Kanaat Lokantası

Taha Toros Arşivi, Dosya No: 112-Lokantalarİstanbul Kalkınma Ajansı (TR10/14/YEN/0033) İstanbul Development Agency (TR10/14/YEN/0033

After Bergson: Temporal Countermoves in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar\u27s The Time Regulation Institute and Uwe Johnson\u27s Speculations about Jakob

As modernity, that hopeful age of man and reason, broke from the inside out –– with World War 2, with Holocaust, with totalitarian attempts at modernization across the globe –– many frustrated artists turned their attention to dissecting and criticizing it, if not abandoning it wholly for something better. One specific focus of this pushback has been how modernity perceived daily and historical time, its philosophical arms-supplier being Henri Bergson, the fin-de-siecle French thinker on time. Here I read two 1950s novels, one from authoritarian-capitalist Turkey and the other from communist East Germany, as philosophical novels inspired by Bergson –– Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s The Time Regulation Institute and Uwe Johnson’s Speculations about Jakob –– and catalogue the many intriguing ways in which they criticize the abstract time of hours and seconds and the linear and teleological understanding of history. In the end arises a cross-national upholding of Bergsonian duration, an understanding of time as movement instead of a series of moments, both in the life of the individual and that of political peoples, from which blooms a recognition of human freedom

Neoliberal Urbanism in Turkey: A Synopsis, Two Cases

In this project I explore neoliberal urbanism in Turkey. After defining neoliberalism and neoliberal urbanism, and giving an overview of Turkish economic history, I present the established case of Istanbul as a neoliberal city. Then I explore an instance of urban renewal in Antalya as an example of neoliberal urbanism. I end the project by pointing to an alternative. (Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Reservoir characterization using intelligent seismic inversion

Integrating different types of data having different scales is the major challenge in reservoir characterization studies. Seismic data is among those different types of data, which is usually used by geoscientists for structural mapping of the subsurface and making interpretations of the reservoir\u27s facies distribution. Yet, it has been a common aim of geoscientists to incorporate seismic data in high-resolution reservoir description through a process called seismic inversion.;In this study, an intelligent seismic inversion methodology is presented to achieve a desirable correlation between relatively low-frequency seismic signals, and the much higher frequency wireline-log data. Vertical seismic profile (VSP) is used as an intermediate step between the well logs and the surface seismic. Generalized regression neural network (GRNN) is used to build two correlation models between; (1) Surface seismic and VSP, (2) VSP and well logs both using synthetic seismic data, and real data taken from the Buffalo Valley Field

Kuruçeşme Divan

Taha Toros Arşivi, Dosya No: 112-Lokantalarİstanbul Kalkınma Ajansı (TR10/14/YEN/0033) İstanbul Development Agency (TR10/14/YEN/0033

Extracting product development intelligence from web reviews

Product development managers are constantly challenged to learn what the consumer product experience really is, and to learn specifically how the product is performing in the field. Traditionally, they have utilized methods such as prototype testing, customer quality monitoring instruments, field testing methods with sample customers, and independent assessment companies. These methods are limited in that (i) the number of customer evaluations is small, and (ii) the methods are driven by a restrictive structured format. Today the web has created a new source of product intelligence; these are unsolicited reviews from actual product users that are posted across hundreds of websites. The basic hypothesis of this research is that web reviews contain significant amount of information that is of value to the product design community. This research developed the DFOC (Design - Feature - Opinion - Cause Relationship) method for integrating the evaluation of unstructured web reviews into the structured product design process. The key data element in this research is a Web review and its associated opinion polarity (positive, negative, or neutral). Hundreds of Web reviews are collected to form a review database representing a population of customers. The DFOC method (a) identifies a set of design features that are of interest to the product design community, (b) mines the Web review database to identify which features are of significance to customer evaluations, (c) extracts and estimates the sentiment or opinion of the set of significant features, and (d) identifies the likely cause of the customer opinion. To support the DFOC method we develop an association rule based opinion mining procedure for capturing and extracting noun-verb-adjective relationships in the Web review database. This procedure exploits existing opinion mining methods to deconstruct the Web reviews and capture feature-opinion pair polarity. A Design Level Information Quality (DLIQ) measure which evaluates three components (a) Content (b) Complexity and (c) Relevancy is introduced. DLIQ is indicative of the content, complexity and relevancy of the design contextual information that can be extracted from an analysis of Web reviews for a given product. Application of this measure confirms the hypothesis that significant levels of quality design information can be efficiently extracted from Web reviews for a wide variety of product types. Application of the DFOC method and the DLIQ measure to a wide variety of product classes (electronic, automobile, service domain) is demonstrated. Specifically Web review databases for ten products/services are created from real data. Validation occurs by analyzing and presenting the extracted product design information. Examples of extracted features and feature-cause associations for negative polarity opinions are shown along with the observed significance

Marital Rape

DergiPark: 379027tmsjSexual violence is defined as the act of exposing someone to a sexual behaviour without one’s consent. It includes a large spectrum of behaviours from touching to raping. The majority of the victims are women. Rape is the act of having sexual intercourse with a person without his/her consent. The concept of marital rape has been overlooked for years because of the ideology that promotes men have the right to treat their wives as they wish and the wife must provide her husband with all his needs. Today with the changes and developments in the concepts of marriage, the increase in the awareness of the society and the understanding of the notion of violence against women; it has been understood that sexual intercourse should be mutually desired by both parties of the married couple. Otherwise it should be considered as sexual assault/violenc

Develi Restaurant

Taha Toros Arşivi, Dosya No: 112-Lokantalarİstanbul Kalkınma Ajansı (TR10/14/YEN/0033) İstanbul Development Agency (TR10/14/YEN/0033