This thesis investigates the structure of cross-border lending market by using network analysis and examines the relationship between financial connectivity and probability of systemic crises, controlling for macroeconomic ...

The median of a group, containing an odd number of elements, is defined as the middle element, when the elements of the group are sorted. A median filter finds the median of a number of elements at its inputs. Median filters ...

Tensor factorization has many applications such as network anomaly detection, structural damage detection and music genre classification. Most time consuming part of the CPD-ALS based tensor factorization is the Matricized ...

Physical layer security has gained a renewed interest with the advances in modern wireless communication technologies. In estimation theoretic security, secrecy levels are measured via estimation theoretic tools and ...

This thesis comprise three essays that investigate foreign exchange market volatility and its dynamics using high frequency exchange rate data. In the first essay, we decompose the jump component of USDTRY exchange rate ...

Phytolith studies are now an established subbranch of archaeobotanical studies. However, there is a very limited number of phytolith studies focused on Anatolia. Kinet H oyük is one of the eligible sites since extensive ...

With the proliferation of smart phones integrated with positioning systems and the increasing penetration of Internet-of-Things (IoT) in our daily lives, mobility data has become widely available. A vast variety of mobile ...

Since the introduction of first plasmonic perfect absorber (PA) in early 2008 by Landy et al., numerous studies have demonstrated their superior optical performance in frequencies ranging from terahertz to visible region ...

In LTE/5G systems, the random access channel (RACH) process occurs during the boot-up phase. As channel state information is not available at this stage, detecting several devices with high performance presents a challenging ...

Spiritism, established by Allan Kardec claims to study an immaterial world through scientific methods, proposes a doctrine of reincarnation and derives knowledge from communication with spirits. In contrast to its depiction ...