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Understanding users' behavioral intention to use voice assistants on smartphones through the integrated model of user satisfaction and technology acceptance: a survey approach
(EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, 2021)
Purpose This study aims to determine system quality (SQ) and information quality (IQ) characteristics of voice assistants (VA) on smartphones that are affecting users' satisfaction and technology acceptance, and how these ...
Effects of second-language acquisition on character introductions in 5-and 7-year-old bilingual and monolingual children's Frog story narratives
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2021)
This study investigates the effects of early second-language (L2) acquisition on introduction of characters in narrative discourse by comparing 5- and 7-year-old monolingual (first-language [L1] = Turkish) and bilingual ...
The Effect of Pandemics on Domestic Credit: A Cross-country Analysis
(Economics Bulletin, 2021)
Using a panel of 140 countries covering the period 1996-2018, this paper examines how previous pandemics (such as SARS, MERS, Ebola, Swine flu, etc.) have influenced the lending behavior of banks. We take advantage of a ...
Gendered Expressions of Labor: The Case of Sümerbank Defterdar Textile Factory (Feshane)
(Indiana University Press, 2021)
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Overlapping board connections with banker directors and corporate loan terms: Evidence from syndicated loans
(Elsevier, 2021)
I look at the relationship between corporate loan terms and board members' connections to bankers through employment on other boards, a connection relatively unaffected by confounding factors. Using syndicated loan data, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sensitivity of computational fluid dynamics simulations against soft errors
(Springer Wien, 2021)
Computational capabilities of the largest high performance computing systems have increased by more than 100 folds in the last 10 years and keep increasing substantially every year. This increase is made possible mostly ...