The current study investigates the special in-group dynamics of women between 55-65 years, and demonstrates the need for "Facebook usage" for that specific age group. The research question assesses the reasons behind the Facebook usage need and intention, for the women between 55-65 years. It is true that the underlying reasons behind social media usage is related to many sociologic and psychological factors, and the Facebook usage of women aged between 55-65 can only be explained by first examining ...

Facial aging is both a physiologic and anatomic process characterized by changes in the skin and supporting tissues. The aging process produces an outer envelope that gradually expands while its contents gradually involute and the underlying structure weakens. This process results in an excess of skin that tends to create folds, grooves, and deepening furrows. Contour augmentation and filling depressions with autologous tissue or heterogeneous materials are widely used in face rejuvenation as an ...

Facilities management became a structure including residences which became large scale and complex structures and versatile service companies. Sector's definition is extending day by day and the scope of the sector now includes a broad assets management support services and human skills. Small to large a lot of facilities management companies are active in Turkey. Most of these are not institutionalized companies. Facilities management sector in Turkey is a recently developing sector. This study ...

The objective of this study is to propose a framework related to financial consumers’ private pension plan decisions. Specifically, we review the factors affecting consumers’ participation, contribution and asset allocation decisions regarding private pensions. The factors discussed include situational and dispositional factors, personality, motivation, financial literacy, and external influences. Based on this survey of literature, we develop a number of propositions, which are expected to ...

Introduction In 2009 Turkey extended the smoke-free legislation to hospitality venues. Compliance however remains low in some hospitality venues. We identified characteristics associated with knowledge of health effects that can be prevented by the smoke-free law the attitude towards and enforcement of the law. Methods In 2014 we conducted 400 interviews with hospitality venue owners and employees in 7 cities in Turkey. The venues were identified based on a random sampling strategy in a previous ...

This study investigated the impact of susceptibility to interpersonal influence and brand image on purchase intention of Smartphone buyers. it explored the actual relationship between these variables. To get information about what prior research had written about it the study deeply went through the literature review. Based on the literature the susceptibility to interpersonal influence consists three types of influences which are: informational influence utilitarian and value expressive interpersonal ...

Vadeli işlem sözleşmeleri, işletmelerin maruz kaldığı riskleri en aza indirmek amacıyla kullanılan finansal araçlardır. Vadeli işlem sözleşmelerinde en çok kullanılanlardan biri faize dayalı swap sözleşmeleridir. Faize dayalı swap sözleşmelerinde taraflar, belirli bir süre boyunca belirli miktarlarda ödeme yükümlülüklerini birbirleriyle takas ederler. Faize dayalı swap sözleşmeleri riskten korunma veya spekülatif amaçlı gerçekleştirilmektedir. Sözleşmeye hangi amaçla taraf olunuyorsa, buna göre ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between dividends and family involvement as well as corporate governance characteristics among Turkish public firms. Design/methodology/approach Using panel data on Turkish firms listed on the Borsa Istanbul 100 index for 2006-2014, three models are estimated. For the first two models, where the dependent variables are the dividend payout ratio and dividend yield, respectively, tobit regressions are run. The last model, which ...

Fantasy Setting Narrative Space in the Queer Cinema of the USA (1990s–2010s) investigates the origins and functioning of particular choices of setting fantasy elements and non-linear narrative structures in the queer cinema of the United States from the 1990s to 2010s. The study aims to identify a comprehensive counter-culture utopianism in queer cinema with selected examples from American and to a lesser degree world cinema. What is common in the selected films is the notion of escape and the ...

In this paper a fast and an effective multi-view face tracking algorithm with head pose estimation is introduced. For modeling the face pose we employ a tree of boosted classifiers built using either Haar-like filters or Gauss filters. A first classifier extracts faces of any pose from the background. Then more specific classifiers discriminate between different poses. The tree of classifiers is trained by hierarchically sub-sampling the pose space. Finally Condensation algorithm is used for ...