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General equilibrium evaluation of deregulation in energy sectors in China
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015)
The central government in China has implemented ambitious energy policy reforms since 1978. An important pillar of these reforms is the deregulation in the energy markets which manifests itself in the formation of energy ...
Competing frameworks of Islamic law and secular civil law in Turkey: A case study on women's property and inheritance practices
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2015)
The article stems from empirical research conducted with a group of women living in Istanbul who have conservative life styles bounded by an Islamic worldview. It attempts to illuminate the negotiation and contestation ...
Corporate diversification and firm value: evidence from emerging markets
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2015)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of corporate diversification on firm value in a sample of nine emerging markets including Brazil Chile Indonesia Malaysia Philippines Poland South Africa ...
Practical Implementation of the Combinational Cooperative Detection Method
(Springer, 2015)
In conventional cooperative detection a fusion center decides on the presence or the absence of a primary user (PU) by gathering all the information from secondary users (SUs) and conveys this decision to all users. This ...
Kinetic models for the dynamical behavior of polyacrylamide (PAAm)-kappa-carrageenan (kappa C) composite gels
(Springer, 2015)
A fluorescence method was employed for studying the drying and swelling of PAAm-kappa C composite gels which were formed from acrylamide (AAm) and N N'- methylenebisacrylamide (BIS) with various kappa-carrageenan (kappa ...
An Alternative Approach To Design Lumped Element Delay Equalizers
(Istanbul Univ Fac Engineering, 2015)
In this paper an algorithm has been proposed to design lumped element delay equalizers which is considered as a single block as opposed to the existing methods in literature. Then after obtaining the desired delay performance ...
Bianchi surfaces whose asymptotic lines are geodesic parallels
(Walter De Gruyter Gmbh, 2015)
It is proved that every Bianchi surface in E-3 of class C-4 whose asymptotic lines are geodesic parallels is either a helicoid or a surface of revolution.
Absolute configuration and biological profile of pyrazoline enantiomers as MAO inhibitory activity
(Wiley, 2019)
A new racemic pyrazoline derivative was synthesized and resolved to its enantiomers using analytic and semipreparative high-pressure liquid chromatography. The absolute configuration of both fractions was established using ...
Identifying City Differences in Perceived Group Discrimination among Second-generation Turks and Moroccans in Belgium
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015)
This study investigates the effects of city context on the levels and predictors of perceived group discrimination (GD) among Turkish and Moroccan second-generation immigrants in Belgium. Based on the Integration of the ...
A new China: Media portrayal of Chinese mega-cities
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2015)
During the last two decades China has started to leave its closed-door policies in the international arena behind and has shown signs of participating in the global economy. Politically and economically China has been ...