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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Dynamics of Knowledge Society Transformation in  Sustainable Economic Development Process]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Life-time welfare improvement is one of the objectives of humankind.  Therefore, primary objectives of economic development focus on solving  problems about accommodation, nutrition, education, health, clean water,  energy, working conditions, etc. to provide a better life for humans. In this  century, information and communication technologies are rapidly  developing. One of the most significant impacts of information  technologies is making countries dependent to each other. For that reason,  most of the countries are continuously interacting with all or some  countries in economic, political, social, cultural, military, etc. fields. In this  context, this paper will discuss the dynamics of knowledge society  transformation in sustainable economic development process, in details.  Keywords: Sustainable Economic Development, Knowledge Society,  Information and Communication Technologies, Economic Development,  Economy.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-10]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1645]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 978-9958-834-23-3     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/3395">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Effect of a Rational Emotional Behavior Therapy (REBT) Group Counseling Program on the Internet Addiction among University Students]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Internet addiction is a common problem in our universities as the number of Internet  users are increased. The Internet has positive aspects including informative, convenient, resourceful  and fun, but for the addicts, these benefits develop into severe disadvantages. We examined the  effect of a REBT group counseling program derived from choice theory and control theory of  reality therapy theory for group counseling on the Internet addiction among university students.  Participants in the treatment group attended the REBT group counseling program that was held one  session per week for 10 consecutive weeks, whereas the participants in the control group received  no treatment. The findings indicated that the treatment program effectively reduced Internet  addiction among university students. At the same time, the results revealed the significant effects of  the REBT group counseling program on the dependent variables.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2009-06]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[385]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/3101">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Effect Of Capital Movements Liberalisation On Economical  Development: Boundary Test Approach]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[In this study, liberalization of capital movements‘ impact on economic growth in  Turkey has been investigated by the approach of the bounds testing. According to the empirical  findings of study, in both long and short-term, capital movements impact on economic growth is  statistically insignificant. This result is far from meeting our theoretical expectations.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2010-06]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[267]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2962">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Effect of Current Density and pH of Cadmium Removal by  Electrochemical Processes]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Removal of cadmium from synthetically prepared solution using  electrochemical processes is studied in the present study. To determine the optimum  operation conditions, the effect of several parameters such as current density and  initial solution pH have been investigated. Iron electrode was used as electrode  materials. Experiments were carried out with different current densities ranging from  0.25 to 1.25 A/m2. It was observed that the removal of cadmium increases with  increasing current densities. The distance of between electrodes was chosen as 5 mm.  Initial cadmium concentrations was kept constant at 100 mg/L while other  parameters such as current density and initial solution pH were investigated.  Cadmium concentration in the solution was determined using Atomic absorption  spectrophotometer. The experimentally obtained results were shown that  electrochemical processes were achieved to cadmium removal (e.g. 99.99%) from  synthetically prepared solution.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2010-06]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[583]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/1786">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Effect of Daynamic Assessment on Iranian Efl Learner&#039;s Use of Discourse Markers in Their Writing]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[This study investigates the impact of Daynamic Assessment on Iranian EFL Learner’s use of discourse markers in their writing. The participants of the study were 60 undergraduate students , who were learning English at the Zabansara institute of Marand. For eliciting the necessary data, participants were given a pretest of writing ability to check their initial knowledge about using of discourse markers in their writing. We divided participants to two groups, control and experimental . The experimental group were then exposed to explicit instruction of discourse markers by Daynamic Assessment approach , for six successive sessions. The control group received no instruction. Finally, a post test was administered to them for measuring their writing ability with discourse markers in focus. The findings indicated generally that explicit instruction of discourse markers by Daynamic Assessment approach significantly improves EFL Learner’s use of discourse markers in their writing. These findings call practitioners to pay more attention to discourse markers in their writing , which their using of discourse markers and their writing ability developed by explicit instruction of discourse markers through DA approach.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[IBU Publishing]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-03]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1930]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/1585">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Effect of Degree of CEO Turnover on Firm  Performance in High-tech vs. Low-tech Firms: Evidence  from Turkey]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The main responsibility of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is to form and  implement strategic goals, policies and plans of the firms. Researchers  showed that the change of CEO who is on the top position of the  organization has positive or negative impacts on firm performance. The  decision of CEO’s change and who will be the new CEO is an extremely  important issue especially for the firms. The change of CEO in the firms is  carried out in two ways. The first is an external mandatory change  occurred as a result of deterioration of their financial performance due to  economic crisis, intense competition and other compelling reasons. In this  case, there are performance improvements expectations by changing the  CEO with identified a new and better strategies. The second is an internal  voluntary change that occurs when the CEO resigns because of better  career expectations and opportunities. In this case, board of directors  often selects a new CEO from among the members of the board of the  directors who knows well firm’s current valid long-term strategies goals,  policies and strategies. As result of this change, the new CEO does not  major changes in the firm. Thus, firms generally do not face a bad  performance.  In the literature, It is not yet seen any study which measures the impact of  the degree of CEO turnover on the firm performance in Turkey. In the  international literature, factors that determine the rate of CEO turnover  have not been examined by differentiating the high-tech and low-tech  firms yet. In this study, it is primarily aimed to determine the effect of the  CEO turnover rate on the firm financial performance in the 175 firms  registered and traded in the İstanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) between the  years 2005-2011. It is secondly aimed to find out if there are differences in  terms of the affects of CEO turnover rate on financial performance in the high-tech and low-tech firms. The degree of CEO turnover is used as the  dependent variable in this study. On the other hand, Return on Assets  (ROA) Return on Equity (ROE) and Tobin’s q(Q) are used as performance  indicators or measures. Other independent variables are firms’ sales, total  assets, leverage ratio and liquidity level. Hypotheses developed will be  tested by analysis examining the interactions between the degree of CEO  turnover and financial performance indicators, leverage and liquidity  ratios. In addition, factors that effect CEO turnover rate will be determined  in the high-tech and low-tech firms and then similarities and differences  among these firms will be exposed.  Keywords: Firm Performance, Ceo Turnover, Turkey, ROA, ROE.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-10]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1646]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 978-9958-834-23-3     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2965">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Effect of Different Soil Regulators on Quality Tomatoes]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Soil structure are very important factor at plant growing. Plants take water  and plant nutrients via their roots. If the factors such as water holding capacity and  porosity of soil is good enough, yield and quality of plant will be increased. Tomato is  valuable plant both for the fresh fruit market and the processed food industries. It is  grown in a wide range of climates in the field and under protection.The aim of this  research is to determine the effect of different soil regulators (zeolite, peat, Terra  Cottem, organik fertilizer) on tomato quality. They were mixed into the soil before  planting. At the end of the research, while organic fertilizer has the highest value in  terms of fruit weight and fruit diameter, control treatment has the highest value at fruit  lenght. According to the results, organic fertilizer is able to be mixed into soil for much  better fruit quality.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2010-06]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[325]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/756">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Effect of Directors’ Index on Firm Performance: Evidence from BIST100 Firms]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[   Following corporate scandals including those effecting Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom, the implications of corporate governance principles have played a critical role in determining the success of the companies around the world. Turkish Capital Market Board also issued corporate governance principles with the aim of enhancing the corporate governance regulations in July 2003. This study shed lights on the relation between corporate governance quality and firm performance of firms listed in Borsa İstanbul 100 indexes (BIST100). With accepting corporate governance as a mechanism to reduce the agency conflicts between managers and shareholders, we assume that this reduction results with increased firm performance. We differentiate this study from the existing literature by accepting directors’ index (DINDEX) as a proxy for corporate governance quality for the companies existed in Bist100. We follow Bushee et al. (2010) to create DINDEX. This index examines the strength of board characteristics for a particular firm and includes five different dimensions: CEO-chairman duality, the presence of board interlocks, attendance of board meetings, board size and the percentage of independent directors.    We examine the relation between corporate governance quality and firm performance for the firms listed in BIST100 1999-2013. We have 328 observations of firms per year in our Panel-data set. ‘Return on Assets’ is our proxy for firm performance. We use following specific characteristics of firms: total firm assets, operating expenses, liquidity, leverage, firm age and research and development expenditures. We use ‘Fixed Effect Panel Regressions’ in our analysis so that we account for time-invariant firm-level omitted variables that could bias our results. Our findings indicate that DINDEX does not have any effect on corporate performance of BIST100 firms. As a second step, we examine the relation between firm performance and DINDEX for each industry in our dataset. We find that among the firms in electricity industry, those that have high level of corporate governance quality also have high level of firm performance. We explain this result with the quick adjustments of these firms to the changes in corporate governance.    Keywords: Firm Performance, DINDEX, Corporate Governance Quality, BIST100, Panel Data.     ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2579]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/762">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Effect of Emotional Intelligence on Self Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Intentions: An Application of Business Students]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship is linked with value creation and, as such, is thought to have a significant impact on economic growth, continuous business renewal, and employment (Tang and Koveos, 2004). Therefore, entrepreneurship has a great importance in today&#039;s economic system and is considered as the main driving force of economic development. It is essential for individuals to have entrepreneurial self efficacy and intentions of entrepreneurship to identify the opportunities in their environment and create value from these opportunities. Self-efficacy is an individual’s cognitive estimate of his or her ‘‘capabilities to mobilize the motivation, cognitive resources, and courses of action needed to exercise control over events in their lives’’ (Wood and Bandura, 1989). Entrepreneurial self efficacy reflects an individual&#039;s capability to successfully fulfill his/her tasks of entrepreneurship (Chan et al., 1998:301). An entrepreneurial intention is defined as the conscious state of mind that directs personal attention, experience, and behavior toward planned entrepreneurial behavior (Bird, 1988). This study focuses on the emotional intelligence factor which is thought to affect individuals&#039; entrepreneurial self efficacy and intention of entrepreneurship. Emotional intelligence which is the ability of people in coping and adapting with life events depends on cooperation of intellectual and emotional capacities (Salovey and Mayer, 1993) so it is an important construct of entrepreneurship’s development. To test research hypotheses, data will be gathered from students at the Business Program of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in a university in Turkey. The data obtained will be analyzed using appropriate statistical methods and in accordance with this analysis it will be determined whether level of individuals&#039; emotional intelligence affects self efficacy and entrepreneurial intentions.    Keywords: Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial self efficacy, intention of entrepreneurship, emotional intelligence.  ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2617]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2186">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on Import Demand: Evidence from Turkey]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Since 2001 financial crisis, Turkey has adopted fluctuating exchange rate regime in order to  make the economy stronger against external shocks. This has lead to a high volatility of  Turkish lira against to foreign currencies. Therefore, it became essential for policy makers to  evaluate the potential effects of exchange rate volatility on international trade. The purpose of  this study is to provide new evidence on the effects of exchange rate volatility on the import demand of Turkey along with income and price elasticities. Our data cover the period 2010:01  to 2010:05. We, initially, employed a GARCH model to evaluate exchange rate volatility one  of the independent variables that estimate real import. The study also includes conventional  determinants such as relative price level of imports and real GDP. Afterwards, our paper  investigates long-run and short-run relationship between real imports and its determinants by  using ARDL error correction model. The empirical results indicate that real exchange rate  volatility of local currency has significant and reverse effect on import demand.  Keywords: Exchange rate volatility, Import demand, GARCH model, ARDL error correction  model, Turkey.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1312]]></dcterms:extent>
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