Interventions to promote healthy nutrition and lifestyle and to tackle overweight and obesity amongst children in need in Europe: a rapid literature review by Anela Halilagic, Renos Roussos, Matzourana Argyropoulou, Vaios Svolos, Vaios Svolos, Christina Mavrogianni, Odysseas Androutsos, Theodora Mouratidou, Theodora Mouratidou, Yannis Manios, Yannis Manios, George Moschonis, George Moschonis

“…As there is currently no knowledge of the best practice interventions for improving nutrition and physical activity habits amongst these vulnerable groups, the aim of this rapid review was to examine evidence that focused on best practice interventions to tackle overweight and obesity in children in need in Greece and/or other European countries.MethodsStudies were sought that presented methods and results of interventions and their evaluation. …”
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Abdominal Cocoon Syndrome: Two Cases of an Anatomical Abnormality by Apostolos Sovatzidis, Eirini Nikolaidou, Anastasios Katsourakis, Iosif Chatzis, George Noussios

“…The aim of this study is to present two cases of ACS successfully treated at the Surgical Clinic of the Agios Dimitrios General Hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece. Presentation of Cases. Two men (55 and 54 years old) presented to the emergency department complaining of abdominal pain, distension, constipation, nausea, and vomiting. …”
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DETERMINANTS OF GROWTH ASPIRATIONS: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES by Karin Širec, Dijana Močnik

“… The purpose of the paper is to explore the growth aspirations of south-eastern European (SEE) countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Slovenia) early stage entrepreneurs, concentrating on the relationship between a firm's innovative and international orientation and its growth aspirations. …”
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DETERMINANTS OF GROWTH ASPIRATIONS: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES by Karin Širec, Dijana Močnik

“… The purpose of the paper is to explore the growth aspirations of south-eastern European (SEE) countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Slovenia) early stage entrepreneurs, concentrating on the relationship between a firm's innovative and international orientation and its growth aspirations. …”
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An Assessment of the Efficiency of Dust Regional Modelling to Predict Saharan Dust Transport Episodes by D. K. Papanastasiou, A. Poupkou, E. Katragkou, V. Amiridis, D. Melas, N. Mihalopoulos, S. Basart, C. Pérez, J. M. Baldasano

“…For this purpose, model PM10 predictions covering a 7-year period and PM10 observations at five surface monitoring sites in Greece are used. A quantitative criterion is set to select the significant dust outbreaks defined as those when the predicted PM10 surface concentration exceeds 12 μg/m3. …”
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Study of environmental management systems on defence by A. Oglanis, M. Loizidou

“…North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) itself and NATO countries, like USA, UK, Canada, Holland, Denmark, Czech Republic, Greece, as well as non-NATO countries like Sweden and Australia have an environmental management system structure in place to assist military environmental management and studies reveal that the armed forces could anticipate positive outcomes from environmental management system. …”
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Association of TNF-857C>T, TNFRSF1A36A>G, and TNFRSF1B676T>G Polymorphisms with Ischemic Stroke in a Greek Population by Sofia Markoula, Anthoula Chatzikyriakidou, Sotirios Giannopoulos, Kargiotis Odysseas, Sofia Markou, Konstantinos Vemmos, Ioannis Georgiou, Athanassios P. Kyritsis

“…One hundred seventy-three patients with first ever ischemic stroke of solely atherosclerotic etiology in Northwest Greece and a control group of 179 healthy unrelated subjects were evaluated. …”
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Représenter la Polis. Athènes vue, dessinée et imaginée (1834-1962) by Dimitra Kanellopoulou

“…Shortly after the adoption of Athens as the capital of modern Greece, the ratification of an official plan for the city became the main priority of the Bavarian regime. …”
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Purification, Preliminary Structural Characterization, and In Vitro Inhibitory Effect on Digestive Enzymes by β-Glucan from Qingke (Tibetan Hulless Barley) by Jialiang Hu, Yue Wu, Huifang Xie, Wanyin Shi, Zhiyuan Chen, Dan Jiang, Hui Hu, Xiangwei Zheng, Jian Xu, Yuejun Yang, Yuancai Liu

“…The structure of the β-glucan was determined using FT-IR and 13C-NMR spectra analysis, and molecular mass by use of HPSEC-dRI-LS. The kinematic viscosity was measured. …”
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Optimisation and improvement of police officers’ special rank types by Ye. I. Harkavtsev, M. O. Koteliukh

“…An analysis of the positive experience of using the extended rank of junior and sergeant ranks in countries such as Canada, Germany, Greece, Spain, as well as the states of Virginia and Delaware in the USA is conducted. …”
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“NEW PERIPHERY” AS A FACTOR FOR STRENGTHENING THE POSITIONS OF ISRAEL IN THE MIDDLE EAST by Y. I. Kostenko

“…Israeli strategic planners are talking of "spheres of containment" wherein countries like Cyprus, Greece, Azerbaijan, and Ethiopia constitute a kind of new periphery.…”
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Rhetoric by Avistotel: a Legal View by K. Kh. Rekosh

“…As far as the evolution of law is concerned, instead of legal technique there was rhetoric (especially in its methodological form, defined by Aristotle), which can be considered as a step towards creating the law as a design in ancient Greece. It is proved by a comparison of the ancient institution of judicial process and judicial speeches with modern legal technicalities, which shows that the legal machinery embraced the principles of "rhetorical" technique. …”
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Russian-Greek Political and Ecclesiastical Relations in 20-30s of the 19th Century by E. P. Kudryavtseva

“…The Archive of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has kept lists of all Orthodox monasteries on the territory of the Ottoman Empire that enjoyed material support from the Russian church; a significant part of this list are the Orthodox churches of Greece.…”
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Community-Based 4-Level Intervention Targeting Depression and Suicidal Behavior in Europe: Protocol for an Implementation Project by Katharina Schnitzspahn, Kahar Abdulla, Ella Arensman, Chantal Van Audenhove, Rainer Mere, Victor Pérez Sola, Merike Sisask, András Székely, Piotr Toczyski, Ulrich Hegerl

“…MethodsThe 4-level intervention has been implemented for the first time in Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, and Poland. In 3 countries that have already implemented the 4-level intervention (Hungary, Ireland, and Spain), activities have been extended to new regions. …”
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Hobbit: Providing Fall Detection and Prevention for the Elderly in the Real World by Markus Bajones, David Fischinger, Astrid Weiss, Daniel Wolf, Markus Vincze, Paloma de la Puente, Tobias Körtner, Markus Weninger, Konstantinos Papoutsakis, Damien Michel, Ammar Qammaz, Paschalis Panteleris, Michalis Foukarakis, Ilia Adami, Danai Ioannidi, Asterios Leonidis, Margherita Antona, Antonis Argyros, Peter Mayer, Paul Panek, Håkan Eftring, Susanne Frennert

“…Our main contribution lies within the description of all components developed within the Hobbit project, leading to autonomous operation of 371 days during field trials in Austria, Greece, and Sweden. In these field trials, we studied how 18 elderly users (aged 75 years and older) lived with the autonomously interacting service robot over multiple weeks. …”
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Introducing ‘trident’: a graphical interface for discriminating groups using dental microwear texture analysis by Thiery, Ghislain, Francisco, Arthur, Louail, Margot, Berlioz, Emilie, Blondel, Cécile, Brunetière, Noël, Ramdarshan, Anusha, Walker, Axelle EC, Merceron, Gildas

“…The third case study investigates the dental microwear textures of four extant ruminants to infer the diet of an extinct antelope from the Pleistocene of Greece. These case studies show how trident can leverage dental microwear texture analysis results.…”
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Index of the Cycle of Money - The case of Georgia by Constantinos Challoumis

“…The findings align with prior studies on the cycle of money index in other countries, such as Latvia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Thailand, and Greece. According to this theory, companies with substantial capital should focus their investments on manufacturing and high-technology sectors, benefiting from reduced taxes to ensure better money distribution across the economy. …”
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Financial inclusion and inflation in Southeast European countries by Kokorović-Jukan Meldina, Kozarević Emira, Zukić Vesna

“…Purpose: This paper aims to assess the relationship between financial inclusion and inflation in Southeast European countries, focusing on Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, and Turkey in the period from 2011 to 2021. …”
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Transtelephonic Electrocardiographic Transmission in the Preparticipation Screening of Athletes by Theodoros Samaras, Savvato Karavasiliadou, Evangelia Kouidi, John N. Sahalos, Asterios Deligiannis

“…A total of 506 players, aged 20.5 ± 6.2 years, from 23 soccer clubs in the prefecture of Thessaloniki, Greece, were physically examined in their playfields by a general practitioner (GP) and had their ECG recorded. …”
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PHYTOCHEMICAL, USE IN ETHNOMEDICINE, AND THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITIES OF MARCHANTIA GENUS by Dicki Bakhtiar Purkon, Tonny Cortis Maigoda, Adreanus Andaja Soemardji, Yayat Sudaryat, Faizah Min Fadhlillah, Maria Immaculata Iwo, Ainun Nadhifah

“…This plant species belongs to the Marchantiaceae family, which was used empirically in China, North America, Ancient Greece, and Indonesia to treat open wounds, burns, hepatotoxicity, and infection prevention. …”
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