Department of Sciences, Division of Computer Science, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Greece; Department of Production Engineering and Management, Management Systems Laboratory, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece; Department of Business Administration, School of Social Sciences, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece; Department of Surgery, Penteli General ...

Improved total atmospheric water vapour amount determination from near-infrared filter measurements with sun photometers F. Mavromatakis, C. A. Gueymard, and Y. Franghiadakis Department of Scienses, Technological Education Institute of Crete, Estavromenos, P.O. Box 1939, 710 04 Heraklion, Crete, Greece Solar Consulting Services, P.O. Box 392, Colebrook, NH 03576, USA Received: 14 March 2007 – A...

Chrysoula Tsogka, Dimitrios A. Mitsoudis∗,2 and Symeon Papadimitropoulos 1 Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, Heraklion 71003, Greece and Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, FORTH, Heraklion 70013, Greece. [email protected] and www.tem.uoc.gr/∼tsogka 2 Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, FORTH, Heraklion 70013, Greece. [email protected] and ww...

Jiangfeng Zhou, Eleftherios N. Economon, Thomas Koschny, 4 and Costas M. Soukoulis 4 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Microelectronics Research Center,Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser FORTH, and Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy,Iowa State University, ...

A. V. Rode,1,*,† E. G. Gamaly,1 A. G. Christy,2 J. G. Fitz Gerald,3 S. T. Hyde,1 R. G. Elliman,1 B. Luther-Davies,1 A. I. Veinger,4 J. Androulakis,5 and J. Giapintzakis5,6,*,‡ 1Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia 2Department of Earth and Marine Science, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia 3...

of time-varying muscle contractions 2 3 Sophia Erimaki, Orsalia M. Agapaki, Constantinos N. Christakos 4 5 AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS: S.E. and C.N.C. conception and design of research; S.E. 6 and O.M.A. performed experiments; S.E., O.M.A. and C.N.C. analyzed data; S.E., O.M.A. 7 and C.N.C. interpreted results of experiments; S.E. and O.M.A. prepared figures; C.N.C. 8 drafted manuscript; S.E., O.M.A....

This paper presents an updated checklist of the Greek scale insect fauna and the results of the first zoogeographic analysis of the Greek scale insect fauna. According to the latest data, the scale insect fauna of the whole Greek territory includes 207 species; of which 187 species are recorded from mainland Greece and the minor islands, whereas only 87 species are known from Crete. The most ri...

Pre-hospital emergency care plays a vital role in saving human lives making it an important part of the health care sector. Efficiency and effectiveness of operations is crucial especially when dealing with life-threatening situations that require immediate and specialised response. In Crete, the National Centre for Emergency Care has established several innovative practices to improve public s...

As computing and embedded systems evolve towards highly parallel multiprocessors, major research and development efforts are being focused on network interface (NI) architectures that enable efficient interprocessor communication (IPC). This thesis is focused on NI architecture, prototyping and design issues for cluster and chip multiprocessors. This work includes the development of a NI queue ...