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Exacerbating effect of energy prices on resource curse: Can research and development be a mitigating factor?
(Elsevier, 2020-08)
This study investigates the impact of natural resources in the presence of research and development and energy prices on the improvement of financial development for the Group of Seven (G7) economies for the period of ...
Poverty and intersectionality: a multidimensional look into the lives of the impoverished
(Sage, 2014-06)
Subsistence consumers are disadvantaged and marginalized on many levels, including financial deprivation, poor health, lack of access to resources, and social stigmatization. The disadvantages experienced by subsistence ...
Expert competition and the internet
(IJEC, 2013)
The Internet has become a channel for experts offering their services. We investigate the optimal online channel adoption strategy of a high-quality expert with a brick-and-mortar presence in the face of potential entry ...
Local site conditions and seismic risk assessment of historic buildings
(2013)
The objectives of the Istanbul Seismic Risk Mitigation and Emergency Preparedness Project are to improve Istanbul’s preparedness for a potential earthquake. Within this framework “Risk Assessment of Cultural Heritage ...
Poverty in consumer culture: towards a transformative social representation
(2014-12)
In this article, we consider the representations of poverty within consumer culture. We focus on four main themes – social exclusion, vulnerability, pleasure and contentment – that capture some of the associations that ...
Who rules the world? A portrait of the global leadership class
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-12)
It goes without saying that "leaders rule." And it stands to reason that the background characteristics of leaders affect the way they rule. Who are the leaders of the world? We generate a composite portrait of the global ...
In the pursuit of X(5568) and its charmed partner
(Jagellonian University, 2019-09)
The recent observation by the D empty set Collaboration of the first tetraquark candidate with four different quark flavors (u, d, s and b) in the B-s(0)pi(+/-) channel having a narrow structure has still not been confirmed ...
A semantic policy framework for internet of things
(2018-10-31)
With the proliferation of technology, connected and interconnected devices (henceforth referred to as IoT) are fast becoming a viable option to automate the day-to-day interactions of users with their environments. However, ...
Heart motion prediction based on adaptive estimation algorithms for robotic assisted beating heart surgery
(IEEE, 2013)
Robotic-assisted beating heart surgery aims to allow surgeons to operate on a beating heart without stabilizers as if the heart is stationary. The robot actively cancels heart motion by closely following a point of interest ...
Cross-efficiency in DEA: a maximum resonated appreciative model
(Elsevier, 2015-03)
The occurrence of multiple optimal solutions is an important and interesting issue in data envelopment analysis (DEA), for it allows flexibility to estimate the optimal cross-efficiencies of all decision making units (DMUs). ...
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