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Evaluating the International Renewable Energy Agency through the lens of social constructivism
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2021)
It is widely accepted that renewable energy will contribute to building a more sustainable world, and a transition from a fossil fuel-dominated to a renewable-based energy system is inevitable. However, only 5% of the ...
First-order to second-order phase transition changeover and latent heats of q-state Potts models in d=2,3 from a simple Migdal-Kadanoff adaptation
(Amer Physical Soc, 2022)
The changeover from first-order to second-order phase transitions in q-state Potts models is obtained at q(c) = 2 in spatial dimension d = 3 and essentially at q(c) = 4 in d = 2, using a physically intuited simple adaptation ...
Electric power bid determination and evaluation for price taker units under price uncertainty
(Econjournals, 2021)
Power companies aim to maximize their profit which is highly related to the bidding strategies used. In order to sell electricity at high prices and maximize their profit, power companies need suitable bidding models that ...
Who in the World Is Trying to Change Their Personality Traits? Volitional Personality Change Among College Students in Six Continents
(American Psychological Association, 2021)
Recent research conducted largely in the United States suggests that most people would like to change one or more of their personality traits. Yet almost no research has investigated the degree to which and in what ways ...
Sustainability and communication practices in grassroots movements in turkey following gezi park protests: Cases of dogancilar park forum, macka park forum and validebag volunteers
(Intellect Ltd., 2020)
Recent social movements, as exemplified by the informal organizations formed during and after the Occupy Movement in the United States and Gezi Park Protests in Turkey, are characterized by distrust towards institutional ...
Synthesis and molecular modeling of MetAP2 of thiosemicarbazides, 1,2,4-triazoles, thioethers derived from (S)-Naproxen as possible breast cancer agents
(Elsevier, 2022)
New thiosemicarbazides (3, 5-6), 1,2,4-triazoles (14-15) and thioethers (22-68) from derived (S)-Naproxen were synthesized in this study. The structure of these compounds were elucidated by spectral (FT-IR, H-1 NMR, C-13 ...
Corporate risk-taking in developed countries: The influence of economic policy uncertainty and macroeconomic conditions
(Elsevier B.V., 2020)
Using 74,974 firm-year observations covering 15 developed European countries over the time period 1999–2017, this paper explores the effect of economic policy uncertainty on corporate risk-taking. The findings indicate ...
Comparing efficiency in all-inclusive and bed and breakfast hotel businesses: a multi-period data envelopment analysis in Turkey
(Emerald Publishing, 2022)
Purpose: This paper aims to understand the most efficient hotel system and why efficiency varies across years and between the two differing types of hotel businesses in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach: A data envelopment ...
The multicolored graph realization problem
(Elsevier B.V., 2022)
We introduce the multicolored graph realization problem (MGR). The input to this problem is a colored graph (G,?), i.e., a graph G together with a coloring ? on its vertices. We associate each colored graph (G,?) with a ...
Once upon a time in PERGAMON: Reality and representation in the Hellenistic city
(Elsevier Ltd, 2022)
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