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Article Citation - WoS: 20Citation - Scopus: 26Simplified software inspection process in compliance with international standards(Elsevier Science Bv, 2009) Mishra, Deepti; Mishra, AlokA significant amount of software is developed all over the world by small and medium size software organizations. These organizations do not have enough infrastructures and resources to implement an austere quality plan. Software inspection is a fundamental component of the software quality assurance process. Formal review methods are rigorous and their implementation is cumbersome for small and medium enterprises. In this paper, we have presented a new simplified inspection process which is easy to implement. requires fewer resource and almost no documentation. Also, people who are conducting this inspection need not be present at the same place during most stages of the inspection process. We have also compared this process with IEEE and NASA standards for software inspection and found that it meets almost 99% of both standards. While there has been much research on inspection, little attention is paid towards compliance with international standards. These results could be used as a basis for further research in software inspection and process towards aligning with international standards. This process has been successfully implemented in a CMM level 3 software development organization which is striving to accomplish higher maturity levels to establish at the international level. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 20Citation - Scopus: 21On Global Asymptotic Stability of 2-D Discrete Systems With State Saturation(Elsevier Science Bv, 2008) Singh, VimalA criterion for the global asymptotic stability of 2-D discrete systems described by the Roesser model employing state saturation nonlinearities is presented. The criterion is a less restrictive version of an earlier criterion due to Liu and Michel. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 6Personality and Individual Differences: Literature in Psychology-Psychology in Literature(Elsevier Science Bv, 2015) Aras, GoksenLiterature, which intertwines within such fields as history, philosophy, sociology, psychology and so on, is a discipline wherein language is used as a medium of expression so as to interpret man, existence and culture. The objective of this paper is to discuss literature in terms of its interdisciplinary structure, psychology, in particular, considering man and existence, personality and individual differences which have always been studied by writers, philosophers, artists, psychologists and psychiatrists. Several complex notions, unfathomable personalities and ambiguous motives have been associated with characters in literary genres: For example the term Bovarism is explained by means of Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Similar examples in literary works could be multiplied. Man and existence have been fundamental themes in literature, which has existed even before psychology. Works of literature and art enable individuals to be aware of their personalities and individual differences and to question life and existence, the main data in the field of psychology as well. It is overtly seen that there is a very strong correlation between literature and psychology since both of them deal with human beings and their reactions, miseries, desires, and their individual and social concerns by means of different concepts, methods, and approaches. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.Publication Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 2Retracted: a Path To Critical Thinking (retracted Article)(Elsevier Science Bv, 2010) Ozkan, ImgehanWe should be teaching students how to think. Instead, we are teaching them what to think. (Clement & Lochhead, 1980, Cognitive Process Instruction). That is, critical thinking has a vital role in education. Based on classroom experimentation, it can be said that a student who thinks critically can ask appropriate questions, gather relevant information, efficiently and creatively sort through this information, reason logically from this information, and come to reliable and trustworthy conclusions about the world that enable one to live and act successfully. Therefore, they are more productive while using their second language. The aim of this paper is to present how to develop critical thinking skills of English learners via critical thinking activities. (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd.Article Citation - WoS: 9Citation - Scopus: 9Design and Characterization of Au/In4< Field Effect Transistors(Elsevier Science Bv, 2018) Khusayfan, Najla M.; Qasrawi, A. F.; Khanfar, Hazem K.In the current work, the structural and electrical properties of the In4Se3/Ga2S3 interfaces are investigated. The X-ray analysis which concern the structural evolutions that is associated with the substrate type has shown that the hexagonal kappa-In2Se3 and the selenium (rhombohedral) rich orthorhombic In4Se3 phases of InSe are grown onto glass and gold substrates, respectively, at substrate of temperature of 300 degrees C in a vacuum media. The coating of the kappa-In2Se3 and of In4Se3 with amorphous layer of Ga2S3 is accompanied with uniform strain. The In4Se3/Ga2S3 interface is found to be of attractive quantum confinement features as it exhibited a conduction and valence band offsets of 0.20 and 1.86 eV, respectively. When the Au/In4Se3/Ga2S3 interface was contacted with carbon metallic point contact, it reveals a back to back Schottky hybrid device that behaves typically as metal-oxidesemiconductor field effect transition (MOSFET). The depletion capacitance analysis of this device revealed built in voltage values of 1.91 and 1.64 V at the Au and C sides, respectively. The designed MOSFET which is characterized in the frequency domain of 0.01-1.80 GHz is observed to exhibit, resonance-anti-resonance phenomena associated with negative capacitance effect in a wide domain of frequency that nominate it for applications in electronic circuits as parasitic capacitance minimizer, bus switching speed enhancer and low pass/high pass filter at microwave frequencies. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.Article Citation - WoS: 6Citation - Scopus: 8Topological Derivative Based Optimization of 3d Porous Elastic Microstructures(Elsevier Science Bv, 2014) Ozdemir, IzzetAs an alternative to the well established microstructural optimization techniques, topological derivative based optimization framework has been proposed and successfully implemented for tailoring/optimizing 2D elastic composites recently, Amstutz et al. [1]. In this paper, an optimization framework for 3D porous elastic microstructures is presented which is based on the notion of topological derivative and the computational homogenization of elastic composites. The sensitivity of the homogenized elasticity tensor to the insertion of infinitesimal hollow spheres within the elastic microstructure is used as the measure for the finite element based evolutionary optimization algorithm. The capabilities of the proposed framework, which is free of any regularization parameter, is assessed by means of example problems including some comparisons with analytical bounds. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 8Awareness of the concept of universal design in design education(Elsevier Science Bv, 2012) Helvacioglu, Elif; Karamanoglu, Nazli NazendeDesign professions, principally architecture, interior architecture, landscape design, industrial design and graphic design have to attach importance to create environments and products that derives an accessible design by all user groups. Though Universal Design (UD) is a critical approach to design practices, it is not taking a part as a separate and must course in the curriculum of design and architecture schools. Most likely, it is taking a part as an elective course in the curriculum. Therefore graduation from design schools is formulated as having no any inclusion of UD. This study is designed to highlight the importance of UD in the education process of the design professions and to raise awareness on that concept. The awareness of UD as a term and its context in the light of its principles were investigated by interviewing students from the department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design from Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey. The results of the study indicated that, there is not enough incorporation of UD in design education as the majority of the participants did not know the concept and its content. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Ayse Cakir IlhanArticle Citation - WoS: 33Citation - Scopus: 46Higher-Order Self-Adjoint Boundary-Value Problems on Time Scales(Elsevier Science Bv, 2006) Anderson, Douglas R.; Guseinov, Gusein Sh.; Hoffacker, JoanIn this study, higher-order self-adjoint differential expressions on time scales and their associated self-adjoint boundary conditions are discussed. The symmetry property of the corresponding Green's functions is shown, together with specific formulas of Green's functions for select time scales. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 14Citation - Scopus: 15Dynamic Modeling of General Three-State k-out-of-n< Systems: Permanent-Based Computational Results(Elsevier Science Bv, 2014) Eryilmaz, Serkan; Xie, MinThis paper is concerned with dynamic reliability analysis of three-state k-out-of-n:G systems. It is assumed that the components and the systems can be in three states: perfect functioning, partial performance and complete failure. Using the concept of permanent, we study marginal and joint survival functions for the lifetime of two different three-state k-out-of-n:G systems that consist of independent and nonidentical components. Illustrative examples are also provided for the components which follow the Markov degradation process. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 2(re) Thinking the Basics of Design: Can Fairytales Be Teaching Tools?(Elsevier Science Bv, 2012) Resuloglu, CilgaDiscussing the basics of design can be considered as one of the main issues in trying to understand the fundamentals of the first year design studio. Particularly the first semester of basic design studio teaches basic design concepts such as types of relationships, types of organizations, frame of references and Gestalt principles. All of them are used to teach students to understand the essence of the problem and are utilized to create their own solutions and their design language. It is an impetus process in which exercises are based on basic design concepts and creativity. In general, the concept of creativity is used in the production of an artwork; however, assuming that creativity is a skill that can be improved in a design process, it can also be considered that creativity is a contributory teaching tool. From this perspective, this study aims to find out if basic design concepts affect design of the first year students in relation to creativity. For this purpose, as a final work, students were asked to design a given field in the light of a fairytale. Whether the use of basic design concepts gives an impulse to the creativity of the students and this creativity turns into a successful design are matters of analysis. The study was conducted with the first year students of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design from Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey. The experts evaluated the final works of the students within the framework of basic design concepts and creativity. Results of the study showed that creativity of the basic design work depends on the number of used basic design concepts, which can be concluded as creativity of the first year students can be improved by teaching basic design concepts in basic design education. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Dr. Ayse Cakir Ilhan
