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A Comparative Study of Metaheuristic Algorithms for Wave Energy Converter Power Take-Off Optimisation: A Case Study for Eastern Australia
(MDPI, 2021)
One of the most encouraging sorts of renewable energy is ocean wave energy. In spite of a large number of investigations in this field during the last decade, wave energy technologies are recognised as neither mature nor ...
Fractal measures of sea, lake, strait, and dam-reserve shores: Calculation, differentiation, and interpretation
(ELSEVIER, 2021)
The fractal dimensions d(f) of the shore lines of the Mediterranean, the Aegean, the Black Sea, the Bosphorus Straits (on both the Asian and European sides), the Van Lake, and the lake formed by the Ataturk Dam have been ...
The Dead Are Alive: The Exotic Non-Place of the Bondian Runaway Production
(AMSTERDAM UNIV PRESS, 2021)
This chapter dissects the opening sequences of Skyfall (2012) in Istanbul and Spectre (2015) in Mexico City in order to argue that Eon's predilection for runaway productions has begun began to influence the textual composition ...
Facial attractiveness and preference of sexual dimorphism: A comparison across five populations
(Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Despite intensive research, evolutionary psychology has not yet reached a consensus regarding the association between sexual dimorphism and attractiveness. This study examines associations between perceived and morphological ...
Emotional Word Processing Within Configural Representations
(ISTANBUL UNIV, 2020)
The impact of emotions on cognitive processes has been studied intensively in the last years. The aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between visuospatial attention processes and emotions. Visuospatial ...
Collective dynamics of random Janus oscillator networks
(AMER PHYSICAL SOC, 2020)
Janus oscillators have been recently introduced as a remarkably simple phase oscillator model that exhibits nontrivial dynamical patterns-such as chimeras, explosive transitions, and asymmetry-induced synchronization-that ...
How organizational and geographic complexity influence performance: Evidence from European banks
(Elsevier B.V., 2021)
We empirically investigate how bank internationalization, organizational complexity, and geographical complexity stemming from foreign-affiliate type and geographic dispersion affect parent bank stability and profitability. ...
Hukukunda Eşitlik İlkesinin İki Bileşeni: İşverenin Dar Anlamda Eşit Davranma Borcu ve Ayrım Yasağı
(2021)
Eşitlik ve ayrımcılık hukuksal düzlemde her zaman başvurulan kavramlar olarak karşımıza çıkar. Buna karşın günlük dilde bu iki kavram kimi zaman birbiriyle örtüşür biçimde kullanılır, çoğunlukla da birbiriyle karıştırılır. ...
Semantic and syntactic interoperability for agricultural open-data platforms in the context of IoT using crop-specific trait ontologies
(MDPI AG, 2020)
In recent years, Internet-of-Things (IoT)-based applications have been used in various domains such as health, industry and agriculture. Considerable amounts of data in diverse formats are collected from wireless sensor ...
Financial inclusion and bank stability: evidence from Europe
(Routledge Journals, 2020)
The Great Recession of 2007-2009 piqued the interest of policymakers worldwide, prompting various initiatives to stabilize the financial system and advance financial inclusion. However, few studies have considered their ...