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A land information system for Turkey - a key to the country's sustainable development
No full textThis paper describes the development by the General Directorate of
Rural Services (GDRS) of a land information system for Turkey,
namely the National Soil and Water Information System. It is of
great significance for the modern state of Turkey as, prior to its
establishment in 1999 under the Turkish Agricultural Research
Project, there was no definitive, national technological information
resource underpinning land and water resource management. The
system will underpin the operational and research responsibilities
of the Directorate in combating some of the pressing contemporary
environmental concerns in Turkey, including wind and water
erosion, waterlogging, sodicity and salination of the soil resource.
The complex process of compiling the first national digital soil map
will be among the initial tasks, as well as establishing a national
infrastructure for distributing the information amongst GDRS
managers and scientists. With the proposed accession of the
Turkish Republic to the European Union, alignment of the National
Soil and Water Information System with European standards and
protocols will prove to be an important facet of its ongoing
development
New Technologies in the Preparation of BiSCCO Precursors
No full textArticolo su libro (privo di ISBN) dal titolo "Syntheses and Methodologies in Inorganic Chemistry: New Compounds and Materials"
The manufacture of fine particles of a copper precursor, copper acetylacetonate (Cu(acac)2 ), has been investigated through the rapid expansion of supercritical solutions (RESS). The motivation was the production of particles with improved characteristics for use in the preparation of precursors for superconducting ceramics (BiSCCO). Solubility data of the Cu(acac)2 in supercritical CO2 were measured prior to performing the RESS experiment as these data are essential for accurate experimental design. The solubility data were measured using a dynamic saturation technique, at pressures between 100 and 200 bar and at three temperatures: 312.0K, 332.0K and 353.0K. Particles were manufactured by expanding a solution of supercritical CO2 saturated with the solute at 160 bar and 40°C through a micro-nozzle to pressures of 50 bar. The RESS technique produced particles that were significantely smaller than existing samples manufactured using jet-milling
Local Agenda 21 and Practices in Turkey
No full textSustainable development, survivability, equal rights, civic engagement, enablement and governance are the main principles of our times, urban systems must be considered in view of these principles while wide range public participation has become a necessity. As a result of the ?National Development and Environment Conference, World Summit? held in Rio 1992 where concepts of sustainable development were recognized, the ?Local Agenda 21? action program has been developed. This program is a comprehensive document that puts responsibilities on Governments, non-governmental organizations, local governments, UN organizations, development institutions and all other institutions and individuals, which may have effects on the environment. The decisions taken at the Rio Summit impose upon all local governments, regardless of size, to prepare and implement their own programs along the concept/philosophy of ?Think Global, Act Local?. The aim of this paper is to establish and evaluate implementations of the Local Agenda 21 in Turkey, at different levels of local governments. The evaluation will not only aim at the governmental dimension but the roles played by all responsible parties will be taken into consideration. Sample implementations in Turkey will be scrutinized as to how many of the objectives and the policies of the Local Agenda 21 have been achieved. The results of the studies in this paper will provide, all local governments in Turkey, a means to evaluate their programs in the framework of Local Agenda 21, as well as setting forth supplementary suggestions for producing prioritized ?Local Sustainable development Policies? and for assisting them in devising short and long term strategic plans for solving problems. It will also be strongly emphasized that these plans must be implemented, with mechanisms allowing for multi-partner participations, and a method for this purpose will be suggested. Key Words: Local Agenda 21, Sustainable development, Enablement, Participation, Local governments.
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Genel İşlem Koşullarında Saydamlık Kuralının, Bunun TBK m. 20 vd.’daki Görünümlerinin ve TTK m. 55 f. 1 f ile TBK m. 20 vd.’nın Birlikte Uygulanabilirliğinin Değerlendirilmesi
No full textGenel işlem koşulları birçok yararlı fonksiyonlar içermesi yanında kötüye kullanılma riski de taşır.Dürüstlük kuralına aykırı genel işlem koşulu kullanımının sözleşmeler hukuku yanında rekabet hukukunailişkin bir yönü bulunmaktadır. Bu bağlamda saydamlık kuralı da genel işlem koşulu hukukunun gelişimisırasında yaşanan en önemli yenilik ve prensiplerinden biri olarak kabul edilmektedir. Bu makalede ilkolarak saydamlık kuralının tanımı, fonksiyonları aktarılacak. Daha sonra saydamlık kuralının TBK m. 20vd.’daki anlamı değerlendirilecektir. Makalemizin son bölümünde ise ticari standart sözleşmelerde TTKm. 55 f. 1 f ile TBK m. 20 vd.’nın birlikte uygulanabilirliği değerlendirilecektir
Trade unions in Turkey : an analysis of their development, role and present situation
No full textThis thesis focuses on the trade union movement in Turkey with particular reference to the Turkish
confederation of trade unions (TURK-IS) and its members. Case studies were conducted in both TURKIS
and its member unions, widely, based on open-ended interviews with union officials, but also
involving the analysis of union's reports, documents and journals, the observation of workers education
seminars and visits to the state's institutions and employers' organisations. The main purposes of the
thesis have been to illustrate the changing nature, role and struggle of the Turkish unions in the context
of the changing economic, political and social structure of Turkey. It also focuses on the dominant
trends in trade unionism in a European context.
The study argues that an explicit and theorised understanding of internal and external pressure on the
trade union movements as they emerge in many countries, is of fundamental significance to the Turkish
trade unions. It is argued that the trend in the Turkish labour relations in the 1960s and 70s seemed to
be the co-operation of unions in the formulation of policies, related to national economic performance
and social stability in politics. In other words, unions were tolerated to provide both economic and
social stability at macro level and manageability and certainty at micro level in the light of the
industrialisation process.
In this context, Import Substitution Industrialisation (lSI) was the model of capital accumulation, which
required trade unions to become integrated within the new economic and political policies in order to
secure an economically and politically stable industrial relations framework. In this respect, the Turkish
unions played a mediating role between the state, employers and workers.
It is also argued that the changing system of capital accumulation (a move from lSI to "market
liberalism") in the 1980s has endangered the traditional institutional arrangements. The traditional role
of interest representation for unions, particularly as mediation between the ruling class and working
class, has become problematic. The decline of union power, due to changes in their environments, has
also weakened the value of central labour organisations as mediators between the state, employers and
workers. The anti-labour policies seems to have been the outcome of strategic interventions of the
governments and employers. In this context, particularly in the 1980s explicit reference to theoretical
frameworks have tended to increase in favour of "strategic choices" and "union identities".
The study argues that in the Turkish case, unions have not been faced with a complete policy of
exclusion. In other words, the material conditions of "integrative" "collaborative" or "corporatist"
policies have been reduced, however, they have not been completely eliminated. The reasons for this
might be that although the economic power of TURK-IS and its members was no longer so important
for the government, the political mediating role of unions became significant in the period of the 1980s,
which included the transition to democracy, the process of integration of Europe, the implementation of
austerity policies and the fear of the possible failure of the parliamentary regime.
I argue in the thesis that under the painful and complex process of economic and political
reconstruction and the development of democracy the Turkish trade unions have been faced with a
number of tactical and political options in the rapidly evolving the issue of European Integration and of
democracy and the increasing uniformity amongst member of TURK-IS. The Turkish case suggests that
trade unions can achieve a position of influence in industrial relations systems as long as they pursue
politically motivated strategies by setting a new agenda for members, articulating the broad long-term
interests of the working class and finally displaying collective responses and collective responsibility. In
this respect, it is argued that there is still a significant scope for a more active initiating and coordinating
role for central labour organisations and unions can pursue more comprehensive and tenable
trade union strategies
[Newspaper Clipping: Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin #1]
No full textNewspaper article titled "Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin." The article states that author Richard J. Whalen concluded "that there is circumstantial evidence to support the theory of a second assassin in the shooting of President John F. Kennedy.
Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation
No full textThe desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters
EU Market Access: The Way Of Licensed Warehousing System for Turkish Food Producers and Exporters
No full textLicensed warehousing system plays a very important role in all transfers of food products from the place of origin to ultimate users in developed countries. Public warehouses, operated as an independent business offering a range of services, such as storage, handling and transportation. Licensed Warehousing Law, was accepted on 10.02.2005 and this is a new subject in Turkey. In this research, the licensed warehousing system in Turkey is evaluated from the point of view of industrial and agriculture officials. Confidential face to face interviews were held with the authorities of Industry and Trade Ministry in Ankara. The very new licensed warehousing law connote many questions. Who will be getting the benefits of qualified storing, small-sized enterprises or big ones? What will be benefits to producers, product markets, and government? Are all the necessary legal, institutional, and technical enabling ready? During the study, authorities of Industry and Trade Ministry has met, qualified storing law and its system, function, benefits, world samples information were given by using literatures, then action of the qualified storing system in Turkey and its possible problems were discussed.Licensed warehousing, agriculture, food produce, food trade, Agribusiness, International Relations/Trade,
John F. Kennedy telegram to Roosevelt
No full textJersey Homesteads (later the Borough of Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers, many of whom had emigrated from Europe. President John F. Kennedy sent a telegram to the citizens of Roosevelt, New Jersey, apologizing for not being able to attend the memorial dedication in honor of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (Jersey Homesteads became Roosevelt in 1945 in honor of the president.) President Kennedy expressed his gratitude to the people of Roosevelt for constructing the memorial, and commented that it will serve as a constant reminder of Roosevelt's good works
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