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Geopolitics and gas-transit security through pipelines
(Springer International Publishing, 2020)
Hydrocarbons are valuable only if they can be transited from where they are produced to where they are consumed. Despite the enduring importance of transit to the global energy system, the topic did not begin to be extensively ...
Who is responsible? The impact of emotional personalization on explaining the origins of social problems
(Routledge, 2020)
Personalization refers to the journalistic practice of including emotional case studies of ordinary people in news stories, increasing vividness and emotional charge of news and eliciting identification and empathy in news ...
The Perceptual Shock of Qatar Foreign Policy in 2017 Crisis: Systemic Factors, Regional Struggles Versus Domestic Variables
(Sage Publications Inc, 2020)
The Qatar crisis of June 2017 commenced without a warning and restored overlooked regional security dynamics to the state, the political elite, and the Qatari society at large. Qatar was cautious about the diversions of ...
A hesitant fuzzy linguistic terms set-based AHP-TOPSIS approach to evaluate ERP software packages
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2020)
Purpose In this paper, two popular multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods with hesitant fuzzy logic approach; hesitant fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (hesitant F-AHP) and hesitant fuzzy the technique for order ...
Diffusion of Pure and Hybrid Forms of a Practice: Language of Instruction in Turkish Universities, 1983-2014
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc, 2020)
It is well recognized in the literature that practice variation is an integral part of diffusion processes. What remains less explored is the emergence of distinct forms of a novel practice and the interdependencies in ...
Motion Control for Biohybrid Multiscale Robots
(IEEE, 2020)
Complex gaits of microswimmer robotic devices could be controlled via discretized reference signals and adaptive control scheme. A biomedical micro-robotic system offers a nontrivial control problem without tactile contact ...
FINANCIAL RESILIENCE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: THE ROLE OF BANKING MARKET STRUCTURE
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, 2021-03)
This article examines whether differences in banking market structures across countries influence the local stock market resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a sample of 66 countries for the period January 2020 to ...
Surfactant-free one-step fabrication of gelatin/PAAm/MWCNT composites for biomedical applications
(Springer, 2021)
Well-dispersed multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) and gelatin-enhanced polyacrylamide (PAAm) composites were synthesized via a free-radical copolymerization method. MWCNTs were added to the composite mixture in various ...
Assessment and simulation of water transfer for the megacity Istanbul
(Bellwether Publishing, Ltd., 2021)
The population of Istanbul increased from three to fifteen million from 1970 to 2018. The city, which has no perennial fresh water resources within its metropolitan boundaries, has long imported water from other basins. ...
A comparison study of fuzzy-based multiple-criteria decision-making methods to evaluating green concept alternatives in a new product development environment
(EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, 2021)
Purpose In this paper, the four popular multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods in fuzzy environment are utilized to reflect the vagueness and uncertainty on the judgments of decision-makers (DMs), because the ...