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Pricing Basket spread options
(Society for Computational Economics, 2006)
This paper describes and analyses the use of the Filtered Historical Simulation algorithm in pricing spread options. Spread options are contracts whose payoff depends on the price difference (spread) between two or more ...
Pressure area care: An exploration of Greek nurses’ knowledge and practice
(Blackwell Science, 2002-11)
BACKGROUND: Despite a plethora of information on the prevention of pressure sores, they remain a significant problem in both hospital and community settings. The need to reduce the incidence of pressure sores has been well ...
Factors influencing prescribing behaviour of physicians in Greece and Cyprus. Results from a questionnaire based survey
(BioMed Central, 2009)
Over the past few decades, drug and overall healthcare expenditure have risen rapidly in most countries. The present study investigates the attitudes and the factors which influence physician prescribing decisions and ...
Θεσμικό πλαίσιο περιφερειακής ανάπτυξης. 3ος τ.
(Κέντρο Επιμόρφωσης Μελετών Έρευνας και Ανάπτυξης, 2005)
Τα θέματα της περιφερειακής ανάπτυξης και των ιδιωτικών επενδύσεων είναι πολλά και ποικίλα, όπως νομικά, οικονομικά, κοινωνικά κ.λ., αλλά δεν έχουν «επισύρει» στο σύνολό τους και στον ίδιο
βαθμό την προσοχή των Ερευνητών, ...
Conflict management in public hospitals: the Cyprus case
(International Council of Nurses, 2001-06)
Background: Conflict among health-care personnel has been identified as an issue within health-care settings around the world.
Aim: To investigate the existence and management of conflict among health-care personnel in ...
The connection between trust and knowledge management: what are its implications for team performance
(MCB UP Ltd, 2003)
The latest buzzwords in organizational change and development literature are “knowledge management” and “knowledge transfer”, which proponents claim are successful ways of improving and enhancing employees’ performance. ...
Coherent risk measures under filtered historical simulation
(Elsevier, 2005-04)
Recent studies have strongly criticised conventional VaR models for not providing a coherent risk measure. Acerbi provides the intuition for an entire family of coherent measures of risk known as “spectral risk measures” ...
Commitment policy and optimal positive long-run inflation
(2008)
This paper studies different types of commitment policy in an economy where the deterministic steady state is inefficient. We show how a policy suggested by the approach of policy design entails positive long-run inflation, ...
An initial imprinting of the self-help groups of Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous in Greece: the demographic facts
(Baywood Publishing, 2005)
Although the self-help groups of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) in Greece count more than twenty years of life, the researching activity in the field in Greece is limited. This study is the first ...
Optimum Design Approaches for Improving the Seismic Performance of 3D RC Buildings
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-03-28)
In this article, a number of design approaches for 3D reinforced concrete (RC) buildings are formulated in the framework of structural optimization problems and are assessed in terms of their performance under earthquake ...