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Assessing competition in the Turkish cement industry: insights from the boone indicator
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024-08) Yıldız, Hakan; Köprücü, Yılmaz; Şengül, Serkan; 355807
Purpose – This paper investigates the degree of competitiveness within the Turkish cement industry, employing firm-level quarterly data spanning from 2008 to 2016. Design/methodology/approach – To assess the level and trajectory of competition among Turkish cement firms, we employ the Boone indicator (β) as formulated by Boone (2008). This indicator, rooted in the concept of relative profit differences (RPD), serves as a robust metric for gauging competitive dynamics. According to the ß indicator, firms exhibiting higher relative efficiency are expected to secure greater profits and market shares in a fiercely competitive market. Additionally, we utilize concentration indices for the purpose of revealing comparable findings. Findings – Empirical findings reveal that an enhancement in firms’ efficiency corresponds to a proportionally modest increase in either market share or profits, implying a lower degree of competition within the Turkish cement industry. Although the specific magnitudes of ß estimates exhibit temporal fluctuations, we may conclude that the Turkish cement industry does not conform to the ideals of perfect competition. The concentration indices calculated on the sample also support this result. Research limitations/implications – This research is limited to the Turkish cement companies over the period 2008–2016. Originality/value – The studies measuring the level of competition in the Turkish cement sector are generally based on concentration ratios. In this study, we assess the competition level by using a different methodology based on parametric procedures.
Çanakkale war propaganda posters evaluation according to graphic design
(Livre de Lyon, 2025-11) Ayçe, Mehmet Taragay; Ayçe, Meryem İlayda; 21436; Turan, Ersin; İris, Mesut
Jean Jacques Rousseau once said, “The moment a man fenced a piece of land and said ‘this is mine,’ equality among people was destroyed and wars began.” (Ayhan, 2007). Throughout human history, wars have inevitably affected human life, sometimes causing great destruction and even the complete annihilation of civilizations. With the advancement of technology and its integration into daily life, developments in the field of warfare have resulted in armies becoming more powerful, mobile, and destructive. Alongside technological advancements, political movements and media institutions worldwide have also transformed. Before going to war, countries have had to use media and propaganda as effectively as warfare itself to justify their actions to their own people and to other countries. Indeed, propaganda efforts have often proven to be more effective than military actions. During World War I, European states, seeking colonies and land, engaged in propaganda efforts to justify their actions to the world’s people and gain military support. Prior to and during the Gallipoli Campaign, the propaganda efforts of the British, French, and Australian governments led to groups that had never before confronted each other to unleash death upon one another from opposing trenches. Counter-propaganda efforts during wartime have been employed in many wars since and are still in use today.
Dynamics of Wheat Production In Early Republican Türkiye (1925–1960)
(AVAZ Akademik Düşünce Derneği, 2025-05) Canbay, Şerif; Şengül, Serkan; 278780; 355807
This study aims to analyze the socioeconomic and energy-based factors determining wheat production in Türkiye between 1925 and 1960 using econometric methodology. In the early Republican period, the agricultural sector was structured as one of the main axes of economic development, and wheat, as a strategic crop, was at the center of both production policies and support mechanisms. In this study, wheat production is explained by variables such as per capita income level, number of students enrolled in primary school, electricity production and crude oil price, and the ARDL bounds test approach is used in the model established with annual data. The findings reveal that electricity generation and economic growth support production in the long run, whereas the education indicator has a limiting effect on production. The lagged effects of oil prices, on the other hand, indicate that cost pressures have negative effects on production over time. Short-run analyses reveal that the effects of variables vary over time and that production decisions are affected not only by technical but also by structural transformation processes. The study provides a historical data-based contribution to explain the multidimensional structure of agricultural production in the first 35 years of the Republic.
E-learning perceptions of prospective accountants impact on quality of work life
(Temar, 2024-11) Özbek, Ali; Boz, Dursun; 331826; Kurnaz, Niyazi; Akıncı, Adil
Students who graduated from relevant departments of universities and want to improve themselves in the field of accounting take the internship start exam and are referred to as candidate accountants if they meet the necessary conditions. While candidate accountants experience various e-learning processes until they become members of the profession, the evaluation of this situation in terms of work and life quality is of great importance for the profession. This study was designed to reveal the effects of candidate accountants' e-learning perceptions on work and life quality. İn the pilot study, data were collected from 104 candidate accountants working in Istanbul using a survey method. The data were analyzed in the SPSS 24.0 statistics program using empirical methods. As a result of the study, it was determined that the e-learning perceptions of candidate accountants which constitute the main theme of the accounting profession have an effect on the quality of their work life.
Economic and Demographic Effects of Public Pension Expenditures: The Case of Türkiye
(Sivas Cumhuriyet University, 2025-02) Şengül, Serkan; 355807
This study investigates the economic and demographic factors affecting public pension expenditures in Türkiye and provides significantinformation about the sustainability of the country's social security system. Using annual data from 1980 to 2019, the study employed the ARDL bounds testing approach to examine the short and long-run effects of GDP per capita, public debt, tax revenues, and the elderly dependency ratio on pension expenditures. The 2001 economic crisis led to a structural break, which is modeled by adding a dummy variable. The results show that GDP per capita reduces pension expenditures in the long run, reflecting the mitigating effect of economic growth on fiscal pressure. In contrast, public debt exerts a notably positive impact, highlighting the fiscal burden of pension financing through borrowing. Tax revenues show a limited but positive effect, while the elderly dependency ratio emerges as the most influential determinant, highlighting the challenges posed by the demographic transition. The short-run analysis confirms a rapid return to equilibrium, pointing to a robust error correction mechanism. The findings underscore the need for social security reforms, including measures to raise the retirement age, increase private pension participation, and address demographic challenges. Despite its contributions, the study is limited by not including variables such as health expenditures and labor market dynamics. Nevertheless, it provides a valuable framework for policymakers to develop growth-oriented policies, ensure fiscal discipline, and promote sustainable social security systems. These insights are relevant not only for Türkiye but also for other countries facing similar demographic and economic pressures, making this study an important contribution to the ongoing debate on pension system reforms.
Evaluating Environmental Performance in the Turkish Cement Industry
(Springer, 2025-04) Yıldız, Hakan; Şengül, Serkan; Köprücü, Yılmaz; 355807; Tsounis, Nicholas; Vlachvei, Aspasia
The purpose of this study is to investigate the environmental performance of the Turkish cement industry. Employing the data set of 8 firms operating in the cement industry and using Data Envelopment Analysis, we estimate the CO2 efficiency in the industry. The empirical findings suggest that the average carbon efficiency in the sector is approximately 71%, indicating substantial room for efficiency enhancement through innovative production techniques and alternative fueluse. However, asignificant reduction intechnical efficiency hasbeen observable over the years. Promoting sustainable practices and investing in technological advancements can reverse this trend. Also, such policies can reduce the industry’s carbon footprint, thus it may be possible to combat greenhouse gas emissions and achieve the targets set in this regard.
Exploring the Role of Financial Development on Energy Consumption in Turkiye
(Adem Anbar, 2025-04) Karahan Dursun, Pınar; 414023
This study investigates the impact of financial development on energy consumption in Turkiye from 1985 to 2019. To this end, the study employs Bound test, ARDL model and VECM-based causality test. In the empirical analysis, economic growth and foreign direct investment are included in the estimated model. The results of the Bound test indicate that there is cointegration between the series. The results of the estimated ARDL model show that financial development contributes to the increase in energy consumption both in the long run and in the short run. The results of the longrun ARDL model show that a 1% increase in financial development leads to an increase in energy consumption by 0.36%. The study also concludes that economic growth is a driver of energy use, while human capital negatively affects energy consumption in the long-run. The results of the causality test in the VECM framework reveal that there is a causal relationship from financial development to energy consumption in the short run, and all explanatory variables together are Granger causes of energy consumption in the long run.
Fashioning the self in Jean Rhys’s voyage in the dark and good morning, midnight
(Çankaya Üniversitesi, 2024-04) Koç, Nesrin; 13778
Jean Rhys held a deep passion for fashion and stylish attire. Her perspective on fashion, as an instrument of adopting “a second skin” finds expression in her focus on fashioning the self, a recurring motif in Rhys’s oeuvre. The physical difficulty Rhys’s female characters, whose lives bear strong similarities to her own, have in obtaining fashionable clothes represents the broader struggles they go through as the objects of the patriarchal and colonial gaze, in their voyages through the physical and metaphorical darkness of urban spaces like Paris and London in the early 1900s. Focusing on two of these women, Anna of Voyage in the Dark and Sasha in Good Morning, Midnight, for whom fashionable clothing appears to be the only way of navigating the modern society which marginalizes them, this study explores Rhys’s multilayered portrayal of fashion as a reflection of the near impossibility of attaining a cohesive sense of self, mirroring the characters’ struggles in fashioning their inner and outer selves.
Government Support and SME Growth in Türkiye: A Romer Model Approach with Ridge Regression
(Kilis 7 Aralık Üniversitesi, 2025-05) Şengül, Serkan; Karahan Dursun, Pınar; 355807; 414023
Purpose: This study aims to analyze the growth performance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Türkiye using the Romer (1990) endogenous growth model. The focus is on examining the effects of government support, technological progress, and human capital on SME growth. Design/methodology: The study employs Ridge regression analysis on a dataset spanning the period 2015–2022. Variables such as government support, R&D expenditures, patent applications, human capital, and imports are included, aligning with the assumptions of Romer’s model. The structured approach addresses multicollinearity issues, ensuring robust parameter estimates. Findings: The results indicate that government support significantly enhances the growth performance of SMEs. Technological progress and human capital are confirmed as key drivers of economic growth in line with Romer’s model. While R&D expenditures and imports positively influence production, patent applications exhibit a negative short-term effect, suggesting a delayed commercialization process. Limitations: The dataset covers a limited timeframe (2015–2022), which restricts long-term impact assessments. Future studies could expand the analysis to include a longer timeframe and alternative econometric techniques. Originality/Value: This study is among the first to analyze the role of government support on SME growth in Türkiye through the lens of Romer’s endogenous growth model. The use of Ridge regression to address multicollinearity and the focus on micro-level data provide a unique contribution to the literature.
Impact of contemporary technology on art and design
(IGI Global, 2024-10) 36080; Dölkeleş, Gülce
How does art and design intersect with digitalization? What does this mean for the future of design and art? In order to better understand digital transformation in art, it is necessary to reveal the predictions of experts in these fields. This book examines the relationship between art, design and digitalization and the impact of contemporary technology on these dynamics. Within the confines of this carefully researched book lies a comprehensive analysis of how art and design processes adapt and respond to the rise of technologies. This book covers extensive topics such as contemporary art, digital art, computer art, software art, virtual art, interactive art, video art, animation, digital advertising. The book draws a vivid portrait of the emergence of digital art by linking these developments from traditional to digital in its historical trajectory.
Problems and opportunities of artificial intelligence
(İnönü Üniversitesi, 2022) Gürsakal, Necmi; Çelik, Sadullah; Batmaz, Bülent; 16040
This article reviews Artificial Intelligence (AI)’s challenges and opportunities and discusses where AI might be headed. In the first part, it was tried to reveal the differences between Symbolic AI and Deep Learning approaches, then long promises but short deliveries of AI were mentioned. The problems of AI are that the media has high expectations about artificial intelligence and keeps the problems and restrictions it creates low. Today, while AI is stuck with issues such as deepfake applications and carbon footprints that create moral and climatologic problems; on the other hand, it is struggling with problems such as deep learning models requiring huge amounts of data. Another problem with deep learning is that deep learning models are a blackbox and not open to improvements because it is not known where mistakes were made. Among the new paths ahead of AI are Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) models and hybrid models that generally try to bridge the gap between Symbolic AI and Connectionist AI. If we consider that the most important leaps in AI have been made with the features of the brain that AI can imitate, then the developed HTM models may also be a new opportunity for AI.
Relationship between maritime transport and economic growth: highest maritime transport european countries
(Ordu University, 2025-01) Canbay, Şerif; Kırca, Mustafa; 278780
Maritime transport is one of the most widely used transport channels used by countries in foreign trade. The development of maritime transport affects the economic growth levels of countries. In addition, the increase in the level of economic growth of countries increases their share in international foreign trade and this situation increases the importance given by countries to maritime transport day by day. The identification of the effects of maritime transport in countries will provide important information on what countries should do against the shocks they will face in the future. In this context, the study aims to determine whether there is any causality relationship between maritime transport and economic growth variables in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Türkiye, and the United Kingdom, which have the highest maritime transport among European countries. The bootstrap panel causality test was employed to examine the causality relationships between the variables over the time frame of 2008:Q1-2020:Q2. According to the findings, there is a causality relationship from economic growth to maritime transport in all countries except Italy and the Netherlands. There is a causality relationship from maritime transport to economic growth in Türkiye and the United Kingdom. As a result, the relationship between maritime transport and economic growth varies from country to country. This situation reveals the necessity of developing national policies for maritime transport by considering the economic structures of the countries. These findings suggest that countries need more efficient and sustainable maritime transport policies.
Synthetic data for deep learning: generate synthetic data for decision making and applications with Python and R
(Apress, 2022) Gürsakal, Necmi; Çelik, Sadullah; Birişçi, Esma; 16040
The Dynamics of Energy Import Dependence in the Baltic States
(Düzce University, 2025-04) Şengül, Serkan; 355807
This study investigates the determinants of energy import dependency in the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) using panel data from 1995 to 2021. Employing panel ARDL and FMOLS methods, the analysis identifies long-term relationships between energy import dependency and key factors such as renewable energy consumption, trade, carbon intensity, industrial competitiveness, and export quality. Findings reveal that while renewable energy use and high export quality reduce dependency, carbon intensity and industrialization increase it. These results highlight the Baltic states' transition towards energy independence, contributing to discussions on regional energy security, sustainability, and European integration within the framework of SDG-7.
The end of the world: unveiling dystopian apocalypse in Caryl Churchill’s far away
(Rumeliya, 2025) Özçelik, Kaya; 351393; Yılmaz, Yakup
Being a seminal work, Caryl Churchill’s Far Away delves deep into the layers of the end of the world by merging both dystopian and apocalyptic visions. Offering a fragmented narrative that reflects the disintegration of social, moral and natural orders of the world, Churchill’s play brings her reader/audience closer to face how the end of the world will be. The play’s structure and tone progressively immerse the audience in a world unravelling into chaos, where the boundaries between good and evil blur, and nature itself becomes embroiled in humanity’s conflicts. Through minimalist dialogue and surreal imagery, Churchill presents her reader/audience with a disturbing portrayal of a society where fear, violence, and moral ambiguity are the mere causes of the apocalypse. While the dystopian elements in the play are underlined through the depiction of authoritarian control, systemic violence, and the erasure of individual agency with Churchill’s chilling commentary on the fragility of democratic and ethical structures, themes such as the collapse of ecological and social harmony that eventually lead to an inevitable descent into global destruction form the backbone of apocalyptic discourse in Far Away. Endowing her play with postmodernist techniques such as fragmented storytelling and open-ended conclusion, Churchill invites the audience to grapple with the moral consequences of complicity and the pervasive impact of war and ecological crisis. This study examines how Far Away interweaves dystopian and apocalyptic elements to criticise contemporary sociopolitical and environmental issues. Exploring themes of dehumanization, systemic oppression, and environmental decay, the play compels its reader/audience to confront the urgent ethical dilemmas of the modern world. All in all, Churchill’s work offers a potent warning about the interconnected nature of societal collapse and ecological destruction, with a specific urge to enable humanity to reconsider its role in shaping a sustainable and near future.
The End of The World: Unveiling Dystopian Apocalypse in Caryl Churchill’s Far Away
(RumeliYA Yayıncılık, 2025) Özçelik, Kaya; 351393; Tekin, Fatma
In today’s fast-changing world, it is clear that humanity is inclined more to the-end-of-world than ever, which can well be evidenced by the portrait of political and socio-cultural developments that directly impact the future of humankind. In this context, global trends towards autocracy or totalitarianism can well be observed through various conflicts and strategies in contemporary world politics, as is witnessed in the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Russian-Ukrainian war. In the world of fiction, these are all interpreted within the boundaries of dystopian and (post-)apocalyptic genres, each of which developed as a sub-genre of science fiction. While the deterioration of the once politically and socially peaceful world is analysed within the realm of dystopian fiction, the world plunged into apocalypse through several specific cataclysms, especially by man-made causes, are analysed within the boundaries of (post-)apocalyptic fiction in the world of literature. Thus, the intersection of dystopian and apocalyptic narratives has long served as a clear lens through which societies have examined their deepest anxieties - whether they stem from authoritarian rule, environmental collapse, or the erosion of truth and morality, which bring humankind closer to an inescapable end day by day. In contemporary literature and drama, these themes have gained an urgency to mirror a world grappling with political extremism, technological upheaval, endless wars, and so on that pave the way for nothing other than cataclysmic events, such as mind-controlling, nuclear holocaust, ecological crises out of many. Among playwrights who challenge traditional storytelling and expose systemic dysfunction, Caryl Churchill keeps her own as one of the foremost literary figures with her unique radical voice and daring who merges dystopian and (post-)apocalyptic elements to disclose starkly the contemporary portrait of the world by blurring the boundaries between realism and absurdity to leave her audiences/readers all alone to solve the knot. It is just at this point that Far Away gains more prominence in the world of literature/drama with its minimalist illustration of the knot tightened by an ongoing dystopian society as a precursor to an immanent and imminent apocalypse.
The End of The World: Unveiling Dystopian Apocalypse in Caryl Churchill’s Far Away
(RumeliYa Yayıncılık, 2025-02) Özçelik, Kaya; 351393; Yılmaz, Yakup
Being a seminal work, Caryl Churchill’s Far Away delves deep into the layers of the end of the world by merging both dystopian and apocalyptic visions. Offering a fragmented narrative that reflects the disintegration of social, moral and natural orders of the world, Churchill’s play brings her reader/audience closer to face how the end of the world will be. The play’s structure and tone progressively immerse the audience in a world unravelling into chaos, where the boundaries between good and evil blur, and nature itself becomes embroiled in humanity’s conflicts. Through minimalist dialogue and surreal imagery, Churchill presents her reader/audience with a disturbing portrayal of a society where fear, violence, and moral ambiguity are the mere causes of the apocalypse. While the dystopian elements in the play are underlined through the depiction of authoritarian control, systemic violence, and the erasure of individual agency with Churchill’s chilling commentary on the fragility of democratic and ethical structures, themes such as the collapse of ecological and social harmony that eventually lead to an inevitable descent into global destruction form the backbone of apocalyptic discourse in Far Away. Endowing her play with postmodernist techniques such as fragmented storytelling and open-ended conclusion, Churchill invites the audience to grapple with the moral consequences of complicity and the pervasive impact of war and ecological crisis. This study examines how Far Away interweaves dystopian and apocalyptic elements to criticise contemporary sociopolitical and environmental issues. Exploring themes of dehumanization, systemic oppression, and environmental decay, the play compels its reader/audience to confront the urgent ethical dilemmas of the modern world. All in all, Churchill’s work offers a potent warning about the interconnected nature of societal collapse and ecological destruction, with a specific urge to enable humanity to reconsider its role in shaping a sustainable and near future.
The ethical dimension of artificial intelligence in terms of art
(Paradigma Akademi Yayınları, 2024-11) Dölkeleş, Gülce; 36080; Kılıçaslan, Yılmaz; Altıok Gürel, Pınar; Kılıçaslan, Emine
Art is a powerful tool that people use to express their emotions, thoughts, and imagination. While art manifests itself in many different disciplines, the ethical responsibilities of artists also emerge. Ethics in art includes issues such as balancing the creative freedom of expression of artists, respecting social values and considering their potential impact. With the development of technology, it is possible to come across artificial intelligence and applications that make our lives easier and take their place in every field in daily life. At the stage of the creation of artificial intelligence, there are layers such as learning, planning, recognizing sounds and problem solving.
The mediation role of coping with stress in the relationship between psychological flexibility and posttraumatic growth in cancer patients
(Sage, 2024-10) Akcan, Gizem; Bakkal, Bekir Hakan; Elmas, Özlem; 192722
Objectives: Active and adaptive coping strategies have been identified as factors that can assist cancer patients in effectively managing and overcoming the crisis, leading to the potential for post-traumatic growth during the diagnosis and treatment stages. Psychological flexibility is another factor that can protect individuals and promote more adaptive reactions to traumatic situations. The study aims to examine the investigation of the mediation role of coping with stress in the relationship between psychological flexibility and posttraumatic growth in cancer patients. Methods: This study was conducted with 97 (63 women, 34 male) participants aged between 38 and 82 who are literate and diagnosed with breast cancer or gynecological cancers (endometrial, cervical, vulvar) undergoing radiotherapy planning at the Radiation Oncology Clinic of Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University Hospital. Demographic Information Form, Psychological Flexibility Scale, Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory, and Coping Styles Scale were applied to the participants. The mediation effects were interpreted using bootstrap confidence intervals and VAF values. Results: This study showed that the active coping styles partially mediated the relationship between psychological flexibility and posttraumatic growth. Conclusion: In this regard, by organizing psychoeducational programs and interventions aimed at increasing psychological flexibility for individuals diagnosed with cancer or undergoing treatment, individuals can be enabled to cope with stress more actively, and thus post-traumatic growth can be achieved.
Utilizing large language models for EFL essay grading: an examination of reliability and validity in rubric-based assessments
(Wiley, 2025-01) Yavuz, Fatih; Çelik, Özgür; Yavaş Çelik, Gamze; 131069
This study investigates the validity and reliability of generative large language models (LLMs), specifically ChatGPT and Google's Bard, in grading student essays in higher education based on an analytical grading rubric. A total of 15 experienced English as a foreign language (EFL) instructors and two LLMs were asked to evaluate three student essays of varying quality. The grading scale comprised five domains: grammar, content, organization, style & expression and mechanics. The results revealed that fine-tuned ChatGPT model demonstrated a very high level of reliability with an intraclass correlation (ICC) score of 0.972, Default ChatGPT model exhibited an ICC score of 0.947 and Bard showed a substantial level of reliability with an ICC score of 0.919. Additionally, a significant overlap was observed in certain domains when comparing the grades assigned by LLMs and human raters. In conclusion, the findings suggest that while LLMs demonstrated a notable consistency and potential for grading competency, further fine-tuning and adjustment are needed for a more nuanced understanding of non-objective essay criteria. The study not only offers insights into the potential use of LLMs in grading student essays but also highlights the need for continued development and research.

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