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The Personality and Leadership Style of Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Implications for Turkish Foreign Policy
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011)
Recep Tayyip Erdog. an is clearly the most controversial figure in recent Turkish political history. His preponderance in political life is remarkable even by Turkish standards. Because Erdog. an is so powerful and has ...
The Limitations of Turkey's New Foreign Policy Activism in the Caucasian Regional Security Complexity
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011)
A panoramic outlook on the present global system shows that the US has been failing to preserve its global preponderance against the rise of new contenders from Asia. Turkey's new foreign policy demeanor under the AKP ...
Alevis and Alevism in the Changing Context of Turkish Politics: The Justice and Development Party's Alevi Opening
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011)
The Justice and Development Party (JDP Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi) has launched a rapprochement policy toward the Alevis. The JDP's Alevi Opening has presented a unique case in Turkey's latest identity politics not only ...
An integrated approach to evaluating assembly-line design alternatives with equipment selection
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011)
The design and implementation of assembly-line systems have been critical issues for companies since the first assembly-line was started at the Ford Highland Plant in 1913. From that time onwards most companies have met ...
Exploring the City: Perceiving Istanbul through its Cultural Productions
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
This essay explores the role of Istanbul's 'cultural productions' as components of the city's structure and texture. Istanbul is a city of tensions generated by its countless conflicting and divergent flows which are ...
Swelling Kinetics of PAAm-kappa-Carrageenan Composites: A Fluorescence Technique
(Taylor & Francis Inc, 2011)
The steady-state fluorescence (SSF) technique was introduced for studying swelling of disc-shaped polyacrylamide (PAAm) gels containing various amount of kappa-carrageenan (kappa C). They were prepared by free-radical ...
Double branch outage modeling and simulation: Bounded network approach
(Elsevier Science, 2015)
Energy management system operators perform regular outage simulations in order to ensure secure operation of power systems. AC power flow based outage simulations are not preferred because of insufficient computational ...
Pathways of connection: An analytical approach to the impacts of public diplomacy
(Elsevier Science Inc, 2015)
Public diplomacy albeit its functional similarities with public relations and other corporate communication tools is inherently a foreign policy tool used by practitioner states to advance their national interests and ...
Optimal Power Allocation Between Training and Data for MIMO Two-Way Relay Channels
(IEEE-INST Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2015)
Power allocation between training and data in MIMO two-way relay systems is proposed which takes into consideration both the symmetric and asymmetric cases of the two sources. For the former we present a closed form for ...
Numerical solution and distinguishability in time fractional parabolic equation
(Springer International Publishing Ag, 2015)
This article deals with the mathematical analysis of the inverse problem of identifying the distinguishability of input-output mappings in the linear time fractional inhomogeneous parabolic equation D(t)(alpha)u(x t) = ...