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A New Preconditioner Design Based on Spectral Division for Power Flow Analysis
(Praise Worthy Prize Srl, 2011)
Solution of large sparse linear systems is the most lime consuming part in many power system simulations. Direct solvers based on LU factorization although robust are known to have limited satiability on parallel platforms. ...
The Personality and Leadership Style of Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Implications for Turkish Foreign Policy
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011)
Recep Tayyip Erdog. an is clearly the most controversial figure in recent Turkish political history. His preponderance in political life is remarkable even by Turkish standards. Because Erdog. an is so powerful and has ...
The Limitations of Turkey's New Foreign Policy Activism in the Caucasian Regional Security Complexity
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011)
A panoramic outlook on the present global system shows that the US has been failing to preserve its global preponderance against the rise of new contenders from Asia. Turkey's new foreign policy demeanor under the AKP ...
Alevis and Alevism in the Changing Context of Turkish Politics: The Justice and Development Party's Alevi Opening
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011)
The Justice and Development Party (JDP Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi) has launched a rapprochement policy toward the Alevis. The JDP's Alevi Opening has presented a unique case in Turkey's latest identity politics not only ...
An integrated approach to evaluating assembly-line design alternatives with equipment selection
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011)
The design and implementation of assembly-line systems have been critical issues for companies since the first assembly-line was started at the Ford Highland Plant in 1913. From that time onwards most companies have met ...
Exploring the City: Perceiving Istanbul through its Cultural Productions
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
This essay explores the role of Istanbul's 'cultural productions' as components of the city's structure and texture. Istanbul is a city of tensions generated by its countless conflicting and divergent flows which are ...
Swelling Kinetics of PAAm-kappa-Carrageenan Composites: A Fluorescence Technique
(Taylor & Francis Inc, 2011)
The steady-state fluorescence (SSF) technique was introduced for studying swelling of disc-shaped polyacrylamide (PAAm) gels containing various amount of kappa-carrageenan (kappa C). They were prepared by free-radical ...
Measuring, evaluating and improving hospital quality parameters/dimensions - An integrated healthcare quality approach
(2011)
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the major factors affecting cumulative summation, to empirically examine the major factors affecting satisfaction and to address the question whether patients in Kazakhstan evaluate ...
Urban regeneration projects in Istanbul and documentary value
(Istanbul Teknik Universitesi, Faculty of Architecture, 2011)
Historic cities directly reflect urban transformations and the restructuring of social life shaping the physical environment of a city. In Istanbul, however, recent changes in the physical environment have taken a different ...
Maximal linear subspaces of strong self-dual 2-forms and the Bonan 4-form
(Elsevier Science Inc, 2011)
The notion of self-duality of 2-forms in 4-dimensions plays an eminent role in many areas of mathematics and physics, but although the 2-forms have a genuine meaning related to curvature and gauge-field-strength in higher ...