UTILISING GIS FOR DOCUMENTATION, CONSERVATION, AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY CAMPUS IN ANKARA AS A MODERN PERIOD LIVING HERITAGE PLACE

The Middle East Technical University (METU) Ankara Campus is one of the earliest and most prominent modern-period university campuses that resulted from an architectural competition in the 1960s in Turkey. However, METU Campus, as a modern-era heritage place, faces various threats, including pressure for new urban development. In addition, the increasing number of students and contemporary educational needs require changes in the physical infrastructure and campus settings. Thus, all these threaten the tangible and intangible values of the Campus. In this regard, conserving the METU Campus requires a multidimensional approach that considers a wide range of values and problems; herein, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) becomes a useful tool for dealing with this complex work. Accordingly, the METU Campus GIS Project [METU_GIS] was developed to document and understand the multidimensional characteristics of the METU Campus, assess its values, and propose solutions to current issues while considering its values and potentials. Accordingly, the METU_GIS defines conservation policies and strategies that ensure the conservation and sustainability of the Campus as a living modern heritage place. Furthermore, the METU_GIS is a GIS-based conservation management plan created for a modern period campus for the first time in Turkey. Hence, it became an essential basis and a tool for conserving and managing the METU Campus as a modern living heritage place. All in all, the METU_GIS proves that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are essential tools that can be used in the documentation, conservation, and monitoring of modern heritage places

Hardware implementations of neural networks and the Random Neural Network Chip (RNNC)

In this study, the basic properties of a number of important Neuro-chips, boards, and computers that have been physically produced shall be presented. Then, a digital MOS chip called RNNC, based on the random neural network model, shall be briefly discussed. The RNNC architecture is cascadable. The synapses of internal neurons within me chip are programmable. The RNNC circuit is implemented using the 0.7 mu m CMOS process

Icariin promotes early and late stages of fracture healing in rats

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the effects of locally applied icariin on bone fracture healing in femur fractured rat model

Akdağmadeni (Yozgat) ve Gemerek (Sivas) makrofungusları

Mevcut çalışma 2010 ve 2011 yılları arasında Akdağmadeni (Yozgat) ve Gemerek (Sivas)’den toplanan makrofungi örnekleri üzerinde yapılmıştır. Arazi ve laboratuvar çalışmalarının sonucu olarak Ascomycota ve Basidiomycota sınıflarında 23 familyaya ait 66 takson rapor edilmiştir. Tüm taksonlar habitat bilgileri, coğrafik konum, yükseklik, lokalite, toplama tarihi ve numaraları ile birlikte listelenmiştir.The current study is based on the macrofungi specimens collected from Akdağmadeni (Yozgat) and Gemerek (Sivas) between 2010 and 2011. As a result of field and laboratory studies, 66 taxa belonging to 23 families in Ascomycota and Basidiomycota were reported. All taxa are listed together with their habitat, altitude, locality, collection date, and accession numbers