Browsing by Subject "Management"

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Alcohol and psychoactive drugs increased the pre-hospital mortality in 655 fall-related fatalities in Greece: A call for management protocols

Papadopoulos, I. N.; Bonovas, Stefanos; Kanakaris, Nikolaos K.; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Kotsilianou, Olympia; Konstantoudakis, Georgios; Leukidis, Christos (2012)

Introduction: The frequency of alcohol and psychoactive drugs in fall-related fatalities and their effect on type, severity of injury and location of death constitute the subjects of this study. Methods: A retrospective ...

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Closure to "Educating Civil Engineering Professionals of Tomorrow" by Symeon Christodoulou

Christodoulou, Symeon E. (2005-04)

The discussion by Nirmal Kumar Acharya and Young-Dai Lee seems to focus on perceived limitations of FIAPP as applied to traditional civil engineering while pointing out that the original paper addresses primarily construction ...

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Competition for environmental aid and aid fungibility

Hadjiyiannis, Costas; Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Michael, Michael S. (2013)

Aid from environmentally conscious donors to developing recipients has long been thought of as a very promising way of preserving the global environment. However, aid is fungible and recipients cannot commit to using it ...

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A comprehensive context modeling framework for pervasive computing systems

Reichle, R.; Wagner, M.; Khan, M. U.; Geihs, K.; Lorenzo, J.; Valla, M.; Fra, C.; Paspallis, Nearchos; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2008)

Context management in pervasive computing environments must reflect the specific characteristics of these environments, e.g. distribution, mobility, resource-constrained devices, or heterogeneity of context sources. Although ...

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Diagnosis, prognosis, and management of leiomyosarcoma: Recognition of anatomic variants

Bathan, Andrew J.; Constantinidou, Anastasia; Pollack, S. M.; Jones, Robin Lewis (2013)

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The purpose of this review is to present the most recent advances in the diagnosis of the more common leiomyosarcoma (LMS) anatomic variants, potentially useful prognostic markers that have recently been ...

Conference Object Open Access

E-learning in military equipment and technologies research agency (metra) - Romania

Dumitru, Florin-Marius; Cantaragiu, Stefan (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)

The paper shows the METRA's achievements in e-learning area. First part is a brief presentation about main METRA’s activities and major R&D programs. Next part of paper is dedicated to main METRA’s activities regarding ...

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Earnings Management Around Share Repurchases: A Note

Vafeas, Nikos; Vlittis, Adamos; Katranis, Philippos; Ockree, Kanalis (2003)

This work examines a subset of the important area of earnings management. Specifically, it seeks to identify the extent of earnings management preceding self-tender offers for a sample of U.S. firms. Pre-repurchase total ...

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Impact of early diagnosis and control of chronic respiratory diseases on active and healthy ageing: A debate at the European Union Parliament

Bousquet, Jean; Tanasescu, C. C.; Camuzat, Thierry; Anto, Josep M.; Blasi, F.; Neou, A.; Palkonen, S.; Papadopoulos, N. G.; Antunes, J. Pinto; Samolinski, B.; Yiallouros, Panayiotis K.; Zuberbier, T. (2013)

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Management of leptomeningeal malignancy

Pentheroudakis, George; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2005)

Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis is defined as malignant infiltration of the pia matter and arachnoid membrane. Leukaemias and lymphomas, lung, breast cancer and melanoma are the primary tumours commonly associated with ...

Doctoral Thesis

Optimum bid markup calculation in competitive bidding environments using fuzzy artificial neural networks

Christodoulou, Symeon E. (1998)

The study presented in this thesis seeks the development of a model to be used by the construction industry for optimum bid markup calculations in static and non-static competitive bidding environments. The methodology ...

Conference Object Open Access

Perc: a departmental solution for web-enhanced courses

Mzoughi, Taha (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)

Since the Fall of 1998, the department of Physics and Astronomy at Mississippi State University has been using and developing PERC (Providing Electronic Resources for Courses), a set of utilities that can be used to ...

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Project report conducted by the Cyprus Educational Administration Society (CEAS): Analysis of professional needs of primary school headteachers in Cyprus

Eliophotou Menon, Maria (Education Publishing Worldwide Ltd, 2005)

Discusses the project initiated by the members of the Cyprus Educational Administration Society, which is affiliated with the Commonwealth Council for Education Administration and Management. Objective of the project to ...

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Security in the cache and forward architecture for the next generation Internet

Hadjichristofi, G. C.; Hadjicostis, Christoforos N.; Raychaudhuri, D. (2011)

The future Internet architecture will be comprised predominately of wireless devices. It is evident at this stage that the TCP/IP protocol that was developed decades ago will not properly support the required network ...

Conference Object

Self-optimizing block transfer in web service grids

Gounaris, A.; Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Yfoulis, C.; Sakellariou, R. (2007)

Nowadays, Web Services (WSs) play an increasingly important role in Web data management solutions, since they offer a practical solution for accessing and manipulating data sources spanning administrative domains. Nevertheless, ...

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A Study of Thread Migration in Temperature-Constrained Multicores

Michaud, P.; Seznec, A.; Fetis, D.; Sazeides, Yiannakis; Constantinou, T. (2007)

Temperature has become an important constraint in high-performance processors, especially multicores. Thread migration will be essential to exploit the full potential of future thermally constrained multicores.We propose ...

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