Browsing PhD Dissertations by Issue Date
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Nano-scale chemically modified thin film characterization for chemical mechanical planarization applications
(2015-01)The aim of the microelectronics industry has historically been achieving increasing functionality through decreasing the device sizes while simultaneously reducing the unit manufacturing costs. This objective has been ... -
A software-defined networking approach for wireless systems
(2015-05)The tremendous growth in wireless Internet use is showing no signs of slowing down. Existing cellular networks are starting to be insufficient in meeting this demand in part due to their inflexible and expensive equipment ... -
Consumer studies about purchase, repeat purchase and word-of-mouth after deep discount online
(2015-06)Daily deal sites are e-commerce businesses that offer deep discounts (e.g., 50%, 90%) for products and services to consumers through local service providers. These sites increase consumer's buying power and attract more ... -
Runtime specialization and autotuning of sparse matrix-vector multiplication
(2015-12)Runtime specialization is used for optimizing programs based on partial information available only at runtime. In this thesis, we present a purpose-built compiler to quickly specialize Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication ... -
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 ... -
Near- and far-field thermal radiation in metamaterials and the development of NF-RT-FDTD algorithm
(2016-06)In this dissertation, analysis of near-field regime of thermal radiative transfer in metamaterials supporting surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs) is given. Solutions of electromagnetic fields at subwavelength distances are ... -
Liquidity in the emerging market local currency bond market: measurement,commonality, and supply of risk capital
(2016-06)Major emerging markets sovereigns have started financing a significant component of their budget deficits issuing local currency (LC) bond, reaching to the total outstanding size over 5 trillion dollar almost half of the ... -
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 ... -
Performance, managerial skill and factor exposures in commodity trading advisors and managed futures funds
(2016-09)Understanding risk is important. Prior to 2008, as the yields on safe assets hit rock bottom, investors turned their focus to an alphabet soup of more complex instruments. These complex securities were rated AAA, they ... -
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 ... -
Application of chemical mechanical polishing process on titanium based medical implants
(2017-05)Biomaterials are commonly used as implant materials in the body for dental prostheses, orthopedic applications, heart valves and catheters. Based on the research studies conducted up to date, titanium and its alloys are ... -
The impact of brand architecture decisions on portfolio sales
(2017-06)Decisions pertaining to the organization of products under brands within the company's portfolio are an important aspect of brand portfolio strategy with potentially serious top-and bottom-line implications. Despite the ... -
Thermo-mechanical behavior of severely deformed titanium
(2017-06)Thermo-mechanical processing of metallic materials has attracted noticeable interest due to the fact that these processing methods can be used to improve the mechanical properties. In this investigation, ultrafine grained ... -
Quantifying the spillover of green products on consumer attitudes and umbrella brand sales
(2017-06)Despite growing consumer attention to the environment, it is still unclear how and how much companies benefit from their large investments in 'green' products. This paper quantifies the positive spillover of sustainable ... -
Macroeconomic fundamentals and emerging market asset prices
(2017-06)This thesis consists of three chapters which make empirical contributions to the field of emerging markets xed income, real estate and nancial markets. First chapter entitled 'Macroeconomics Fundamentals and Emerging ... -
Automated refinement of models for model-based testing
(2017-07)Model-Based Testing (MBT) enables automatic generation of test cases based on models of a system. It has been successfully applied in various application domains, each of which might introduce specific challenges. In this ... -
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 ... -
Immersion cooling of suspended and coated nano-phosphor particles for extending the limits of optical extraction of light emitting diodes
(2017-08)Energy efficiency, long life, exceptional color and performance of solid-state light (SSL) sources have resulted in a rapidly increasing trend in a number of practical applications especially for general lighting after a ... -
Corporate sustainability interactions and corporate financial performance
(2017-11)There is a large amount of empirical literature focused on the relationship between corporate sustainability and corporate financial performance. The literature considers firm specific aspects affecting the link but omits ... -
Radiative cooling by spectrally selective materials for building
(2018-01-03)Buildings utilize more than one-third of the total energy consumed in counties within the Mediterranean climate zones like in Turkey. Particularly during the summer months, the absorption of solar energy by the buildings ...
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