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Bio-inspired paper plant robots: artificial heliotropism and nyctinasty through transpiration
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Self-regulation is a fundamental feature of all living systems, which maintains their metabolic activities through biochemical feedback loops. Those feedback loops respond to environmental stimuli, and therefore the ... -
Charge dissipation mechanism of low-cost antistatic additive lignin in contact charged polymers
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)Contact electrification (C.E.), a phenomenon studied for millennia, develops contact charges on material surfaces, when two materials are contacted and then separated. Accumulation of contact charges and their uncontrolled ... -
The religion of the gentry and middling classes: the English Reformation as reflected in wills, 1509-1553
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)The purpose of this thesis is to present and analyse statistical data of the religion of the gentry and middling classes as reflected in 1997 wills between 1509 to 1553, during the reign of Henry VIII and Edward VI. In ... -
The transformation of an itinerant army: from the Catalan Company to the Catalan Duchy of Athens and Neopatras (1303-1388)
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)This thesis examines the transformation of the Catalan Company into a political, social and cultural institution from the arrival of the Company at Constantinople in September 1303 until the fall of Catalan Athens to the ... -
Alternative dispute resolution mechanisms and compliance in international financial institutions
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)The relationship between compliance, accountability and good governance is important in terms of the mission and role of International Organizations in global order. Although these concepts are closely related to each ... -
Faith and reason in higher education: social scientific study of Islam at Ankara University School of Divinity
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the mektep-madrasa controversy is manifested in Ankara University School of Divinity as a divide between those who see the study and teaching of Islam as a religion, and those ... -
The study of militarism: English-speaking world scholarship and Turkey’s scholarship compared
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Militarism has attracted academic attention since late seventeenth century. Scholars have defined and studied militarism in different ways. While during the First World War, militarism was studied as an ideology, in the ... -
Diverse SNP selection for epistasis test prioritization
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Genome-wide association studies explain a fraction of the underlying heritability of genetic diseases. Epistatic interactions between two or more loci help closing the gap and identifying those complex interactions ... -
Boosting fully convolutional networks for gland instance segmentation in histopathological images
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)In the current literature, fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) are the most preferred architectures for dense prediction tasks, including gland segmentation. However, a signi cant challenge is to adequately train ... -
Source-to-source transformation based methodology for graph-parallel FPGA accelerators
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Graph applications are becoming more and more important with their widespread usage and the amounts of data they deal with. Biological and social web graphs are well-known examples which show the importance of efficient ... -
Efficient parameter mapping for magnetic resonance imaging
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequence that enables high signal-to-noise ratios in short scan times. However, it has elevated sensitivity to main eld inhomogeneity, ... -
Dynamic adaptive colloidal crystals far from equilibrium
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Self-assembly has been the center of attention of many researchers from all branches of science. Self-assembly of static structures such as crystals often forms through energy minimization, while dynamic ones need constant ... -
Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of ultracold atomic systems
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)Here, we present our work and findings on ultracold atomic systems. We first present a semi-analytical work on density wave instability (DWI) and collective modes of a bilayer dipolar system of bosons and fermions. We ... -
Universally polarization-insensitive achromatic metasurfaces
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)Transparent optical components constitute the key elements of modern electro-optical systems including optical sensors, displays and imaging systems. The working principle of conventional transparent components rely on ... -
Designers’ finishing material selection considerations in interior spaces
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)This study aims to explore the different considerations contributing to the material selection process in interior architecture discipline and understand designers’ finishing material preferences for interior surfaces, ... -
An exact algorithm for biobjective integer programming problems
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)We propose an exact algorithm to find all nondominated points of biobjective integer programming problems, which arise in various applications of operations research. The algorithm is based on dividing objective space ... -
‘‘Réalta an chruinne caitir fhíona’’: the cult of St. Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval Scotland
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)This thesis succinctly investigates the chronological traces and the historical development of the cult of St. Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval Scotland. The main argument of this study evolves around why possibly ... -
Written complexity developmental stages of Turkish EFL learners in argumentative writing
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)This study aimed (a) to identify written grammatical complexity (i.e., syntactic complexity) stage(s) and grammatical functions of undergraduate Turkish EFL students based on Biber et al.’s (2011) framework for grammatical ... -
Do women misreport domestic violence: evidence from couple data
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)The literature on domestic violence against women excessively employs survey data in which there is only women side of the violence. In this study by benefiting from a couple data, we use both men and women reporting of ... -
Aza-Nazarov cyclization reactions using anion exchange strategy
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)Although Nazarov reaction is a synthetically useful route for the synthesis of five-membered rings, there are a very limited number of studies on its analogous process producing N-heterocycles; aza-Nazarov reaction, and ...
