Bin weather data for Turkey

One of the well-known and simple steady-state methods used to predict heating and cooling energy consumption of buildings is the bin method that requires reliable and detailed bin data. In this study, the bin data for Turkey are determined by using long-term measured data. The bin data for dry-bulb temperature from -36 °C to 45 °C with 3 °C increments are calculated in six daily 4-h shifts for 78 provinces of Turkey. © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved

Interleukins and ischemic stroke: Effect of neutralization of rat il-6 bioactivity on the degree of ischemic cerebral damage caused by experimental middle cerebral artery occlusion in the rat

The purpose was to investigate the effect of neutralization of rat interleukin-6 (IL-6) bioactivity on the activity levels of Na-K/Mg adenosine-5 2-triphosphatase and superoxide dismutase, and the degree of infarct size in ischemic brain produced by experimental middle cerebral artery occlusion in the rat. Seventy adult male Wistar rats weighing 280 to 310g were used in this study. The animals were randomly allocated to groups: group I (n?10) consisted of normal controls, group II (sham-operated, n?20) underwent surgical exposure of the middle cerebral artery but no cauterization, and the remaining 40 rats were subjected to middle cerebral artery occlusion. Immediately after occlusion, each of these 40 rats was randomly assigned to either the occlusion-only group (group III, n?20) or the occlusion plus IL-6 antibody treatment group (group IV, n?20). All evaluations were performed in blinded fashion. Our data provide evidence that neutralization of IL-6 bioactivity correlates with less secondary damage in long-term treatment after focal cerebral ischemia in the rat. © 2008 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Stability Properties of Adaptive Real-Time Feedback Scheduling: A Statistical Approach

This paper focuses on the statistical analysis of an adaptive real-time feedback scheduling technique based on imprecise computation. We consider two-version tasks made of a mandatory and an optional part to be scheduled according to a feedback control rate-monotonic algorithm. A Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) control action provides the feedback strategy for deciding about the execution or rejection of the optional sub-tasks. By modelling the task execution times as random variables, we compute the probability density of the CPU utilization and derive conditions on PID parameters guaranteeing the stability of the overall system around a desired level of CPU utilization. This allows us to highlight the tasks statistics and the scheduling parameters that affect critically stability. The analysis is developed by first exploiting a number of simplifying assumptions that are progressively removed. The main results are also demonstrated through monte-carlo simulations of the scheduling algorithm

Stability properties of adaptive real-time.feedback scheduling: A statistical approach.

This paper focuses on the statistical analysis of an adaptive real-time feedback scheduling technique based on imprecise computation. We consider two-version tasks made of a mandatory and an optional part to be scheduled according to a feedback control rate-monotonic algorithm. A Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) control action provides the feedback strategy for deciding about the execution or rejection of the optional sub-tasks. By modelling the task execution times as random variables, we compute the probability density of the CPU utilization and derive conditions on PID parameters guaranteeing the stability of the overall system around a desired level of CPU utilization. This allows us to highlight the tasks statistics and the scheduling parameters that affect critically stability. The analysis is developed by first exploiting a number of simplifying assumptions that are progressively removed. The main results are also demonstrated through monte-carlo simulations of the scheduling algorithm

Brucellar cervical spinal epidural abscess: A case report

Spinal epidural abscesses account for 1 or 2 of every 10,000 hospital admissions. Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease and still a major health problem in South America and in Mediterranean countries in both Europe and Africa. Spondylitis is one of the most frequent osteoarticular complications of Brucella infection, but cervical spine involvement is rare. In this paper, a 36-year-old man with cervical spinal brucellosis associated with epidural abscess formation and granulation tissue, and diagnosed serologically, is presented. Compression of spinal nerve roots and cord by epidural masses due to brucellar disc infection is a rare condition but should be kept in mind in differential diagnosis of cervical epidural abscess. © 2009 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc

Effect of IL-6 antibody on Na+-K+/Mg+2 ATPase and superoxide dismutase after experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage

OBJECT: The purpose was to investigate the effect of neutralizing interleukin (IL)-6 antibody treatment on the activity levels of Na-K/Mg adenosine-5'-triphosphatase (ATPase) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) in brain after experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in the rat. METHODS: Seventy adult male Wistar rats weighing 280 to 310 g were used in this study. The animals were randomly allocated to groups: group 1 (n=10) consisted of normal controls; group 2 (n=20) underwent microsurgical exposure of the atlantooccipital membrane and normal saline injection into the cisterna magna, but no blood injection; and the remaining 40 rats were subjected to injection of the blood-cerebrospinal fluid mixture into the cisterna magna. Immediately after mixture injection, each of these 40 rats was randomly assigned to either the mixture injection-only group (group 3, n=20) or the mixture injection plus IL-6 antibody treatment group (group 4, n=20). RESULTS: Two doses of IL-6 antibody affected the levels of SOD and Na-K/Mg ATPase when testing was carried out on day 2 after mixture injection. On the other hand, administering 5 doses of the antibody resulted in a significant decrease in SOD level and a significant increase in Na-K/Mg-ATPase activity compared with those seen in the mixture injection-only subgroup on day 5 after experimental SAH. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study show that IL-6 antibody may be a beneficial treatment for peroxidation damage in long term after experimental SAH. © 2009 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc

From social media analysis to ubiquitous event monitoring: The case of Turkish tweets

9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (2017 : Sydney; Australia)The work described in this paper illustrates how social media is a valuable source of data which may be processed for informative knowledge discovery which may help in better decision making. We concentrate on Twitter as the source for the data to be processed. In particular, we extracted and captured tweets written in Turkish. We analyzed tweets online and real-time to determine most recent trending events, their location and time. The outcome may help predicting next hot events to be broadcasted in the news. It may also raise alert and warn people related to upcoming or ongoing disaster or an event which should be avoided, e.g., traffic jam, terror attacks, earthquake, flood, storm, fire, etc. To achieve this, a tweet may be labeled with more than one event. Named entity recognition combined with multinomial naive Bayes and stochastic gradient descent have been integrated in the process. The reported 95% success rate demonstrate the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed approach. © 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.ACM SIGMOD,Gemalto,IEEE Computer Society,IEEE TCDE,Springer Natur

A study of maternal attachment among mothers of infants with congenital anomalies in Turkey

The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that affect maternal attachment among mothers whose infants were born with congenital anomalies. A questionnaire was used to collect individual sociodemographic data, and the Maternal Attachment Inventory was used to collect information about the emotional attachment of mothers to infants with congenital anomalies. This descriptive and cross-sectional study was performed at Ege University Childrens Hospital in Izmir, Turkey. The study sample comprised 70 mothers with infants ranging from 1 to 8 months of age with congenital anomalies. We found a meaningful statistical difference between the Maternal Attachment Inventory point averages of mothers with infants with congenital anomalies and no chance for a cure and the economic conditions of mothers, and we also found correlations with problems during the pregnancy (P .05). This study demonstrated that maternal attachment is lower in mothers with infants who have congenital anomalies that cannot be cured. Given that mothers of infants with congenital anomalies that cannot be cured have the highest risk for maternal detachment, nurses should plan treatment carefully. Copyright © 2011 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins