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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Erdogan"”.
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The Spatial Politics of Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AK Party): On Erdoganian Neo-Ottomanism
… projects. I spell out specific ways in which Erdogan uses cultural capital of the Ottoman past to frame Erdoganian Neo-Ottomanism. My work investigates the AK Party's Islamic form of neoliberalism with Pierre Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital. Specifically I look at the application of …
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Validation of a Computational Model for Predicting Fatigue Life
… load cycles. This model does not use the Paris-Erdogan equation for crack growth. Two model parameters are the coefficients of the Ramberg-Osgood equation. The third model parameter is the total dissipation for the damage variable to reach a value of 1.0. Computer simulations of fatigue tests …
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Viscoelastic stress analysis of adhesively bonded joints
… Goland and Reissner, Hart-Smith and Delale and Erdogan were compared. The existing SAAS3V finite element program was modified to accommodate additional mesh generation and plotting capabilities. The modified version, SAAS3VP, was used for performing linear elastic and viscoelastic analyses on …
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Analysis of interface and subinterface cracks with crack-face contact and interface shear yield zones
… equations which are solved numerically using Erdogan and Gupta' s (1972) method. The physically pathological features of interpenetration of the crack faces and oscillation of the near tip fields are eliminated in the solutions by accounting for plastic deformation of the interlayer and …
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The Effect of Ethical Leadership, Behavioural Integrity, and Moral Disengagement in Predicting Turnover Intentions During Newcomer Socialization
… and its relation to turnover (Bauer & Erdogan, 2012). Drawing from the ethical leadership model, and using a sample of 297 first-year apprentices in Alberta’s oil and gas industry, this study sought to examine whether socialization influences the perceptions of organizational ethics and …
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The Discursive Construction of Terrorism: The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and other Kurdish political movements in Turkish official discourse, and the approach of the Turkish authorities regarding the Kurdish question
… influence of the elections and voting agendas of Erdogan and AKP. The research found that during the peace process and before the June 2015 elections, the approach of Turkish authorities was pro-peace negotiations and non-military action. However, as the AKP was not able to secure the majority …
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Straight pipes and household wastewater discharges into the rural Alabama and impact on watershed water quality with wetland land-uses
In rural areas, untreated wastewater discharged from homes (commonly called “straight pipes”) can cause harmful effects on the region’s rivers, streams and lead to negative impacts on water quality and potentially ecological and human health. Determining and addressing the water quality and health …
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The role and potential of marketing communications in the Turkish domestic tourism market
This is a qualitative study of marketing communications in the Turkish domestic tourism market: a sector still in its "infancy" in comparison with many other countries, but with substantial growth potential. The rationale for the research lies in its contribution to knowledge and understanding from …
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ROSRV: runtime verification for the Robot Operating System
The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a widely used open-source framework for robot software development. Its increasing popularity, along with its renowned features, such as its dynamic and distributed nature, call for a safety and security protection mechanism which is not supplied as part of the …
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Development of a Tool to Measure the Effectiveness of Kaizen Events within the Wood Products Industry
Kaizen implementation and other continuous improvement practices can be used by companies to lower manufacturing costs and increase product value. Kaizen activities are one way that wood products companies can increase their competitiveness. Being able to measure the effectiveness of Kaizen events …
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Understanding value congruence : a sport organization case study
… researchers (cf. Adkins & Caldwell, 2004; Erdogan, Kraimer, & Liden, 2004; Jung & Avolio, 2000; Rokeach, 1973); however the emphasis on value studies remains fairly stagnant within the sport industry (Amis, Slack, & Hinings, 2002). In order to examine the realities that were constructed by …
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A Global Citizenship Framework in Museums: Global Issues, Local Concerns and Diplomatic Potentials
This dissertation investigates the global citizenship engagements of museums to offer insights into changing notions of identity, belonging, and citizenship in museums and to explore their social, global, and diplomatic implications for contemporary museum practice. Through in-depth examinations of …
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Development and analysis of novel photoelectrochemical reactor for solar based clean hydrogen production
In the scope of this thesis, a photoelectrochemical hydrogen production reactor is comprehensively investigated by using experimental and numerical analyses methodologies. In this regard, the primary objective of this study is to develop a new photoelectrochemical reactor enabling solar-based …
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Essays on environmental regulations and international economics.
This dissertation is a collection of three essays that study the links between environmental regulations and international trade and capital flows. The first essay investigates the relative importance of environmental regulations in shaping trade patterns of manufactured goods with particular …
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Life Cycle Assessment of Various Nuclear-Based Hydrogen and Ammonia Production Methods
In this thesis, a comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) of nuclear-based hydrogen and ammonia production is performed. Environmental impacts of nuclear hydrogen and ammonia production processes are assessed in five different impact categories selected from CML-2001 method. In one scenario BWR-HTE …
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Integration of Nuclear- and Extranuclear-Initiated Estrogen Receptor Signaling in Breast Cancer Cells
Estrogenic hormones exert their effects through binding to Estrogen Receptors (ERs), which work in concert with coregulators and extranuclear signaling pathways to control gene expression in normal as well as cancerous states, including breast tumors. In this thesis, we have used multiple …