In view of the needs for energy minimization in the buildings sector, the design of cost optimal low energy buildings (LEB) in the Mediterranean area is of significant interest. The measures available to accomplish this task include the use of latest building technology and the customization of the design (climate, owner’s needs and requirements, user behavior, etc). The goals include the minim...

Using panel estimates and Stochastic Frontier Analysis this paper aims to contribute the analysis of bank efficiency European banks in aftermath international financial crisis sovereign that seriously affected many EU countries. It also considers hypothetical scenarios exit from some particularly relevant member-states, including Brexit scenario. The results obtained very clearly demonstrate ex...

Twelve countries have acceded to the European Union (EU) since 2004, including five transition economies in Central Europe, the three Baltic republics and two more in Eastern Europe (along with Cyprus and Malta). One of the transition economies, Slovenia, in 2007 joined the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), adopting the euro, as envisioned in the Maastricht Treaty, in 2007. Should the...

This study examines how Greek-Cypriot students aged 12 to 18, an understudied group of students, construct their ethnic identity in a complex setting such as Cyprus and what motivates the students in the selection of ethnic identity labels. The choice to focus on students aged 12-18 was made on the hypothesis that young children, who did not experience the 1974 war in Cyprus, may have a differe...

1Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Institut für theoretische Physik, Max-von-Laue-Straße 1, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, 20 Kavafi Street, 2121 Nicosia, Cyprus 3Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus 4NIC, DESY, Platanenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany 5Università...

1Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, 20 Kavafi Street, 2121 Nicosia, Cyprus 2Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus 3Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Institut für theoretische Physik, Max-von-Laue-Straße 1, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Irela...

Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK Division of Linguistics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain Language Theory and Communicat...