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Constructing a National Identity through Translation in the First Turkish Popular Novels
Get PDFThis study aimed to investigate the writing technique applied to produce the first local popular novels in the Turkish literary system, and the roles of these novels in the specific time period. The research materials of this study were Türklerin Sherlock Holmes’ü Amanvermez Avni (1913-1914), Kazıklı Voyvoda (1928), and Baytekin (1935-1936), respectively the first examples of the crime fiction, horror fiction and graphic novels in the Turkish literary system. These first local examples of popular literature are also labelled adaptation or imitation because of their resemblance to popular Western fiction. Since the contemporary translation theories are based on the idea that every translation is a rewriting and represents a particular ideology, I analysed the aforementioned works as “translated texts” in relation to the social conditions of the period of publication. The study showed that popular literature is a functional tool to construct national identity, aiming to spread the tenets of the adopted ideology to every segment of society, and that the first examples of Turkish popular literature were produced through translation for this particular purpose. In this study, I used the Turkish term “telif” not as the synonym of original, but to describe a writing technique which means “creative mediation”. Therefore, I discussed the findings of the analysis within the framework of “telif” (“creative mediation”), which in this case means writing/creating through translation in the Ottoman period and early years of the Turkish Republic. As a result, this study uncovered that the aforementioned works as the first examples of Turkish popular literature genres were produced through translation technique called “telif” (“creative mediation”)
Ownership and corporate social responsibility: "The power of the female touch"
Get PDFUsing a sample of 26,029 firm-year observations over the period 2002–2017 from 4,479 firms and 44 countries, we examine the relationship between ownership concentration and corporate social responsibility by focusing on the mediating role of board gender diversity and the moderating role of family shareholding. We find that ownership concentration negatively affects corporate social responsibility, and the board gender diversity partially mediates this negative effect. Our results indicate that the mediating effect of board gender diversity leads to a 10.65 percent decrease in the impact of ownership concentration on corporate social responsibility. Furthermore, moderated path analysis indicates that family shareholding weakens the direct effect of ownership concentration on board gender diversity and its indirect effect on corporate social responsibility. In post hoc analysis, we also document that the effect of gender diversity on the board is more prevalent in high gender-egalitarian societies where women are more involved in decision-making. Our study addresses the strategic role of female board members in increasing firms’ respect for corporate social responsibility, especially in family-controlled firms. Thus, our results may provide insights to regulators and policymakers to enhance firms’ corporate social practices by encouraging women's participation on corporate boards
Quality Assurance for Operating Room Illumination through Lean Six Sigma
Get PDFince every mistake made in the healthcare industry can cause permanent harm or even death, some fundamental requirements should be considered when planning and designing operating rooms. Lighting is one of the most important ergonomic factors, especially for operating rooms. This paper investigates the integration of the lean approach and six sigma in measuring the efficiency of LED technology, which can also be regarded as a factor affecting the operating room efficiency. Measurement System Analysis (MSA) and Gage Control methods were applied to determine measurement variability in operating room illumination measurement process. Repeatability and reproducibility (%R&R) was found 12.89%. After calibration, %R&R value was found 8.21%, which implies that calibration helped reduce variability
Performance evaluation of companies working on construction and urban transformation wastes: The case of the city of Izmir
Get PDFHospital layout design renovation as a Quadratic Assignment Problem with geodesic distances
Get PDFHospital facilities are known as functionally complex buildings. There are usually configurational problems that lead to inefficient transportation processes for patients, medical staff, and/or logistics of materials. The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is a well-known problem in the field of Operations Research from the category of the facility's location/allocation problems. However, it has rarely been utilized in architectural design practice. This paper presents a formulation of such logistics issues as a QAP for space planning processes aimed at renovation of existing hospitals, a heuristic QAP solver developed in a CAD environment, and its implementation as a computational design tool designed to be used by architects. The tool is implemented in C# for Grasshopper (GH), a plugin of Rhinoceros CAD software. This tool minimizes the internal transportation processes between interrelated facilities where each facility is assigned to a location in an existing building. In our model, the problem of assignment is relaxed in that a single facility may be allowed to be allocated within multiple voxel locations, thus alleviating the complexity of the unequal area assignment problem. The QAP formulation takes into account both the flows between facilities and distances between locations. The distance matrix is obtained from the spatial network of the building by using graph traversal techniques. The developed tool also calculates spatial geodesic distances (walkable, easiest, and/or shortest paths for pedestrians) inside the building. The QAP is solved by a heuristic optimization algorithm, called Iterated Local Search. Using one exemplary real test case, we demonstrate the potential of this method in the context of hospital layout design/re-design tasks in 3D. Finally, we discuss the results and possible further developments concerning a generic computational space planning framework
Senior Millionaires and their Travel Behaviours: the Case of Turkey
No full textThis study is one of the preliminary studies in the literature, which explores and analyzes the travel behaviour of an under-researched segment, the millionaire senior tourists who are 70 years old and above living on the west coast of Turkey. The sampleGerontologyGeriatrics & Gerontolog
Understanding the Role of Digital Technologies in Supply Chain Risks Management
Get PDFSupply chain risks have been regarded as one of the most significant threats to business continuity. Digital technology is considered to reform human production and manufacturing methods. In the recent wake of COVID-19, disruptive digital technologies have emerged as a key tool to manage supply chain risks. Therefore, exploring the impact of digital technology on supply chain risks is considered an important topic in the supply chain management domain. The paper reviews different digital technologies such as 3D printing, IoT, Blockchains, RFID and Big Data Analytics used in supply chains. This exploratory study is based on a survey response from 176 supply chain professionals in China. The findings show the role of digital technologies in managing supply chain risks. The study highlights the current level of implementation of digital technologies in supply chain functions and emphasizes the importance of training. Moreover, the study underlines the significance of supply chain data analysis capabilities for supply chain risk management. The study adds to the limited literature exploring the importance of digital technologies in supply chain risk management
User-Oriented Architectural Design of Separated Infill Walls to Prevent Soft Ground Story in Reinforced Concrete Low-Rise Buildings
No full textBuildings with open ground stories are more vulnerable to soft story mechanisms, which might lead to building collapse in a moderate quake. To mitigate these negative effects, retrofitting techniques typically introduce new structural elements or energy dissipation devices, which increases the deformation capacity of the soft story without modifying the stories above. However, by altering the open nature of the ground floor, these solutions fail to integrate the occupants' preferences and needs into the design process. Therefore, instead of modifying the ground floor, this study will propose a user-centered design process, which is based on separated infill walls in the upper stories, to mitigate the effects of soft story irregularity. The user-centered design strategy integrates the needs and preferences of the occupants into the design solutions of their built environment. To achieve this, two low-rise reinforced concrete buildings in Turkey were selected as case studies and subjected to structural analyses to determine whether the separation of the existing infill masonry walls reduced the lateral strength of the structure. In parallel, preliminary designs of the infill separations was developed and discussed with architects, practicing engineers, and builders. The feedback helped to develop design details to achieve the separation of the infill walls from the frames in the studied buildings. The occupants that live in the existing buildings or the surrounding areas were interviewed and presented with parametric variations of these proposals. Quantitative data suggests that separation of the infill walls is a feasible solution that could be applied to new construction and for existing reinforced concrete multistory buildings and the qualitative data that was obtained from the interviews suggested that user-centered design approaches help to develop suitable seismic mitigation strategies
Dynamic thermo-ecological cost assessment and performance analyses of a multi generation system
No full textThe main objectives of this study are to perform a dynamic thermo-ecological cost (TEC) assessment and performance analyses of a multi generation system using the TRNSYS 18 software package for comparison purposes. The system has five outputs consisting of electricity, clean water, heating, hydrogen, and cooling. Multigeneration is made of an internal combustion engine fueled by natural gas, a heat pump, a reverse osmosis desalination plant and a magnesium-chlorine (Mg–Cl) thermochemical (TC) water splitting cycle. This cycle, which appears to be a promising TC hydrogen production method, is integrated to the multi generation system for producing hydrogen for waste heat recovery. Environmental effect of the system is also considered using the TEC method. In this contribution, a new index, namely the TEC of the irreversibility, is presented and applied. Variation of emissions, electricity, exergy destruction and energy loss values for the considered system and Mg–Cl TC water splitting cycle as well as TECs of the electricity, heat and the hydrogen are calculated through some parametric studies undertaken and presented in figures. It is determined that the multigeneration system has an energy efficiency value of 0.43 and a corresponding exergy efficiency of 0.38. As a result, TECEL, TECHEAT and TECHvalues of the considered system are obtained to be 2.98, 0.72 and 2.90, respectively. It may be concluded that the TEC is an effective method to assess the environmental performance of various energy systems and compare them with each other