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The relationship between Google search interest for pulmonary symptoms and COVID-19 cases using dynamic conditional correlation analysis
(Nature Research, 2021)
This study aims to evaluate the monitoring and predictive value of web-based symptoms (fever, cough, dyspnea) searches for COVID-19 spread. Daily search interests from Turkey, Italy, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom ...
Incentivizing Farmers to Invest in Quality through Quality-Based Payment
(Wiley, 2021)
We consider a for-profit cooperative that sets a quality-based payment to its risk-averse farmers in order to incentivize them to invest in quality improvements. The quality of the farmer's harvest is affected by his ...
EVALUATING LOGISTICS VILLAGES IN TURKEY USING HYBRID IMPROVED FUZZY SWARA (IMF SWARA) AND FUZZY MABAC TECHNIQUES
(Vilnius Gediminas Tech Univ, 2021)
Positioning in the right location for organizing logistics activities is a determinative factor in the aspect of costs, effectivity, productivity, and performance of these operations carried out by logistics firms. The ...
Revisiting destination competitiveness through chaos theory: The butterfly competitiveness model
(Elsevier, 2021)
The second decade of this century has been characterized by a particular emphasis on the significance of safety and security in human life in general and in tourist decision-making in particular. This study is therefore a ...
Turkish Foreign Policy in the Chaos of War, 1939-1945
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2021)
The World War II marked an important watershed for Turkey's foreign policy. It caught Turkey in the middle of a nation and state-building processes as well as still recovering from the damages of the previous war. Thus ...
Cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverters optimization using adaptive grey wolf optimizer with local search
(Springer, 2021)
With the transformation of transmission and distribution grids into smart grids that are more dominated by renewable energy, power electronics-based inverters that can improve power quality are becoming more visible. In ...
Challenges of Teaching in a Different Culture: An Auto-Ethnographic Study
(Cognizant Communication Corp, 2021)
Teaching in a different culture and environment is always a challenging issue. This may last from a few months to a few years, depending on the consequences of personal characteristics and environmental situations. Based ...
Assessment of load and generation modelling on the quasi-static analysis of distribution networks
(Elsevier, 2021)
Quasi-static analysis of power systems can be performed by means of timeseries-based and probability density function-based models. In this paper, the effect of different load and generation modelling approaches on the ...
COVID-19 digitization in maritime: understanding cyber risks
(Springer Heidelberg, 2021)
Digitization is reshaping the maritime industry which is under increasing pressure to transform. Technology is more common as it offers improvements and carves out early adapters as more competitive. COVID-19 hastens ...
Financial technology in developing economies: A note on digital lending in Turkey
(Elsevier Science Sa, 2021)
We examine the differences in the loan performance of fintech and bank borrowers in Turkey. Using data of 5.5 million consumer loans by the fifth-largest private commercial bank in Turkey and its fintech subsidiary, we ...