Karadeniz Technical University (Turkish: Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi or KTÜ) is a public research university in Trabzon, in the Black Sea Region of Turkey. Established in 1955, it is the fourth oldest university in Turkey. Karadeniz Technical University is a state university institution subject to the Law No. 2547 on Higher Education in Turkey. It is supported mainly by state funds allocated by the Turkish Parliament.The university has 80 departments, 12 faculties and 6 graduate schools. With 2122 teaching staff and 39,763 students, Karadeniz Technical University is one of the largest universities in Turkey.
The International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) has globally influenced land administration through its Cadastre 2014 vision and subsequent LADM standards. Türkiye has been modernizing its land registry and cadastre system accordingly. The General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre (GDLRC) manages approximately 17 million annual transactions, including about 3.4 million conveyancing (long-term averages). To reduce congestion in Land Registry Offices (LROs), notaries were authorized to issue sales contracts in June 2022. This study investigates the effects of this change within the Cadastre 2014/2034 framework in terms of the maturity of the Turkish Land Administration System (LAS) and also by linking the issue to broader debates within land management and governance. A survey of 140 GDLRC experts revealed that notary involvement currently offers limited time and financial benefits to citizens and does not significantly reduce LRO workload. The central factor for this limitation is evaluated to be the maturity of Turkish LAS. On the other hand, the initiative aligns with Cadastre 2014’s fifth statement, which advocates public-private collaboration, and therefore it should be further evolved. Within this evolution, administrative/managerial fixes and training programmes for notaries in the short term, management of all internal and external RRRs via LAS as a spatial data infrastructure service in line with LADM standards in the medium term, and betterment of institutional coordination, public responsibility development and capacity building in the long term are proposed for a better eventual land administration and management towards local and national good land governance.
Selecting a biomass pyrolysis facility location requires reconciling site conditions with the priorities of affected stakeholders. This study develops an integrated Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria Analysis (MAMCA) framework combining the Pivot-Linked Elicitation Best-Worst Method (PILE-BWM) and Multi-Attribute Value Theory (MAVT) to evaluate four organized industrial zones for a tea- and hazelnut-residue bioenergy and biochar hub in Trabzon, Türkiye. A common nine-criterion performance matrix was constructed from documented regional sources, historical district-level information, and transparent screening assumptions, while separate consensus weights were elicited for farmers, residents, public-sector representatives, and private-sector actors. Farmers and the private sector assigned the greatest importance to resource and supply, whereas residents and the public sector emphasized environmental and accessibility considerations. Arsin ranked first for farmers and the private sector, while Akçaabat-Şinik ranked first for residents and the public sector. Although biomass-weighted inbound haul distance received the public sector's largest criterion weight, it favoured Arsin; Akçaabat-Şinik's narrow public-sector lead was driven by its settlement-separation advantage. The four rankings showed relatively high descriptive concordance (Kendall's W = 0.78), and minimax regret identified Akçaabat-Şinik as the compromise alternative (maximum regret = 0.47). Extended sensitivity analyses showed stable winners for farmers, residents, and the private sector, whereas the public-sector winner changed under selected circuity-factor and reference-anchor scenarios. The findings show that preserving stakeholder-specific preferences reveals trade-offs that would be obscured by aggregated weighting.
Phase change material-integrated three-dimensional concrete printing (PCM-3DCP) represents an emerging class of additively manufactured structural thermal energy storage materials designed to enable distributed, passive energy management in the built environment. By embedding latent heat storage within architected cementitious matrices, PCM-3DCP systems function as load-shifting thermal batteries that enhance energy flexibility, reduce peak demand, and improve indoor thermal stability without reliance on active mechanical systems. The convergence of nonlinear phase-change thermodynamics with anisotropic, layer-wise printed microstructures introduces complex multiscale heat-transfer and thermo-mechanical coupling effects that remain insufficiently understood, limiting predictive design and large-scale deployment. This review consolidates a fragmented cross-disciplinary synthesis of PCM-3DCP composite advances from materials to performance to provide a unified body of knowledge and identifies relationships between structure-process-property-performance levels to promote PCM-3DCP global adoption & scaling up. Additionally, it proposes a novel strategic framework linking PCM-3DCP innovation, application, and performance with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs), positioning it as an efficient pathway towards net-zero, low-carbon, multifunctional building envelopes that integrate structural capacity with active thermal regulation through architected latent heat storage. Furthermore, an extrusion-based mixture design strategic framework is presented alongside quantitative performance metrics to evaluate lifecycle, thermal properties & thermal energy gains, durability, and economic feasibility of PCM-3DCP composites. Finally, the work positions PCM-3DCP within the broader context of energy transition and decarbonization pathways, outlining current challenges and future research directions toward programmable, climate-responsive structural energy storage systems that support net-zero and resilient infrastructure.
Despite the growing body of literature, no comprehensive bibliometric analysis has systematically mapped the evolution and structure of parental burnout research. This study analyzes publication trends, conceptual structure, intellectual foundations, and social networks in parental burnout research. A bibliometric analysis was conducted on 307 research articles retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection (1989–2025). Data were analyzed in R using the Bibliometrix package, with RStudio as the integrated development environment and VOSviewer for visualization, employing performance analysis and science mapping techniques, including co-citation, co-authorship, and authors’ keyword co-occurrence analyses. The results indicate a marked growth in parental burnout research since the mid-to-late 2010s, with an annual growth rate of 12.82
This study investigated the compressive strength (CS) and flexural strength (FS) of basalt fiber (BF)-reinforced composite mortars containing plastic waste aggregate (PA) and recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) using experimental and machine learning (ML)-based methods. Within this scope, a total of 64 mortar mixtures containing different ratios of PA, RCA and BF were prepared, and unit weight, CS and FS tests were performed on samples cured for 28 days. Datasets consisting of 64 data points each for CS and FS were created using the obtained experimental results. These datasets were trained using six different ML algorithms, and their performances were compared. Additionally, an analytical prediction equation was obtained using the multiple linear regression (MLR) method for CS prediction. The experimental results showed a general decreasing trend in CS with increasing PA and BF ratios. In contrast, increasing the BF ratio increased FS, and specimens containing 15
