Browsing by Publisher "Elsevier Science"
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Panel Data Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment and Poverty from the Perspective of Developing Countries
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Publisher and Date:(Elsevier Science, 2014)The purpose of this paper is to assess the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and poverty at the macro-pathway in selected developing countries. The contribution to host countries from FDI can take several forms such as the transfer of technology human capital development increased competition in domestic markets and the generation of corporate tax revenues among others. The paper develops a data set and an econometric model to analyse FDI flows and poverty relations at the macro ...
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Prevention of complications in laparoscopic hysterectomy: Experience with 1120 cases performed by a single surgeon
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Publisher and Date:(Elsevier Science, 2007)STUDY OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to describe a safe technique without any ureteral DESIGN: Prospective study (Canadian Task Force classification II-3). SETTING: Centre Hospitalier Interregional Edith Cavell Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Endoscopic Laser Surgery Center Bruxelles Belgium, and Kadir Has University Metropolitan Florence Nightingale Hospital Istanbul Turkey. PATIENTS: One thousand one hundred twenty women with benign diseases. INTERVENTIONS: Laparoscopic-assisted ...
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Reduction of energy costs and traffic flow rate in urban logistics process
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Publisher and Date:(Elsevier Science, 2017)Energy cost is a phenomenon relating to logistics and transportation activities of logistics operators as well as governments local authorities and citizens. Actually all the logistics parties may be affected by energy costs. At the same time logistics and transportation flow rate is declining continuously. Increases in traffic volume and decreased logistics flow rate cause to decrease in logistics productivity and efficiency in a city. On the other hand changes in these factors cause to increase ...
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Scheduling a log transport system using simulated annealing
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Publisher and Date:(Elsevier Science, 2014)The log truck scheduling problem under capacity constraints and time window constraints is an NP-hard problem that involves the design of best possible routes for a set of trucks serving multiple loggers and mills. The objective is to minimize the total unloaded miles traveled by the trucks. In this paper a simulated annealing - a meta-heuristic optimization method - that interacts with a deterministic simulation model of the log transport system in which the precedence and temporal relations among ...
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Tablets as primary educational computing devices. An impact analysis on the educational landscape in an Austrian university.
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Publisher and Date:(Elsevier Science, 2014)In this study we analyze how tablet devices could be used as educational tools to support innovative educational practice in a university in Austria. Students and educators were issued tablet devices in 2011 across the full spectrum of programs. Surveys were used to assess the impact of the tablet devices' use on motivation quality of work collaboration achievement and other factors. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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The effect of a bump in an elastic tube on wave propagation in a viscous fluid of variable viscosity
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Publisher and Date:(Elsevier Science, 2007)In the present work treating the arteries as a thin walled prestressed elastic tube with a bump and the blood as a Newtonian fluid of variable viscosity we have studied the propagation of weakly nonlinear waves in such a medium by employing the reductive perturbation method in the longwave approximation. Korteweg-deVries-Burgers equation with variable coefficients is obtained as the evolution equation. Seeking a progressive wave type of solution to this evolution equation it is observed that the ...
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The effects of Dea:water ratio on the properties of ZnO nanofilms obtained by spin coating method
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Publisher and Date:(Elsevier Science, 2014)In this work the ZnO were fabricated with the sol-gel spin coating method and the effects of the Dea:water ratios on the properties of the as-prepared ZnO thin films were determined by using a X-ray diffractometer transmission electron microscope scanning electron microscope atomic force microscope ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometer and spectrophotometer. Experimental results indicated that the Dea:water ratio affected the structural and optical properties of the ZnO films considerably. The ...
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Thermal rearrangement of 2-acetoxy-266-trimethylbicyclo[3.1.0]hexane: Theoretical elucidation of the mechanism
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Publisher and Date:(Elsevier Science, 2007)Bicyclohexenes are believed to be the immediate precursors of aromatic compounds. As a part of the exploratory study of thermal aromatization reactions 266-trimethylbicyclo[3.1.0]hexan-2-ol and its ester derivative 2-acetoxy-266-trimethylbicyclo[3.1.0]hexane were synthesized. Pyrolysis of 2-acetoxy-266-trimethylbicyclo[3.1.0]hexane at 350 degrees C gave 133-trimethyl-14-cyclohexadiene instead of the expected product 266-trimethylbicyclo[3.1.0]hex-2-ene. Computational methods such as PM3 31G]* were ...
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Time-varying fairness concerns delay and disagreement in bargaining
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Publisher and Date:(Elsevier Science, 2018)We study an alternating-offers bilateral bargaining game where players may derive disutility from accepting shares below what they deem as fair Moreover we assume that the values they attach to fairness (i.e. their sensitivity to violations of their fairness judgments) decrease over time as the deadline approaches. Our results offer a new explanation to delays and disagreements in dynamic negotiations. We show that even mutually compatible fairness judgments do not guarantee an immediate agreement. ...
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Toward a wider market definition in broadband: The case of Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(Elsevier Science, 2015)As broadband Internet transforms the way people connect with others the boundaries between different modes of communications become vague. In recent years the scope of voice and broadband markets has become a matter of concern for both policymakers and researchers. Until recently it was thought that DSL and mobile broadband markets were separate markets and therefore they were separately regulated. However recent empirical evidence in some countries shows that fixed and mobile broadband services ...
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Turkey and the changing energy geopolitics of Eurasia
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Publisher and Date:(Elsevier Science, 2019)While Turkeys geographical location is usually viewed as a major advantage in the energy sphere since many countries in its immediate neighbourhood require active Turkish collaboration in order to export or import oil and natural gas via economically feasible pipeline projects the ongoing political economic and military conflicts between the same global and regional actors not only negatively affect the development of the energy transportation routes in Eurasia but also present a major foreign ...
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Turkish public preferences for energy
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Publisher and Date:(Elsevier Science, 2018)Public concern over energy supplies prices sustainability and efficiency has emerged as a major issue around the world. Yet most of what we know regarding public opinion on energy comes from North America and Europe. This paper presents the results from the 2016 Turkish Public Preferences for Energy Survey which included 1204 respondents and examined Turkish residents' household energy consumption energy policy preferences and environmental concerns. The main findings were that Turkish citizens ...
