In this paper, a novel microstrip triplexer is designed by using meandered dual-mode loop resonators. Proposed resonators are coupled to input and output ports by means of lumped capacitors in order to simplify the coupling ...

In the era of mega containerships, global containership liners design their transportation service as Hub-and-Spoke networks to improve the access to local transportation markets and to reduce operational costs by using ...

In the previously published paper in [1], there is a typo in the paragraph above Eq. (7), which was written as R1 = R2 = R. The correct form is R1 = 2R2 = R. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused. © 2018

The Denizli Basin in the West Anatolian Extensional Province in western Turkey is well-known for its numerous travertine occurrences. A combined sedimentological, diagenetic and geochemical investigation is executed on the ...

An earthquake with a local magnitude of 5.9 occurred in Simav (Kütahya) in Western Turkey on 19 May, 2011. Although the earthquake was an intermediate scale, it caused some structural and geotechnical damage. It killed two ...

A growing concern for end users of Online Social Networks (OSNs) is the privacy and control of user data due to the client-server architecture of the current ecosystems. In this paper, we introduce a privacy preserving ...

This paper presents and discusses the recent developments related to seismic performance and assessment of buried pipelines. The experience from the performance of pipelines during last earthquakes provided invaluable ...

Microbial cellulose (MC) is a polysaccharide excreted extracellularly by certain bacteria. The species Gluconacetobacter xylinus (or Acetobacter xylinum as formerly known) is the most extensively studied cellulose-producing ...