Browsing Bilkent Theses by Title
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A policy for the maintenance of a multistate multicomponent series system
(Bilkent University, 1997)In real life situations various levels of performance for both systems and components are identified. Deterioration of systems and components has been considered by many maintenance and replacement models in the literature, ... -
Policy networks within the Turkish health sector : capacity, institutionalization and impact
(Bilkent University, 2017-09)Policy networks refer to platforms that facilitate collaboration among public, private and voluntary actors with the purpose of public policy making. Despite the extensive research done on the issue, not much is known about ... -
The policy of Eisenhower administration towards Turkey , 1953-1961
(Bilkent University, 2004)This thesis analyzes the objectives, implementation and outcomes as well as making of the policy of Eisenhower Administration toward Turkey between 1953 and 1961. Specific emphasis was placed on newly declassified U.S. ... -
Political economy of energy sector restructuring in the post-soviet space: Russia and Azerbaijan in comparative perspective
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)This dissertation explores the political economy of energy sector restructuring in the post-Soviet space with a particular focus on the role of elite structure therein. After remaining under the same Communist regime for ... -
The political economy of Turkey Wealth Fund: a case study within the state-business relations in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)This thesis aims to explain the reason for the establishment of the Turkey Wealth Fund. It represents an outlier case within the recent global phenomenon of sovereign wealth funds due to being established even though ... -
Political engagement patterns of Islamist movements : the case of the Nizam
(Bilkent University, 2011)Focusing on the Nizam/Selamet Movement, this dissertation studies why and how there are variations in the political engagement patterns of “moderate” Islamist movements operating within the same institutional/political ... -
Political manhood in 2000's Turkey : representations of different masculinities in politics
(Bilkent University, 2012)This dissertation mainly questions the constructions of different masculinities in politics in Turkey. It re-reads the different representations of political manhood with reference to the AKP, the CHP and the MHP between ... -
Political party elites and the breakdown of democracy: the Turkish case,1973-1980
(Bilkent University, 1998)This study aims to analyze the behavior of Turkish political party elites during the 1973-1980 period. It is particularly concerned with the extent to which political party elites seemed to have contributed to the breakdown ... -
Political thought in the beginning of the Ottoman Empire as expressed in Ahmed bin Husameddin Amasi's Kitab-i Miratu`l-Muluk (1406)
(Bilkent University, 1998)Ahmed bin Husameddin Amasi’s Mirât al-Muluk was one of the earliest sources on the political literature of the Ottoman World, it was written in 1406 and submitted to Mehmet 1 (1413- 1421). Unlike the later Ottoman ... -
Politics and the bureaucracy in policy making process: a general framework and its application to the Turkish case
(Bilkent University, 1996)The aim of this Master Thesis is to construct a framework to analyze interactions between politics, society, and the bureaucracy with each other. This framework is then adapted to the Turkish case to model policy making ... -
Politics in and around the Crimea 1990-2001
(Bilkent University, 2001)After the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Crimea had to define the terms of its status within a new context – the maintenance of Ukrainian sovereignty. The issue regarding the Crimea’s territorial status ... -
Politics of institutonal change in state-business relation: a case study in Turkey’s electricity sector
(Bilkent University, 2018-09)This study investigates the impact of the Syrian Civil War on the failure of the Kurdish Resolution Process in Turkey within the context of Contagion Process Approach. The main question of the thesis can be formulated ... -
Politics of interdependence: an analysis of Turkish-Greek economic relations
(Bilkent University, 2016-06)Over the last two decades, there has been a dramatic increase in bilateral relations between Greece and Turkey in many areas from trade to tourism. This increase has taken through both state and non-state level initiatives. ... -
Politics of re-building hegemony and the subject in post-1997 Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2011)This study aims to analyze the interrelation between hegemony and the subject within the case of the February 28 process, which refers to the military’s long-term project to reshape the Turkish social and political system ... -
Politics, scholarship and dynastic history : the debate between Thomas Ruddiman and George Logan
(Bilkent University, 2007)In the first half of the eighteenth century, the debate between Thomas Ruddiman (1674-1757), a Jacobite classical scholar, historian, political writer and publisher, and the Rev. George Logan (1678-1755), had political ... -
POLR2A/RPB1 subunit of RNA polymerase II interacts with NTDMED14 containing core mediator complex to facilitate basal and activator driven transcription
(Bilkent University, 2020-07)The Metazoan Mediator is a 2-MDa protein complex that consist of 30 subunits, most of which are evolutionarily conserved from yeast to humans8. The maintenance and regulation of the cell is dependent on spatiotemporal ... -
Polybenzoxazine based high performance nanofibers via electrospinning
(Bilkent University, 2016-09)Polybenzoxazines are newly developing phenolic type thermoset resins having fascinating properties which overcome the shortcomings of the traditional resins. In recent years, polybenzoxazines are attracting much interest ... -
Polygon packing approach to disconnected graph layout
(Bilkent University, 2003)Graph layout has become an important area of research in Computer Science for the last couple of decades. There is a wide range of applications for graph layout including data structures, databases, software engineering, ... -
A polyhedral approach to delivery man problem
(Bilkent University, 1992)In this thesis we discuss some polyhedral approaches to the Delivery Man Problem(DMP),which is a special case of the Traveling .Scvlesman Problem(TSP). First, we look at two formulations of the problem and describe a ... -
A polyhedral approach to quadratic assignment problem
(Bilkent University, 1994)In this thesis, Quadratic Assignment Problem is considered. Since Quadratic Assignment Problem is JVP-bard, no polynomial time exact solution method exists. Proving optimality of solutions to Quadratic Assignment Problems ...
