Browsing by Keywords "Environment"
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Accurate positioning in ultra-wideband systems
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2011)Accurate positioning systems can be realized via ultra-wideband signals due to their high time resolution. In this article, position estimation is studied for UWB systems. After a brief introduction to UWB signals and their ... -
Afşin-Elbistan Termik Santralinin insan sağlığına ve doğaya olan etkileri
(Bilkent University, 2020)Afşin-Elbistan A Termik Santrali 1984 yılında Çoğulhan mahallesinde kurulmuştur. 2006 yılında ise termik santralin B ünitesinin yapım aşaması tamamlanmıştır. Bugün her iki ünite de çalışmaya devam etmektedir. Araştırmada ... -
An architectural and conceptual analysis of Mesopotamian temples from the Ubaid to the old Babylonian period
(Bilkent University, 2007)This study attempts to explore the architecture of Mesopotamian temples from the Ubaid to the Old Babylonian period. It analyses the ways in which the layout of the temples changed and developed through time. It argues ... -
An assessment of the contributions and limitations of the Aberystwyth school and the Copenhagen school for the analysis of environmental security
(Bilkent University, 2016-09)The end of the Cold War created a contextual change in security studies along with a proliferation of scientific research revealing the pressing impacts of human activities on the environment since the beginning of the ... -
A framework for a design decision support system model for the wet space renovation of the residences used by elder people
(Bilkent University, 1997)Elderly people have many limitations in physical and intellectual capabilities due to aging process and they do many renovations in their houses, especially in wet spaces. It is observed that these renovatiohs are. hot ... -
Ilısu barajı ve Hasankeyf
(Bilkent University, 2020)GAP kapsamında Dicle Nehri üzerine yapılması planlanan Ilısu Barajı'nın planı 1954-1982 yılları arasında hazırlanmıştır. Barajın ana amaçları Türkiye'ye enerji sağlamak ve bulunduğu bölgenin sulama imkanlarını artırmaktır. ... -
An interdisciplinary heuristic evaluation method for universal building design
(Elsevier, 2009)This study highlights how heuristic evaluation as a usability evaluation method can feed into Current building design practice to conform to universal design principles. It provides a definition of universal usability that ... -
Introduction
(Academic Press, 2018)This chapter serves as an introduction to the main research questions, background, and objectives of the study. It describes the context (i.e., conceptualization of duality) and the modeling tools for decarbonized sustainable ... -
A multicriteria facility location model for municipal solid waste management in North Greece
(Elsevier, 2008)Up to 2002, Hellenic Solid Waste Management (SWM) policy specified that each of the country's 54 prefectural governments plan its own SWM system. After 2002, this authority was shifted to the country's 13 regions entirely. ... -
A priority-based ‘design for all’ approach to guide home designers for independent living
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-04-22)The aim is to provide a priority-based ‘design for all’ approach list that can be used as a guide in the architectural design process for independent living of the home users. It is important to prioritize ‘design for all’ ... -
Radiochronological methods as tools to study environmental pollution
(Springer, 2011)The study of the environmental impact of natural and anthropogenic events forms the essence of environmental pollution considerations. The nature of the polluting species as well as their time distributions are of primary ... -
Re-organization of Sümerbank: A Study of strategic responses to environmental change
(Bilkent University, 1989)The new economic environment in Turkey after the 1980 reforms posed strategic challenges to firms. The study of these challenges and of the actual responses of firms to these challenges in the form of new strategies may ... -
A signal transduction score flow algorithm for cyclic cellular pathway analysis, which combines transcriptome and ChIP-seq data
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012)Determination of cell signalling behaviour is crucial for understanding the physiological response to a specific stimulus or drug treatment. Current approaches for large-scale data analysis do not effectively incorporate ... -
Versatile fullerenes as sensor materials
(Elsevier, 2021-04-02)The last century outstanding discovery of fullerenes (or C60), as they are popularly called ‘buckyball’ structured molecules with icosahedral spherical structure, consists of 60 sp2-hybridized carbon atoms. These fullerenes ... -
What do we know about the interactions between trade and the environment?
(Nova Science Publishers, 2002)Does trade liberalization increase (global) environmental degradation? Do environmental regulations hinder the competitiveness of domestic industries against their foreign rivals? Can trade policies be used as an enforcement ... -
Yazar, yüksek mühendis, gezgin ve aktivist: Prof. Dr. Orhan Kural
(Bilkent University, 2021)Orhan Kural, maden mühendisi, yazar, gezgin ve aynı zamanda bir çevre aktivistidir. Kural, hayatını ilgi duyduğu alanlar konusunda kendini geliştirerek ve bu alanlarda üretim yaparak sürdürmüştür. Dünyanın birçok ülkesine ...
