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The aim of this study is to introduce Theory of Semiotic Mediation, which is a theory regarding mathematics teaching, in Turkey and provide an example for its practice. After describing the main characteristics and concepts of the theory, semiotic potential of a sheet of paper, which was chosen as an artifact of Theory of Semiotic Mediation, was analyzed in paper folding activities in order to discuss the practice of the theory and also the signs were analyzed that occurred in the building and conceptual constructing of quadrilaterals with only one symmetry axe (isosceles trapezoid and rhombus). The study was a case study which was carried out with 35 students who were studying in 10th grade. The students were divided into groups of four and five. Only one groups’ activity was reported in this paper. The analysis of the semiotic potential of paper folding showed that it was an artifact that helps students to reconstruct concepts such symmetry and equality by means of coincide and crease and to think deeply on the characteristics of quadrilaterals like rectangle, square, trapezoid and etc. which students have already known. The paper has properties that can be used as an artifact of the Semiotic Mediation Theory. In order to be used the mentioned theory in classes, it was founded that teachers’ guidance role was quite essential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Origami is a form of storytelling based on folding pieces of paper. Three-dimensional geometry, continuity and order are the main artistic features of origami. This study was conducted to touch on the interactions of origami with other visual art disciplines and to examine the visual effects of origami art on textiles. In contemporary textile art; The artistic products that emerged with technology, freedom of thought, search for originality and interdisciplinary interaction brought dynamism Interdisciplinary studies are of great importance for designers to have a vision and to make a visual impact. Textile field has the capacity to create various tectonic and atectonic arrangements. Textile artists and designers have interacted with cultures all over the world and have created products by blending their expressions with technical and aesthetic visuals in textiles. It is observed that the visual effects of origami art are also striking in textile designs. This research was carried out with literature review, observation, interviews with relevant people and qualitative research technique. The designs made by the students of Çukurova University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Textile and Fashion Design, were examined. In this study, textile surface applications have been made under the influence of origami technique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a critical comparison of the developmental state and the entrepreneurial state, contributing to the existing literature by highlighting the advantages and necessity of an entrepreneurial state over a developmental state through the connection between public institutions and spinoffs. The article discusses how the state's technology research has led to the creation of new and dynamic sectors, increasing growth and employment, as well as encouraging the private sector to increase its R&D investments to establish more innovative companies, using the example of the United States while comparing Asian and European countries. In this context, it is hypothesized that an entrepreneurial state is more efficient and superior compared to a developmental state. The study supports this hypothesis by mentioning how China combines the entrepreneurial state model with the developmental state model. Subsequently, the concepts of the entrepreneurial state and developmental state are defined concerning technology, innovation, and competition. In the final section, a comparison is made between the entrepreneurial state and the developmental state, demonstrating that theoretically, the entrepreneurial state is essential and offers numerous advantages over the developmental state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The proliferation of Web 2.0 tools in visual arts education has ushered in multifaceted learning environments that cater to diverse sensory experiences. Among these tools, Canva for Education application stands out, offering an array of visual assets, content, and templates for diverse design endeavors. This tool not only augments learning experiences but also enhances creativity by piquing students' engagement through its myriad features. Nonetheless, the efficacy of such a tool is augmented when intertwined with active learning methodologies in pedagogical settings. Specifically, when Canva for Education is embedded within a collaborative learning framework, it fosters a distinct learning milieu, promoting peer-to-peer interactions. In this paper, activities that can be implemented in collaborative groups with Canva for Education application in middle school visual arts class were introduced. These activities were prepared within the framework of the objectives related to the use of technology in visual arts curriculum in Türkiye. Within the scope of this study, products developed with different design types are presented to guide teachers. It is thought that these activities will provide insights for practitioners and students on the use of Canva for Education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ecological footprint basically aims to measure the impact of humans on the ecosystem. The measurements include the area required to produce the materials consumed in terms of the consumption footprint and the area required to absorb the carbon dioxide emissions. No distinction is made between domestic and foreign producers in the production by the countries. The countries with the most developed industry and the highest impact on the ecosystem in this sense appear as the countries with the highest footprint in the ecosystem. This study, based on the ecological footprint data of seven industrialized countries (G7) between 1984 and 2019, aims to reveal the effect of ecological footprints on trade openness. Panel data analysis and ARDL Boundary Test / PMG method was used to obtain the results. DOLS and FMOLS methods were also used to compare both economic and empirical results and for consistency. As a result of the analysis, as the impact of industrialized countries on the ecosystem increases, their trade openness also increases in the short and long term. This effect could be seen most clearly in the United States (USA), which has the most developed industry. This research paper points out these important issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are a wide variety of hazards that create disasters and emergencies. These dangers may occur directly in the area of residence or may occur due to the impact of danger in another region. Both scenarios affect the individual's life to different extents. Making preparations to reduce the impact and severity of harm and damage caused by hazard-related risks is an important step for prevention activities. Within the scope of this paper, the perceptions of individual preparedness for disasters and emergencies of faculty members working at universities in Istanbul were examined. Faculty members' perception of individual preparedness for disasters and emergencies is of great importance for the general safety of educational institutions and society. This perception is essential to ensuring the safety of students, staff and other stakeholders. Faculty members' ability to recognize potential dangers and take appropriate precautions increases their ability to react quickly and effectively in times of crisis. In addition, this perception encourages faculty members to contribute to disaster and emergency plans. By being aware of individual security, assuming a stronger protective role for the institution, the perception of individual preparedness is a vital factor for the overall security of educational institutions and society. The findings were analyzed and the results were compared. According to the findings obtained from the study, it was determined that parameters such as age, marital status, working in the private sector, having an administrative position, receiving training on disaster and emergency situations, and being exposed to danger in the institution where one works, have an impact on individual perception in preparation for disasters and emergencies. It has been observed that these topics have an impact on raising awareness. The importance of faculty members' perceptions, awareness and individual readiness regarding preparedness for disasters and emergencies is emphasized in the study and suggestions are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Industry 4.0 technologies provide excellent opportunities to companies. However, it will not be easy for companies to adopt to these technologies due to the challenges they will encounter. While the opportunities presented by Industry 4.0 technologies for each industry, the barriers faced by businesses in the application of these technologies will also vary in the sectoral context. The main purpose of this study is to identify the barriers to the adoption and implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies in the logistics sector and to reveal their degree of importance. After the literature review and expert opinions, a total of 32 barriers were determined under 5 basic dimensions for the logistics sector. Then, as a result of the analysis through the fuzzy Delphi method, it was seen that the weight value of 14 barriers was higher than the average and these selected barriers are discussed. According to the findings of the research, the three most important barriers are determined respectively as "The lack of awareness of the top management about Industry 4.0", "Lack of digital strategy" and "Lack of methodology in the application". This research contributes to filling an essential gap in the literature, as it is one of the first studies to examine the obstacles to adopting Industry 4.0 technologies in the context of the logistics sector. In addition, this paper also ensures originality in terms of the method. The findings obtained as a result of the research will guide the logistics sector managers and researchers who want to apply industry 4.0 technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of power is inadvertently one of the most central topics in the field of politics. This concept has been intriguing for mankind as long as the human memory goes. Especially the realist school of thought has a primary focus on the power-narrative. One of the earliest studies undertaken was that of A.F.K. Organski who wrote World Politics in 1958 that constructed indicators what state power may or may not constitute. Organski's work being explanatory has prompted a scientific prediction of war based on these indicators. Power Transition Theory provides relevance from a practical realist stance in today's turbulent international order elaborating on Nation, International Relations and International Organizations. Constructivism criticizes the predictive abilities and the absoluteness as quick turn of events can make mockery of the tidiest of theories. However, this paper seeks to establish an alternative criticism to the Power Transition Theory as discussed in a vast body of literature on how wars are predicted during a transition of power on basis of Index of National Capability (INC). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to reveal the scope, dimensions and current practices and problems of the interventions in terms of medical social work and hospital management in the diagnosis and treatment processes of the disabled individual from the time of admission to the hospital. In this respect, a multidisciplinary research was conducted by considering health management and social work intervention together. Procedures and practices that differentiate the disabled person from other patients are required throughout the entire process, from the admission to the hospital to the end of the treatment processes. These hospital processes alone are not sufficient in some cases, and communication and partnership with other institutions are mandatory. Medical social work has important roles and functions especially at this stage. Qualitative method was used in this research. Based on the fact that the hospital management has certain roles in each of the planned intervention stages of the social work in the hospital process of the disabled individual, two cases that may include these roles have been constructed. These fictions have been designed in accordance with the current legislation and operation, benefiting from the long-term observations of the author working in the hospital. It is aimed to reflect the problems to be experienced in possible situations by constructing the case. In the analysis of the cases, the processes outside the hospital were mentioned from time to time within the scope of the roles of medical social work, but the analysis framework was tried to be kept within the boundaries of hospital management and medical social work. After the theoretical framework has been put forward, the roles and functions of hospital management in the planned intervention stages of the cases have been pointed out. Thus, an analysis was made on the cases with the perspective of health management and medical social work, problems were identified and suggestions were developed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In ancient Athens, where democracy was born, during the reign of Cleisthenes, between 487 and 416 BC, a kind of exile system called ostracism was introduced to protect democratic rule. This practice was actually a reflex of the Athenians, who were reacting to the arbitrary and oppressive regimes of the Tyrants, to protect the democratic government. Athenians wrote the names of rulers, who they feared would turn into tyrants and destroy democracy by force, on pieces of pottery called ostrakon, which served as ballot papers. As a result of the voting carried out in this way, the person whose name was written the most was exiled outside Athens for ten years. The status of the exiled person did not change. His property was also not confiscated. The person who was sent out of Athens with ostracism was returning to Athens after ten years of exile, continuing his life with his previous title and advantages. Although ostracism was seen as the insurance of democracy and the guarantee of the system when it was first implemented, it later moved away from its real purpose. It is also seen that some Athenian rulers, who wanted to increase their power, used ostracism as a weapon by influencing the views of the people to weaken or eliminate their rivals. Hemistocles, Kimon, and Alcibiades were also among the famous rulers of Athens exiled by the practice of ostracism. Ostracism, which first started with the exile of Hipparchus from Athens for 10 years, was finally applied to Hyperbolos in 417 BC, and then this practice disappeared into history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In eighteenth century, England and France were considered as the super powers of the world. Due to this competition between them, each empire was trying to preserve their establishment. Apart from political conditions, philosophical and social values that had been changing under the light of Enlightenment were regarded as perils to social order of the kingdoms in Europe. This led some intellectuals and religious men of the period to work on the maintenance of their societies. John Brown (1715-1766) as a religious man was also involved in this mission. Yet, his early works were mostly focus on morality and individuality. In this paper, his early works are analyzed in detail in order to indicate his moral theory which was constructed independently from the principles of Protestantism and Anglicanism. Afterwards the differences between his early works and the later works are examined and the political worries of the English establishment are explained through them. In this paper it is argued that English establishment aimed to defend the maintenance of their society by making religion as a political instrument in the conditions of the eighteenth century as could clearly be seen in Brown's works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Russia is one of the main extra-regional actors that plays a role between India and Pakistan, two states that have been in a state of enduring conflict in Southeast Asia. Although Moscow's policy was to side with India during the Cold War, it began to pursue a middle-way approach between the two actors in the Post-Cold War era. It is the aim of this paper to examine the reasons for the shift in Moscow's approach through the method of pr ocess tracing. An analysis of Russia's Southeast Asia policy also requires focusing on how Russian foreign policy was affected by the systemic transformation caused by the end of the Cold War. Indeed, an analysis of why Moscow began to pursue a more flexible and pragmatic foreign policy after the Cold War helps make sense of its policy towards Southeast Asia. Different from the Cold War phase, Russia has stayed away from the bloc -politics approach and set out to diversify its foreign policy. And, this accounts for the pragmatic and versatile foreign policy Russia began to pursue along the India-Pakistan axis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research was designed in a basic qualitative research design in order to determine secondary school students' views on waste. The study group of the research consists of 120 secondary school students who were determined according to the easily accessible sample and the maximum diversity sample, which is one of the purposeful sampling methods. As a data collection tool in the research, a “waste opinion form” consisting of open-ended questions developed by the researcher based on the relevant literature and expert opinion was used. The research data were collected in the 2019-2020 academic year with the participation of secondary school students studying at the fifth, sixth and seventh grade levels of three different public schools selected from high-middle and low socio-economic levels in Afyonkarahisar city center. The descriptive analysis method was used in the analysis of the data obtained at the end of the research, the data obtained as a result of the analyzes were tabulated and presented with frequencies and supported by direct quotations. As a result of the research, it was determined that middle school students have knowledge and awareness about waste, but they cannot reflect it in their behavior. Students explained that people waste in many areas of life such as water, electricity, bread, food, money, time, paper, clothes, oil and natural gas, with the emphasis on people's unconsciousness and insensitivity. The answers given by the students to the question of “What are the resources you waste?” revealed that they did not show sensitive behaviors about waste. They have developed suggestions with the words “attention, awareness, savings, sensitivity and sharing” on the prevention of waste. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rise of protectionism against the economic liberal order is a much-debated issue which is also associated with the debates on the future of the liberal order. This paper argues that Trump‟s economic protectionism is temporary and aims to strengthen the economic capacity of the United States rather than destroying the liberal economic order. As the USA ensures about the future of its hegemony and make himself the most beneficiary state, there can be less intervention to the functioning of the economic order. In doing this, he uses all power instruments of a hegemon which are material capability, institutions, and discourses. Trump aims to materially strengthen the USA position, and he supports this position with reorganized institutions and discourses within the liberal order. It is considered that reorganizing rules of institutions and creating a new language against the potential rivals is the most cost-effective way to preserve the global position of the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cognitive neuroscience as a multidisciplinary field, seeks to understand human behavior at the intersection of social, cognitive, and neural spheres of science. Neuroscience can help organizations become more effective by support productivity and employee satisfaction. With this paper, it is aimed to contribute to literature with the potential promise of cognitive side of organizational behavior as synergic young field. The main aim of this paper is to discuss neuroscience techniques and ongoing studies with ethical perception that already existed in the organizational behavior field. This new field has emerged to investigate the cognitive neuroscience of organizational behavior and so, organizational scholars have begun to take note of the potential implications of neuroscience at workplace research, the popularity of new field is attested by recent conferences, special issues of journals. But the theoretical codes of this new science derive from an uneasy embracing of two different field of social behavior: sociobiology and evolutionary psychology on the one hand, and social psychology on the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Self-leadership has emerged as a substitute for classical leadership approaches that treat external supervision as a requirement and focus on the leader rather than the employee. It is treated as a way of coping with the instability of the business environment, because organizations should utilize every single employee to be more lateral and adaptive. Self-leadership is a concept which asserts that every single employee can direct herself/ himself when given the opportunity. In literature, self-leadership is majorly considered as an outcome of personality factors. In this paper, the effects of some contextual factors-sub-practices of high-performance work systems (HPWS)-on self-leadership are investigated through a survey conducted on a sample of 212 participants. According to results, participation in decision making, job security, selective staffing and resultsoriented appraisal have positive contributions to self-leadership, whereas, contrary to expectations, extensive training is found to affect self-leadership negatively. Internal mobility, incentive rewards and job descriptions have no significant effect on self-leadership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although Anatolian dialects have some studies on comparative dialects, these studies are not at the desired level in terms of quality and quantity. Comparative dialect research is very important for the Turkish language, as well as it is important for determining issues such as cultural change and identity change. Kırıkhan district of Hatay is the intersection point of Antakya-Maraş and İskenderun-Halep route. For this reason, it is an ancient settlement center, which lias hosted many different cultures and civilizations throughout history. In 1084, when the Anatolian Seljuk Sultan Süleyman Shah conquered the Antakya region Turks began to settle in this region. After the region changed hands among Turks, Byzantine and Crusaders for a while, it started to be governed by the Mamluks and then the Ottomans. Throughout the history, migrations to the region which became Turkish with the migration of various Turkish elements, continued, and after 1950, Trabzon residents, Yoruks and Ahiska Turks migrated to Kırıkhan and settled in this place. In this paper, local and immigrant dialect relations will be reviewed in terms of phonetics. When the texts compiled from the field are reviewed, it is seen that the immigrant dialects are affected by the local dialect and standard language every day. Among the immigrant elements, those living in a certain neighborhood and living together resisted change. However, those who left their neighborhoods and intertwined with the local elements kept up with the change. In addition, those who went out of the city for education or work, and those whose dialect feature was close to the local dialect, adapted to this change faster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Meena Alexander is an Indian poet, scholar and writer. Exile, identity crisis, search for roots, migration are discussed in the works of her. Meena Alexander's first novel, Nampally Road (1991) is not an exception. This short novel is also about displacement and the protagonist's attempts to create herself an identity in her native land, India. The protagonist is Mira Kannadical. She is an English lecturer who returns to her own country after studying in England for four years and getting a PhD on Wordsworth from Nottingham University. She is uncomfortable and alone in England and decides to return her home country. Mira wants to meet new people and see new places. So, she accepts a teaching position in Hyderabad. Hookha and Shikha assert that "all Mira's hopes and dreams are shattered to see a totally different picture of India which teems with violence, civil unrest, and turbulence" (2013,2). Mira finds herself trapped in the city. She starts to question her own thoughts and writings. This paper aims to explore the conflicts in the protagonist's life and identity crisis she experiences while searching for her self with the portrayal of socio- political changes in Contemporary India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a risk assessment tool that aims to improve security, identify, evaluate, and minimize failure modes in systems, designs, products, processes, or projects. The risk priority number (RPN) is the fundamental assessment criteria for FMEA-based risk assessment practices. The determination of RPN is based on the risk factors like occurrence (O), severity (S), and detection (D), should be calculated appropriately. However, the traditional RPN calculation method has been heavily criticized for many reasons, such as not considering the weight of the risk factors. To overcome this disadvantage of the traditional FMEA method, this paper proposes the FMEA model with Best Worst method (BWM) and Neutrosophic analytic hierarchy process (NAHP) integrated model for mechanical installation project. The weights of FMEA parameters S, O, and D are calculated by BWM method, which provides highly consistent pairwise comparison and reliable results. Then nine failure modes are evaluated in terms of S, O, and D parameters by NAHP method. Risk priority indexes are computed for determining the risk priorities of the failure modes. Finally, preventive measures have been proposed for the identified failure modes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some developed countries had been supporting the wars, conflicts and terrors in backward or developing countries for their economic and political interests. Against these terror incidents all over the world, the religion of Islam has assigned the believers the duty of spreading the good and preventing the bad (al-amru bi'l- ma'rûf ven'nahyu ani'lmunkar). The war against the enemies to preserve the values that Islamic law demand in the context of "zaruyyat-ı hamse (life, property, intellect, generation, religion)" is the in the path of Allah. Those who sacrificed their lives for these values as well as for their nation and homeland as required by Allah and became immortal are called martyr and, their first degree relatives are called martyr's family. In this paper, primarily, conceptual framework, importance and judicial bases of martyr and martyrdom are dealt with, followed by the religion-spirituality relation and spiritual based social protection. The definition, subject, aim and main principles of spiritual based social protection of martyr' families are explored according to Islamic law. Accordingly, it is explained that relationships of martyr's families under the social protection with Allah and other people around are parallel with their spiritual life. It is stressed that the relatives of martyr will increasingly feel the proud of being the victim's relative along the lines of spiritual thoughts of consent, obedience, patience, and submission, and will also continue on their principal duties in peace with their spiritual world, without departing from social life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper replicates the data set of Acemoglu et al. (2008) to investigate the relationship between the level of income and the degree of democracy in terms of advanced economies over the period 1960-2000. The study extends the initial findings of Acemoglu et al. (2008) in terms of econometric procedures by using the system- GMM and allowing for more flexible - non-linear - specifications for the effect of income on democracy. The empirical results provide evidence of positive and non-linear effect from income to democracy for advanced economies even after controlling for country-specific effects. In addition, with the same data set that of Acemoglu et al. (2008), we find that the coefficients of log GDP per capita are positive and statistically significant in most specifications by way of using the system-GMM method, in contrast to the results provided by Acemoglu et al. (2008). Furthermore, an interesting result is the square term of log GDP per capita which is negative and statistically significant. This outcome indicates that while the initial stages of an increase in log GDP per capita have a positive impact on democracy, the latter stages show that this positive correlation turns into a negative possibly due to the changing dynamics of the power of income segments in the society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China started a new initiative to Europe via One Belt One Road (OBOR) Project after 2013. This trade corridor aims to revitalise ancient Silk Road with new motorways, railroad infrastructure and ports. Thus Europe and China will have faster, more efficient and competitive t rade route with declining costs of transportation. Turkey is on the Central corridor of OBOR. In this paper the possible outcomes of OBOR on Turkey will discussed under the historical rela tions of China and Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Different aspects of conflicts which appeared in early Islamic history are studied in this paper. Tribal communities in Arabic peninsula witnessed a very new event which was not familiar to them before, during the Islamic spread and rise period carrying out a model of policy and administration result of which was a full success. Observing that event some tribal communities tried to follow the same method in order to succeed in favors of their own tribes and some in religious forms false claiming the prophet hood when The Prophet passed away. On the other hand different from the mentioned acts some communities were not pleasant with many practices by the Caliph Othman and they tried to archive what they deserve according to their claims through Medine administration but events ended in unpredicted results. Many conflicts of this kind appeared in the period of first-four caliphs are examined in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The well-known 14th century historian, economist, and sociologist Ibn Khaldun analyzed the economic, social, and political development of organized societies systematically. In his comprehensive analysis, he put forward that there had to be some factor, some incitement for the desire to exist on a larger scale among some human beings than among others. He stated that this factor which large and powerful states originated was asabiyya. He borrowed the concept of asabiyya from classical usage and gave a new, positive meaning to it. The original meaning of asabiyya implies people related to each other by blood ties. The group to which an individual feels most closely attached is his clan or tribe, the people with whom he shares a common descent. Ibn Khaldun reconsidered asabiyya as a factor being shared by people not related to each other by blood ties but by long and close contact as members of a group. According to him, it meant solidarity, group feeling or group consciousness. In this paper, I will try to highlight the concept of asabiyya as discussed by Ibn Khaldun. The aim of the paper is to quest whether asabiyya can be used as a fundamental concept for social cohesion in the EU, Turkey, and other political entities in the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to clarify the nature and selectiveness of residential moves and their impacts on the urban space, at the level of district in Istanbul within two distinct periods: 1985-1990 and 1995-2000. This study is an attempt to understand residential mobility which is one of the poorly studied dynamics of Turkish urbanization. Data used in this study is drawn from the 1990 and 200 Population Censuses. To analyse residential mobility, the paper revisited B.A. Kipnis' 'flow priority graph' and introduces the 'Socio-economic Development Index' which is the original contribution of this study. The major findings are that from 1990 to 2000, high-status groups' interaction with the urban geography of Istanbul significantly increased, opposite to low-status groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to understand the strategic meaning of culture as a core competence. In order to fulfill this aim we attempted to understand the effects of cultural values and beliefs on the strategic decision-making process. We used grounded theory method for this inductive qualitative research. We conducted 33 interviews with strategists (business owners and top level managers) from 27 different companies operating in Kayseri OIZ (Organized Industrial Zone) furniture industry. We used conceptual coding procedures to analyze the data. Consequently, we detected a clash of cultural value sets between two different and incompatible cultural value domains named "Western-Rational" and "Muslim-Turkish", in the field. We also observed that the strategists interviewed were facing with this clash both in their business and daily lives and they were exhibiting different behavioral outcomes in the face of this clash. We classified and conceptualized their behavioral outcomes into two behavioral patterns as the Janissary and the Mercenary behaviors. Finally, we observed that cultural values and beliefs (religious, traditional and rational) are operative at all levels of the strategic decision-making process and thus, they have a strong and deep meaning in strategic management processes as core competences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Efficiency increases and guarantees the living standards of a society. Equity increases the well-being of people who do not have the opportunities and capacities to obtain a share from the wealth. Equity enhances social inclusion and social cohesion. Efficiency and equity are regarded as contrary topics by a number of economists and policy makers, and therefore a tradeoff between them is brought forward. My argument in this paper depends on a normative assumption that, with no focus on a tradeoff between efficiency and equity, 'effiquity'[sup¹] best serves for the social Europe. The purpose of this paper is to display various social models in the EU and to highlight the most efficient and equitable model, namely the Nordic model, which can be used as the European Social Model. The method used in this article is normative and comparative. The article will proceed as follows: after the introduction part; varieties of societal models will be summarized. In this section, the core values and typologies of social models will be described. Then, the grounds for the trade-off between economic efficiency and social equity will be discussed. The concept of 'effiquity' and its variables in analyzing a social model will take part in the fourth section. A numerical analysis of the effiquity position in the EU15 and Turkey, which is based on the empirical data, will follow the conceptual framework of effiquity. The conclusion part will sum up the discussion and propose the Nordic model best for the social Europe, and make some suggestions for Turkey to promote its social dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the ancient thinkers' contributions to the history of economic thought. The paper also takes into consideration the relationships between the ancient economic thought and social, political, economic, and intellectual environment that prepared this thought. Amongst the Ancient Greek philosophers, economic opinions of Plato and Aristotle have a distinct place. But in recent years, economic opinions of pre-Socratic and post-Socratic philosophers such as Hesiod and Xenophon gained importance as well. Ancient Greek philosophers put forward many ideas on economic matters such as agriculture, trade, division of labor, money, wealth, proprietorship, and interest. Yet these explanations could not go beyond to a level of preliminary analyses of economic theory. On the other hand, Western World was remained under the influence of these philosophers for a long time. Roman thinkers did not make any original contribution to the history of economic thought. Their main contributions were in the field of law. Concepts like individual liberty, private property and freedom of contract were due to them entered the law literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The subject of this paper is to create an etymological dictionary on Yellow Uyghur. For this purpose, "E" items were investigated in Yazık jyoltıh uygurov: Slovar' i grammatika published by Sergey Yefimoviç Malov in 1957 and Stroy sarıg-yugurskogo yazıka published by Tenisev in 1976. Items of dictionary parts and sentence examples in the items that were taken from these studies were translated into Turkish and etymologies about the words were listed. Then those words were compared with both historical and modern Turkic languages. A total of 114 words were identified in "E" item except for proper and place name. It was found that 8 of the 114 words are loanwords from Mongolian, 3 of them from Chinese, 1 of them from Sanskrit. The results of this comparison study are as follows: 11 common words were identified in Yellow Uygur and North-South Siberian Turkic languages. These worda are as follows: e- ~ er-, eç-, eçir-, egen, elig, enek, eŋge, er, erle-, erte, eser-. It was found that Yellow Uyghur words were detected in some languages, such as 39 of them in Khakas, 37 of them in Altay, 35 of them in Tuvanian and 25 of them in Yakut. This data containing approximate value confirms that Yellow Uyghur is closely related to South Siberian Turkic languages. It was determined 24 common words which are seen with some sound changes in all modern languages or languages groups in accordance with vocabulary of "E" item: e- ~ er-, eç-, eçikı, eçir-, elçı, elig, elt-, enek, er, eren, erk, erte, erüt-, esen, eske, esür-, est, et, et-, etek, ezek, ezengı, ezer, ezerte-. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes industrial sectors in Turkey through clustering sectors according to bank credits under perspective of econophysics. We study the behaviour of the industries which take bank credits during the period of 2010/06-2016/06 based on network theory, using clustering methodology that identifies groups of industry with similar profiles. The fundamental aim of industry analysis is to figure out how the banking sector of Turkey makes impacts on different industries and establish enhanced sectors. By taking the sector classification as a benchmark partition, we evaluate how the different methods affect this classification. We utilized from two clustering methods: K-means Clustering and Fuzzy C- means Clustering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to investigate the effects of exchange rate volatility on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Turkey using the data set that covers the period from 1970 to 2014. In the analyses we used real effective exchange rate, inflation and per capita GDP as control variables. In the empirical part of the study, we carried out some time series data analysis, respectively, volatility analysis of exchange rate, stationarity tests, co-integration tests and estimation of the model. In the final part, we employed Dynamic OLS method to estimate the long-run coefficients of the FDI model with structural breaks. Our estimation results show that the effects of exchange rate volatility, exchange rate and per capita GDP on FDI are statistically significant and have different signs in the covered sub-periods that obtained using the break dates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of present study is to determine the relationship between the quality of teaching processes and learning resources of a higher education institution and academic achievement of B. A. students in Gaziantep University. With this purpose in mind, students' perceptions about the following sub-dimensions are determined: Integration and teaching processes, career guidance services, library facilities and services, communication with the faculty administration and the academics, student affairs, physical learning conditions, campus life, research activities, assessment and evaluation, course contents and classroom conditions. The study is designed with the correlational survey model and the data are obtained by administering a scale to randomly selected 796 students in 2014-2015 educational year. In data analysis, SPSS 20.0 software package is used and Independent Samples T Test and Multiple Linear Regression are applied to the normally distributed data set. According to research results, the participants' views differ significantly in four of the sub-dimensions according to their gender and these sub-dimensions - career guidance services, teaching processes, campus life and assessment and evaluation - are found to predict about 15% of students' academic achievement. It is extrapolated that some variables relevant with teaching processes and learning resources of a higher education institution have substantial impact upon student achievement. The paper concludes by offering some implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the mergers and acquisitions (M&As) activity of initial public offering (IPO) firms on Borsa Istanbul (BIST) that went public between 1990-2014. We find that among the 398 firms that went public 87 firms acquired other firms while 104 firms were targeted by other firms within the first five years after their IPOs. For firms that have been involved in an M&A activity, the aggregate deal volume corresponds to 16% of their market size for acquiring IPO firms, and 29% of their market size for targeted IPO firms. On average, while these IPO firms acquired 2.1 firms within five years, they were targeted by 1.7 firms. As a result, firms that convert to public ownership on BIST might participate as acquiring firms or as target firms in the subsequent M&A processes in the first five years after their IPO. Our findings indicate that firms go public on BIST mainly to provide an exit opportunity for their existing shareholders, and they accomplish this i) through the sale of existing shares to the general public in an IPO or ii) through the sale of existing shares to the acquiring firms in a post-IPO M&A. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Political, social and economic chaos and conflicts occurring in Europe have prepared the ground for the start of the modern era since the 18th century. Modernity which was the source of the human systems until a certain period has received some criticism, especially due to the understanding of uniformity. Going beyond the critique of modernity, post-modern paradigm became a kind of "revolt" and determined pluralism, diversity and locality as its touchstone. Similarly "multiculturalism" affected by Post-modernism has also argued that the system brought by modernism should be reformed. In particular, from curriculum to teacher training creation of a structure defending the values such as respect for differences, fair and equal opportunities have been discussed. The main objective of the study is to deal with the policy of "multicultural education" recently discussed and applied especially in the democratic and welfare states in order to manifest the purposes and dimensions of "multicultural education" applied in the world and Turkey. The research was carried out by theoretical methods. In this context, within the purposes of the research, a lot of scientific resources such as local and foreign papers, theses, books, etc. have been reached. These resources were analysed so as to serve the purpose and were evaluated by significant expression. Accordingly, although multicultural education has progressed especially in countries such as Canada and Australia, the majority of which was formed by the migrants, it was found that it is discussed to some extent in countries such as Turkey. Similarly, it was concluded that countries discuss and apply multiculturalism from different perspectives in terms of purposes and dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Women have higher rates of depression and report more depressive symptoms than men, in diverse societies and contexts. Typical explanations make reference to hormonal aspects of being female, and to women's lower social status, which occurs in every culture. However, gender differences are absent or reduced in rural contexts and in non-Western cultures. The current paper sought to contribute to the literature on both gender differences and urban-rural differences in depression with data from a rapidly developing society, Turkey. The Beck Depression Inventory was administered to college students in rural and urban regions of Turkey, along with questions about personal achievement, parental control, and individualism-collectivism scales. Males and females reported similar amounts of depressive symptoms in both urban and rural areas, with symptom report being lower in the urban sample compared to the rural sample. These findings cast doubt on the proposal that women are inevitably more depressed than males. It is useful to consider what factors exist in Turkish society, or in the lives of Turkish college students, that equalize stressors for males and females. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, professional music production processes that being conducted in popular music industry, refer to a period which includes various details that one cannot overcome alone. Therefore music producion at recent years is being conducted with a wide proficiency network. The most important stakeholder of this network is arranger. The term arranging includes, fixing, conducting and controlling of context, style and all processes of a music production that finish with the completing the production. Because of that the arranger's role is so important. That can be said, arranging practises in Turkey between 1950 and 1980 period require various qualifications from musicians; being qualificied as a composer. Thereby being an arranger is very difficult credit that everybody couldn't gain it easily. However, especially with develop of MIDI in 1983 and then smoothing of importing technological advances into the Turkey, the arranging area in Turkey got into an important transformation. Therefore, an arranging practise rose in Turkey that carried mostly via computer and its options. In this paper, this new type of arranger defined as "Midi-ger". Also many interwievs have been made with pionner arrangers of Turkey to understand transformation of arranging practices in Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China's economy has grown remarkably since its adoption of market-oriented reforms in 1978. This reform movement played an important role in China's growth prospects,and is expressed in a transformation of its economic structure and economic growth model. The economic growth of China has further increased as a result of its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on 11 December 2001, and through its economic openness. This has brought certain opportunities, but also presents risks. However, there is doubt about the issue of sustainability of China's long-term economic growth. This paper aims to examine the sources of economic growth in China through the literature on the subject, considering expansion of output, which is the sum of the change in consumption, investment, and net exports of goods and services, and then inward foreign direct investment (FDI), and their status as sources of economic growth. It concludes that despite China's rapid economic growth, there are a number of structural problems in the country's economy, as well as future challenges facing China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Testing social disorganization theory for the causes of index (major) crime incidence among Turkish juveniles is the subject of this study. Delinquency rates are quite high and it is an important problem for every society. It is needed to know the causes of delinquency to find appropriate solution ways and to decrease the delinquency rate. Thus, this article was prepared by utilizing data belongs to 205 incarcerated juveniles from different juvenile correction facilities in Turkey in 2007. Binary Logistic regression was used to analyze the data. Multivariate analysis indicates that education and living in urban areas have significant effect on the probability of index crime incidence. The implications of the findings were discussed in the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Data on health levels are the primary development indicators for countries. Efforts made by governments to improve their health systems include transformations in health services. Investments made by using information technologies are one of the methods to perform these transformations. In an effort to enhance health services and increase satisfaction in Turkey, e-prescribing system (eRx) was initiated in Turkey in 2013 as a hospital information system to enhance electronic services and to increase service quality. E-prescribing application enables pharmacies, physicians and hospitals to access patient information over system that is open to joint use without using paper. The purpose of this study is to measure the success of e-prescribing system used by pharmacy personnel. We found that the users had high satisfaction levels from this system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Advances in Mathematical and statistical methods have increased the use of non-linear methods. Especially after the stock market crash, the non-linear work has become even more important and gained rapid rate of development. Due to the high returns of the stock market stock markets have always been an attractive investment area. On the other hand it's the unpredictable movements of the stock market makes it more risky. However, non-linear methods help to stock market players to create more revenues. In the study, Turkish capital markets, Borsa Istanbul is examined. Turkey is an attractive emerging market for fund managers. The purpose of this paper is to determine the non-linear dependence and events that lead to non-linearity by using the indexes of different sectors at the Borsa Istanbul. To this end, the Hinich portmanteau bi-correlation non-parametric test that uses the windowed testing procedure is applied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Regional Development Agencies (RDAs), embarking on significant roles in the development of both undeveloped regions and developed economies of the world, especially in many European countries, have come to agenda with intense discussions in Turkey. Although forms and directions of these discussions have changed following of RDAs going into action, concerns about their vision and future roles are still up to date. In this study, place and importance of Turkey's RDAs, of which legal basis was formed in 2006 and establishment was completed all over the country in 2010, will be handled by presenting experience of regional development agencies of England. As England model has been generally tackled in the formation process of RDAs in Turkey, discussions have remained mostly theoretical in similarly entitled studies in the literature. There have also existed concrete practices in Turkey with the agencies' coming into operation. This paper aims to add the experience of these practices to the previously conducted theoretical studies in the same title and make contribution to studies to be carried out in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Politics and economics are two dependent areas that lead to political business cycles. Countries with different development levels encounter political business cycles differently. The existence of political business cycles is mostly researched on the basis of fiscal variables. In this paper, we will be dealing with the existence of political business cycles with respect to monetary variables. Our research utilizes a simple but explanatory time series model. The empirical results show the existence of the opportunistic political business cycles in Turkish economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Devices for measurement in hospitals have to be calibrated in specific periods. Calibration is an activity that can be outsourced or can be done by hospitals own staff with its own calibrators. The main aim of this paper is to determine which of these alternatives will minimize the cost of calibration. With this aim, in this study both alternatives are going to be calculated by a case study in Düzce University Research and Application Hospital. The target is to show an example to people that will make implementation on this subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study discusses the changes of computer assisted lessons on us. In other words, how the method of E-learning impacts the learning process and how this impact should be evaluated. In this context the theoretical connections were highlighted firstly and out of this theoretical fundament it will be shown how the method of distance education (Moodle) and traditional learning methods influence each other. According to the study Moodle itself was explained then why it was chosen and how it is spread globally. The reason of electing Moodle and its advantage is shown by comparing the methods of education systems (in Turkey). The application is used in the translation lesson of the department of German language in Hacettepe University and literature and the paper will show changes in terms of education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban living offers conveniences which reduce the need to rely on family and close friends. The current paper tested the urbanization hypothesis, which is that residents of urban areas will be more individualistic and less collectivistic than rural residents. Individualism, collectivism and family-consciousness were assessed in college students in several Turkish cities and one US city (Boston). Urbanization co-varied most strongly not with individualism, but with low values of vertical collectivism, which is the tendency to subordinate personal goals to those of in-group authority figures, and with family-consciousness (communalism within the family group). family-consciousness and vertical collectivism were less frequently endorsed in larger urban areas compared to rural areas. These associations provide a foundation for asking more specific questions about what aspects of urban living (e.g., income, education, religious belief, less frequent co-residence with family) influence collectivist values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our current ceramics education history, creative interpretations and construction techniques etc. are being taught. In addition to these techniques using critical pedagogy is crucial as well. In this paper a red figured Attica kylix, an antic Greek vase from Late Archaic Period (480-490 BC) drawn by painter Macron and done by potter Hieron, is analyzed through critical pedagogy. Applying this technique the study intends to highlight both history and ceramics art education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper concentrates on the theory of democracy promotion and analyzes the case of Albania since the beginning of the 1990s until the recent developments. We start by giving some information on the background of the communist past in political, economic and social spheres, with the assumption that the characteristics of the authoritarian regime should have an impact upon the democratization strategy of the promoter. In the literature, there is a debate on whether democracy should be promoted at the level of political parties and politically oriented civil society groups or transparency and accountability should be targeted as essential factors of national development. Albania experienced both strategies. Firstly, United States was the major external actor that initiated and supported the democratization process in Albania. Then the EU followed with the policy framework of Stabilization and Association Process (SAP) that offered a commitment by the organization to necessary political, financial and personal resources to Balkan countries to complete the fulfillment of democratic principles required for membership. As a conclusion, the external assistance helped advance the level of democracy in the country, however remaining deficiencies show that the democracy promoters should support institutions that embrace democracy as an essential value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reflection of Regulations about Alcohol Advertisings in Media in Turkey According to national and international research, alcohol consumption is one of the common problems, especially in European Countries, which threatens public health. Instead of this reality, after forbidden of cigarette advertisements, among addictive substances, alcohol is the only product in world, which can be advertised. As a result of, privatization and taking alcohol production and distribution from government monopoly, in Turkey, the importance of alcohol advertisement rises, in terms of product publicity and marketing. Enterprises in competitive climate, in order to be a favorite brand, tend to different channels in traditional and new media. Instead of this activity in alcohol market, in January 2010, there are new regulations and restrictions about alcohol advertisements and sponsorship. In today's information society, because of diversity and prevalence in use of new media, especially among children and young peoples, there are considerable barriers to achieve the purpose of new regulations. This paper, tries to state the strategies, which come out after the restrictions, through the medium of advertisements using both traditional and new media. Besides, in order to protect children and young people, voluntary regulations in the advertising business are discussed, which are made by actors except government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of the paper is to determine the contribution of graduate programs in the field of Educational Administration, Supervision, Planning and Economy to professional development of teachers, school administrators and supervisors. In this context, data were collected by using interview form from a total of 25 teachers, school administrators and inspectors continuing graduate programs in the field of Educational Administration, Supervision, Planning and Economy at the University of Fırat. According to findings of the research is concluded that participants are to prefer graduate programs to specialize and build an academic carrier and graduate programs is to contribute to solving the problems of application and development leadership behaviors. The main challenge limiting the contribution to professional development of graduate programs is off to change the culture of participants' organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In today's world, the struggles for the balance of powers between countries, and the competition they depend on, have been developing different points very quickly through the technological possibilities that have been provided. The countries being included or aiming to be in this speedy race have used all kinds of possibilities in order to be positioned, and to be represented in the best way on the international arena. Especially in the creation of public diplomacy and public opinion, and also in favor of countries and strategies in question, the role, of the means of international communication which are considered in-between legal instruments, is very effective. In these means of communication, the radio, the television and the internet news sites have undertaken a different mission because of their potential capacities to reach the masses. However, the application of this undertaken mission needs a specialization and an importance. By this purpose, in this paper, on one hand, while emphasizing on these points, on the other hand, the functionality of TRT, which constitutes the central point of our research field, in the creation of public diplomacy and public opinion, is evaluated within the framework of institutional data and the probabilities of its audiences, spectators and followers. In this context, in order to measure and evaluate the influence of TRT, the broadcasting schedules of TRT-AVAZ, TRT-ETTÜRKIYE and TRT 6 and the Voice of Turkey (VOT) are studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]