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Use of biomineralization in self-healing cement-based materials
(2017)
Factors affecting the durability of concrete structures are generally associated with each other. Due to its brittle nature, concrete can crack when stress is applied. Recent research in the field proposes that it might ...
On the correlation of psychoacoustic metrics with mushra-based subjective sound quality perception for televisions
(2019-08-09)
Even though the loudspeaker technologies used in televisions (TVs) and objective sound quality assessment techniques had continuously advanced over the years, the literature on automatic sound quality assessment in the TV ...
Essays in macro-finance
(2019-12-26)
This dissertation includes three essays within macro-finance literature ranging from international macroeconomics, to labor and housing market dynamics. While the focus of first essay is more on international, particular ...
Ultraviolet communications for airborne links
(2019-07)
In Turkey, artificial insemination is only permitted to couples when they are officially married. Surrogacy, however, has been banned by the law and is illegal as in most European countries. Despite the fact that nowadays ...
An investigation into fluid flow and heat transfer of high frequency synthetic jets for electronics cooling
(2016-04)
Modern electronics have been decreasing in size for decades, so their cooling systems must continually improve in efficiency too. In particular, compactness is vital, which is challenging because typical thermal management ...
Robust estimation of term structure and implied volatility in emerging markets
(2016-07)
Despite powerful advances in interest rate curve modeling for data-rich countries in the last 30 years, comparatively little attention has been paid to the key practicalproblem of estimation of the term structure of interest ...
A parametric study on the influence of boundary frame flexibility in steel plate shear walls
(2020-01-17)
Steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) are known to be a reliable lateral force-resisting system, particularly attractive for high-seismic regions, due to their high lateral strength and stiffness and stable hysteretic behavior. ...
Patterned polymer films using soft lithography and micro molding in capillaries (MIMIC)
(2017-05)
This research work reports a low cost method to pattern large area surfaces using soft-lithographic approach through several polymers, particularly with the self-assembly of block co-polymers (BCPs) and also by fabricating ...
Three essays on the behavior of equity market returns
(2016-12)
The first chapter of this thesis analyzes return comovements phenomena known as correlation asymmetry. The phenomena has its two manifests: asymmetric correlations, referring to stock return correlations being higher during ...
Using eigenvoices and nearest-neighbours in HMM-based cross-lingual speaker adaptation with limited data
(2017-08)
Thesis abstract: Cross-lingual speaker adaptation for speech synthesis has many applications, such as use in speech-to-speech translation systems. Here, we focus on cross-lingual adaptation for statistical speech synthesis ...
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