according to which the original ...
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Fast Retrieval from Image Databases via Binary Haar Wavelet Transform on the Color and Edge Directivity Descriptor
(IARIA, 2011)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 ...
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Text localization using standard deviation analysis of structure elements and support vector machines
(Springer, 2011)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 ...
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Dynamic two-stage image retrieval from large multimedia databases
(Elsevier, 2013)Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) with global features is notoriously noisy, especially for image queries with low percentages of relevant images in a collection. Moreover, CBIR typically ranks the whole collection, ...
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Co.Vi.Wo.: Color Visual Words Based on Non-Predefined Size Codebooks
(IEEE, 2012)Due to the rapid development of information technology and the continuously increasing number of available multimedia data, the task of retrieving information based on visual content has become a popular subject of scientific ...




















