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How to engage consumers through effective social media use-guidelines for consumer goods companies from an emerging market
(Universidad de Talca, 2021-07)
This study aims to establish actionable guidelines and provide strategic insights as a means of increasing the social media effectiveness of consumer brands. Post-related factors in addition to the contextual and temporal ...
How and why patterns of sexual dimorphism in human faces vary across the world
(2021-03)
Sexual selection, including mate choice and intrasexual competition, is responsible for the evolution of some of the most elaborated and sexually dimorphic traits in animals. Although there is sexual dimorphism in the shape ...
Recurrence analysis of extreme event-like data
(COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH, 2021)
The identification of recurrences at various time-scales in extreme event-like time series is challenging because of the rare occurrence of events which are separated by large temporal gaps. Most of the existing time series ...
Gamma-Robust electricity market equilibrium models with transmission and generation investments
(SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, 2021-03)
We consider uncertain robust electricity market equilibrium problems including transmission and generation investments. Electricity market equilibrium modeling has a long tradition but is, in most of the cases, applied in ...
Forecasting time-varying arrivals: Impact of direct response advertising on call center performance
(Elsevier Inc., 2021-07)
This study investigates manpower planning and the performance of a national call center for scheduling car repairs and responding to road interventions. We model the impact of advertising on the required capacity and develop ...
Correlated conformational dynamics of the human GluN1-GluN2A type N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor
(SPRINGER, 2021)
N-Methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) are glutamate-gated ion channels found in the nerve cell membranes. As a result of overexcitation of NMDARs, neuronal death occurs and may lead to diseases such as epilepsy, stroke, ...
Representations of everyday life in İnci Eviner’s We, Elsewhere: comedy, use and free will
(Routledge, 2021)
İnci Eviner's installation We, Elsewhere 1 for the Turkey Pavilion 2 at the 58th Venice Art Biennial offers a spectacle of the incomplete, in which the objects, videos and their characters, and sounds in the piece, along ...
Does Self-rated Attractiveness Predict Women's Preferences for Facial Masculinity? Data From an Arab Sample
(SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, 2021-03)
Objectives Because more attractive women may be better able to attract and/or retain masculine mates, many researchers have proposed that women who consider themselves to be more physically attractive will show stronger ...
Surfactant-free one-step fabrication of gelatin/PAAm/MWCNT composites for biomedical applications
(Springer, 2021)
Well-dispersed multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) and gelatin-enhanced polyacrylamide (PAAm) composites were synthesized via a free-radical copolymerization method. MWCNTs were added to the composite mixture in various ...
Assessment and simulation of water transfer for the megacity Istanbul
(Bellwether Publishing, Ltd., 2021)
The population of Istanbul increased from three to fifteen million from 1970 to 2018. The city, which has no perennial fresh water resources within its metropolitan boundaries, has long imported water from other basins. ...