Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Karasal İklim Şartlarında Bazı Fasulye (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Genotiplerinin Kuru Otlarının Hayvan Yemi Olarak Kullanım Potansiyelinin Belirlenmesi

Anahtar Kelimeler Fasulye, Ot kalitesi, Ot verimi, NDF ve ADF oranı, Ham protein oranı Öz: Bu araştırma, önemli bir fasulye üretim havzası olan ve tipik karasal iklim özellikleri sergileyen Kahramanmaraş İli Afşin İlçesinde yetiştirilebilecek yüksek verimli fasulye genotiplerinde dane hasadı artıklarının kaba yem olarak kalite değerlerini belirlemek amacıyla 2018 yılında yürütülmüştür. Araştırmada 40 sırık, 30 oturak olmak üzere toplam 70 farklı fasulye (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) genotipi test edilmiştir. Deneme tesadüf blokları deneme desenine göre düzenlenmiştir. Araştırmada kuru ot verimi, ham protein oranı ve verimi, ham kül, nötr deterjanda çözünmeyen lif (NDF) ve asit deterjanda çözünmeyen lif (ADF) oranı ve nispi yem değerleri saptanmıştır. Araştırma sonuçlarına göre; fasulye genotipleri arasında incelenen tüm özellikler açısından istatistiki olarak önemli farklılıklar bulunmuştur. Kuru ot verimi 129,7-978,0 kg da -1 , ham protein oranı %5,65-15,52, ham protein verimi 8,31-143,63 kg da -1 , ham kül oranı %5,29-28,81, NDF oranı %48,15-80,00, ADF oranı %28,00-58,00 ve nispi yem değeri 50,98-128,59 arasında değişim göstermiştir. IPKPHA4396 oturak tipi, IPKPHA316 sırık tipi, IPKPHA12654 sırık tipi, Manalı Trabzon sırık tipi, IPKPHA7168 sırık tipi ve IPKPHA4398 sırık tipi genotiplerin, araştırmada yer alan diğer genotiplere göre ot verimi ve nispi yem değeri bakımından daha üstün olduğu saptanmıştır.
Convalescent plasma therapy for Covid 19 - A perspective

Convalescent plasma therapy has been used for years. However, its use in Covid-19 is still experimental. While it can be life-saving, its efficacy as well as risks need to be evaluated to establish this as a therapeutic option. Also, for this proper infrastructure and adequate facilities need to be in place before embarking on this journey. However, under current circumstances, convalescent plasma should be strictly only given in the setting of clinical trials.
Suruç’ta (Şanlıurfa-Türkiye) bazı şifalı bitkilerin geleneksel kullanımları

Anahtar Kelimeler Suruç, Tıbbi bitkiler, Geleneksel tedavi, ġanlıurfa, Turkey Öz: Bu çalıĢma, 2019-2020 yılları arasında yapılmıĢ olup, ġanlıurfa‟nın Suruç ilçesi ve bazı köylerinde bölge halkı tarafından kullanılan tıbbi bitkilerin tespiti amacıyla yapılmıĢtır. 50 kaynak kiĢi ile yapılan görüĢmeler sonucu 41 familya ve ait 78 takson tespit edilmiĢtir. Kaynak kiĢilerin demografik bilgileri, yerel bitkilerin isimleri, kullanılan kısımları ve hazırlama yöntemleri araĢtırılarak kayıt altına alınmıĢtır. Topladığımız bitkiler teĢhisi yapıldıktan sonra Harran Üniversitesi herbaryumda muhafaza edilmektedir. Ayrıca taksonların bilimsel isimleri yöresel isimleri ve kullanım değeri hesaplanıp tablo halinde sunulmuĢtur. Yaptığımız çalıĢmada en fazla takson içeren familyalar sırasıyla; Lamiaceae 14 takson (% 18), Apiaceae 6 takson (% 8), Rosaceae 6 takson (% 8), Malvaceae 5 takson (% 6) Fabaceae takson 4 (% 5), Asteraceae 4 takson (% 5) takson. En fazla takson içeren cinsler; Alkanna Tausch, Hibiscus L. , Lavandula L. , Prunus L. , Rosa L. , Salvia L. ve Teucrium L. dur. Bitkiler en fazla infüzyon ve dekoksiyon yapılarak kullanılmaktadır. Tıbbi amaçlar için en yoğun kullanılan bitki kısımları; çiçek, meyve, tohum, toprak üstü kısımları, tüm bitki, kök ve yapraklardır. Suruç‟taki yabani ve kültür bitkileri geleneksel olarak çeĢitli hastalıkların tedavisinde kullanırlar. Yapılan literatür taraması sonucunda, Suruç'ta kullanılan bitkilerin ülkemizin farklı yerlerinde benzer ya da farklı hastalıkların tedavisinde kullanıldığını görülmüĢtür.
Collaborative Human Decision Making With Heterogeneous Agents

While there has been extensive work on modeling of human decision-making both for individuals and groups from a cognitive psychology point of view, research on this topic from a signal processing and information fusion perspective is relatively recent. In this work, we consider a distributed detection problem consisting of a number of human local decision makers and a fusion center (FC). Signal detection theory is exploited to answer why promoting heterogeneity could improve the performance of collaborative human decision-making. We consider the following two scenarios: 1) the local decision makers are independent and the level of heterogeneity is measured in terms of the variability of human expertise and 2) humans make correlated local decisions due to their perceptual and behavioral similarities and heterogeneity is measured by the amount of correlation. In both cases, we show that the detection performance of the FC can be improved with the increase of heterogeneity. In particular, in the second scenario, we develop a portfolio theory-based framework to select participants from correlated human agents so that heterogeneity is enhanced resulting in improved decision-making performance. Simulations are provided for illustration and performance comparison.
Applying Internet of Things in Healthcare: A survey

People nowadays are living in the era of advanced technology in their everyday live. In the context of the Internet of Things (IoT), the internet connectivity has been extended beyond standard devices, such as desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets, to any range of traditionally dumb or non-internet-enabled physical devices and everyday objects. In recent years, IoT has taken over most of the industrial area, especially automation and control [1,2]. At the same time, IoT is applicable to other crucial sectors and especially health, since it offers numerous opportunities to improve health services and also enables health professionals (doctors, nurses, etc.) to make decisions based on real data. The IoT provides many additional health applications with the specific aim of monitoring patient progress and providing doctors with information on decision making. IoT health concerns and future prospects are presented in this paper based on a thorough survey of previous literature. Inspection of the results reveals that some health-related services are not yet sufficiently developed and interestingly enough the literature is limited in these services and there is no knowledge about the implementation of IoT in the health sector. This paper attempts to investigate the scientific gap in the IoT healthcare sector and it also gives interesting directions for future researches regarding the implementation of health data.
Evidência de ferromagnetismo diluído assistido por vacâncias de oxigênio em nanopartículas de CeO2 dopado com cromo trivalente

Neste trabalho, estudou-se as propriedades estruturais, quimicas, opticas e magneticas de nanoparticulas de oxido de cerio (CeO2) puro e dopado com cromo trivalente (Cr3+). As porcentagens nominais de Cr3+ nas amostras dopadas foram 1, 3 e 5% e estiveram em concordância com os resultados obtidos por espectroscopia de energia dispersiva de Raios X (EDS). As nanoparticulas foram sintetizadas atraves do processo sol-gel e calcinadas a temperatura de 400 oC. Estudos feitos por difracao de raios X (DRX) e espectroscopia Raman indicaram a presenca da fase de CeO2 com estrutura do tipo fluorita. Adicionalmente, medidas de microscopia eletronica de transmissao em modo de alta resolucao (METAR) e microscopia eletronica de transmissao por varredura (MEVT) confirmaram a formacao de particulas com diferentes formas e tamanhos na faixa de 5 a 9 nm; livres da presenca de precipitados contendo cromo. O parâmetro de rede e a microdeformacao das nanoparticulas dopadas diminuiram quando a concentracao de Cr3+ dopante aumentou. O estudo sistematico das nanoparticulas por espectroscopia de fotoeletrons excitados por raios X (XPS), espectroscopia de absorcao na regiao do UV-Vis e espectroscopia de ressonância paramagnetica eletronica (EPR) mostrou que a substituicao de Ce4+ por ions Cr3+ na rede do CeO2 facilita a reducao do ions Ce4+ em Ce3+, resultando na formacao de defeitos, como vacâncias de oxigenio, devido ao mecanismo de compensacao de cargas. As propriedades magneticas destas nanoparticulas foram analisadas usando um magnetometro equipado com um dispositivo supercondutor de interferencia quântica (DESIQ). Os resultados indicam que todas as amostras dopadas apresentaram comportamento ferromagnetico a temperatura ambiente. Observou-se, tambem, que o aumento da concentracao de dopante de 1% para 5% resultou no aumento do valor da magnetizacao remanente de 0,001 emu/g para o valor maximo de 0,01 emu/g. As analises experimentais sugerem que o ferromagnetismo a temperatura ambiente apresentado pelas nanoparticulas de CeO2 dopado com Cr3+ resulta da formacao dos estados localizados Cr3+-VO- Ce3+ e Cr3+-VO- Cr3+.
Effects of phosphorus nutrition on photosynthetic metabolism of spinach leaves

Prior to the study on phosphorus deficiency, estimates were obtained of Rd (the rate of non-photorespiratory CO 2 -evolution in the light) and r* (the CO 2 compensation point that would occur if Rd were zero) . These estimates were required for making calculations from gasexchange measurements on phosphorus-deficient and control leaves. The rate of net CO 2 assimilation (A) was measured as a function of the intercellular partial pressure of co 2 (Ci) at different irradiances. r* and Rd were estimated as the values of Ci and -A, respectively, at which these functions intersected. At this intersection, A was negative; i . e non-photorespiratory CO 2 -evolution was occurring in the light . r* increased with increasing temperature from 15-30°c. This was not solely due to changes in the relative solubilities of co 2 and o 2 , and it was concluded that the co 2 ;o 2 specificity of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) declined with increasing leaf temperature . Estimates of Rd were less than the rates of ·co 2 evolution in darkness and apparently decreased as irradiance increased . At one particular irradiance, however, Rd was correlated with the rate of CO 2 evolution in darkness when the latter varied between individual leaves, with leaf temperature, or after treatment at high [CO2] and high irradiance for several hours. Under the measuring conditions used, Rd was about one third of the rate in darkness . Phosphorus deficiency was induced by growing spinach plants in nutrient solutions containing 0.2 mM P0 4 and then transferring them to solutions without phosphorus. After transferral the photosynthetic rate per leaf area gradually declined and became significantly less than that of control plants. This was accompanied by a reduction in
Enzyme mechanics studied by single molecule force spectroscopy

Conformational changes and dynamics of enzymes are often critical steps in their function as biocatalysts. To study the conformational change of the enzyme adenylate kinase on the single molecule level, a high-resolution optical trap was built in the frame of this work. Using the optical trap, the correlation between binding of an inhibitor and closing of the enzyme was investigated. Furthermore, it was possible to determine the binding affinity of substrates and their effect on the conformation of the enzyme. Overall, the presented research shows that it is possible to observe and manipulate conformational transitions between different native states of enzymes on the nanometer scale using single molecule force spectroscopy.
Combinatorial Auctions in Practice

We survey the uses of combinatorial auctions that have been deployed in practice. We specify the key representational, computational, and economic aspects of deployed combinatorial auctions. Finally, we discuss behavioral economics considerations on both sides of the market, and the interrelated topics of trust, simplicity and flexibility, highlighting key opportunities for future work.
D.discoideum as a model for host-pathogen interaction: Phagosomal proteome of Legionella-infected cells

Legionella pneumophila, the agent of Legionnaires´ disease, replicates intracellularly within specialized phagosomes of human macrophages and protozoa such as Dictyostelium discoideum. Different cellular and molecular approaches including the transcriptional host cell response upon infection have shown that the reprogramming of phagosome maturation is required for Legionella replication. In this study we have developed a protocol for the isolation of Legionella-containing phagosomes from D. discoideum. Cell fractionation, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and MALDI-TOF MS combined with genomic data identified 157 phagosome host proteins. This is the first proteomic analysis for any pathogen-containing phagosome. In addition to proteins with an evident role in phagosome maturation we identified proteins for which a link to phagosome activities remains to be established. Possible interactions of coronin with cytosolic NADPH oxidase components and protein kinase C inhibitors which together may lead to an inhibition of phagosomal superoxide generation are discussed. Comparative proteomics of phagosomes containing highly virulent L. pneumophila Corby versus less virulent L. hackeliae revealed distinctive protein expression patterns, e.g., an abundance of RhoGDI in L. hackeliae degrading phagosomes versus little RhoGDI in L. pneumophila Corby replicative phagosomes. We present a kinetic dissection of phagosome maturation including the complex alterations of the phagosome protein composition. A reference flow chart suggests so far unrecognized consequences of infection for host cell physiology, actin degradation on phagosomes and a putative cysteine proteinase inhibitor interference with lysosomal enzyme sorting and activation processes.
Impact of forest trees on the soil reflectance and their relation of soil oxides in Sherawa village, Erbil government- Iraq

Soil reflectance spectroscopy has become a pioneering technique for quantifying soil properties that provide data for soil classification and digital soil mapping studies. This work was conducted with the aim to analyze the spatial variability of soil spectrometric properties between surface and subsurface soil under three land use patterns namely; pine, barren land and oak in Sherawa village, northeast Iraq. Soil samples were collected from the three land types at two depths: surface soil at 0–15 cm and subsurface soil at 15–30 cm in duplicates totaling 6 collected soil samples. The elemental composition and mineral phases of soils were determined by X-ray fluorescent XRF and X-ray diffraction (XRD) respectively for qualitative and quantitative characterization. Magnesium oxide (MgO) was highest detected concentration in the surface soil layer reaching 34.16%, 36.75%, and 33.63%, respectively for pine, barren land and oak compared to 41.57%, 38.54%, 33.94% of the respective concentration in the subsurface soil layer samples of pine, barren and oak. Whereas, calcium and iron were the lowest percentages of pine in the surface and subsurface soil layer samples by (2.19%, 4.85%, 3.39%, and 4.55%, respectively). At the same time as, the percentages of oak in the surface and subsurface soil layer samples were (2.24%, 4%, 2.99% and 4.93%, respectively). The results indicate that the use of spectrometric analysis of soils in the field or in the laboratory can positively enhance soil characterization and typification surveys. Moreover, the influence of the silicates near 1400 nm by Al or Mg-OH and OH group were very apparent in the SWIR spectral regions of oak and pine in the subsurface soil. The results also showed the differences in soil color and reflectance between surface soil samples and subsurface surface soil for all site locations. Further studies are proceeding for more investigation at larger scale concerning analyzing the spatial variability of soil spectrometric properties with depth under different land use patterns.
Cryogenic Dark Matter Searches

In the decades-old quest to uncover the nature of the enigmatic dark matter, cryogenic detectors have reached unprecedented sensitivities. Searching for tiny signals from dark matter particles scattering in materials cooled down to low temperatures, these experiments look out into space from deep underground. Their ambitious goal is to discover non-gravitational interactions of dark matter and to scan the allowed parameter space until interactions from solar and cosmic neutrinos are poised to take over.
Internet of Things 36-rotor Multicopter for Ionizing Radiation Surveying

Svetoslav Zabunov Space Research and Technology Institute -Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, svetoslavzabunov@gmail.com Garo Mardirossian Space Research and Technology Institute -Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, garo.mardirossian@gmail.com Rositsa Miteva Institute of Astronomy and National Astronomical Observatory -Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, rmiteva@nao-rozhen.org Todor Kunchev Faculty of Medicine – Sofia University, drtodorkunchev@yahoo.co.uk
An Image Segmentation Method for Wound Healing Assay Images

Wound healing assays are important for molecular biologists to understand the mechanisms of cell migration. For the analysis of wound healing assays, accurate segmentation of the wound front is a necessity. Manual annotation of the wound front is inconvenient since it is time-consuming and annotator-dependent. Thus automated, fast, and robust solutions are required. There are several image processing techniques proposed to fulfill this need. However, requirement for specification of optimal parameters, the need for human intervention, and the lack of high accuracy emerge as the downfalls for most of them. In this study we have proposed a novel method to overcome these difficulties.
LFPeers: Temporal Similarity Search in Covid-19 Data

While there is a wide variety of visualizations and dashboards to help understand the data of the Covid-19 pandemic, hardly any of these support important analytical tasks, especially of temporal attributes. In this paper, we introduce a general concept for the analysis of temporal and multimodal data and the system LFPeers that applies this concept to the analysis of countries in a Covid-19 dataset. Our concept divides the analysis in two phases: a search phase to ﬁnd the most similar objects to a target object before a time point t 0 , and an exploration phase to analyze this subset of objects after t
GHG Emission Reduction Opportunities for Road Projects in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi: A Scenario Approach

The transportation sector is considered one of the driving forces behind the increased release of greenhouse gases (GHGs), with road transport being this sector’s main emissions contributor. In turn, efforts should be devoted to reducing emitted GHGs from this sector, and many such opportunities lie in the road transport life cycle. This paper investigated fourteen emission reduction scenarios based on the green initiatives issued by the Abu Dhabi Government. The explored measures are either related to road works and road municipal services or to traffic movement. The proposed measures were evaluated with reference to a baseline study previously reported by the authors for three different road projects in Abu Dhabi city. Findings reveal that normalized GHG emission reduction could be significantly reduced by (i) replacing 30% of internal combustion engine passenger cars with battery electric vehicles where the power demand is covered almost equally from nuclear and liquified natural gas (LNG) sources, (ii) reducing the number of passenger cars by 10%, and (iii) having one-fifth of passenger cars powered by LNG. A lesser significant reduction could be achieved by replacing conventional lamps with light-emitting diode (LED) lamps or by having one-fourth of lighting powered by solar energy. Even lesser reduction could be achieved by (i) replacing a portion of Portland cement with ground granulated blast furnace slag in concrete structures, (ii) fully utilizing treated sewage effluent for roadside-plant irrigation, (iii) reducing desalinated water used for roadside-plant irrigation by 20%, and (iv) increasing the number of higher efficiency passenger cars by 10%. Replacing hot-mix asphalt with warm-mix asphalt and using asphalt with a high stiffness modulus in the base layer results in low emission reduction. The use of 15% recycled asphalt or the use of 50% recycled aggregate in road construction has the least impact on emission reduction. When all explored scenarios were combined, an overall normalized GHG emissions reduction of 9–17% during the road project life cycle could be achieved.
Mobilization and agglomeration of uraninite nanoparticles: A nano-mineralogical study of samples from the Matoush Uranium ore deposit

Abstract The occurrence of uraninite nanoparticles in the alteration zones of uranium ore deposits suggests potential mobilization of U(IV) under reducing conditions, which is important for understanding the mobility of uranium in contaminated sites and potential repositories for nuclear waste. This study investigates the occurrence of uraninite nanoparticles in the outer alteration zone of the Matoush uranium ore deposit, Quebec, Canada. Selected samples with finely disseminated uraninite from the outer alteration zone of the deposit are examined by X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy on specimens prepared using the focused ion beam milling technique. Uraninite nanoparticles occur as single particles, in clusters, and in larger aggregates in close association with the Cr-rich phases chromceladonite (Cr-rich mica), ideally KMgCr3+(Si4O10)(OH)2, eskolaite, ideally Cr23+O3, $\rm{Cr_2^{3+}O_3,}$ bracewellite, Cr3+OOH, and an amorphous Cr-rich oxide matrix as well as with fluorapatite and galena. Nanoparticles on the surface and in the outer rim of single uraninite crystals indicate the growth of larger uraninite crystals via crystallization through particle attachment and Oswald ripening. The flow texture of the uraninite nanoparticles in the amorphous Cr-rich oxide matrix, their aggregation on the surface of nanocrystals of bracewellite, the absence of products of a redox reaction involving U(VI) and Fe(II), and the occurrence of amorphous Fe-depleted alteration layers between uraninite and eskolaite, and uraninite and Cr-rich mica indicate that the uraninite nanoparticles have been mobilized under reducing conditions (leaching of Fe2+ from the alteration layer) at low T (amorphous character of the alteration layer) after the main mineralization event from the center of the mineralization to the outer parts of the Matoush dike complex. These results indicate that fluids can mobilize U(IV) under reducing conditions in the form of uraninite nanoparticles albeit over limited distances. The potential mobilization of these nanoparticles may also explain the occurrence of proximal mineralized zones in U-ore deposits that lack common products resulting from the reduction of U(VI) by Fe2+ (e.g., hematite and other Fe3+-phases).