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Kitabiyat:Nomads as agents of cultural change:the Mongols and their Eurasian predecessors
No full textKitabın basılısı İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi'ndedir.Introduction: nomadic culture / Michal Biran -- Steppe land interactions and their effects on Chinese cultures during the second and early first millennia BCE / Gideon Shelach-Lavi -- The Scythians and their neighbors / Anatoly Khazanov -- From steppe roads to silk roads: inner Asian nomads and early interregional exchange / William Honeychurch -- The use of sociopolitical terminology for nomads: an excursion into the term buluo in Tang China / Isenbike Togan -- Population movements in the Mongolian era / Thomas T. Allsen -- The Mongols and nomadic identity: the case of the Kitans in China / Michal Biran -- Persian notables and the families which underpinned the Ilkhanate / George Lane -- The Mongol empire and its impact on the arts of China / Morris Rossabi -- The impact of the Mongols on the history of Syria: politics, society, and culture / Reuven Amitai -- The Tatar factor in the formation of Muscovy's political culture / Istvan Vasary -- Mongol historiography since 1985: the rise of cultural history / David Morga
Sustainability metrics for performance-based seismic bridge response
No full textPrevious performance-based earthquake engineering investigations on highway bridges focused on repair cost and repair time metrics.Theseareprimarilyrelatedtoeconomiclife-cyclecostanalysisdecision-makingstrategiesforevaluatingthevulnerabilityofbridges. However, environmental impacts considered during life-cycle assessment are also of interest. A methodology for quantifying the sustainabilityofbridgedesignsusingcarbonfootprintastheperformancemetricispresented.Pointestimatesofthecarbonfootprint,repaircost,and repair time are used to compute resilience of several bridge-ground scenarios. Several multispan reinforced concrete highway overpass bridgesinCaliforniafrompreviousstudieswereselectedforstudybecausepost-earthquakeprobabilisticrepaircostandtimedataarealready available.Itisdemonstratedthatthedisaggregationofthestructureintoperformancegroups,orcomponentsthatarerepairedtogether,and the probabilisticmethodologypreviouslyemployedlendthemselvestotheadditionalcomputationsforcarbonfootprint.Theperformancegroups and material quantities that drive the major contributions to carbon footprint as opposed to economic costs are presente
İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi 2012-2013 Akademik Yılı Faaliyet Raporu
No full textİstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi yıllık akademik ve idari faaliyetlerini bastırarak ilgili birimlere dağıtır
Transformation of Kurdish Islamists : the case of free-cause party of Turkey
No full textTezin basılısı İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi'ndedir.Kurdish issue has been one of the most important and problematic topics in Turkish politics. Since the foundation of the Turkish Republic, the official policy of the state has been built on propagation of secularism and Turkish nationalism for the foundation and continuation of a homogeneous nation-state. Therefore ethnic as well as religious groups have been suppressed with both violent and nonviolent methods for decades. Kurdish Islamists have been the greatest victims of such social engineering and suppression. Until the 1990s some manifestations of Kurdish Islamists appeared time to time. Nonetheless, with Kurdish Hezbollah’s operations, Kurdish Islamism’s political formation emerged. Hezbollah appealed to violence and adopted armed struggle and then was abolished and went underground in the early 2000s. However, its mass base has continued to redefine and reorganize themselves with non-governmental organizations and social platforms. After the ban on the community’s most important social organization Mustazaflar Hareketi, it decided to carry its activities to the formal political sphere. Therefore, in 2012 the Free Cause Party was established and started to manifest Kurdish peoples’ problems with an Islam-centered agenda. This thesis aims to analyze Kurdish Islamists’ transformation with a special reference to the moderation theory.Abstract ........................................................................................................................ v
Öz ................................................................................................................................ vi
Dedication ................................................................................................................. vii Acknowledgements ................................................................................................... viii
Table of Contents ........................................................................................................ ix
List of Figures ............................................................................................................ xi
List of Tables ............................................................................................................. xii
List of Abbreviations................................................................................................. xiii CHAPTER 1.
Introduction .............................................................................................................. 1
1.1. The Hypothesis .................................................................................................. 3
1.2. The Methodology .............................................................................................. 4
2. Moderation Literature .............................................................................................. 6
2.1. Definitions ......................................................................................................... 6
2.2. Moderation Theory ............................................................................................ 8
2.3. Moderation in Islamist Groups ………………………………………………10
2.4. Moderation in Islamist Context in Turkey ...................................................... 13
3. Islamism and Nationalism in Turkey .................................................................... 18
3.1. Definitions of Islamism .................................................................................. 18
3.2. Islamism and Nationalism in the Turn of the 20th Century ........................... 21
3.3. Transformation of the State and Responses of Turkish and Kurdish Nationalists and Islamists ....................................................................................... 24
3.3.1. Kurdish Nationalism and Its Sources ................................................... 24
3.3.2. Transformation of the Turkish State .................................................... 27 3.3.3. Islamism in the Republican Turkey ..................................................... 31 3.3.4. The Kurdish Issue and the Kurdish Islamism ..................................... 37
3.4. Islamism and Kurdish Cause in Contemporary Turkey ................................. 41
3.5. Conclusion ...................................................................................................... 49
4. Turkey’s Hezbollah ............................................................................................... 50
4.1. The Ideal of Islamic State and Its Reflections on Turkey’s Hezbollah .......... 50 4.2. The Foundation of Turkish Hezbollah ........................................................... 55 4.3. Operations and Ideas ....................................................................................... 61
4.4. The Hezbollah’s Valuable Loneliness ............................................................ 67
4.5. The End of Hezbollah ..................................................................................... 69
4.6. Conclusion ...................................................................................................... 70
5. The Free Cause Party (Huda-Par) ......................................................................... 72
5.1. The Aftermath of the Hezbollah’s Disapperance ........................................... 73
5.2. The Foundation of the Huda-Par .................................................................... 77
5.3. Moderation Contested ..................................................................................... 83
5.3.1. Behavorial Moderation ......................................................................... 84
5.3.1.1. 30 March 2014 Local Elections in Turkey ............................ 84
5.3.1.2. 6-7 October Events in Turkey ............................................... 86 5.3.2. Ideological Moderation ....................................................................... 91
5.3.2.1. Islamism & Nationalism ....................................................... 91 5.3.2.2. The Huda-Par vis-a-vis the Turkish ...................................... 97
5.3.2.3. The Huda-Par vis-a-vis the PKK and the Kurdish Issue ....... 99
5.3.2.4. The Huda-Par and Political Pragmatism ............................. 103
5.4. Conclusion ..................................................................................................... 106
6. Conclusion ........................................................................................................... 108
References ................................................................................................................ 113 Appendices ............................................................................................................... 118 Appendix A ......................................................................................................... 118
Appendix B .......................................................................................................... 122
Appendix C .......................................................................................................... 129
Appendix D ......................................................................................................... 13
When it comes to lifestyle recommendations, more is sometimes less:a meta-analysis of theoretical assumptions underlying the effectiveness of interventions promoting multiple behavior domain change
No full textA meta-analysis of 150 research reports summarizing the results of multiple behavior domain interventions examined theoretical predictions about the effects of the included number of recommendations on behavioral and clinical change in the domains of smoking, diet, and physical activity. The meta-analysis yielded 3 main conclusions. First, there is a curvilinear relation between the number of behavioral recommendations and improvements in behavioral and clinical measures, with a moderate number of recommendations producing the highest level of change. A moderate number of recommendations is likely to be associated with stronger effects because the intervention ensures the necessary level of motivation to implement the recommended changes, thereby increasing compliance with the goals set by the intervention, without making the intervention excessively demanding. Second, this curve was more pronounced when samples were likely to have low motivation to change, such as when interventions were delivered to nonpatient (vs. patient) populations, were implemented in nonclinic (vs. clinic) settings, used lay community (vs. expert) facilitators, and involved group (vs. individual) delivery formats. Finally, change in behavioral outcomes mediated the effects of number of recommended behaviors on clinical change. These findings provide important insights that can help guide the design of effective multiple behavior domain interventions
Risk assessment in social lending via random forests
No full textWith the advance of electronic commerce and social platforms, social lending (also known as peer-to-peer lending) has emerged as a viable platform where lenders and borrowers can do business without the help of institutional intermediaries such as banks. Social lending has gained significant momentum recently, with some platforms reaching multi-billion dollar loan circulation in a short amount of time. On the other hand, sustainability and possible widespread adoption of such platforms depend heavily on reliable risk attribution to individual borrowers. For this purpose, we propose a random forest (RF) based classification method for predicting borrower status. Our results on data from the popular social lending platform Lending Club (LC) indicate the RF-based method outperforms the FICO credit scores as well as LC grades in identification of good borrowers
Using distance estimation and deep learning to simplify calibration in food calorie measurement
No full textHigh calorie intake in the human body on the one hand, has proved harmful in numerous occasions leading to several diseases and on the other hand, a standard amount of calorie intake has been deemed essential by dietitians to maintain the right balance of calorie content in human body. As such, researchers have proposed a variety of automatic tools and systems to assist users measure their calorie in-take. In this paper, we consider the category of those tools that use image processing to recognize the food, and we propose a method for fully automatic and user-friendly calibration of the dimension of the food portion sizes, which is needed in order to measure food portion weight and its ensuing amount of calories. Experimental results show that our method, which uses deep learning, mobile cloud computing, distance estimation and size calibration inside a mobile device, leads to an accuracy improvement to 95 percent on average compared to previous work
A global, scope-based carbon footprint modeling for effective carbon reduction policies:lessons from the Turkish manufacturing
No full textThe World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the World Resource Institute (WRI) set the scope-based carbon footprint accounting standards in which all possible supply-chain related indirect greenhouse gas emissions are captured. Although this carbon footprint accounting standards are widely used in regional policy making, there is little effort in analyzing the scope-based carbon footprints of nations using a multi-region input–output (MRIO) analysis in order to consider the role of global trade. This research aims to advance the body of knowledge on carbon footprint analysis of the manufacturing sectors with a holistic approach combining the WBCSD & WRI’s scope-based carbon footprint accounting standards with a time series MRIO framework. To achieve this goal, a global scope-based carbon footprint analysis of the Turkish manufacturing sectors has been conducted as a case study. We employed a time series MRIO analysis by using the World Input–Output Database on the world’s 40 largest economies covering 1440 economic sectors. The results showed that electricity, gas and water supply was the most dominant sector in the supply chains of the Turkish industrial sectors with the largest carbon footprint. On average, indirect emissions of the Turkish manufacturing industry are found to be higher than direct emissions during the period from 2000 to 2009. The results of this analysis revealed that supply chain related indirect emissions (represented by scope 3) are responsible for nearly 56.5% total carbon emissions of sectors, which highlights the crucial role of supply chains on overall carbon footprint of sectors
Bursa fethine yönelik yeni yaklaşımlar ve Bursa'nın gerçek fetih tarihi
No full textMakale, yazarın izniyle açık erişim kullanıma açılmıştır.Osmanlı Devleti’nin ilk başkenti olan Bursa’nın fethi, şehrin fethinden iki asra yakın bir süre sonra yazılmış olan Osmanlı kaynaklarına, Osmanlılar’ın Bizans sınırında yaptıkları kayda değer ilk büyük fetih olarak yansımıştır. Osman Gâzî’nin daha önce sağlığında iken Bilecik ve çevresinde yaptığı fetihler ve Latin işgâli sırasında bir dönem Bizans’a başkentlik yapan İznik’in 1331’deki fethi bile onun kadar etkili olamamış; tümü XIV. yüzyılın ilk yarısında Bithynia çevresinde gerçekleştirilmiş olan bu fetihlerin hep
si, büyük Osmanlı fetihlerinin başlangıcı olarak kabul edilen Bursa fethinin gölgesinde kalmıştır