The Asian Conference on Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences 2015

Conference Note

Rapid fracture resistance of polyethylene: dependence on polymer structure

Polymer pipe materials being widely used in the industry for transport purposes introduced new areas of research from mechanics of materials perspective. In this study the effect of structural parameters on the fracture resistance of polyethylene pipe material have been investigated via testing materials differing in their overall structure, density, crystallinity, molecular weight, and carbon black by performing S4 tests in addition to Instrumented Charpy, Reversed Charpy and Tensile Tests. Furthermore, the effect of extrusion conditions have been investigated via performing S4 Tests on pipes having differing process histories. A new technique of analysing tensile testing enlightening plane stress resistance is demonstrated. The stability of adiabatic drawing in a tensile test is found to be related to the plane stress fracture resistance, which forms the basis of the RCP resistance of a pipe. This proposed method enables the use of two basic material properties – yield stress and strain hardening modulus – for ranking of the pipes RCP performances, making the idea of tailor-made pipes possible

Fracture mechanics analysis of arc shaped specimens for pipe grade polymers

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What is the threshold in urban regeneration projects in the context of urban identity? The case of Turkey

Cities are trying to adapt to the rapidly changing global trends by regenerating themselves. Approaches and practices of this regeneration are different in several countries. In big Turkish cities, particularly in the past decade, urban regeneration practices, processes and consequences have sparked several debates. The ‘new’ gained or converted spaces in the city are also significant in terms of their impacts on urban identity. In this context, this study aims to identify the impacts of urban regeneration, which occurred in historical city centres, on urban identity in the case of Turkey. The study determines general framework of urban regeneration and then defines a conceptual framework of urban identity. It focuses on urban regeneration projects in the case of Turkey. Then, the topic is explored through two case studies which are selected from Turkey, Istanbul and Bursa. The findings of the study indicate that there are several problematic aspects of urban regeneration. The findings also show that urban identity was ignored in urban regeneration projects, which caused significant breaks in the context of physical, cultural, historical and semantic continuity

Turkish Bath

Taha Toros Arşivi, Dosya No: 106-Hamamlarİstanbul Kalkınma Ajansı (TR10/14/YEN/0033) İstanbul Development Agency (TR10/14/YEN/0033

Slow City Movement is an Utopia of Livable City?

The Slow Food and as an extension of it, Slow City (Cittaslow) Movement is born when these disadvantages are posed by modernity and globalization. Slow city is a way of life that cultural richness and quality of life are preserved and defended in the city's local scale. Also, it is an urban model which may be prevented in the standardization of lifestyles to achieve the environmentally-conscious and tourism-based of local development. Thus, it is aimed to improve the quality of life in cities and opposed the homogenization of cities. Slow City Movement is adopted day by day in terms of societal, cultural and social needs and as a model of local government. Slow city movement aims to create livable cities. It is important that how much of this discourse can be perform. This discourse contains similarities with the concept of "utopia" which was put forward for creating an ideal society and was effective for constructing the cities after the II World War. "Ideal urban designs" are asked for "ideal society" with design utopias that give the meaning of the conceptual contrasts of "Ideal location" (Eutopia) and "non-place" (Outopia). Does Slow City Movement, which suggests the new layout / space organization about the city and the society and approach from a critical perspective to the current plans, create the concept of "ideal city"? How will ideal societies and ideal spaces be meaningful and accessible when creating the ideal cities? In this study, the aims of creating livable city, similarities and differences of "utopia urban designs", which is developed as a design and a discourse, but not being successful in practice, and "Slow City Movement" are questioned. The main problematic of this study are how much the Slow City Movement performs the livable discourse and how much of it remains utopias

Ege Bölgesinde, Menemen Ovasında Organik Ve Konvansiyonel Tarım Uygulamalarının Pamuk Verimi Ve Kalite Kriterleri Üzerine Etkileri

Çalışma; organik ve konvansiyonel tarım sistemlerinde yetiştirilen pamukların verim ve kalite değerlerini karşılaştırmak üzere, 2002-2008 yılları arasında 7 yıl süre ile pamuk+pamuk+buğday münavebe sisteminde, tesadüf parselleri deneme deseninde, 5 tekrarlamalı olarak yürütülmüştür. Aynı toprak koşullarında organik sistemdeki pamuk deneme alanlarına yeşil gübre olarak fiğ (Vicia villosa L.) ve sertifikalı organik gübre (Agrobiosol) kullanılırken, konvansiyonel sistemdeki deneme alanlarına inorganik ticari gübreler toprağa uygulanmıştır. Her iki sistemden elde edilen kütlü verimleri karşılaştırıldığında organik ve konvansiyonel tarım sistemleri arasındaki verim farkı istatistiki olarak önemsiz bulunmuştur. Organik ve konvansiyonel sisteme ait kalite kriterlerinden lif uzunluğu, uniformite indeksi, kısa lif indeksi, lif kopma dayanıklılığı, lif kopma uzaması ve lif olgunluğu değerleri arasındaki farklılıklar istatistikî olarak önemsiz bulunurken, lif inceliği ve çırçır randımanı değerleri arasındaki farklılıklar önemli bulunmuştur

Ege Bölgesinde, Menemen Ovasında Organik Ve Konvansiyonel Tarım Uygulamalarının Pamuk Verimi Ve Kalite Kriterleri Üzerine Etkileri

Çalışma; organik ve konvansiyonel tarım sistemlerinde yetiştirilen pamukların verim ve kalite değerlerini karşılaştırmak üzere, 2002-2008 yılları arasında 7 yıl süre ile pamuk+pamuk+buğday münavebe sisteminde, tesadüf parselleri deneme deseninde, 5 tekrarlamalı olarak yürütülmüştür. Aynı toprak koşullarında organik sistemdeki pamuk deneme alanlarına yeşil gübre olarak fiğ (Vicia villosa L.) ve sertifikalı organik gübre (Agrobiosol) kullanılırken, konvansiyonel sistemdeki deneme alanlarına inorganik ticari gübreler toprağa uygulanmıştır. Her iki sistemden elde edilen kütlü verimleri karşılaştırıldığında organik ve konvansiyonel tarım sistemleri arasındaki verim farkı istatistiki olarak önemsiz bulunmuştur. Organik ve konvansiyonel sisteme ait kalite kriterlerinden lif uzunluğu, uniformite indeksi, kısa lif indeksi, lif kopma dayanıklılığı, lif kopma uzaması ve lif olgunluğu değerleri arasındaki farklılıklar istatistikî olarak önemsiz bulunurken, lif inceliği ve çırçır randımanı değerleri arasındaki farklılıklar önemli bulunmuştur

Energy aware routing and traffic management for software defined networks

2nd IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization, NetSoft 2016; Seoul; South Korea; 6 June 2016 through 10 June 2016Since traffic diversity and volume increase with growing popularity of mobile applications, there is the strong need to manage the traffic carried by networks. Software defined networks can simplify network management while enabling new services by employing traffic management including routing whose goal is to maximize the given utility while satisfying capacity requirements. In this paper, we propose an efficient routing algorithm to minimize the cost based on power consumption determined by the number of active OpenFlow switches in a software defined network while satisfying throughput requirements of all flows according to constraints on link capacities in the network. We evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm based on the number of active switches for different network topologies with various scenarios