Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface making it difficult and costly to deploy modern seismological instruments here. The rapidly expanding global network submarine telecom cables offers tremendous possibilities for monitoring using laser light. Recent pioneer studies have demonstrated earthquake detection lasers in onland fiber optic cables. However, permanent strain at seaf...

technology acceptance model is a widely accepted model for explaining user behavior in technology adaptation. the coping model of user adaptation defines user adaptation as the cognitive and behavioral efforts performed by users to cope with significant it events that occur in their work environment. this paper based on the combination of the mentioned models proposes a model for explicating fa...

This article reviews the relationship between organizational culture Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) and Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB). Although, Organizational culture and SHRM are important factors influencing organizational citizenship behaviors but little research has been done about how these two factors influencing the organizational citizenship behavior. The main p...

Abstract Canals, defined as artificial waterways, are built with the aim of providing shorter transit time, cheaper and safer maritime trade. However, in order for constructed canals to be used effectively, it is important determine their legal status according features. The fact that Kanal İstanbul planning build parallel Bosphorus, which natural waterway, ensures has its own unique features d...

Due to the sudden nature of hull girder collapse caused by extreme loadings, ultimate strength ships, i.e., capacity, has be evaluated. Ultimate analysis procedures have already been provided within rules classification societies for sea-going ships. However, inland vessels are not fully addressing issue. In addition, literature data on almost negligible, which is alarming, considering frequenc...

We determined whether ultra-runners in a multi-stage ultra- endurance run lose body mass, fat mass, skeletal muscle mass or total body water in a descriptive field study at the 'Deutschlandlauf' 2007 a 1,200 km run within 17 consecutive days with 10 male non-professional Caucasian ultra-runners (mean ± SD, 43.8 ± 6.2 years, 73.8 ± 6.0 kg body mass, 1.77 ± 0.05 m body height, BMI 23.3 ± 1.8 kg·m...

Organizations are pursuing the outsourcing of business processes (BPO) to offshore locations. However, current research has shown that an organizational learning gap between the client and vendor organizations leads to less than expected benefits. While networking and other distributed technologies provide a foundation for outsourcing, knowledge management (KM) can be used to bridge these gaps ...