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Efficiency in Turkish banking: post-restructuring evidence
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)
Turkish banking sector went through a significant restructuring process in the aftermath of the country's financial crisis of 2000-2001. In this paper we analyze the evolution of banking performance using a novel approach ...
How people can become persuaded by weak messages presented by credible communicators: Not all sleeper effects are created equal
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2017)
The sleeper effect has been proposed to describe temporal changes in persuasion for messages associated with noncredible sources. The present research introduces a new kind of sleeper effect denoting increases in persuasion ...
Broadband matching via reflection function optimization
(Wiley, 2017)
In this paper a practical approach is presented for designing broadband matching networks via reflection function optimization. In the proposed algorithm the input or output reflection function of the matching network is ...
Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting Protein Complex Similarity
(Mary Ann Liebert Inc Publ, 2017)
Discriminating native-like structures from false positives with high accuracy is one of the biggest challenges in protein-protein docking. While there is an agreement on the existence of a relationship between various ...
Youth activists and occupygezi: patterns of social change in public policy and in civic and political activism in Turkey
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)
The research puzzle that our paper focuses on is the struggle of youth organizations to have their voice heard in public policy processes. We examine the implications of occupygezi in establishing or not a new relationship ...
The role of climate: implications for service employee engagement and customer service performance
(Springer, 2017)
This research attempts to challenge the resource-engagement and engagement-performance linkage of the job demands-resources model by testing these links under the moderating role of two climates: performance-focused and ...
New azole derivatives showing antimicrobial effects and their mechanism of antifungal activity by molecular modeling studies
(Elsevier France-Editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier, 2017)
Azole antifungals are potent inhibitors of fungal lanosterol 14 alpha demethylase (CYP51) and have been used for eradication of systemic candidiasis clinically. Herein we report the design synthesis and biological evaluation ...
Beyond Muslim identity: Opinion-based groups in the Gezi Park protest
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2017)
Media depicted Turkish Gezi Park protests as a clash between secularists and Islamists within a majority-Muslim country. Extending a social identity approach to protests this study aims (a) to distinguish the protest ...
Forecasting electricity demand for Turkey: Modeling periodic variations and demand segregation
(Elsevier, 2017)
In deregulated electricity markets the independent system operator (ISO) oversees the power system and manages the supply and demand balancing process. In a typical day the ISO announces the electricity demand forecast for ...
Pilot Symbol Aided Channel Estimation for Spatial Modulation-OFDM Systems and its Performance Analysis with Different Types of Interpolations
(Springer, 2017)
Spatial modulation orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (SM-OFDM) system has been recently proposed as an alternative for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-OFDM systems to increase spectral efficiency by keeping ...