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Encoding inferential evidence for events in language: evidence from Turkish speaking children and adults
Learning and communicating about events are fundamental aspects of an individual’s life. Yet, how people learn about events often vary with some events perceived in their entirety and others are inferred based on available ... -
Energy and exergy efficiency analyses of high-performance buildings
(2018-11-26)Reducing building energy density has become one of the global requirements to a decrease fuel consumption and emission production, and consequently making our world sustainable. The high value of energy consumed by buildings ... -
Energy consumption modeling and optimization of speed profile for plug-in electric vechiles
(2018-05)In recent years, there is a surge in research on Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs), as PEVs are one of the ways that we can reduce carbon emissions. Dramatic cost reduction in PEVs has resulted in their becoming mainstream ... -
Energy efficiency analysis and improving performance of light emitting diodes
(2018-12)Energy efficiency of light sources continually increases as the technology advance. Traditional light sources have inefficiency, large sizes, short life times and poisonous mercury vapor. On the other hand, the improvements ... -
Enhanced unipolar OFDM based relay-assisted visible light communications
(2016-08)Due to spectrum scarcity of the conventional radio frequency (RF) and the higher demand for wireless services, visible light communication (VLC) has emerged as a complementary solution to RF technology for ubiquitous ... -
Enhancement of 360-video experience during head motion
Efficient use of available bandwidth is vital when streaming 360-degree videos, as users rarely have enough bandwidth for a pleasant experience. The combination of viewport-dependent streaming (VDS) and rate adaptation is ... -
Enhancing deep learning models for campaign participation prediction
(2019-07-31)Companies engage with their customers in order to establish a long-term relationship. Targeting the right audience with the right product is crucial for providing better services to customers, increasing their loyalty to ... -
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 ... -
Essays on pricing anomalies and the limits of arbitrage in emerging markets
(2016-07)It is a difficult task to explain market anomalies in standard models of asset pricing, as they are all based on the core idea of the law of one price: two assets with equal expected returns have equal values. Otherwise, ... -
Ethics in STS: a bibliometric exploratory study
(2019-07)Science, Technology and Society (STS) is an interdisciplinary study field that focuses on the interwoven structure between science and technology in society. This study, using bibliometric word co-occurrence analysis and ... -
Ethnicity-related partner selection experiences among young adults from Christian Armenian families: A qualitative study in Turkey
In this paper partner selection experiences of young Armenian adults is examined through a qualitative study. The study is based on Ecological Systems Theory and Filter Theory as a theoretical basis. The historical background ... -
Etik ve hukuk perspektifinden diş hekimliği meslek etiği kurallarında özerklik kavramının incelenmesi
(2019-05)Türkiye’de 2010 yılında “Tıbbi Kötü Uygulamaya İlişkin Zorunlu Mali Sorumluluk Sigortası” ile parabolik bir şekilde artan sağlık hukuku tartışmaları günümüzde de tüm dinamikliği ile devam etmektedir. Hekimlerin tıbbı ... -
Evaluating habitability of affordable housing projects in Nairobi-Kenya
(2019-07-31)As Nairobi, and several cities within the Global South continue to experience severe housing shortages, urban planning authorities are in constant pursuit for housing interventions that are not only adequate towards the ... -
Evaluation of bioimplants surface nano-micro design by chemical mechanical polishing against alternative methods
(2019-01-11)Biomaterials comprise a representative fraction of the products used in the health area. Biomedical devices (such as biosensors, blood circulation tubes, hemodialysis systems) can be cited as examples. Biomaterials can be ... -
Evaluation of sustainable building design and its associated management tools in design offices : case of Iran
(2020-05-29)As the importance of sustainable development gained momentum, the extent to which it should be implemented remained a matter of concern. Among all, buildings are among the remarkable results of human activities that have ... -
An exact approach for a dynamic workforce scheduling problem
(2018-01)Taking into account the global and national rules and regulations, assigning a given number of employees to planned shifts while paying attention to required working hours, rest times and off day/days is one of the most ... -
An exact approach to maximize area under receiver operator characteristic curve for multi-instance learning
(2018-08)The purpose of this study is to solve the multi-instance classi cation problem by directly maximizing the area under Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve (i.e., AUC). We derive a mixed integer linear programming ... -
Exact approaches for the no wait flowshop problem
(2019-06-11)In this study, no wait flow shop problem, which is a variant of permutation flow shop, is investigated. In a no wait flow shop, after processing of a job is started, it must be processed completely without any delay or ... -
Examining the effects of sequential polyhedron visibility on wayfinding and evacuation
This thesis presents the understanding that the basics of the human wayfinding process can be substantially illuminated by the correlations between space-syntactic variables and kinesthetic data of individuals roaming in ...
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