Diet Apps: Why Do We Use Them?

Many Americans enjoy dining out, but nutritional information is not always easily accessible or available in restaurants. Smartphone apps could be a convenient and innovative way to access nutritional information about restaurant products. UCF Rosen College of Hospitality Management researchers Dr. Bendegul Okumus and Dr. Ahmet Bulent Ozturk, investigated what psychological factors influence our intentions to use smartphone diet apps. Their research showed that social influence has the most significant influence on intentions to use diet apps, followed by several other important psychological factors. The findings of Dr. Okumus and Dr. Ozturk have practical implications to inform diet app development to increase users’ access to nutritional information

Adverse effects of Interbank funds on bank efficiency: evidence from Turkish banking sector

This paper investigates the relationship between interbank funds and efficiencies is for the commercial banks operating in Turkey between 2001-2006. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is executed to find the efficiency scores of the banks for each year, and fixed effects panel data regression is carried out, with the efficiency scores being the response variable. It is observed that interbank funds (ratio) has negative effects on bank efficiency, while bank capitalization and loan ratio have positive, and profitability has insignificant effects. Our study serves as an illustrative evidence that interbank funds can have adverse effects in an emerging market

Financial crisis, macroprudential policies, and depositor discipline

This paper examines to what extent macroprudential policies in the Turkish banking sector affected the functioning of depositor discipline. Our results suggest that depositors’ responses for poor bank performance get stronger after the 2008 crisis, when various macroprudential measures were implemented to preserve financial stability. In the aftermath of the crisis, bank behavior toward depositors also alters. Ahead of the crisis, banks did not significantly respond to the discipline exerted by depositors, however, banks begin offering higher rates to curb deposit withdrawals afterwards. Our findings suggest that the implementation of macroprudential tools seem to have a positive impact on financial stability, since, in the post-2008 period, regulatory supervision have been more firmly assisted by the market

Organizational-Level RFID Technology Adoption in the Hospitality Industry

The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of technological, organizational, and environmental factors on the hospitality operators\u27 adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Based on a sample of 125 technology decision makers at major hospitality corporations in the US, the results of the study indicated that except stakeholder pressure, all of the technological, organizational, and environmental factors had significant impact on hospitality operators\u27 intention to adopt RFID technology. By identifying the factors affecting hospitality operators\u27 RFID technology adoption decisions, technology vendors could design appropriate marketing strategies to reach potential adopters and they could educate these adopters better on the benefits of RFID technologies in order to increase the usage of these technologies in the hospitality industry

A bilateral and symmetrical variation of the anterior belly of the digastric muscle.

We observed a bilateral and symmetrical variation of the anterior belly of the digastric muscle during the dissection of a 35-year-old female cadaver. The accessory muscle bundles were arranged in a cross. These bundles were found superficial to the mylohyoid muscle and deep in the platysma. Such a variation from perfect symmetry has not been previously reported. To avoid misinterpretation of radiological tests, it is important to be aware of bilateral and symmetrical variations of the anterior belly of the digastric muscle when examining the floor of the mouth and the submental region.</p

CORRELATION AND PATH COEFFICIENT ANALYSIS FOR SOME EAR YIELD RELATED TRAITS IN POPCORN (ZEA MAYS VAR. EVERTA)

The aim of this study is firstly to determine the suitable observations in popcorn breeding researches. And secondly aim is to identify all the possible interaction between grain yield and yield component in popcorn with correlation and path coefficient analysis. The experiments were designed in a randomized block design with 3 replicates. These experiments were conducted in Samsun, Turkey in 2014 and 2015. The results unveiled a significant and positive correlation between grain yield and the all component. The greatest positive effect on grain yield are yield per ear, grain yield per ear and grain moisture according to the path analysis, respectively. The presented results have demonstrated the potential of privileged of observation yield per ear, grain yield per ear and grain moisture thus increasing yield in popcorn

Breeding Doubled Haploid Maize Inbred Lines for Methionine and Lysine Amino Acid Composition

Maize protein quality is deficient due to lower lysine and methionine essential amino acid content. Therefore, developinghigh methionine and lysine hybrids is of importance in maize. In this study, 64 maize source populationswere crossed to RWS x RWK-76 haploid inducer genotype in Sakarya, Turkey to produce haploids in 2016 and2017. Putative haploids were planted in a greenhouse in 2017-2018 winter season in Antalya, Turkey to produceD0 lines. 115 D1 lines were selected and planted in 2018 summer field season in Sakarya for further investigation. Atotal of 65 D1 doubled haploid (DH) inbred lines were developed after final evaluations. While the majority of thedeveloped lines gave higher values for methionine and lysine content, Ant-QPMDH-39 and Ant-QPMDH-42 lineswere observed to have higher amino acid content when compared to parental lines. Statistics related to haploidinduction rate, germination rate, misclassification rate and doubled haploid line rate revealed that effect of sourcepopulations cannot be ignored in DH line development. Our results showed that DH technology is efficient in linedevelopment in terms of special traits in maize in a short breeding time

LFM-Pro: a tool for detecting significant local structural sites in proteins

Motivation: The rapidly growing protein structure repositories have opened up new opportunities for discovery and analysis of functional and evolutionary relationships among proteins. Detecting conserved structural sites that are unique to a protein family is of great value in identification of functionally important atoms and residues. Currently available methods are computationally expensive and fail to detect biologically significant local features