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Asymmetric effects of benchmark prices on Iraqi oil: Basrah Light, Basrah Heavy and Kirkuk
(Bilkent University, 2021-02)This thesis assesses the asymmetric effects of benchmark oil prices on Basrah Light, Basrah Heavy and Kirkuk crude oil prices. The empirical evidence reveals that a decrease in benchmark prices decreases three Iraqi oil ... -
Turkey's national role conceptions and the implications in the Eastern Mediterranean
(Bilkent University, 2021-01)Although many studies prefer using the mainstream international relations (IR) theories nowadays, this thesis utilizes role theory as a foreign policy analysis (FPA) tool for examining national role conceptions of Turkey ... -
The U.S. shale oil, market forces and export ban
(Bilkent University, 2020-08)Shale oil revolution after 2011 changed both the U.S. and world oil markets. In this thesis the market determinants of a shale oil production – Frac Count for the U.S is studied. The empirical evidence suggests that a ... -
Exchange rate regime, world oil prices, and the Mexican economy
(Bilkent University, 2020-06)This thesis studies the effects of the exchange rate regime of the Mexican economy on how the oil price shocks affect the domestic economic performance by considering the period from January 1992 to December 2019. The ... -
A comparative analysis of critical infrastructure cyber security policies: best practices from the US, EU and Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2020-06)Critical infrastructures are the physical and virtual systems forming the basis of modern societies and they are essential in ensuring national prosperity. Even though the importance of such infrastructures could not be ... -
Productive efficiency of Turkish wind farms: a two-stage data envelopment analysis
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)This thesis estimates the relative productive efficiency of Turkish wind farms to discover their inefficiency reasons using a two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). We choose three input variables and two output variables ... -
Narrative techniques in Doris Lessing's stories and sketches
(Bilkent University, 1996)The aim of this thesis is to analyze the themes of Doris Lessing's short stories and sketches, with particular reference to the narrative techniques developed mainly by the French Structuralists Roland Barthes and Gerard ... -
Narrative strategies in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End and The Good Soldier
(Bilkent University, 1996)In opposition to theories which gave the author pride of place as the creator of literary works embodying definite meanings, the French thinker Roland Barthes maintained that it was the reader, and not the author, ... -
The environmental ethic in Wordsworth's poetry
(Bilkent University, 1995)Wordsworth's poetry, with its emphasis on the independent existence and consciousness of nature , has a distinctive place in the Romantic movement. His interest in the external world is not, of course, totally new and ... -
Dystopia and Doppelgangers: the Gothic indictment
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Examination of the four selected food industry sub-sectors in Turkey and in the European Community
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Animating facial images with drawings
(Bilkent University, 1996)The work presented here describes the power of 2D animation with texture mai^ping controlled by line drawings. Animation is specifically intended for facial animation and not restricted by the human face. We initially ... -
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A case study: forming an effective quality management system according to ISO 9000 standards
(Bilkent University, 1995)In today's world, companies which adopt themselves to certain internationally recognized standards are one step ahead of their competitors. ISO 9000 Quality System Standards captured the most attention among all. The aim ... -
Beyond hierarchies: emerging organizational structures that are non-hierarchical
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Failure of love in TSEliot's poems: "Love Song of JAlfred Prufrock", "Portrait of a Lady", "La Figlia che piange", The Waste Land
(Bilkent University, 1994)This dissertation aims at pursuing the failure of love theme in T.S. Eliot's above mentioned poems. In the Introduction, poetry- of Eliot, who is one of the most outstanding figures of Modernist Poetry, ttnd the ... -
The theme of divided consciousness in Ibsen's later plays
(Bilkent University, 1994)Ibsen employs several techniques in his plays and each of these serves an essential purpose— the examination of the nature of consciousness. Hence, an analysis of this theme is crucial to the better understanding of ... -
Alan Ayckbourn's theatricality and use of comedy in Woman in Mind, A Small Family Business and Henceforward: marriage, family, private-public and absence of standards
(Bilkent University, 1994)The aim of this dissertation is to focus on three of Alan Ayckbourn's recent plays, namely Woman in Mind, A Small Business and Henceforward in order to analyse how Ayckbourn employs visual elements and how he creates ... -
Class hate into sexual hate in Look Back in Anger
(Bilkent University, 1993)The purpose of this thesis is to consider John Osborne's Look Back in Anger from the point of view of the function of gender. This involves the playwright's depiction of gender contradiction which results from the need ... -
Stock market seasonality in the Istanbul Stock Exchange
(Bilkent University, 1993)This study empirically examines stock market seasonality in the Istanbul Stock Exchange Market (IMKB) , Turkey. Current evidence from the studies for other capital markets around the world provides that there are strong ...
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