This paper presents the results of a comparison between multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) and random forest (RF) techniques in pipe failure prediction in two water distribution networks. In this regard, pipe ...

There has been extensive research on how the Big Five personality traits are related to political orientation and endorsement of moral foundations. However, recent findings suggest that these relationships may not be cross ...

Throughout the history, many different reporting practices have been emerged in accordance with the needs of business environment such as financial, corporate social responsibility and sustainability reporting. Today, ...

The aim of this study is to discuss recent sustainability developments in the textile industry and to explore the disclosures of textile and apparel companies in Turkey. The economic, environmental and social sustainability ...

This paper investigates the impact of financial crisis on the determinants of bank interest rate margin (NIM) in Turkey over the period 1995-2018. Turkey witnessed two recent major economic crises, a local crisis in 2001 ...

In Emergency Medical Services (EMS) ability to respond to emergency situations rapidly is very crucial. One of the main decisions that need to be made by the EMS provider is to locate available ambulances in an efficient ...

Dynamic group key agreement protocols are cryptographic primitives to provide secure group communications in decentralized and dynamic networks. Such protocols provide additional operations to update the group key while ...

A paper by Karati and Sarkar at Asiacrypt'17 has pointed out the potential for Kummer lines in genus 1, by observing that their SIMD-friendly arithmetic is competitive with the status quo. A more recent preprint explores ...

Most of the biological systems including gene regulatory networks can be described well by ordinary differential equation models with rational non-linearities. These models are derived either based on the reaction kinetics ...

River flow rates are important for water resources projects. Given this, the current study explored the use of autoregressive (AR) and moving average (MA) techniques as individual time series models and compared them to ...