The Relation of kitchen with the Residence

Kitchen, as being worked with food materials, is a storage at the foods which has been prepared or not prepared. Because of this critical values, the direction of the kitchen is important (Such as keeping away the food being spoiled). It is not a good idea to placed kitchens where is taking the sun light (Agat 1991). For the kitchens which is working, north; north-east for dining spot; and east is the best for the bar kitchens because of living is done with the same area. as direction. For kitchens, west and south-west in not really a good idea (Arcan, 1992).
Figure 1 – According to the types, directions of residence is kitchens
Although, it should be separated from the rest of the spots of property, because of small, noise, etc. , people suggest to have visual and audile relation with the kitchen. It has been given in figure 2 and figure 3 (Arcan, 1992).
Figure 2 and 3 = Obtaining visual contact from kitchen
Service windows only make a connection between kitchen and dining spot in the living room, and they’re just helping for carriage these windows are not enough for visual contact. Because of that, there is a demand for a direct connection between kitchen and dining room (Arcan 1992). Devamını oku …

Rise Of Bıg Busıness And Organızed Labor

Henry Ford and Walter Reuther are two of the biggest names in the world of automobile industries and organized labor. They were both activists in their own way. Also, they were completely different from each other, one could even argue that they were opposites. Their ideas were contradicting, but still both of them had positive effects on society. Henry Ford was a captain of industry. He owned Ford Motors, which was an automobile company. Ford was a man who always wanted his own way and he got it most of the time. The creation he is most famous for is the FORD MODEL T, the car for the commoners. His car became an instant hit amongst the people- the local people and the working class of people because it was very affordable and was not just for the rich. Ford was a very successful businessman but not particularly a nice guy. He expected a lot from his workers but thing is that he also cared for his workers, because he knew that not only were they dependent on him but also that he depended upon them, they were the ones due to which he was gaining popularity and success throughout America. Ford’s great strength was the manufacturing process for his cars. Instead of having people put together the entire car he created organized teams that added parts to the Model T as it moved down the assembly line, this lowered the production prices and also the time and energy required to put Devamını oku …

Read the passages and find the best mark the answers

The official language of the Czech Republic is Czech, a highly complex western Slavic tongue. Any attempt from foreigners to speak Czech will be heartily appreciated, so do not be discouraged if people fail to understand you, as most will be accustomed to hearing foreigners stumble through their language. If you don’t know any Czech, brush up on your German, since, among the older generation at least, it is still the most widely spoken second language. Russian, once the compulsory second language has been practically wiped off the school curriculum, and the number of English speakers has been steadily increasing, especially among the younger generation.

1-It is clear from the passage that…………. .
***A)more Czechs speak German than any other foreign language
B)as their own language is so difficult, Czechs prefer German
C)everyone in the Czech Republic speaks several languages
D)Czechs usually laugh at foreigners who try to speak Czech
E)Czechs learn English during childhood and German later
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Material Requirements Planning

Mrp System
Material requierements management is a computerized inventory control and production planning system. It has the most stringent and complete control over the entire process. It starts with the demand for a product and then, using the bill of materials that show how the product is made, multiplies items for item down through the entire chain. This gives the number of each item needed to produce that number of product. Further, it not only tabuletes the number of items, but it also considers the time it takes to make each item in the cain. The final result is a schedule that shows the number of each item needed in the sequence and the time in which it must be produced.
Purposes,Objectıves And Phılosophy Of Mrp
The main purposes of a basic MRP system are;

 To control inventory levels,
 Order the right part.
 Order in the right quantitiy.
 Order at the right time.
 To assign operating priorities for items,
 Oreder with the right due date.
 Keep the due date valid.
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What ıs erp?

ERP is an acronym for Enterprise Resource Planning. ERP is package software solution that tries to address the enterprise needs for an organisation by tightly integrating the various functions of an organisation using a process view of an organisation. ERP understands the needs of any organisation belonging to any industry because the processes implemented in an ERP software are core processes such as order processing, order fulfilment, shipping, invoicing, BOM processing, purchase order processing, preparation of Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss statement etc., that are common to all industry segments. ERP addresses the entire needs of an enterprise and cuts across all its functions such as finance, sales, production, human resource and others to meaningfully execute any of the core processes. An integrated ERP ensures that the logic of a process that cuts across the function is captured genuinely, this in turn implies that data once entered in any of the functional modules (whichever of the module owns the data) is made available to every other module that needs this data. This leads to significant improvements by way of improved consistency and integrity of data. In short an ERP provides a much better insight into the organisational systems and procedures and also breaks the “kingdoms” that work at cross-purposes in many organisations. Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) is an outgrowth of Materials Requirments Planning (MRP) initiated in the 1970’s as a new compuer-based approach to planning and scheduling of material requirements and inventory, featuring the time-phased order point. MRP evolved to MRP II (Materials Resources Planning) the “closed loop” process, to Business Requirements Planning (BRP) and eventually to ERP. As MRPII came into vogue in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, software companies began to develop software packages around MRPII concepts. Devamını oku …

Investment Castıng

Investment casting is an advanced metal forming process used to produce metal parts of the highest quality, functionality and cost–effectiveness. Investment casting is a one-two-one process in which one disposible pattern produces one metal part. When combined with modern production knowledge and technologies, investment casting can be applied to produce parts of varying degrees of complexity, in virtually any volume and for the broadest possible spectrum of applications. A highly versalite casting process, investment casting has for some time been perceived as a comparatively expensive process. But when compared to alternative processes which require extensive welding or machining, an investment cast component can often dramatically reduce overall part production costs. Investment casting, which is also known as the ‘lost wax’ process, traces its roots to the Sang Dynasty in China from 1766 B.C to 1122 B.C. The method was brougt into modern industrial use when American manufacturers applied investment casting to make high quality military parts during World War II. It was found practical for many war-time needs-and during the postwar period it expanded into many non-aircraft applications. Today, investment casting is recognized and used worldwide sas a technique for producing close-tolerance metal parts at highly competitive costs.
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General Requirements For Accreditation Of Laboratories

The AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR LABORATORY ACCREDITATION (A2LA) is a non-profit, nongovernmental, public service, membership organization dedicated to operating a nationwide, broad spectrum laboratory accreditation system. Accreditation is defined as a formal recognition of competence that a laboratory can perform specific tests or types of tests. Accreditation is available to any type of testing laboratory, be it in the private sector (independent or in-house) or in the government sector. A2LA was formed in 1978, as a practical and efficient organization to develop and manage a system to verify and recognize competent testing laboratories. Accreditation is available for virtually all types of tests, calibrations, measurements and observations which are reproducible and properly documented.
The accreditation of laboratories is offered in the following fields of testing:
Biological Mechanical Acoustical & Vibration Nondestructive
Chemical Environmental Construction Materials Geotechnical
Electrical Thermal Calibration
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Treasure Island

Squire Trelawney, Dr Livesey, Captain Bill Ben Gunn,Tom Redruth, Long John Silver, andJim Hawkins are the main heros of the story. The story starts as Dr. Livesey and the others asked Jim to tell them the history ofTreasure island And the story starts… Jim was only 17 in the story.Jim’s father owned the Admiral Benbow inn at Black Hill Cove.
When Jim is at the inn an old seaman comes to story.At that time Jim’s father is very ill.He is astrong an tall man.He sings a song and wants a glass of rum to drink.Althought the innis a wild and lonely place the seaman seems to like it.He asks Jim, if many people comes there.And Jim answers him negatively.So he says, it’s the best place for him. Devamını oku …

Mount Erciyes

One of Turkey’s most important mountaineering and winter sports centers, Mount Erciyes rises from the south of the Kayseri valley. The Sultan Marshes lie to its west and to the south falls the Develi Valley. Its summit always covered in snow and ice, Mt. Erciyes ranks as central Anatolia’s tallest volcano. Approximately 18 kilometers in diameter and covering an area of 1000 square kilometers, the mountain’s stratification and geology make it a fascinating geographical formation. The region’s climate, influenced by that of the Anatolian plateau, is considered typical of steppe geography. Certainly the winter brings considerable snowfall to the higher elevations. The northern side of the mountain enjoys a somewhat more temperate climate encouraging the cultivation of vast areas of vine and fruit orchards between 1100 and 1600 meters. Above that altitude, vast meadows stretch far into the distance. The higher elevations display typical alpine vegetation. Herds of animals graze year round on the east, north and west slopes of the mountain. Devamını oku …

Multiple Discriminant Analysis

WHAT IS MDA?

variates (linear combinations of metric independent variables) used to predict the classification of a categorical dependent variable.
How It Works

Classification derives discriminant functions which maximize the between-group variance and minimize the within-group variance on the discriminant function score(s).
Null hypothesis–two or more group means are equal on the discriminant function(s).
How It Works

Further analysis between which groups and by which independent variables there are significant differences.
WHY USE MDA?

group differences–described (profiled)
the relative importance of independent variables in the classification process
pick the best discriminating variables
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Export Growth An Empirical Case Study for Turkey

Sustained export growth represents an essential component in any adjustment package designed to achieve simultaneous adjustment and growth. In the face of a binding current account constraint and to the extent that import substitution are severely limited, the resumption of growth can often only be achieved through faster export expansion. The diverging experience between Latin American and East Asian countries nderscores the contribution of export growth in limiting the costs of the adjustment process. (Sachs, 1985).
Not surprisingly, the past decade has witnessed a significant shift in the orientation of trade policy in many developing countries, with a sizeable reduction in the bias against export-oriented activities. (Ktuger, 1990). Yet the question remains whether the response of exports to the new and more favorable set of incentives is sufficient to allow developing countries to resume growth without jeopardizing their external accounts. Both Dongues and Riedel (1977) and Balassa et al. (1986) argue that exports exhibit a significant response to changes in relative prices. Moran (1988), however, fails to find significant price elasticities for a large sample of LDCs. Similarly; Sachs (1989) concludes export growth occurs mainly in the presence of large unemployment of domestic resources. This would suggest that often developing countries are forced to place excessive reliance on expenditure-reducing policies to achieve a viable current account balances because of limited effectiveness of expenditures-switching policies (Faini and de Melo, 1990)
And Turkey has undergone a radical shift in its trade incentive structure and has witnessed a sustained expansion in its exports. Especially after 1980s due to liberalization policies the export pattern of Turkey has changed radically. It is sometimes argued that strong export growth in developing countries occurs mainly in the presence of large unemployment of domestic resource, with price reforms playing relatively minor role. We will question whether relative prices and capacity are significant determinants of export growth for the period 1982-99. Devamını oku …

Fiscal Policy

In an earlier article, monetary policy was identified as one of the tools that a national government uses to influence its domestic economy. The second tool available to government (and one that is used by all levels of government) is fiscal policy. The term fiscal policy refers to the expenditure a government undertakes to provide goods and services and to the way in which the government finances these expenditures.
There are two methods of financing: taxation and borrowing. Taxation takes many forms in the developed countries including taxation of personal and corporate income, so-called value added taxation and the collection of royalties or taxes on specific sets of goods. The debt burden assumed by the government is itself an important policy variable and one that has implications for the conduct of monetary policy. Governments in democratic societies act on many different, occasionally conflicting objectives. They may want to smooth out the nation’s income in order to minimize the pejorative effects of the business cycle or they may want to take steps designed to increase the national income. They may also want to take steps intended to achieve specific social objectives deemed to be appropriate by the political or legal process.
LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT
In a democratic system, there are two ways to organize a government: a unitary system and a federal system. Canada is an excellent example of a federal system of government in which there is one central or federal government and there are ten provincial governments. Underneath the provincial governments, there is a patchwork of local government. Devamını oku …

The tables and graphics below documents the situation of the female and male labor

Force in an age groups according to their educational status in urban areas in the years 1990 and 2000. These statistics demonstrate us some result as; the increases or decreases in education between female and males in urban areas in a time of 10 years. Also these statistics can shown us that how many people are in the force particapation related with their educational system and which type of education can belong mostly in force partipation. Also there are occur substantial variations in ten years from 1990 to 2000 in the female labor force participation related with the development of the countries and educational system. There can be seen the differences in 1990 to 2000 and these differences can be attributed to differences in economic variables,cultural factors as well as institutional framework in which labor supply decisions are being made. For example ;some instutions look for a lobor who finıshed high school while other is looking for an university graduated labor. Figure 1.1,Figure 2.1 summarizes the distribution of education in urban areas of Turkey for males in the year 1990 and 2000.Figure 1.2 ,Figure 2.2 summarizes the distribution of education in urban areas of Turkey in the year 1990 and 2000 according to the age groups. In Figure 1.1, the primary school graduation is lower for older people,it is approximately 50.000 but from older to the younger ages the graduation degree of primary school increases to the 600.000’s. So there is a huge development in 60 years in educational system and more people are. Also,illeterate people are very few in ages 15-19 tahn people in ages 65+. On the other hand when Figure 2.1 have analyzed the primary school education increases to the 100.000’s in the year 2000 than education in 1990. In both 1990 and 2000 ,the university graduated people are fewer altough there is an increase in 2000 but there is seen that primary school education are more than university graduation and university graduation are few after 10 years. Devamını oku …

OLS for Multiple Regression

The general linear statistical model can be described in matrix notation as

(II.II.1-1)
where y is a stochastic T*1 vector, X is a deterministic (exogenous) T*K matrix, b is a K*1 vector of invariant parameters to be estimated by OLS, e is a T*1 disturbance vector, T is the number of observations in the sample, and K is the number of exogenous variables used in the right hand side of the econometric equation.
It is furthermore assumed that

(II.II.1-2)
which is the equivalent matrix expression of the weak set of assumptions under section II.I.3.
The least squares estimator minimizes e’e (the sum of squared residuals).
Solving the normal equations X’Xb = X’y with respect to b yields

(II.II.1-3)
where X’X must be a non singular symmetric K*K matrix!
Obviously, the OLS estimator is unbiased

(II.II.1-4)
since E(X’e) = 0 by assumption (X is exogenous). This result can be proved quite easily. Note that if X is not exogenously given (thus stochastic) the small sample property of unbiasedness only holds if E(X’e) = 0.
Under the assumption of OLS it can be proved that the covariance matrix of the parameters is

(II.II.1-5)
The Gauss-Markov theorem states that if

(II.II.1-6)
then any other estimator

(II.II.1-7)
has a parameter covariance matrix which is at least as large as the covariance matrix of the OLS parameters

(II.II.1-8)
This important theorem therefore proves that the OLS estimator is a best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE).
If D* is a K by T matrix which is independent from y and if

(II.II.1-9)
the parameter vector is by definition a linear estimator, and if

(II.II.1-10)
then it follows that

(II.II.1-11)
Evidently, it follows from (II.II.1-11) that the parameter vector can only be unbiased if DX = 0 and if E(D*e) = 0.
Now what happens to the covariance matrix of this estimator? Obviously, we find

(II.II.1-12)
which proves the theorem (on comparing (II.II.1-12) with (II.II.1-5); Q.E.D.).
It can be proved that

(II.II.1-13)
which states that the OLS estimator of the variance is unbiased.
The operational formula for calculating the variance is

(II.II.1-14)
The prediction of y values outside the sample range is

(II.II.1-15)
which is an unbiased prediction function

(II.II.1-16)
Example of extrapolation forecast
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Health & Enviromental Effects Of Exhaust Emissions

Course: Alternative Fuels for Road Vehicles
The atmosphere of the earth is composed of 21% oxygen and 78% nitrogen, as well as vapor and trace gases. For millions of years, this atmospheric composition has been subjected to large or small variations. This is also true for trace gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) water vapor, ozone (O3), nitrous oxide (N2O), methane (CH4), and various others. The composition of the atmosphere is the result of self-stabilizing interactive effects, which lead to a somewhat indifferent equilibrium. Within this environment, natural catastrophes such as volcanic eruptions can be compensated for without causing a collapse of the ecosystem. However, during the last 1000 years, a change with regard to trace gases has been monitored, which is evolving at increasing speed. This change is being attributed to anthropogenic activities. The phenomenon might be explained by the world population explosion and the resulting increase in energy consumption, as well as by increasing industrialization and agriculture. Devamını oku …

Definition and History

The advent of the Internet, which is seen as one of the most significant revolutions of the 20th century, has given rise to a new type of business, which is called electronic commerce. E-Commerce is the use of internetworked computers to create and transform business relationships. It is most commonly associated with buying and selling information, products, and services via the Internet, but it is also used to transfer and share information within organizations through intranets to improve decision-making and eliminate duplication of effort. The new paradigm of commerce is built not just on transactions but on building, sustaining and improving relationships, both existing and potential. Devamını oku …

Benefits Of Branding

The success of any business or consumer product depends in part on the target market’s ability to distinguish one product from another. Branding is the main tool marketers use to distinguish their products from the competition’s.
A brand is a name, term, symbol, design, or combination thereof that identifies a seller’s products and differentiates them from competitors’ product. A brand name is that part of a brand that can be spoken, including letters (GM, YMCA), words (Chevrolet), and numbers (WD-40, 7-eleven). The elements of a brand that cannot be spoken are called the brand mark- for example, the well-known Mercedes-Benz and Delta Airlines symbols. Branding has main purposes: product identification, repeat sales, and new-product sales. The most important purpose is product identification. Branding allows marketers to distinguish their products from all others. Many brand names are familiar to consumers and indicate quality. Exhibit 10.3 lists, in order, the 10 brand names that U.S. consumers believe signify the highest quality products. The coolest brands, according to U.S. teenagers, are Nike, Levi’s, Guess, Gap, Coke, Pepsi, and Sega.
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Port And Marine Transport

INTRODUCTION
Those who have ruled over seas also ruled over the world for centuries. Seas connecting continents to oceans have transformed into small lakes as a result of developping technology when entered in the 20’th century, and people have come close to each other so much that the old world has had global structure.

Technology has enabled shipping sector become the most rantable and the most economic transportation way in the transportation industry by bringing importance of shipping to a level higher than it had in the past. Due to this superiority of seas, countries using seas in a rantable way are able to control the world trade.

An important part of export is made by means of the sea. There are very close connection of the amount of export cargo and variation of export goods with economic level and development of the country. Thus the amount of export and the increase in it shows how much a country is economically grown. Devamını oku …

Porter’s Competıtıve Advantage Theory

As we have seen before factor abundance leads to comparative advantage. Perhaps this theory overlooks an important point. When factors are abundant, it might lead to inefficient use of that factor as there is little incentive to use this factor in an efficient way. If factors are scarce, firms have a strong incentive to make efficient use of the available resources, and be innovative. There are numerous examples of cases where scarcity has led to innovation. Japan’s scarcity of land has delivered us the just-in-time production. In the North Sea, oil platforms are expensive to build and maintain; their scarcity has led to the development of horizontal drilling to reach distant under-sea oil reservoirs. Short building seasons in Sweden have led to prefabricated houses. Michael Porter is an very famous Harward professor who is especially well known with the theory of nations competitive advantage.According to the Porter the standard and classical theories on comparative advantage are wrong. Michael Porter (1990) proposed a model that provides conditions that have to be met for a firm to be Devamını oku …

İngilizce Ders Notları Ve Linkler

CALL OFF:Cancel an event.
eg.)The football match was called off because of the bad weather.
CALL BACK:Telephone again later.
eg.)Thank you for ringing. I’ll call you back as soon as I have the information that you want.
CALL UP:Ring up, telephone.
eg.)Alper called up me to learn the date of the exams.
CALL UP:CONSCRIPT.
eg.)Men over eighteen years of age were called up the fight the enemy
in the war.
CALL BY:To make a short visit to a place or person.
eg.)I’ll call by to pick up the book on my way to work.
CALL FOR:Require, demand.
eg.)The situation calls for tact.
eg.)You have got the job!This calls for a celebration.
CARE FOR:To look after sb. Devamını oku …