Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an important subject for business. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is newly emerged concept for Turkish companies. This paper is investigated the current status of CSR efforts in the Turkish automotive distribution companies. Sabanci Holding, Dogus Group and Koç Group are selected as the top three best CSR practice cases for Turkish automot...

This paper describes recent work towards development of new corpora and tools for Turkish speech research. This effort represents an on-going collaboration between the Center for Spoken Language Research (CSLR) at the University of Colorado and the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Middle East Technical University (METU). A new text corpus developed from Turkish newspapers’ text is de...

Adaptation of the short-form of the UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-8) to Turkish for the Adolescents Objective: The purpose of this study is to adapt short form of the UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-8) to Turkish and investigate the validity and reliability of the scale for Turkish adolescents. Method: The participants in this study were 293 high school students aged between 14 and 19. Among the partic...

A Sign-Based Phrase Structure Grammar for Turkish Şehitoğlu, Onur Tolga MS., Department of Computer Engineering Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cem Bozşahin January 1996, 97 pages This study analyses Turkish syntax from an informational point of view. Sign based linguistic representation and principles of HPSG (Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar) theory are adapted to Turkish. The basic informa...

We built an open-source software platform intended to serve as a common infrastructure that can be of use in the development of new applications involving the processing of Turkish. The platform incorporates a lexicon, a morphological analyzer/generator, and a DCG parser/generator that translates Turkish sentences to predicate logic formulas, and a knowledge base framework. Several developers h...

In this paper, we describe the design and integration of a three level cascaded non-deterministic finite state model of Turkish compounding into Turkish PAPPI, a comprehensive syntactic parser in the principles-andparameters(P&P) framework. Our approach is to handle compounding as an intermediate stage between morphological analysis and syntactic parsing. We discuss how the compounding machine ...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of cross-cultural communication (ccc) on stakeholder management process (smp) in international construction projects from the turkish stakeholders’ perspective. the research is based on a survey of turkish stakeholders (contractors, consulting engineers, insurance brokers, and financial advisors) operating internationally. the useable su...

OBJECTIVES To study trends in height of Turkish and Moroccan immigrant children living in The Netherlands, to investigate the association between height and background characteristics in these children, and to calculate height-for-age-references data for these groups. DESIGN Nationwide cross-sectional data collection from children aged 0 to 18 years by trained professionals in 1997 and 2009. ...

This paper discusses the meaning of the Bulgarian and Turkish evidentials. I argue that evidential forms in these languages have a rich semantic content: they encode the source of information, epistemic modality, and temporality. Ultimately, I show that the meaning of the Bulgarian and Turkish evidentials is not reducible to the meaning of perfect forms, from which the evidential forms are hist...

Method: This study was conducted using scientific search engines such as Pubmed, Cinahl, Science Direct, Wiley Interscience, Ulakbim Medicine Database, and the Turkish Medline database. The English keywords were translated to “nursing by telephone” since that was the only term involved in the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) index for English keywords and TST (Turkish Scientific Terms) for Turki...