Democritus University of Thrace

A multimodal non-fatiguing recovery strategy improves neuromuscular restoration and attenuates inflammatory and oxidative stress responses following a standardized football match: a randomized crossover study

Abstract Purpose This study compared the effects of a modern multimodal non-fatiguing recovery protocol with traditional low-intensity active running and passive recovery on neuromuscular performance, muscle damage, inflammatory responses, oxidative stress, and perceptual outcome...

Artificial Intelligence in the Assessment of Spasticity and Gait Disorders: A Critical Review of Methods, Sensors, and Clinical Integration

Spasticity and neuromuscular dysfunctions are common consequences of neurological conditions such as cerebral palsy, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord lesions, substantially impairing mobility and quality of life. Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly employe...

Expectations, emotional responses, and early experiences with a newly introduced autonomous metro

Rapid advances in automation are transforming transport systems worldwide, with autonomous technologies increasingly being deployed in public transport. This study examines public perceptions of a newly introduced autonomous metro system during its initial phase of operation in T...

A minimal, deployment-agnostic zero trust cybersecurity framework for federated research infrastructures

Modern research infrastructures increasingly span heterogeneous environments, including cloud computing, high-performance computing (HPC), edge computing nodes, and most recently quantum computers (QC). This diversity challenges traditional perimeter-based security models and dem...

Validation of the International Working Group 2023 response criteria for higher risk myelodysplastic syndromes/neoplasms using the International Consortium for Myelodysplastic Syndromes VALIDATE database and a randomized phase III trial

Response assessment criteria in patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes/neoplasms (HR-MDS) have been updated in the 2023 International Working Group (IWG) criteria. However, validation of these criteria has been limited to date. We analyzed overall survival (OS) by be...

Mission Critical Hybrid MMPF+GARA Forecasting of ESDD and Electrical Load using Field Electric Measurements

Surface contamination is one of the main causes of flashover on outdoor insulators, since deposits accumulated on the insulator surface reduce its resistance and can lead to failure. Monitoring techniques based on parameters such as the Equivalent Salt Deposit Density (ESDD) are...

Beyond openness: Mapping need for cognition across Big Five domains and facets in university students

Need for cognition (NFC) is closely associated with openness-related personality traits, but broad domains may obscure a more selective facet-level pattern. We examined NFC in 1551 university students using the Big Five Inventory–2 and a split-sample discovery–validation design....

Memory as Triumph and Trauma: Reviewing the Greek Historiography of the Asia Minor Catastrophe alongside Mustafa Kemal's Nutuk

This article examines the construction of collective memory surrounding the Asia Minor Campaign and the Catastrophe of 1922 through a comparative analysis of Greek historiography and Mustafa Kemal's Nutuk. It focuses on the ways in which historical narratives construct national i...

Memory as Triumph and Trauma: Reviewing the Greek Historiography of the Asia Minor Catastrophe alongside Mustafa Kemal's Nutuk

This article examines the construction of collective memory surrounding the Asia Minor Campaign and the Catastrophe of 1922 through a comparative analysis of Greek historiography and Mustafa Kemal's Nutuk. It focuses on the ways in which historical narratives construct national i...

Leaf Morphometric Differentiation and Nearest-Road Proximity Among Three Natural Subpopulations of Rhododendron luteum in Lesvos, Greece

Rhododendron luteum has a single natural occurrence in Greece, restricted to western Lesvos, where understanding variation among its spatially separated subpopulations is important for conservation and forest-management planning. This study examined leaf morphometric differentiat...

Metal–Organic Framework-Based Materials for Pharmaceuticals Removal from Contaminated Waters by Adsorption

Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as promising materials for the removal of pharmaceutical contaminants, including antibiotics and endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs), from contaminated water due to their high surface areas, tunable porosity, and versatile chemical f...

Evaluation of Geogrid-Reinforced Base Courses: Pavement Design and Initial Construction Costs Under Varying Conditions

A common type of reinforcement technique known as geosynthetics is used to enhance the performance of asphalt pavements both during initial construction, particularly when the pavement is placed on top of a subgrade with low strength, and during the rehabilitation of severely dam...

Effects of suspension training and bodyweight resistance training on neuromuscular power, sprint, and agility performance in untrained male adolescents: a three-arm randomized controlled trial

This study compared suspension training (ST) and bodyweight resistance training (RT) with a control condition (CON) for physical performance in untrained male adolescents. Seventy-two participants (age 14.74 ± 0.32 years) were randomized equally to ST, RT, or CON. One participant...

How Hydromorphological Pressures Co-govern Lake Water Quality in a Mediterranean Environment. A Study for Greek Natural Lakes and Reservoirs

Abstract Hydromorphological (HyMo) conditions are increasingly recognized as key drivers of ecological quality in lakes and reservoirs, yet their role in Mediterranean systems remains poorly understood. We hypothesize that the relations between HyMo (natural or anthropogenic) met...

Flying through the plasmasphere to optimize low-energy ion measurements

The Juice flyby of Earth in August 2024 gave us the first chance to evaluate the performance of the Jovian Plasma Dynamics and Composition analyzer (JDC) in environments similar to those expected at Jupiter. JDC is one of the sensors belonging to the Particle Environment Package...

Calibration-Based Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation Using a Dilated-Residual Attention U-Net

Non-invasive blood pressure (BP) monitoring using photoplethysmography (PPG) has significant potential, yet accurately predicting systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure using photoplethysmogram (PPG) and electrocardiogram (ECG) signals remains challenging. This work pr...

Quality of Life and Job Satisfaction Among Nurses and Physicians in Greek Public Hospitals: Associations with Protocol-Based Work and Workplace Characteristics

Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and job satisfaction are important indicators of nurses and physicians’ wellbeing and system sustainability, particularly under conditions of high clinical demand. Although organizational determinants of nurses and physicians’ we...

Ecological and Quality Conditions for Children’s Participation as a Right in Early Childhood Education and Care

Abstract Providing space for children’s voices to be heard, listening to their ideas and giving due weight to their propositions, on all matters that affect them, describes the concept of participation rights according to the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child....

IGF-1Eb Isoform Immunoreactivity May Be Associated with Placental Dysfunction and Vascular Pathology in Fetal Growth Restriction (FGR)

Background: Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is associated with placental dysfunction and adverse perinatal outcomes. Although insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) signaling is important for placental and fetal development, the mRNA expression, immunopositivity and potential biolog...

ISO 45001 in Construction: An Integrative Comparative Review of Implementation Drivers, Barriers, and Reported Outcomes in the European Union, United States, and Canada

This hypothesis-generating integrative comparative review examines how ISO 45001:2018 is interpreted and implemented in construction safety management across the European Union (EU), the United States, and Canada. Drawing on 35 sources—including peer-reviewed studies, regulatory...