Browsing Graduate School of Economics and Social Sciences - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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An analytical re-assessment of introductory design in architectural education
(Bilkent University, 1998)Introductory design, as the initial step in architectural education, is of crucial importance. In this course student are supposed to acquire values, knowledge and skills which create a basis for further levels of their ... -
Dimesions of televisual ontology: the alchemy of time in television
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Economics of the patent system
(Bilkent University, 2000)Since knowledge has “public good” characteristics, it is shown that the price system cannot determine the efficient allocation and production of knowledge. As a result, alternative allocative mechanisms are proposed as ... -
The effect of graphic design materials on the retention level of viewers in prime time television newscasts
(Bilkent University, 1996)This study investigates the role of graphic design materials in improving the recall and retention level of television news viewers, and examines the capacity and power of these materials to shape or distort people's perception ... -
Involving the elderly in the design process: a participatory design model for usability, safety and attractiveness
(Bilkent University, 1999)This work presents a conceptual model involving the elderly users into the design process by means of participatory design sessions, where the expertise of designers and the real requirements and opinions of elderly ... -
National identity and regional integration in Central Asia : Turkestan reunion
(Bilkent University, 2002)The existing conceptual and terminological anarchy in the literature about the Central (Inner or Middle) Asian region was a starting point of this dissertation. Thus, the basic objective for this study was to review the ... -
Photographic image and its contextualization as art
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Professional veiled women: the everyday life strategies of professional Islamic women in 1990s Bursa
(Bilkent University, 1999)The major aim of this thesis is to examine the multiple bases on which professional, married, veiled Islamic women organize their everyday lives, and understand how do they legitimize their everyday activities with using ... -
Robust regression, HCCM estimators, and an Empirical Bayes application
(Bilkent University, 1999)This Ph.D. thesis includes three topics of econometrics where the chapters of the whole study are devoted to robust regression analysis, research on the estimators for the covariance matrix of a heteroskedastic regression ... -
Search for an ethno-secular delimitation of Turkish national identity in the Kemalist era (1924-1938) with particular reference to the ethnicist conception of Kemalist nationalism
(Bilkent University, 1998)This study deals with the search for the creation of an ethno- secular Turkish national identity with particular reference to the ethnicist conception of Kemalist nationalism espoused by a group of bureaucratic- intellectual ...
