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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Analysis of the Factors Determining the Working Capital Requirement  for Non-Financial Companies (doi: 10.14706/icesos1724)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The main purpose of this study is to investigate the factors determining the working capital requirement  of firms. Companies require working capital to improve the capacity, expand the business volume, reduce  the risk of failing to meet their financial obligations, and become profitable and efficient. An inadequacy  of the working capital causes interruptions in the business operations. This study investigates the  determining factors of the working capital requirements of non-financial companies. The research  analysis was done on publicly traded firms, and the data was collected from BIST-100 in Turkey for the  years between 2011 and 2016. In this study, working capital requirement was used as the dependent  variable. Factors such as profitability, leverage, growth, firm size, age and industry were tested as  determining factors. PLS-SEM technique is employed in the research. Results reveal that two explanatory  variables- company&#039;s leverage, and profitability- are significant factors that determine the companies’  working capital requirements for the period under study.     Key words: Working Capital Requirement, Profitability, Leverage, Growth, Size, Age, Industry]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2017]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[3661]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Analysis of the Impact of Motivating Factors on  Tourism Agencies in Turkey]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[This study investigates the relations between agencies and hotels in Turkey, from  the perspective of business to business marketing. Drawing on the data obtained from 189  agencies by a survey. The results of the research show that six variables are important. Their  order of importance as followings: Communication with the agencies, supports for agencies,  the relationship between agencies and hotel companies, promotion activities for clients and  agencies, promotion activities encouraging and out of business relations between agencies and  hotel company.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2009-06]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[224]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2484">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Analysis of the Impact of Utilizing the Genre of Humour on EFL Learners’ Willingness to Communicate]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The present study was intended to analyze the impact of utilizing the genre of humour on Iranian EFL learners’ Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in English. To this end, forty participants equally divided into experimental and control groups took part in an experiment. The control subjects were required to participate in oral class discussions, whereas the experimental subjects were scaffolded with humorous anecdotes by Hill (1980) over seven interview sessions, which were geared towards the topics under debate. The content analysis of the transcriptions was carried out through the t test procedure by calculating the relative loading of the Idea Units (IUs) in the data, which Ellis (1984, as cited in, Kamimura &amp; Oi, 2001) has proposed as a measure to examine the students’ communicative strategies in the oral production. Pedagogically, it was found that using texts belonging to the genre of humour augmented the experimental participants’ WTC in the target language in comparison with that of the control subjects since there was a significant difference between the mean scores of the relative loadings of the IUs found in the transcriptions obtained from the segments of talk by the experimental group than those identified in the fragments of talk by the control group.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1005]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/1764">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Analysis of the Pre-Service Foreign Language Teachers’ Beliefs about Classroom Management in Terms of Several Variables]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Key words: Foreign language education, classroom management, teacher training  ABSTRACT  Teachers’ beliefs on teaching and learning reflect their theoretical orientations as well as their teaching practice (Dooley, 1997). Teachers try to provide the optimal learning conditions for their students and to meet their learning needs. Given that teacher training experiences affect the pre-service teachers’ views about teaching, the investigation of their views about classroom management is significant to improve teacher training programs. One of the tools dealing with the pre-serice teachers’ views on classroom management was developed by Martin, Yin and Baldwin (1998). This tool analyses the pre-service teachers’ beliefs on classroom management under three categories: management of teaching, management of people and management of behaviour.  The current study will employ this tool, “The scale of the attitudes towards and beliefs bout classroom management”, developed by Martin et. al. (1998) to collect the data of the study. The major aim of the tool is to identify the teachers’ perceptions and beliefs in regard to classroom management and practices. The adaptation of the tool into Turkish was done by Savran (2002). The participants of the study are third and fourth grade pre-service foreign language teachers attending a public university in Ankara during the acadmic year of 2012-2013. Firstly, their mean scores on the scale will be revealed, indicating their attitudes towards and beliefs about classroom management. Then their mean scores will be analysed and compared based on some variables, indicating the department they are attending, gender, whether or not taking the course of classroom management, whether or not taking the course of educational philosophy, school experience and practical experience. T-test will be employed to see whether or not the mean scores of the participant groups differ significantly. The findings will be discussed in the light of previous findings.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[IBU Publishing]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-03]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1940]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/480">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL NETWORKS AND ENGLISH ATTAINMENT OF BOARDING STUDENTS IN DUBAI]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[This study explores the effects of social networks on English progress in a UAE international English National Curriuclum (ENC) boarding school. The observed population consisted of a case study of 11 boarding students, three female and eight male, who completed their first year of International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) curriculum in Year 10. Social network data was collected through the administration of a customized questionnaire, in addition to a semi-structured teacher questionnaire conducted with their English as an additional language (EAL) instructor. The results indicated that the plexity of social ties and the number of relations who used the target language had the highest positive relationship to the students’ English progress across most skills. An increased frequency of ‘non school friends’ in the social network had the strongest negative impact on language progress. This study proved that there may be various significant links between social relationships and language acquisition.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2015]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2978]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2142">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Analysis of Theories on Stock Returns]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Objective in writing this article is to provide an overview of the theories that has been  developed for stock returns which is an important area of financial markets’ researches. Since  the researches in this field are very active for the past quarter, it is not possible to describe all  works that has been done in this area. Most important researches will be discussed without  going deeper in mathematical tools and theories.Empirical works have been showing that stock returns are predictable cross-sectional and by  time. The discussions about prediction of stock price behavior started with Markowitz with  his article –Portfolio Selection-. Markowitz won Nobel Prize in 1990 for his research about  portfolio theory. However he criticized by many economists since implementation of the  theory requires lots of effort to evaluate data and since it uses historical data the prediction  will not be accurate. In addition the assumption that stock returns are normally distributed is  not true in reality. Sharpe, Lintner, and Mossin independently developed a model which has  come to be known CAPM (capital asset pricing model) in 1964, 1965, and 1966 respectively.  Beta coefficient is a key parameter in CAPM world. Beta measures risk of an asset in relation  to the market such as S&amp;P500 or an alternative factor. Actually the CAPM is a simple model  which is based on sound reasoning and some of the assumptions -all investors have the same  information, information is costless, and there are no taxes transactions costs- are unrealistic  in market. APT (arbitrage pricing theory) presented for a better estimation for stock returns  than CAPM. CAPM is a modified theory while APT is a completely different model. APT’s  multiple factors provide a better indication of asset risk and a better estimate of expected  return. There are n-factors effecting stock returns in APT but the number of factors are  unknown. Furthermore CAPM and APT are single-period models. To get multi-period aspects  of market ICAPM was developed. After that CCAPM (consumption-oriented capital asset  pricing model) was introduced. It tried to explain behavior of stock returns by a logical  extension of APT. A long literature exist on prediction of stock market returns but especially  after the latest financial crisis these theories must be analyzed and suggested new ideas for  forecasting behavior of stock returns.  Keywords: Stock Returns, Markowitz, CAPM, APT, ICAPM, CCAPM, Fama-French 3-factor  model.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1308]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Analytic Interpretation of Grammatical Phrases  Construing the English Articles]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[This paper studies the English article system from the perspective of  dialectics. The aim of the study is to expand the area of understanding the English  article system by showing that at the very elementary communicative level is more  relevantly indicated as a relational dialectical system rather than a simple binary one  as characterized in most traditional pedagogical grammar books. This research  attempts to reach this objective by interpreting such key metalingustic notions as  anaphoric generic uniqueness etc as well as the three main descriptors of the English  articles which involve article definite and indefinite For Plato dialogues or our Daily  communicational acts are fundamentally dialectical. Thus the base reasoning for his  research is that if we understand the Notion linked to dialectic or dialectical acts  better this will in turn help us comprehend our own dialogical acts in general and the  English articles as a key dialogical marker in particular.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2011-05]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[30]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Application of American Customer Satisfaction Index (Acsi) Government  Model to Health Services In Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The purpose of this research is to test the relationships between expectations, service  quality, satisfaction, complaints and citizen trust in the context of public health services in  Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) government  model is used as the research framework in this study. Initially proposed by Fornell, Johnson,  Anderson, Cha and Bryant (1996), ACSI model is the most well-known customer satisfaction  model in the US and in most parts of the world. As part of the proposed framework, public  perceptions of service quality, expectations, satisfaction, complaints and citizen trust were  measured for public health services with a self administered questionnaire. 212 completed  questionnaires were used in the data analysis. Research results show that service process, service  quality and satisfaction peceptions are main indicators of citizen trust for public health services in  Sarajevo.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2010-06]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[217]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2981">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Application of Fuzzy Pairwise Comparison to Farmer Attitude toward  Advertisement Techniques Used for Farm Tractors in Turkey]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[It is the purpose of this study to elicit the priorities of advertisement methods in which  the farmers takes into account while buying farm tractor. The data was gathered through a survey  that is covering randomly chosen farmers in Aydın. Fuzzy pairwise comparison was used as the  analysis technique. Mostly benefited advertisement methods such as field demonstrations, media  commercials, fairs, brochures and factory trips were assumed to impact the farmers during their  tractor buying process. The study showed that the most important advertisement method that  stimulates the farmers to buy tractor is field demonstrations with a weight of 0.87. The subsequent  methods are factory trips (0.50), exhibitions at fairs (0.41 and media commercials (0.15).]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2010-06]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[271]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2329">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Application On Determining Of Optimum Local Transporting System At Adapazari  City]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Adapazarı Town is the management center of the Sakarya City and the biggest town of  Sakarya. Transportation in Adapazarı City is being provided by Municipality buses,  minibuses, shared taxi and special buses. This has been both caused a deepen conflict which  is hard to be manage and intensive traffic problem. There is an intensive competition among  the minibuses, shared taxi and special buses. This situation has been reflected to Municipality  buses negatively. Additionaly, all passenger vehicles have been working with idle capacity.  This means that there are lots of passenger vehicles which working with idle capacity and  uncomfortable .  We calculated these specialties of minibuses and shared taxies at this study at below;   Idle Capacities   All expenditures   Daily, monthly ann annual incomes   Daily circle number   Capacities at new model   All expenditure at new model   Daily, monthly ann annual incomes at new model  At our model, minibuses and shared taxies have been combined and have gotten active on  their new routes. At our model includes these profits;   The more relaxed traffic.   The more suitable and comfortable passenger tranportation.   The more profits level for minibuses and shared taxies.   The less and fasten routes  Keywords: Transporting, Optimum level, New Regulation, Optimum Capacity, Idle Capacity.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1200]]></dcterms:extent>
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