Culture can be a significant contributor to, or hindrance to, a team's success. Research has clearly established that failing to have a cohesive team culture creates a severe challenge to any team effort. Culture is also something that everyone brings with them to the team. Yet,…
Câhiliye ve Hz. Peygamber dönemi savaşlarında kadınların varlığını konu edinen çalışmamızda ilk olarak bu devrin kadınlarının sosyal, ekonomik, siyasi, etnik ve kültürel bağlamda durumlarının ortaya konulmasıyla birlikte İslâm'da savaş kavramının tanım ve niteliği ile Câhiliye s…
Uncovering the mechanisms by which nature exhibits emergent patterns and behaviors has been an intellectual ambition throughout history. A worthwhile approach is the design of systems whereby emergence and complexity occur organically and without a central controller—as to mimic…
Rangeland social-ecological systems in Northeastern (NE) Colorado are undergoing linked land-use, livelihood, and identity transitions. Land change is a spatially and temporally complex process in which land-use decisions cascade through interconnected social and ecological sphe…
Many residences from student apartment units to family homes use a range of smart devices to make the day-to-day lives of the residents safer and more convenient. The ability to remotely access these devices has further increased their convenience, but it comes with the increase…
Spintronics would utilize the spin of the electron for information processing and storage, leading to devices that may be smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient than their electronic counterparts. Before these spin-based devices can be fully realized, we must answer the foll…
This dissertation argues that cognition is a kind of natural agency. Natural agency is the capacity that certain systems have to act in accordance with their own norms. Natural agents are systems that bias their repertoires in response to affordances in the pursuit of their goal…
Water resources play a central role in the operation of urban systems. Present-day challenges in the use of water resources include over reliance on human-centered system management, and lack of formal approaches to decision-making support. In a step toward mitigating these chal…
Contemporary species are undergoing population declines and extinction at rates unprecedented in recorded history. These ongoing global biodiversity losses are largely caused by human overpopulation and other anthropogenic impacts on the environment such as natural habitat destr…
How can community-based monitoring create much needed visibility and oversight of buried tar sands pipelines that traverse human and non-human communities? The Trans Mountain Pipeline conveys up to 12.6 million gallons of diluted bitumen per day from the Athabasca tar sands of A…
This document serves as a record of https://workarounds.hotglue.me, which is both an artwork and a thesis. It encompasses the approaches, research, and speculations of workarounds, broadly defined as the flexibility and adaptability of a material or system. This work was conduct…
Additive manufacturing (AM) was conceptualized as a tool for rapid-prototyping and visualization, but it soon emerged as a competitive manufacturing process. AM's main attraction is the potential to manufacture parts of complex geometries through a simple and highly repetitive p…
Bu tez çalışması, sermaye ve para piyasalarının tarihsel gelişim sürecini ve bugünkü yapısını ortaya koymakla birlikte, özellikle yatırımcıların alım ve satım aşamalarında kullandıkları analiz yöntemlerini incelemektedir. Teknik ve temel analiz yöntemleri, kullanımları ile birli…
Perishable commodities make up a significant part of our global commerce, from the food we eat to the flowers we gift. Compared to conventional supply chains, the logistical operations involved in maintaining a cold chain for such perishables are appreciably more complex and cos…
The dissertation develops a methodology framework to support decision-making in effectively predicting and disrupting an interdependent incomplete network. The proposed framework is tested on the Organized Criminal Network (OCNs), i.e. interdependent sex trafficking network and …
As residential consumers seek to reduce their electricity costs through renewable energy use and responding to time-varying electricity prices, energy storage is considered a potential solution to increase electricity cost savings. Due to this, this research is motivated by the …
In smart manufacturing systems, production scheduling, maintenance decision-making, and process monitoring are three key, closely interconnected components, which play significant roles in the system performance, quality control, and overall cost. Due to the rapid advancement of…
Issues surrounding traffic safety and mobility have been at the center of transportation research for many years. Much effort has been made to identify the problematic road features and develop countermeasures to mitigate the crash risk in crash-prone locations. With the emergin…
Risk management plays an increasingly important role in systems engineering, project management and decision making. Risk assessment and management techniques are increasingly applied in future planning and risk decisions of enterprises. One area very important to the evaluation…