• Master Thesis  Open Access

      3D Palaeogeographical Reconstruction of the Archaeological Site of Kition from the Late Bronze Age through to the Roman Period 

      Stavrou, Thomas (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Letters, 2023-12-20)
      The ancient settlement of Kition lies below the modern city of Larnaca, on the southeast coast of Cyprus. It lies roughly 400 meters from the nearest coastline and has irrefutable evidence that it once had an operational ...
    • Master Thesis  Open Access

      Adherens Junctions spatially guide ECM deposition by stimulating integrin activation and clustering 

      Zheltkova, Maria (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2022-05-20)
      The extracellular matrix (ECM) plays an essential role in all multicellular organisms as a substrate for cell anchorage and tissue scaffolding. It is involved in diverse processes such as cell proliferation and survival, ...
    • Master Thesis  

      Affective recognition for games using body postures 

      Zacharatos, Theocharis (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2012-06)
      The affective state of a player when playing a game has a significant effect on the players motivation and engagement. Recognizing players emotions during games can help game designers improve the user experience by providing ...
    • Master Thesis  

      Algorithm mechanisms for reliable master - worker internet - based computing under communication uncertainty 

      Christoforou, Evgenia (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2012-06)
      We consider Internet-based master-worker computations, where a master processor assigns, across the Internet, a computational task to a set of untrusted worker processors and collects their responses. Examples of such ...
    • Master Thesis  Open Access

      The amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer’s Disease and its current treatment 

      Komodromou, Artemis A. (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2020-12-14)
      Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is the commonest cause of dementia in the elderly population worldwide. It is a multifactorial disorder, characterized by extracellular β-amyloid peptide ...
    • Master Thesis  Open Access

      Analysis of customer experience across six industries in the Cyprus market 

      Irakleous, Alexia; Manolis, Alexandros; Taylor, Lauren; Skouroumounis, Anastasios; Antoniou, Kypriana (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Οικονομικών Επιστημών και Διοίκησης / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Economics and Management, 2021-12-06)
      Η εμπειρία των πελατών και οι επενδύσεις στην τεχνολογία διαδραματίζουν σημαντικό ρόλο στην ανταγωνιστικότητα όλων των επιχειρήσεων, καθώς οι αγορές αλλάζουν συνεχώς και γίνονται πιο ανταγωνιστικές. Οι χρηματοοικονομικές ...
    • Master Thesis  Open Access

      Analysis of Nonlinear structures using the Response Controlled Stepped-Sine Testing (RCT) method 

      Rousou, Konstantinos (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Πολυτεχνική Σχολή / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Engineering, 2023-06-01)
      Dynamic analysis and characterization of structures which contain multiple nonlinearities is challenging and complicated. Despite the rapid technological development, it is still considered that most structures designed ...
    • Master Thesis  

      Android home monitor system for post cardiosurgery patients 

      Prokopiou, Prokopis (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2013-09-06)
    • Master Thesis  Open Access

      Anti-treaty : reclaiming Akrotiri decolonizing practices and counter narratives 

      Ευαγγέλου, Ρεβέκκα (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Πολυτεχνική Σχολή / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Engineering, 2023-06-06)
      Η διπλωματική αυτή ασχολείται με τη περιοχή Ακρωτήρι η οποία υπάγεται στις βρετανικές βάσεις που έχουμε στην Κύπρο. Η περιοχή αυτή υπάγεται στο Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο παρόλο που είναι ένα από τα σημαντικότερα ιστορικά κομμάτια ...
    • Master Thesis  Open Access

      Application of conservation genetics in conservation planning, with a special focus on the impacts of hybridization on birds and their conservation 

      Hajjar, Vanessa (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2022-06-01)
      Biodiversity consists of all different live forms found in Earth. It is important to sustain it as it has several important aspects, such as maintaining ecosystems, helping with their proper functioning and it also plays ...
    • Master Thesis  

      Application performance overhead and scalability for execution on virtual machines over multicore processors 

      Charalambous, Maria (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2010-06)
      Virtualization was born more than 30 years ago by IBM in an attempt to logically partition mainframe computers into separate virtual machines. As expected, despite the benefits virtualization was offering, a performance ...
    • Master Thesis  Open Access

      Artificial intelligence in the workplace in Cyprus: an employee perspective 

      Mylona, Antonia (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Οικονομικών Επιστημών και Διοίκησης / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Economics and Management, 2022-05-24)
      The present study aimed on placing Cyprus into the research map of AI in the workplace. It focused on investigating main variables job replacement anxiety experienced by employees, acceptance and trust of AI in the workplace, ...
    • Master Thesis  Open Access

      Attention Bias Modification Training (ABM) in non-Clinical anxious populations: an eye-tracking study 

      Psychogioudaki, Eirini (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Κοινωνικών Επιστημών και Επιστημών Αγωγής / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Social Sciences and Education, 2023-06-02)
      Abstract Anxiety has been consistently associated with attentional biases towards threatening stimuli in previous studies, primarily assessed through differences in motor reaction time and eye-fixation patterns between ...
    • Master Thesis  Open Access

      Autogenous shrinkage effects on high strength concrete with mechanically treated and internally cured aggregates 

      Erotokritou, Charalampos (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Πολυτεχνική Σχολή / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Engineering, 2023-08)
      The growing urgency to preserve natural resources has spurred the adoption of recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) in the production of conventional concrete. However, a significant drawback of recycled aggregate concrete ...
    • Master Thesis  Open Access

      Automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) in video streams and data anonymization for traffic monitoring, by use of machine vision 

      Pavlides, Arestis (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Πολυτεχνική Σχολή / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Engineering, 2022-12-22)
      Η ερευνητική εργασία που περιγράφεται σε αυτή τη διατριβή επικεντρώνεται στη δημιουργία κώδικα λογισμικού αυτόματης αναγνώρισης αριθμού πινακίδας οχημάτων (ANPR), το οποίο είναι σε θέση να αναλύει εικόνες από ροές βίντεο, ...
    • Master Thesis  Open Access

      Aviation & tourism industry during Covid-19: the Impact on Cyprus island 

      Kakkoufa, Theognosia (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Οικονομικών Επιστημών και Διοίκησης / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Economics and Management, 2023-05-26)
      This essay was written for the University of Cyprus' Master of Business and Economics program. The following essay will focus on the Covid-19 pandemic and how it affected a sizable portion of Cyprus's economy, particularly ...
    • Master Thesis  Open Access

      Avoidance Associations with physiological Arousal in response to deep and shallow emotion processing 

      Michael, Savvia A. (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Κοινωνικών Επιστημών και Επιστημών Αγωγής / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Social Sciences and Education, 2022-09-01)
      Avoidance is a powerful risk factor for the development and maintenance of mental health disorders, but much remains to be learned about the specific underlying physiological processes that are implicated. Also, much remains ...
    • Master Thesis  Open Access

      Aποτελεσματική εφαρμογή της Οδηγίας 93/13/ΕΟΚ ΤΟΥ ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΙΟΥ της 5ης Απριλίου 1993 σχετικά με τις καταχρηστικές ρήτρες των συμβάσεων που συνάπτονται με καταναλωτές στην κυπριακή έννομη τάξη 

      Τσαγκάρη, Μαριάννα (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Κοινωνικών Επιστημών και Επιστημών Αγωγής / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Social Sciences and Education, 2022)
      Η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση ( « ΕΕ») επιδιώκει να διασφαλίζει στους καταναλωτές υψηλό επίπεδο προστασίας, κάτι το οποίο καθίσταται ξεκάθαρο από το λεκτικό του άρθρου 38 του Χάρτη των Θεμελιωδών Δικαιωμάτων της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης . ...
    • Master Thesis  Open Access

      Bacterial Species Antagonizing Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection 

      Grivogiannis, Evangelos (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2021-05-27)
      Microbial species rarely exist in isolation in nature. Epithelial interfaces, such as the bilaterian intestine or the mammalian lung, harbour polymicrobial communities increasing infection complexity at these sites. We ...
    • Master Thesis  Open Access

      Between Land and Water 

      Fallahnejad, Mahnia (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Πολυτεχνική Σχολή / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Engineering, 2022-06-02)
      Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία διαπραγματεύεται το θέμα ένταξης ενός κτιριακού συγκροτήματος σε ένα ευαίσθητο τοπίο με μεταβαλλόμενη στάθμη νερού η οποία στόχο έχει την εξυπηρέτηση, κυρίως, των υφιστάμενων δραστηριοτήτων. ...