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"GNOSIS" is the Institutional Repository of the University of Cyprus. It aims to collect, preserve and provide Open Access to Research outputs, produced by the University of Cyprus and the scientists affiliated mainly with the University of Cyprus.
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Working Paper Open Access
Risk management optimization for sovereign debt restructuring
(Journal of Globalization and Development, Vol. 6(2), pp. 181–213, Feb. 2016.; The Wharton School Financial Institutions Centre No. 14-10., 2015-12)Debt restructuring is one of the policy tools available for resolving sovereign debt crises and, while unorthodox, it is not uncommon. We propose a scenario analysis for debt sustainability and integrate it with scenario ...
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Working Paper Open Access
A Political Capital Asset Pricing Model
(The Wharton Financial Institutions Center. The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, PA, 2019-03)We construct a bivariate factor of political stability and economic policy confidence, and show that it commands a significant premium of up to 15% per annum, in the global, developed, and emerging markets, robust to ICAPM, ...
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Article
Tell me a story Dad: (Post)memory and the archaeology of subjectivity in Hanif Kureishi’s My Ear at His Heart
(2016-03-22)This article argues that there are complex connections between imagined and lived experiences of “Britishness” in Hanif Kureishi’s (re)constructions of the past in his memoir My Ear at His Heart. These connections are ...
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Book chapter
Imagining Pasts, Writing Lives—Familial Narratives, Memory, and the ‘Ideological I’ in Imbi Paju’s Memories Denied
(Brill, 2020)During the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Imbi Paju’s mother, Aino, along with her sister, Vaike, were sent to a Siberian gulag in 1948, where they spent six years until their release in 1954; from that story, an author was ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Modelling and data acquisition for continuing vocational training of upper secondary school physics teachers in pupil-active learning of superconductivity and electromagnetism based on minds-on simple experiments
(University of Cyprus, 2010)The MOSEM2 project (MOdelling and data acquisition for continuing vocational training of upper secondary school physics teachers in pupil-active learning of Superconductivity and ElectroMagnetism based on Minds-On Simple ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Algorithmics from early years
(University of Cyprus, 2010)We teach algorithmics at early stages of children development by means of various programming languages and ICT tools in order to develop their cognitive and mathematical skills. Computational thinking is not only a useful ...
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Conference Object Open Access
“Pec task explorer”: a tool for Ict supported learning in science
(University of Cyprus, 2010)In modern science teaching the role of ICT in supporting learning cannot be underestimated, let alone be ignored. Especially for the Predict-Observe-Explain strategy (POE), multimedia-supported POE tasks may be used as a ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Enquiry-based learning using pictures: the geograph project
(University of Cyprus, 2010)This paper discusses the rationale underlying enquiry-based learning in terms of problem-solving activity and the technical infrastructure needed to support it. Some of the issues underlying the implementation of this ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Social and cognitive constructivisms in practice on the basis of etwinning projects in science
(University of Cyprus, 2010)The role of social interactions and cognitive processes in learning is evident for teachers and educators. Nowadays there is a challenge to transfer the theory into practice, to build an environment in which learning science ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Our climate, our change - using digital learning objects to present the complex science of global climate change
(University of Cyprus, 2010)Global Climate Change (GCC) is arguably one of the most significant challenges ever faced by humankind. The complex science of GCC leaves the general public and teachers at both secondary school and tertiary levels perplexed.. ...
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