It is generally recognised that indicator-based research forms a substantial part both of the everyday practice and of the current theoretical pursuits in an extensive set of different scientific fields that relate to the ...

In the current study we examined the psychometric properties of the Greek adaptation of the Social Phobic Inventory (SoPhI) (Moore & Gee, 2003). The questionnaire is a 21-item self-report measure that assesses social anxiety ...

Tests of aggression, prejudice and a measure of how much uniqueness or similarity we perceive in others were administered to participants the day before the terrorist attacks of 9/ 11, the day of the attacks, six and seven ...

The purpose of the current study was to assess f or possible relationships between the internalization of the thin ideal by the media, disordered eating attitudes and behaviors, feelings of attractiveness and investment ...

The purpose of this study was twofold: first, to develop a measure (People Perspective Questionnaire; PPQ) that assesses a dimension previously proposed, stating that a characteristic or trait exists, whereby some people ...

The General Valuation has a very significant role to play in Cyprus’ economic environment because it forms the basis by which all property taxes are levied. It is considered as a very important land management tool, as ...

Cyprus has been through many significant changes in the decade of 2000-2010. The purpose of this study was to assess differences in levels of ethnic identity, person perception and racism by comparing archived data of 2000, ...

The current study examined the psychometric properties of a Greek version of the Appearance Schemas Inventory – Revised (ASI-R). A total of 269 university female students (mean age = 25.1 years, SD = 3.81; mean height = ...

As stated on Dimopoulos et al (2014) property tax in Greece is levied since 1985 not on Market Values but on the “objective value” of the properties as it is defined by the Ministry of Economics. It forms a non-flexible ...

Charles Tiebout (1956), in his work “A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures”, provides a vision of the workings of the local public sector, acknowledging many similarities to the features of a competitive market, however ...

This paper aims to examine how CAMA, GIS and Remote Sensing are integrated to assist property taxation. Real property tax apart from its fiscal dimension is directly linked to geographic location. The value of the land ...

The control of flexible structures for those systems with actuators that are modeled by second order dynamics is examined. Two modeling approaches are investigated. First a stability and performance analysis is performed ...

The time domain response of non-proportionally damped or non-classical normal mode or non-Rayleigh linear lumped parameter systems, as otherwise called, is derived. Modal analysis is used to transform the governing equations ...

Several decades of research and development placed new tools in the hands of engineers, builders, supervisors, surveyors, contractors and all people associated with the construction industry. In this paper, we are referring ...

Στο άρθρο παρουσιάζεται το σύγχρονο λογισμικό της εικονικής πραγματικότητας που έχουμε αναπτύξει, σαν εργαλείο αντισεισμικού σχεδιασμού κτηρίων από οπλισμένο σκυρόδεμα. Θα θέλαμε να επισημάνουμε ότι οποιαδήποτε λεκτική ...

Silos are industrial facilities used for storing a huge range of different materials. They should be designed to resist several loading conditions, and their seismic behaviour, which strongly depends on the geometrical and ...

The article aims at exploring the literature on town centre delimitation methods over the last sixty years. Specifically, the first section explores the content of the term town centre, while the second one proposes an ...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the ways that the top-down and the bottom-up approaches to planning can be combined in the practice of planning standards. In the first part, the paper examines the utilization of ...

Το άρθρο επιχειρεί να αξιολογήσει τους δείκτες προδιαγραφής που χρησιμοποιούνται για τον πολεοδομικό προγραμματισμό των δημόσιων χρήσεων και περιλαμβάνονται στο ΦΕΚ 285/Δ/3.3.2004. Συγκεκριμένα, το άρθρο εκκινεί με τη ...

This study presents the modeling of the system of educational facilities included in a large city or a municipality, to facilitate a decision regarding the optimum location of a new educational facility. As will be shown, ...