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Facial Masculinity Increases Perceptions of Men's Age, But Not Perceptions of Their Health: Data From an Arab Sample
(SPRINGERNATURE, 2021-06)
Masculine characteristics in men's faces are often assumed to function as health cues. However, evidence for this assumption from empirical tests is mixed. For example, research on Western women's face perceptions found ...
Art investment: hedging or safe haven through financial crises
(Springer, 2020)
We analyze long-term art auction sales data focusing on and around financial crisis periods with other investment returns to understand whether art can be considered a safe haven during volatile times or a hedging option ...
Flexible physical layer based resource allocation for machine type communications towards 6G
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020)
The exponential growth of Internet of Things applications necessitates the design of next generation cellular systems to provide native support for machine type communications (MTC). While 5G aims at providing this native ...
Flow Structure in a Shallow Mixing Layer Developing over 2-D Dunes
(E D P Sciences, 2018)
A high resolution Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) are used to characterize the evolution of a shallow mixing layer developing between two parallel streams in a long open channel over two-dimensional (2D) dunes. The study ...
Forecasting Models For Daily Natural Gas Consumption Considering Periodic Variations And Demand Segregation
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)
Due to expensive infrastructure and the difficulties in storage, supply conditions of natural gas are different from those of other traditional energy sources like petroleum or coal. To overcome these challenges, supplier ...
"Life is a state of mind' - on fiction, society and Trump
(Routledge Journals, 2017)
The article undertakes an allegorical double reading of Being There and Trump as instances of what we call socio-fiction. Crucially in this respect, reality and fiction are not two opposed realms. The two realms always ...
Self-duality in higher dimensions
(IOP Publishing Ltd, 2017)
Let w be a 2-form on a 2n dimensional manifold. In previous work, we called w "strong self-dual, if the eigenvalues of its matrix with respect to an orthonormal frame are equal in absolute value. In a series of papers, we ...
NATO's Evolution and Turkey's Contribution to the Transatlantic Security
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2015)
Turkey has been member of NATO for more than six decades. Turkey's contributions to NATO's collective defense have evolved in quantity and quality in step with changes in the ends and means of security. In terms of its ...
A mathematical characterization of the gel point in sol-gel transition
(IOP Publishing Ltd, 2015)
We model the sol-gel transition in terms of Susceptible-Infected-Removed (SIR) and Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Removed (SEIR) models and compare with experimental results. We show, numerically, that the "gel point" described ...
The Perceptual Shock of Qatar Foreign Policy in 2017 Crisis: Systemic Factors, Regional Struggles Versus Domestic Variables
(Sage Publications Inc, 2020)
The Qatar crisis of June 2017 commenced without a warning and restored overlooked regional security dynamics to the state, the political elite, and the Qatari society at large. Qatar was cautious about the diversions of ...