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Google plus in the higher education space. Are educators ready for social media learning in schools?
(International Institute of Informatics and Systemics IIIS, 2012)
Social Media have an increasing influence on higher education. In the past mainly privacy issues discouraged educators from using social media in teaching but with Google Plus a new way of communicating is promised. Apart ...
A critical analysis of current legal developments on the political participation of minorities in Turkey
(2010)
This is a follow-up article to the one published in the IJMGR half a decade ago (Vol. 12 2005). Although there have been domestic and international legal cases that are directly concerned with the political participation ...
The maximum surplus in a finite-time interval for a discrete-time risk model with exchangeable dependent claim occurrences
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019)
This paper investigates a discrete-time risk model that involves exchangeable dependent loss generating claim occurrences and compound binomially distributed aggregate loss amounts. First a general framework is presented ...
Optimization of mode in distribution electrical grid by using renewable energy sources for rural energy supply
(IAEME Publication, 2018)
Kazakhstan plans to support integration of renewable energy sources (RES). For instance according to [12] until 2020 it is planned to connect 53 RES with a total value of 2000 MW. From those 53 RES most of them will be ...
A country-specific analysis on internet interconnection ecosystems
(IEEE, 2018)
With the proliferating number of diverse participants and destinations to reach the Internet construct has become more intricate to assay. Today Internet Service Providers (ISPs) establish resilient networks from multiple ...
Applying a behavioural and operational diagnostic typology of competitive intelligence practice: empirical evidence from the SME sector in Turkey
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2012)
This paper reports on an empirical study conducted within the SME sector in the city of Istanbul Turkey. The findings from this study enabled the creation of a behavioural and operational typology of competitive intelligence ...
Gravitational search algorithm for post-outage bus voltage magnitude calculations
(2010)
Branch outage problem is one of the key problems in power system security analysis. This paper solves branch outage problem using a bounded approach. Local constrained optimization problem in the bounded approach is solved ...
A spectral divide and conquer method based preconditioner design for power flow analysis
(2010)
Power system simulations most of the time require solution of a large sparse linear system. Traditional methods such as LU decomposition based direct methods are not suitable for parallelization in general. Thus Krylov ...
Harmony search method based parallel contingency analysis
(2010)
Power system security management is one of the key problems in power system analysis. Power system management center operators need to simulate contingencies as fast as possible and take the remedial actions in time. These ...
Patterns of B2B e-commerce usage in SMEs
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to identify the B2B e-commerce (B2BEC) usage patterns of North American small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their supply chains the contextual factors that influence usage ...