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The US and Turkey in search of regional strategy: Towards asymptotic trajectories
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2014)
Security relations with the US have been critical for Turkey. Cold War strategic imperatives dictated typical bandwagoning policies although disagreements and frictions were present at times. In the 2000s a combination of ...
When Sharing Less Means More: How Gender Moderates the Impact of Quantity of Information Shared in a Social Network Profile on Profile Viewers' Intentions About Socialization
(Routledge, 2014)
This study summarizes the results from a 2 (low vs. high information) × 2 (female vs. male profile) experiment that investigates the impact of quantity of information shared on a Social Network Site (SNS) profile on viewers' ...
Security in Turkey: Perception Politics and Structure
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2014)
The aim of this study is to analyze the foundations evolution and implementation of the se curity and strategy culture of Turkey as a country whose society has been constructed through a particular security identification. ...
A mechanism design approach to allocating central government funds among regional development agencies
(Springer, 2014)
To allocate central government funds among regional development agencies we look for mechanisms that satisfy three important criteria: efficiency (individual and coalitional) strategy proofness (a.k.a. dominant strategy ...
The European Union and the Black Sea Region in Search of a Narrative or a New Paradigm
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014)
The European Union (EU) has over time formulated and implemented various policies to address its Eastern neighbourhood and in particular the Black Sea region ;yet it still finds itself in search of the right mix of policy ...
Fluorescence study of film formation from PS/Al2O3 nanocomposites
(Elsevier Science, 2014)
Steady state fluorescence (SSF) and UV-vis (UVV) techniques were used to study the film formation behavior of pyrene (P) labeled polystyrene (PS) latex and Al2O3 (PS/Al2O3) composites depending on PS particles size and ...
A Computerized Recognition System for the Home-Based Physiotherapy Exercises Using an RGBD Camera
(IEEE, 2014)
Computerized recognition of the home based physiotherapy exercises has many benefits and it has attracted considerable interest among the computer vision community. However most methods in the literature view this task as ...
Information theoretical performance limits of single-carrier underwater acoustic systems
(Inst Engineering Technology-IET, 2014)
In this study the authors investigate the information theoretical limits on the performance of point-to-point single-carrier acoustic systems over frequency-selective underwater channels with intersymbol interference. Under ...
Compressive sensing for ultra-wideband channel estimation: on the sparsity assumption of ultra-wideband channels
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
Due to the sparse structure of ultra-wideband (UWB) multipath channels there has been a considerable amount of interest in applying the compressive sensing (CS) theory to UWB channel estimation. The main consideration of ...
WikiLeaks on the Middle East: Obscure Diplomacy Networks and Binding Spaces
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014)
In this paper we explore the flow of information regarding strategic Middle Eastern countries in the WikiLeaks 'diplomatic cables' by applying data-mining techniques to construct directed networks. The results show that ...