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Application of epidemic models to phase transitions
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012)
The Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) and Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered (SEIR) models describe the spread of epidemics in a society. In the typical case, the ratio of the susceptible individuals fall from a ...
Energy efficient robust scheduling of periodic sensor packets for discrete rate based wireless networked control systems
(Elsevier, 2020)
Wireless networked control systems (WNCSs) require the design of a robust scheduling algorithm that meets the stringent timing and reliability requirements of control systems, despite the limited battery resources of sensor ...
Measuring, evaluating and improving hospital quality parameters/dimensions - An integrated healthcare quality approach
(2011)
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the major factors affecting cumulative summation, to empirically examine the major factors affecting satisfaction and to address the question whether patients in Kazakhstan evaluate ...
Urban regeneration projects in Istanbul and documentary value
(Istanbul Teknik Universitesi, Faculty of Architecture, 2011)
Historic cities directly reflect urban transformations and the restructuring of social life shaping the physical environment of a city. In Istanbul, however, recent changes in the physical environment have taken a different ...
Intimate engagements of the public kind
(2010)
Cultural intimacy, both the book and the concept, privileges the nation-state as the site of doing and writing ethnography and understanding sociality in a world customarily designated "globalizing." Not only have we placed ...
The role of trade and FDI for CO2 emissions in Turkey: Nonlinear relationships
(Elsevier, 2019)
This paper examines the effects of foreign trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) on CO2 emissions in Turkey. We consider linear and nonlinear ARDL models and find significant asymmetric effects of exports, imports and ...
Border as "Zone of Indistinction": The State of Exception and the Spectacle of Terror Along Turkey's Border With Syria
(Sage Publications Inc, 2018)
Turkey's border with Syria today is a laboratory in which biopolitics and the spectacle coincide in new ways. As a consequence of the ongoing war between the state and Kurdish insurgents, and the state of emergency ...
Overcoming the shortcomings of energy intensity index: a directional technology distance function approach
(Springer, 2018)
In multilateral comparisons of environmental performance over time, energy intensity measures, especially "real" energy intensity computed either by index decomposition approach or structural decomposition approach, are ...
A 'Regional Energy Hub' for achieving a low-carbon energy transition
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2018)
The transition to a low-carbon energy economy will remain a cornerstone of national energy policies of countries committed to the climate change accord for decades to come. We think that transmission investment is one key ...
Alternative models for markets with nonconvexities
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2017)
In many electricity markets, the market operator solves a social welfare maximization (SW) model to determine market prices and generation (and consumption) "dispatch" instructions to firms participating in the market. ...