In addition to the host country (the Netherlands), twelve peer countries participated in the Peer Review: Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Norway and Romania. The meeting received presentations from host country officials from the MSZW, an external perspective on the Dutch reforms provided by an independent expert from the Netherlands...

A detailed questionnaire with instructions and examples was mailed to the presidents or designated delegates of the national societies of cardiology represented in the European Society of Cardiology. They distributed a copy of the questionnaire to all institutions performing diagnostic or interventional cardiac catheterizations in their respective countries. Upon completion the questionnaires w...

This study investigates how European journalists evaluate the changes that have occurred in their profession since the Internet has been integrated in newsrooms. How do journalists perceive the features and innovations associated with the Internet? What are the principal changes in the profession? Do practitioners believe that the quality of journalism has been raised or lowered? To answer to t...

Based on her study of distribution patterns, Vronwy Hankey suggested that Cyprus or Cypriots played some role in the trade of Mycenaean pottery eastwards to the Levant. She also noted that some of the Mycenaean pottery which reached both Cyprus and the Near East can-ied marks incised on handles or painted on bases. This paper examines the possible relationships between the marks, Mycenaean pott...

This paper examines the relationship between insurance market development and economic growth in EU member states period 1998-2018. Our results indicate that there is no causality premium per capita GDP case of 11 out 23 analysed countries, including four countries classified as emerging markets. However, panel data covering all we determined a two-way growth. In short run, has positive signifi...

This paper extends previous studies that investigated the accessibility of different web sites of specific content, to an analysis of the whole web of a specific country (Cyprus). To our knowledge no previous study has analyzed such a big number of web sites for accessibility in a single study. More specifically this paper evaluates the compliance of 30,000 Cyprus related websites spidered by A...

This article reveals the importance of implementing eco-innovation for circular economy and sustainable development. The author provides different approaches to measuring level development in countries European Union. two main indices are revealed more detail. Described pillars each indices. Clustering EU was carried out using k-means method groups were identified by implementation eco-innovati...

The genetic diversity of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Cyprus is investigated for the first time in this study. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the CORE-E1 and NS5B regions of the HCV genome was performed on blood plasma samples obtained from 77 HCV patients in Cyprus, collected during 2005-2008. The amplified products were sequenced and compared to reference HCV strains of known genotype and ...

City Branding literature commonly evaluates the brand image and public perceptions of well-known cities with a relatively positive in various European countries. But they fail to consider how less known smaller troubled pasts, can be branded. This study focuses on an unknown place negative image. To this end, we selected two Turkish Republic Northern Cyprus; recognized only by Turkey. The quest...