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The project of modernity, which started in the last period of the Ottoman Empire, turned into a planned action in the country with the Republic of Turkey. In this context, within the project of modernity, planned development for economic independence and the development of industry were given importance. The İzmir Economy Congress (1927) and the First Five-Year Industry Plan (1934) ensured the realization of industrial investments in this process. These investments were seen as the elements that sustain the revolutions and the basic requirements for economic/social development and were realized by the state. As one of the first steps in the modernization process of the country, the Kocaeli SEKA Paper Factory area is a concrete example where the stages of this process can be followed. With the global crisis in the second half of the 20th century, the service sector began to become a predominant sector in industrial cities. Industrial areas, which used to be located in city centers in the past, started to be decentralized towards the periphery. In this process, production areas in city centers began to lose their usability in terms of both location and production due to technological obsolescence. With its locations covering large areas in city centers, it has become attractive in terms of new uses. The need to maintain these areas, which are also important in terms of urban history, except for their original functions, but maintaining the value created by the original function, has revealed the concept of industrial heritage. After the transfer of the SEKA area, whose functioning ended, to the municipality in 2005, it was aimed to reuse. This area, which is important for the history of the city, needs to be evaluated within the scope of the concept of industrial heritage, apart from its original functions, but maintaining the value created by the original function. In this study, the coastline, historical and industrial structures of SEKA, which affects the social and economic structure of the city, will be evaluated especially with the implementation of the Sekapark Urban Transformation Project. In addition, in order to ensure the effective and efficient use of the whole area, suggestions have been developed regarding the buildings and areas that have relatively limited use in the current situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Qatar is experiencing significant development as a result of its abundant natural resources. Qatar is taking crucial initiatives to ensure the sustainability of this position, such as the Qatar National Development Strategy 2030. This strategy paper focuses a variety of development issues, including economic diversification, education reform, sustainable urbanisation, transportation infrastructure strengthening, and environmental sustainability. It also seeks to safeguard liberties, promote moral and religious values, and provide security, stability, and equality of opportunity. The goal of this research is to thoroughly investigate the content of the Qatar National Development Strategy 2030, assess its development, and analyse the country's success in reaching the targets outlined in the existing plan. The analysis covers the period from the plan's implementation in 2008 to the present. The study's drawback is the lack of a complete data set to measure all of the pillars of the strategy document simultaneously. In this context, data sets that are commonly used in the literature to measure the dimensions of 'human development," "social development," "economic development," and "environmental development" were used The analysis revealed that, while Qatar has made progress towards the QNV 2030 goals, there are still problems and areas that require improvement [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to reveal the scientific development and current structure of social vulnerability studies in the context of climate change with the bibliometric method approach. For analysis data, the Web of Science (WoS) database was searched with the "topic" option using the words "social vulnerability" and "climate change". Publications with "articles, review articles, papers and book chapters" were chosen as the type of publication. In line with the determined filters, a total of 2344 publications were reached between the years 1991-2023 (first half of 2023). VOSviewer visualization software was used for the bibliometric analysis of the data obtained from the database with scientific mapping technique. Relevant criteria were selected in the software, and network maps and density maps were obtained by applying "co-existence, citation and co-authorship" analyzes. Through these analyses, various findings were discovered including keywords, research areas, publication types and languages, indices, authors, publications, journals, publishers, countries, universities, and institutions/organizations. The study is a guide for researchers in terms of evaluation and results of social vulnerability studies in the context of climate change with bibliometric method and scientific mapping technique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Even though it is becoming increasingly popular, the female perspective in historical fiction, long defined in sexist terms and associated with masculine authorship and readership for centuries, has been neglected in literary criticism. In recent years, it has become apparent that the number of historical novels shaped by rewriting strategies and written by women writers, and the interest in these novels are gradually increasing. This study, therefore, aims to uncover the theoretical underpinnings of 'rewriting' based on contemporary historical fiction by women writers as a postmodernist and feminist strategy. After examining the timeline of historical fiction and its relatively narrow definition, which, until recently, was shaped by totalising and patriarchal patterns, the paper will discuss how and in what ways postmodernism and second-wave feminism contribute to the idea of 'rewriting' and the rise of women's historical fiction that capitalises on rewriting. In addition, the authors will present diverse examples to show how contemporary women writers' views on 'rewriting' harmoniously reflect the main arguments of this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Health systems are human based systems comprising a high number of stakeholders who interact with each other in complex ways. Due to the stochastic nature of health systems and the complex dynamics and interactions of their inputs, processes and outputs; providers of health services require tools tat allow them to comprehend the said complexity and improve system performance. Intensive care units (ICUs) may fall short in treating patients due to insufficient capacity and patients may be transferred to other hospitals under certain circumstances, and waiting times can get longer. Efficient use and management of a scarce resource such as the ICU is of critical importance for trouble-free operation of a hospital. Capacity planning, in other words, determination of optical bed configuration based on current knowledge of future demand and capacity, is very difficult due to high uncertainty in both bed capacity and demand. The paper at hand proposes a simulation model to allow an easier decision-making process in the planning of bed capacity in ICU. The study focuses on improving the capacity planning of a level III university hospital in Turkey that specializes in education and research. The objective of the study is to determine optimal bed requirement by matching the resources of the ICU with demand. We provide forecasts of ICU capacity by evaluating the simulation models based on patient waiting times and bed quantity. Considered in the context of the vital importance of intensive care units and the uncertainties in their management, it is thought that the use of simulation modeling in the making of capacity decisions can prove useful for decision makers in assessing their resource allocation strategies under different regional and hospital conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the dynamic interaction between urbanization and transportation. This paper provides an empirical evaluation of dynamic connectedness between urbanization and air transportation mobility. The empirical part uses annual time-series data for Turkey, Germany, France, Italy, and United Kingdom according to data availability for the period 1970-2019. The variable of interest includes the share of urban population as urbanization, and the mobility of freight and passenger with air transportation. Urbanization and transportation measures have been obtained from World Bank statistical database. Dynamic connectedness approach provides various spillover parameters such as, from one to all, from all to one, net, pairwise, and total connectedness indexes, which might bring different perspective to the determination of the linkage between air transportation mobility and urbanization. Our findings show that air transportation is related to urbanization in terms of freight and passengers. According to the dynamic nature of transportation with urbanization and the spreading results, while transportation is receiver, urbanization is in a transmitter position. The fact that there is a transfer from urbanization to transportation is especially important in terms of the effectiveness of transportation policies in urban areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many trade economists, even the WTO, consider The Global Value Chains (GVCs) as a "paradigm shift" in international trade. The radical change occurring in global trade patterns not only creates a need for new foreign trade policy targets but also makes the traditional methods of analysis questionable both empirically and theoretically. This study aims to furnish a holistic frame of research for the correct interpretation of GVC indicators by emphasizing the structural features of GVCs and the importance of different country roles inside in defining the new trade policy objectives. Our study shows that the import dependency in GVCs is no more the main source of foreign dependency and targeting a decrease in the import share of exports can act in a contradictory way with countries' objectives for economic independence. Hence, we redefine the concept of trade dependency by the bargaining power and total value-added shares of countries within the global value chains. Finally, we present in a comparative approach the calculation methods of the new GVC indicators that are available in the literature and used for the analysis of the structure of GVCs and the participation of individual countries. However other than previous work focusing on the Turkish case, we do not conduct an empirical analysis in this research paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evaluation of the consistency of spatial plans should be a part of the planning process composed of three stages: plan preparation, implementation, and monitoring. Evaluation types affecting each of these stages are known as "ex-ante", "on-going", and "ex-post" evaluation, respectively. The inefficiencies in the stage of "ex-ante evaluation" has become an important issue in recent urban and regional planning studies. Given this knowledge, in this paper, an analytical method for this stage is proposed by examining the literature and national legislation. The method is based on consistency tests with qualitative criteria some of which also include quantitative data. The main output of the study is the "Guide for Evaluation of Spatial Plans (GESP)" that was prepared in this context. It starts with the formulation of consistency tests of the GESP that were constructed in two main categories based on "internal" and "external" consistencies, where the latter is divided into two as "horizontal" and "vertical". Afterwards, implementation of the systematic framework of the GESP is explained with reference to legislative grounds for the administrations and their authorities in plan making-approving in different jurisdictions and scales in Turkey and this framework is exemplified for a given set of different type and scale plans. In this context, the illustration involves the upper-scale plans that cover the City of Trabzon and some of the lower-scale plans for the settlements from within this city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The French philosopher Michel Foucault firstly focused on the notion of "subject" in his journey to produce knowledge, and for this purpose he tried to explain the exclusions (mad, guilty, student, homosexual, etc.), the discourse that produces and reproduces them, the power to which the discourse relates, the knowledge related to power and the truth created by power. But after a while, his thought route has shifted from the concept of the subject to the notion of power. This thinker responds to the question of power, and moreover, of the power relations, instead of answering a question such as what is power. Foucault offers us the transformation of power relations, focusing on the institutions that provide closure. He reveals the historical perspective and a philosophical basis of how is transferred from sovereignty to disciplinary power, from disciplinary power to surviallence society and lastly from surviallence society to the regulatory power (bio-power). Technological developments in capitalism are the main driving force behind such a transformation. So, we should focus on political technology, more precisely power technology, as well as industrial techniques. This paper which argues that power transformations (power technology) aims to analyze and discuss the power in detail in the thought and criticisms of Foucault. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]