The term “stable” in engineering first appears at the days of Archimedes and Aristotle, referring to the movement of a body with a focus on its implementation to the orbit of a planet around the sun. In modern times, a more ...
The bioenergetics paths are chemical processes aiming in energy production for the cell. Apart from photosynthesis and respiration, which are the most known procedures used by the eukaryotic organisms (i.e. animals and plants), ...
His main goal is to attribute a particular identity in each of his work, by economizing with his harmonic material, so that the musical compositions sounds as consistent and compact as possible. One of the main characteristics ...
Diomidis Spinellis is a professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business. His research interests focus on software engineering, computer security and ...
Operational Research is the discipline that deals with the scientific preparation of decision making. It uses mathematical models, fully or partially formed in order to approach decision making problems. It supports people, ...
The research team of the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of NCSR “DEMOKRITOS”, in cooperation with partners of the Institute of Nuclear & Radiological Sciences & Technology, Energy & Safety ...
Takeover bids are very important for the internal market, because they contribute to market integration, according to the fundamental freedom of establishment of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). ...
Geothermal energy is the natural heat from within the earth and it reaches the earth's surface through water, vapors and hot rocks. There are three kinds of geothermal systems that are divided according to their temperature ...
Ageing and the pathological situations that go with it (neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, heart diseases etc.) constitute one of the ever increasing human disability factors in modern societies. The mechanisms which are ...
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Phospholipases A2 constitute a family of highly regulated enzymes that catalyze the catabolism of the phospholipids, liberating free fatty acids and lyso-phospholipids. Increased amounts of PLA2s are detected when there is ...
The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) was developed under the auspices of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with a view to ...
Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) is the oldest educational institution in Greece in the fields of Economics and Business Administration, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. ...
The Institute of Historical Research (IHR/NHRF) belongs to the National Hellenic Research Foundation and its objective is the research of the political, economic, social and cultural history of the Hellenic area and the regions where ...
The children's skills in assembling objects and in building constructions with their hands is usually cultuvated from a young age through games that include pieces which are connected together e.g. cubes, bricks and other ...
The Art as a deep civilization sign in the course of history throughout the centuries has validated its importance by cultivating the human ethos and spirit, offering a stage for expression and creativity, but also substantial uplift ...
Lysosomal Storage Disorders (LSD’s) are a group of approximately 50 rare inherited metabolic disorders. This is a heterogeneous group of rare disorders with disastrous consequences on patients’ life. For all these disorders, the ...
A composer is invited through his work to show his intentions clearly to the public. A project may include not only 'polite' feelings but also other, completely opposite ones, since in the creator's inner world in there are ...
The oncology as a branch of medicine deals with both pathological cell masses known as "tumors" and malignant blood diseases. Due to the wide range as well as to the science progress, it is divided in subspecialties, both ...
FPGA technology (Field Programmable Gate Array) is a technology in which integrated circuits, made from the same technology as the processors that we use in our personal computers, have got "an open in changes ...
Students’ mobility in other European countries either for studying in a foreign University or for participating in traineeships abroad, has become an institution for Greek Universities today and takes place by European funding ...
It is now known and commonly accepted that strategies must be developed and tools must be exploited in order to reduce the earthquake impact, mainly in countries with intense seismic activity. The main goal of the «Lisbon in Motion» ...
Modern way of thinking takes for granted the duty of every public place to ensure equal access to all citizens, especially if this place has an educational, entertaining and cultural content. To achieve this aim there are, however, ...
A key component of synthetic thinking of Stylianos Dimou is the perception of the musical structure as a fluid entity, a flexible organism which reflects the emancipation of the musical microworld and of the detail, as fundamental ...
The European Space Centre for the earth’s environmental monitoring 'BEYOND', a center that is designed to continuously collect information from the planet about the evolving ...
Robotic surgery constitutes the development of laparoscopic medicine and is used by specialized doctors across the entire spectrum of laparoscopic and "open" surgeries. The goal of the research team of the Laboratory of ...
The feeling of hunger as well as the feeling of repletion after food consumption are the key elements for maintaining a person’s energy balance. Obesity and the consequent morbidity that accompanies it, take place precisely due ...
The flourishing of significant scientific research in Universities presupposes, initially, the availability of highly qualified scientific staff along with a supporting infrastructure and the foundation of research institutions. At the same time, ...
Reputation is the distilment of impressions and emotions derived from a firm's behaviours and actions. It is very important since it is disseminated to the public, thus providing information and influencing attitudes towards the company ...
Demetrios Christodoulou has made fundamental scientific contributions in ...
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The Natural History Museum of Crete (NHMC) of the University of Crete has reached the 32nd year since its foundation and the 20th year since its dynamic activation and development. It acts as a repository where data from the ...
Home monitoring devices or systems which focus on mobility issues of Parkinson’s disease, are not currently available on the market. While, there are several scientific studies that support the idea of automatic monitoring ...
The role of an Engineering Designer can be spotted in about any phase of a product’s life cycle and at all levels that compose a system. The modern designer must have a combination of knowledge from disciplines ...
With the term “long-term research”, Professor Paul Spirakis from the Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics, School of Engineering, University of Patras ...
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Geodesy is the science that deals with observations, measurements and calculations, in order to define the shape, size and gravity field of the earth including the associated variations in time. The geometric reference system ...
The European Social Survey (ESS) started in 2002 as European research project, with the decision of the Standing Committee on the Social Sciences, at the European Science Foundation (ESF), to confront the absence of reliable, ...
Early detection seems to be the most powerful ally in the battle against cancer. This is the main reason why, year after year, men and women, of a certain age dutifully visit their doctors and undergo a series of tests that often cause ...
There are over 30.000 proteins in the human body, which play multiple and various roles. Some proteins adopt a structural role, while contributing to the maintenance of the shape of the cell and constitute structural components of ...
At the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of the School of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete, a research team named «Kouretes», which studies robotics and in particular the development of ...
A film starts from an initial idea. Then, other ideas, and other images are added. The idea takes the form of a story and it becomes a scenario. Three people, the Scriptwriter, the Producer and the Director are the core team. The scriptwriter ...
The science of Civil Engineering includes, in essence, applied physics. Mathematics in the Department of Civil Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Democritus University of Thrace is taught ...
The Laboratory of Signal Processing and Biomedical Technology of the Faculty of Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki deals with practical technological applications in order to support the daily life of people who ...
Radiation is energy in the form of waves or moving subatomic particles. Man coexists with radiation throughout his life, surrounded by many natural, as well as artificial, sources of radiation. Radiation is distinguished in two main ...
The students of the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering of the Aegean University, design products and are being challenged through their participation in competitions. In the framework of the 5th semester ...
Doctors in the Intensive Care Units are invited to support severely congested patients, who often face simultaneous multi-organ failure. Despite the development of technology in recent years, there are still major limitations related ...
Cosmology, known as cosmogony since antiquity, is the study of the universe. How did everything start? How did the universe evolve and expand? And what is its future going to be? Modern Cosmology began in 1920 and continues ...
Cells are under the constant risk of DNA lesions caused by environmental factors or by byproducts of cell normal metabolism. The danger lies in the fact that DNA damage contributes significantly to the creation of tumors and ...
In recent years, the need to support older people and persons who belong to vulnerable social groups has increased dramatically. The necessity of reducing the cost of the 24/7 support and enabling immediate detection and prevention ...
According to the reasoning of the Committee issuing the award of "Excellence in Academic Teaching" by the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), the concept of teaching excellence is much more than the ability for ...
Sensor networks are a rapidly rising, new network technology that can be used in industrial and financial applications, in the areas of the environment and health, to monitor an area of interest, for security purposes, into the ...
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The design of products and systems which starts with the concept and ends with the completion of the final product or system is known as industrial design. In between, there also takes place the mediation of the geometric design, ...
The fractional differential calculus is the branch of calculus dealing with derivatives, integrals and fractional differential equations, i.e. non-integer order e.g., the half-derivative is the derivative order of 1/2. The fractional derivatives ...
The control problem of the lateral behavior of vehicles with four wheel steer has attracted much research interest over the last 20 years. The independent rotation of the rear wheels may offer additional flexibility to the steering of the ..
Up to this day, the prognosis and diagnosis of diseases associated with unknown mutations required time consuming methods. On several occasions the importance of early diagnosis and at the same time valid prognosis is ...
Professor D. Dougenis is a distinguished scientist in the field of Cardiothoracic Surgery science, with a special contribution to the understanding and surgical treatment of diseases of the thoracic aorta. He has written and published ...
European integration is facing a crisis mainly due to the political, cultural and economic heterogeneity of the 27/28 EU partners. The distance between the European partners of the classical period, before 2004, and the new ...
A significant activity of the laboratory of Information, Data and Knowledge Management, at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens, is the development of information retrieval systems through natural language processing ...
Over recent years the international scientific community has turned to the Mediterranean diet. The strict European legislation with regard to the use of additives and the production of secure and natural products, as well as consumers’ ...
Mr. Christos Koidis, PhD candidate of A.U.Th, was awarded with the young scientist award in a Symposium of European Materials Research Society 2010, in Strasbourg, for his research, which refers to the study of the development ...
In a country like Greece, livestock farming is important for economic development. The Department of Obstetrics and Reproduction of the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Thessaly contributes significantly towards this, ...
Problems related to the determination of the age of the archaeological findings and their composition / technology on the macroscopic and microscopic level, the origin of their raw material, the location of buried monuments under the ...
The 'PANDORA' research group in robotics, (Program for the Advancement of Non Directed Operating Robotic Agents) from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), ...
In his work, Dimitris Economou mainly focuses on the notion of the "aesthetic of failure". His music is characterised by the audio aspects that occur from disruption, interference, looping and distortion of various textural developments ...
A cellular biosensor on virus detection, a spin-off perceived as a raw model for transferring knowledge from the laboratory to the daily life along with an innovative distance learning system are indicative activities of the laboratory of ...
Similarly to any other living organism, in the case of mites and insects, which live as parasites on plants and are enemies of crops, there are natural enemies e.g. other mites and insects. These specific mites and insects attack ...
The penetration of digital media in various activities of our daily life is an important technological development of our times. Digital video, digital images, digital sound, and media tend to dominate in areas such as entertainment, arts ...
In the Biochemistry Laboratory of the Faculty of Veterinary Science of the University of Thessaly, the researchers are working in the field of targeted drugs development to treat diseases, such as cancer and arthritis, designing ...
The surface behavior of the materials determines in many cases their suitability for specific applications. In the direction of smart surfaces and smart materials in general, the development of materials which change behavior ...
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NETFLIX is the biggest online DVD rental provider in USA. Users can choose online the movie that they want to see and receive a copy at their home, by courier. The company wanted to provide customers with the opportunity ...
Computational mechanics combined with the evolution of information technology has changed facts and can contribute significantly to the engineers' work. The rapid development of computational systems enables the engineer ...
Crystallography is a method widely applied in the fields of physical chemistry, of materials science and biology. It is a research area that requires constant development and quest for new experimental and analytical methods ...
In recent years, the need to reduce the gaseous pollutants that cause the global warming and the use of cleaner energy, have led to the production of new products as well as to the development new technologies for environmental ...
During the last 40-year various "high tech" technologies with various applications in agriculture have been developed rapidly, however, the rate of improvement of the irrigation output per piece of land remains very low. Most of the ...
To allow crops feed humanity, nowadays, and at the same time, to restore the environmental balance of the planet, changes in the way that we produce food are necessary to be made. One of the possible solutions towards ...
Flexible photovoltaics systems are one of the initial applications of nanotechnology based on new organic polymeric materials. In contrast to the conventional photovoltaics, the flexible photovoltaics can be placed anywhere, ...
Nurse rostering is a difficult combinatorial problem, due to its size and complexity. It has got many difficulties because of the specific functions that each employee has to perform at a specified number of shifts per working day. ...
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Each year in Europe, emotional disorders affect more than 30.3 million people (ECNP / ECB report) from whom 2/3 of sufferers are women. Although the social and cultural factors contribute significantly to it, the differences of the ...
Today, it is more clear than ever to the scientists that basic issues of physics from different research fields are interrelated. The issues and problems in Cosmology are closely linked to those of High Energy Physics. ...
Since antiquity, in order to tackle illness, people turned to natural ingredients with therapeutic usage. Today, a large percentage of wide consuming medicines contain ingredients from plants. Dr. Fotini Lamari, Chemist, ...
The superposition of beams and columns, known as nodes, are considered to be among the most critical components and it was proved that they are responsible for numerous injuries, even collapses, in every major earthquake. ...
For the third consecutive year, the 3d International Roman Law Moot Court Competition was held in the ancient Agora of Kavala (forum romanum) in March 2010, under the academic organization of the University of Oxford. ...
Ms. Maria Kamargianni, PhD Candidate of the Department of Shipping Trade and Transport of the University of the Aegean, explores the transport and travel behavior in youths and their activities in order to identify and quantify the ...
The continuing deterioration of natural habitats and the dangers that threat some species are the first priority of the environmental policy of the European Union, which aims to ensure the biodiversity by conserving natural habitats as ...
Waves are used for the detection and imaging of objects for many years. The radar uses electromagnetic waves, the sonar is based on acoustic waves and the medical ultrasound combines the use of acoustic and elastic waves. ...
In recent years, the science of Medicine dramatically changes the way in which diseases are being diagnosed as well as and the way they are being treated. For example, molecular imaging, the possibilities of which had not been ...
In recent years, both the industrial sector, the governments and the European Union, have realized that there is a need to design better services for citizens and customers worldwide. Furthermore, businesses and governmental ...
The scientific field of Tribology is part of the wider knowledge field of Surface Engineering. It studies the main concepts and the mechanisms that govern the relative movement of engineering systems and provisions. ...
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According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there is a real danger that climate changes may be influenced by human intervention. Human intervention ...
The Mediterranean area has always been and it will remain an important center of social and political processes and reclassifications. For this reason, the developments, the course and the future of the area attract the strong interest ...
Since 1998, when the carcinogenicity of arsenic was first recognized, concentration limit of arsenic in the water was reduced from 50 to 10 mg / L, which prompted the research to develop methods for its removal. While for the ...
Some of the research interests of the Ship Design Laboratory at the National Technical University of Athens, led by professor Apostolos Papanikolaou, are the studies on the behavior of ships in different waves, sinking simulations ...
The Listeria monocytogenes bacterium is a pathogen germ that can infect food. It causes severe clinical condition to infants and adults, with weak immune system and serious complications in fetuses. Usually, these aggravating ...
The water shortage is a major problem in many parts of the planet, as in many islands of Greece. Mainly in the summer, with the population increase and with the bad water resource management, the need for ensuring potable ...
It is widely known that plastics, colors, some textile fibres, photographic films, packaging materials, toys, instant adhesives, tires, tubes etc. are composed by synthetic polymer. However, only a few people are aware of the recent ...
Central Asia is a geographical area with an increasing tendency in energy consumption from conventional fuels. Furthermore, in these countries the production units as well as the energy transmission networks are technologically ...
Musical composers use music instead of speech as a means of expression, identifying feelings mainly through personal experiences. Beyond this, they must obey some basic rules such as timing, scales, counterpoint, ...
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease which adversely affects the quality of life and the survival of adult patients, including children. Current drug therapies mainly achieve relief of the symptoms of the disease ...
European Higher Education Systems, despite the obvious differences between them, face common internal and external challenges. These challenges are related to the development of Higher Education, the vocational rehabilitation ...
Anastassios Bountis is professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, since 1990. He graduated from Athens College in 1969, and did his undergraduate and graduate studies in the US, receiving his PhD ...
Used cooking oil is a "problem" in our days since disposing a single litre is enough to contaminate one million litres of water, the quantity which is used by an average man in 14 years! However, ...
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Spectroscopy is a branch of physics and particularly a branch of wave optics and deals with the study and research of the structure, composition and properties of the Spectra and various radiations as well. It derives from the ...
The study on the development of new technologies in satellite communications is the result of the ever growing demand of users for better quality and higher speeds in broadband services. The high altitude platforms, (HAPs) ...
There are many examples from all over the world that underline the importance of having life saving tools during emergency situations (accidents, earthquakes, fires, sinking, biochemical disasters etc). In such critical situations, ...
The wide range of applications of synthetic peptides observed today, exists largely due to the achievements of Chemistry in the field of peptide synthesis, which is an integral part of biomedical and pharmacochemical research ...
A product of artificial intelligence which, with the appropriate instructions and adjustments, can mediate electronically between the buyer and the seller and choose the best option for the user, was created by the Mertacor team of ...
The blueberries are a kind of berries which is both delicious and very beneficial for our health. In the study conducted by the University of Patras, their value for treating diseases such as the Alzheimer's Disease (AD), which affects a ...
During the last few years, the E-learning support team from the TEI of Athens, has been focusing on developing best practices in e-learning and e-examinations. The term e-learning (e-learning) is used for ’distance learning’ ...
It has been noted that the top international athletes, compared with lower-level athletes, are faster in the last 200m. of the race of 400m. and there is less coverage time difference of the two halves of the race. Also, it has been found ...
Leonidas Koutsoumpos completed his PhD thesis entitled: «Inhabiting Ethics: Educational Praxis in the Design Studio, the Music Class and the Dojo» at department of «Arts, Culture and Environment» of the ...
The ELSA (European Law Students' Association) was founded in 1981 by students in order to contribute to legal education, to adopt a mutual understanding and promote the social responsibility of students and young lawyers. ...
Creating a map, i.e. putting an image of either a part or the whole of earth’s surface on paper, requires broad knowledge and great compositional skills. In this framework, mapping constitutes a kind of art (especially as far as ...
The research group of Prof. Z. Lygerou, at the School of Medicine, University of Patras, studies the control mechanisms which safeguard the genomic stability, since possible defects in this mechanism may lead to tumorigenesis. ...
The research that aims to develop environmentally friendly technologies for the movement of vehicles with the lowest possible fuel consumption, is a requirement of our times and indeed it seems to be on the right track. ...
Tours to archaeological sites, visits to museums or other places of cultural interest are included in our daily lives mostly as leisure activities. In addition to their educational value, they aim at our recreation through 'non-formal' learning ...
The C.A.L.M. research project (Community Action in Learning Music) emerged from the need to promote equal opportunities in a high quality music education. The educational approach of pedagogy in music is applied in schools ...
The obesity epidemic is spreading very rapidly worldwide. Greece in particular, has the "privilege" of being among the two European countries with the highest incidence of teenage obesity, with obvious negative consequences as far ...
Traditional games, the ones we all know from our early age, are characterized by common features: they have got certain rules of play and define the interaction between players in a particular way. However, they have got limitations ...
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Recent studies have documented that the adult population in developed countries and especially those who live in cities, spend 90% of their time indoors, living, working or entertaining themselves, with the breathing air being less ...
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Oil marine pollution is one of the most important long lasting problems which are responsible for major ecological disasters. Alternative ways to address the problem include the use of floating dams, the exploitation of “skimmer” ...
The quest of particles that could form the constituents of the mysterious dark matter is one of the most interesting research activities in modern Astroparticle Physics. Perhaps the most important hypothetical particles ...
