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    • Beyond scarcity: rethinking water, climate change and conflict in the Sudans 

      Selby, J.; Hoffmann, Clemens (Elsevier, 2014)
      This article develops a new framework for understanding environment-conflict relations, on both theoretical grounds and through a qualitative historical analysis of the links between water and conflict in the states of ...

    • Microarray data analysis and pathway activity inference in PATIKA 

      Babur, Özgün; Demir, Emek; Ayaz, Aslı; Doğrusöz, Uğur; Sakarya, Onur (ISCB Org, 2004)
      Pathway activity inference attempts to infer differential activity of cellular networks, given a qualitative state - transition model of the network and an expression profile of RNA molecules. We present an efficient ...

    • Pathway activity inference using microarray data 

      Babur, Özgün; Demir, Emek; Ayaz, Aslı; Doğrusöz, Uğur; Sakarya, Onur (Bilkent Center for Bioinformatics (BCBI), 2004)
      Motivation: Microarray technology provides cell-scale expression data; however, analyzing this data is notoriously difficult. It is becoming clear that system-oriented methods are needed in order to best interpret this ...

    • Rethinking climate change, conflict and security 

      Selby, J.; Hoffmann, Clemens (Taylor&Francis, 2014)
      This special issue of Geopolitics presents a series of critical interventions on the links between global anthropogenic climate change, conflict and security. In this introduction, we situate the special issue by providing ...

    • Water scarcity, conflict, and migration: a comparative analysis and reappraisal 

      Selby, J.; Hoffmann, Clemens (Sage Publications, 2012)
      How should we characterise the relations between environmental scarcity, conflict, and migration? Most academic and policy analyses conclude that scarcities of environmental resources can have significant impacts upon ...

    • Energy, security, and foreign policy 

      Özdamar, Özgür (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
      Next to national defense, energy security has become a primary issue for the survival and wellbeing of both developed and developing nations. A review of the literature shows how concerns for energy security acquired a new ...

    • Low carbon development pathways and priorities for Turkey 

      Voyvoda, E.; Yeldan, Alp Erinç (Sabancı University İstanbul Policy Center, 2015)
      Scientists and decision makers agree that climate change is the biggest problem ever faced by humankind. Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including 195 contracting states and ...

    • The Nabucco Project: implications for the EU strategic energy review 

      Grigoriadis, Ioannis N. (Notre Europe, 2010)
      Energy is a key issue of this year’s European political agenda. Article 194 (1) of the Lisbon Treaty states that the Union energy policy will aim – amongst others things – to “ensure the functioning of the energy market,” ...

    • Novel anti-HER2 monoclonal antibodies: synergy and antagonism with tumor necrosis factor-α 

      Ceran, Ceyhan; Çokol, M.; Cingöz, S.; Taşan, İpek; Öztürk, Mehmet; Yağcı, Tamer (BioMed Central, 2012)
      Background: One-third of breast cancers display amplifications of the ERBB2 gene encoding the HER2 kinase receptor. Trastuzumab, a humanized antibody directed against an epitope on subdomain IV of the extracellular domain ...

    • Propagation prediction and planning tools for digital and analog terrestrial broadcasting and land mobile services 

      Topçu, Satılmış; Köymen, Hayrettin; Altıntaş, Ayhan; Aksun, İrşadi (2000)
      The problem of efficient utilization of the radiofrequency spectrum is becoming more complex due to the increasing demands on the spectrum, which is a limited natural resource. If this natural resource is to be used ...

    • Outdoor propagation models: applications and considerations for real life problems 

      Altıntaş, Ayhan; Topçu, Satılmış; Köymen, Hayrettin; Moral, Gökhan; Yılmaz, Özgür (IEEE, 2003)
      Implementation of propagation prediction models is discussed. It is shown that for real terrain and building data, the additional parameters and assumptions must be made. The determination of coverage percentages for digital ...

    • PATIKAweb: a Web service for querying, visualizing and analyzing a graph-based pathway database 

      Aksay, Çağrı; Arık, Fatma; Ataer, Esra; Ayaz, Aslı; Babur, Özgün; Belviranlı, Mehmet E.; Çetintaş, Ahmet; Çolak, Recep; Çözen, G.; Demir, Emek; Dilek, Alptuğ; Doğrusöz, Uğur; Giral, Erhan; Kaya, Engin; Küçük, Evren; Tekin, A. S.; Yıldırım, Hilmi; Erson, Zeynep (ISCB Org, 2005-06)
      PATIKAweb provides a Web service for retrieving and analyzing biological pathways in PATIKA database, which currently contains data integrated from popular public pathway databases like Reactome. It features a user-friendly ...

    • PATIKA: An informatics infrastructure for cellular networks 

      Aksay, Çağrı; Ayaz, Aslı; Babur, Özgün; Bilgin, C.; Çetintaş, Ahmet; Çivril, Ali; Çolak, Recep; Çözen, G.; Demir, Emek; Doğrusöz, Uğur; Erson, Zeynep; Gerdaneri, Ozan; Giral, Erhan; Güleşır, Gürcan; Nişancı, Gürkan; Sakarya, O.; Yıldırım, Hilmi (ISCB Org, 2004)
      The PATIKA Project aims for an informatics infrastructure to cope with the inherently complex cellular pathway data and provides software tools with sophisticated visualization technology around a central database using ...

    • Design of an emergency PMR network based on CDMA 450 in İstanbul metropolitan region 

      Kızılırmak, Çağlar; Topçu, Satılmış; Köymen, Hayrettin (TEHOSS, 2006)
      In this work, a complete design of PMR (Professional Mobile Radio) network based on CDMA 450 in ˙Istanbul metropolitan region is presented. Coverage and capacity analysis are performed by the developed simulation software ...

    • Feasibility study of installation of solar panels on a high power HF antenna terrain 

      Abdul, Ali; Özbey, Burak; Topçu, Satılmış; Altıntaş, Ayhan (EMC Türkiye, 2015)

    • A new approach to diffraction modelling for line-of-sight (LOS) paths 

      Topçu, Satılmış; Göktaş, Polat; Karasan, Ezhan; Altıntaş, Ayhan (IEEE, 2015)
      In this paper, we present a new knife-edge diffraction method based on Bullington method for the terrestrial line-of-sight (LOS) paths. The diffraction loss of our new knife-edge diffraction method is compared with the ...

    • PATIKA: an integrated visual environment for collaborative construction and analysis of cellular pathways 

      Demir, Emek; Babur, Özgün; Doğrusöz, Uğur; Gürsoy, Atilla; Nişancı, Gürkan; Çetin Atalay, Rengül; Öztürk, Mehmet (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology(ASBMB), 2002-09)

    • Policy analysis: toward a green development pathway for the peripheral world 

      Acar, S.; Voyvoda, E.; Yeldan, Alp Erinç (Academic Press, 2018)
      This chapter uses the analytical model described in Chapter 4 to quantitatively investigate the set of viable macroeconomic policy instruments for combating climate change, and addresses a set of duality characteristics ...

    • Modeling for green growth: environmental policy in a dualistic peripheral economy 

      Acar, S.; Voyvoda, E.; Yeldan, Alp Erinç (Academic Press, 2018)
      The chapter introduces the main components of the applied general equilibrium model to represent the dual structure of Turkey. It discusses the distinguishing features and its contribution to the modeling literature with ...

    • Energy and environmental policy against climate change in Turkey 

      Acar, S.; Voyvoda, E.; Yeldan, Alp Erinç (Academic Press, 2018)
      Based on the structure of the economy in general but especially focusing on the duality patterns laid out in Chapter 2, this chapter first examines the recent energy and environment statistics in Turkey, and second, evaluates ...