Factors affecting the success of internationally awarded Turkish chefs

IntroductionOver the past few decades restaurant business has boomed in Turkey. New styles and techniques are implemented to cuisine and chefs became more equipped in terms of skills and knowledge. However, there is a lack of a number of awarded Turkish chefs known in the international arena. Purpose:This paper tries to identify the operational and cultural factors related to the absence of Turkish chefs and restaurants in the culinary world.  The importance of this research is to analyze the reasons behind the success of Turkish award-winning chefs to help the young willing Turkish chefs throughout their career success paths to International Arena.Method and material: Semi-structured interviews are conducted with the award-winning Turkish chefs. The data gathered from the interviews are analyzed through the categorization of the factors previously found from the literature. Findings are discussed in this manner.Results and Discussion:Chefs’ philosophies which shape the concepts of their restaurants is the most important factor for success, the philosophy also triggers the creativity and innovation. Selection of products and employee in terms of the availability, quality, and sustainability is another important factor. Most of the chefs are having a struggle in costs and pricing since this factor mostly relies on the cultural profile of the customers

Supply chain collaboration : a case study in textile industry

Supply chain management (SCM) system is an integrated and collaborative network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers, and retailers, through which the whole chain of logistic processes is managed for a fast and flexible coordination between a company, its customers and suppliers within the chain. Among the members of supply chain, "collaboration," which is based on "sharing" sense - like information sharing, resource sharing, risk sharing and activity sharing - plays a critical role to implement an effective SCM. So, an increasing number of companies subscribe to the idea that developing long-term collaboration, cooperation and partnership, can take significant wastes out of the supply chain and provide a route for securing the best commercial advantage. However, the implementation of partnering involves radical changes, which can demand considerable work and is hard to implement. At this point, collaborative networks of enterprises, such as Tekstil Terbiye Teknolojileri A.S. (3T), have a crucial role to enable those enterprises to respond to consumer demand more quickly, integrate with suppliers more effectively, adapt to market variations more efficiently, and evolve product designs with manufacturing practices more seamlessly. Certainly, performance evaluation of this collaboration is very important for gaining and maintaining competitive advantage. Consequently, this thesis "Supply Chain Collaboration: A Case Study In Textile Industry" aims to investigate the current collaboration architecture of this network and to generate appropriate collaboration performance metrics for a convenient performance measurement system. Thus, performance of this collaborative system can be assessed in terms of these metrics to identify the improvement areas of the system

Synthesis and structural characterization of Fe based Ti+Ni3Al+Al2O3 reinforcement composite produced by mechanical alloying

The Fe-based Ti+Ni3Al+Al2O3 powder mixture is mechanically alloyed in a Spex ball mill. Composites with Fe-based Ti+Ni3Al+Al2O3 addition were produced at 1000 degrees C sintering temperature for 1 h sintering time. The metallurgical properties of these composites were examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), optical microscopy (OM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and microhardness analyses. The final products produced by mechanical alloying were nanocrystalline nickel-rich solid solution and the size of average crystallite was in the range of a few nanometres. Titanium content in the reinforcement increased microhardness values of composite. The produced composites included Fe3Al, TiAl, NiAl, Al3Ni2, Al2O3 and Fe3O phases.KAYALAR copper group; KAYALAR copper Industry and Trade Incorporated CompanyThis work was financially supported by the KAYALAR copper group. The authors are grateful to KAYALAR copper Industry and Trade Incorporated Company for their financial assistance in conducting the experiments

Coastal Uplift along the Eastern Black Sea Coast: New Marine Terrace Data from Eastern Pontides, Trabzon (Turkey) and a Review

International audienceAn emerged, Quaternary, marine terrace sequence has been investigated near Trabzon, Turkey, along a 20-km-long stretch of the coast of the southeastern Black Sea. The sequence includes seven principal marine terraces. The terraces are frequently compound and include up to three second-order marine terraces. The upper shoreline angles of the main terraces were found at the following maximum elevations above mean sea level: 3 ± 0.5 m (TH), 12 ± 3 m (T1), 36 ± 2 m (T2), 79 ± 9 m (T3), 120 ± 3 m (T4), 138 ± 10 m (T5), and 260 ± 25 m (T6). Fossil bivalves and gastropods from the TH, T1, T2, and T3 deposits have been dated by Electron Spin Resonance (ESR). The results show that the ages of the deposits from the TH, T1, T2, and T3 terraces are 5.141 ± 0.294 ka, 124.8 ± 26.0 ka, 292.5 ± 49.8 ka, and 407.998 ± 67.475 ka, respectively. Consequently, we correlate TH, T1, T2, and T3 to marine isotope stage (MIS) 1, 5e, 9, and 11, which correspond to 5, 123, 321, and 400 ka highstands, respectively. Estimated uplift rates deduced from the elevations of T1, T2, and T3 are 0.07 ± 0.05, 0.10 ± 0.02, 0.17 ± 0.03 mm/y or m/ka. These results show nonsteady, long-term uplift rates. Extrapolation of the oldest uplift rate (i.e., determined on the highest dated terrace) shows that in the region of Trabzon, Turkey, coastal, positive, vertical deformations are recorded at 2 Ma, which corresponds to the extrapolated age of the highest terrace in the sequence. Comparison with other sequences on the Black Sea coast reveals a rather weak uplift in this zone, which can be considered significative for the recent uplift of the Eastern Pontides

MICROSTRUCTURE AND WEAR PROPERTIES OF FeCrC, FeW AND FeTi MODIFIED IRON BASED ALLOY COATING DEPOSITED BY PTA PROCESS ON AISI 430 STEEL

The plasma transferred arc (PTA) process was used for developing wear resistance of AISI 430 steel substrate. Appropriate quantities of FeCrC, FeW and FeTi powders were combined to create conditions that synthesized M7C3 particles into reinforced Fe-based composite surface coating. The phase transformations on new created coated surfaces were comprehensively examined by using a combination of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), microanalysis by energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS), X-Ray diffraction (XRD), microhardness and abrasive wear tests. The microstructure studies of the superficial layers of the coating revealed presence of a mixture of the dendritic phase structure of austenite (gamma) and fine eutectic M7C3 carbides. The results show that; the concentrations of the elements (Cr, W, Ti) added as ferroalloys, the size of dendrites formed in the coated surface, the change of hardness of the coated surfaces, the carbide volume rate and thickness of the coating changed by the variation of the processing parameters (ratio of reinforcement particulates and heat input)

The effects of product and process innovations on employment growth: evidence from Turkey

This study aims to provide an empirical evidence on the relationship between innovation and employment growth at the firm level. I separately analyze the effects of the process and product innovations for Turkish manufacturing and service sector. Depending on data availability, I cover three consecutive periods: 2006-2008, 2008-2010 and 2010- 2012. I use the structural framework developed by Harrison et al. (2014). The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) which is collected by Turkish Statistical Office (Turkstat) provides me the data needed to disentangle the effects of product and process innovations on employment growth. I find that product innovations increase employment growth, whereas process innovations do not account for job destruction in the manufacturing sector, but are responsible for significant but small displacement effect during the period 2008-2010 and 2010-2012 in the service sector

Morfometric study on Scorzonera L. taxa (Asteraceae) from northeast Anatolia

Phenetic traits of 39 populations belonging to 19 taxa of Scorzonera L. (Asteraceae) from north Anatolia were analyzed with the use of numerical methods. Principal component analysis (PCA) showed that pubescence and length of achenes, the shape of outer phyllaries, and average length of flowering capitula, plant pubescence, root shape and state of the plant stem are the best variables to distinguish the examined taxa. In addition, it was also found that binary are more important than quantitative characters in discriminating the examined Scorzonera taxa. Numerical results based on 25 morphological characters were discussed and compared with traditional taxonomic treatments

Structural features of cold-formed steel profiles

Using capacity of cold-formed steel sections increases thanks to the opportunities which are offered by the developing technology. Low production cost and variety of profiles that can be produce easy, fast, high quality provide to improve its popularity as a structural material. In production, Sulphur and Phosphorous accumulation region occurs at intersection region of flanges and web of hot rolled steel profile. This causes to decrease strength of profile. Other difference between cold-formed and hot rolled steel sections is that mechanical properties of steel material homogeneously distributes throughout the profile. Both in frame and truss systems, cold-formed steel profiles develop both as main and secondary bearing element. These present variety options to the designers with pure, galvanized, aluminized applications. As with many building materials, mechanical behavior of cold-formed steel profile is quite complex due to the nature of thin walled steel sections. Design and analysis methods of cold-formed steel profile are rapidly shaped day by day. The general theory of beams investigated in past studies make possible analyses of cold-formed steel profile. Moreover, in structural systems, using of cold-formed steel profile provide height strength besides sustainable, environmentalist, green building because it requires less material and cost. Although these profiles have many advantages, use of cold-formed steel profiles in our country structures is rather limited unfortunately. New steel construction regulations in Turkey also do not mention cold-formed thin walled steel structure. Main purpose of this study reviews structural specifications of cold-formed steel profiles which are applied world-wide

The Office of Chief Judge of a Federal Court of Appeals

Article by Wilfred Feinberg, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1980–1988), regarding the history and duties of a chief judge of a court of appeals. Document includes handwritten notes and was originally published in the Fordham Law Review.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/events_programs_sonnet_articles/1004/thumbnail.jp

Synthesis of two phloroglucinol derivatives with cinnamyl moieties as inhibitors of the carbonic anhydrase isozymes I and II: an in vitro study

AbstractTwo cinnamyl-substituted phloroglucinols, 4-p-methoxycinnamyl phloroglucinol (9) and 4,6-bis-p-methoxycinnamyl phloroglucinol (10) were synthesized. Two carbonic anhydrases, human carbonic anhydrase I and II (hCA I and II), were purified. Kinetic interactions between these isozymes with 9 and 10 were investigated. These new compounds exhibited inhibitory effects on the hCA I and II enzymes' activity in vitro. The combination of the inhibitory effects of both phloroglucinol and p-coumaric acid groups in a single compound was explored. However, relative to the inhibitory effects of the two groups separately, compounds 9 and 10 demonstrated comparable inhibitory effects. More effective inhibitors of CAs could be created by testing these compounds on other CA isozymes