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Talking Fashion in Female Friendship Groups: Negotiating the Necessary Marketplace Skills and Knowledge
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2014)
This study revisits contexts of consumer socialization by focusing on fashion consumption among female teenagers. Focus groups and interviews have been utilized to collect data from 12- to 16-year-old female adolescents. ...
The US and Turkey in search of regional strategy: Towards asymptotic trajectories
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2014)
Security relations with the US have been critical for Turkey. Cold War strategic imperatives dictated typical bandwagoning policies although disagreements and frictions were present at times. In the 2000s a combination of ...
When Sharing Less Means More: How Gender Moderates the Impact of Quantity of Information Shared in a Social Network Profile on Profile Viewers' Intentions About Socialization
(Routledge, 2014)
This study summarizes the results from a 2 (low vs. high information) × 2 (female vs. male profile) experiment that investigates the impact of quantity of information shared on a Social Network Site (SNS) profile on viewers' ...
Security in Turkey: Perception Politics and Structure
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2014)
The aim of this study is to analyze the foundations evolution and implementation of the se curity and strategy culture of Turkey as a country whose society has been constructed through a particular security identification. ...
A mechanism design approach to allocating central government funds among regional development agencies
(Springer, 2014)
To allocate central government funds among regional development agencies we look for mechanisms that satisfy three important criteria: efficiency (individual and coalitional) strategy proofness (a.k.a. dominant strategy ...
The European Union and the Black Sea Region in Search of a Narrative or a New Paradigm
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014)
The European Union (EU) has over time formulated and implemented various policies to address its Eastern neighbourhood and in particular the Black Sea region ;yet it still finds itself in search of the right mix of policy ...
Discovery of high affinity ligands for beta(2)-adrenergic receptor through pharmacophore-based high-throughput virtual screening and docking
(Elsevier Science Inc, 2014)
Novel high affinity compounds for human beta(2)-adrenergic receptor (beta(2)-AR) were searched among the clean drug-like subset of ZINC database consisting of 9928465 molecules that satisfy the Lipinski's rule of five. The ...
Fluorescence study of film formation from PS/Al2O3 nanocomposites
(Elsevier Science, 2014)
Steady state fluorescence (SSF) and UV-vis (UVV) techniques were used to study the film formation behavior of pyrene (P) labeled polystyrene (PS) latex and Al2O3 (PS/Al2O3) composites depending on PS particles size and ...
The Relationship between Muslim Religiosity Price-Value Consciousness Impulsive Buying Tendency and Post-Purchase Regret: A Moderation Analysis
(Bilgesel Yayincilik San & Tic Ltd, 2014)
Religion has been considered an inseparable part of culture. There is a considerable amount of research examining the relationship between religious affiliation and consumer behavior. Although past studies have confirmed ...
Lignite resources of Turkey: Geology reserves and exploration history
(Elsevier Science, 2014)
This article aims to emphasize the importance of lignite which is the mostly used domestic energy source in the Turkish energy mix by briefly overviewing its geology reserves and exploration. Lignites are distributed in ...