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Smoke-free Turkey: Evaluation of outdoor areas of public places
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2019)
Significance: Secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) exposure is a major cause of morbidity and mortality around the world. The objective of this study was to evaluate the presence of smoking in outdoor areas of public places in ...
Broadband double-matching via lossless unsymmetrical lattice networks
(Istanbul University, 2012)
In this paper a broadband double-matching network design algorithm has been presented. In the network an unsymmetrical lattice network has been used. The branch impedances of the lattice network are composed of singly ...
An analytic network process-based approach to concept evaluation in a new product development environment
(Taylor & Francis, 2007)
Selecting the best product concept is one of the most critical tasks in a new product development (NPD) environment. Making decisions at this stage becomes very difficult due to imprecise and uncertain product requirements. ...
The effect of a bump in an elastic tube on wave propagation in a viscous fluid of variable viscosity
(Elsevier Science, 2007)
In the present work treating the arteries as a thin walled prestressed elastic tube with a bump and the blood as a Newtonian fluid of variable viscosity we have studied the propagation of weakly nonlinear waves in such a ...
Imperial legacies and neo-Ottomanism: eastern Europe and Turkey
(SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research, 2012)
This article examines whether the presence of imperial legacies in Central and South-eastern Europe affects their foreign policy stances and public opinion towards Turkish accession to the EU. It first discusses the ...
A Monte Carlo implementation of the SAGE algorithm for joint soft-multiuser decoding channel parameter estimation and code acquisition
(2010)
This paper presents an iterative scheme for joint timing acquisition multi-channel parameter estimation and multiuser soft-data decoding. As an example an asynchronous convolutionally coded direct-sequence code-division ...
Strangers to and producers of their own culture: American popular culture and Turkish young people
(2010)
American popular culture is virtually everywhere including Turkey. Turkey is a close ally of the United States and American cultural products have long been present in Turkey. How does the presence of American popular ...
Entrenching geopolitical imaginations: brand(ing) Turkey through Orhan Pamuk
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2020)
This study focuses on how through consumers the market reproduces a discourse that aligns with the political and the cultural spheres. By drawing on fields of production and consumption we turn to how both Turkey as a ...
Turkey and the Caucasus: Transition from reactive foreign policy to proactive rhythmic diplomacy [Türkiye ve Kafkasya: Reaksiyoner dip politikadan proaktif ritmik diplomasiye geçiş]
(International Relations Council of Turkey, 2010)
The consequences of the August 2008 Russian-Georgian War have deeply infl uenced not only the Caucasus but overall global stability as well. Turkey as a regional actor which claims to follow active diplomacy in her region ...
Self-reported traffic accidents and sleepiness in a professional group of Turkish drivers
(2002)
Sleepiness in professional drivers is widely accepted to be an important cause of traffic accidents. Despite growing knowledge of the prevalence of sleepiness in automobile and truck drivers estimates from different countries ...