BACKGROUND Evidence suggests there is an association between depressive symptoms and disability. OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESIS The objective of this study was to examine whether people with disabilities in the United Kingdom and Greece face more depressive symptoms than people without disabilities. The hypothesis was that people with disabilities in both countries are more likely to experience depress...

The migrations of people of many different cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds have been a major issue of concern in Greece the last three decades. Since 1989 Greece has been transformed into a host country for immigrants and refugees. The collapse of the former socialist regimes of Eastern Europe and the slow but steady growth of Greek economy, in combination with its location, turned Gree...

As more people adopt tagging practices, social tagging systems tend to form rich knowledge repositories that enable the extraction of patterns reflecting the way content semantics is perceived by the web users. This is of particular importance, especially in the case of multimedia content, since the availability of such content in the web is very high and its efficient retrieval using textual a...

Reports have attributed a public health tragedy in Greece to the Great Recession and the subsequent application of austerity programs. It is also claimed that the comparison of Greece with Iceland and Finland-where austerity policies were not applied-reveals the harmful effect of austerity on health and that by protecting spending in health and social budgets, governments can offset the harmful...

May 19-23, 2004 Delphi, Greece European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction 4th European Symposium Conceptual Change: Philosophical, Historical, Psychological, and Educational Approaches May 19-23, 2004 Delphi, Greece

Keys to the adult females and 4th instar larvae of the mosquitoes of Greece are presented. In all, 53 species in 7 genera are included. Also, Aedes albopictus is added because of the potential for its introduction into Greece.

W e are delighted that the Hellenic Journal of Cardiology is going to be indexed in MEDLINE. We congratulate the Editor-in-Chief, Professor P. Vardas, on his success. In this context, we considered the impact of Greek scientific research. We were pleasantly surprised to find that our country (population 10.6 million) ranked (considering all scientific fields) number 28 for papers (n=47,954) and...

Ioannis Kostavelis Laboratory of Robotics and Automation, Production and Management Engineering Dept., Democritus University of Thrace, Greece e-mail: [email protected] Lazaros Nalpantidis Robotics, Vision and Machine Intelligence Lab., Dept. of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark e-mail: [email protected] Evangelos Boukas Laboratory of Roboti...

the historians of philosophy do not take serious consideration into the period of middle ages or equval it to christian philosophy and there is no room for jewish or islamic philosophies in their view. on the other hand, wolfson, as an amarican historian, has a different opinon about this period of philosophy he presents a different criterion for dividing the history of philosophy.on account of...