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Quantile Estimates for Social Returns to Education in Turkey: 2006–2009
(Routledge, 2013)
Augmenting a Mincerian earnings function with regional data we estimate both private and external returns to education in Turkey using Instrumental Variables, Ordinary Least Squares, Quantile Regression and Instrumental ...
Lingerie, Bikinis and the Headscarf : Visual depictions of Muslim female migrants in German news media
(2013)
By tracing the repetitive visual themes and motifs contained in depictions of Muslim female migrants, this study aims to shed light on the various ways the German print media have tackled the issue of migration and represented ...
Obama and the Middle East, round two
(2013)
After years of diplomatic inertia, the seemingly endless Palestinian-Israeli "peace process" was given a new lease on life by the Obama Administration in the summer of 2013. Despite Washington's expressed desire during ...
Religion as a factor influencing turkish women's decisions to work
(2013)
This article uses survey data collected from more than 500 women in Istanbul to examine whether or not religion exerts an influence on women's decisions to work or not. Our work revealed that religion does not appear to ...
Women's Shelters in Turkey: A Qualitative Study on Shortcomings of Policy Making and Implementation
(Sage Publications Inc, 2013)
Despite a long history of women's movements and policy-making efforts to ameliorate women's status in Turkey, the number and quality of women's shelters are far from sufficient. This article aims to reveal the shortcomings ...
A MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CRITICAL POINT IN PHASE TRANSITIONS
(World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd, 2013)
Let y(x) be a smooth sigmoidal curve, y((n)) be its nth derivative and {x(m,i)} and {x(a,i)}, i = 1, 2, ... , be the set of points where respectively the derivatives of odd and even order reach their extreme values. We ...
Technology is Our Friend: Using Technology to Teach English Learning Strategies
(Nesibe Aydin Education Inst, 2013)
This paper examines the implementation of technology enhanced learning which is based on digital resources and its benefits specifically in a reading course at an English prep school. The paper describes the findings that ...
Design Science Perspective on NFC Research: Review and Research Agenda
(Slovensko Drustvo Informatika, 2013)
Near Field Communication (NFC), as one of the emerging and promising technological developments, provides means to short range contactless communication for mobile phones and other devices alike. NFC has become an attractive ...
THE CULTURE OF MULTICULTURALISM AND RACIALIZED ART
(Berghahn Journals, 2013)
This article invites scholars of race and migration to look at the visual arts more closely within the framework of comparative race theory. We argue that within a neoliberal multicultural context, the marketing of art ...