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Article Citation - WoS: 11Citation - Scopus: 12A Standard Benchmarking Suite for Structural Optimization Algorithms: Iscso 2016-2022(Elsevier Science inc, 2023) Azad, Saeid Kazemzadeh; Azad, Saeıd Kazemzadeh; Azad, Sina Kazemzadeh; Azad, Saeıd Kazemzadeh; Kazemzadeh Azad, Saeid; Department of Civil Engineering; Department of Civil EngineeringBenchmarking is an essential part of developing efficient structural optimization techniques. Despite the advent of numerous metaheuristic techniques for solving truss optimization problems, benchmarking new algorithms is often carried out using a selection of classic test examples which are indeed unchallenging for contemporary sophisticated optimization algorithms. Furthermore, the limited optimization results available in the literature on new test examples are usually not accurately comparable. This is typically due to the lack of infromation about the performance of the investigated algorithms and the inconsistencies between the studies in terms of adopted test examples for benchmarking, optimization problem formulation, maximum number of objective function evaluations and other similar issues. Accordingly, there exists a need for developing new standard test suites composed of easily reproducible challenging test examples with rigorous and comparable performance evaluation results of algorithms on these test suites. To this end, the present work aims to propose a new baseline for benchmarking structural optimization algorithms, using a set of challenging sizing and shape optimization problems of truss structures selected from the international student competition in structural optimization (ISCSO) instances. The most recent six structural optimization examples from the ISCSO are tackled using a representative metaheuristic structural optimization algorithm. The statistical results of all the optimization runs using the proposed benchmarking suite are provided to pave the way for more rigorous benchmarking of structural optimization algorithms.Article Citation - WoS: 17Citation - Scopus: 24The New Middle Class in Emerging Markets: How Values and Demographics Influence Discretionary Consumption(Wiley, 2019) Belbag, Aybegum G.; Uner, M. Mithat; Cavusgil, Erin; Cavusgi, S. Tamer; Cavusgil, S. TamerThe rise of new middle-class consumers in rapidly transforming emerging markets has attracted the attention of Western business executives. What they know about this growing segment of customers will determine whether they succeed or fail in these markets. The present study examines the factors that drive the discretionary consumption of this new middle class, including the effects of consumerist values, religious values, occupation, education levels, and ownership of fixed assets. The study draws its insights from data gathered from 391 new middle-class consumers in Ankara, the second-largest city in Turkey. The findings provide important implications for businesses, both indigenous and foreign. An overall implication is that managers ought to understand and qualify the new middle class in emerging markets not simply by their access to disposable income but by deeper attitudinal and behavioral characteristics.Article Citation - Scopus: 1Structural and Electrical Performance of Moo3 Films Designed as Microwave Resonators(inst Materials Physics, 2020) Al Garni, S. E.; Qasrawi, A. F.; Alharbi, S. R.; Department of Electrical & Electronics EngineeringIn this work, the effect of the insertion of lithium slabs of thicknesses of 50 nm between stacked layers of MoO3 is considered. Stacked layers of MoO3 comprising lithium slabs are prepared by the thermal evaporation technique onto Au substrates under vacuum pressure of 10(-5) mbar. The effects of Li slabs are explored by the X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, current-voltage characteristics and impedance spectroscopy techniques in the frequency domain of 0.01-1.80 GHz. While the presence of Li slabs did not alter the amorphous nature of structure, it forced the growth of rod-like grains of diameters of 100-160 nm and lengths of 1.5 mu m. Electrically, the presence of Li in the samples enhanced the rectifying properties of the devices and force reverse to forward current ratios larger than 60 times. Li slabs also controlled the negative capacitance effect and resonance -antiresonance regions in the Au/MoO3/MoO3/C stacked layers. While the Au/MoO3/MoO3/C devices displayed high conductance and low impedance values in the studied frequency domain, the Au/MoO3/Li/MOO3/C devices exhibited low conductance and high impedance mode in the frequency domain of 0.01-0.59 GHz. It is also found that the presence of Li slabs improved the performance of the devices through driving it to exhibit lower reflection coefficient and high return loss values near 0.80 GHz. The features of the devices nominate them for use as RF-Microwave traps or resonators.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 3A Short Note on Permutation Trinomials of Prescribed Type(Taylor & Francis inc, 2020) Akbal, Yildirim; Temur, Burcu Gulmez; Ongan, PinarWe show that there are no permutation trinomials of the form hox 1/4 x5 ox5oq1 xq1 1 over Fq2 where q is not a power of 2. Together with a result of Zha, Z., Hu, L., Fan, S., hox permutes Fq2 if q 1/4 2k where k 2 omod 4, this gives a complete classification of those q's such that hox permutes F-q(2).Article Citation - WoS: 23Citation - Scopus: 43Argumentation To Foster Pre-Service Science Teachers' Knowledge, Competency, and Attitude on the Domains of Chemical Literacy of Acids and Bases(Royal Soc Chemistry, 2017) Cigdemoglu, C.; Arslan, H. O.; Cam, A.Argumentative practices have the potential to contribute to scientific literacy. However, these practices are not widely incorporated in science classrooms and so their effect on the domains of literacy is still not revealed. Therefore, this study proposes to reveal the effect of argumentation on the three domains of chemical literacy related to the concepts of acids and bases. The study participants comprised 29 freshman pre-service science teachers' enrolled in a General Chemistry-II course. Argumentation practices were implemented over six weeks. Open-ended contextual chemical literacy items were developed to assess the differences in the chemical literacy domains and the items were administered before and right after the intervention. The responses to the chemical literacy items were scored with a rubric and three scores were calculated: knowledge, competency, and attitudes. Paired sample t-tests were used to compare the mean scores. All the intervention sessions were video recorded, and three of them were analyzed according to three criteria: the presence of arguments, the frequency of arguments, and the levels of the arguments. The findings revealed that the argumentation practices contributed to the pre-service teachers' chemical literacy skills, mostly to their knowledge and competencies when compared to their attitudes. Moreover, distinct differences in the quality of argumentation levels were observed over the six weeks.Article Can Computers Read a Text With Stress?(Ahmet Yesevi Univ, 2013) Uslu, I. Baran; Demir, Nurettin; Ilk, H. Gokhan; Yilmaz, A. Egemen; Department of Electrical & Electronics EngineeringToday prosodic elements such as stress, intonation and melody can be examined through computer-assisted techniques. The identification and analysis of acoustic qualities provide significant clues as to the suprasegmental aspects of speech. In this study a system was designed to enable speech synthesis using a Turkish text. This synthesizer was used to analyze the melodic sructures of selected sentences. Any speech synthesized by a computer needs to be equipped with a melodic model so that it will sound natural to the ear. Within the context of this study a melodic model was also suggested, and the elements of this model were analyzed and discussed in terms of the rules of linguistics.Article Citation - WoS: 11Citation - Scopus: 11Design and Applications of Al/Inse Hybrid Device(Ieee-inst Electrical Electronics Engineers inc, 2015) Qasrawi, Atef F.; Khanfar, Hazem K.In this paper, a hybrid device made of Ag/BN Schottky barrier and anisotype InSe/BN heterojunction is designed and characterized. The design of the energy band diagram of the device revealed a valance band splitting at the InSe/BN interface and a barrier height at the Ag/BN junction of 3.04 and 6.49 eV, respectively. These parameters which were designed to force current conduction by tunneling were experimentally confirmed by the dark I-V characteristics which revealed an electric field assisted tunneling process. The hybrid device exhibited high/low current switching property at Vs = 2.60 V when forward biased. When the device was exposed to 850-nm lasers light, Vs regularly increased with increasing light power indicating the applicability of these devices as IR photodetectors. In addition, when it was used as capacitor and depleted with signal of frequency of 0.1 GHz and varying amplitude it showed good energy storing property with a quality factor of similar to 200. On the other hand, when the hybrid device was used as microwave resonator it behaves like bandstop filter that blocks signals of various notch frequencies in the range of 1.58-2.30 GHz. The features of the device are promising as they indicate the applicability of the Al/InSe/BN/Ag in communication technology.Article Hagia Sophia's Reconversion: Turkey's De-Europeanization through Lefebvre's Spatial Triad(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2026) Akdemir, Tugba Gurcel; Resuloglu, CilgaHagia Sophia, as a monument of enduring historical and cultural significance, has long stood at the intersection of religious, spatial, and political transformations. Its successive conversions - from basilica to mosque, from museum to mosque again - constitute the layers of its multidimensional character and reflect its symbolic role beyond mere architecture as a palimpsest of meanings. Throughout history, sovereignty over Hagia Sophia has embodied hegemonic power, with its spatial reconfigurations serving political concerns and ideological narratives. This article argues that Turkey's recent de-Europeanization is materially and symbolically manifested in the 2020 reconversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque. By situating this transformation within Lefebvre's triadic spatial model-perceived space, conceived space, and lived space, the study conceptualizes Hagia Sophia as a paradigmatic site where space, power, and politics intersect, offering an interdisciplinary framework that links the politics of Europeanization with the spatial production of power.Book Part Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 10Stereolithography and its applications(de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020) Oliaei, Samad Nadimi Bavil; Nasseri, BehzadAdditive manufacturing (AM) using cost-effective, accurate, and fast processes is one of the major challenges of today's manufacturing community. Stereolithography (SL or SLA) is a promising technique of AM that is believed to satisfy these requirements. In this process, photopolymerization is used to obtain a 3D model of the desired parts directly from their computer-aided design models. The process works by focusing an ultraviolet (UV) laser on a reservoir of photosensitive polymer resin to solidify it layer by layer, resulting in the desired 3D shape. In this chapter, photopolymerization process and how photopolymers response when they are exposed to UV light sources are discussed along with the application of SLA process in different industries such as manufacturing of industrial parts, including military, medical, and biomedical applications. The physicomechanical properties of fabricated polymeric parts will be explained, including viscosity, tensile strength, elastic modulus, flexibility, and toughness. Some case studies regarding the application of this method for polymeric composite material fabrication, preoperation phantom models, scaffolds preparation used in tissue engineering, and drug-loaded models are discussed.Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1Spline Based Sparseness and Smoothness for Partially Nonlinear Model Via C-Fused Lasso(American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 2025) Taylan, P.; Yerlikaya-¨Ozkurt, F.; Tez, M.; Yerlikaya-Ozkurt, FatmaOne of the most beneficial and widely used models for data analysis are partially nonlinear models (PNLRM), which consists of parametric and nonparametric components. Since the model includes the coefficients of both the parametric and nonparametric parts, the complexity of the model will be high and its interpretation will be very difficult. In this study, we propose a procedure that not only achieves sparseness, but also smoothness for PNLRM to obtain a simpler model that better explains the relationship between the response and covariates. Thus, the fused Lasso problem is taken into account where nonparametric components are expressed as a spline basis function, and then the Fused Lasso estimation problem is built and expressed in terms of conic quadratic programming. Applications are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed method by considering commonly utilized measures. Promising results are obtained, especially in the data with nonlinearly correlated variables. © (2025), (American Institute of Mathematical Sciences). All rights reserved.
