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THE LOGIC OF SECRECY: DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE IN TURKEY AND RUSSIA
(Turkish Policy Quarterly, 2018)
Turkey and Russia have been developing comparable approaches to digital surveillance. The advent of Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs) and social media platforms have enabled significantly increased systematic state ...
Evaluation Of Water Supply Alternatives For Istanbul Using Forecasting And Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)
Water scarcity is one of the most serious problems of the future due to increasing urbanization and water demand. Urban water planners need to balance increasing water demand with water resources that are under increasing ...
An Integrated Fuzzy Best-Worst-TOPSIS Method for Evaluation of Hotel Website and Digital Solutions Provider Firms
(Hindawi Limited, 2020)
In todays world where technology is rapidly evolving, hotels need to be the best in all conditions to be one step ahead of other competitors. Digital marketing and hotel website solutions play a lead role in this competition. ...
Bank credit in uncertain times: Islamic vs. conventional banks
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)
This paper explores whether the impact of economic uncertainty on credit growth differs for Islamic vs. conventional banks. Using a sample of 416 banks (58 Islamic and 358 conventional) in 12 countries, the findings indicate ...
A Sustainable Multi-Layered Open Data Processing Model For Agriculture: IoT Based Case Study Using Semantic Web For Hazelnut Fields
(ASTES Publishers, 2020)
In recent years, several projects which are supported by information and communications technologies (ICT) have been developed in the agricultural domain to promote more precise agricultural activities. These projects ...
Effects of second language on motion event lexicalization: Comparison of bilingual and monolingual children's frog story narratives
(Selcuk University, 2020)
This study investigates how children lexicalize motion event patterns in their first and second languages, L1-Turkish and L2-English. English is a satellite-framed language that conflates motion with manner expressed in ...
Economic Policy Uncertainty And Bank Credit Growth: Evidence From European Banks
(Elsevier B.V., 2020)
Using a sample of 2977 private and listed banks in the EU-5 countries (the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, France) for the years 2009–2018, this paper explores the impact of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) on ...
An Intelligent Approach For The Evaluation Of Transformers In A Power Distribution Project
(IOS Press BV, 2020)
In this study, a hybrid approach is presented for the evaluation and selection of transformers in a power distribution project. Ranking transformers and selecting the best among alternatives is a complex multiple criteria ...
Mixed Element Networks With Series Capacitors Separated By Unit Elements
(World Scientific, 2020)
In this work, high-pass mixed-element networks with series capacitors separated by unit elements are analyzed. First, the description of the networks via two frequency variables is given. Then, explicit coefficient relations ...
Meat Substitutes in Sustainability Context: A Content Analysis of Consumer Attitudes
(Routledge, 2020)
Food consumption affects the environment because it requires the usage of water, land, and oil resources. In particular, the consumption of red meat is associated with sustainability issues. Replacing meat with plant-based ...