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The Amphitheater of Pergamon: Cultural Identity and Urban Physiognomy
Baykara, Ayşe Bike; Güven, Suna Naziyet; Department of History of Architecture (2024-7-19)
The amphitheater was the quintessential Roman building. At Rome, the Flavian amphitheater stood as a singularly impressive Roman monument and both a signifier and a modifier of Roman imperialism and ideology. In the provin...
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT PARTIES IN INDIA AND TURKEY: THE CASES OF THE INC, CHP AND THE BJP, AKP
Acun, Kutlu; Çınar, Süleyman Kürşat; Department of Political Science and Public Administration (2024-7-15)
Recently, the party politics agenda has been occupied by the debates of right-wing extremism and the resurgence of the far-right parties. And the landscape of political parties is witnessing a transformation, one that is c...
AN ECOFEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE IN LOLLY WILLOWES OR THE LOVING HUNTSMAN BY SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER AND HAPPINESS BY AMINATTA FORNA
Şalvarcı, İrem Gülgün; Öztabak Avcı, Elif; Department of English Literature (2024-7-12)
The conventional logic, which produces hierarchical dualisms, has long been an influential perspective on life. It is possible to see the impact of dualisms in every aspect of the modern world. The ways in which spaces are...
Poverty-Sensitive School Counseling: A Multiple Case Study on Understanding Poverty in School Settings
Sarıcı, Hasan; Erdur Baker, Özgür; Department of Educational Sciences (2024-7-10)
Identifying the effects of poverty in schools is essential for sensitively providing school counseling services. Although studies in the existing literature emphasize the aspects that counselors should pay attention to whe...
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MINDFULNESS AND COUNSELING SELF-EFFICACY AMONG COUNSELOR TRAINEES: MEDIATING ROLES OF SELF-COMPASSION AND ANXIETY
Ekici, Gizem; Barutçu Yıldırım, Kadriye Funda; Department of Educational Sciences (2024-7-09)
The current correlational study aimed to examine the serial mediating roles of self- compassion and anxiety in the relationship between mindfulness and counseling self- efficacy among Turkish counselor trainees. The sample...
TRACING THE EVOLUTION OF ECOFEMINIST THEORY IN PRODIGAL SUMMER BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER AND THE WOLF BORDER BY SARAH HALL
Durak, Pelin; Öztabak Avcı, Elif; Department of English Literature (2024-7-04)
This thesis aims to compare Prodigal Summer (2000) by Barbara Kingsolver with The Wolf Border (2015) by Sarah Hall regarding the ways in which they are informed by the changing understanding of dualisms in ecofeminist ap...
WHILE PUTTING ON THE SHOES: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON EXPERIENCES IN THE PRE-DEPARTURE PHASE OF MIGRATION
Boranlı, Ece Nur; Barutçu Yıldırım, Kadriye Funda; Department of Educational Sciences (2024-7-04)
This study examines the pre-departure experiences of individuals preparing to migrate from Türkiye. People who were citizens of the Republic of Türkiye and had at least one official approval for immigration were included i...
EXPLORING THE RELATION BETWEEN GESTURE PRESENTATION PERSPECTIVE AND CHILDREN’S SPATIAL PERFORMANCE
Orakçı, Elif; Karadöller Astarlıoğlu, Dilay Zeynep; Department of Psychology (2024-7)
The presence of gestures with visuospatial materials enhances the children’s spatial performance. Although it is an emergent context in online educational tools, no study so far investigated whether and how the perspective...
Territoriality in the Making: A PYD Analysis via School Textbooks
Öztürk, Abdullah; Bahçecik, Şerif Onur; Department of International Relations (2024-7-01)
The inquiry of this thesis is a very contentious non-state actor, the PYD, and more specifically, its territorial perception. The critical analysis of the conception of territoriality in school textbooks is believed to rev...
Culture(s) of assessment in higher education: A case study
Saygı, Şükran; Engin, Cennet; Department of Educational Sciences (2024-7)
This study aimed to investigate the assessment culture(s) of the Faculty of Education at Middle East Technical University (METU). To this end, the study was conducted following a qualitative case study design. Semi-structu...
THE ROLE OF LICENSE-EXEMPT EXCESS ELECTRICITY GENERATION IN TÜRKİYE’S ECONOMIC GROWTH
YILMAZ, ELİF DİLEK; Derin Güre, Pınar; Department of Economics (2024-7)
Türkiye, with ample sunlight, wind and hydroelectric resources, and well-suited for the development of renewable energy projects due to its geographic and climate characteristics, aims to enhance its installed capacity by ...
EGYPTIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS BETWEEN 2013 AND 2024: A MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN POLICY CHANGE
Saad, Mohamed Khaled; Altunışık, Meliha; Department of Middle East Studies (2024-7)
This thesis provides a multi-level analysis of Egyptian-Turkish relations between mid-2013 and early 2024 within the conceptual framework of Foreign Policy Change (FPC), focusing on bilateral relations' political and econo...
The factors leading to a surge in electric vehicle sales: a panel data analysis for OECD countries
Yamaner, Özgür Çağatay; Derin Güre, Pınar; Department of Economics (2024-7)
This thesis aims to scrutinize the determinants of Electric Vehicle (EV) sales incorporating socioeconomic and other factors through a panel data analysis covering 23 OECD countries over the period from 2010 to 2022. After...
Callicott And The Issue Of Pluralism In Environmental Ethics
Ulutürk, Anıl; Sol, Ayhan; Department of Philosophy (2024-7)
J. Baird Callicott is known for his communitarian environmental philosophy adapted from Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic. His ecocentric views advocate a monist approach, particularly supporting a position against Christopher D. ...
Evidence based technology and innovation policy making: An application for robotic technologies
Özbay, Oğuz; Taymaz, Erol; Burmaoğlu, Serhat; Department of Science and Technology Policy Studies (2024-7)
This thesis presents a framework aimed at reducing the reliance on experts in the traditionally expert-dominated foresight process by leveraging advanced methodologies to extract key insights within the field of robotics. ...
Essays on model averaging and forecasting
Güneş, Hakan; Yıldırım Kasap, Dilem; Department of Economics (2024-7)
This thesis addresses the issue of model uncertainty in the context of financial asset forecasting. It comprises three papers. The first paper presents evidence of the in sample predictability while utilizing frequentist m...
THE INFLUENCE OF ESTROGEN ON CONDITIONED CONTEXT AVERSION LEARNING
Akgül, Cemile Ceren; Mısırlısoy, Mine; Kışlal, Sezen; Department of Psychology (2024-7)
Anticipatory nausea and vomiting (ANV) are distressing side effects of chemotherapy, hindering patients from adhering to treatment. ANV involves nausea in anticipation of chemotherapy, developed through classical condition...
Place-making for knowledge and innovation in Turkiye: the case of Metu Technopark, Ankara
Tuç Talu, İmral; Akkar Ercan, Zübeyde Müge; Department of Urban Policy Planning and Local Governments (2024-7)
With the rising importance of knowledge and innovation, cities are evolving through specialized areas dedicated to knowledge exchange and economic growth. The technology development zones (TDZs) built in both developed and...
THE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL NATURE OF TEACHER COGNITION: THE CASE OF EFL TEACHERS
Utku Bilici, Özlem; Gürbüz, Nurdan; Department of English Language Teaching (2024-7)
Teacher cognition is an umbrella phenomenon that comprises what teachers think, know, believe, and perceive. Thus, it can be noted that this abstract notion is concerned with the unobservable dimension of teaching, and in ...
Critical Geopolitical Analysis of the Post-Soviet Islamic Radicalism in the Fergana Valley
Ozat, İpek Nil; Köksal, Pınar; Department of Eurasian Studies (2024-7-1)
This thesis analyzes the problem of radical Islam in the Fergana Valley using Critical Geopolitics. In this context, first the historical background of the Valley is presented. Then, the involvement and experiences of the ...
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