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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An evaluation on the similarities and differences of &quot;World Englishes&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[English is the global language now under the certain dynamics resulting that.  It is worldwide known and used in many contexts for various purposes.  “World Englishes” are called with different names such as ESL (English as a  second language), EFL (English as foreign language) and EIL (English as an  International Language) which is the core notion of that study. Each language presents a distinct cultural accumulation of a society and each culture presents  a distinct cultural accumulation. It is a hot debate which one is the outcome of  the other and depends on the point of view of the discussion. Anthropologists,  linguists and sociolinguists have studied on that for many years according to  interested field and gathered valuable data. In our study, we aim to provide an  understanding towards “English language” which displays totally different  characteristics because of its use worldwide. Our starting point is the famous  circle of world Englishes by Kachru. By basing our argument, cross  comparison of differences and similarities of world Englishes will be examined.  Through that examination, we will discuss which English and who’s English  to be taught.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1406]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2397">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Examination of Gifted Children’s Interests in Foreign Language Depending on Their Extraordinary Characteristics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Gifted children have many specific characteristics such as mental and developmental. One of the area in which gifted children having difference from their peers in terms of especially mental skills have demonstrated their difference is to think extraordinarily (Çağlar, 2004). According to Sak (2010), gifted people are the ones having extraordinary characteristics.     This study will be carried out with fifty gifted students under auspices of Eurasian Special Needs Education Research Association (ENSERA) in 2011. The study is descriptive model. Qualitative research methods are going to be used in order to collect data in the study. The data collected with semi-structured interview technique will be analyzed by using content analysis method.    The second foreign languages that the gifted children want to learn will be determined with the result of analysis. Besides, the reasons of why they want to learn that language and the evaluation of their learning these languages in terms of extraordinary characteristics will be examined.   ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[811]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/3155">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Examination of Teacher Candidates on the Turkish Consciousness]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Abstract:This study was undertaken to assess identify the state of Turkish  consciousness in the teacher candidates. In study were applied “Turkish  Consciousness Scale” (TCS) that developed by Yaman (2010). Students receive their  scores from Turkish Consciousness Scale, the arithmetic mean and standard  deviations were considered to be taken into consideration. In order to identify the  effect of individual variables, Mann Whitney U Test and Kruskal Wallis Tests.  Analysis showed that the variables of Turkish love of course, attended by teacher  candidates resulted in significant differences in teacher candidates perceptions  whereas the variables of gender, class and socioeconomic status did not affect the  perceptions of teacher candidates.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2010-06]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[702]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2043">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Examination Of The Typological Features Of Turkish]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Key words: Language, Turkish, Language typology,linguistics, applied linguistics  ABSTRACT  In this study, Turkish is examined in terms of language typologies and the language opportunities to the user of Turkish. Moreover, the easy and difficult characteristics of Turkish are aimed to explore. While attempting to investigate, description and comparison methods were used and the typological features of Turkish were examined in terms of the theory of language richness and perfection. That a language is a magical and perfect system is widely acknowledged by thinkers and linguists. Another agreement among the linguists is that languages resemble each other through certain features, therefore some gene! ralizations can be established. Given the typical instances of agglutinative languages, Turkish is suggested as a developing language of science, education and art, according to “Language Perfection Criteria” and the arguments are thought to provide useful insights to Turkish learners, material designers, language researchers and practitioners.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[IBU Publishing]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-03]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1910]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Example of Regional Development in Bosnia during the Ottoman Period: A Study on the Budgets of Gazi Husrev Bey Waqf’sbetween 1624-1629]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[In the Ottoman Empire, waqf’s (foundations) played a key role in regional development. Waqf’s were fulfilling many activities related to social, cultural and economic life in the settlements. Ghazi HusrevBey established a waqf in 1537 and has built a complex of buildings in Bosnia. This complex of buildings consists of mosque, madrasah, tomb, primary school, lodge, guest house, soup kitchen, hospice, bath, caravanserai, bazaar and library.  These all institutions of the Ghazi HusrevBeyWaqf have played an important role in regional economic development of Bosnia. Institutions that were established in the centre of city have played active role for regional development for centuries. The waqf has had an impact on not only economically, but socially, culturally and in the fields of public health in the development of region.     In this study, Ghazi HusrevBeyWaqf’s budgets will be examined years of 1624-25, 1625-26, 1626-27, 1627-28, and 1628-29. Thus, after nearly half a century the waqf&#039;s income and expense will be examined in detail through financial records.  Revenues of the waqf consist of the farm, caravanserai, bath, inns and shops for rent in the bazaar and revenues of tax-farming. The expenses of the waqf consist of salaries of employees in mosque and hospice, hospice’s needs for food and other needs of waqf’s institution. With these establishments, waqf created employment in the area and by demanding goods and services from the city and regional market made an economic liveliness in the regional economy.  These five-year financial records show us waqf’s yearly income and outcome activities. Waqf’s budgets were derived from the Ottoman Archives in Istanbul.    Keywords: Regional Economic Development, Ottoman, Bosnia, Ghazi HusrevBey, Waqf.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04-24]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2445]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Excel Solver Model for a Blending Type Optimization Problem in  Mining with Quadratic Programming]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[A Stochastic non-linear optimization model using Quadratic Programming  (QP) is presented for a hypothetical blending type problem in mining industry.  Microsoft Excel 10.0 Solver is used to develop the model for a three-seam coal mine  and data are hypothetically generated for a case study problem. Optimum quantities of  each run of mine (r.o.m) coal with variability in calorific values to be fed to a nearby  power plant are determined with given specifications. QPs arise directly in such  applications as least-squares regression with bounds or linear constraints, robust data  fitting, Markowitz portfolio optimization, data mining, support vector machines and  tribology. They also arise as sub problems in optimization algorithms for nonlinear  programming and in stochastic optimization.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2009-06]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[508]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/3131">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Experiment Aimed at Gender Apartheids Being Evaluated In Terms of  The Trust Factor]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The trust factor is an important topic for all companies. It is important  especially in order to provide the loyalty of employee and high motivation. In that  study being experimented the trust factors impacts on the gender apartheid in the  companies, it is defined that the perception of gendern apartheid haven‘t  developed in the companies having the trust factor and all employees have  showed similar tendency , as well. It is concluded that the trust factor for the  company is highly in company, having been done research.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2010-06]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[234]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY FOR COMPARING THE EFFECT OF THE  MAGNETIC FIELD ON HUMAN HEALTH AROUND TRANSFORMERS IN  SINUSOIDAL AND NON-SINUSOIDAL CURRENT CONDITIONS]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[It is known that high voltage transmission lines are used for energy transmission to decrease  power losses and increase system efficiency. The energy, which is transmitted at high  voltages for long distances, is distributed at medium voltages through a step-down  transformer near residential areas. Then the energy is introduced to the end users by reducing  the voltage to lower levels. Today, these transformer stations are planted as close as possible  to living areas to enhance system efficiency. These transformer stations placed in urban areas  cause magnetic fields to occur due to the reason of carrying high load currents. Especially due  to the decreasing voltage level at these mentioned transformer substations, the load current  increases significantly. Because of that, magnetic field strength is enhanced near these urban  areas. Additionally, according to the developing technology, characteristic currents of  electrical loads are changed at recent years. High penetration of power electronic loads in  industrial applications cause a significant increase in high frequency components in the  current drawn from electric grid. Similarly, these currents also generate magnetic fields which  consists high frequency components. As known there may be some influences to people who  is exposed to a magnetic field over a threshold value for quite a while. For this reason, some  standards were published to limit the magnetic field strength and exposure time values. In this  study, magnetic field variations around a transformer are analyzed for several loading  conditions with and without harmonics. For this purpose a test system with electronic load  bank, transformer and regulator is built on laboratory and tests are done in several loading  conditions. The gathered results are analyzed for sinusoidal and non-sinusoidal current  conditions considering the standards.  Keywords: Human Health, Transformer, Harmonics, Magnetic Field]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-05-15]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2498]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 978-9958-834-36-3     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2001">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Exploration into the Relationship between Iranian EFL Learners’ Autonomy and Their Reading Comprehension]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Key words: learner autonomy, reading comprehension  ABSTRACT  The purpose of the study was to explore the relationship among EFL learners’ autonomy and their reading comprehension. To fulfill this objective, 130 sophomore and junior students majoring in English Translation who had passed at least 45 credits at two Iranian universities were asked to take part in a piloted PET reading comprehension test and a questionnaire on learner autonomy (Spratt, Humphreys, &amp; Chan, 2002). After discarding incomplete answer sheets, 106 acceptable cases (82 female and 24 male) were used in statistical analysis. Regarding the correlation analysis of data, a statistically significant relationship was not found between autonomy and reading comprehension. This outcome was analytically interpreted with respect to the perception that, although autonomy may ultimately lead to greater proficiency of EFL language learners (Benson ,2001; Corno &amp; Mandinach ,1983; Dafei ,2007; Zhang &amp; Li ,2004), when the relationship is considered between autonomy and reading comprehension in particular, a significant correlation is not established. Based on the findings of this study, pedagogical implications were presented for EFL teachers and syllabus designers.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[IBU Publishing]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-03]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1782]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Exploration of Instructors’ Role in Implementing Group Work When Teaching English with Particular Reference to Debre Birhan College of Teachers Education]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Key words: Implementation of Group Work in Teaching English  ABSTRACT  The main objective of this study was to explore English Language Instructors’ role in Higher Education Institutions in implementing group work. To this end, Debre Birhan College of Teacher Education was selected as a study area. To gather information from the subjects (6 English Language Teachers and 75 students from Language Department) three instruments (questionnaire, class room observation and interview) were used. All English Language teachers who were giving different English Language courses as well as 30% of the total number of the students (75 in number) were taken as a subject. Simple random sampling was used to select the sample students; besides, to ensure proportionality of the two sexes as well as to take the proportitional number of students from each batch stratified sampling was also employed. The result of the study clearly showed that all the teachers were frequently incorporating group work when teaching English. Furthermore, from the students’ questionnaire, it was found that the majority of the students wanted to learn through group work and they had the experience of learning through it. In addition, it was found that the majority of the instructors appeared to have adequate understandings about the various roles they were expected to play when using group work in teaching English. However, from the classroom observations and the students’ response, it was found that the majority of instructors were not efficiently playing their expected roles in group work. And, though the study showed some factors which hinder instructors from playing their expected roles effectively in group work, it was also concluded that the major factor is negligence. Finally, based on the result obtained through the three instruments, it was concluded that group work was not properly implemented by the majority of English Language teachers. Hence, the importance of preparing short or long term trainings regarding group work especially for teachers by any concerned bodies as well as some other possible solutions were recommended to alleviate the problems regarding group Work.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[IBU Publishing]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-03]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1841]]></dcterms:extent>
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