Istanbul Technical University

About: Istanbul Technical University is a education organization based out in Istanbul, Turkey. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Fuzzy logic & Large Hadron Collider. The organization has 12889 authors who have published 25081 publications receiving 518242 citations. The organization is also known as: İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi & Technical University of Istanbul.

Search for massive resonances decaying into pairs of boosted bosons in semi-leptonic final states at s = 8 TeV

Abstract: A search for new resonances decaying to WW, ZZ, or WZ is presented. Final states are considered in which one of the vector bosons decays leptonically and the other hadronically. Results are based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb^(−1) recorded in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. Techniques aiming at identifying jet substructures are used to analyze signal events in which the hadronization products from the decay of highly boosted W or Z bosons are contained within a single reconstructed jet. Upper limits on the production of generic WW, ZZ, or WZ resonances are set as a function of the resonance mass and width. We increase the sensitivity of the analysis by statistically combining the results of this search with a complementary study of the all-hadronic final state. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the bulk graviton production cross section in the range from 700 to 10 fb for resonance masses between 600 and 2500 GeV, respectively. These limits on the bulk graviton model are the most stringent to date in the diboson final state.

Planning and Management of Urban Green Spaces in Europe: Comparative Analysis

Abstract: The present paper analyzes and compares the current urban green space planning and management experiences of 23 European cities in order to understand the critical factors behind their success and/or failure and to obtain strategic and policy relevant information on the key features of urban green provisions and maintenance. The results of our comparative analysis show that—despite a variety in urban green space policies in cities in Europe—the critical success conditions in planning and management of urban green spaces have emerged in four factors/attributes: (1) the share of green space in urban land use; (2) the changes in these shares over time; (3) the intensity of involvement of the city administration; and (4) the degree of citizen participation. The comparative evaluation of our analysis also shows some interesting results in terms of geographical and regional characteristics in the success level. We can say that three geographical regions, northern Europe, southern Europe, and eastern Europe, wit...

Geology of the Cretaceous sedimentary basins of the Western Pontides

Abstract: The southern passive margin of the oceanic Western Black Sea Basin consists of two tectonic units, the Istanbul Zone and the Central Pontides. These units are delimited by a fundamental, north–south Arac–Daday shear zone juxtaposing totally different basement rock groups and covering later Mesozoic sedimentary rocks. To the west of this shear zone the Istanbul Zone is covered by a sedimentary succession deposited in a southerly deepening continental margin basin. This basin was bisected lengthwise during the Maastrichtian forming the Zonguldak Basin in the northwest and the Ulus Basin in the southwest. Both of these basins were deformed in the Early Cainozoic. To the east of the Arac–Daday shear zone, the northerly deepening Sinop Basin dominates the architecture of the Pontides in the north. It began forming by extension in the Barremian and was destroyed by a single-phase north–south compression in the Late Eocene–Oligocene. After the juxtaposition of the Central Pontides and the Istanbul Zone, an E–W trending extensional magmatic arc was established on these sedimentary basins in response to northward-subducting Neotethys to the south. This magmatic arc, which began during the Turonian, gave rise to the Western Black Sea oceanic back-arc basin. None of the basins in the Pontides is simple. They show a complex evolution responding to different rifting and closure events with much, as yet unspecified, strike-slip movement. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Antecedents and Consequences Of Frontline Service Employee Commitment to Service Quality

Abstract: Research that examines approaches for improving frontline service employee commitment to service quality is relatively scarce, especially in business-to-business contexts. Using a sample of 310 frontline service employees from the logistics service provider industry, we examine the effects of alternative developmental and reward-based antecedents and affective and behavioral consequences of frontline service employee commitment to service quality. We also evaluate the moderating effect of manager commitment to service quality relative to frontline service employee commitment to service quality. Our findings indicate that managerial coaching has the strongest influence on frontline service employee commitment to service quality. The results also show that frontline service employee commitment to service quality improves job-related outcomes. In addition, manager commitment to service quality relative to frontline service employee commitment to service quality has a moderating influence on the proposed fron...