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This article aims at exploring and validating the use of 3D physics‐based simulated ground motions as seismic input for the derivation of seismic fragility curves based on nonlinear dynamic numerical analyses. Fragility curves are computed for a set of pre‐code (i.e., designed only for vertical loads), reinforced concrete building types representative ...
Chiara Smerzini, Vincenzo Manfredi
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Negotiation and Design for the Self-Organizing City [PDF]
An understanding of cities as open systems whose agents act on them simultaneously from below and above, influencing urban processes by their interaction with them and with each other, is replacing the simplistic debate on urban participation which asks ...
Tan, Ekim
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Populism and policy capacity: Evidence from an opposition municipality in Istanbul
Abstract Despite achievements in its conceptual rigor, policy capacity still represents a relatively depoliticized concept that fails to sufficiently consider the ways in which politics plays a role in its creation, mobilization, or decay. This article seeks to contribute to this debate by investigating the impact of populism on policy capacity, the ...
Ebru Ertugal, Faik Gür, İnan Sevinç
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Abstract This paper reviews and classifies more than 120 recent contributions on millimeter‐wave (mm‐wave) antennas, with emphasis on their operating bands, design methods, and application domains. It surveys the main mm‐wave frequency ranges and their use in 5G/6G communications, radar and sensing, biomedical and body‐centric systems, imaging, and ...
Sarra Khacha +10 more
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Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
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This study highlights developments in cost‐effective fractionation techniques to ensure the sustainability and industrial applicability of biomass. ABSTRACT Given the depletion of fossil fuels and global concerns about environmental protection, lignocellulosic biomass is an excellent alternative candidate due to its unique combination of ...
Sunesh Narayanaperumal +6 more
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Integration and Multi‐Level Governance in Turkey's Small Towns: An Actor Centred Analysis1
ABSTRACT This article examines how refugee integration is governed in Turkey's small towns, where strong centralization, local discretion, and informal practices intersect. Drawing on an actor‐centred multi‐level governance (MLG) framework, it analyzes interactions among Provincial Directorates of Migration Management, municipalities, non‐governmental ...
Kristen Sarah Biehl +3 more
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Middle-class lifestyles in Istanbul:Class, politics and religion [PDF]
In a popular café chain in Istanbul, star-patterned nails glide across phone screens as laughter rises between sips of coffee. Nearby, a woman in a silk headscarf leans in, her earrings catching the light.
Aygün, M.
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Introversion to Digital Ghettos: Wilful Self‐Exclusion of Syrian Refugees in Türkiye
ABSTRACT This study foregrounds digital exclusion as a driver of wilful self‐exclusion among Syrian refugees in Türkiye, challenging the premise that online communication inherently facilitates integration. Guided by a theoretical framework that bridges the contact hypothesis, social capital theory and concepts of digital othering, it analyses how ...
Haldun Narmanlıoğlu, Serkan Bayrakcı
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Volume 4: Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts : Perspectives from the Past [PDF]
Cosmopolitanism is a key concept in social and political thought, standing in opposition to closed human group ideologies such as tribalism, nationalism and fundamentalism.
Ahmed, Sikeena Karmali +1 more
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