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Periodic operational results of companies and hence financial performances related to these results concern a wide range of people called “interest groups or stakeholders of the enterprise”. It is essential for businesses to operate successfully in a dynamic environment with intense competition and to sustain their endlessly accepted lifetimes, to check the results of the activities and to measure performance constantly. Financial performance measurement is done with generally accepted financial ratios. However, measurements using a large number of financial ratios have limitations in terms of time, cost and effectiveness. Due to these constraints, many Multi-Criteria Decision Making Techniques have been developed that provide the same level of success by using fewer rates. In the study, financial performances of 7 firms whose shares are traded in Borsa İstanbul (BİST) retail sector and similar in their fields of activity, for the period of 2017-2019; measured using intuitionistic fuzzy EDAS (IF-EDAS) method, which is one of the multi-criteria decision making techniques, using 10 generally accepted financial ratios. The findings show that effective performance measurement can be made with a small number of rates over a 2-3 year period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Migration is an influential incident that is directly related with the sociocultural, economic and political structures of the societies. The net amount of migration and the migration rate are the main tools that are used to measure the migration. These tools can be seen as the most important factors that explain the reasons of the decrease or the increase in a population. However, to be able to understand the changes in the demographic structures and in the spatial distributions, migrations have to be analyzed in different ways. Migration effectiveness and migration turnover rate are two of these different ways. In this research, the migration effectiveness, the migration turnover rate, population turnover and the net migration rates which are the important indicators of the migration in Turkey's first level regions during the years between 2007 and 2017 are determined. Also, by using these indicators, migration analyses of the regions are done. According to the data obtained between 2007 and 2017, the migration turnover rates in the Southeast, Middle East, Northeast and Middle Anatolia regions are generally negative. The Population Turnover Rate which explains the effects of inner migrations on the population exchange shows that the highest population turnover occurs at the regions of Eastern Black Sea and Northeastern Anatolia. According to the average value of ten different data periods, Istanbul, West Marmara, East Marmara, Aegean and West Anatolian are the leading regions where net migration effectiveness is positive. Some changes are observed in the immigration charts of the last two periods of Istanbul. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, the citation rates and related factors of the articles were examined as a sample of Turkish Journal of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation. The sample of the study consists of 148 articles published between 2006 and 2013. The following data were collected in relation to the publications: Turkish and English title, number of characters in Turkish and English titles, presence of punctuation marks in the title, year of publication, number of authors, first and responsible author's institution information, number of institutions, publication language, country, article type, study design, and sample size. It was determined that 66.9% of the studies were written in Turkish and most of them had a cross-sectional study design (58.1%). Twenty-seven percent of the articles were found to have no citation. The median number of citations was found as 2. Articles with shorter Turkish and English titles and a larger sample size were found to be more cited. It was found that articles written in English have a significantly higher number of citations than Turkish articles. It was found that the presence of a punctuation mark in the title, the first and responsible author's institution, county, and study design was not related to the citation rate. It is hoped that the findings obtained from this study will guide the authors at the stage of writing and the editors and reviewers at the stage of selection and evaluation of the articles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]