Bilingual communities often alternate between languages both in spoken and written communication. One such community, Germany residents of Turkish origin produce Turkish-German code-switching, by heavily mixing two languages at discourse, sentence, or word level. Code-switching in general, and Turkish-German code-switching in particular, has been studied for a long time from a linguistic perspe...

The purpose of this paper is to describe Hiperkitap, the first and only Turkish e-book database in Turkey. The paper starts with a brief overview of the developmental stages of the e-book database under the local market conditions in Turkey. This developmental period includes the establishment of relationships with publishers, authors, the publishers’ association of Turkey, computer companies, ...

AIM To assess the frequency distribution of six Y-chromosomal specific short tandem repeat (STR) polymorphisms and frequencies of haplotypes in Turkish population. METHODS Blood samples were taken from 200 unrelated Turkish men from different regions of Turkey, who were involved in legal proceedings concerning paternity. The DNA was amplified and typed by use of Y-Plex 6 kit containing 6 Y-ST...

This paper investigates whether or not the J-curve hypothesis holds in Turkish agricultural sector. The analysis is conducted using the model the most commonly employed in j-curve literature. Based on the data covering the period from 1986: I to 1998: III, our results indicate that, following devaluation, agricultural trade balance initially improves, then worsens, and then improves again. This...

The stakeholders in One Health include the ultimate beneficiaries (i.e. animals, people and the environment) and the organisations that work to protect them (i.e. research institutes, government ministries, international organisations and professional bodies). However, identifying these stakeholders who will contribute to One Health activities and develop solutions to complex health problems ca...

Research has shown that failing to recognize and understand organizational subgroups, their cultures, and their reward systems can result in a failure of system adoption. Infrastructure building projects for science are complex forms of collaborative work that involve many subgroups. As part of an ongoing research project, we use ethnographic methods to explore the roles, categories, and relati...

In this paper we report on the preliminary findings of our ongoing study on Turkish referring expressions used in situated dialogs. Situated dialogs of pairs of Turkish speakers were collected while they were engaged with a collaborative Tangram puzzle solving task, which was designed by Spanger et al (2011) in an effort to build a corpus of referring expressions in Japanese and English. The pa...

In the present study, it was aimed at combining remote sensing technology, geographic information system and statistical data in order to provide a rather rapid, sensitive and comprehensive overview of current situation of Turkish river basins in terms of existing spatial data. For the aim of the study, all statistical information gathered from the national authorities on regional basis was ove...

The purpose of this study is to elicit problem causing word stress patterns for Turkish EFL (English as a foreign language) learners and investigate whether Internet-based pronunciation lesson is superior to traditional pronunciation lesson in terms of enhancing Turkish EFL learners’ accurate production of stressed syllables in English words. A pre-post test design with two groups of Turkish EF...