WHAT STORIES DOES EUROPE TELL? A VIEW FROM TURKEY. CES Open Forum Series 2018-2019 CES Open Forum Series 2018-2019 [PDF]
Turkey’s omnipresence at the margins of Europe throughout history has given shape to both Turkish and European identities. This paper sheds light onto this relationship by endeavoring to go beyond the much studied institutional relationship between ...
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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Snapshots From the Margins: Transgressive Cosmopolitanisms in Europe [PDF]
Right-wing parties and governments in Europe have recently expressed greater hostility towards cultural pluralism, at times officially denunciating multiculturalism, and calling for the closure of borders and denial of rights to non-European nationals ...
Baban, Feyzi, Rygiel, Kim
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Fixed Pay for Output or Time? Implications for Work Speed and Quality
ABSTRACT This paper explores the influence of two fixed payment arrangements—time‐based and output‐based wages—on worker behavior and performance in a multidimensional task setting. We examine how these wages affect the time workers spend on individual units of a task and their work quality.
CAROLYN DELLER, SANTIAGO GALLINO
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Central Asian Nomads in the Spread of Buddhism in Russia
The history of Buddhism in Middle Asia and its subsequent transition to Russia is rich in every dimension: in peoples and lands, events, processes, which played an important role in the history of religion, etc.
Baatr U. Kitinov
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When machines invent: How AI shapes patent litigation outcomes
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer merely a tool of invention. It has become an inventor. As AI systems increasingly contribute to the design and discovery of new technologies, their involvement raises novel challenges for patent law. This essay presents the first empirical test of whether jurors systematically perceive alleged patent ...
Joseph J. Avery, W. Michael Schuster
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Türklerde Animist Düşüncenin Yansımaları: Kürek Kemiği ve Aşık Kemiği Falı
Falcılık Şamanizm’in başlıca unsurlarından biridir. Benzer temaları ele alankürek kemiği ve aşık kemiği falı ise manevi gerçekleri dışa vurma ya da onlarlateması kolaylaştırmaya yarayan bir tekniktir.
Recep Yaşa
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Khan and Its Political and Social Position in the History of Islam [PDF]
In different periods of history, the title of “khan” has had various orthographic forms such as “khaghan” or “gha'an” with meanings close to each other, however. In the 11th and 12th centuries BCE, the word “khaghan” had been in common use in China.
Seyyed Mahdi-ye Javadi
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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