Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Lise Öğrencilerinin Coğrafya Dersindeki Deprem Eğitimine İlişkin Görüşlerinin Çeşitli Değişkenler Açısından İncelenmesi (Düzce İli Örneği)

Bu arastirma; Duzce ilinde ogrenim goren lise ogrencilerinin cografya dersinde verilen deprem egitimine iliskin goruslerini cesitli degiskenler acisindan incelemek amaciyla gerceklestirilmistir. Bu amac dogrultusunda arastirmacilar tarafindan lise ogrencilerinin cografya dersinde verilen deprem egitimine iliskin goruslerini belirlemek amaciyla bir olcek gelistirilmistir. Arastirma tarama modelinde gerceklestirilmistir. Arastirmanin calisma grubunu, 2011-2012 ogretim yilinda Duzce il merkezinde cesitli liselerde ogrenim goren ogrencilerden random olarak secilen 411 ogrenci olusturmaktadir. Verilerin analizi SPSS 17.0 istatistik programi kullanilarak yapilmistir. Verilerin analizinde; frekans, yuzde, ortalama degerleri kullanilmis; iliskisiz orneklemler icin t-testi ve tek yonlu varyans analizi (ANOVA) teknikleri uygulanmistir. Arastirma sonucunda lise ogrencilerinin cografya dersinde verilen deprem egitimine iliskin gorusleri cinsiyet, oturduklari konutun mulkiyet durumu, oturduklari binanin kat sayisi, gelir, en fazla guven duyulan kurum degiskenlerine gore benzer bulunmustur. Buna karsilik lise ogrencilerinin cografya dersinde verilen deprem egitimine iliskin gorusleri okul turu degiskenine gore farklilasmistir. Yapilan coklu karsilastirma testi sonucuna gore meslek lisesi ile Anadolu ogretmen lisesinde ogrenim goren ogrenciler arasinda fark bulunmus, meslek lisesinde ogrenim goren ogrencilerin cografya dersinde verilen deprem egitimini daha yeterli bulduklari belirlenmistir.
Opposite effects of anxiety and depressive symptoms on executive function: The case of selecting among competing options

People constantly face the need to choose one option from among many, such as when selecting words to express a thought. Selecting between many options can be difficult for anyone, and can feel overwhelming for individuals with elevated anxiety. The current study demonstrates that anxiety is associated with impaired selection across three different verbal tasks, and tests the specificity of this finding to anxiety. Anxiety and depression frequently co-occur; thus, it might be assumed that they would demonstrate similar associations with selection, although they also have distinct profiles of symptoms, neuroanatomy and neurochemistry. Here, we report for the first time that anxiety and depressive symptoms counter-intuitively have opposite effects on selection among competing options. Specifically, whereas anxiety symptoms are associated with impairments in verbal selection, depressive symptoms are associated with better selection performance. Implications for understanding the mechanisms of anxiety, depression and selection are discussed.
Review Article: Prestige and its significance for medical specialties and diseases

Aims: The aim of this paper is to review the literature concerning the existence of prestige hierarchies for medical specialities and diseases. Moreover, the implications of prestige for priority setting in healthcare systems are discussed. Methods: The study is based on a review of the literature. Papers were obtained through the National Library of Medicine, PubMed. The search was conducted on 14 July 2005, and included articles from 1950 until that date. The medical subject headings ``disease'', ``illness'', and ``medical specialities'' were combined with the search word ``prestige''. A total of 183 papers were found. Only studies focusing on prestige hierarchies for medical specialities and diseases were included. The final search identified 20 articles, six of which specifically established hierarchies for medical specialities and diseases. Results: The review documented prestige hierarchies for medical specialities and diseases. Explanatory characteristics behind the distribution of prestige were identified. It was demonstrated that active, specialized, biomedical, and high-technological types of medicine practised on organs in the upper part of the bodies of young or middle-aged people were accorded high levels of prestige. Medicine with the opposite characteristics had low levels of prestige. Conclusions: Medical specialities and diseases differ with regard to prestige. Characteristics related to specialties and diseases determine their prestige. The authors suggest that differences in prestige bear consequences for actual priority setting in healthcare systems, and contend that this should be further investigated.
CO2 fluxes in the subtropical and subarctic North Atlantic based on measurements from a volunteer observing ship

[1] Surface seawater pCO2 and related parameters were measured at high frequency onboard the volunteer observing ship M/V Falstaff in the North Atlantic Ocean between 36° and 52°N. Over 90,000 data points were used to produce monthly CO2 fluxes for 2002/2003. The air-sea CO2 fluxes calculated by two different averaging schemes were compared. The first approach used gas transfer velocity determined from wind speed retrieved at the location of the ship and called colocated winds, while for the second approach a monthly averaged gas transfer velocity was calculated from the wind for each grid pixel including the variability in wind. The colocated wind speeds determined during the time of passage do not capture the monthly wind speed variability of the grid resulting in fluxes that were 47% lower than fluxes using the monthly averaged wind products. The Falstaff CO2 fluxes were in good agreement with a climatology using averaged winds. Over the entire region they differed by 2–5%, depending on the time-dependent correction scheme to account for the atmospheric in increase in pCO2. However, locally the flux differences between the ship measurements and the climatology were greater, especially in regions north of 45°N, like the eastern sector. A comparison of two wind speed products showed that the annual CO2 sink is 4% less when using 6 hourly NCEP/NCAR wind speeds compared to the QuikSCAT wind speed data.
An MPC design flow for automotive control and applications to idle speed regulation

This paper describes the steps of a model predictive control (MPC) design procedure developed for a broad class of control problems in automotive engineering. The design flow starts by deriving a linearized discrete-time prediction model from an existing simulation model, augmenting it with integral action or output disturbance models to ensure offset-free steady-state properties, and tuning the resulting MPC controller in simulation. Explicit MPC tools are employed to synthesize the controller to quickly assess controller complexity, local stability of the closed-loop dynamics, and for rapid prototype testing. Then, the controller is fine-tuned by refining the linear prediction model through identification from experimental data, and by adjusting from observed experimental performance the values of weights and noise covariances for filter design. The idle speed control (ISC) problem is used in this paper to exemplify the design flow and our vehicle implementation results are reported.
An improved method for digital time series signal generation from scanned ECG records

Archiving the paper Electrocardiogram (ECG) trace as an image in hospitals and clinics is a regular practice to maintain the patients' history. However, it requires immense storage space and manpower for storage and retrieval of the patient records. In this paper we have proposed an improved algorithm for the existing paper ECG trace to digital time series with adaptive and iterative image processing techniques. We have tested our algorithm with a number of ECG sheets printed from 12-lead ECG equipments. Further, the proposed technique is enhanced to calculate the heart rate from the obtained time series to facilitate the evaluation of the methodology. Compared with the manually obtained heart rate, the methodology shows an accuracy of 95%, demonstrating the usefulness of the approach. Also, elaborate experimentation with the algorithm has brought out the robustness of the methodology in handling ECG traces from different sources.
Semantic Service Retrieval Based on Natural Language Querying and Semantic Similarity

In this paper, we address the task of semantic service retrieval based on natural language queries. We analyze identifiers of services, operations, and parameters extracted from WSDL service descriptions with respect to their semantic content. In order to measure the semantic similarity between query and service description, we introduce a novel computationally efficient document similarity measure based on information content and fuzzy set theory.
Modélisation multi-échelle du comportement mécanique des matériaux cimentaires soumis à la carbonatation ou à la lixiviation

L’objectif de ce travail de these consiste a la modelisation du comportement mecanique des materiaux cimentaires, tel que la pâte de ciment et le beton qui sont soumis a la carbonatation et a la lixiviation. Ces reactions chimiques entre le materiau cimentaire et le milieu agressif environnant entrainent des changements dans la microstructure du materiau et par consequent sur le comportement mecanique et peut ainsi avoir un impact important sur la durabilite des structures. Pour la caracterisation du comportement mecanique de ces materiaux chimiquement influences, deux approches differentes sont proposees dans cette these: l'approche macroscopique et microscopique. Dans la premiere partie, une approche macroscopique est utilisee. L'interet est d'utiliser un modele elastoplastique classique pour voir l'influence de la carbonatation et la lixiviation sur les parametres elastiques et plastiques. Ce modele est par la suite couple avec un modele d’interface pour decrire le comportement mecanique et le processus de rupture des materiaux cimentaires, prenant en compte la localisation des deformations sur une bande de cisaillement. Dans la deuxieme partie, en prenant avantage des modeles micro-macro, il est possible de lier explicitement l'evolution de la microstructure durant la degradation au comportement mecanique du materiau. Deux a trois etapes d’homogeneisations base sur la methode secante modifie sont necessaires pour aboutir au critere macroscopique. Les capacites predictives des modeles micro-macro proposes ont ete demontres a travers une large validation experimentale.
Biosignal Analysis to Assess Mental Stress in Automatic Driving of Trucks: Palmar Perspiration and Masseter Electromyography

Nowadays insight into human-machine interaction is a critical topic with the large-scale development of intelligent vehicles. Biosignal analysis can provide a deeper understanding of driver behaviors that may indicate rationally practical use of the automatic technology. Therefore, this study concentrates on biosignal analysis to quantitatively evaluate mental stress of drivers during automatic driving of trucks, with vehicles set at a closed gap distance apart to reduce air resistance to save energy consumption. By application of two wearable sensor systems, a continuous measurement was realized for palmar perspiration and masseter electromyography, and a biosignal processing method was proposed to assess mental stress levels. In a driving simulator experiment, ten participants completed automatic driving with 4, 8, and 12 m gap distances from the preceding vehicle, and manual driving with about 25 m gap distance as a reference. It was found that mental stress significantly increased when the gap distances decreased, and an abrupt increase in mental stress of drivers was also observed accompanying a sudden change of the gap distance during automatic driving, which corresponded to significantly higher ride discomfort according to subjective reports.
FIELD AND LABORATORY COMPARISON OF HATCH RATES IN AEDES ALBOPICTUS (SKUSE)

ABSTRACT Laboratory experiments attempting to elicit a response based on a natural condition rely on the assumption that the laboratory treatment accurately mimics field conditions. With Aedes albopictus (Skuse), laboratory experiments analyzing hatch rates assume that the laboratory stimuli resemble those received by the eggs in field conditions. With the use of a colonized strain of Ae. albopictus, an analysis of the hatch rates comparing both field and laboratory settings was conducted. Additionally, hatch rates were compared for mosquitoes exposed to regular, periodic hatch stimulation (as usually seen in laboratory experiments) and random hatch stimulation (as seen in the field). In both experiments, laboratory treatments were not found to differ significantly from the field treatments, indicating that experimental results achieved in the lab are relevant to field situations.
Metabolic and Transcriptional Analysis of Acid Stress in Lactococcus lactis, with a Focus on the Kinetics of Lactic Acid Pools

The effect of pH on the glucose metabolism of non-growing cells of L. lactis MG1363 was studied by in vivo NMR in the range 4.8 to 6.5. Immediate pH effects on glucose transporters and/or enzyme activities were distinguished from transcriptional/translational effects by using cells grown at the optimal pH of 6.5 or pre-adjusted to low pH by growth at 5.1. In cells grown at pH 5.1, glucose metabolism proceeds at a rate 35% higher than in non-adjusted cells at the same pH. Besides the upregulation of stress-related genes (such as dnaK and groEL), cells adjusted to low pH overexpressed H+-ATPase subunits as well as glycolytic genes. At sub-optimal pHs, the total intracellular pool of lactic acid reached approximately 500 mM in cells grown at optimal pH and about 700 mM in cells grown at pH 5.1. These high levels, together with good pH homeostasis (internal pH always above 6), imply intracellular accumulation of the ionized form of lactic acid (lactate anion), and the concomitant export of the equivalent protons. The average number, n, of protons exported with each lactate anion was determined directly from the kinetics of accumulation of intra- and extracellular lactic acid as monitored online by 13C-NMR. In cells non-adjusted to low pH, n varies between 2 and 1 during glucose consumption, suggesting an inhibitory effect of intracellular lactate on proton export. We confirmed that extracellular lactate did not affect the lactate: proton stoichiometry. In adjusted cells, n was lower and varied less, indicating a different mix of lactic acid exporters less affected by the high level of intracellular lactate. A qualitative model for pH effects and acid stress adaptation is proposed on the basis of these results.
Innovative Moments in Grief Therapy: Reconstructing Meaning Following Perinatal Death

This article presents an intensive analysis of a good outcome case of constructivist grief therapy with a bereaved mother, using the Innovative Moments Coding System (IMCS). Inspired by M. White and D. Epston's narrative therapy, the IMCS conceptualizes therapeutic change as resulting from the elaboration and expansion of unique outcomes (or as we prefer, innovative moments), referring to experiences not predicted by the problematic or dominant self-narrative. The IMCS identifies and tracks the occurrence of 5 different types of innovative moments: action, reflection, protest, re-conceptualization, and performing change. Results documented the process of meaning reconstruction over the 6 sessions of treatment, and demonstrated the feasibility and reliability of analyzing narrative change in this form of grief therapy, opening it to comparison with other approaches.
Modeling the evolution of Antarctic ice sheet over the last 420,000 years: Implications for altitude changes in the Vostok region

A new thermomechanical three-dimensional model designed to simulate the evolution of the Antarctic ice sheet over long time periods is presented. This model incorporates the various types of ice flow found in Antarctica: relatively slow inland ice flow that is essentially due to ice deformation, fast ice flow in the regions with ice streams, and ice shelf flow. By coupling these three types of flow, it is possible to predict grounding line migration. Simulations covering four glacial-interglacial cycles have been conducted by forcing this model with a temperature record from Vostok and a sea level record from marine cores. Our findings indicate that grounding line migration induced by sea level changes is the primary factor governing the evolution of the Antarctic ice volume. On the other hand, the altitude of the ice sheet surface at Vostok is driven by accumulation rate variations. The amplitude of the altitude change does not exceed 150 m and is very similar for all the sites located on the Antarctic Plateau.
Persistent organic pollutants in the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are a group of compounds that are persistent, toxic, bioaccumulative and undergo long range transport. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are three groups of POPs. They were widely used as dielectric and coolants fluids, pesticides and flame retardants, respectively. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), normally produced by incomplete combustion of carbonaceous materials, were not in the list but have similar properties as POPs. Even though restrictions and bans over POPs started decades ago (PCBs and OCPs in the 1970s and BDEs in the 2000s), POPs are still detected in the environment and could negatively affect human and wildlife health. Previous studies of POPs monitoring were mostly focused on land or coastal areas; POPs data in remote oceans are lacking. In this study, polyethylene passive samplers (PEs) were used for measuring POPs in the Atlantic and Pacific. The Atlantic study involved deep ocean measurements, while the Pacific study used surface seawater and atmosphere measurements. Deep ocean measurements were conducted by deep moorings at two locations, in the North and Tropical Atlantic Ocean. Results revealed the presence of POPs in the deep ocean with concentrations up to 10 pg L -1 for PCBs, OCPs and BDEs. Oceanic current study suggested that the concentration maximum around 800 m at the Tropical Atlantic site could be potentially originated from the Mediterranean Sea. Mass balance calculation indicated that deep ocean is an important storage for POPs (4.8-26 % of the global HCB environmental burdens). The Pacific study measured both gas-phase and dissolved phase POPs in the Pacific. Atmospheric and oceanic concentrations of PCBs were detected at the magnitude of 1 pg m -3 and 0.1 pg L -1 respectively, except for PCB-8 which was detected at concentrations 10 times higher. HCB dominated in the gas phase (~300 pg m -3 ), while α -HCH dominated in the dissolved phase (~100 pg L -1 ). Large variations of BDEs and PAHs concentrations in either phase were found and were higher than most reported values. Close to equilibrium state of PCBs and OCPs were found in the oligotrophic Pacific. Absolute air-water exchange fluxes were <0.4 ng m -2 day -1 for PCBs and <4.5 ng m -2 day -1 for OCPs. Net air-water exchange gradients strongly favored gas-phase deposition of PBDEs into the water, while mixed gradients were found for PAHs.
Individual differences , dual processes , and induction

relations and the ability to coordinate goals in working memory as the basis for individual differences. In support of this account, Unsworth & Engle (2005) have recently shown that individual differences in working memory predict performance on Raven. Although other evidence (e.g. Fry & Hale, 1996) suggests that processing speed mediates the relationship between memory and IQ, nonetheless there is very good evidence for relationships between constraints on basic cognitive abilities and performance on tests of ability. As SAT scores are known to be very closely related to IQ (Frey & Detterman, 2004) it is reasonable to conclude that the same constraints limit SAT performance. According to Stanovich (1999) the finding that correct performance on certain tasks, but not others, is associated with SAT scores lends support to the suggestion that there are at least two types of thinking and that each is involved to different extents in the accomplishment of a variety of thinking tasks. Stanovich (1999, pg. 143) claims that large differences in performance due to cognitive ability will only be found for thinking tasks that engage both systems. When a thinking task engages the associative system only then no difference will be observed. In addition, individual differences are more likely to be found when the systems produce conflicting responses. Stanovich illustrates this argument with reference to performance on deontic and indicative versions of Wason’s selection task (see Stanovich & West, 1998b). In the selection task participants are presented with a conditional rule that is said to govern a set of instances. In standard indicative versions of the task the rule governs what is printed on each side of sets of cards. For example “If there is an A on one side of the card (p), then there is a 3 on the other side (q)”. Participants are shown four cards. On the visible
Bug prediction based on fine-grained module histories

There have been many bug prediction models built with historical metrics, which are mined from version histories of software modules. Many studies have reported the effectiveness of these historical metrics. For prediction levels, most studies have targeted package and file levels. Prediction on a fine-grained level, which represents the method level, is required because there may be interesting results compared to coarse-grained (package and file levels) prediction. These results include good performance when considering quality assurance efforts, and new findings about the correlations between bugs and histories. However, fine-grained prediction has been a challenge because obtaining method histories from existing version control systems is a difficult problem. To tackle this problem, we have developed a fine-grained version control system for Java, Historage. With this system, we target Java software and conduct fine-grained prediction with well-known historical metrics. The results indicate that fine-grained (method-level) prediction outperforms coarse-grained (package and file levels) prediction when taking the efforts necessary to find bugs into account. Using a correlation analysis, we show that past bug information does not contribute to method-level bug prediction.
Streamflow Response to Climate as Influenced by Geology and Elevation 1

Mayer, Timothy D. and Seth W. Naman, 2011. Streamflow Response to Climate as Influenced by Geology and Elevation. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 47(4):724‐738. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752‐1688.2011. 00537.x