This paper presents a cost estimation model of weld assemblages. It is based on the product decomposition into parts and then into assemblages. The study is about a proposition of an original definition of welding and preparing features attributed to each assemblages. This proposed approach is...

We study a number of mechanisms through which an economy can be stuck at a high unemployment equilibrium because a poor labour market is associated with support for poor policy. These mechanisms are consistent with the relative scarcity of measures that have been undertaken to cure unemployment....

In figuring eminence in the social sciences, the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) is of great importance. Yet the SSCI selection process is a black box. Scrutiny of the SSCI journal list reveals that the stated SSCI journal selection criteria are vague and applied inconsistently. The Nation,...

This paper reports the results of a survey of economics department chairs regarding the importance of citation counts in personnel decisions. The 30 responses vary, some reporting virtually no importance of citation counts, but 15 respondents report that citation counts usually or always come up...

The aim of this research is to investigate whether the teacher trainees’ attachment styles predict interpersonal relationships. Two hundres thirty students attending the Faculty of Education, Anadolu University during the Spring Semester of 2007-2008 participated this study. The data on the...

The Phrygians have a special place among the Iron Age Kingdoms of Anatolia in the first half of the 1st millenium B.C.The archaeological and epigraphical evidence for Phrygian religious cult indicates that the major divinity was a goddess known to the Phrygians as Matar/Mother Goddess who has...

National anthems are important tools that undertake a profound mission in the foundation and continuation of national consciousness. Despite the fact that there are many well known marches in Turkey, the Tenth Year March seems to be the only national march other than the Turkish National Anthem...

In the 21st century, the use of the digital technologies has spread out the world and taken integral part of the societies in daily life. Naturally, the new generations has appeared who are born and live in the environments surrounded by digital media. When compared to the previous generations,...

The purpose of this study is to explore views of prep-school students towards portfolio assessment in their writing courses. It has also intended to find out exam preference of the participants. The participants of the study are 140 Turkish EFL students enrolled in the intermediate and upper...

­KenjirÅ Tokutomi puts his impressions of Turkey regarding his 3 days visit to Istanbul into the book Junrei KikÅ, which was published the same year. At the beginning of 20th century, considerable Turkish knowledge already existed in Japan. This knowledge was created from the end of 16th...