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The relationship between firm size and export sales: Sector or size what matters?
(Physica-Verlag, 2017)
This paper examines the performance of export focused companies listed on the Borsa Istanbul trading in the emerging market of Turkey. Using the panel data of stock market prices (1995–2011) we study the performance of ...
IEEE 802.15.7r1 Reference Channel Models for Visible Light Communications
(IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2017)
The IEEE has established the standardization group 802.15.7r1 "Short Range Optical Wireless Communications", which is currently in the process of developing a standard for visible light communication (VLC). As with any ...
An equivalence class decomposition of finite metric spaces via Gromov products
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2017)
Let (X, d) be a finite metric space with elements P-i, i = 1,..., n and with the distance functions d(ij) The Gromov Product of the "triangle" (P-i, P-j, P-k) with vertices P-t, P-j and P-k at the vertex Pi is defined by ...
Alternative models for markets with nonconvexities
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2017)
In many electricity markets, the market operator solves a social welfare maximization (SW) model to determine market prices and generation (and consumption) "dispatch" instructions to firms participating in the market. ...
Wallace Stevens's Poetics of the Other
(Walter De Gruyter Gmbh, 2017)
This article reveals a central yet hitherto unsuspected meditation in Wallace Stevens on the problem of the other person in relation to the concept of the other construed by Gilles Deleuze as the "expression of a possible ...
Understanding the Images of Alan Kurdi With "Small Data": A Qualitative, Comparative Analysis of Tweets About Refugees in Turkey and Flanders (Belgium)
(USC Annenberg Press, 2017)
One of the peak moments of the debate on the European refugee crisis was caused by the circulation of images of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned in the Aegean Sea on September 2, 2015. The images triggered ...
Design, Synthesis and hMAO Inhibitory Screening of Novel 2-Pyrazoline Analogues
(Bentham Science Publ Ltd, 2017)
Aim and Objective: MAO inhibitors have a significant effect on the nervous system since they act in regulation of neurotransmitter concentrations. Neurotransmitter levels are critical for a healthy nervous system. MAO ...
Of Celebrities and Landmarks: Space, State and the Making of "Cosmopolitan" Turkey
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)
This paper analyses the (re)production of Turkey's liminal-hybrid representations through a combination of sports and music celebrity interventions on a specific landmark. It shows that a country's representations can be ...
New Human Monoamine Oxidase A Inhibitors with Potential Anti- Depressant Activity: Design, Synthesis, Biological Screening and Evaluation of Pharmacological Activity
(Bentham Science, 2017)
Aim and objective: Depression is a momentous disease that can greatly reduce the quality of life and cause death. In depression, neurotransmitter levels such as serotonine, dopamine and noradrenaline are impaired. Monoamine ...
Love stories and diasporic identity narratives: Mediatized practices of storytelling in the Moroccan diaspora
(Intellect Ltd., 2017)
Storytelling is one of the oldest ways of giving human experiences a meaning and presenting the world from one’s own perspective. Stories are amongst key cultural resources for identity construction. Throughout the history ...