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Policies of media and cultural integration in Germany: From guestworker programmes to a more integrative framework
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2014)
After the arrival of the first labour migrants in Germany in the 1960s a gradual change in the perception of migrants in German politics took place: from guests (Gastarbeiter) and foreigners (Ausländer) to citizens as ...
NATO's emerging threat perception: Cyber security in the 21st century [NATO’nun Gelişen Tehdit Algısı: 21. Yüzyılda Siber Güvenlik]
(International Relations Council of Turkey, 2014)
Westphalian state system has been deeply affected from the civilianization of the cyber space. It is possible to see the traces of nuclear war and its competition in this new post-Cold War period. The contemporary threats ...
Talking Fashion in Female Friendship Groups: Negotiating the Necessary Marketplace Skills and Knowledge
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2014)
This study revisits contexts of consumer socialization by focusing on fashion consumption among female teenagers. Focus groups and interviews have been utilized to collect data from 12- to 16-year-old female adolescents. ...
Sparse channel estimation for OFDM-based underwater cooperative systems with amplify-and-forward relaying
(IEEE Computer Society, 2014)
This paper is concerned with a challenging problem of channel estimation for amplify-and-forward cooperative relay based orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems in the presence of sparse underwater acoustic ...
Recent Advances in Applied and Computational Mathematics: ICACM-IAM-METU
(Elsevier, 2014)
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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 ...
Iterative channel estimation for spatial modulation systems over fast fading channels [Hızlı sönümlemeli kanallarda uzaysal modülasyon sistemleri için iteratif kanal kestirimi]
(IEEE Computer Society, 2014)
Spatial Modulation (SM) based on the use of antenna indices to transmit information in addition to the conventional signal constellations has been recently proposed to solve practical problems encountered in MIMO systems. ...
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' ...
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 ...