As the percentage of wind energy in global energy portfolio rises, the wind turbine control is becoming increasingly important for the integration of wind turbines in power systems. The early control objective of wind turbine control was only to maximize the power output but now…
Tüketici davranışlarını inceleyen birçok çalışma yapılmış ve bireylerin satın alma niyetlerini etkileyen birçok faktör belirlenmiştir. Bu faktörlerden bir tanesi de bireylerin dini inançlardır. İnançları doğrultusunda tüketim tercihlerini gerçekleştiren dindarlık düzeyleri yükse…
This dissertation analyzes Italy's domestic and international oil politics between the end of the Second World War and the late 1960s, through a study of the Italian State-owned oil company Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (National Hydrocarbon Agency, ENI). It examines the role ENI h…
It is commonly presumed that significant movements in wealth can often have wider economic impacts in consumer spending. This study first investigates the impact of housing wealth on aggregate consumer spending in the context of Turkey using a Vector Error Correction Method (VEC…
Despite inspiring a rich and varied literature from historians of Europe and North America, topics related to everyday life have remained an obscure and neglected field of Middle Eastern social history. As part of the effort to recreate the long-forgotten habits, tastes, and per…
Bu çalışmanın amacı enflasyon, ekonomik büyüme ve istihdam arasındaki ilişkiyi Türkiye, Brezilya ve Güney Kore örneklerini kullanarak açıklamaktır. Brezilya ve Türkiye yabancı yatırım ve yurtdışından gelen sıcak para ile büyüyen iki ülkedir. Bu ülkelerin enflasyon trendleri birb…
DFI contributes enormously to world development. Yet, very few studies measure the impact of DFI inflows on the aggregate economy. On the other hand, developing countries have undertaken extensive liberalization programs in order to effect structural change and attract DFI but l…
The dissertation studies three seemly independent topics on environmental economics, but they share the same theme: the reactions of local governments and firms on promotional incentives and environmental regulations in China. The first chapter examines whether China’s Two Contr…
Chinese Diaspora archaeology has focused historically on urban contexts or in-depth case studies, with minimal comparative studies. To expand such research, this thesis is a multisited analysis in Oregon using archaeological assemblages from the Jacksonville Chinese Quarter and …
This study tracks changes in how an identifiably Irish distilled liquor flowed through society in early modern Ireland. Ireland, as diagnostic grey area between colony and European state periphery, is a fruitful place to explore the intersection of colonialism and the emergence …
Seaweeds have been receiving increased interest from the fisheries and aquaculture industries in recent years, with red algae continuing to be one of the more important components of seaweed aquaculture representing 54% of the harvested biomass (around US 6.3 billion). These sea…
The food we consume says a great deal about who we are. Our culture, beliefs, values, and family history join us every night around the dinner table, guiding our culinary choices. However, food also carries stories that are often overlooked, stories of oppression and marginaliza…
With YouTube, created in 2005, being at the forefront of social networking sites (SNSs) and Internet usage in 2021, the aim of this thesis is to understand and research the reasoning behind the evolution and progression of YouTube. This will focus on the elements that have aided…
This dissertation explores the production history of print-based adaptations for children as a category of writing and publishing for a dedicated market segment, contributing to the present growth in the study of adaptation in children’s literature and nineteenth-century America…
Consumption binds the worlds of production and marketing to possession and ownership, satisfying the consumer’s functional wants and needs, but also fulfilling hedonic desires related to self-gratification and recreational aspiration. Across the last fifty years, growing consume…
In the late-nineteenth century, the United States faced a crisis of economic inequality. As increasingly severe economic depressions rocked the nation and brought relations between capital and labor to a breaking point, contemporaries of all types proposed solutions to the crisi…
Based on twelve months of fieldwork in Dakar, Senegal and funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation, this thesis examines how in the context of contemporary globalization, increased volumes of luxury commodities shape the modern consciousness of individuals in a developing African ci…