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In relation: re-assessing responsiveness through human-machine interaction Erdinç, Melda; Mennan, Zeynep; Department of Architecture (2022-11-14) Advances in cybernetics, material research and network technologies affected the volume and the interpretation of human involvement in responsive architecture. The study scrutinizes the notion of responsiveness and its reflection(s) on/in the field of architecture. In this respect, it aims to investigate the role of the human in responsive bodies and seeks to redefine the boundaries of the participants through human-machine interaction in a responsive manner. The thesis offers a reassessment of the in-rela...
Spatial dynamics of creative industries: The case of computer programming sector in Ankara Durmaz Erçetin, Büşra; Kayasü, Serap; Department of City and Regional Planning (2022-11-11) The development of cities and economies in the 21st century have been discussed through creative sectors. The Fordist mode of production, which was dominant until the 1970s, left its hegemony to the post Fordist mode based on flexible production and specialization. Widespread use of digital technologies and computerized production stand as one of the most prior features of this new post Fordist era. In the new era, based on knowledge and creativity, development have been undertaken by the sectors that can m...
Performance evaluation of waste rock dump cover systems in different climate zones of Turkey Baysal, Barış Can; Yılmaz, Koray Kamil; Department of Geological Engineering (2022-11-24) One of the tasks to be considered during the closure stage of mining is the closure of the waste rock dump (WRD). A suitable top cover system shall be applied for closure to mitigate the impacts of mine wastes on the environment and human health. The regulatory requirements for closure activities vary from one country to another. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the performances of cover system types, including the one that is described in Turkish Mining Waste Regulation (TMWR), for different climat...
FROM RELATIONLESSNESS TO RELATEDNESS: ALIENATION AND THE IN-BETWEEN REALM REVISITED Özer, Tuğba; Alanyalı Aral, Ela; Department of Architecture (2022-9-16) The transformation in the production processes and consequently in the urban form itself with the First Industrial Revolution has brought various forms of relationlessness, which have since been discussed as “alienation.” Alienation has manifested in the workplace, has permeated everyday life, has become concrete in the built environment, and has spread through screens; as a result, it has taken many forms through the ages. Even though these conditions that lead to alienation are still valid in the 21st cen...
Principles for the conservation and presentation of the archaeological heritage at the 6th century Byzantine settlement on Gemiler Island (Lycia) Elmastaş, Pınar; Serin, Ufuk; Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Department of Architecture (2022-10-4) Gemiler Island is located in the Gulf of Belceğiz on the northwest coast of ancient Lycia. This small island comprises the compact and relatively well-preserved remains of an Early Byzantine settlement, surrounded by a few nearby sites (equally with reduced dimensions) which were in close association with the main settlement on the island in Antiquity. The settlement on Gemiler Island was established ex novo in the 6th century (CE) and reveals the typical characteristics of an Early Byzantine provincial tow...
Lives over profits: An analysis of impact of the transnational coalition's equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines campaign Bayraktar Ozan, Elif; Bahçecik, Şerif Onur; Department of International Relations (2022-12) This thesis analyzes the impact of the equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines of the transnational coalition, the People’s Vaccine Alliance. The thesis will specifically look into the campaigns of Human Rights Watch and Oxfam as major INGOs who are members of the People’s Vaccine Alliance. The impact will be discussed in terms of framing and agenda-setting, change in discursive positions, change in policy, change in institutional procedures and change in behavior of different actors; such as states and pharm...
The conceptualization of a new semiological/semiotic model for the understanding of the matters of the causality and the meaningfulness in/of the built environment Eren, Ebru; Barlas, Mehmet Adnan; Department of City and Regional Planning (2022-11-09) Built environment, consisting of urban spaces and architectures, manifests behaviors, thoughts and feelings, and experiences of all the social-individuals of a society living in itself, through all kinds of its urban and architectural things, that is, its objects, spaces, and components, which bear very significant meanings, that is, denotative,connotative, and also deep meanings, in terms of the daily lives of these people in the environment. Therefore, each of them could be considered as a sign associated...
MASS MIGRATION EFFECTS ON WASTE MANAGEMENT: THE EXAMPLE OF KİLİS Gurbuzer Akgun, Ayse Ilke; Balaban, Osman; Department of Urban Policy Planning and Local Governments (2022-11) With rapid population growth, waste management, which is one of the most important ways to combat the climate crisis, has become a source of increasing crisis. Given that cities house more than half of the world's population, the impact of mass migration on waste production and management is more profound. In this context, the mass migration from Syria to Türkiye that began in the twenty-first century have had a significant impact on the Southeastern Anatolia region, particularly the province of Kilis, whos...
AN EVALUATION OF THE US MILITARY PRESENCE IN CENTRAL ASIA: THE CASE OF UZBEKISTAN Gökçelik, Şevval Beste; Kuşçu Bonnenfant, Işık; Department of Eurasian Studies (2022-12-02) This thesis sheds light on the Uzbekistan-United States of America (US or USA) security relations by addressing the security problems faced by Uzbekistan, which gained its independence in 1991 after the collapse of the USSR, during and after the state and nation-building process. In this context, US and Uzbekistan military relations and the future of these relations is analyzed. Since Uzbekistan exists in a geopolitically risky and security-threatening region and its own army is not developed well, it neede...
A technopoietic investigation: techné as a discursive formation in architecture UZ BAKİ, MELEK PINAR; Basa, İnci; Department of Architecture (2022-11-04) The thesis defines making of actively doing, learning, and revealing in ways that simultaneously engage in the thinking activities of changing actors, practical applications, and the transformation of techniques, materials, and technologies as a central aspect of architecture, in terms of the actual processes of designing, production, generation, and accumulation of knowledge. As proposed, making is the fundamental notion in architecture that refers to how design thinking acts and how knowledge, related pat...
HARVESTING ELECTRICAL ENERGY FROM MECHANICAL VIBRATION BY PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS AND PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION Ogunjinmi, Festus; Murat , Fahrioğlu; Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2022-9-2) The energy conversion performance of piezoelectric cantilever-beam energy harvesters (PCEH) is improved by developing and designing a novel. A rectangular hole is located in the middle of the metal substrate. Using the mathematical model of the PCEH, the mathematical expression of the following is derived as the eigenfrequency, displacement of the proof mass, and output voltage and power level achieved due to displacement of the cantilever carrying the piezoelectric material. We analyze the eigenfrequ...
Investigation of the drug resistance in capecitabine resistant hct-116, dabrafenib resistant ht-29, and sn-38 resistant ht-29 cell lines using cellular barcoding technology Baygın, Rana Can; Acar, Ahmet; Department of Biology (2022-11-3) Cancer is a complex disease, and understanding its biology holds great importance. Tumor cells exhibit hallmarks of cancer, including aberrantly activated signaling pathways and gain or loss genomic alterations that result in alterations in their differentiation programs, survival, proliferation, and programmed cell death. Developing resistance to therapeutic agents is one of the major problems in cancer therapies. Exploiting drug resistance using the principles of clonal evolution can pave the way to overc...
IMPROVING THE RECOVERY OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS FROM DIFFERENT FOOD WASTES BY NOVEL FOOD TECHNOLOGIES Okur, İlhami; Alpas, Hami; Öztop, Halil Mecit; Department of Food Engineering (2022-11-23) The main scope of this dissertation was to investigate the effects of High Hydrostatic Pressure-Assisted Extraction (HHPE) on phenolic compounds from different food wastes. The other aim of this study was to compare HHPE with conventional solvent extraction (CSE). At this study, three different food wastes namely spent coffee ground (SCG), olive leaves and olive pomace were used. In the first part of the study, the effect of HHPE on the spent coffee ground was examined. Three different pressure levels (300...
Monitoring and modelling of moisture content with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) Selçuk, Burak; Çekmecelioğlu, Deniz; Department of Food Engineering (2022-11-04) The aim of this study is to observe the variation of the moisture content and drying rate over time, temperature, and position. Chickpea puree, eggplant, and apple were selected for drying, and the drying experiments were performed at 50-70°C for 3 h. The moisture content of samples was measured using oven, time-domain nuclear magnetic resonance (TD-NMR), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods. The changes in moisture content and drying rate with temperature and position were monitored. The drying rat...
Predicting Trending Elements on Web Pages Using Eye-Tracking Data Shekh Khalil , Naziha; Yeşilada, Yeliz; Eraslan, Şükrü; Computer Engineering (2022-8-31) Eye-tracking data can be used to understand how users interact with web pages and such understanding can be facilitated for different purposes, for example, it can be used to support better accessibility for disabled users or better usability for all users. However, understanding the sequential behavior of a group of users is challenging from eye-tracking data because individual eye movement sequences, i.e. scanpaths, tend to be complicated and different from each other. Previous work proposes an algorithm ...
Nonlinear modeling of piezoelectric stack actuators with flexure based displacement amplifier mechanisms Yurdakul, Ozan; Özer, Mehmet Bülent; Yıldız, Erdinç Nuri; Department of Mechanical Engineering (2022-8-26) In this thesis, modeling methods for piezoelectric stack actuators (PSA) are studied. Both linear and nonlinear modeling methodologies are provided. FEM which is derived from constitutive piezoelectric equations is implemented to model linear behavior of piezoelectricity. Validation of the FEM model is performed through experiments. It is observed that modeling and test results are matched with high quality. Rhombus type amplifier mechanism (RTAM) is selected for this study after conducting a detailed liter...
Event detection via tracking the change in community structure, communication trends, and graph embeddings Aktunç, Rıza; Karagöz, Pınar; Toroslu, İsmail Hakkı; Department of Computer Engineering (2022-11-4) Event detection is a popular research problem aiming to detect events from various data sources, such as climate records, traffic data, news texts, social media postings or social interaction patterns. In this work, event detection is studied on social interaction and communication data via tracking changes in community structure, communication trends, and graph embeddings. With this aim, various community structure, communication trend, and graph embedding based event detection methods are proposed. Additi...
The Wellbeing of the Doctoral Candidates in the Time of Covid-19 Gökalp, Gökçe; Özel, Dilara; Akkuş, Mustafa; Kurtoğlu, Mete; Dikmen-Yıldız, Pelin; Dökmeci, Merve (2022-09-02)
Well-being in Academia During the Pandemic Panel Discussion Gökalp, Gökçe; Van Der Weijden, Inge; Mortier, Anneleen; Bebiroglu, Neda; Kismihok, Gabor; Kurtoğlu, Mete (2022-09-02)
Current issues in and an emerging method for flood frequency analysis under changing climate Kavvas, M. Levent; Ishida, Kei; Trinh, Toan; Ercan, Ali; Darama, Yakup; Carr, Kara J. (2017-01-01) In this study several issues with the standard flood frequency analysis are discussed in the context of a changing hydro-climate in the 21st century. Among these issues the loss of statistical equilibrium in the hydro-climate of a studied region during the 21st century has serious implications on the standard frequency analysis that is discussed in some detail. An alternative method to flood frequency analysis within the framework of a changing climate based on ensemble of future climate projections is repo...