1930 yılından günümüze uzanan aerojeller; Guinness rekorlar kitabına giren en hafif ve katı malzeme olarak seçilmiştir. Yüksek ısıl absorbsiyon özelliği, çok iyi yalıtkanlık kabiliyeti, mezo gözenek yapısı mukavemetinin yüzey alanının yüksek olması gibi üstünlüklerinin birçok malzemeye alternatif kullanım avantajı sektörde olanağı sunmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, sol-jel tekniği kullanılarak saflıkta...

This article offers a quantitative analysis of wealth inequality in the Ottoman Empire, employing data from probate inventories (terekes) of eighteenth-century Kastamonu, a town located in northern Anatolia. Extracting information on the wealth levels and personal characteristics of individuals, we estimate aggregate measures of wealth inequality, namely the Gini Coefficient, the coefficient of...

This paper studies the phenomenon of service-led growth in India over the past two decades from the perspective of household expenditure. We use consumption expenditure data from four recent “thick” rounds of the National Sample Survey in 1993-94, 2004-05, 2009-10 and 2011-12, and study aggregate services as well as 5 individual categories – education, healthcare, transportation, entertainment,...

This article consists in three parts. The first part deals with theory. We evaluate the pros and cons of government involvement in urban housing and of renting versus ownership. In the second part, we summarize the different housing policies that have been implemented in the United States, Europe, and Asia. We draw some conclusions. In particular, we show that there is a tradeoff between encour...

Összefoglaló. Egy 47 éves nőbeteg tranziens ST-eleváció miatt került felvételre és coronarographiára. A ST-elevációnak véleményezett elektrokardiogram poroszsisak-jelnek felelt meg, amelyet egy EKG-műtermék okozott. Habár a számtalan, nem coronariaeredetű oka ismert, műtermék okozta poroszsisak-jelet még ismertettek. Fontos felismerése felesleges diagnosztikai terápiás beavatkozások elkerülése ...

This paper is part of a collaborative research project entitled The Role of Law and Legal Institutions in Asian Economic Development (1960-95) which was sponsored by the Asian Development Bank. The study included six Asian economies: People's Republic of China (PRC), India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan,China. Oxford University Press is publishing the comparative report. This es...

10 Article history: 11 Received 29 June 2009 12 Received in revised form 24 May 2010 13 Accepted 25 May 2010 14 Available online xxxx 5 We decompose labor productivity growth from 1987 to 2005 by examining six partial factors 16 (both supply and demand): changes in value-added coefficients, labor inputs, shares of sectoral 17 demands that are fulfilled domestically, input mix, and the intra-sec...

We construct a growth model consistent with China’s economic transition: high output growth, sustained returns on capital, reallocation within the manufacturing sector, and a large trade surplus. Entrepreneurial firms use more productive technologies, but due to financial imperfections they must finance investments through internal savings. State-owned firms have low productivity but survive be...