A multidisciplinary approach to address climate-resilience, conservation and comfort in traditional architecture: The PROT3CT example

Traditional dwellings despite their environmental credentials, due to age, previous damage, and residents unable to afford even the limited maintenance allowed by restrictive legal framework, may offer poor thermal performance, which is expected to be further exacerbated by changing climate. More than 70% of Turkey’s built heritage stock is composed of traditional dwellings, which makes this stock able to create a major impact nationally on the building-related energy use, carbon emissions and population wellbeing. This research aims to develop an evidence-based multidisciplinary methodology for cost-effective retrofit of the traditional dwellings in Turkey, to improve energy performance, satisfy user expectations of comfort, and protect heritage value

Effect of a new methacrylic monomer on diode parameters of Ag/p-Si Schottky contact

1-[4-(prop-2-yn-1-yloxy)phenyl]ethanone-O-methacryloyloxime (POEMO) is a new methacrylic monomer with side chain alkyne. In this study, Ag/POEMO/p-Si Schottky metal-interlayer-semiconductor (MIS) diode was fabricated and its diode parameters were investigated. Using the forward bias current-voltage (I-V) characteristic, the ideality factor and barrier height of the MIS structure were found as 2.81 and 0.70 eV, respectively. The barrier height value of 0.70 eV obtained for Ag/POEMO/p-Si MIS diode was higher than the value of 0.64 of conventional Ag/p-Si Schottky diode. Cheung-Cheung and Norde methods were also used to extract ideality factor, barrier height and series resistance values, and the obtained results were compared. © MIDEM Society

Effect of a new methacrylic monomer on diode parameters of Ag/p-Si Schottky contact

1-[4-(prop-2-yn-1-yloxy)phenyl]ethanone-O-methacryloyloxime (POEMO) is a new methacrylic monomer with side chain alkyne. In this study, Ag/POEMO/p-Si Schottky metal-interlayer-semiconductor (MIS) diode was fabricated and its diode parameters were investigated. Using the forward bias current-voltage (I-V) characteristic, the ideality factor and barrier height of the MIS structure were found as 2.81 and 0.70 eV, respectively. The barrier height value of 0.70 eV obtained for Ag/POEMO/p-Si MIS diode was higher than the value of 0.64 of conventional Ag/p-Si Schottky diode. Cheung-Cheung and Norde methods were also used to extract ideality factor, barrier height and series resistance values, and the obtained results were compared. © MIDEM Society

What Influences Herbal Medicine Use? - Prevalence and Related Factors

Aims: The use and cost of complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) has been gaining in importance worldwide. Herbal medicine is one of the most commonly used methods. To understand the effectiveness, reliability, and quality of CAM and provide standardization in its analysis, its prevalence and the factors influencing its use must be identified. This study was conducted to identify the prevalence of CAM use and the effective factors in our population

Ovarian wedge resection restores fertility in estrogen receptor β knockout (ERβ(−/−)) mice

Ovulation rarely occurs in mice in which the estrogen receptor β (ERβ) gene has been inactivated (ERβ(−/−) mice). Here, we investigated whether this subfertility is due to a defect in the ovary itself or to more general endocrine changes in ERβ(−/−) mice. We transplanted ERβ(−/−) ovaries into WT mice and WT ovaries into ERβ(−/−) mice. Upon mating with ERβ(−/−) males, fertility increased from 20% in control intact ERβ(−/−) group to 40% in the WT recipients with ERβ(−/−) ovaries. The transplantation procedure was not efficient, and when WT ovaries were transplanted into WT mice, fertility was only 36%. Surgical ovarian wedge resection, a procedure which induces ovulation in anovulatory women with polycystic ovarian syndrome, resulted in 100% fertility of ERβ(−/−) mice. In ERβ(−/−) mice, as the follicles enlarged, the thecal layer remained very compact (revealed by H&E and collagen staining), and there was no increase in vascularization (measured as smooth muscle actin). In addition, there was an increase in PDGF receptor α (PDGFRα) and a decrease in PDGFβ expression in the granulosa cells, similar to what has been found in follitropin receptor knockout mice. After wedge resection, expression of both smooth muscle actin and PDGFRs was normalized. During normal follicular development, increased vascularization of the thecal layer is a prerequisite for further follicular growth. We suggest that the defect in ERβ(−/−) mouse ovaries is a failure of communication between the granulosa and thecal layers. The follicles do not mature because of insufficient blood supply. This problem is overcome by stimulating neovascularization by simple wedge resection of the ovaries