This paper presents a study of liquefaction-induced lateral ground displacements along the coast of Izmit Bay during the 1999 Kocaeli (Izmit)-Turkey earthquake. The paper discusses: (1) observed ...ground displacements after the earthquake, (2) the results of field investigations by means of borings and in situ index tests, including standard penetration tests, static cone penetration tests, and piezocone tests, (3) analyses of expected lateral displacements using two empirical models and one semiempirical model, and (4) comparisons between observed and calculated lateral ground movements. The three models provide inconsistent predictions of observed lateral ground displacements, with one method overpredicting and two methods both overpredicting and underpredicting observed lateral ground displacements by large amounts. Thus, it appears that there is a need for improved engineering tools for prediction of small to moderately significant lateral ground displacements (lateral displacements of approximately 0.1-2.5 m) at soil sites with similar ground characteristics to the case history sites presented herein.
Functional properties of neurons are strongly coupled with their morphology. Changes in neuronal activity alter morphological characteristics of dendritic spines. First step towards understanding the ...structure-function relationship is to group spines into main spine classes reported in the literature. Shape analysis of dendritic spines can help neuroscientists understand the underlying relationships. Due to unavailability of reliable automated tools, this analysis is currently performed manually which is a time-intensive and subjective task. Several studies on spine shape classification have been reported in the literature, however, there is an on-going debate on whether distinct spine shape classes exist or whether spines should be modeled through a continuum of shape variations. Another challenge is the subjectivity and bias that is introduced due to the supervised nature of classification approaches. In this paper, we aim to address these issues by presenting a clustering perspective. In this context, clustering may serve both confirmation of known patterns and discovery of new ones. We perform cluster analysis on two-photon microscopic images of spines using morphological, shape, and appearance based features and gain insights into the spine shape analysis problem. We use histogram of oriented gradients (HOG), disjunctive normal shape models (DNSM), morphological features, and intensity profile based features for cluster analysis. We use x-means to perform cluster analysis that selects the number of clusters automatically using the Bayesian information criterion (BIC). For all features, this analysis produces 4 clusters and we observe the formation of at least one cluster consisting of spines which are difficult to be assigned to a known class. This observation supports the argument of intermediate shape types.
Bu ara ş t ı rmada, masa ba şı nda makine ile a şı land ı ktan sonra doğ rudan fidanl ı k parsellerine dikilen a şı l ı çeliklerden asma fidan ı elde etmede ba ş ar ı üzerine delikli ve deliksiz ...siyah plastik tünel ile farkl ı Örtü materyallerinin etkileri saptanm ış t ı r. Denemede Çavu ş , Oküzgözel ve Hamburg misketi üzüm ,çe ş itlerinden al ı nan kalemler, Berlandieri x Riparia Kober 5BB, SO4 ve Berlandieri x Rupestris 1103P anaçlar ı üzerine masa ba şı nda omega a şı s ı yla a şı lanm ış t ı r. Aşı l ı çelikler fidanl ı k parsellerine dikilerek toprak veya tala ş ile kümbetlendikten sonra delikli veya deliksiz siyah plastik SPÖ ile mini tünel alt ı na al ı nm ış t ı r. Aşı tutma ve sürme oran ı bak ı m ı ndan en iyi sonuçlar "tala ş + delikli veya deliksiz SPO uygulamas ı ndan al ı n ı rken ya ş ama oran ı "toprak veya tala ş + deliksiz SPÖ uygulamas ı nda en yüksek olmu ş tur
Renal amyloidosis, which leads to renal failure, is the most important long-term complication of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF). Resolution of nephrotic syndrome secondary to amyloidosis in FMF ...following colchicine treatment has rarely been reported. We describe two patients with FMF and nephrotic syndrome. These patients were treated with colchicine 1.5 mg/day and had a complete remission of nephrotic syndrome with a stable clinical course over 30 years. To our knowledge, our patients have the longest follow-up time without proteinuria.
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