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Does financial flexibility enhance firm value? A comparative study between developed and emerging countries
(VGTU, 2020)
This paper investigates the effect of financial flexibility on firm value, on a comparative basis between developed and emerging countries in Europe. Our dataset covers 4,334 companies from 15 developed and 1,436 companies ...
Performance of Combinational Cooperative Detection Method under Realistic Conditions
(IEEE Computer Society, 2020)
Combinational cooperative detection (CCD) is a method where signal energies from multiple secondary users (SUs) are gathered in different combinations in order to reach a unique decision for each secondary user regarding ...
Flexible physical layer based resource allocation for machine type communications towards 6G
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020)
The exponential growth of Internet of Things applications necessitates the design of next generation cellular systems to provide native support for machine type communications (MTC). While 5G aims at providing this native ...
Flow Structure in a Shallow Mixing Layer Developing over 2-D Dunes
(E D P Sciences, 2018)
A high resolution Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) are used to characterize the evolution of a shallow mixing layer developing between two parallel streams in a long open channel over two-dimensional (2D) dunes. The study ...
Geopolitics and gas-transit security through pipelines
(Springer International Publishing, 2020)
Hydrocarbons are valuable only if they can be transited from where they are produced to where they are consumed. Despite the enduring importance of transit to the global energy system, the topic did not begin to be extensively ...
Border as "Zone of Indistinction": The State of Exception and the Spectacle of Terror Along Turkey's Border With Syria
(Sage Publications Inc, 2018)
Turkey's border with Syria today is a laboratory in which biopolitics and the spectacle coincide in new ways. As a consequence of the ongoing war between the state and Kurdish insurgents, and the state of emergency ...
True variable-depth milling
(Elsevier B.V., 2020)
When tool wears during machining, cost of the process increases. Rapid tool wear leads to even further contributions to process cost and hence must be taken well care of. Among the many forms of tool wear, notch wear is ...
Unveiling the effects of a headscarf ban: Evidence from municipal jobs in Turkey
(Academic Press Inc., 2020)
Religious conservatism is often associated with patriarchal attitudes and deterioration of women's rights. This conventional wisdom has motivated ubiquitous policies that limit public expressions of religion and emphasize ...
Overcoming the shortcomings of energy intensity index: a directional technology distance function approach
(Springer, 2018)
In multilateral comparisons of environmental performance over time, energy intensity measures, especially "real" energy intensity computed either by index decomposition approach or structural decomposition approach, are ...
The effects of leadership styles on organizational trust and disclosure of unethical behaviors (whistleblowing): A practical research
(Springer Nature, 2020)
Today, the enterprises can hold sustainable competitive advantage only through proper guidance of human capital movement. While management is merely regarded as a medium, leadership also appears as a form of administration, ...