What Greek can tell us about the remaking of verb endings • i could not have not written this piece, since i could not imagine not honoring the memory of Tassos Christidis, my first and best Greek friend and a giant on the contemporary Greek linguistic scene for some three decades. at the same time, though, i am deeply saddened, as i write this, knowing that it is one paper of mine on Greek tha...

Introduction This paper develops a literature review of the flexicurity discourse as this has been developed in the European Union's debates and policies. The analysis of the European Employment Strategy and the flexicurity principles developed by the European Commission will be crucial factors for the development of this review. Furthermore, the chapter aims to review the literature concerning...

This paper explores the relative contributions made by orthography, syllabic segment, and lexical tone in the word recognition and retrieval process. It also challenges recent assumptions regarding the role of orthography and tones in mental lexicon architecture. Using an implicit priming paradigm, a word recognition experiment was conducted with native speakers of two tonal languages, Chinese ...

The Orthodox Christian diet is unique in regularly interchanging from an omnivore to a vegetarian-type diet, and no study to date has focused on the impact of this on Fe status. Thirty-five Greek Orthodox Christian strict fasters (n 17 male, n 18 female; mean age 43.6+/-13.2 years) and twenty-four controls (n 11 male, n 13 female; mean age 39.8+/-7.6 years) were studied before (pre) and near co...

This paper by using Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning System (LEAP) constructs four different renewable energy scenarios for the Greek transport, energy, and industry sectors. By projecting the demand for renewable energy and the associated resulting carbon dioxide emissions up to the years 2020 and 2030, the paper applies in a second stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) evaluating the G...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to translate, adapt and validate the Effort-reward imbalance (ERI) questionnaire in a sample of Greek healthcare professionals. METHODS An internationally recommended methodology was followed to perform translation of the ERI instrument into the Greek language. The questionnaire was then randomly administered to 600 Greek physicians, nurses, physiot...

The so-called depth charge sentences, as is the case with the famous sentence ‘no head injury is too trivial to be ignored,’ have been investigated in the past in a series of experiments. The aim of this study is to re-examine the verbal illusion that is associated with the understanding of some semantically and syntactically strange sentences, and to replicate Natsopoulos’s (1985) classic rese...

the aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between greek banks’ leadership style and their employee’s satisfaction with their job. leadership is considered to be an integral part of an organization’s structure, policies and strategies, and overall function. therefore, it affects employees’ everyday life, interpersonal relationships, problem-solving strategies and internal f...