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The Effects of the Duration of Formal Education on Adult Brain: A Voxel-Based Morphometry - (Diffeomorphic Anatomical Registration Using Exponentiated Lie Algebra) DARTEL Study

Gonul, A.S.; Demirel, S.O.; Kitis, O.; Eker, C.; Eker, O.D. (KURE ILETISIM GRUBU A S, 2009)

Objective: Recent studies neuroimaging showed that continues environmental stimuli can induce structural changes in the brain. Compared to later life, during formal education in school and university; human brain is not ...

Exploiting Data Topology in Visualization and Clustering Self-Organizing Maps

Tasdemir, K.; Merenyi, E. (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 2009)

The self-organizing map (SOM) is a powerful method for visualization, cluster extraction, and data mining. It has been used successfully for data of high dimensionality and complexity where traditional methods may often ...

Behaviour of emerging stock markets in the global financial meltdown: Evidence from bric-a

Aktan, B.; Mandaci, P.E.; Kopurlu, B.S.; Ersener, B. (ACADEMIC JOURNALS, 2009)

This paper examines the emerging market indices of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Argentina (BRICA) and investigates the linkages among the stock markets of the BRICA countries and their relations with the US market. ...

Global financial crisis and VaR performance in emerging markets: A case of EU candidate states - Turkey and Croatia

Zikovic, S.; Aktan, B. (UNIV RIJEKA, FAC ECOMOMICS, 2009)

We investigate the relative performance of a wide array of Value at Risk (VaR) models with the daily returns of Turkish (XU100) and Croatian (CROBEX) stock index prior to and during the ongoing financial crisis. In addition ...

An empirical study on Banks profitability in the KSA: A co-integration approach

Masood, O.; Aktan, B.; Chaudhary, S. (ACADEMIC JOURNALS, 2009)

This study aims to give the analysis of the determinants of banks' profitability in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) over the period 1999-2007. This paper investigates the co-integration and causal relationship between ...

UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES FOR SYSTEM AVAILABILITY

Miman, M.; Pohl, E.A. (WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD, 2009)

This paper provides an approach for assessing the uncertainty associated with the estimate of the availability of a two-state repairable system. During the design stage it is often necessary to allocate scarce testing ...

How Corporate Social Responsibility Influences Organizational Commitment

Turker Ozmen, D. (SPRINGER, 2009)

A growing number of studies have investigated the various dimensions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the literature. However, relatively few studies have considered its impacts on employees. The purpose of this ...

The effects of leadership styles and organizational culture on firm's innovativeness

Duygulu, E.; Ozeren, E. (ACADEMIC JOURNALS, 2009)

The ultimate objective of this study is to show the effects of leadership styles and organizational culture on firm's innovativeness. The study has been conducted over six different firms with a total sample size of 113 ...

Measuring Corporate Social Responsibility: A Scale Development Study

Turker Ozmen, D. (SPRINGER, 2009)

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is one of the most prominent concepts in the literature and, in short, indicates the positive impacts of businesses on their stakeholders. Despite the growing body of literature on ...

On some closed sets in ideal minimal spaces

Ozbakir, O.B.; Dalan Yildirim, E. (SPRINGER, 2009)

The purpose of this paper is to introduce ideal minimal spaces and to investigate the relationships between minimal spaces and ideal minimal spaces. We define some closed sets in these spaces to establish their relationships. ...