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Facial attractiveness and preference of sexual dimorphism: A comparison across five populations
(Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Despite intensive research, evolutionary psychology has not yet reached a consensus regarding the association between sexual dimorphism and attractiveness. This study examines associations between perceived and morphological ...
News-Sharing Repertoires on Social Media in the Context of Networked Authoritarianism: The Case of Turkey
(USC ANNENBERG PRESS, 2020)
Social media has become a primary gateway for users to access news, especially in authoritarian states with strictly controlled media environments. In such contexts, it is crucial to understand the motivations that prompt ...
How organizational and geographic complexity influence performance: Evidence from European banks
(Elsevier B.V., 2021)
We empirically investigate how bank internationalization, organizational complexity, and geographical complexity stemming from foreign-affiliate type and geographic dispersion affect parent bank stability and profitability. ...
Semantic and syntactic interoperability for agricultural open-data platforms in the context of IoT using crop-specific trait ontologies
(MDPI AG, 2020)
In recent years, Internet-of-Things (IoT)-based applications have been used in various domains such as health, industry and agriculture. Considerable amounts of data in diverse formats are collected from wireless sensor ...
Financial inclusion and bank stability: evidence from Europe
(Routledge Journals, 2020)
The Great Recession of 2007-2009 piqued the interest of policymakers worldwide, prompting various initiatives to stabilize the financial system and advance financial inclusion. However, few studies have considered their ...
Rediscovering Goethe's Concept of Polarity: A New Direction For Architectural Morphogenesis
(Middle East Technical University, 2020)
This paper will introduce Goethe's concept of polarity to discuss its theoretical and computational implications on natural and architectural morphogenesis (1). Polarity, as a dualist principle, is found in most of Goethe's ...
Computational International Relations What Can Programming, Coding and Internet Research Do for the Discipline?
(Dış Politika ve Barış Araştırmaları Merkezi, İhsan Doğramacı Barış Vakfı, 2019)
Computational Social Science emerged as a highly technical and popular
discipline in the last few years, owing to the substantial advances in communication
technology and daily production of vast quantities of personal ...
Structure-based virtual screening for novel potential selective inhibitors of class IIa histone deacetylases for cancer treatment
(Elsevier Ltd, 2021)
The fundamental cause of human cancer is strongly influenced by down- or up-regulations of epigenetic factors. Upregulated histone deacetylases (HDAC) have been shown to be effectively neutralized by the action of HDACs ...
Energy Efcient Downlink Resource Allocation in Cellular IoT Supported H-CRANs
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021)
The cloud computing supported heterogeneous cloud radio access network (H-CRAN) is one of the promising solutions to support cellular IoT devices with the legacy cellular systems. However, the dense deployment of small ...
The impact of economic uncertainty and geopolitical risks on bank credit
(Elsevier Inc., 2021)
This paper compares the effects of economic uncertainty and geopolitical risks on bank credit growth. Using a sample of 2439 banks from 19 countries for the period of 2010–2019, our findings indicate that economic uncertainty ...