224 research outputs found
TV Series in Turkish Foreign Policy: Aspects of Hegemony and Resistance
This article examines the ways in which (pop or) popular culture may fall within the context of foreign policy. More specifically, it situates our analysis against such backdrop by delving into how Turkey effectively exports pop culture, propaganda and positive images of itself via the use of television (TV) shows. To that end, notable Turkish soap operas market its ancient glorious past. Admittedly, these telenovelas form a salient cultural product export for Turkey as they reach diverse and far-away audiences – from Latin America to Russia, Central Asia, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Balkans, to merely name a few. Paradoxically, the frenzy has even reached places like Greece. Not to mention, Serbia or Israel, with the latter’s phenomenal success accompanied also with some backlash. Therefore, the current study seeks to better understand the magnitude alongside the impact of Turkey’s achievement given how it comprises a multi-million-dollar industry, by partially unearthing what makes Turkish TV series so powerful the world over. Further, this research firstly presents an analysis of the hegemonic efforts before presenting the limitations to its success by thoroughly covering the empirical data while, theoretically framing it.Â
Degenerate limit thermodynamics beyond leading order for models of dense matter
Analytical formulas for next-to-leading order temperature corrections to the
thermal state variables of interacting nucleons in bulk matter are derived in
the degenerate limit. The formalism developed is applicable to a wide class of
non-relativistic and relativistic models of hot and dense matter currently used
in nuclear physics and astrophysics (supernovae, proto-neutron stars and
neutron star mergers) as well as in condensed matter physics. We consider the
general case of arbitrary dimensionality of momentum space and an arbitrary
degree of relativity (for relativistic mean-field theoretical models). For
non-relativistic zero-range interactions, knowledge of the Landau effective
mass suffices to compute next-to-leading order effects, but in the case of
finite-range interactions, momentum derivatives of the Landau effective mass
function up to second order are required. Numerical computations are performed
to compare results from our analytical formulas with the exact results for
zero- and finite-range potential and relativistic mean-field theoretical
models. In all cases, inclusion of next-to-leading order temperature effects
substantially extends the ranges of partial degeneracy for which the analytical
treatment remains valid.Comment: 28 pages, 8 figure
Thermal properties of hot and dense matter with finite range interactions
We explore the thermal properties of hot and dense matter using a model that
reproduces the empirical properties of isospin symmetric and asymmetric bulk
nuclear matter, optical model fits to nucleon-nucleus scattering data,
heavy-ion flow data in the energy range 0.5-2 GeV/A, and the largest
well-measured neutron star mass of 2 . Results of this model
which incorporates finite range interactions through Yukawa type forces are
contrasted with those of a zero-range Skyrme model that yields nearly identical
zero-temperature properties at all densities for symmetric and asymmetric
nucleonic matter and the maximum neutron star mass, but fails to account for
heavy-ion flow data due to the lack of an appropriate momentum dependence in
its mean field. Similarities and differences in the thermal state variables and
the specific heats between the two models are highlighted. Checks of our exact
numerical calculations are performed from formulas derived in the strongly
degenerate and non-degenerate limits. Our studies of the thermal and adiabatic
indices, and the speed of sound in hot and dense matter for conditions of
relevance to core-collapse supernovae, the thermal evolution of neutron stars
from their birth and mergers of compact binary stars reveal that substantial
variations begin to occur at sub-saturation densities before asymptotic values
are reached at supra-nuclear densities.Comment: 47 pages, 40 figure
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