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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Neural-Network Applications for Analysis of Infilled Frame]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The modelling of infilled frames is complex due to the large number of variables as well as  the non-linear material behaviour involved. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is found to be a  tool capable of solving such problems. This has led to the increasing use of ANN for  analysing infilled reinforced concrete frames. This paper reports the details of a study  conducted using ANN for predicting the failure of an infilled reinforced concrete infilled  frame subjected to lateral loading. Using the data generated based on analytical solutions, the  ANN model was trained. The so trained model was tested for different set of input parameters  and the output values were compared with the actual values based on analytical results. The  agreement was found to be good.  Keywords:. Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Infilled Frame, Equivalent strut method]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1202]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2279">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Neural-Network Applications for Analysis of Infilled Frame]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The modelling of infilled frames is complex due to the large number of variables as well as  the non-linear material behaviour involved. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is found to be a  tool capable of solving such problems. This has led to the increasing use of ANN for  analysing infilled reinforced concrete frames. This paper reports the details of a study  conducted using ANN for predicting the failure of an infilled reinforced concrete infilled  frame subjected to lateral loading. Using the data generated based on analytical solutions, the  ANN model was trained. The so trained model was tested for different set of input parameters  and the output values were compared with the actual values based on analytical results. The  agreement was found to be good.  Keywords:. Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Infilled Frame, Equivalent strut method]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1203]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Do Private Savings Offset Public Savings in Turkey?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The issue of whether public savings offset private savings, and visa vice, has important  implications for the effectiveness of fiscal policy. This study examines long-run relationship  between public and private savings rates using annual Turkish data for the period 1975-2005.  The result of Engle-Granger cointegration test has shown that there is no long-run relationship  between private and public savings ratios. However,once endogenously determined structural  break is allowed, the test results confirm the existence of the cointegration relationship  between private and public savings. Econometric estimation of the offset coefficients using  both FMOLS and DOLS yields values of between -0.11 and -0.82. The results also indicate  that the potency of fiscal policy significantly reduced with the liberalization of financial  markets.Keywords: Savings, Offset coefficient, Ricardian Equivalence, DOLS, FMOLS.  JEL Classificiation: E6, H6, E21]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1299]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hydrogen Production via Natural Gas Reforming Process – A Life Cycle Assessment  Approach]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The use of hydrogen as a sustainable alternative fuel and energy carrier is gaining more  acceptance as the environmental impact of hydrocarbons becomes more significant. Hydrogen  can be produced from various energy sources, such as steam reforming of natural gas, coal  gasification, water electrolysis and thermo-chemical water splitting. Hydrogen production is  accomplished by steam reforming of natural gas and other fossil primary energy at  approximately 97% of total and less than 3% is based on renewable energy sources, such as  solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, etc. Today, steam reforming of natural gas is the most  important and economic ways of the hydrogen production. The environmental performance of  products or processes has become a key issue, which is why ways to minimize the effects on  the environment are investigated. One of the effective ways for this purpose is life cycle  assessment (LCA). In this paper, LCA of hydrogen production by natural gas reforming  (NGR) process are investigated for environmental affect. The investigation uses LCA, which  is an analytical tool to identify and quantify environmentally critical phases during the life  cycle of a system or a product and/or to evaluate and decrease the overall environmental  impact of the system or product.  Keywords: Environmental effects, hydrogen production, LCA, natural gas reforming]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1253]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Institutionalization In Hotel Management And An Applied Study On Cappadocia’s 4 And 5 Star Hotels]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[In the simplest terms, institutionalization means that the specific rules are to be valid in all  the relevant issues. In other words, certain rules are dominated in all of the social processes  such as from the one’s individual life to the family life and to the institutions and  organizations, societies, and inter-communal relations.  Institutionalization is not just a question of top management. A general management  philosophy covering the entire of the enterprise is a corporate culture.The decision or  personal behavior of salesman working at the endpoint of organization is an indication of the  level of institutionalization of the company. Recently, it is seen that many enterprises enter  into the process of institutionalization so that they have more stable and more planned growth  path.  The most important element of the tourism sector is the hotel enterprise. Revealing that hotel  enterprises give importance to which points to institutionalization and determining the  viewpoint of them on the institutionalization constitute the basic question of the study.  In the study, primarily by considering the institutional framework; institutionalization term,  principles, the importance of institutionalization in terms of hotel enterprises and the concept of institutionalization in terms of employees are discussed. Then, a survey for the hotels the  Cappadocia has been practiced.  Keywords: Institutionalization, Institutionalization in Tourism.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1108]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Green Marketing Activities Of Green Star Hotels In Concept Of Sustainable Tourism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Due to increasing of global warming, the activities and studies about environmental  consciousness and environmentally awareness are adopted by green star hotels and concept of  sustainable tourism is becoming increasingly important in this context. Environmentally-friendly  hotels or green star hotels have social responsibility consciousness to protect the environment by  creating and developing economical solutions by hotel management for water and energy storing  and reducing the solid wastes. Nowadays, both hotel managers and visitors pleasure in doing  works environmentally responsible. While the hotel managers are adopting environmentallyfriendly  construction, visitors (tourists) are behaving more environmentally-friendly about  holiday plans and shopping. It is indicated that, the number of tourists who consider green star  criteria while selecting the hotels are increasing and at last decades, environmentally-friendly  tourism have enormously increased. The aim of this study is to expose green marketing activities  of green star hotels in Turkey. In this context, the activities of green star hotels have been  examined and viewpoints of the visitors about green marketing have been retained. In this  research, both qualitative and quantitative methods have been used together. Deep - interviews  were done with hotel managers also the questionnaires were used to get information about the  awareness of visitors about green star hotels and green marketing activities.  Keywords: Sustainability, Sustainable Tourism, Green Star Hotel, Green Marketing, Green  Consumer]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1368]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2284">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[New Approaches To Marine Aquarium Systems]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Marine aquarium systems are limited environments that include many marine plants and  animals. This habitat also has very interesting marine species, living rocks, wrecks and the  other objects. The chemical indicators of water quality such as salinity, specific gravity, Ph,  ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, Phosphate, Alkalinity, Copper, Calcium, and Magnesium are vital  for the marine organisms. Further, the essential components are an aquarium made from  acrylic, special heating systems , the consideration of overall lighting, metal halide, higher  output fluorescent, standard fluorescent, incandescent, natural sunlight, filtration and live  rocks. Marine aquarium systems can range in volume from less than 80 liters (approximately 20 US  gallons) to over 1.300 liters (400 gallons). The biggest marine aquariums in the world are;  Georgia Aquarium (6.3 million gallons), Okinowa churaumi Aquarium (1.98 million gallons),  L‘oceanografic (1.85 million gallons), Turkuazzo (1.32 million gallons), Monterey Bay  Aquarium (1.2 million gallons), uShaka Marine World (1 million gallons), Shaghai Ocean  Aquarium (approxiamately 1 million gallons), and Shanghai Ocean Aquarium (approx. 1  million gallons), and Aquarium of Genova (approx. 1 million gallons).  Turkuazoo Marine Aquarium which is the first biggest aquarium of Turkey was opened in  2009 in İstanbul. It is located in Bayrampasa region. This marine aquarium is one of Europe‘s  largest aquariums and includes many shopping malls as well. Marinescope Sea Tube is 90  meters in length and this makes it one of the World‗s longest underwater tunnels, offering  visitors an outstanding marine life. The water in the Turkuazoo comes from the Sea of  Marmara, the Black Sea and the Aegean Seas.  Istanbul Marine Aquarium, located around Florya region, was opened on 25th.June, 2011 in  Istanbul. This marine aquarium has a capacity of 6.8 million liters of seawater, and includes a  variety of living organisms from East Atlantic, West Atlantic, Middle Atlantic, Panama  Channel, Pacific Ocean, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, the Aegean Sea, the Marmara Sea,  the Bosporus, the Dardanelles and also from one rain forest.  Beyond these, the main aim is to set up marine aquariums to be able to explore the underwater  life. In addition, protecting marine organisms such as sea plants and sea animals is our priority  which will also reinforce tourism activities, education and economy.  Finally, marine aquarium systems can also be used as a therapeutical tool for the patients  with psychological disorders as this aquatic world creates a very positive and relaxing mood.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1251]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Suggestion for Forestry: Assigning Idle Public Lands to Private Sector by Projecting  and Provisioning]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Land is a widespread natural resource and commonly used by humans. It is commonly used  distributed for agriculture, forestry, urbanization, resting, transportation and settling. Land is  not a renewable resource and is under the threat of erosion, polluting and salinization because  of agricultural irrigations. In consequence of increasing population and industrialization  wetlands, agricultural lands and forests are used for settlement and industrial areas.  Maximizing utility of resources is an essential issue for environmental economics. Thus  maximizing utility of land uses is an essential issue for land using strategies. When viewed  from this aspect it is obvious that land areas of a country are shared by public (state) and  private sectors. In public areas forest areas have an important share.There are enormous  amount of areas which are owned by state but they are waiting idle. In this paper after  analyzing present administrations we will make a suggestion. We will focus on assigning  these idle areas to private sector for forestry use. It is hoped that this assignment will  contribute the problems of unemployment, income, cleaning the atmosphere, preventing  erosion and input for industrial production. Despite the subsidies, private foresting is  inadequate. We will suggest publicizing investors by projecting the proper lands, subsidizing  and presenting economic potentials of these areas.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1195]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sustainable Development in Aviation Industry  and the case of Turkish Airlines]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Within changing world, sustainable development globally has become an important strategic  goal for all sectors.  Sustainable development seeks to protect, develop and balance social, economic and  environmental goals and resources in order to secure comfort and welfare of present and  future generations. The significance level of these related goals and sources is very high.  Threats and hazards such as limited resources around the globe, overly population increase,  global warming, damaging of ozone layer, decreasing of live species and environmental  pollution dramatically reveal the importance of sustainable development.  United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Kyoto Protocol  which was signed in 1997 came into force in 2005. In this context, aviation industry is a good  sample for sustainability. Fuels used in consist of non-renewable resources so contribute to  climate change negatively. But, at the same time, that industry makes very valuable and  unique contributions to the sustainable development aimed by global society. These  contributions are realized social, economical and environmental dimensions.  Aviation industry is the safest and most efficient type in public transportation. Over long  distances and beyond geographical barriers, no alternative one exist so. It offers affordable  transportation services to the nations, regions and individuals with wide transportation  network. Furthermore, by promoting cultural and social ties, it facilitates exchange of  educational experiences.  Economically, aviation industry encourages economic development by facilitating access of  regional and global markets, involving with these markets and increasing market share. At the  same time, aviation industry leading to the development of trade, travel and tourism sector  provides improving of income distribution by creating employment around the globe.  This industry pioneers to the electronic transportation. Highly savings got at ticketing and  other documentation transactions by adopting to the electronic system. Decrease in the level  of aircraft noise-footprint at a 20 db in recent years, an increase in fuel efficiency of 70  percent in last 40 years – today’s newest aircraft technology often matchs the energy  consumption of modern cars and in some cases (depending on speed and distance)-, coming  down Carbon emission ratios dramatically, alternative fuel systems as biofuels and less  service required space area compared to other transportation types can be taken as outstanding  environmental effects of this industry.  Turkish Airlines (THY) showed an outstanding performance both economically and socially  for the last years. Now, being a member of Star Alliance Group, it has a wide flight network  around the globe with generated fleet. Furthermore, the company works to make contributions  to the sustainable future.  Keywords: Sustainable Development in Aviation İndustry; Sustainable Aviation; Carbon  Emission; Turkish Airlines Case;]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1241]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Evaluation Of Regional Development Agencies’ Roles In Regard To Social  Sustainability: A Disscussion Of Turkish Development Agencies’ Experience]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[This study focuses on the nexus between social sustainability and regional and local  development. In handling the issue in question, the work proposes to focus on the role played  by regional development agencies in facilitating social sustainability. The study will facilitate  the discussion by reviewing the Turkish experience in regional development by reviewing  Turkish regional development agencies’ legacy that came on the Turkish regional  development discussions in the mid of the very first decade of 2000s. The attempt will be to  demonstrate that Turkish RDAs cannot handle mechanisms to deal with problems that appear  at social and environmental levels of the notion of social sustainable development.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1159]]></dcterms:extent>
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