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On the structure and evolution of planets and their host stars effects of various heating mechanisms on the size of giant gas planets
It is already stated in the previous studies that the radius of the giant
planets is affected by stellar irradiation. The confirmed relation between
radius and incident flux depends on planetary mass intervals. In this study, we
show that there is a single relation between radius and irradiated energy per
gram per second (), for all mass intervals. There is an extra increase in
radius of planets if is higher than 1100 times energy received by the
Earth (). This is likely due to dissociation of molecules. The tidal
interaction as a heating mechanism is also considered and found that its
maximum effect on the inflation of planets is about 15 per cent. We also
compute age and heavy element abundances from the properties of host stars,
given in the TEPCat catalogue (Southworth 2011). The metallicity given in the
literature is as [Fe/H]. However, the most abundant element is oxygen, and
there is a reverse relation between the observed abundances [Fe/H] and [O/Fe].
Therefore, we first compute [O/H] from [Fe/H] by using observed abundances, and
then find heavy element abundance from [O/H]. We also develop a new method for
age determination. Using the ages we find, we analyse variation of both radius
and mass of the planets with respect to time, and estimate the initial mass of
the planets from the relation we derive for the first time. According to our
results, the highly irradiated gas giants lose 5 per cent of their mass in
every 1 Gyr.Comment: 15 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables. Accepted by MNRA
Cutaneous Anthrax on the Upper Eyelid
A 46-year-old female patient, who presented with a black, crusty lesion on the upper eyelid, was diagnosed with cutaneous anthrax after the detection of Bacillus anthracis in the skin culture. It was determined that the symptoms started after she cooked the meat she bought from a butcher. Anthrax is a disease that should be kept in mind in cutaneous infections even in isolated lesions, especially in endemic areas. © 202
Hilbert-Schmidt Hankel operators with anti-holomorphic symbols on complete pseudoconvex Reinhardt domains
summary:On complete pseudoconvex Reinhardt domains in , we show that there is no nonzero Hankel operator with anti-holomorphic symbol that is Hilbert-Schmidt. In the proof, we explicitly use the pseudoconvexity property of the domain. We also present two examples of unbounded non-pseudoconvex domains in that admit nonzero Hilbert-Schmidt Hankel operators with anti-holomorphic symbols. In the first example the Bergman space is finite dimensional. However, in the second example the Bergman space is infinite dimensional and the Hankel operator is Hilbert-Schmidt
Structure of the Energy Landscape of Short Peptides
We have simulated, as a showcase, the pentapeptide Met-enkephalin
(Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met) to visualize the energy landscape and investigate the
conformational coverage by the multicanonical method. We have obtained a
three-dimensional topographic picture of the whole energy landscape by plotting
the histogram with respect to energy(temperature) and the order parameter,
which gives the degree of resemblance of any created conformation with the
global energy minimum (GEM).Comment: 17 pages, 4 figure
Brief ampelographic characterization of indigenous grapevine cultivars subjected to clonal selection in Turkey
A unique national clonal selection programme is still being conducted on 24 indigenous table (15 white, 6 black, 3 red), 16 wine (7 white, 9 red) and 4 raisin (2 white seedless, 2 white seeded) grape cultivars in 9 agricultural regions of Turkey. As the results of this programme, 127 candidate clones belonging to 13 cultivars have been selected This paper also includes a brief ampelographic description of the indigenous Turkish grape cultivars subjected to clonal selection, based mainly on fruit characteristics, growth, productivity and ripening periods in their primary locations
Retinal neurodegeneration in metabolic syndrome: a spectral optical coherence tomography study
• AIM: To evaluate the effects of metabolic syndrome (MetS) on retinal neurodegeneration by optical coherence tomography (OCT). • METHODS: Patients diagnosed as MetS were compared with the age and sex-matched healthy control group (CG). Waist circumference measurements, fasting serological biochemical tests, and systemic blood pressures of all participants were evaluated. The MetS group was divided into 3 subgroups according to the number of MetS components: hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia (low-, high-density lipoprotein, hypertriglyceridemia), and visceral obesity findings; 3-component MetS3, 4-component MetS4, and all-component MetS5. All patients underwent complete eye examination and spectral OCT retinal imaging. • RESULTS: Totally 58 eyes of 58 patients were included in the MetS group and 63 eyes of 63 age and sex-matched healthy subjects were included in CG. MetS group was composed of 22 subjects in MetS3, 21 subjects in MetS4, and 15 subjects in the MetS5 subgroup. Mean foveal thickness (MetS, 218.7±23.1 µm vs CG, 228.8±21.9 µm, P=0.015), mean inferior (MetS, 283.4±17.0 µm vs CG, 288.7±38.4 µm, P=0.002), superior (MetS, 287.0±18.5 µm vs CG 297.3±17.1 µm, P=0.001), nasal (MetS 287.3±16.7 µm vs CG 297.9±13.9 µm, P=0.000) and temporal (274.5±17.6 µm vs CG 285.6±13.6 µm, P=0.000) thickness in the 3 mm Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) circle was significantly lower in the MetS group. There was no statistically significant difference in the mean inferior, superior, nasal, and temporal thickness of 6 mm ETDRS circle, total macular volume, peripapillary and macular retinal nerve fiber layer, macular ganglion cell layer with inner plexiform layer, and ganglion cell complex. No statistically significant difference was found in these values between the MetS3, MetS4, and the MetS5 groups. • CONCLUSION: A significant reduction in central macular region thickness in MetS is detected and macular thickness is more susceptible to MetS induced neurodegeneration than peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer. © 2023 International Journal of Ophthalmology (c/o Editorial Office). All rights reserved.Authors’ contributions: Polat E was responsible for designing the study protocol, supervision the study, conducting the search, screening potentially eligible studies, data collection, updating reference lists, and creating all tables. Celik E was responsible for designing the study protocol, contributed to writing the report, extracting and analyzing data, interpreting results, and creating all tables. Togac M was responsible for writing the protocol and report, contributed to data extraction, and provided feedback on the report. Sahin A was responsible for writing the literature review, data collection
An anatomical study of the origins of the medial circumflex femoral artery in the Turkish population
The medial circumflex femoral artery (MCFA) usually branches from the deep femoral
artery (DFA). It may also branch from the femoral artery (FA). In this study 100
inguinal regions of 50 cadavers were investigated. In 79 extremities (79%) MCFA
branched from DFA, while in 15 (15%) it branched from FA. In four extremities
(4%) MCFA was found to be double; in each case one of MCFAs branched from
FA and the other from DFA. In one of these four cases the lateral circumflex
femoral artery (LCFA) was also double. In one case we found a common trunk of
DFA and MCFA and in another case a common trunk of MCFA, DFA and LCFA.
Clinicians must be familiar with the variations of this clinically important artery to
improve their success in the diagnosis and treatment of pathologies in the region
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