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Complete density calculations of q-state Potts and clock models: Reentrance of interface densities under symmetry breaking
(Amer Physical Soc, 2020)
All local bond-state densities are calculated for q-state Potts and clock models in three spatial dimensions, d = 3. The calculations are done by an exact renormalization group on a hierarchical lattice, including the ...
Audience Tracking and Cheering Content Control in Sports Events
(IEEE, 2020)
Swearing cheers encountered in sports competitions do not comply with sports ethics and morals. Even if this kind of cheering is a group, the entire tribune block is penalized in accordance with the current rules. This ...
'Who wants left-wing policies? Economic preferences and political cleavages in Turkey'
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2020)
We administer a survey of economic policy preferences to a representative sample of the Turkish voting-age population. We show that policy preferences are distributed in non-linear ways that are at odds with what could be ...
Contours of Alternative Policy Making in Venezuela
(Sage Publications Inc, 2014)
The economic policies of the Venezuelan government in the last decade represent a significant departure from neoliberal orthodoxy. This departure consists of a focus on greater national autonomy, a return to some of the ...
Heterogeneous effects of minimum wage on labor market outcomes: A case study from Turkey
(Walter de Gruyter, 2020)
We assess the effects of a sharp minimum wage increase on wages, informality, and employment in Turkey, a large developing economy with one of the highest minimum wage-to-average wage ratios among OECD countries and ...
'Just the way my generation reads the news': News consumption habits of youth in Turkey and the UK
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2020)
Audiences' media use and news consumption behaviour are constantly shifting. Some scholars note that the growing decline in youth's news consumption raises concerns about the future of democracy in various media systems. ...
Pharmacophore-based virtual screening for identification of potential selective inhibitors of human histone deacetylase 6
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2018)
Histone deacetylase (HDAC) 6 plays a role in oncogenic transformation and cancer metastasis via tubulin deacetylation, making it a critical target for anticancer drug design. However, lack of selectivity shown by many of ...
Channel Estimation for TDS-OFDM Systems in Rapidly Time-Varying Mobile Channels
(IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2018)
This paper explores the performance of time-domain synchronous orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (TDS-OFDM) systems operated under rapidly time-varying mobile channels. Since a rapidly time-varying channel contains ...
The "Karakoncolos / Kalikancaros" Belief in Turkish and Greek Sources
(Milli Folklor Dergisi, 2018)
The belief in "karakoncolos / kalikancaros" is seen in a wide geography spreading from Central Anatolia and Black Sea region in Turkey to Balkan Peninsula including Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia. Though karakoncolos is defined ...
Rethinking the Golden Age of Social Psychology
(Istanbul Univ, 2019)
It is tragic yet curious to realize that a historical period of great human misery can motivate great scientific endeavour. This paper argues that the "golden age" of social psychology was driven by the traumas of fascism. ...