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Fuzzy Correlation and Fuzzy Non-linear Regression Analysis
No full textIn this chapter, we will deal with fuzzy correlation and fuzzy non-linear regression analyses. Both correlation and regression analyses that are useful and widely employed statistical tools have been redefined in the framework of fuzzy set theory in order to comprehend relation and to model observations of variables collected as either qualitative or approximately known quantities which are no longer being utilized directly in classical sense. When fuzzy correlation and fuzzy non-linear regression are concern, dealing with several computational complexities emerging due to the nature of fuzzy set theory is a challenge. It should be noted that there is no well-established formula or method in order to calculate fuzzy correlation coefficient or to estimate parameters of the fuzzy regression model. Therefore, a rich literature will accompany with the readers. While extension principle based methods are utilized in the computational procedures for fuzzy correlation coefficient, the distance based methods preferred rather than mathematical programming ones are employed in parameter estimation of fuzzy regression models. That extension principle combined with either fuzzy arithmetic or non-linear programming is two different methods proposed in the literature will be examined with small but illustrative examples in detail for fuzzy correlation analysis. Fuzzy non-linear regression has been a relatively new studied method when compared to fuzzy linear regression. However, both employ similar tools. S-curve fuzzy regression and two types of quadratic fuzzy regression models in the literature will be discussed
Theoretical Studies on Mild Steel Corrosion Inhibition by 5-Substituted 1H-Tetrazoles in Acidic Media
No full textBasaran, Murat Alper/0000-0001-9887-5531In this theoretical study, calculations for the three types of the tetrazole which are 2-(1H-Tetrazole-5-yl)-3-phenylacrylonitrile, 2-(1H-Tetrazole-5-yl)-3-(4-nitrophenylacrylonitrile), and 2-(1H-Tetrazole-5-yl)-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl acrylonitrile) showing the corrosion inhibition efficiency on mild steel in 1M HCl were carried out with the Density Functional Theory (DFT) at the B3LYP functionals with the use of 6-311g (d, p) basis set. Calculated parameters such as E-HOMO, E-LUMO, energy gap, electronegativity (chi), chemical potential (mu), hardness (eta), softness (S), electrophilicity, electrofugality, nucleofugality, Proton affinity, polarizability and hyperpolarizability. The correlation and regression analysis have been conducted to determine which descriptors have effect on inhibition efficiency. Both the theoretical results and experimental data are in accordance based on the inhibition efficiency
Residential Tourists' Perceptions of Quality of Life: Case of Alanya, Turkey
No full textBasaran, Murat Alper/0000-0001-9887-5531WOS: 000457059800002Researches on tourism investigating quality of life have become an important study area for tourism scholars over the last few decades. Thus, focus points have started to evolve from the macro impact of tourism to the micro impact on individuals and their well-being. The aim of this study is to determine factors that have an impact on the perception of quality of life of the residential tourists. To this end, correspondence analysis and log-linear model are employed that visualize the results and reveal significant factors and interactions terms. According to findings, some demographic factors such as gender, duration of living in Alanya and nationality have an impact on quality of life perception of residential tourists. Besides, supportive evidence for adaptation level theory, used for explaining the effects of big life events on quality of life perception, was found
Understanding the impact of Turkish TV series on inbound tourists: A case of Saudi Arabia and Bulgaria
No full textBasaran, Murat Alper/0000-0001-9887-5531;Turkey has earned outstanding success in exporting TV series. It is believed that one of the most important results of exporting TV series is to have impact on the increment of the travel demand to Turkey, which is known as film-induced tourism effect. This field emerging recently deals with investigating the impact of TV series and movies on tourism demand. In this article, using Chow analysis whether to influence or not the citizens of Saudis and Bulgarians as visitors to Turkey is examined. It is concluded that while for Saudis, tourism demand to Turkey increases considerably after the broadcast of TV series, the same situation cannot be drawn for Bulgarians
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Determining factors affecting healthcare service satisfaction utilizing fuzzy rule-based systems
No full text7th International Meeting on the Dynamics-of-Social-Economic-Systems (DySES) -- SEP 16-18, 2014 -- Univ Seville, Seville, SPAINBasaran, Murat Alper/0000-0001-9887-5531; Demir, Mehmet Ozer/0000-0002-5035-0530Health communication, which is a multi-attribute concept, is a generic title describing clinical practice. The literature shows that the relation between health communication and healthcare service satisfaction (HSS) has been found to be significant. The main objective of pursuing better health communication is to achieve the best outcome and patient satisfaction where healthcare systems are supposed to deliver. However, the health communication is a complex process. Also, measuring patients' satisfaction is not an easy task since satisfaction is a complex notion with several factors. In this study, questions in the questionnaire directed to patients are factor-analyzed in order to obtain components which are used as independent attributes that will be modeled by fuzzy rule-based systems (FRBS) in order to explain HSS. Utilizing FRBS brings two different advantages, one of which is to use mathematical functions called membership functions for linguistically expressed responses. The second one is to observe the transition among the linguistic values expressed by patients. The four independent variables, namely, doctor-patient communication (DPC), information seeking behavior (ISB), equal behavior and tolerance to cultural differences (TCD) and the dependent variable HSS are employed in the modeling. Although both DPC and ISB have positive effects on HSS, TCD has none. One interesting finding about DPC is that if DPC scores below the average value tend to lower, it does not have a decreasing effect on HSS, which means that if a patient does expect to have average DPC, his or her evaluation on HSS does not lower, which says that if a patient knows that the doctor has a poor communication skill, the patient does not pay attention to this attribute
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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