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Dear colleagues,

Welcome to the second issue of year 2011, 2011/2,which covers research activities carried out betweenApril 2011 and June 2011, as well as the post-graduatedegrees obtained in the 2010-2011 Academic Year,Spring Semester. This is also our last issue as the currentEditorial Team. Due to pressing institutional commit-ments, I am having to give up the inspiring job of beingthe EMU Research Newsletter Editor-in-Chief.

During our term as the Editorial Team, we introduced a section where a post-graduate studentis interviewed together with the supervisor to give us readers the different points of viewabout research and research collaboration. In two issues, we also included reports on researchleaves granted to EMU researchers in the year 2010. Most importantly, we launched the EMUResearch Newsletter website (http://researchnewsletter.emu.edu.tr/) to give EMU Faculty theopportunity to reach us with their valuable feedback.

In this last issue, our ‘Interview with EMU researchers’ section hosts Assoc. Prof. Dr. GülşenMusayeva Vefalı and her supervisee Said Rasooli Rizi from the Faculty of Education,Department of English Language Teaching. Their views on research, and collaboration inresearch will definitely be of benefit especially to emerging researchers.

In our Research Spotlight section, our feature article is by Asst. Prof. Dr. Isaac Lerner from theDepartment of Architecture who investigates the notion of ‘The postmodern condition of thecommercial street as simulacrum in the global village’.

Our alumni in this issue, Tariq Khayyat from Jordan, currently works as a lead architectand designer in an architectural firm in London. Tariq goes back to the years 1998-2002when he was a student at EMU, and shares with us his fond memories of his time hereat our university.

In our last issue as the Editorial Team, I would like to express our sincere gratitude to all thecontributors for providing us with valuable material. We are aware that without your contri-butions, not even one issue of the EMU Research Newsletter would have materialized.

As always, my personal thanks go to the Editorial Team, Asst. Prof. Dr. Elmaziye Ozgur Kufi,Senior Instructor Ulrike Lerner, and Editorial Assistant Olusegun Olugbade, for their support.

Finally, I would like to wish the next Editorial Team the best of success. I am sure that theywill take the EMU Research Newsletter to new heights.

With my best wishes,

Asst. Prof. Dr. Nilgün Hancıoğlu Editor-in-Chief

Editor’s Message

Editor-in-Chief:

Asst. Prof. Dr. Nilgün Hancıoğlu

Associate Editors:

Asst. Prof. Dr. Elmaziye Ozgür Küfi

Senior Instructor Ulrike Lerner

Editorial Assistant:

Olusegun A. Olugbade

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Research Advisory Board:Prof. Dr. Elvan Yılmaz (Chair)Prof. Dr. Şebnem Önal HoşkaraProf. Dr. Hüseyin ÖzkaramanlıProf. Dr. Bekir ÖzerAssoc. Prof. Dr. Osman M. KaratepeAssoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet BalcılarAssoc. Prof. Dr. Sonuç ZorluAsst. Prof. Dr. Ali Hakan Ulusoy Asst. Prof. Dr. Levent KavasAssoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet ÖzarslanDr. Hacer AdaoğluSenior Instructor Feryal Varanoğulları

EMU Research Newsletter is publishedquarterly through the office of theResearch Advisory Board. The informa-tion presented in the News Highlightsand Recent Publications andPresentations sections are as they aresubmitted by faculty members.

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Contents

News Highlights 3

Research Spotlight: Architecture 6

The Postmodern Condition of the Commercial Street

as Simulacrum in the Global Village

By Asst. Prof. Dr. Isaac Lerner

Recent Publications and Presentations 16

Conferences organized by/ in collaboration with EMU 20

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Interview with EMU Researchers 10 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gülşen Musayeva Vefalı and Said Rasooli Rizi

English Language Teaching Graduate Student and his Supervisor

Spring 2010-2011 Postgraduate Degrees 13

Research @ EMU

n Fifth annual EMU Psychology Days

During the week of April 20th to 23rd, the Psychology Department heldits “fifth annual EMU Psychology Days”. The seminars, eventsand activities organized by the staff and students of thePsychology department were held in the Blue Hall to a packedenthusiastic crowd. The following summarizes the seminars, events andactivities that were held over the three day period culminating in apicnic and horseback riding activity in Mehmetcik on Saturday, April24th: Invited guest speakers were Assistant Professor Dr. DenizCinarbas, who presented a paper entitled, Visiting Shrines – A TurkishReligious Healing Practice on Wednesday, April 20th and onThursday Assistant Professor, Dr. Nevin Eracar, a Clinical Psychologist,presented a topic on “Psikoterapide Sanatla Calismak ve SanatTerapileri. One of our own staff members, Dr. Burak A. Cicekpresented a paper on “Environment and Psychology”. Friday,April 22nd several interesting topics were presented by AssistantProfessor Dr. Isaac Lerner from the Architecture Department on “TheCommercial Street as ‘Smart’ street: Media Mediating our Lives” andProfessor Serdar Degirmencioglu presented a timely paper on“Militarism and Children”. One of our own staff members, AssistantProfessor Dr. Fatih Bayraktar, followed with an interesting presentationon “Odd Kid Out”. Aside from the thought provoking presentationsgiven by the guest speakers and members of staff, the psychologydepartment students also presented their own research papers to anappreciative audience. The entertainment events and activities filledthe auditorium to overflowing capacity. The first entertainmentperformance occurred on Wednesday, April 20th and was a musicalsuccess. The theatre event, “Bir Erkegin Dunlugu”, held the followingday, was extremely popular as evidenced by the standing ovation theyreceived after their performance to a packed house. The playersinvolved in the skits out-performed themselves much to the surpriseand pleasure of the audience. The Psychology days ended with aTurkish Folk dance event followed by the closing ceremony where

certificates were handed out to the many students who had volunteeredand worked so hard to make these days a complete success. High Honorand Honor certificates were handed out as well to those whoachieved high grades for the autumn semester. Saturday, April 23rd

was a day for relaxation and pleasurable activities as a group ofpsychology students with several of their professors went toMehmecik for a picnic and horseback riding activity and had justplain fun. The psychology days were very popular with the psychologystudents, their friends, prospective psychology students and staffmembers. The students who presented papers and organized theentertainment events worked extremely hard and took theirresponsibilities seriously. We congratulate them for a job welldone and it looks like next year we will need a larger auditorium.

News submitted by: Senior Instructor Ulrike Lerner

n Construction Management Research Centre(CMRC)-– Activities in May-June 2011

Construction Management Research Centre refreshed its managementteam and organized the following events, led by Asst. Prof. Dr. OzanKoseoglu in May-June 2011: CMRC-2011- Innovation and Research Excellence in Architecture,Engineering and Construction Management Conference, 3-5 May,2011, EMUn Prof. Chimay Anumba, Head of Architectural EngineeringDepartment, Pennsylvania State University, US visited EMU and heldseminars for graduate and undergraduate students, and faculty.n After the conference, Prof. Anumba facilitated the strategicpartnership agreement between Pennsylvania State Universityand EMU for student exchange and research collaboration.n Prof. Chimay Anumba also agreed to be on the advisoryboard of CMRC in order to ensure collaboration in internationalresearch projects.

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CMRC Seminar, 23 May, 2011, Prof. Dr. GhassanAouad, Vice Rectorfor Research and Innovation at Salford University, UKn Prof. Aouad visited CMRC and held a seminar for research students.Furthermore, he was positive about future collaboration with CMRC instudent exchange and research projects.n Prof. Aouad also agreed to be on the advisory board of CMRC.

CMRC-Technopark Strategic Partnership for Virtual Reality Labn CMRC Director, Asst. Prof. Ozan Koseoglu worked in theplanning and installation of one of the first Virtual Reality Labsin the Middle East with the aim of improving education andresearch facilities in engineering, healthcare and architecturefaculties. n The Virtual Reality Lab has recently been opened and it has startedto work on many research projects in GazimagusaTechnopark.

CMRC was represented at ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers)2011 Workshop for Computing in Civil Engineering, Miami, 19-22 June,2011n CMRC and EMU were represented by Asst. Prof. Dr. OzanKoseoglu through the presentation of a paper called `Planning ofWireless Networks with 4D Virtual Prototyping for ConstructionSite Collaboration.

News submitted by: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ozan Köseoglu

n EMU represented at International ScientificEvents

n Workshop On Architecture And Engineering Of SustainableBuildings (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 16-19 May 2011)Prof. Dr. Derya Oktay, Director of Eastern Mediterranean UniversityUrban Research & Development Center (URDC) and academic staffmember of EMU Department of Architecture, was invited to TheArchitecture and Engineering of Sustainable Buildings Workshop

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(Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 16-19 May 2011) organized jointly byUniversity of Illinois, USA, Özyeğin University - Center for Energy,Environment and Economy and Boğaziçi University - Center forSustainable Development and Clean Production, and supported byUSA-National Science Foundation and TÜBİTAK. The workshopwas organized with 30 invited experts and professionals most ofwhom were from the USA, and aimed to define a strategical roadmap that would not only increase awareness in the World as well asin Turkish society of the importance of sustainability, but also,through its findings, to assist the Turkish Government in establishing anoptimal action plan for sustainable buildings and urban environments.At the end of the workshop, Professor Oktay, who presented a papertitled “Sustainable Urbanism and Architecture: A Holistic Framework”,was invited to join one of the three research groups (Determination ofthe Future Needs for Sustainable Housing) to further the findings of theworkshop through projects funded by USA-NSF and TÜBİTAK.

n Asia-Pacific International Conference on Environment-Behaviour Studies (AicE-Bs)Prof. Dr. Derya Oktay, Director of Eastern MediterraneanUniversity Urban Research & Development Center (URDC) andacademic staff member at Department of Architecture, attendedInternational Asia-Pacific Environment and Behavior Symposium

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in Bandung, Indonesia, between 14 and 17 June 2011. As the plenarykeynote speaker, Prof. Dr. Derya Oktay presented a paper on HumanSustainable Urbanism, and spoke at the Panel on the last day ofthe conference. In addition, during a private session, Prof. Oktaygave a presentation on the upcoming conference “AiCEBS 2011Famagusta” co-organised by EMU URDC in December 2011, andprovided detailed information about the urban, cultural and naturalassets of North Cyprus. Prof. Oktay stated that her presentationwhich also included a video show attracted great interest and theparticipation to AiCEBS 20211 Famagusta conference fromSouthern Asian countries will hopefully be considerable.

News submitted by: Prof. Dr. Derya Oktay

n Outstanding Success of EMU Faculty Member

Eastern Mediterranean University is proud of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Osman M.Karatepe, one of the academic staff in the School of Tourism andHospitality Management who has achieved remarkable success with hisacademic articles on marketing and human resources managementpublished between 2000 and 2009. Based on the number of publishedarticles, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Karatepe has ranked as the 18th throughoutthe world and as the 2nd throughout Europe. The rankings have beenpublished in K. Park, W. J. Phillips, D.D. Canter and J. Abbot’s (2011)article in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research. Karatepehas a total of 75 publications (56 of which are international).Source: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=201037303254985

News submitted by: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Osman M. Karatepe

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n School of Tourism and Hospitality Managementranks the 3rd among European Universities

Based on the number of articles on hotel management publishedbetween 2000 and 2009, Eastern Mediterranean University School ofTourism and Hospitality Management has ranked as the third amongstEuropean Universities. It is worth mentioning that in the rank-ings, no schools of tourism from South Cyprus or Turkey has been listedas more successful than Eastern Mediterranean University School ofTourism and Hospitality Management, which makes it numberone in the region. The rankings have been published in K. Park, W. J.Phillips, D.D. Canter and J. Abbot’s (2011) article in the Journal ofHospitality and Tourism Research. Source: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=201037303254985

News submitted by: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Osman M. Karatepe

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tandem with the hardware media(servers, wired and wireless networks,database storage, etc.), the informationalinfrastructure of theme parks, andincreasingly contemporary cities and theGlobal village. At this stage of the 21st

century it is becoming more evident thatour commercial streets subscribe to, andare therefore transformed by, the influenceof this digital information environment.

In this regard, we noticed that over thepast five years there has been a dramaticproliferation of graphic signage, i.e. iconicads and brand name shops along thecommercial street of our college town.The traditional facades of buildings, whichwere composed of hardware elements suchas doors, windows, storefront picturewindows and other tectonic elements,have been displaced by large iconicbillboards and posters, as an emerginggraphic space. These iconic images,which in terms of an informationinteractive space, provide the feed-for-ward constituting the emergent image ofthe street, and are displacing the facades as atectonic architectural representation.

THE POSTMODERN CONDITION OF THE COMMERCIALSTREET AS SIMULACRUM IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE

Architecture

AbstractIn the context of discussions involving

issues in contemporary urbanism, the aim ofthis paper is to examine the effects ofinformation technology, and digitalnetworking, upon the evolution of thecommercial street as an emerging sim-ulacrum. Jean Baudrillard referred toDisneyland as theme park, which heperceived as the primary exemplification ofsimulacra; i.e. an interactive space whereincreasingly real-time communicationsinfluences the behavior of shoppers withinthis intelligent commercial space. But, healso described this as a place of deferral; itdefers to the fact that many of ourcommercial places in the Global villagehave become similar to Disneyland, aszones of digitally enhanced awareness,for optimizing the degree of consumption.

In essence, Baudrillard was referringto simulacra as an intelligent interactivespace managed and constituted by meansof data processing; i.e. a space of informationmovement and transformation described interms of managing feedback, programmingand feed-forward. This constitutes, in

This is indicative of an infrastructuraltransformation occurring along thecommercial street today. In the industrialmetropolis, of the 19th and early 20th

centuries, the commercial street facilitatedthe movement of pedestrian shoppers; inthe suburban developments, of the midand late 20th century, the automobilefacilitated shopping along the commercial‘strip’; today, in the Global village,commercial trade is facilitated by themovement of consumer informationand images. These respective infrastructuralcommunication/transportation ground-works extended the commercial domainby means, respectively, of the railwayinfrastructure for the metropolis, thehighway infrastructure for the strip andthe digital infrastructure for the currentdevelopment of the Global village.

This paper will elaborate upon thedegree to which consumer information,as feedback and processed by means ofanalytic programming is in turn beingtranslated into consumer images andprofiles as feed-forward, in the mannerof the iconic commercial facades whichis engaged in a totalizing digital processfor managing an interactive commercialspace. That is, the aim of this paper is toinvestigate the aspect of cyberspace, asa means of shaping human awarenessor engineering consciousness, as anexemplification of the subliminal characterof architectural space today.

Introduction: A Postmodern Methodology Today, postmodern issues regarding

identity and community, and the associatedperception of culturally conditionedconcepts about space, time and form,extend the Modernist Rationalist discourseon architecture and urbanism. We areexperiencing a paradigm shift between

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Modernism and Postmodernism, i.e. aninterface of processoral and structuraldevelopment as a potential space ofunderstanding. This space engages uswith an in-depth awareness of theshifting co-evolution of architecturaland urban contexts that requires applyingan understanding, in terms of perceiving thesubliminal influences of technologicalinfrastructure innovations. This is not onlywith regard to their material, but also, theirpsychological and social effects. By meansof this gestalt analytic framework, theevolution of the commercial street canbest be understood as being shaped byenvironmental changes defined predomi-nantly in terms of transportation andcommunication infrastructures.

With regard to shape and shaping ofcultural identity, as a co-creative interplaybetween social and infrastructuralenvironments, the cultural theoristMarshall McLuhan applied the aphorism‘the medium is the message/massage’.Much of his work applies a gestalt analyticwhereby he re-reads the meaning of theword, “message", on the basis of anontological empirical study of dominanttechnologies as media processes shapingculture. In this way, he describes how eachmedium affects the human sensorium andalters human sensibilities and conscious-ness; i.e. an environmental ‘massaging’ ofhuman embodiment as the ratio-of-the-senses and corresponding cognitiveprocesses. That is, a technologically extend-ed sensorium, in turn, subliminally condi-tions human sensibilities with regard to ageneric cultural bias towards space andtime. McLuhan qualified historicalevolution in these terms and conse-quently elaborated upon why Westernphonetically literate societies (i.e. theModern world), were predisposed in termsof subliminal sensibilities towards a ‘visualspace’ bias and consequently conceived ofrepresentational forms such as perspectiveart, Cartesian geometry and Newtonianmechanistic physics. By contrast, preliterateand post-literate societies (i.e. thePostmodern world) pattern and structuresocial reality subliminally predisposed to an‘acoustic space’ bias and represented by

formal constructs such as collage, non-Euclidean geometries and Einstein’srelativity physics (McLuhan, 2007).The methodological approach in this paperwill therefore apply the holistic, or gestaltmedia analytic, as applied to technologicallyinfluenced environments in order tounderstand the characteristics of theembedded cultural bias towards space andtime as they influence formal representa-tions that constitute the images of reality, orsocial identity.

Commercial simulacrum: The EmergingInteractive Iconic SpaceMcLuhan’s methodology can be effectivelyapplied to a recent studio problem I wasinvolved with, and certain questionsregarding the transformation of thelocal commercial street as an effect ofcurrent emergent global communicationsystems. The problem involved thirdyear students, analyzing twelve blocksof the main commercial street (SalamisRoad) in the community/college townof Gazimaguza, North Cyprus. The aimof the project was to locate vacant lotsalong this primarily consumer shoppingstreet for immediate development, and withthe stipulation that the students would tryto imagine what the surrounding contextmight be like by the year 2015. The study began with an urban analysisof the street. During discussions amongtutors and students in front of presentationpanels displaying elements of urban zoning,such as public, semi-public, and privatespaces, as well as the texture of the blocksand other related contextual features, aparticular question came to mind. Thisquestion related to the proliferation oflarge-scale graphic images that hadprogressively replaced the traditionalfacades along the street. It became evidentby reviewing photos and videos of thestreet, that over a relatively short period offive years, the facades of many buildingswere transformed from architecturalelevations, (composed primarily ofdoors, windows, building materials andother tectonic features) into graphicfacades composed of icons/logos andvariations on billboard designs. It also

became apparent that many older shopswere replaced by new multi-nationalbranded franchises, such as Nike,Adidas, Gloria Jeans, Levis and others.During our discussions, it dawned on methat we were witnessing the architecturalrelocation of Robert Venturi’s Las Vegasexperience, but with a digital twist; i.e.not as an effect of an automotive subur-ban/exurban society, but rather that ourstreet was becoming an emergent resonantnode in a global network of instantinformation-movement. This acceleratedtransformation towards the populistcommercial street reflected a majorshift in the current cultural dimensionsof our college community. This begsthe question; what was behind or‘under writing’ or grounding this shift? A particularly interesting example isthe new Nike offices, located on theoutskirts of the capital city of Lefkosa.A traditional modernist building disap-peared under a perforated metal screen; asemi-matte aluminum screen simulating thefabric of a breathable Nike tennis shoe andwith the Nike swoosh simply applied to theupper top-right corner on all sides of thebuilding. This wrap-around metal sheathprovides a salient metaphor regardingthe global digital surround supportedby information technology. Cyberspacehas subsumed nature and traditionalsociety in a sea and torrent of images,whereby for example, the ubiquity of agraphic language, the style of populistarchitecture, has displaced the phoneticsigns and tectonic features that composedthe traditional Modern commercialfacades. This displacement can help usunderstand certain effects of globalizationand consumerist culture and the change ofthe urban commercial street into a deriva-tive of theme-park architecture as populistsimulacrum.

Simulacrum as a Form of GlocalizationA new emergent ‘urban form’, as exempli-fied by the notion of what McLuhan termedthe ‘global village’ and experienced locallyas a populist iconic space, or the commercialstreet as simulacra, represents new forms ofboth architecture and urbanism. Today,

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the shopping street is increasinglydependent upon information movementfacilitated by means of data processing,programming and information technology,and is a ‘local’ constituent of the currentlyemergent infrastructure of cyberspace asglobal village. The denizens of this villagecommunity (globalization), as well asmembers of our town and university(glocalization), are mutually transformedby movement along electronic ‘highways’constituting a network of networks, orthe internet.

The street as populist simulacruminvolves real-time information processingby means of an automated three-phasesystem consisting of feedback, program-ming and feed-forward. This system beginswith feedback, which involves collectinginformation via internet use that inturn generates individual profiles andgroup profiles (i.e. clusters). Thesemarket profiles constructed by specialistfirms (e.g. PRIZM) by means of program-ming analytics are then sold to variousorganizations such as public relationsand advertizing companies, as well as toproducers and distributors of commodities.These consumer profiles represent, forexample, members of typical collegecommunities around the globe, whichalso reflect behavioral patterns in ourcommunity. The next stage of this recursivetri-partite information infrastructureinvolves feed forwarding individuallytailored or bespoke ads to a 3G/4G digitalphones or ads strategically placed onscreens and billboards, both in shops oralong the street; i.e. customized ‘podcasting’or clustered ‘broadcasting’ respectively.Because of discussions in and about thestudio, we were beginning to noticethat our instance of the commercialstreet, as simulacrum, is a similarlystructured instance of glocalization or aresponsive node in cyberspace. Iconicarchitecture and populist simulacrumare reflexive mirrors, or ‘facings’, represent-ing the consumer profiles as an interactiveinterpretive street-space. This interactivespace is a space for generating heat bysubconsciously provoking ‘e-motions’such as our researched expectations

Automation or cybernation dealswith all units or components of theindustrial and marketing process …The new kind of interrelation inboth industry and entertainment isthe result of the electric instantspeed. Our new electric technologynow extends the instant processingof knowledge by interrelation thathas long occurred within our centralnervous system. It is that samespeed that constitutes “organicunity” and ends the mechanical agethat had gone into high gear withGuttenberg. Automation brings inreal “mass production,” not in termsof size but of instant inclusiveembrace. Such is also the character of“mass media.” They are an indication,not of the size of their audiences,but of the fact that everybodybecomes involved in them at the sametime. Thus, commodity industriesunder automation share the samestructural character of the entertain-ment industries in the degree that bothapproximate the condition of instantinformation. Automation affectsnot just production, but every phaseof consumption and marketing; for theconsumer becomes a producer in anautomation circuit…(my italics)(McLuhan 1964, 249).The ‘consumer as producer’ exemplifies

the notion whereby intentionality becomesa responsive chord in the manner of totalinstant response of the internet to aconsumer’s purchase. This response ismanifold and dialogical. The consumer asproducer engages the internet by means of acredit card, which is identical to a telephonecall, providing vital information about themarket. For example, each purchase in ashop induces resonance across manynetworks. The shopping data is collected,retrieved, analyzed and regenerated as adsand icons that transcribe the streetgraphically and interactively. In otherwords, we ‘write’ ourselves (lifestyleprofiles) and in turn the street ‘writes’ us(iconic architecture and bespoke ads thatreflect emergent trends). This streetfunctions in the manner of theatre as

and desires, and not light whichappeals to the more conscious andrational faculties.

The Enlightenment era, as an epitome ofthe Modern period, valorized individualism,reason, analytic logic and objectivity, as wellas privacy, representational governmentand rule-by-law which McLuhanunderstood as intrinsic attributes of thephonetically literate Western worldview,which is becoming obsolesced in theemergent context of an electronicPostmodern mass society. McLuhanprovides a uniquely interesting definitionfor the meaning of the term ‘mass’ indigitally constructed realities. In thissocial context, a mass can be composedof simply two people if the distancebetween them disappears, as for exampleby means of a phone call or credit cardexchange in the simulacrum. Masscommunication in this context is, byanalogy, like a spider’s web, whereby ifone or more strands are plucked, theentire web vibrates simultaneously.This quality of resonance is a definingquality, an “organic unity”, of the com-mercial space of populist simulacra,whereby McLuhan writes that: valorizedindividualism, reason, analytic logic andobjectivity, as well as privacy, representa-tional government and rule-by-lawwhich McLuhan understood as intrinsicattributes of the phonetically literateWestern worldview, which is becomingobsolesced in the emergent context ofan electronic Postmodern mass society.McLuhan provides a uniquely interestingdefinition for the meaning of the term‘mass’ in digitally constructed realities.In this social context, a mass can becomposed of simply two people if thedistance between them disappears, asfor example by means of a phone call orcredit card exchange in the simulacrum.Mass communication in this context is,by analogy, like a spider’s web, whereby ifone or more strands are plucked, theentire web vibrates simultaneously.This quality of resonance is a definingquality, an “organic unity”, of the com-mercial space of populist simulacra,whereby McLuhan writes that:


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simulacrum or a co-authored space where-by ‘form follows fiction’. Paradoxically, thismaterial infrastructural hardware realitysustains an immaterial software reality, avirtual reality or intelligent interactivespace of iconic commercial simulacra,which involves more than just moving dataelectronically at the speed of light, becauseinstant communication produces anunprecedented change in identity.

Instant, all-at-once, communicationmeans being virtually in two or morepositions at the same time. This decon-structs the Cartesian materialist notion ofspace, as res extensa, which is only possiblebecause, in cyberspace we are not‘transported’ materially but rathertranscribed into pure information, virtualbits and bytes, in the manner of visualand/or acoustic virtual images; i.e. we arenow transported via the resonant electro-magnetic field that is cyberspace. Also, inthis hyper-real context the notion of theCartesian ‘res cogitan’ or embodied‘thinking subject’ is obsolesced as a physicalentity for a metaphysical or discarnatevirtual body image and branded identity.We increasingly identify with virtualimages as self-images, sustained both byelectronic and advertizing infrastructures,or as James Joyce quipped, we have learnedto ‘love our labels as ourselves’. That is, themessage/massage of electronic networkingis that users are sent (content is secondary)in digital sensory modalities in order tomaintain real-time communications,whereby space and time disappear at thespeed of light (E. McLuhan 53-54, 1998).Today we send ‘ourselves’ as virtual imagesin the context of the resonant field ofdesigner icons as the constituent elementsshaping identity on the interactive

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commercial street, a context whereMcLuhan humorously said we are “keepingupset with the Jones”(McLuhan 1964, 226).

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Asst. Prof. Dr. Isaac Lerner has taught in Cyprus for about 14 years; initially for 1-1/2 years at Lefke University andthe remainder at DAU in the Departments of Architecture. He has professional degrees in Civil Engineering andArchitecture from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His teaching and research interests focus upon the effectsof the interface between technologies and design in architecture and urbanism and current work deals with issuesregarding IT and networks in the formation of interactive spaces, such as, smart buildings, streets and cities.

About the Researcher

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Intervıew wıth EMU Researchers

English Language Teaching Graduate Student and his Supervisor

In this issue, EMU Research Newsletter hosts Assoc.Prof. Dr. Gülşen Musayeva Vefalı (left) and her PhDsupervisee Said Rasooli Rizi (right) from the Faculty ofEducation, Department of English Language Teaching.

n Could you tell us a bit about yourself? Your nationality, aca-demic and professional background, experience, research activi-ties…..?

GMV: I am Gülşen MUSAYEVA VEFALI, an AssociateProfessor of Applied Linguistics in the ELT Department of theEducation Faculty. I was born in Azerbaijan, obtained my firsttwo academic degrees from one of the oldest tertiary institutionsin Russia, Moscow Linguistics University (formerly MoscowPedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, founded in 1804).I received PhD in Linguistics from the Moscow HighestAttestation Committee, and another MA (TEFL) from BilkentUniversity. Previously, I taught English evening courses toadults in Russia, as well as English and linguistics courses atthe Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages and Baku StateUniversity in Azerbaijan. Since Fall 1993, I’ve been teachingundergraduate and post-graduate courses at EMU, initially inthe former English Department, since Fall 1995 in the ELTDepartment, and I take great pride in being the FoundingHead of my department. I continued teaching in the ELTDepartment over 7 years of my administrative duties of theDirector of the former English Preparatory School and TheSchool of Foreign Languages. I would also like to mention thatfor one semester I taught Linguistics and LanguageAcquisition courses in the English Department at the CentralConnecticut State University, which was a very rewardingprofessional experience for me.

SRR: My name is Said Rasooli and I am from Iran. I studiedEnglish Literature and English Language Teaching and havebeen teaching for some 20 years.

n Could you please give us some information on your departmentand the post graduate programmes?

GMV: ELT Department is the oldest one within the Faculty ofEducation, and it was a great privilege for my colleagues andme to launch our first BA as well as postgraduate, MA andPhD programs. Needless to say, we have always done our bestto establish and maintain high quality standards in teachingundergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as in providingthesis supervision. I am proud that 2 of my PhD students (oneof them is the current Editor of the EMU ResearchNewsletter) and 13 MA students successfully completed theirtheses. At present I am working with 4 international postgraduatestudents on different conceptual areas of Applied Linguistics.

SRR: I have had the opportunity to enroll in PhD program inELT at Eastern Mediterranean University which I expect tocomplete in two years time. It is a course-based programfollowed by a thesis.

n Could you define ‘good research’ for us?GMV: I genuinely believe that research should not be conductedfor the sake of research. For me ‘quality research’ is associatedwith academic/professional curiosity, novelty, depth, rigour,and definitely suggestions/recommendations, ideally solutionsto language-related problems.

SRR: Good research is often defined in methodological terms,that is to say, research that is carried out according to sound,verifiable, traceable, and commonly accepted set of procedures.However, more and more scholars in applied linguistics areconverging on the belief that good research is beneficial to thecommunity. In such research, there is a robust connectionbetween the research enterprise and the community’s benefit.

n Could you tell us about the research you’ve been working onwith your supervisee and its significance in your research field?

GMV: What we have envisaged doing is introducing corpuswork into Iranian EFL classrooms. To our knowledge, this is avery underdeveloped area of investigation in Iranian academicand professional communities; however, there is a dire needfor such research in other EFL instructional contexts as well.

SRR: To the extent that I can explain, it is data-drivenresearch intended to help local practice, systematicallyobserve their work and possibly devise solutions to day-to-dayproblems. Its significance lies in the fact that it enhancesteachers’ autonomy in the sense that they will be able todevelop local solutions to institutional problems rather thandrawing upon external sources of knowledge wholesale.


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n Do you have plans to promote this research to a wider audience? (conferences, publications)

GMV: It’s early days yet, however, Said may want to sharepreliminary insights from his intended action plan with hiscolleagues in Iran in due course, as well as present at professionalconventions.

SRR: I believe the type of research, rather than its results, isworth promoting to the teaching community. Therefore, it ismy intention to attract as much attention as possible to themerits of such research.

n What has been the most fruitful aspect of the collaborationbetween you and your supervisee?

GMV: Said took two of my PhD courses, Applied Linguisticsand Pragmatics in ELT, and he always ranked in the top of theclass. I therefore never hesitated, when he approached me, toundertake his thesis supervision. Upon his successful completionof the postgraduate course work and qualifying examination, wehave been working on his Thesis proposal. I would like to notethat Said is an inquisitive, mature, responsible and hard workingcandidate. And he is a real gentleman.

SRR: I am supremely impressed by the rapport between myhonorable supervisor and me. I can’t help appreciating herdedication, seriousness, and commitment besides the depth ofher insight into the research area.

n What advice would you give to researchers involved in

post-graduate research?

GMV: Be patient, work hard (-er, if need be) and systematically,

persevere, and you are bound to succeed…

SRR: If I may be in the position to offer advice, I’d suggestthat my colleagues take a closer look at their own practiceand examine ways to improve it. Post-graduate research isnot necessarily a grand-scale enterprise; rather, it is well-planned,flexibly executed, interactive study that is tuned to thepresent needs of those involved.

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EMU Alumni

Where are they now?

Tariq Khayyat

As a member of the EMU Alumnifamily, I have been asked if I wouldlike to share some of my experienceswith the present members of EMU,staff and students. I would be glad todo so, as these experiences havehad a formative effect on my lifeso far. I joined EMU as a student

in September 1998. At that time, the Department ofArchitecture at EMU was offering a high level of education.There were a variety of course programs from which Icould choose from and these programs formed a goodtransitional stage before moving on to the U.K. tocomplete a Masters program. When reflecting aboutmy experiences and feelings about not only EMU butNorth Cyprus and its people, I was impressed by howeasily I could blend in. I did however, also experiencesome difficult moments because adapting to any newculture takes time and can create a lot of anxiety aswell as a need for a lot of tolerance for what is different fromone’s own cultural expectations. The most difficultmoment for me was the ‘wall’ of language that separates usfrom others and makes communication and understanding soprecarious and frightening. For anyone who shares thisexperience by moving to a new place, country and culture,not understanding the language as well as the gesturescan create misunderstandings and confusion whichcomplicates our lives and especially our efforts to studyand comprehend. However, I had many positive experiencesand I can remember mostly these happy momentswhich were dominant in my life. The interaction withothers that I experienced as a student of architecture,such as my involvement with the teachers and studentswas not only interesting but very supportive. Mostimportantly, the friends I made and still keep in contact withhave had a great effect on my life. It is hard to saywhich of the many positive experiences that I had, hadthe most effect on me, but certainly, sharing and com-municating with others, getting the support and assurancesthat everyone needs to pursue ones goals and ambitions in lifeare at the very top of my list. After graduating in 2002, Iapplied to the Architectural Association School ofArchitecture in London, England to pursue a post-graduatedegree. I received a Masters degree in design and researchlaboratory program. Upon graduating from the AA, I wasfortunate enough to start working for an ArchitecturalFirm in London, for the Master Architect, Zaha Hadid.I have been working there for six years and now I amthe Lead designer and architect. I have been responsible forseveral projects and at the moment I am guiding thedevelopment and work on the project for the ‘Performing

Art Centre’ in Amman-Jordan. This project is very specialand close to my heart because I come from Jordan andthis was my home.


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Following is the list of students who have successfully completedtheir postgraduate degrees in Spring 2010 -2011. This list has beenprovided by EMU Institute of Graduate Studies and Research on22 July 2011.

n LL.M. n

LawTuğba Aytekin NaimiThesis Title: Bina ve Yapı Eseri Malikinin Sorumluluğu (B.K. M. 58)Supervisor: Ali Erten

Cengiz ÇelikThesis Title: Türkiye Türkçesinde Örtmece ve Tabu KelimelerSupervisor: Rysbek Alimov

n M.A. n

Communication and Media StudiesDamla NailerThesis Title: Representatio of women in Advertisements: ASemiotic analysis of women in North Cyprus Life Style MagazinesSupervisor: Hanife Aliefendioğlu

Gülen UygarerThesis Title: Role of SNS on Tertiary Student's interpersonalCommunication Skills and Attachment NeedsSupervisor: Bahire Özad

Kamin GounailiThesis Title: Focusing on Eye Contact: InterpersonalCommunication among Students at Eastern mediterraneanUniversitySupervisor: Bahire Efe Özad

Eastern Mediterranean StudiesFarah QutobThesis Title: An Analysis of Israel's Settlement Policy in theOccupied West Bank after the Six-Day War and its Impact on thePeace-Process (1967-2002)Supervisor: Erik L. Knudsen

English Language and LiteratureAmin MomeniThesis Title: Shakespeare's Representation of the Self and the Other:A Deconstructionist ReadingSupervisor: Can Sancar

Marketing ManagementEminejomo IkponmwenThesis Title: The Effects of Service Recovery Satisfaction onConsumers' Behavioral Intentions: An Application in North CyprusFive-Star HotelsSupervisor: Halil Nadiri

Turkish Language and LiteratureDuyu ÇumurcuThesis Title: Zonguldak Merkez Ağzı (İnceleme, Metinler, Sözlük)Supervisor: Gülseren Tor

n MBA n

Business AdministrationDamla GözelThesis Title: Tourism demand in North Cyprus Economy: evidencefrom a demand model over the time period 1999Q1-2009Q4Supervisor: Sami Fethi

Saman MajdıThesis Title: Impact of Financial Repression on FDI in IranSupervisor: Mete Feridun

n MS n

ArchitectureDidem OnurluThesis Title: A Study on the Landscape of Common Open Spacesat Resort Hotels in North CyprusSupervisor: Naciye DoratliCo-Supervisor: Mukaddes Faslı

Yasaman AdeliThesis Title: Identification of the Vernacular Kandovan CaveDwelling in IranSupervisor: Özgür Dinçyürek

Ghazal TaghiloohaThesis Title: Use of Color in Minimalist Interior Spaces: with DifferentFunctions in Different RegionsSupervisor: Nil Paşaoğluları Şahin

Ghazal GolmakaniThesis Title: Re-Functioning Potentials of Industrial Heritage in NorthCyprus Case-Study: Zeyko Olive Oil MillSupervisor: Ozlem Olgac Turker

Spring 2010-2011 Postgraduate Degrees

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Damla MısırlısoyThesis Title: Analysis of the Structure and Design Relationshipbetween Contemporary Extensions and Remodeled MasonryBuildingsSupervisor: Kağan Günçe

Shirin IzadpanahThesis Title: Investigaton of Identity in Interior Space of Kindergarten:A review on an example of High/Scope KindergartenSupervisor: Kağan Günçe

Nazanin Sadat BehbahaniThesis Title: Theoretical Review on Color in Interior Space: AnExperimental Assessment of Iranian HousesSupervisor: Banu Tevfikler Çavuşoğlu

Ehsan Reza Thesis Title: Identification of Staircase House Type in Rural architec-ture of Iran: Masouleh and Abyaneh SettlementsSupervisor: Özgür Dinçyürek

Applied Mathematics and Computer ScienceMarzieh Eini KeleshteriThesis Title: A Survey on Mathematical Modeling of cancerIncidence RatesSupervisor: Mehmet Ali Tut

Tuba VediThesis Title: Some Scurer Type q-Bernstein OperatorsSupervisor: Mehmet Ali Özarslan

Banking and FinanceAlimshan FaizulayevThesis Title: Comparative Analysis between Islamic Banking andConventional Banking Firms in terms of Profitability, 2006-2009Supervisor: Eralp Bektaş

Omotola M. AwojobiThesis Title: Analysing Risk Management in Banks: Evidence ofBank efficiency and Macroeconomic Impact in NigeriaSupervisor: Eralp Bektaş

Ayşem ÇelebıThesis Title: Analysing Risk Management in Banks: Evidence ofBank efficiency and Macroeconomic Impact in NigeriaSupervisor: Cahıt Adaoğlu

Hossein Yousefian Thesis Title: Investment Appraisal of a Mobile Phone Company:Zoom Mobile NetworkSupervisor: Glenn P. Jenkins

Adam Mahamat SeidThesis Title: A Comparison of Different Banking Systems'

Performance During Global Crises: Conventional vs IslamicBanking Supervisor: Nesrin Ozatac

Jude Chimezie NwobodoThesis Title: Internet Banking in Terms of Profitability: The Case ofNorth Cyprus BanksSupervisor: Nesrin Ozatac

Samaneh Daryabeygi KhotbehsaraThesis Title: Road Project for Economic Development: Yazd-Abarkouh-sourmagh Road Project Feasibility StudySupervisor: Mustafa Besim

Safoura Norouzi AbadchiThesis Title: Financial Development, Trade Openness andEconomic Growth Nexus: Time Series Evidence for GreeceSupervisor: Salih Turan Katircioglu

Burak SavrunThesis Title: Financial Development, International Trade andEconomic Growth: The case of TurkeySupervisor: Salih Katircioglu

Amir Ehsan TehraniThesis Title: A Comparative Analysis of the Teran Stock Exchangeand Selected Stork Markets: Evidence from a Correlation MatrixSupervisor: Cahıt Adaoğlu

Nigar TaşpınarThesis Title: Foreign direct Investment, Domestic Savings andEconomic Growth: The case of TurkeySupervisor: Salih Katircioglu

Mandana BahramiThesis Title: Investment Appraisal of a River CargoTransportation CompanySupervisor: Glenn Jenkins

Amir Hossein SeyyediThesis Title: Developing a Project Finance structure and PowerPurchase Agreement for an Independent Private Power PlantProjectSupervisor: Glenn Jenkins

ChemistrySayeh ShahmohammadiThesis Title: Synthesis and Characterization of Boron SelectiveChitosan BeadsSupervisor: Mustafa Gazi

Akeem Adeyemi OladipoThesis Title: Synthesis and Characterization of ModifiedChitosan-based Novel Superabsorbenthydrogel: Swelling and Dye


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Adsorption behaviorSupervisor: Mustafa Gazi

Maryam NorouzbahariThesis Title: Synthesis of a Novel Fluorescent Optical PH SensorSupervisor: Huriye Icil

CIvil EngineeringMaryam MansouriThesis Title: Optimization of Selected 2-Dimensional Steel Trussshapes Using a New Mathematical FormulationSupervisor: Murude Celikag

Computer EngineeringGözde SarışınThesis Title: The Cone Tessellation Model for Three-DimensionalNetworksSupervisor: Muhammed Salamah

Abdullahi Ibrahim AbduThesis Title: Adaptive Energy-Aware Transmission Scheme forwireless Sensor NetworksSupervisor: Muhammed Salamah

Reza AziziThesis Title: Design and Implementation of an Anycast Protocolfor Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc NetworksSupervisor: Gürcü Öz

Zhavat Sherinov Thesis Title: An Evolutionary Multi-Objective Approach for fuzzyVehicle Routing ProblemSupervisor: Ahmet Ünveren

Mohammad AzhariThesis Title: A CUDA based Parallel Implementation of SpeakerVerification SystemSupervisor: Cem Ergün

Amin Hossein SalmasiThesis Title: A Low-Cost, High-Speed Algorithm for MobilePositioningSupervisor: Muhammed Salamah

EconomicsTaiwo Alphonso OyesanmiThesis Title: Investigating dutch Disease: The Case of NigeriaSupervisor: Cem Payaşlıoğlu

Electrical and Electronic EngineeringPeyman AghajamaliavalThesis Title: Power Control in DS-CDMA forward Linkin MobilechannelsSupervisor: Aykut Hocanın

Ramin BakhshiThesis Title: 3D Modelling of Building and Environments usinglaser Scanning and Surface Reconstruction Supervisor: Süha Bayındır

Industrial EngineeringSabriye TopalThesis Title: Occupational Ijuries and Occupational Safety andhealth Regulations in Three Industries in North Cyprus,Opportunities for Improvement IdentifiedSupervisor: Emine Atasoylu

Mechanical EngineeringKhosro BijanrostamiThesis Title: Design and Development of an Automated GuidedVehichle for Educationan PurposesSupervisor: Majid hashemipour

Golnaz DianatThesis Title: Experimental and Numerical Investigation of FlowStructure behind Bluff Bodies in Tandem ArrangementSupervisor: Hassan Hacışevki

PhysicsAtena FarahiThesis Title: Effect of the Dilaton Field on the Entropic ForceSupervisor: İzzet Sakallı

Tourism ManagementGeorginal CojocaruThesis Title: Management Commitment to Service Quality, JobEmbeddedness, and Performance Outcomes: A Study of HotelEmployees in RomaniaSupervisor: Osman Karatepe

Safoora ShahriariThesis Title: Organizational Justice, Job Embeddedness, and JobOutcomes: A Study of Hotel Employees in IranSupervisor: Osman Karatepe

Umut NalbantThesis Title: Volleyball in TRNC: Reasons for Decline of Interestand Recommendations for Improvement Supervisor: İlkay Yorgancı

Elena LigayThesis Title: An Assessment of 'Governance' for SustainableTourism Development: the case of North CyprusSupervisor: Habib Alipour

Danylo GutsulThesis Title: Strategic Analysis of Domestic Tourism Developmentin UkraineSupervisor: Mehmet Altinay

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ArchitectureNoor Cholis IdhamThesis Title: Seismic Vulnerability Assessment in Vernacular Houses:The Rapid Visual Screening Procedure for Non Engineered Buildingwith Application to Java IndonnesiaSupervisor: Munther Mohd

ChemistryHürmüs RefikerThesis Title: Symmetrical and Unsymmetrical Perylene DiimideDyes for Photovoltaic Applications: Chiral, Amphiphilic andElectrochemical PropertiesSupervisor: Huriye Icil

Civil EngineeringAlireza RezaeiThesis Title: Performance Measurement in a QualityManagement SystemSupervisor: Tahir Çelik

Communication and Media StudiesAnıl KemalThesis Title: The Role of Measurement in Integrated marketingCommunication; Turkisk Pension FundsSupervisor: Arıl Cansel

Gulnara Z. KarimovaThesis Title: Application of Bakhtinian Concepts to 'Interactive'AdvertisingSupervisor: Chris Miles

Yetin ArslanThesis Title: Re-signification of "Cyprus" with the Opening of NewLines of CommunicationSupervisor: Tuğrul İlter

Taçgey DebeşThesis Title: An Evaluation of Reciprocal Impacts of Culture andTuorism within Communication Framework in North Cyprus (A caseStudy)Supervisor: Mehmet Altinay

EconomicsDemet BetonThesis Title: Migration Issues: Turkey and The European UnionSupervisor: Glenn P. Jenkins

Electrical and Electronics EngineeringMohqmmad Mustafa Shukri AhmadThesis Title: Recursive Inverse Adaptive Filtering Technques andApplicationsSupervisor: Aykut Hocanın

Industrial EngineeringEhsan Moghimi hadjiThesis Title: Studies on Approximations to Renewal Functionsand their ApplicationsSupervisor: Alagar Rangan

Ayşe TansuThesis Title: Studies on a New Class of Shork Models forDeteriorating System and Their ApplicationsSupervisor: Alagar Rangan

Mechanical EngineeringMonther Faud Al-KhawajahThesis Title: The Effect of Using Transverse Partitioning andReflection on Single and Counter flow Solar Air Heater UsingWire Mesh as an AbsorberSupervisor: Fuat Egelioğlu


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n Journal Publications (SCI, SSCI, AHCI) n

The journal publications listed here are those that are listed inArts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), Science CitationIndex (SCI), Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded),or Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). A search on ISI Web ofScience was performed on 21 July 2011 to retrieve articles withat least one author having EMU affiliation. This list may not becomprehensive as some articles could be deposited to ISI after thequery date.

Abdulova V and Aybay I. (2011). “A Prioritized New Call QueuingPolicy for Multimedia Wireless Cellular Networks.” Journal ofInternet Technology, 12(3): 491-502.

Adaoglu C and Lasfer M. (2011). “Why Do Companies Pay StockDividends? The Case of Bonus Distributions in an InflationaryEnvironment.” Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 38(5-6):601-627.

Aliefendioglu H and Arslan Y. (2011). “Don’t Take It Personally, It’sJust a Joke: The Masculine Media Discourse of Jokes and Cartoons onthe Cyprus Issue.” Women’s Studies International Forum (WSIF), 34:101-111.

Aliev RA, Pedrycz W, Guirimov BG, Aliev RR, Ilhan U, Babagil Mand Mammadli S. (2011). “Type-2 fuzzy Neural Networks with FuzzyClustering and Differential Evolution Optimization.” InformationSciences, 181(9): 1591-1608.

Arifler D. (2011). “Capacity Analysis of a Diffusion-Based ShortRange Molecular Nano-Communication Channel.” ComputerNetworks, 55(6): 1426-1434.

Arjunan TV, Aybar HS and Nedunchezhian N. (2011). “Effect ofsponge liner on the internal heat transfer coefficients in a simple solarstill.” Desalination and Water Treatment, 29(1-3): 271-284.

Baalousha Y and Celik T. (2011). “Integrated Web-Based DataWarehouse and Artificial Neural Networks System for Unit PriceAnalysis with Inflation Adjustment.” Journal of Civil Engineeringand Management, 17(2): 157-167.

Balcilar M, Gupta R and Shah ZB. (2011). “An In-Sample and Out-Of-Sample Empirical Investigation of the Nonlinearity In HousePrices of South Africa.” Economic Modelling, 28(3): 891-899.

Beton D.(2011). “Application of Migration Hatton's Model in TurkishMigration Case.” Actual Problems of Economics, 118: 256-264.

Canel-Cinarbas D, Cui Y and Lauridsen E. (2011). “Cross-CulturalValidation of the Beck Depression Inventory-II across US andTurkish Samples.” Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling andDevelopment, 44(2): 77-91.

Demirel H and Anbarjafari G. (2011). “Discrete Wavelet Transform-Based Satellite Image Resolution Enhancement.” IEEE Transactionson Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 49(6): 1997-2004.

Demirel H and Anbarjafari G. (2011). “IMAGE ResolutionEnhancement by Using Discrete and Stationary WaveletDecomposition.” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 20(5):1458-1460.

Doukhnitch E and Ozen E. (2011). “Hardware-Oriented Algorithmfor Quaternion-Valued Matrix Decomposition.” IEEE Transactionson Circuits and Systems Ii-Express Briefs, 58(4): 225-229.

Erenel Z, Altincay H and Varoglu E. (2011). “Explicit Use ofTerm Occurrence Probabilities for Term Weighting in TextCategorization.” Journal of Information Science and Engineering,27(3): 819-834.

Hashemipour M, Manesh HF and Bal M. (2011). “A ModularVirtual Reality System for Engineering Laboratory Education.”Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 19(2): 305-314.

Icener E and Cagliyan-Icener Z. (2011). “The Justice andDevelopment Party's Identity and Its Role in the Eu's Decision toOpen Accession Negotiations with Turkey.” Southeast Europeanand Black Sea Studies, 11 (1): 19-34.

Ince E. (2011). “Measuring Traffic Flow and Classifying VehicleTypes: A Surveillance Video Based Approach.” Turkish Journal ofElectrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 19(4): 607-620.

Iscioglu E. (2011). “Perceived Computer Self-Efficacy ofSecondary Education Teachers.” New Educational Review, 23(1):189-198.

Jalil A and Feridun M. (2011). “Impact of Financial Developmenton Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan.”Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 16(1): 71-80.

Jalil A and Feridun M. (2011). “Long-Run Relationship betweenIncome Inequality and Financial Development in China.” Journalof the Asia Pacific Economy, 16(2): 202-214.

Karatepe OM. (2011). “Customer Aggression, EmotionalExhaustion, and Hotel Employee Outcomes: A Study in the

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United Arab Emirates.” Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing,28(3): 279-295.

Karatepe OM. (2011). “Service Quality, Customer Satisfactionand Loyalty: The Moderating Role of Gender.” Journal ofBusiness Economics and Management, 12(2): 278-300.

Katircioglu ST and Feridun M. (2011). “Do MacroeconomicFundamentals Affect Exchange Market Pressure? Evidence fromBounds Testing Approach for Turkey.” Applied EconomicsLetters, 18(3): 295-300.

Kula F, Aslan A and Feridun M. (2011). “Purchasing Power Parity inMena Revisited: Empirical Evidence In The Presence OfEndogenously Determined Break Points.” Ekonomska Istrazivanja-Economic Research, 24(1): 1-12.

Mahmudov NI, Ozarslan MA and Sabancigil P. (2011). “I-Approximation Properties of Certain Class of Linear PositiveOperators.” Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica,48(2): 205-219.

Nadiri H. (2011). “Customers' zone of tolerance for retail stores.”Service Business, 5(2): 113-137.

Nekhili R and Ciftcioglu S. (2011). “Export Volatility and OutputGrowth: Case of Turkey.” Actual Problems of Economics, 119:341-352.

Ozarslan MA and Kaanoglu C. (2011). “Multilateral GeneratingFunctions for Classes of Polynomials Involving MultivariableLaguerre Polynomials.” Journal of Computational Analysis andApplications, 13(4): 683-691.

Parham K, Esmaeilzadeh E, Atikol U and Aldabbagh LBY. (2011).“A Numerical Study of Turbulent Opposed Impinging Jets IssuingFrom Triangular Nozzles with Different Geometries.” Heat AndMass Transfer, 47(4): 427-437.

Ramadan O. (2011). “Systematic split-step perfectly matchedlayer formulations for modelling dispersive open region finitedifference time domain applications.” IET Microwaves Antennas& Propagation, 5(9): 1062-1066.

Ramadan O. (2011). “Z-transform-based complex envelopealternating direction implicit perfectly matched layer algorithm formodelling Drude dispersive source-free wave equation finite-difference time domain applications.” IET Microwaves Antennas& Propagation, 5(9): 1067-1072.

Sakalli I. (2011). “Quantization of Higher-Dimensional LinearDilaton Black Hole Area/Entropy from Quasinormal Modes.”International Journal of Modern Physics A, 26(13): 2263-2269.Tuna G. (2011). “The Effectiveness of Central Bank Intervention:

Evidence from Turkey.” Applied Economics, 43(14): 1801-1815.

Ulusoy AH and Rizaner A. (2011). “RBF Network Assisted AdaptivePath Selective Decorrelating Detector under Impulsive Noise forMultipath Fading CDMA Systems.” Annals of Telecommunications-Annales Des Telecommunications, 66(5-6): 357-361.

n Other Refereed Journal Publications n

Eldridge J, Hancioglu N, and Neufeld S. (S2011). 'Working withwords on the web.' The Teacher Trainer, 25(2):

Karatepe OM. (2011). “Job Resourcefulness as a Moderator of theWork-Family Conflict-Job Satisfaction Relationship: A Study ofHotel Employees in Nigeria.” Journal of Hospitality and TourismManagement, 18: 10-7.

Turhan T.(2011). Kuzey Kibris Türk Cumhuriyeti-AzerbaycanIliskileri, Ankara Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, Ankara, Cilt:60, sayi 1.

Yavas U, Karatepe OM and Babakus E (2011). “Do CustomerOrientation and Job Resourcefulness Moderate the Impact ofInterrole Conflicts on Frontline Employees’ Performance.” Tourismand Hospitality Research, 11(2): 145-59.

Yavas U, Karatepe OM and Babakus E (2011). “Efficacy of Job andPersonal Resources across Psychological and BehavioralOutcomes.” Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality andTourism, 10 (2): 304-14.

n Conference Papers n

Adaoglu C and Katircioglu, ST. "Foreign investor flows and 'bluechip' stock returns: Pre and Post EU accession negotiations ofTurkey" in Proceedings of the 4th Eurasia Business and EconomicSociety (EBES) Conference, pp. 1947-1962, Istanbul, Turkey,June 2011.

Aker Sule L. ve Ahmet H. Aker. "Türkiye-Bağımsız DevletlerTopluluğu Serbest Ticaret Bölgesi." in 21. Yüzyılda Türk Dünyası.s.143-149. Ankara, Mart 2011.

Kardoush, M., Timur, S., and Timur, A. T. "Factors Influencing JobSatisfaction of Managerial Staff in Northern Cyprus Tourism andHospitality Industry" in Proceedings of Advanced Hospitality andTourism Marketing and Management Conference, pp. 105-110,Istanbul, Turkey, June 2011

Mirzaei F. and Toygar Ö., Age Classification using Facial FeatureExtraction on Female and Male Images, The 3rd International


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Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2011), Chengdu,China , April 2011.

Ozverir A, and Ozverir I "Metaphors and Authenticity." inProceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia,Hypermedia & Telecommunications (EDMEDIA), pp. 510-515,Lisbon, Portugal, June 2011.

Ozverir I, and Herrington J. "Authentic activities in languagelearning: Bringing real world relevance to classroom activities."in Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia,Hypermedia & Telecommunications (EDMEDIA), pp. 1423-1428,Lisbon, Portugal, June 2011.

Sherinov Z, Ünveren A and Acan A. "An Evolutionary Multi-Objective Modeling and Solution Approach for Fuzzy VehicleRouting Problem", in International Symposium on Innovationsin Intelligent Systems and Applications, INISTA 2011, pp. 450-454, Istanbul, TURKEY, June 2011

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Bozer M, Özarslan M. A,. “Remarks on Generalized Gamma, Betaand Hypergeometric Functions.” International Conference onApplied Analysis and Algebra, Yıldız Technical University, İstanbul,Turkey, June 2011.

Güven-Lisaniler F, and Beton-Kalmaz D. “The Presence, Extent, andthe Trends of Occupational Gender Segregation in North CyprusLabor Market.” Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) 2011Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 1-3 June 2011.

Koseoglu, O. `Planning of Wireless Networks with 4D VirtualPrototyping for Construction Site Collaboration.` ASCE (AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers) 2011 Workshop for Computing in CivilEngineering, Miami, US, June 2011.

Oktay D. “Human Sustainable Urbanism: In pursuit of ecological andsocial-cultural sustainability”,International Asia-Pacific Conferenceon Environment and Behavior: The Other Space - Politics, Cultureand Human Behaviour, Bandung, Indonesia, June 2011.

Suphi N and Yaratan H. “How are teachers of the next generationapproaching their learning?.” International Conference onEducational Sciences, Famagusta, North Cyprus, June 2011.

Turhan, Turgut: Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti-Azerbaycanİlişkileri, Ankara Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, Ankara 2011,Cilt:60, sayı 1,

Vural, Y. “Europeanization and Territoriality: The Case of Cyprus.”The Association for the Study of Nationalities 16th WorldConvention, Columbia University – New York. 14-16 April 2011.

Yaratan H and Suphi N. “Synchronous technological administrationof data collection instruments: A new method for group administra-tion.” International Conference on New Horizons in Education,Guarda, Portugal, June 2011.

Conferences organized by / in collaboration with EMU

Conference Name: ASIA Pacific International Conference onEnvironment-Behaviour Studies (AicE-Bs 2011 Famagusta)

Date: 06-08 December 2011

Web Address:http://urdc.emu.edu.tr/Internationalconference.htm

Conference Name: 3rd International Conference in Communicationand Media Studies (Re)Making and Undoing of Peace/Conflict

Date: 11-13 April 2012

Web Address: http://fcms.emu.edu.tr/mupc2012/

Conference Name: 6th International Seminal on VernacularSettlement Contemporary vernaculars: Places, Processes andManifestation (ISVS-6)


Web Address: http://isvs-6.emu.edu.tr/index.html

Conference Name: 8th International Congress On Cyprus Studies


Web Address: http://www.cyprusstudies2012.org/


2011/2

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