Comparing of Welfare indicators between Turkey and European Union Member States

This study considered pre-selected socio-economic indicators of the first 15 members of the European Union, subsequent 9 countries from East and Central Europe and Turkey, analyzing the situations of countries and variables according to one another and betraying the possible commonalities and disparities between them. Aiming at finding possible similarities and disparities between them selected social economic indicators from EUROSTAT (2005 data were used) is acquired and by using related variables the multidimensional scaling analysis is applied. As a result of the multidimensional scaling analysis the obtained stress value for the two-dimensional configuration was 0,18. The k=2 dimension the stress value explains the data in the rate of 0,85387. It is important to look at the inflation rate and gini coefficient first, when the objective is to investigate the development and welfare indicators of a country. According to distances between Countries, higher welfare and development level was demonstrated in the first 15 members of the European Union. In the second dimension, the distances between the countries of East-Central Europe that subsequently joined the Union and Turkey show that they have similar welfare and development level.Multidimensional Scaling, Social Economics Indicators, EUROSTAT

Commonalities and Disparities among the EU Candidate

One of the important challenges of the European Union (EU) at the beginning of the 21st century is its enlargement. After the integration of the 12 countries in 2005 and 2007, the EU continues its strategy for stability, security and prosperity in Europe. The new candidate countries, at different levels of development, are Western Balkan countries and Turkey. The objective of the paper is to investigate the differences among the EU candidate countries according to the current measures of welfare/sustainability and to find their similarities and differences. This analysis of the differences and the similitude between candidate countries is done by using multidimensional scaling method (MDS) and hierarchical cluster analysis of sustainability, which takes into account, at the same time, economic, health, standard of living, people and environmental variables, as part of the multivariate statistical analysis technique - one of the basic methods of multidimensional scaling. Furthermore, MDS method allows a standardized (transformed) analysis of the data collected in different scales. This study is based on the data standardized by means of Z score transformation. The main conclusions of the analysis light up the differences between candidate countries and could be an important tool for the policy makers to focus their efforts on the difficult goal to join the European Union.multidimensional scaling, hierarchical cluster analysis, statistical analysis

The Watchdog Task: Concurrent error detection using assertions

The Watchdog Task, a software abstraction of the Watchdog-processor, is shown to be a powerful error detection tool with a great deal of flexibility and the advantages of watchdog techniques. A Watchdog Task system in Ada is presented; issues of recovery, latency, efficiency (communication) and preprocessing are discussed. Different applications, one of which is error detection on a single processor, are examined

ON THE FACILITATIVE ROLE OF THE ECONOMIST IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - CASE STUDY OF A GEORGIA SHRIMP HARBOR INVESTMENT

Community/Rural/Urban Development,

Investigation of Food Supply Chain Sustainability Performance for Turkey's Food Sector

YONTAR, EMEL/0000-0001-7800-2960; YONTAR, EMEL/0000-0001-7800-2960WOS:000543381800001Increasing product demands, environmental aspects, and overpopulation have an impact on the sustainability of a supply chain, especially in the food sector. In a food supply chain from production to consumption, there are many parameters (resources, packaging, waste management, etc.) that need to be taken into account for sustainability. The aim of this study is to determine the parameters affecting sustainable food supply chain management for the food sector and to measure the performance of the parameters along the supply chain. In this study, several performance indices and sub-criteria are defined by reviewing the indices previously discussed in the literature and accounting for expert opinions on the sustainable food supply chain. Customer satisfaction, resource utilization, product safety, innovation, reliability, company information, packaging, and waste management are defined as the parameters, as these are dimensions that should be improved in sustainable food supply chain management. The performance score for each dimension is calculated via Structural Equation Modeling and the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Customer satisfaction is calculated to have the highest performance, with a score of 86.23% in sustainable food supply chain management performance evaluation, followed by the product safety dimension, at 84.65%, while the performance index score of the reliability dimension is 82.97%, that of the packaging dimension is 78.81%, that of the company information dimension is 75.10%, that of resource utilization is 71.41%, and that of the waste management dimension is 67.83%. The sustainable food supply chain performance evaluation for the food sector in Turkey indicates that it has an overall performance of 79.7%. The results of this study include feedbacks on parameters in the food chain from agriculture to consumers

Behavioral regulations and dispositional flow in exercise among American college students relative to stages of change and gender

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine behavioral regulations and dispositional flow in exercise among university students in terms of gender and stage of change. Participants: Data were collected from American college students (N= 257;Mage±SD= 23.02 ± 4.05) in Spring 2013. Methods: Behavioral regulations and dispositional flow in exercise were assessed, along with stage of change. Results: Exercisers in the maintenance stage of change displayed significantly more self-determined motivation to exercise and a greater tendency to experience flow than those in preparation and action stages. Significant correlations were observed among behavioral regulations and flow state. Nonsignificant differences were observed for gender on behavioral regulations and dispositional flow in exercise. Conclusions: The results suggest that promotion of self-determined motivation and dispositional flow in exercisers may improve the quality of their experiences, as well as to foster their exercise behavior

Muhasebe meslek mensuplarinin bakis acilarindan kurumsal sosyal sorumluluk muhasebe iliskisi

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) which is applied in the whole world has become one of the most important concepts discussed on. CSR issue is the acceptance of responsibility for the business stakeholders and become a concept to ensure the to meet of these responsibilities to its stakeholders. For achieving the CSR activities of businesses, it is assumed that accounting is one of the important tools. In this study, we have tried to reveal the relationship between accounting and CSR. For this purpose, members of accounting profession in Akhisar were asked to evaluate their serving businesses and their accounting informations in terms of CSR. The data obtained in the survey were analyzed using the statistical package program. The study findings were evaluated than conclusions and recommendations were developed.peer-reviewe

DIPL 3851/CORE 3851 Religion, Law, War

This course will examine wars of religion and religious views of war, focusing particularly on how religion has informed the international laws of war. We are living through an era fraught with religious warfare - wars animated by religious conflict and wars that use religious abuse as weapons to demoralize and subdue the enemy. The course will focus on three major religious traditions (primarily Judaism, Christianity and Islam) and set in dialogue their respective views of war, assess their contributions to the contemporary laws of war, and examine particular historical episodes of religious conflict - as well as contrary episodes of religious toleration

The Electrodeposition of Chromium from Trivalent Salt Solutions

The enormous number of previous experiments and researches for the improvement of the commercial chromic acid bath, did not succeed even in the partial elimination of any one of the disadvantages of chromic acid bath. This led the author to believe that the poor performance is an inherent quality of the chromic acid bath, and is due to the fact that the deposition occurs from the higher state of oxidation

The Role of Ion Exchange in the Movement of Chemicals Through Periderm and Cuticular Membranes

This thesis is principally an investigation on the factors contributing to the role of ion exchange in the movement of chemicals through the potato periderm and pear fruit cuticular membranes. This was investigated by monitoring the penetration of alkali cations, neutral amino acids and some pesticides through the potato periderm and pear fruit cuticular membranes in terms of physicochemical parameters such as permeability, diffusion, selectivity and adsorption by using the infinite-dose system, finite-dose and sorption process. Isolated cuticles or periderms, which represent the prime barrier to penetration, provide a physical system by which transport studies can be conducted under well defined and highly controlled conditions. Most studies with isolated cuticles have focused on sorption, desorption and infinite-dose cuticular transport of chemical compounds in aqueous systems. Transport systems, using isolated cuticles or periderms, may be used to quantify the effects of permeability, sorption, environmental pollutants, foliar absorption and spray additives on pesticide penetration. The work can be subdivided as follows: A brief discussion was made on the background chemistry, structure and ion exchange properties of potato periderm and pear fruit cuticles with regard to the use of chemicals on isolated membrane samples. The mechanisms of penetration of chemicals, the nature and chemistry of the potato periderm and pear fruit cuticles and some of the interacting factors contributing to variability were considered. The focus was on the use of potato periderm and pear fruit cuticles as model systems. The ion exchange properties and counter ion selectivity of the potato periderm and pear fruit cuticles towards alkali cations were studied. The important role of ion exchange, pretreatment and counter ion selectivity were demonstrated by results on the capacity and selectivity of alkali ions, which generally followed the order; Li+> Na+> K+> Cs+. The ion exchange capacity and selectivity of the potato periderm and pear fruit cuticles depended on the different ionic forms, increasing with increasing pH and counter ion valence and decreasing with decreasing crystal radius. The titration curves obtained with NaOH in the presence of NaC1 depend markedly on pretreatment. Three separate groups can be distinguished over the pH ranges studied. Within these ranges, the first was between pH 3-5.5, the second between pH 5.5-9 and, the endpoint of the third group was estimated between pH 9-11.5. The isolated potato periderm and pear fruit cuticles exhibited a behaviour typical of highly cross-linked, high capacity ion exchange resins of the weak acid cation exchanger type. The adsorption equations obtained from plotting the experimental data gave a fair agreement with the Freundlich equation. Permeability and diffusion coefficients can be calculated from cuticular transport studies. These transport parameters provide a better understanding of the mechanisms of cuticular penetration phenomena. Further, they are useful when comparing both penetration characteristics of selected compounds and permeability studies. The details of penetration rates and the mechanisms of alkali cation uptake through the isolated potato periderm and pear fruit cuticles were determined. and the permeability and diffusion coefficients and, also from these parameters, relative values of permeability and diffusion coefficients were calculated. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.)