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Article Citation - WoS: 11Citation - Scopus: 14A Neural Network Model for the Assessment of Partners' Performance in Virtual Enterprises(Springer London Ltd, 2007) Sari, Burak; Amaitik, Saleh; Kilic, S. EnginIn response to increasing international competition, enterprises have been investigating new ways of cooperating with each other to cope with today's unpredictable market behaviour. Advanced developments in information & communication technology (ICT) enabled reliable and fast cooperation to support real-time alliances. In this context, the virtual enterprise (VE) represents an appropriate cooperation alternative and competitive advantage for the enterprises. VE is a temporary network of independent companies or enterprises that can quickly bring together a set of core competencies to take advantage of market opportunity. In this emerging business model of VE, the key to enhancing the quality of decision making in the partner companies' performance evaluation function is to take advantage of the powerful computer-related concepts, tools and technique that have become available in the last few years. This paper attempts to introduce a neural network model, which is able to contribute to the extrapolation of the probable outcomes based on available pattern of events in a virtual enterprise. Quality, delivery and progress were selected as determinant factors effecting the performance assessment. Considering the features of partner performance assessment and neural network models, a back-propagation neural network that includes a two hidden layers was used to evaluate the partner performance.Article Citation - WoS: 65Citation - Scopus: 67An Electrochromic and Fluorescent Polymer Based on 1-(1(Elsevier Science Sa, 2008) Cihaner, Atilla; Algi, FatihA novel polymer was synthesized by electrochemical polymerization of 1-(1-naphthyl)-2,5-di-2-thienyl-1H-pyrrole (SNS-1-NAPH). The corresponding polymer (PSNS-1-NAPH) was characterized by cyclic voltammetry, FT-IR and UV-vis spectroscopy. The polymer has a very well-defined and reversible redox process in both organic and aqueous solutions. Furthermore, it shows stable electrochromic behavior; yellow in the neutral state, green in the intermediate state and violet in the oxidized state. PSNS-1-NAPH is soluble in common solvents. Although SNS-1-NAPH is almost nonfluorescent, its polymer is a yellow and/or green light emitter. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Letter Discussion of the Article "approximate Solution of Limit Angular Speed for Externally Loaded Rotating Solid Disk" by S. Bhowmick, D. Misra and Nk Saha [int J Mech Sci 2008;50:163-74](Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2008) Eraslan, Ahmet N.; Akis, Tolga[No Abstract Available]Master Thesis Milliyetçilik ve türkiye'de milliyetçi akımlar(2007) Çağlar, Ozan; Tan, AyhanArticle Citation - WoS: 16Citation - Scopus: 16q-bernstein Polynomials of the Cauchy Kernel(Elsevier Science inc, 2008) Ostrovska, SofiyaDue to the fact that in the case q > 1, q-Bernstein polynomials are not positive linear operators on C[0, 1], the study of their approximation properties is essentially more difficult than that for 0 < q < 1. Despite the intensive research conducted in the area lately, the problem of describing the class of functions in C[0, 1] uniformly approximated by their q-Bernstein polynomials (q > 1) is still open. In this paper, the q-Bernstein polynomials B-n,B-q(f(a); z) of the Cauchy kernel f(a) = 1/(z - a), a is an element of C \ [0, 1] are found explicitly and their properties are investigated. In particular, it is proved that if q > 1, then polynomials B-n,B-q(f(a); z) converge to f(a) uniformly on any compact set K subset of {z : vertical bar z vertical bar < vertical bar a vertical bar}. This result is sharp in the following sense: on any set with an accumulation point in {z : vertical bar z vertical bar > vertical bar a vertical bar}, the sequence {B-n,B-q(f(a); z) is not even uniformly bounded. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 8Rock mass response model for circular openings(Canadian Science Publishing, 2007) Sari, DursunThe main parameters affecting the failure and deformation state of the rock mass around a circular opening are the level of vertical and horizontal in situ stresses, the characteristics of the rock mass, the diameter of the opening, and the support pressure. The influence of all these parameters on the stress-induced final deformations around circular openings was investigated by a finite difference based two-dimensional numerical simulation for both hydrostatic and nonhydrostatic stress field conditions. From the results of the parametric studies, the variation of tunnel strain versus the ratio of uniaxial compressive strength of the rock mass to in situ vertical stress and the ratio of radial support pressure to in situ vertical stress for fair quality and poor quality rock masses was statistically analysed. As a result of the three-dimensional nonlinear regression analysis and surface curve fitting process by means of a large number of models, a best-fit model with the best correlation with these dimensionless parameters was proposed for calculating tunnel strains and ground response curves. Specific charts were created to highlight the influence of parameters on the deformation response of the openings to various support pressures.Article Citation - WoS: 96Citation - Scopus: 100Effect of Progesterone on Dppc Membrane: Evidence for Lateral Phase Separation and Inverse Action in Lipid Dynamics(Elsevier Science inc, 2005) Korkmaz, F; Severcan, FInteractions of progesterone with zwitterionic dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (DPPC) triultilamellar liposomes were investigated as a function of temperature and progesterone concentration by using three non-invasive techniques namely Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, turbidity at 440 nm, and differential scanning calorimetry. The results reveal that progesterone changes the physical properties of DPPC bilayers by decreasing the main phase-transition temperature, abolishing the pre-transition, broadening the phase-transition profile, disordering the system both in gel and liquid crystalline phase, increasing the dynamics at low concentrations whereas stabilizing the membrane at high concentrations, and inducing phase separation. Progesterone does not change the hydration of the C=O groups, while it strengthens the hydrogen bonding between the PO (2) over bar groups of lipids and the water molecules around. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Article Effect of Magnetic Field and γ Irradiation on the Properties of Tl-2212 Superconducting Tape(Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 2002) Ercan, I; Kayed, TSThe critical temperature and critical current of Tl-2212 superconducting sample in the form of a tape have been studied near T-c under magnetic field and gamma irradiation. T-c decreases from 109 to 94 K with increase of magnetic field up to 300 mT. In 77-109 K range, J(c) decreases rapidly in low fields up to around 50 mT followed by a very slow decrease in J(c) up to 300 mT. T-c of the sample did not change up to 100 MR gamma dose and then started to decrease from 109 to 102 K with increase of gamma dose up to 800 MR, most of the change taking place in high doses. The critical currents of the sample decreased steadily with gamma irradiation up to 600 MR after which no further change was noticed.Article SAYISAL KÜTÜPHANELERİN TASARIMINDA SAYISAL NESNELER EĞİTİMİ NASIL DESTEKLENEBİLİR?(2002) Çağıltay, Nergiz; Çağıltay, Kürşat"Tekrar kullanılabilen öğrenme nesenleri" çevrimiçi eğitim dünyasında nesne tabanlı yaklaşımların kullanılması açısından önemli bir gelişmedir. Aynı şekilde, sayısal kütüphane çalışmaları da "sayısal nesenler" olarak adlandırılan nesne tabanlı yaklaşımlardan etkilenmektedir. Bu çalışmanın temel amacı tekrar kullanılabilen öğrenme nesneleri çerçevesinde her iki alandaki gelişmelrin kesiştiği noktayı incelemek ve bu gelişmeler ışığında sayısal kütüphanelerin çevrimiçi eğitim açısından önemini irdelemektir.Article An Experimental Study on the Effect of the Anisotropic Regions in a Realistically Shaped Torso Phantom(Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2008) Şengül, Gökhan; Lıehr, Mario; Haueısen, Jens; Baysal, UğurDetermination of electrically active regions in the human body by observing generated bioelectric and/or biomagnetic signals is known as source reconstruction. In the reconstruction process, it is assumed that the volume conductor consists of isotropic compartments and homoge neous tissue bioelectric parameters but this assumption introduces errors when the tissue of interest is anisotropic. The aim of this study was to investigate changes in the measured signal strengths and the estimated positions and orientations of current dipoles in a realistically shaped torso phantom having a heart region built from single guar gum skeins. Electric data were recorded with 60 electrodes on the front of the chest and 195 sensors measured the magnetic field 2 cm above the chest. The artificial rotating dipoles were located underneath the anisotropic skeins distant from the sensors. It was found that the signal strengths and estimated dipole orientations were influenced by the anisotropy while the estimated dipole positions were not significantly influ enced. The signal strength was reduced between 17% and 43% for the different dipole positions when comparing the parallel alignment of dipole orientation and anisotropy direction with the orthogonal alignment. The largest error in the estimation of dipole orientation was 42 degrees. The observed changes in the magnetic fields and electric poten tials can be explained by the fact that the anisotropic skeins force the current along its direction. We conclude that taking into account anisotropic structures in the volume conductor might improve signal analysis as well as source strength and orientation estimations for bioelectric and biomagnetic investigations.
