• Rediscovering Goethe's Concept of Polarity: A New Direction For Architectural Morphogenesis 

  Authors:Gökmen, Sabri
  Publisher and Date:(Middle East Technical University, 2020)

  This paper will introduce Goethe's concept of polarity to discuss its theoretical and computational implications on natural and architectural morphogenesis (1). Polarity, as a dualist principle, is found in most of Goethe's ...
  
  

• Financial inclusion and bank stability: evidence from Europe 

  Authors:Danışman, Gamze Öztürk; Tarazi, Amine
  Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals, 2020)

  The Great Recession of 2007-2009 piqued the interest of policymakers worldwide, prompting various initiatives to stabilize the financial system and advance financial inclusion. However, few studies have considered their ...
  
  

• Distinctive communication networks in inactive states of beta(2)-adrenergic receptor: Mutual information and entropy transfer analysis 

  Authors:Soğünmez, Nuray; Akten, Ebru Demet
  Publisher and Date:(Wiley, 2020)

  Mutual information and entropy transfer analysis employed on two inactive states of human beta-2 adrenergic receptor (beta(2)-AR) unraveled distinct communication pathways. Previously, a so-called "highly" inactive state ...
  
  

• Minimum Length Scheduling for Discrete Rate Based Full Duplex Wireless Powered Communication Networks 

  Authors:Iqbal, Muhammad Shahid; Şadı, Yalçın; Ergen, Sinem Coleri
  Publisher and Date:(Springer, 2019)

  In this study, we consider a wireless powered communication network where multiple users with radio frequency energy harvesting capabilities communicate to a hybrid energy and information access point in full duplex mode. ...
  
  

• Competition and monopoly in the U.S. economy: What do the industrial concentration data show? 

  Authors:Davis, Leila; Orhangazi, Özgür
  Publisher and Date:(Sage Publications, 2020)

  A recent series of academic studies, think-tank reports, and news articles shows widespread attention to rising industrial concentration and market power in the U.S. economy. In this paper, we focus on concentration in the ...
  
  

• Psychological correlates of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and preventive measures: Evidence from Turkey 

  Authors:Alper, Sinan; Bayrak, Fatih; Yılmaz, Onurcan
  Publisher and Date:(Springer, 2020)

  COVID-19 pandemic has led to popular conspiracy theories regarding its origins and widespread concern over the level of compliance with preventive measures. In the current preregistered research, we recruited 1088 Turkish ...
  
  

• The Performance of the RSS-Based Lateration Algorithm for Indoor Localization 

  Authors:Barodi, Lubana; Dağ, Tamer
  Publisher and Date:(IEEE, 2019)

  Localization methods have evolved over the years and led the invention of the Global Positioning System for outdoor localization. In time, the need for indoor localization has also arisen and research on indoor positioning ...
  
  

• Homology modeling of human GABA-AT and devise some novel and potent inhibitors via computer-aided drug design techniques 

  Authors:Al-Obaidi, Anas; Elmezayen, Ammar D; Yelekçi, Kemal
  Publisher and Date:(Taylor & Francis Inc, 2020)

  Gamma-aminobutyric acid aminotransferase (GABA-AT) is a pyridoxal 5 '-phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzyme which degrades gamma-aminobutyric (GABA) in the brain. GABA is an important inhibitory neurotransmitter that plays ...
  
  

• Salt inducible kinases as novel Notch interactors in the developing Drosophilaretina 

  Authors:Şahin, H. Bahar; Sayın, Sercan; Holder, Maxine; Bugra, Kuyaş; Çelik, Arzu
  Publisher and Date:(Public Library Science, 2020)

  Developmental processes require strict regulation of proliferation, differentiation and patterning for the generation of final organ size. Aberrations in these fundamental events are critically important in tumorigenesis ...
  
  

• Multi-verse optimization algorithm- and salp swarm optimization algorithm-based optimization of multilevel inverters 

  Authors:Ceylan, Oğuzhan
  Publisher and Date:(Springer, 2020)

  Renewable energy sources are installed into both distribution and transmission grids more and more with the introduction of smart grid concept. Hence, efficient usage of cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverters (MLIs) for ...
  
  

• A multidimensional investigation of pretend play and language competence: Concurrent and longitudinal relations in preschoolers 

  Authors:Kızıldere, Erim; Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı; Tahiroğlu, Deniz; Göksun, Tilbe
  Publisher and Date:(Elsevier, 2020)

  Play is an important tool for children's social interactions and cognitive skills. The current study examines the links between pretend play and language in 119 Turkish preschoolers at two time points tested one-year apart ...
  
  

• Energy Efficient SCMA Supported Downlink Cloud-RANs for 5G Networks 

  Authors:Ferdouse, Lilatul; Erküçük, Serhat; Anpalagan, Alagan; Woungang, Isaac
  Publisher and Date:(IEEE, 2020)

  Cloud-radio access networks (C-RANs) are regarded as a promising solution to provide low cost services among users through the centralized coordination of baseband units for 5G wireless networks. The coordinated multi-point ...
  
  

• Perception, petroleum, and power: Mythmaking in oil-scarce Turkey and Jordan 

  Authors:Ediger, Volkan S.; Selen, Eser; Bowlus, John, V
  Publisher and Date:(Elsevier, 2020)

  Oil has been a cardinal driver of economic growth and national development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. States that produce oil in globally exportable quantities tend to be more powerful than those that do ...
  
  

• Managing natural gas demand for free consumers under uncertainty and limited storage capacity 

  Authors:Aktunç, Esra Ağca; Yükseltan, Ergun; Yücekaya, Ahmet; Bilge, Ayşe Hümeyra
  Publisher and Date:(Elsevier, 2020)

  Demand for energy sources depends on several factors such as population growth, urbanization, industrialization, and climate. Among fundamental energy sources, natural gas is characterized by storage limitations and ...
  
  

• Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance: The Moderating Role of Ownership Concentration in Turkey 

  Authors:Akben-Selcuk, Elif
  Publisher and Date:(MDPI, 2019)

  The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagement on firm financial performance in a developing country, Turkey, and to analyze the moderating role of ownership ...
  
  

• LSB Image Steganography Based on Blocks Matrix Determinant Method 

  Authors:Shehzad, Danish; Dağ, Tamer
  Publisher and Date:(KSII-KOR SOC Internet Information, 2019)

  Image steganography is one of the key types of steganography where a message to be sent is hidden inside the cover image. The most commonly used techniques for image steganography rely on LSB steganography. In this paper, ...
  
  

• Status of malondialdehyde, catalase and superoxide dismutase levels/activities in schoolchildren with iron deficiency and iron-deficiency anemia of Kashere and its environs in Gombe State, Nigeria 

  Authors:Usman, Sani Sharif; Dahiru, Musa; Abdullahir, Bashir; Abdullahir, Shariff Bilal; Maigari, Usman Muhammad; Uba, Abdullahi Ibrahim
  Publisher and Date:(Elsevier, 2019)

  Background: Iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) or iron deficiency (ID) is by far the most common form of disorder affecting the cognitive development, physical growth and school performance of children in developing countries ...
  
  

• The role of intangible assets in explaining the investment-profit puzzle 

  Authors:Orhangazi, Özgür
  Publisher and Date:(Oxford Univ Press, 2019)

  Starting around the early 2000s, and especially after the 2008 crisis, the rate of capital accumulation for US nonfinancial corporations has slowed down despite relatively high profitability; indicating a weakening of the ...
  
  

• A Clustering-Based Approach for Improving the Accuracy of UWB Sensor-Based Indoor Positioning System 

  Authors:Arsan, Taner; Hameez, Mohammed Muwafaq Noori
  Publisher and Date:(Hindawi LTD, 2019)

  There are several methods which can be used to locate an object or people in an indoor location. Ultra-wideband (UWB) is a specifically promising indoor positioning technology because of its high accuracy, resistance to ...
  
  

• Informed trading, order flow shocks and the cross section of expected returns in Borsa Istanbul 

  Authors:Tiniç, Murat; Salih, Aslihan
  Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals, 2019)

  This paper examines the relationship between information asymmetry and stock returns in Borsa Istanbul. For all stocks that are traded in Borsa Istanbul between March 2005 and April 2017, we estimate the probability of ...
  
  

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