In this research, effect of WCM (known for optimization of liquidity and efficiency) and solvency on profitability has been analyzed for basic metal sector companies listed in BİST in 2018-2022. This research also includes comparison of financial ratios of companies that had initial public offering in 2022 and companies that had initial public offering before 2022. Research findings show that working capital management has positive effect on profitability, as liquidity has effect on all of the studied profitability ratios. Solvency also has positive effect on profitability, as solvency has pos ...Daha fazlası
The aim of the present study is to explore the emancipatory potential of revisionist mythmaking strategies employed in two contemporary novels, Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad (2005) and Latife Tekin’s Muinar (2006), through dialogic, intertextual, and deconstructive relations. Offering a comparative account by means of a three-fold theoretical basis between the two novels, this dissertation explores women’s paths to seek justice. Both novels portray rebellious women and give voice to their alternative stories. The analysis demonstrates that the retelling of mythic tales connects the past to ...Daha fazlası
With increasing environmental concerns and a shift towards sustainable consumption, brands are employing social media as a powerful platform to communicate their sustainability initiatives. This study investigates the effect of sustainability communication on Instagram on consumer perceptions with a specific focus on nonluxury hygiene products. Drawing from an extensive literature review, this research explores how consumer perceptions of brand efforts for environmental sustainability affect brand attitude, word-of-mouth (WOM), brand engagement, and purchase intentions. Additionally, it exami ...Daha fazlası
This research examines the relationship between the demolition of the Izmit Historical Tekel Building Wall, located in the center of Izmit and demolished on April 3, 2021, and its relationship with collective memory. The aim of the research is to understand how the Izmit Historical Tekel Building Wall has a place in online and offline collective memory, how the recent demolition of the wall is perceived by the residents of that neighborhood, and how it makes them feel. Within the scope of this purpose, the research will analyze how this demolition is received in the reader’s comments on the ne ...Daha fazlası
This dissertation examines the representations of Istanbul as an Urban Gothic Space in Ahmet Ümit’s “A Memento for Istanbul” and Barbara Nadel’s “Land of the Blind”. The study explores the urban space of Istanbul and argues for its palimpsestic nature, haunted by the blood and memories of the past civilizations and empires that it was once home to. Further emphasis is placed on the constant tug of war between the old and the new and East vs West. The supernatural and various transgressions which are manifested mainly in the historical parts of the urban city are investigated by employing vario ...Daha fazlası
In this thesis, we have tried to evaluate the concept of fact-checking, which constructs a new discourse in the media industry in parallel with the concept of post-truth, and within this framework, we have tried to evaluate how fact-checking channels evaluate the concepts of truth and lies within the framework of Postmodern thought, as well as focusing on the question of whether fact-checking tools, which claim to be a fact-truth, are the new gate-keepers of the new media and which truths or lies these platforms open their eyes to and which ones they close to (such as peak a boo). Indeed, Post ...Daha fazlası
The emergence of virtual reality in recent years has primarily focused on user interfaces, visual simulation, and 3D graphics. However, the community's interest in virtual reality has shifted towards the gaming industry in order to reach a larger audience. This thesis aims to study the differences and similarities between virtual games and traditional video games in order to determine user preferences and opinions. Over 60 days (April 1st - May 31st, 2023), an online survey gathered 300 comprehensive responses, revealing substantial insights, and 4 interviews have been conducted with 4 volunte ...Daha fazlası
Following an introduction to abstract art this thesis study focuses on the geometric abstract art which emerged with the onset of abstract art in three time periods. In the first section which encompasses a time frame of approximately forty five years between the onset of abstract art in the begining of the 20th century and the end of World War II it is discussed how artists like Kandinsky and Malevich made a difference by breaking off from the convention and thus contributed to the existence of the geometric abstract art. In the second section which covers a time frame between the emergence o ...Daha fazlası
In the 1960s, endogenous growth theories revealed that human capital accumulation is at least as important as physical capital accumulation on economic growth. Then, it was focused on how to increase the accumulation of human capital, and it was determined that the two main components were primarily education and then health. There are many studies in the literature on the relationship between economic growth and health expenditures. In the studies on the relationship between health expenditures and economic growth, although it has been observed that health expenditures generally increase econ ...Daha fazlası
Netflix is currently the subject of various academic discussions in addition to its widespread commercial success over the last two decades. This study seeks to make a contribution to the academic literature by examining whether Netflix, an American media and entertainment company, truly "thinks local and acts global" in accordance with its motto or instead promotes the myth of the self-made man, one of America's founding myths, and, thus, reproduces capitalist hegemony. By examining Netflix’s three original teen series created in three distinct nations, Sex Education, Elite, and Aşk 101, this ...Daha fazlası
The main purpose of this thesis is to develop a deeper understanding and to gain deeper knowledge about the role of artificial intelligence in social media content creation. In order to make it precise, we have formulated two underlying questions: How much creativity does artificial intelligence really possess? And what is the role of artificial intelligence in content creation? For these questions we have chosen online questionnaire for data collection. Data were gathered from respondents from different countries between November 9, 2022, and October 3, 2023. We have used descriptive and infe ...Daha fazlası
Ideology, as a system of ideas characterizing that forms the basis of theories and policies, shapes the way in which citizens and politicians conceptualize foreign policy. In analyzing the determinants of American foreign policy in the post-Wilsonian era, this research considers realism and idealism to be the two opposing foundational ideologies upon which additional systems in political thought are founded. An analysis of ideologies, in this sense, from isolationism to neoliberalism and expansionism demonstrates that the core ideological roots found in American policy doctrines are formed as ...Daha fazlası
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