Browsing Bilkent Theses by Title
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Cultural dimension of the relations between Turkey and the European Union
(Bilkent University, 1999)The relations between The European Union and Turkey is one of the problematic issues of International Relations. However, by now the debate revolved around a limited scope considering economic, political and security issues. ... -
Cultural distancing attempts of middle class consumers in media consumption
(Bilkent University, 2017-07)The consumption practice itself or a characteristic of a consumption practice tells a lot about the (re)production of social boundaries and inequalities in the societies. That makes the social class a fertile field to study ... -
Cultural meanings in the traditional house and the modern apartment flat
(Bilkent University, 1996)In Turkiye, a rapid transition from traditional houses to modern apartment flats, during the second half of this century, has resulted in the problem of a lost identity and the alienation of the society from the environment. ... -
The cultural policies of Turkish Republic during the establishment of nation state (1923-1938)
(Bilkent University, 2000)This study aims to analyse the understanding of cultural politics during the establishment period of Turkish Republic. It is argued that this understanding of culturai politics is ideologically shaped by Kemalism that ... -
A cultural renewal : native Americans in road movies
(Bilkent University, 2008)In this thesis, contemporary Native American road films Powwow Highway (Wacks, 1989), Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995), Smoke Signals (Eyre, 1998), and Dreamkeeper (Barron, 2003) are studied in terms of their relation to the ... -
Cultural representations in themed environments : the case of English pub in Ankara
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Cultural themes in elementary EFL textbooks in use in Turkey: a content analysis of pictorial representations
(Bilkent University, 1990)The topic of this study is ”A content analysis of the cultural themes presented in pictorial form in elementary level EFL textbooks”. The literature review (see Chapter IT) concerns itself first with the general ... -
Culture-space relationship: Japanese traditional residential interiors
(Bilkent University, 1993)The aim of the present study is to put forth the relationship between culture and space, through the examples from Japanese culture and Japanese traditional residential interior spaces. Therefore, at the first attempt ... -
Cumhuriyet dönemi tarihî romanları 1923-1946 : "eski" kahramanların yeni söylemleri
(Bilkent University, 2014)Bu tez, 1923 ila 1946 arası yani Cumhuriyet’in kuruluşundan çok partili hayata geçiş dönemine kadar yazılmış tarihî romanların niteliksel ve niceliksel olarak incelenmesinden oluşmaktadır. Bu dönemde yazılan tarihî romanlar ... -
Cumhuriyet öncesi kadın yazarların romanlarında toplumsal cinsiyet ve kimlik sorunsalı (1877-1923)
(Bilkent University, 2012)Womanhood and gender relationships have been one of the first questions taken up as the natural extension of the modernization paradigm between the declaration of the First Constitution and the Republic. Even though ... -
Curing the body, curing the society : the miracle stories of Gregory of Tours in the service of ascetical socio-moral reform in sixth-century Gaul
(Bilkent University, 2004)The saints in Gregory of Tours’s miracle stories frequently transfer such values as peacefulness, charity and mercy from theory into public action by their miracles. This exemplary function of the miracles in the Histories ... -
Currency crises theory : third generation models
(Bilkent University, 2009)This thesis investigates third generation currency crisis literature and concludes that the 2001 Turkish currency crisis can be labeled as a third generation type crisis, despite having unique characteristics. According ... -
Currency derivatives and their applications in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 1997)As a result of increased volatility in freely floating exchange rates, corporations and individuals were faced with currency risks after the 1970s. In order to manage these risks, new financial instruments -called ... -
Currency substitution in high inflation countries : an empirical analysis
(Bilkent University, 2001)This study explores the importance of currency substitution phenomena, encountered mostly in high inflation countries rather than other countries. First, it investigates the causes and consequences of currency substitution. ... -
Currency substitution: a numerical dynamic programming approach
(Bilkent University, 1998)This thesis conducts a theoretical study on currency substitution in an infinitelylived small open financially repressed economy which is subject to stochastic inflation shocks. For this purpose, a dynamic programming ... -
“Currency, carry me, everyone is held hostage:” an analysis of post-2008 recessionary films
(Bilkent University, 2018-07)As the impact of The Great Recession of 2008 has been felt severely by millions of people, “why” and “how” of the crisis became the topic of debate in almost every field. Number of films revolving around the crisis, whether ... -
Curves in projective space
(Bilkent University, 2003)This thesis is mainly concerned with classification of nonsingular projective space curves with an emphasis on the degree-genus pairs. In the first chapter, we present basic notions together with a very general notion ... -
Custom hardware optimizations for reliable and high performance computer architectures
(Bilkent University, 2020-09)In recent years, we have witnessed a huge wave of innovations, such as in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet-of-Things (IoT). In this trend, software tools are constantly and increasingly demanding more processing ... -
Customs Union and Turkey : a comparative analysis of the adjustment processes experienced by Spain and Portugal, and the case for Turkey
(Bilkent University, 1994)Customs union is defined as the undisturbed freedom of movement within the EC for goods, services, money, and economic agents. In this study, being highlighted by a comparative analysis, the union to be realized with the ... -
Cutoff rate for fixed-composition coding over energy constrained AWGN channels
(Bilkent University, 1990)Shannon showed that, under an energy constraint, the ensemble of shell constrained codes optimizes the cutoff rate for AVVGN channels. Unfortunately, this ensemble is not very practical since its input alphabet is the ...
