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Understanding cultural landscape characteristics: The case of Barbaros settlement, Urla-İzmir
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2017-12)Rural settlements’ heritage characteristics are threatened to extinct for many decades due to economic and social transformations. While current heritage studies indicate the importance of understanding a place with its ... -
Understanding gamification: Utilizing gamification as a tangible tool for organ donation campaigns
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2016-12)Ever more increasingly, play and fun are not meant for entertainment only, but also began to be embedded within the daily life routines. Many services and products borrowed game-like systems from entertainment to attract ... -
Understanding the relationship among sustainability, industrial design and service sysstem design: co-design in Aalborg to access local food
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2012)Design has been a structural part of the industrialization processes and has inadvertently contributed to the creation of the current ecological problems of the planet. So far industrial design discipline has been producing ... -
Uneven development and declining inner city residential areas: The case of İzmir-Tuzcu District
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2005)Izmir, being the third largest city of Turkey has experienced rapid urbanization after 1950s and especially after 1980s. Similar to the other metropolitan cities of Turkey, İzmir presents a dual structure including the ... -
Uniformly convergent approximation on special meshes
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2007)We consider finite difference methods for the approximation of one-dimensional convection-diffusion problem with a small parameter multiplying the diffusion term. An analysis of the centered difference and upwind difference ... -
Unlimited-wokspace teleoperation
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2012)Teleoperation is, in its brief description, operating a vehicle or a manipulator from a distance. Teleoperation is used to reduce mission cost, protect humans from accidents that can be occurred during the mission, and ... -
Urban decline and low demand housing case study: Damlacık (İzmir) District
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2009)"Low demand housing" has become an often used term in the urban literature since the beginning of the 2000's. The aim of this thesis is to explain low demand housing concept, to determine its features and its causes. Another ... -
Urban design for disabled people
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 1999)Defining outdoor space dimensions and standards in respect to disabled people's requirements and redesign of selected outdoor space components in respect to these standards is the main subject of this research. It is ... -
Urban design toolkit for creative place-making and cultural tourism: The case of Alaçatı
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2013)This study investigates relationship between creativity and cultural tourism in the case of Alaçatı. In that sense, the new concept of creativity with various terms including creative economy, creative class, creative ... -
Urban regeneration policy impacts on the future of city-a comparative study in European and the Turkish context
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2007)The aim of this thesis is to not only understand urban regeneration issues, but also to examine European and Turkish urban regeneration examples with making comparative study between them to present necessity and importance ... -
Urban transformation in İzmir/Bayraklı district
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018-10-25)This academic study investigates the urban transformation practices and their effects on the urban life and on the citizens of Bayraklı region of İzmir. Since the urban transformation practices in Turkey have accelerated ... -
The usage of stochastic and multicriteria decision-aid methods evaluating geothermal energy exploitation projects
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2005)This study is based on three main questions about the utilization of geothermal energy. The first question is how much heat energy the geothermal resource contains? The second one is what the utilization alternatives are ... -
The use and characterization of composite alumina-titania-zirconia-silica-ceramic membranes for gas separation
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2002)The preparation, characterization and pure gas permeation of sol-gel derived alumina and silica membranes were investigated in this work. The effects of various parameters on sol particle size and unsupported membranes ... -
The use and importance of emotional design in contemporary design practice
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2006)This thesis investigated emotional design concept. Products evoke emotions in people. This thesis suggests that emotions are at a basic importance for the success of a product since they influence product evaluation, ... -
Use of amine-and mercapto-modified silica as soild phase extraction sorbent for speciation of inorganic selenium prior to determination by atomic spectrometric techniques
(İzmir Institute of Technology, 2010)Silica-based sorbents containing amino-, mercapto-, and both functional groups (bifunctional) were prepared and used for the sorption of inorganic Se(IV) and Se(VI) species from waters prior to their determination by atomic ... -
The use of boron-containing additives for synthesis of anorthite ceramic powders
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2006)Anorthite ceramics have a great potential as a substrate material due to their low thermal expansion coefficient and low dielectric constant. For lowering the sintering temperature of anorthite ceramics several routes like ... -
The use of cell polyurethane foams in air-type solar collectors as the heat absorbing element
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2006)After the energy crisis in early 1970.s, the priority of alternative energy resources is expanded. There have been many researches, to increase the efficiency of solar energy utilization systems, for domestic and industrial ... -
Use of different gold amalgamation techniques in mercury determination by cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry
(İzmir Institute of Technology, 2005)A novel amalgamation/cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometric system was developed for the determination of Hg(II) concentration in water samples. In the next part, an amalgamation unit utilizing various Au-coated sorbents ... -
Use of domestic minerals for vegetable oil bleaching
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2004)In this thesis, acid activation and characterization studies were conducted for different clay samples and bleaching capacity of the selected acid activated clay samples for sunflower oil were determined. The samples ... -
Use of fibroin/hyaluronic acid matrices as a drug reservoir in iontophoretic transdermal delivery
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2004)Transdermal drug delivery is gaining importance due to the extensive research in genetics and resulting increase of protein and peptide based drugs in the market. In order to develop materials to be used in iontophoretic ...
