Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity

An analytical way to reach the best decision is more preferable in many business platforms.When variables are quantitative and number of criteria is not high, then one can use several analysis tools and make his/her decision and solve the problem.However, many times beside the measurable variables, there exist qualita…

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Detecting session boundaries on the Web is important for several reasons. Firstly, it is important to establish a common context for various statistics relating to user sessions and frequency of user activities. More specifically, it is important to detect some boundaries in order to group related information together…

his study aims to investigate some antecedents of job crafting. Within the literature, studies suggest that some individual and organizational factors lead employees to customize their jobs according to their abilities, preferences and needs. Therefore, self-efficacy, perceived organizational support and job character…

We investigated the changes in total body weight, glycogen, protein, and lipid contents of the endoparasitoid Pimpla turionellae L. (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) reared on Galleria mellonella L. (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) exposed to various sublethal doses of cypermethrin added to the food of host larvae. Cypermethrin af…

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have attracted increasing attention from researchers in many fields, including economics, medicine and computer processing, and have been used to solve a wide range of problems. In remote sensing research, ANN classifiers have been used for many investigations such as land cover mappi…

Having an increased attention from researchers corporate social responsibility is the starting point of this study. There several studies in the literature regarding the linkage between CSR and firm performance, however this study examines the situation of a developing country; Turkey. The main aim of this study is to…

ABSTRACT: The primary aim of this study was to explore the effectiveness of using games in teaching grammar to young learners from the view points of Turkish EFL teachers working in primary schools. English language teachers ’ (n=15) opinions were collected through a questionnaire and the results of this study demonst…

This research was carried out during 2000, 2001 and 2002 in Van, Turkey to investigate the relationships between yield and some yield components of 16 oilseed rape cultivars (Brassica napus ssp. oleifera L.) by using correlation and path coefficient analysis. The results revealed that there were statistically positive…

Several tests, such as Kolmogorov-Simirnov, Chi-square, Shaphiro-Wilk and D'Agostino-Pearson are available for testing the normality of data. It may be difficult to assess Type I error rate and power of the tests under the alternative hypothesis due to the many possibilities of choosing a particular alternative hypoth…

In this paper we describe a technology for protecting privacy in video systems. The paper presents a review of privacy in video surveillance and describes how a computer vision approach to understanding the video can be used to represent “just enough ” of the information contained in a video stream to allow video-base…

Bacteriocins are described as ribosomally synthesized small poly peptides that exert antimicrobial effects against closely or non-closely related bacteria. The major producer group for bacteriocins is lactic acid bacteria (LAB) that contain a great variety of microorganisms described as “generally recognized as safe (…