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The Innovation Union Scoreboard: helping Europe become more innovative
(Int Business Information Management Assoc-IBIMA, 2012)
In this contribution we focus on the Europe 2020 growth strategy its targets initiatives and on EU tools on growth one of which is the 'Innovation Union Scoreboard' (IUS) which includes innovation indicators and trend ...
NATO and Turkey in the post-Cold War world: between abandonment and entrapment
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012)
For the last two decades two fears have largely shaped Turkey's view of NATO. These are fears of entrapment and abandonment. Both are symptoms of a type of security dilemma that is peculiar to military alliances and ...
The NATO-EU-Turkey trilogy: the impact of the Cyprus conundrum
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012)
The Cyprus conundrum presents a major challenge to western security structures and relationships in particular with regard to Turkey's European Union (EU) accession process and the stalled Berlin plus arrangements between ...
Preparation and characterization of self-assembled thin film of MPS-capped ZnS quantum dots for optical applications
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)
For this study we prepared colloidal ZnS quantum dots using 3-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane (MPS) as the capping agent. Colloidal ZnS quantum dots were directly deposited on glass substrates by a spin coating process. ...
Signatures of phase transitions in nuclei at finite excitation energies
(Amer Inst Physics, 2012)
The mean-field approximation predicts pairing and shape phase transitions in nuclei as a function of temperature or excitation energy. However in the finite nucleus the singularities of these phase transitions are smoothed ...
Recent developments in the shell model Monte Carlo approach to nuclei
(IOP Publishing Ltd, 2012)
The shell model Monte Carlo (SMMC) approach provides a powerful method for the microscopic calculation of statistical and collective nuclear properties in model spaces that are many orders of magnitude larger than those ...
Turkish public preferences for energy
(Elsevier Science, 2018)
Public concern over energy supplies prices sustainability and efficiency has emerged as a major issue around the world. Yet most of what we know regarding public opinion on energy comes from North America and Europe. This ...
Between anchors and aspirations: a new family of bargaining solutions
(Springer, 2019)
We study the salience and power of reference points in determining the effective anchors and aspirations in bargaining problems. Along this line we enrich the analysis of the standard bargaining model with two new parameters: ...
A framework for combined recognition of actions and objects
(Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2012)
This paper proposes a novel approach to recognize actions and objects within the context of each other. Assuming that the different actions involve different objects in image sequences and there is one-to-one relation ...
Anytime. Everywhere. Mobile learning in higher education: creating a GIS course
(Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2012)
The course concepts introduced in this contribution were implemented in 2011 in a university in Turkey and show an approach for integrating mobile learning modules in higher education. The results of the course show the ...