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Customer Experience in Five-Star Hotel Businesses: Is It an “experience” for Customers?
No full textPurpose: Concerning the development of “experience” as an economic phenomenon, this study aims to analyse customers' evaluations of their experiences in five-star hotel businesses and to identify if the hospitality experience is evaluated as an “experience” by its specific aspects. Design/methodology/approach: Structural and thematic narrative analyses in a multi-dimensional setting were applied to stories from 107 participants who stayed in five-star hotel businesses. Findings: Customers evaluate their overall experience as an “experience” reflected by experiential statements. However, they demonstrate higher cognitive orientation at the sub-experience levels (food and beverage, rooms, etc.). Research limitations/implications: The paper sheds light on the fact that customers may evaluate their experiences with cognitive and experiential aspects. The study focuses on participants' lived experiences to understand the customer perspective with the “experience” concept leading to the memorability of customer experiences in hotel businesses. Further research is required with a larger sample group, mixed-methods implementation and longitudinal and comparable examination to understand seasonal, motivational and cultural differences. Practical implications: The paper reveals various aspects of customer experiences in five-star hotel businesses around the variety of their offerings evaluated by cognitive and experiential perceptions so that dedicated efforts of the managers will be enhanced with a better and strategic understanding of the “experience” concept to achieve business goals. Originality/value: The study offers insightful findings relating to customers’ service- and experience-based experiences and how “experience” is perceived by customers from various angles in the five-star hotel businesses. © 2023, Emerald Publishing Limited
Green Central Banking Under High Inflation-More of a Need Than an Option: an Analytical Exposition for Turkey
No full textMotivation: Calls for a green monetary policy are intensifying as the climate crisis deepens. Although the leading central banks of low-inflation countries are the spokesmodels of this discussion, considerations of green central banking under high inflation continue to lag. The motivation of this article is to contribute to this process with a working example from Turkey-an economy under severe inflationary pressure.Purpose: Our first objective is to document the risks associated with climate change for the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) in terms of its main mandate of price stability and to provide evidence to pursue green policies. We next examine the feasibility of a green monetary design under high inflation.Methods and approach: We scrutinize the duties and responsibilities of the CBRT as set by law and set out the armoury it would have at its disposal in pursuing a green monetary policy. Exhibiting climate change-related risks to its mandate(s), we find one climate policy-related and two mandate-related reasons for the CBRT to go green, matching them with robust green instruments.Findings: Adopting a green monetary policy has the potential to improve the CBRT's ability to reach its objective of price stability. Indicating that green central banking in a high-inflation country is more of a need than an option, we also document that greening of the monetary policy does not necessarily conflict with the broad mandates of inflation targeting and financial stability.Policy implications: Evidence from Turkey supports the greening of the CBRT. This call is both feasible in terms of its capabilities and critical as regards fulfilling the mandate. Furthermore, by exposing carbon bias in the country's loan portfolio, our findings support aligning monetary policy with emissions-abatement instruments, thus contributing to the overall design of Turkey's climate policies.Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) [121K522]Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Grant/Award Number: Project No 121K522
Solidarity Tourism: a Pathway To Revitalising the Health of Vulnerable War-Affected Populations?
No full text[No abstract available]National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC, (71372130); Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, MOE, (21YJCZH241
Effects of Opaque, Transparent and Invisible Hand Visualization Styles on Motor Dexterity in a Virtual Reality Based Purdue Pegboard Test
No full textBatmaz, Anil Ufuk/0000-0001-7948-8093; Hatira, Amal/0009-0006-6452-0672The virtual hand interaction technique is one of the most common interaction techniques used in virtual reality (VR) systems. A VR application can be designed with different hand visualization styles, which might impact motor dexterity. In this paper, we aim to investigate the effects of three different hand visualization styles transparent, opaque, and invisible - on participants' performance through a VR-based Purdue Pegboard Test (PPT). A total of 24 participants were recruited and instructed to place pegs on the board as quickly and accurately as possible. The results indicated that using the invisible hand visualization significantly increased the number of task repetitions completed compared to the opaque hand visualization. However, no significant difference was observed in participants' preference for the hand visualization styles. These findings suggest that an invisible hand visualization may enhance performance in the VR-based PPT, potentially indicating the advantages of a less obstructive hand visualization style. We hope our results can guide developers, researchers, and practitioners when designing novel virtual hand interaction techniques
Residual Lstm Neural Network for Time Dependent Consecutive Pitch String Recognition From Spectrograms: a Study on Turkish Classical Music Makams
No full textMIRZA, FUAT KAAN/0000-0002-7664-0632; Baykas, Tuncer/0000-0001-9535-2102; PEKCAN, Onder/0000-0002-0082-8209Turkish classical music, characterized by 'makam', specific melodic configurations delineated by sequential pitches and intervals, is rich in cultural significance and poses a considerable challenge in identifying a musical piece's particular makam. This identification complexity remains an issue even for experienced musical experts, emphasizing the need for automated and accurate classification techniques. In response, we introduce a residual LSTM neural network model that classifies makams by leveraging the distinct sequential pitch patterns discerned within various audio segments over spectrogram-based inputs. This model's design uniquely merges the spatial capabilities of two-dimensional convolutional layers with the temporal understanding of one-dimensional convolutional and LSTM mechanisms embedded within a residual framework. Such an integrated approach allows for detailed temporal analysis of shifting frequencies, as revealed in logarithmically scaled spectrograms, and is adept at recognizing consecutive pitch patterns within segments. Employing stratified cross-validation on a comprehensive dataset encompassing 1154 pieces spanning 15 unique makams, we found that our model demonstrated an accuracy of 95.60% for a subset of 9 makams and 89.09% for all 15 makams. Our approach demonstrated consistent precision even when distinguishing makam pairs known for their closely related pitch sequences. To further validate our model's prowess, we conducted benchmark tests against established methodologies found in current literature, providing a comparative assessment of our proposed workflow's abilities
Interaction of Artistic Practices and Curatorial Attitudes Through Exhibition Making
No full textCuratorial forms are in continuous change and transformation within developing artistic practices closely related to its era's political, economic, and social structure. Curatorial forms and artistic practices have constant communication, and it is not possible to draw a border between them. The forms of artistic productions and curatorial works have had a positive impact on some exhibitions. Some exhibitions have contented with the existing trends and turned them into an exhibition form. Apart from using existing trends, the critical point is how curators deal with art practices and how they express them in an exhibition form. The basic questions about art, such as what art is, what it is for, and what it does come to light by suggesting a non-western approach to the art world, which was western centered for a long time, by documenta fifteen. The discussion of reality and its
representation has always kept its place in art history and has also started to take its place in curatorial practices. The curatorial approach emerges as an attitude that includes concepts such as practice and collectivity rather than being considered as a profession. This study aims to examine the changing models of curatorial forms in the case of habitus and artistic practices as concepts by analyzing major exhibition models and their curatorial forms. The ways curators transform artistic practices as the aesthetic understanding of the age will be discussed through the way they understand the practices of the artists. This research examines the impact of the interaction of artistic practice and changing curatorial forms through exhibition-making by approaching curation as an attitude. As a result, the discussion will lead to the legacy left to the future in curatorial discourses and how to move practices, social systems, collective knowledge production, friendship networks, and sharing economy forward after documenta fifteen
Turkey’s Caucasus Policies, 2000-2022
No full textThe emergence of newly independent states in the Caucasus at the end of the Cold War presented challenges to Turkey while enlarging its role. The collapse of the Soviet Union removed the century-old Sovi-et/Russian threat, simultaneously creating a power vacuum on Turkey’s borders. While Turkey had traditionally avoided involvement in regional politics, it has since been drawn into the volatile new politics of the re-gion. In this environment, Turkey became an important actor in the region due to its strong historical ties, the attraction of its geographic position linking the region to Europe, and its economic, political, and security relationships with Azerbaijan and Georgia. Over the past thirty years, Turkey has become one of the prominent players in a region where its involvement has again increased recently after the Second Karabakh War. Although its re-engagement with Armenia is progressing slowly, and geo-political changes and economic and political conditions in the region are unlikely to stabilize for some years, it is evident that Turkey will continue to create new networks of interdependency between Ankara and the regional capitals. © 2023, Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes. All rights reserved
Measuring the Effect of Stereo Deficiencies on Peripersonal Space Pointing
No full text30th IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR) -- MAR 25-29, 2023 -- Shanghai, PEOPLES R CHINAState-of-the-art Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) headsets rely on singlefocal stereo displays. For objects away from the focal plane, such displays create a vergence-accommodation conflict (VAC), potentially degrading user interaction performance. In this paper, we study how the VAC affects pointing at targets within arm's reach with virtual hand and raycasting interaction in current stereo display systems. We use a previously proposed experimental methodology that extends the ISO 9241-411:2015 multi-directional selection task to enable fair comparisons between selecting targets in different display conditions. We conducted a user study with eighteen participants and the results indicate that participants were faster and had higher throughput in the constant VAC condition with the virtual hand. We hope that our results enable designers to choose more efficient interaction methods in virtual environments.IEEE,IEEE Comp Soc,Lujiazui Financial City,Baidu,Sensetime,Unity,Ximmerse,Vivo,GritWorld,Alibaba,Image Derivat Inc,Raysengine,S Dream,Virtual Reall Inteligent Hardware,Hypergryph,EVIS,Soarscape,United Imagin
The Scope of the Prohibition of Use of Force in International Law: The Case of Ukraine-Russia Crisis
No full textBu tezin amacı, kuvvete başvurma yasağı çerçevesinde Ukrayna- Rusya krizinde ortaya çıkmış ve günümüzde ortaya çıkmakta olan uluslararası hukuk ihlallerini tespit etmektir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda, iki bölümden oluşan tezimin ilk bölümünde, kuvvete başvurma, kuvvete başvurma yasağı kavramları ele alınmıştır. Nitekim, Ukrayna- Rusya krizi kapsamında ortaya çıkan uluslararası hukuk kurallarının ihlalini değerlendirebilmek için öncelikle kuvvete başvurma kavramı ve tarihçesi; sonrasında, kuvvete başvurma yasağı ve istisnaları eleştirisel bir bakış açısıyla tespit edilmiştir. Özellikle, Birleşmiş Milletler sisteminde düzenlenmiş kuvvete başvurma yasağının istisnalarından biri olan meşru savunma hakkına, bu hakkın kapsamına ve koşullarına ilişkin olarak hem uluslararası hukuk öğretisinin hem de Uluslararası Adalet Divanı'nın yoğun şekilde tartıştığı hususlara değinilmiştir. Çalışmamın ikinci bölümünde, birinci bölümde yer verdiğim kuvvete başvurma yasağı ve istisnaları ile ilgili olarak karşımıza çıkan temel uluslararası hukuk kuralları ve tartışmaları Ukrayna- Rusya krizi bağlamında incelenmiştir.The aim of this thesis is to examine the international legal debates that emerged and are emerging today within the scope of the prohibition of use of force in Ukraine- Russia crisis. For this purpose, in the first part of my thesis, which consists of two parts, concepts of use of force and prohibition of use of force are debated in detail. As a matter of fact, to evaluate the violation of international law rules that emerged within the scope of the Ukraine- Russia crisis, first, the concept and history of use of force; afterwards, the prohibition of use of force and its exceptions were determined from a critical point of view. Specifically, the right of self defence, which is one of the exceptions to the prohibition of use of force in the United Nations system, and the scope and conditions of this right are discussed extensively by both the international law doctrine and the International Court of Justice. Therefore, all of them were examined in detail. In my second part of my work, the main international law rules and discussions about the prohibition and exceptions to the use of force, which I have included in the first part, are evaluated in the context of the Ukraine- Russia crisis
A Karamanlı Orthodox Settlement: Nevşehir Özlüce Village
No full textKüçük Asya coğrafyasında, mübadele dönemine kadar varlıklarını sürdüren Karamanlı Ortodoks veya Türkdilli Anadolulu Ortodoks Hristiyan toplumu, Karamanlıca, Karamanlı Ağzı, ya da Yavan Türkçe olarak ifade edilen, konuşma dili Türkçe, yazı dillerinde ise Grek alfabesi kullanılan bir dil geliştirmişlerdir. Bu dil Yunan harfli Türkçedir. Mübadele öncesi günümüzde Kayseri, Nevşehir, Niğde, Konya, Aksaray bölgelerinde yaşamışlardır. Farklı içeriklerde Karamanlıca yazılmış eserler ve yayınlar, anılar, mübadillerle yapılmış olan görüşmeler vb. çalışmalar, bu toplumun sosyal ve kültürel açıdan anlaşılmasına ışık tutmaktadır. Türkçe konuşan bu toplumun etnik kökenleriyle ilgili farklı görüşler öne sürüldüğü bilinmektedir. Türkiye-Yunanistan arasında gerçekleştirilen nüfus mübadelesiyle anavatanlarını terk etmek zorunda kalan Anadolulu Ortodokslar ve Türkler, geldikleri topraklardaki evlere yerleştirildiler. Mübadeleye tabi tutulan yerleşmelerden biri de Nevşehir'in Derinkuyu ilçesine bağlı Özlüce Köyüdür. Köydeki kültürel miras incelenerek Karamanlı Ortodoksların yerleşme kültürü anlaşılmaya çalışılmış, mevcut durumu analitik olarak ele alınmıştır. Anahtar Sözcükler: Karamanlı Ortodokslar, Özlüce Köyü, Türkiye-Yunanistan Nüfus Mübadelesi, Özlüce Köyü Kırsal Mimarisi, Koruma, Kültürel Miras Envanteri.Having maintained their existence in the lands of Asia Minor until the population exchange period, Karamanli Orthodox, also known as the Turkish-speaking Anatolian Orthodox Christian community developed a language expressed as Karamanli Turkish, Karamanlidika, or Plain Turkish, in which the spoken language is Turkish, and the written language uses Greek alphabet. This language is Turkish with Greek letters. They were living in today's Kayseri, Nevşehir, Niğde, Konya, and Aksaray regions before the population exchange. Works and publications, memoirs, interviews with the exchanges, and others written in Karamanlidika with different contents, shed light on the social and cultural understanding of this society. Various views have been put forward about the ethnic origins of this Turkish-speaking society. Anatolian Orthodox and Turks, who had to leave their homeland as a result of the population exchange between Türkiye and Greece, were settled in new homes in the land they went back to. One of the settlements subject to exchange was Özlüce Village of the Derinkuyu district of Nevşehir. As a result of the study of the cultural heritage in the village, the settlement culture of Karamanli Orthodox was attempted to be understood, and the current situation was handled in an analytical sense. Keywords: Karamanli Orthodox, Özlüce Village, Turkey-Greece Population Exchange, Özlüce Village Rural Architecture, Conservation, Cultural Heritage Inventory