Harokopio University of Athens

Assessing Behavioral and Environmental Facets of Obesity Unobtrusively Utilizing Digital Tools: Introducing the BETTER4U Indicators

ABSTRACT Understanding obesity involves evaluating numerous contributing factors. Collecting the necessary data for this can impose a significant burden on both research participants during clinical studies and real‐life deployments of digital tools aiding obesity management. The...

Incorporation of Carob Into a High‐Fat Meal Influences Subjective Satiety, Ghrelin and PYY Regulation

ABSTRACT Background Dietary components that influence appetite‐related hormones and subjective satiety may help regulate food intake. Aqueous carob ( Ceratonia siliqua L.) preparations may have a role in postprandial appetite regulation. Aims To investigate the effects of an aque...

Macroeconomic drivers of climate performance: public procurement, financial fragility and institutional asymmetry

Purpose The study examines how public procurement, financial conditions, fiscal position and energy-market factors are associated with climate performance in European economies. It focuses on whether these relationships differ across the climate-performance distribution and betwe...

Extreme low and high temperature treatments as a non-chemical control strategy for the almond moth, Ephestia cautella in dried figs

Mortality responses of different developmental stages of the almond moth, Ephestia cautella (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), to extreme low and high temperatures were evaluated under laboratory and field-scale conditions to assess the feasibility of temperature-based control st...

Integrated Time–Cost–Risk Management in Industrial Construction: A Systematic Review and Unified Analytical Taxonomy

Industrial construction projects involve complex interactions among uncertainty, risk, schedule, and cost, motivating the development of advanced analytical and decision-support methodologies. This study systematically reviews methodological approaches to risk assessment and perf...

Microbiome and Metabolomics in Obesity: Advances in Understanding and Interventions Across the Lifespan

ABSTRACT Obesity arises from intertwined and reciprocal diet‐microbiome‐host pathways that reshape energy balance, insulin sensitivity, and inflammation. This review synthesizes mechanistic links between microbial functions and metabolic control, charts lifestyle‐related lifecour...

The Agricultural Landscape of Cyprus in 1832/33: A Spatial Reconstruction from the Ottoman Property Survey

This study reconstructs the agricultural landscape of Cyprus in the early 1830s, a time of extraordinary socio-economic pressures on the island and immediately prior to the economic and administrative transformations of the later nineteenth century, drawing on the Ottoman propert...

Redefining liver health: a multidimensional approach to preventing metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis

Metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH) is a rapidly escalating global health challenge driven by complex interactions among metabolic regulation, nutrition, immune signalling, gut microbiota, and environmental exposures. Current disease-centric frameworks priorit...

Is cohabitation in vertically segregated apartment buildings in Athens harmonious or conflictual?

This article examines cohabitation in socially and ethnically mixed apartment buildings in the center of Athens that were built with the “land for flat” system, where vertical social segregation is particularly pronounced. Unlike horizontal segregation, vertical segregation leads...

Which combinations of behaviour change techniques work best? Evidence from meta-review of interventions addressing healthy diet and exercise after breast cancer

Abstract Background The primary aim was to identify combinations including ≥ 3 behavior change techniques (BCTs) that are jointly used in behavioral interventions for women with/survivors of breast cancer, and result in a simultaneous improvement of physical activity, healthy nut...