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The soul of the White Muslim: Race, empire and Africa in Turkey
No full textThis dissertation explores the articulation of race and religion with global capitalism in the context of Turkey’s contemporary relations with Africa south of the Sahara under the neoliberal authoritarian regime of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). In contrast to the political science and international relations literatures on South-South relations, this anthropological research explores how the transnational political, economic and religious entanglements in the Global South are racially structured. More specifically, it asks how and why the recent orientation towards Africa south of the Sahara has intertwined with a racial orientation towards whiteness, an affective orientation towards the global umma (community of believers), and a temporal orientation towards the Ottoman imperial past.
While whiteness has historically been associated with Western modernity and state secularism in Turkey, the Islamist critics of these twin ideological projects self-identified with blackness as a metaphor of victimization under the secularist regime. This dissertation argues that Africa provides a racial terrain for the Black Turk to reinvent himself as White Muslim in alignment with the consolidation of the Islamists’ hegemony over the last decades. I therefore explore Turkey’s recent transnational entanglements in Africa as a spatial fix, not only for the crises of capitalism, but equally for the contradictions of racial formations on a national scale.
My analysis of the construction of Muslim whiteness contributes to global critical race theory by showing how local racial formations articulate with global white supremacy in inventive ways. Furthermore, this analysis makes a critical contribution to the scholarship on the racialization of Muslims by thinking beyond the post 9/11 context and taking into consideration racial formations within the Muslim world.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2022-12-01The student, Ezgi Guner, accepted the attached license on 2020-12-02 at 10:16.The student, Ezgi Guner, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2020-12-02 at 10:17.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2020-12-07 at 08:24.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16030 on 2021-03-04 at 16:33:14Made available in DSpace on 2021-03-05T21:47:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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SPINOR REPRESENTATIONS OF PAFORS IN E3
No full textIn this paper, we introduce the spinor representations of PAFORS for the trajectories endowed with PAFORS on regular surfaces of Euclidean 3-space E-3. We find the spinor equations of PAFORS vectors. Moreover, we obtain the relations between spinor representations of PAFORS and Darboux frame. Then, we give some geometric interpretations and results concerned with this relationship.Acknowledgments: : The authors would like to thank editors and anonymous referees for their valuable comments and careful reading. We would like to express our endless respect and thanks to our deceased co-author Mehmet Guner for all his contributions to science, education, and his students.
The Effect Of Different Exercises On Qt Dispersion In Sedentary Women.
No full textAnnual Meeting of the American-College-of-Sports-Medicine (ACSM) - MAY 29-JUN 02, 2018 - Minneapolis, MNWOS: 000456870500055[No abstract available]Amer Coll Sports Me
Macroeconomic Implications of Size-Dependent Policies
No full textGovernment policies that impose restrictions on the size of large establishments or firms, or promote small ones, are widespread across countries. In this paper, we develop a framework to systematically study policies of this class. We study a simple growth model with an endogenous size distribution of production units. We parameterize this model to account for the size distribution of establishments and for the large share of employment in large establishments. Then, we ask: quantitatively, how costly are policies that distort the size of production units? What is the impact of these policies on productivity measures, the equilibrium number of establishments and their size distribution? We find that these effects are potentially large: policies that reduce the average size of establishments by 20% lead to reductions in output and output per establishment up to 8.1% and 25.6% respectively, as well as large increases in the number of establishments (23.5%). (Copyright: Elsevier)Size distortions; Establishment size; Productivity differences
Novel Applications of Eutectic Freeze Crystallization
No full textDuring the last decades, the consumption of raw materials and energy in the world has faced a tremendous increase with a corresponding industrial waste volume increases, which treatment poses serious challenges. From an economical point of view, the waste has values as it contains valuable matters. Disposal of these streams without any further treatment is the environmentally unacceptable. The foreseeable upcoming depletion of metals, pure water and other raw materials forces us to find efficient technologies to recover those, and this thesis aims to investigate novel applications of a promising crystallization technology, Eutectic Freeze Crystallization (EFC) for the energy friendly (up to 90 % lower energy costs compared to evaporation) complete recovery of salt and fresh water from industrial streams. EFC operates around the eutectic temperature and composition of an aqueous solution and recovers the dissolved salts and fresh water from almost all aqueous salt or acid containing process stream, producing extremely pure ice and pure salts. The low operating temperature promotes safe and corrosion-free operation. Applications are possible in food, pharmaceutical, petrochemical and fertilizer industries etc. An introduction and the scope of this thesis are given in Chapter 1. This work focusses on the industrial application of EFC in (bio-)chemical and oil and gas industries. HrICP-MS is used as an analytical tool to assess the purity obtained using EFC. In Chapter 2, EFC was performed for an NiSO4 containing industrial stream from 1 liter scale batch set-up in the laboratory to an industrial scale continuous pilot plant (200 liter) at the production location of nickel sulfate. The heat transfer rate from the crystallizer could be maintained at 9 kW/m2 with ice and nickel sulfate production rates of 16 and 4 kg/h respectively. Since the major impurity in the starting solution is sodium, the quaternary point and the two eutectic solubility lines for the Na2SO4-NiSO4-H2O ternary system were also experimentally determined to investigate the limitations of EFC. Recrystallization of NiSO4?7H2O from produced with EFC into the NiSO4?6H2O is described in Chapter 3, and an effort of trace element analysis was performed by hrICP-MS. Within the range of 40 °C to 90 °C an optimal i.e. most pure product was found at 50 °C. Recrystallization mother liquor was recycled to assess the performance in industrial full continuous operation. It was found that the recrystallization occurs via the solution, allowing a redistribution of impurities. The results from hrICP-MS were used to calculate partition coefficients and distribution coefficients for impurity uptake in the NiSO4 crystals. Efforts to develop and perform elemental analysis of traces in the nickel sulfate system using hrICP-MS are presented in Chapter 4. First, contaminations in blanks and standard solution were assessed, and calibration curves were measured. Second, observed memory effects (i.e. the signal is influenced by the signal of the preceding sample or standard) were reduced by extensive flushing. Third, a strong decrease on the sensitivity during one single run consisting of blanks, samples and standard solutions was observed, and it was surprisingly found that this effect could not be eliminated by using internal standards. By correction of the signal decline from standard curves at different stages within one run, and by performing three runs reliable data could be collected. Chapter 5 describes how saline water from Kuwait oil production and valuable products were recovered by EFC in 1 liter batch experiment. Inclusions of mother liquor in the final ice product are below 0.05 wt%, and in NaCl?2H2O below 0.1 wt%. Then EFC was scaled up to batch 10 liter scraped wall crystallizer. A maximum ?T of 3.5 °C between the cooling liquid and the NaCl?2H2O/ice slurry could be maintained. The quality of final salt and ice products have a good reproducibility from 1 liter to 10 liter. Recrystallization were performed from NaCl?2H2O into NaCl as a further purification step , yielding more pure NaCl. Simulated shale gas water was treated with EFC (Chapter 6), and the ice products were deemed sufficiently pure to be reused in fracking fluid. By stepwise cooling down in a batch EFC process, the system of the solution with the eutectic points of BaCl2, NaCl and SrCl2 was characterized. At the end of the batch sequence the solution will consist of calcium chloride with minor impurities. The batch process was scaled up in a 200 liter scraped wall crystallizer, and a heat transfer rate of 4 kW/m2 over the heat exchangers could be maintained without excessive scaling inside the crystallizer. In Chapter 7, an industrial problem of removing Mg from hydrated nickel sulfates using state-of-the-art molecular simulations was investigated. Periodic Density Functional Theory (DFT) and cluster DFT calculations are used to study the crystal structures and phase stability of the hexahydrated and heptahydrated Ni and Mg sulfates and their mixed phases. The calculated lattice parameters of MSO4(H2O)n (M=Ni, Mg; n=6,7) crystals are in good agreement with available experimental data. The relative energy differences of the mixed phase for both hexahydrated and heptahydrated Ni/Mg sulfates obtained from both the periodic and cluster DFT calculations are generally less than kT (25.8 meV, T = 300 K), indicating that a continuous solid solution is formed.BiotechnologyApplied Science
The Occasion of a Report on Cezzar Ahmad Pasha (D. 1804) Power Games in Syria
No full textThe purpose of this study, to investigate the actions of Ahmed Pasha el-Cezzar during his governorship in Sidon according to a report in the Topkapi Palace Museum Archives registered with the number E 4029. However, the report was written is not exactly known when and by whom, it is clear that the author assigned by Dersaadet. In this case the takrir corresponds to Jurnal. Although jurnalls has generally negative character, it is seems that this time the author of the takrir/jurnal wrote kindly about Ahmad Pasa el-Cezzar. This favourable declaration brings to mind two possibility: Either the author really believed activities of Cezzar during his governorship of Sidon was for the benefit of Devlet-i Aliyye or obtained (bought him off) by Pasha
Adverse Effect of Different Exercise Types on Ovarian Reserve
No full textIn this study, it was aimed to determine the negative effect of different types of exercise on ovarian reserve of sedentary women. A total of 40 sedentary women who met the criteria for admission to work were categorized as aerobic exercise (AE; n:20; age: 33.0±2.0 years old) and strength exercise (SE; n:20; age: 32.7±2.1 years old) groups. Participants in both groups received two different exercises of 60-minute with an intensity of 60-70% for 16 weeks and 4 days per week. Participants' anthropometric (body weight, BMI, waist and hip circumference, waist and hip rate (WHR)), estradiol (E2), luteinizing hormone (LH) follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), and levels antimülerian hormone (AMH), which used as over-reserve indicators, were measured for before and after exercise. Comparisons of these parameters were evaluated at p0.05). In the SE group, there was a decrease in AHM level (p0.05). As a results; strength exercise triggers to decrease in serum AMH levels and to increase in serum FSH levels. For this reason, strength exercise practices can have negative consequences for fertility, especially for women with lower ovarian reserve values
Studies on the chorology, ecology, morphology and conservation strategies of Orchis anatolica Boiss (Orchidaceae)
No full textOrchis anatolica Boiss. is one of the Mediterranean species, which has wide distribution in Turkey. In this study, plant and soil samples of O. anatolica were taken from 26 natural populations in Turkey. There were one hundred ninety locality records in the Mediterranean region of Turkey, but we recorded two hundred sixteen localities thus adding twenty six new localities to the list. Twenty morphological parameters of O. anatolica were evaluated. The correlation coefficients between generative characters and vegetative characters were lower than the character groups of correlation coefficients between themselves. It is found from sea level upto 1700 m. Most common habitats of O. anatolica are macchie, forest lands and stony soils. The soils are loamy, clayey- loam and sandy-clayey- loam and rich in organic matter. The pH of the soils varies from 5.87 to 7.92. Although O. anatolica has wide distribution in Turkey, different types of land uses are posing a threat for it and restricting its distributional area. Lacking the legal regulations about conservation of the O. anatolica populations is one of the most striking requirement.TUBITAK [105O530]The authors are grateful to TUBITAK for financial support under Project number 105O530. We would like to thank Prof. Munir Ozturk for his encouragement and advice. We also would like to thank those colleagues whose project reports (H. Pesmen and A. Guner, 1976; E. Sezik and T. Baykal 1988), M.Sc. Thesis (R.S. Gokturk, 1994; S.T. Koruklu, 1997; I. Karakisa, 1997; H. Yolcu, 1998; M. Cicek, 2001; B. Sahranc, 2001; A. Dogru, 2002; A.H. Ucar, 2002; E. Ozuslu, 2003; E. Kaya, 2004; F. Palaz, 2006)
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