BACKGROUND Around 20% of those who seek health information online, search specifically for mental health. However, little is known about the nature of the online health information offered by two European countries, Finland and Greece, which are characterized by markedly differing levels of Internet access and online health information seeking. This study aims to assess, describe and compare we...

Internet, apart from a huge repository of information of any kind, has become the main means of modern communications and World Wide Web has emerged as a new sort of society since it usually reflects almost all aspects of modern societies in terms of their economic, political and social status and structure. Therein, over wired and wireless connections, through ingenious ideas, i.e., algorithms...

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...

This paper reports on research and development work for the implementation of a Greek to Greek Sign Language (GSL) conversion tool, integrated into an educational platform that addresses needs of teaching GSL grammar, exploiting avatar technologies for the representation of linguistic message articulated in the 3D space. The Greek to GSL conversion engine that supports the platform is composed ...

We present an analysis of multiple focus sentences in Greek. On an empirical level, we show that the current generalisation in the Greek literature that multiple focus is unavailable in Greek is too strong as it stands. What is unavailable is multiple maximal foci in sentences where one focused item has moved to the left periphery. We view the unavailability of multiple foci in such sentences a...

The purpose of this study was to examine the acculturation, psychological well-being, and school adjustment of Pontian adolescents from the former Soviet Union (FSU-Pontians), who are immigrants of the diaspora living in Greece, compared with an immigrant group from Albania and native Greek classmates. The sample included 165 FSU-Pontian immigrants, 272 immigrants from Albania, and their 525 Gr...

The present study investigated the factor structure, scale dimensionality, discriminant validity, internal consistency, simplex structure, and nomological validity of the Greek translation of the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire-2 (BREQ-2; Markland & Tobin, 2004). A total of 733 Greek exercise participants completed the translated scale to indicate their reasons for participation...

Introduction: It is important to consider the concept of compassionate care within a cultural context in terms of how it might be perceived and demonstrated in practice. People may vary in what constitutes suffering due to variations in their values, culture, needs and understanding. In this paper we report on the findings from data collected from Greek and Greek-Cypriot Nurses during a study w...

New trends and the effect of key factors influence the quality of the holes produced by ECM processes. Researchers developed a fuzzy logic controller by adding intelligence to the ECM process. Maintaining optimum ECM process conditions ensures higher machining efficiency and performance. This paper presents the development of a fuzzy logic controller to add intelligence to the ECM process. An e...

Although scholarly attention concerning the spread of linguistic features in the Balkans has generally been focused on their spread from one language into another, there is another important dimension to consider, namely how innovative features spread within speech communities. In fact, such internal spread is crucial to understanding the general processes by which Sprachbünde arise, for if a f...