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Post-Donation Evaluation of Life of Donors of Liver Transplantation
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Aim: Liver transplantation from living donors affects not only recipients' but also donors' lives. The aim of this study was to explore living donors' experience of life. Methods: The sample consisted of 16 living donors ...
Bringing the Empire Back In: The Gradual Discovery of the Ottoman Empire in Turkish Foreign Policy
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2016)
This article traces the emergence of references to the Ottoman Empire in the discourse and practice of Turkish foreign policy since the late 1940s. It argues that present-day emphasis on the Ottoman Empire and its legacy ...
Determinants of Saving-Borrowing Decisions and Financial Inclusion in a High Middle Income Country: The Turkish Case
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016)
We use a representative survey of the Turkish household sector and investigate factors impinging on saving-borrowing behavior. We run four probit regressions to elucidate (i) the saving decision (ii) asset choice or portfolio ...
Internal Customer Satisfaction Improvement with QFD Technique
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to employ quality function deployment (QFD) method for translating internal customer needs and expectations into appropriate service specifications to perform existing process assessments ...
When Does (Mis)Fit in Customer Orientation Matter for Frontline Employees' Job Satisfaction and Performance?
(Amer Marketing Assoc, 2016)
The role of coworkers' customer orientation (CO) in influencing an employee's CO has received sparse attention in the literature. This research serves two purposes. First the study draws on person-group fit theory to develop ...
Demand Uncertainty And Inventory Turnover Performance An Empirical Analysis of the US Retail Industry
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of demand uncertainty on inventory turnover performance through empirical modeling. In particular the authors use the inaccuracy of quarterly sales forecasts ...
An Overview of the 2009 A(H1N1) Pandemic in Europe: Efficiency of the Vaccination and Healthcare Strategies
(Hindawi Ltd, 2016)
2009 A(H1N1) data for 13 European countries obtained from the weekly influenza surveillance overview (WISO) reports of European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in the form of weekly cumulative fatalities ...
Novel Mutants of the Aubergine Gene
(Taylor & Francis Inc, 2016)
Aubergine is an RNA-binding protein of the Piwi clade functioning in germline in the piRNA pathway that silences transposons and repetitive sequences. Several mutations of this gene exist but they mostly result in truncated ...
Structural Analysis of Peptide Fragments Following The Hydrolysis of Bovine Serum Albumin by Trypsin and Chymotrypsin
(Taylor & Francis Inc, 2016)
Peptide bond hydrolysis of bovine serum albumin (BSA) by chymotrypsin and trypsin was investigated by employing time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. As a fluorescent cross-linking reagent N-(1-pyrenyl) maleimide (PM) ...
Optimizing NEURON Simulation Environment Using Remote Memory Access with Recursive Doubling on Distributed Memory Systems
(Hindawi Ltd, 2016)
Increase in complexity of neuronal network models escalated the efforts to make NEURON simulation environment efficient. The computational neuroscientists divided the equations into subnets amongst multiple processors for ...