Predictability of hand skill and cognitive abilities from craniofacial width in right- and left-handed men and women: relation of skeletal structure to cerebral function

Recently, a family of homeobox genes involved in brain and craniofacial development was identified. In light of this genetic background, we hypothesized that some functional characteristics of human brain (hand skill, cognition) may be linked to some structural characteristics of human skull (e.g. craniofacial width) in humans. Hand preference was assessed by the Oldfield`s Handedness Questionaire. Hand skill was measured by Peg Moving Task. Face width was measured from the anteroposterior cephalograms (X-ray) using right (R) and left (L) zygomatic points. Intelligence “g” was assessed by Cattell`s Culture Fair Intelligence Test; the perceptual-verbal ability was assessed by “Finding A`s Test”; the spatial ability was assessed by the mental rotation task, in right- and left-handed men and women. The percentages of right-, left-, and mixed-faced subjects were close to those found for paw preference in cats. So, Women tended to be more right-faced (R-L > 0) and less left-faced (R-L < 0) than men who were tended to be more left-faced and less right-faced than women. R-L face width inversely correlated with L-R PMT (peg moving time) in left-handers; there was a direct relation between these variables in right-handers. Cattell-IQ linearly increased with R-L face width in left-handers, negatively correlated in right-handed men and women. Verbal ability inversely related to R – L face width in right- and left-handed men, but directly correlated in right-handed women. Number correct on mental rotation task positively linearly correlated with R-L face width in left-handers and right-handed women. It was concluded that the structural-functional coupling revealed in the present work may have its origins in parallel development of the craniofacial skeleton and brain under the influence of homeobox genes

Modelling land subsidence due to groundwater pumping/recharging in the Las Vegas valley

A model for ground settlement and swelling occurring in Las Vegas Spring Preserve due to groundwater level changes has been developed. A FORTRAN code that uses the finite element method has been prepared. The computer code calculates the hydraulic head in the aquifer resulting from pumping and recharging of the Wells The settlement or swelling of the ground level at each node point is calculated based on hydraulic conditions. The computed hydraulic head and settlement resulted between January 1990 and December 1999 have been compared to the observed static heads and the measured settlement; The sensitivity of the settlement to each parameter used in the model was investigated. Predicted settlement values between January 2000 and December 2004 for different pumping and pumping-recharging cycles have been calculated

BilKristal 2.0: A tool for pattern information extraction from crystal structures

Cataloged from PDF version of article.We present a revised version of the BilKristal tool of Okuyan et al. (2007). We converted the development environment into Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 in order to resolve compatibility issues. We added multi-core CPU support and improvements are made to graphics functions in order to improve performance. Discovered bugs are fixed and exporting functionality to a material visualization tool is added

Direct volume rendering of unstructured tetrahedral meshes using CUDA and OpenMP

Cataloged from PDF version of article.Direct volume visualization is an important method in many areas, including computational fluid dynamics and medicine. Achieving interactive rates for direct volume rendering of large unstructured volumetric grids is a challenging problem, but parallelizing direct volume rendering algorithms can help achieve this goal. Using Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA), we propose a GPU-based volume rendering algorithm that itself is based on a cell projection-based ray-casting algorithm designed for CPU implementations. We also propose a multicore parallelized version of the cell-projection algorithm using OpenMP. In both algorithms, we favor image quality over rendering speed. Our algorithm has a low memory footprint, allowing us to render large datasets. Our algorithm supports progressive rendering. We compared the GPU implementation with the serial and multicore implementations. We observed significant speed-ups that, together with progressive rendering, enables reaching interactive rates for large datasets

BilKristal 4.0: A tool for crystal parameters extraction and defect quantification

In this paper, we present a revised version of BilKristal 3.0 tool. Raycast screenshot functionality is added to provide improved visual analysis. We added atomic distance analysis functionality to assess crystalline defects. We improved visualization capabilities by adding high level cut function definitions. Discovered bugs are fixed and small performance optimizations are made. © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Küresel koşulların Türkiye akademik sözlü çeviri eğitimine etkisi : müfredat analizi ve sözlü çeviri temsilcilerinin görüşleri üzerine bir inceleme

06.03.2018 tarihli ve 30352 sayılı Resmi Gazetede yayımlanan “Yükseköğretim Kanunu İle Bazı Kanun Ve Kanun Hükmünde Kararnamelerde Değişiklik Yapılması Hakkında Kanun” ile 18.06.2018 tarihli “Lisansüstü Tezlerin Elektronik Ortamda Toplanması, Düzenlenmesi ve Erişime Açılmasına İlişkin Yönerge” gereğince tam metin erişime açılmıştır.Küreselleşme olgusu etkisini farklı mesleklerde olduğu gibi sözlü çeviri mesleğinde ve piyasasında da hissettirmektedir. Böylelikle çeviri yapılan alanlar ve talep gören diller çeşitlenerek sözlü çeviri hizmetinde yeni bilgi ve becerilere yönelik talep oluşturmaktadır. Yabancılarla iletişim kurmak yabancı dilin ötesinde çeşitli beceriler gerektirmektedir. Sözlü çeviri sürecinde gerekli olan bilgi ve beceriler sözlü çeviri yapılan alanlar incelendiğinde belirginleşmektedir. Küreselleşme olgusuyla ortaya çıkan bu alanlarda anlaşılır olmak için sözlü çeviri sürecinde sözlü çeviri edincine sahip olan profesyonel sözlü çevirmenlere ihtiyaç duyulmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı küreselleşmenin sözlü çeviri piyasasına etkisinin eğitime yansıması, sözlü çeviri edinç modellerinin eğitim programlarına yansıması ve sözlü çeviri piyasasının eğitimden beklentileri müfredatlarda yer alan sözlü çeviri dersleri ile analiz etmektir. Çalışmada nitel ve nicel araştırma yöntemleri kullanılmıştır. Sözlü çeviri piyasasının durumu ve beklentileri tespit edilmeye ve sözlü çeviri eğitiminin bu beklentilere ne derece yanıt verebildiği belirlenmeye çalışılmıştır. Sözlü çeviri piyasasının durumunun tespit edilmesi için Çeviri İşletmeleri Derneği'nin 34 temsilcisine 41 sorudan oluşan bir anket internet üzerinden uygulanmıştır. Çoktan seçmeli, sıralamalı ve açık uçlu sorulardan oluşan anketle çeviri piyasasının güncel durumu ve değişen ihtiyaçlar çerçevesinde çeviri eğitiminden beklentileri tespit edilmiştir. Daha sonra çeviri eğitiminin bu beklentilere ne derece yanıt verdiğini bulabilmek için doküman inceleme yöntemiyle çeviri bölümlerinin müfredatlarında sunulan sözlü çeviri derslerinin edinç odaklı incelenmesi yapılmıştır. Çalışmada Türkiye'den 4 devlet ve 2 vakıf üniversitesinde lisans düzeyinde eğitim sunan mütercim-tercümanlık bölümleri örneklem olarak analiz edilmiştir. Bu bölümlerde sunulan sözlü çeviri derslerinin içerikleri ve amaçları bütünce olarak kullanılıp analiz edilmiştir. İçerik analizi yönteminin kullanıldığı bu analizde, tema ve kodlar, sözlü çeviri edinç matrisi ve Kautz (2002) öğrenme hedeflerine dayanarak oluşturulmuştur. Sözlü çeviri edinç matrisi ise Kutz (2010), Pöchhacker (2000) ve Albl-Mikasa'nın (2012) sözlü çeviri edinç modellerine ve sözlü çeviri piyasasına uygulanan anket sonuçlarına dayanarak oluşturulmuştur. Öncelikle her üniversite tek tek ele alınarak edinç odaklı bir ölçüm yapılmıştır ve elde edilen sonuçlar derslerin saat bakımından grafiklerde sunulmuştur. Analizin bir diğer aşamasında inceleme detaylandırılarak farklı üniversitelerde yer alan bölümler birbiriyle kıyaslanarak yorumlanmıştır. Piyasa temsilcilerinin doldurduğu anket ve müfredat incelemesi sonucunda sözlü çeviri eğitimine yönelik çeşitli önerilerde bulunulmuştur.The phenomenon of globalization has affected the profession and market of interpreting, as well as other professions. Thus, the fields of translation and the languages demanded are diversified, creating a demand for new knowledge and skills in the interpreting service. Communicating with foreigners requires various skills beyond the knowledge of foreign language. Knowledge and skills required in the process of interpreting become evident when the areas of interpreting are examined. In order to be comprehensible in these areas, arising with the phenomenon of globalization, professional interpreters, who have interpreting competence, are needed. The aim of this study is to analyze the effects of globalization on the interpreting market; to analyze the effects of interpreting competence models on the interpreting curricula and to analyze the expectations of interpreting market from the interpreting education in comparison with the interpreting lectures on the curricula. The study employed quantitative and qualitative research methods. The situation and expectations of the interpreting market have been indentified and the extent to which interpreting training can respond to these expectations has been analyzed. In order to determine the status of the interpreting market, an online questionnaire consisting of 41 questions was administered to 34 representatives of the Çeviri İşletmeleri Derneği (Association of Translation Companies). The study determined the current situation of the interpreting market and the expectations of market from the interpreting education within the framework of changing needs via the questionnaire, consisting of multiple choice, ranking and open-ended questions. Afterwards, in order to find out to the extent to which interpreting education meets these expectations, the interpreting courses given in the translation and interpreting departments were analyzed with a focus on the interpreting competence, by employing document review method. Interpreting courses in the four state and two foundation universities offering bachelor degrees in translation and interpreting have been selected as sample and analyzed. The contents and objectives of the interpreting courses presented in these departments have been employed as the corpus and analyzed with the content analysis method. For the content analysis method, the themes and codes were formulated based on the interpreting competence matrix and the learning objectives presented by Kautz (2002). Interpreting matrix was formulated based on the models presented by Kutz (2010), Pöchhacker (2000), and Albl-Mikasa (2012), as well as the results of aforementioned the questionnaire administered to the representatives of the interpreting market. Firstly, each university has been taken into consideration one by one and competence-focused evaluation has been conducted; the results have been presented in graphs in terms of hours of courses. Afterwards, the analysis was detailed and the departments were compared with each other. As a result of the questionnaire and curriculum analysis completed by market representatives, various suggestions have been presented for interpreting education

The relationship between foreign investments and stock returns on ISE

Bu çalışmada, İMKB hisse senedi piyasasında yabancılar tarafından gerçekleştirilen işlemlerin hisse senedi getirileri üzerinde etkili olup olmadığı, tabanın genişlemesi (base broadening) hipotezinden yola çıkılarak ortaya konulmaya çalışılmıştır. 1997:01 - 2009:12 tarihleri arasındaki aylık veriler kullanılarak, iki değişken arasındaki eşbütünleşme ilişkisi Pesaran ve diğerleri (2001) tarafından geliştirilen Sınır Testi ve ARDL modelleri yardımıyla analiz edilmiştir. Sonuçta yabancı işlem hacmi ile hisse senedi getirileri arasında uzun dönemde pozitif bir ilişki tespit edilmiş ancak bu ilişkinin kısa dönemde anlamlı olmadığı görülmüştür. Bu bulgular İMKB’de tabanın genişlemesi hipotezinin uzun dönemde geçerli olduğu şeklinde yorumlanabilir.This paper, emerging from base broadening hypothesis, investigates whether the foreign transactions have an affect on the security returns in ISE. The cointegration relationship between two variables has been analyzed by the bounds testing approach developed by Pesaran et. al.(2001) and ARDL models using the monthly data of 1997:01- 2009:12. As a result, a positive relationship has been detected between the foreign transactions and returns of shares in the long run. However, the same relationship is insignificant in the short run. This finding can be interpreted as the validity of base broadening hypotesis in long term in ISE