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-572 G/C single nucleotide polymorphism of interleukin-6 and sepsis predisposition in chronic renal disease
(2015)Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of interleukin (IL)-6 are associated with the development of chronic renal disease (CRD). Their impact for sepsis in the field of CRD was investigated. One control cohort of 115 ... -
Adaptation of the Model for Assessment of Telemedicine (Mast) for IoT telemedicine services
(2017)Internet of Things (IoT) based solutions and services may be used to support and extend the independent living of older adults in their living environments by responding to real needs of caregivers, service providers and ... -
Affective bodying of mathematics, children and difference: choreographing ‘sad affects’ as affirmative politics in early mathematics teacher education
(2019)This paper responds to the frequently occurring phenomena of ‘sad affects’ experienced by student teachers as they confront the logic of ‘proper mathematics’ with young children of differently abled bodies. The notion of ... -
“Am I Talking to a Human or a Robot?”: A Preliminary Study of Human’s Perception in Human-Humanoid Interaction and Its Effects in Cognitive and Emotional States
(2019)The current preliminary study concerns the identification of the effects human-humanoid interaction can have on human emotional states and behaviors, through a physical interaction. Thus, we have used three cases where ... -
Anatomical variations of the foramen transversarium in cervical vertebrae: findings, review of the literature, and clinical significance during cervical spine surgery
(2016)Purpose: To describe certain anatomical variations of the foramen transversarium, in spine cervical vertebrae in a contemporary specimen of an Indo-European population and approach their clinical importance during cervical ... -
Antibiotic use and the prevention and management of infectious complications in stone disease
(2017)The importance of assessing perioperative urine/stone cultures and providing appropriate antibiotic prophylaxis prior to shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) or endoscopic intervention cannot be minimized. Urinary tract infection ... -
Applying unsupervised and supervised machine learning methodologies in social media textual traffic data
(2019)Traffic increasingly shapes the trajectory of city growth and impacts on the climate change in modern cities. Traffic patterns’ monitoring can provide with innovative practices in understanding city traffic dynamics, ... -
Assessing image analysis filters as augmented input to convolutional neural networks for image classification
(2018)Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been proven very effective in image classification and object recognition tasks, often exceeding the performance of traditional image analysis techniques. However, training a CNN ... -
Assessing the Learning Process Playing with Kahoot – A Study with Upper Secondary School Pupils Learning Electrical Circuits
(2018)The present study investigates the extent to which the popular game-based online platform of Kahoot can be used as a creative and effective tool in the teaching practice and specifically in the teaching of basic concepts ... -
Assessing the reporting quality of systematic reviews of observational studies in preeclampsia
(2019)Purpose: The majority of epidemiological studies in preeclampsia are observational and the overview of these studies is expressed by systematic reviews (SRs). The aim of this study was to evaluate the reporting quality of ... -
Assessing traffic and environmental impacts of smart lockers logistics measure in a medium-sized municipality of Athens
(2019)Home deliveries and e-commerce activities have increased substantially in the recent years. This fact led to the increase of the number of last mile trips in urban areas contributing immensely to the overall impacts on the ... -
Assessment of natural and anthropogenic impacts in groundwater, utilizing multivariate statistical analysis and inverse distance weighted interpolation modeling: the case of a Scopia basin (Central Greece)
(2018)In Scopia basin, central Greece, a hydrochemical investigation was completed. Groundwater samples from 41 sites were used to assess the natural and anthropogenic impacts in groundwater, utilizing the principal component ... -
Asymmetry of mating behaviour affects copulation success in two stored-product beetles
(2017)Lateralization (i.e. left–right asymmetries in the brain and behaviour) has been documented in all vertebrate classes, while evidences for invertebrates are limited. To the best of our knowledge, there is no information ... -
Bayesian finite element model updating
(2019)In this chapter, the implementation of the reduced-order models within Bayesian finite element model updating is explored. The Bayesian framework for model parameter estimation, model selection, and robust predictions of ... -
Beyond conventional borders of second language teachers’ education: A digital, interdisciplinary, and critical postgraduate curriculum
(2019)In this chapter we present and discuss aspects of the “Language Education for Refugees and Migrants (LRM)” Master’s program, which was launched by the Hellenic Open University in 2016. We focus on key elements of the ... -
Beyond lesion detection: Towards semantic interpretation of endoscopy videos
(2017)Several computer-based medical systems have been proposed for automatic detection of abnormalities in a variety of medical imaging domains. The majority of these systems are based on binary supervised classification ... -
Bulk insertions into xBR+-trees
(2017)Bulk insertion refers to the process of updating an existing index by inserting a large batch of new data, treating the items of this batch as a whole and not by inserting these items one-by-one. Bulk insertion is related ... -
Bulk-loading xBR+-trees
(2016)Spatial indexes are important in spatial databases for efficient execution of queries involving spatial constraints. The xBR+-tree is a balanced disk-resident quadtree-based index structure for point data, which is very ... -
Campaigns and awareness-raising strategies on sustainable urban mobility
(2019)The increasing demand for urban mobility in modern cities leads to traffic congestion and other environmental and societal impacts, requiring a shift to more sustainable mobility behavior. However, travelers are not well ... -
Cerebral and non-cerebral coenurosis: on the genotypic and phenotypic diversity of Taenia multiceps
(2016)We characterised the causative agents of cerebral and non-cerebral coenurosis in livestock by determining the mitochondrial genotypes and morphological phenotypes of 52 Taenia multiceps isolates from a wide geographical ...