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Describes a method to analyze competitive standing of a product, brand or made‐in label vis‐à‐vis its competitors. Presents the results of an illustrative case study and discusses their implications.

Explores whether the current implementation of privatization in Turkey is consistent with original privatization objectives as laid down in the original government plan. Presents analysis of hard data obtained from the Public Participation Fund, the agency responsible for the planning and execution of the programme and entrusted with selling the state′s shares in companies, and the results of certain questions from a survey undertaken in Turkey to assess the opinions of senior managers, drawn from both the state and private sector, and academics, regarding the implementation of the privatization policy. Finds that, to date, implementation of the privatization programme is contrary to the original objectives of the Turkish government.

The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive and detailed review of the state-of-the-art mechanisms of knowledge sharing in the education field as well as directions for future research.

In the current study, a systematic literature review until June 2017 is presented, which has been on the education’s mechanisms of knowledge sharing. The authors identified 237 papers, which are reduced to 71 primary studies through the paper selection process.

By providing the state-of-the-art information, the challenges and issues, this survey will directly support academics, researchers and practicing professionals in their understanding of knowledge sharing developments in education.

There are several limitations in this study. First, this study limited the search for articles to Google scholar and four online databases. There might be other academic journals, which may be able to provide a more comprehensive picture of the articles related to the knowledge sharing in education. Second, non-English publications were excluded from this study. The authors believe research regarding the application of knowledge sharing techniques have also been discussed and published in other languages. In addition, more studies need to be carried out using other methodologies such as interviews.

The paper presents a comprehensive structured literature review of the articles’ mechanisms of knowledge sharing in the education field. The paper’s findings can offer insights into future research needs.

This study investigates and explores sustainable fashion based on social attitudes toward culture and sustainable fashion effects in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), based on environmental knowledge and consumer satisfaction initiatives. It explicates sustainable fashion on the sustainable development agenda in addressing the gap of cultural value, environmental knowledge and sustainable fashion in SSA.

Using a quantitative approach, the study employed a web-based online cross-sectional survey to extract tangible information from 620 participants from SSA. The study integrated theory of planned behaviors (TPB) model and hypotheses. A structural equation model (SEM) was used to test all proposed hypotheses.

The results show that low environmental knowledge, influenced by geographical and cultural differences, affected fashion value, as which is predictively significant for sustainable fashion. However, attitude and cultural value results found statistical significance for consumer satisfaction in sustainable fashion. Furthermore, mediation was attained between consumer behavioral and environmental knowledge of sustainable fashion. The study recommends government policies on educational awareness and textile regulations for environmental garbage disposal possible harmful effects of climate change and finally, designing innovative initiatives for environmentally friendly fashion.

This study examines the environmental and social attitudes as well as behavioral effects, of an ecosystem that would most likely have a short life period, eliminate disposal dumps and foster an environmental control policy. Consequently, the study’s conceptual model and extended TPB contribute to how sustainable fashion supports environmental knowledge, consumer attitudes and cultural behaviors in fashion among Sub-Saharan Africans.

To provide information about technical data; wear behaviour of worn rotor parts in mining industry and for the other application of ferrous alloys.

Wear behaviour of the various filler wires were tested (tensile, hardness, and wear) and compared with each other in the light of microstructure, chemical, and mechanical properties.

The results showed that the wear rates were significantly increased with the increasing load, welding current, wear distance and poor mechanical properties. A larger amount of C, Cr, and Mn specimen showed the best wear resistance since it contained a number of hard MC‐type carbides and coarse grains. Furthermore, for all materials the weight loss increases linearly with the increasing of welding arc current, load and wear distance.

It would be interesting to search about the toughness values and fatigue behaviour of these materials. It could be the good idea for future work could be concentrated fracture surface analysis of these materials.

For these materials choosing the right chemical composition of the filler material, certain arc current and ideal microstructure is crutial for the wear response.

The main value of this paper is to contribute and fulfil the mechanical properties of welding wires that is being studied so far in the literature such as the effects of chemical composition, applied road range, and arc current on the tensile, hardness and wear behaviours of the welding wires.

As a result of referee evaluation, the subject scope of the article has been expanded. Previously, only polycaprolactone (PCL) loaded with peppermint extract had been studied. As a result of peer review, nanostructure production was made with peppermint-loaded polylactic acid (PLA). Literature information about PLA polymer has been added to the Introduction section. Additionally, to analyze the presence of peppermint extract in Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) measurements, a comparison was made with 100% PCL, 100% PLA and 100% peppermint extract. In order to observe the effect of polymer type, evaluations were made between the produced peppermint-loaded nanostructures containing two different polymers. Mechanical, structural and morphological properties of the produced nanostructures were measured. The main purpose of the study is to analyze and evaluate peppermint-loaded nanostructures on different polymers.

Nanofiber structures were produced by the electrospinning process due to their attractive properties such as low cost, flexibility, integrability and high efficiency. The production parameters of the nanofiber structure produced by the electrospinning process, mechanical measurements, fiber morphologies with scanning electron microscope (SEM) and structural characterization with FTIR measurement were analyzed, and its potential in possible usage areas was interpreted.

In this study, the production of nanostructures containing peppermint extract with PCL and PLA polymers, which are various biodegradable and biocompatible polymeric materials, was successfully achieved. In the studies carried out, nanofiber structures with positive properties such as low cost, easy accessibility, flexibility, integrability and sustainability were produced. When the two nanofiber structures produced were compared, it was observed that the peppermint extract nanofiber structure containing PCL provided better morphological and mechanical properties, such as higher strength, thinner fibers' diameter and a smooth and homogeneous surface, compared to the peppermint core nanofiber structure containing PLA. It has been observed that PCL polymer is more advantageous in obtaining nanofibers under the same environmental conditions and the same parameters. The addition of peppermint extract caused an approximately 25% loss in strength in nanostructures containing PCL polymer compared to nanostructures containing 100% PCL. The strength loss in PLA nanostructures containing peppermint extract is approximately 90% compared to nanostructures containing 100% PLA. This situation is associated with the regular arrangement of nanostructures containing PCL. In conclusion, incorporating peppermint extract into the nanofiber structures fabrication process offers several benefits, including enhanced antimicrobial properties and potential bioactive effects.

In the study, a uniform and suitable-for-use nanofiber structure with a smooth and partially beaded surface was obtained by an electrospinning method using peppermint extract and PCL and PLA polymers. Morphological evaluation was made with SEM images of the obtained nanofiber structure, and the presence of peppermint extract in the nanofiber structure was determined by the FTIR analysis. In the mechanical analysis, a decrease was observed in the elongation at break and tensile strength values of nanostructures loaded with mint extract, but this decrease did not prevent the production and use of the nanofiber structure.

In this study, the service quality of an automobile authorized service center was investigated based on the European Customer Satisfaction Index (ECSI) model. The ECSI model includes image, customer expectations, perceived quality, perceived value, customer satisfaction, customer complaints and customer loyalty.

In the study, an attempt was made to improve the ESCI model by adding the trust factor as a moderating variable. After an extensive literature review, measurement questions were developed to best represent the factors in the research model. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to test the fit of the research model and test the hypotheses.

As a result of the analysis, only one of the 13 hypotheses tested was not supported. According to the results of hypothesis testing, the highest effect was found in the relationship between customer satisfaction customer complaints, customer expectations and perceived quality. In addition, customer expectations affect customer satisfaction indirectly rather than directly. In this case, customer expectations, perceived value and perceived quality influence customer satisfaction.

The customer satisfaction quality index score of the authorized automobile service whose service quality was measured was calculated as 72.75. Although customers were generally satisfied with the authorized service, their expectations were not fully met.

In the study, an attempt was made to improve the ECSI model by adding a trust factor. Trust, which was added to the model as a moderator variable, fit the model. As a result, it was revealed that trust has an increasing regulatory effect on the relationship between perceived quality and customer satisfaction.

The purpose of this study was to examine the potential association between the glycemic index (GI) and the glycemic load (GL) with early childhood caries in preschool children.

This cross-sectional study collected data from 225 children aged 37–71 months in governmental nursery schools within the Altindag district of Ankara, Turkey. GI and GL values of foods and beverages were calculated using 2008 international tables of GI and GL. Dental examinations were done under daylight and by using a headlight. The prevalence of caries was obtained by calculating the number of the decayed, missing and filled teeth (dmft) index score or decayed, missing and filled surface (dmfs) index score.

There were significant differences in the dmft and dmfs scores according to GI groups (p = 0.022 for both). The multivariate models showed that children who consumed a high-GI diet had higher dmft scores compared to children who consumed a medium-GI diet (ß 1.48, 95% CI −1.48, 4.44), whereas children who consumed a high-GL diet had lower dmft score compared to children who consumed low-GL diet (ß 0.55, 95% CI −0.97, 2.07), however, they were not statistically significant.

Dietary total GI and GL did not significantly influence the caries experience of preschool children. Future studies should focus on the different age groups with a broader perspective.

The purpose of this article is to examine all the studies carried out within the scope of e-HRM and smart HRM, grouped according to the sub-functions of technical and HRM. The use of technology in HRM has started since the mid-1990s. However, this study focused on the articles published after 2014 in order to keep up to date. Any search strategy should allow for the completeness of the search to be evaluated. The terms “electronic-HRM”, “AI and HRM”, “Industry 4.0 and HRM”, “Society 5.0 and HRM”, “Human Resource Information Systems” and “Digital Technologies and HRM” “Human-robot interaction” has been questioned in IEEE Xplore, ALM digital library, Emerald Insight, SpringerLink, and Science Direct. The Web of Science and Scopus were also queried to double-check the findings and find other relevant articles in lesser-known libraries. Google Scholar was also used for forward and backward searches. These online databases have been chosen because they present the most important peer-reviewed full-text journals, conference proceedings, book chapters. Then, the references of each article were reviewed for additional articles on digital technologies and HRM. Each subsequent article is then reviewed for additional reference.

A total of 5,580 articles have been reviewed. Duplicate items have been removed. The titles and abstracts of 3,500 articles have been scanned to identify potential articles. The full-text evaluation of 2,554 was based on compliance with the inclusion criteria. In addition, 2,458 studies have been excluded. In total, 96 studies have been selected for data extraction. Additionally, questionnaires and reviews have been used to provide comprehensive research on e-HRM and smart HRM. The search terms used are expected to cover most, if not all, of the studies involving e-HRM and smart HRM.

The study carried out in this article is qualitative research. In the article, which methods are used and what has changed in e-HRM and smart HRM are examined. In particular, it has been thought about what can happen with the inclusion of human-machine interaction, AI, chatbots, industry 4.0 and information systems in HRM. Unlike previous studies, this review takes HRM from a broader perspective and groups it by topic, both by technical and HR functions. In addition, the reviewed articles provide brief information about the AI technologies used. In particular, criteria were taken into account according to the field, type and subject of the articles.

This study has the distinction of being the first in the literature in terms of examining all the studies carried out within the scope of e-HRM and smart HRM and grouped according to the sub-functions of technical and HRM in line with its purpose. The article focuses specifically on research published after 2014. It is expected to contribute to the literature in terms of collecting all studies in a single article. Other contributions of this article can be summarized in four main articles: 1) it presents a summary of previous research by grouping the studies on e-HRM and smart HRM according to the interests of researchers. 2) It saves time for the reader as it provides a brief explanation of the studies on the subject. 3) Instead of explaining in detail the general details analyzed in other articles, it offers a practical perspective by focusing on the type, subject and field of the article. 4) With the digitalization of HRM, new, up-to-date research and techniques are introduced.