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Earthquake protection of liquid storage tanks by sliding isolation bearings
No full textLiquid storage tanks are critical components of industrial facilities since damage to such structures may cause spreading of hazardous material and environmental pollution. Tanks exhibit mainly two different seismic behaviors one of which is the long period movements due to sloshing of the liquid and the other is the impulsive vibrations generated as a result of the fluid structure interaction phenomena at higher frequencies. The overall base shear is the combination of these two loads. The seismic base isolation aims to control the impulsive load as it has appreciable amount of contribution to the base shear values. Among various types, the curved surface sliding bearings (FPS) are commonly used in liquid tanks since provide isolation periods which is independent of the tank weight (liquid height). In this paper a parametric analysis has been performed to investigate the efficiency of FPS bearings. The numerical model is based on the Haroun and Housner's simplified lumped parameter model in which the sloshing and fluid-tank interactions are modeled by convective and impulsive masses, respectively. The effectiveness of the isolation system was investigated under a series of ground motions, isolation periods and tank aspect (slenderness) ratios. Results indicated that depending on the characteristics of the ground motion, the response of the isolated tank can be reduced in appreciable amounts as compared to the conventionally constructed one. On the other hand, some detrimental effects were also observed in lower isolation periods (Tb=2s) particularly in medium slender tanks under near fault ground motions. This undesirable situation was avoided by using higher isolation periods (Tb =3s) without much affecting the bearing displacements
A multi-level multi-label text classification dataset of 19th century Ottoman and Russian literary and critical texts
No full textThis paper introduces a multi-level, multi-label text classification dataset comprising over 3000 documents. The dataset features literary and critical texts from 19th-century Ottoman Turkish and Russian. It is the first study to apply large language models (LLMs) to this dataset, sourced from prominent literary periodicals of the era. The texts have been meticulously organized and labeled. This was done according to a taxonomic framework that takes into account both their structural and semantic attributes. Articles are categorized and tagged with bibliometric metadata by human experts. We present baseline classification results using a classical bag-of-words (BoW) naive Bayes model and three modern LLMs: multilingual BERT, Falcon, and Llama-v2. We found that in certain cases, Bag of Words (BoW) outperforms Large Language Models (LLMs), emphasizing the need for additional research, especially in low-resource language settings. This dataset is expected to be a valuable resource for researchers in natural language processing and machine learning, especially for historical and low-resource languages. The dataset is publicly available
Recall this Book 56: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg's "The Dry Heart"
No full textLike our podcast, B-Side Books focuses on those moments when books topple off their shelves, open up, and start bellowing at you. The one that buttonholed Merve Emre (Oxford literature professor and author most recently of The Personality Brokers) was a novella by the luminous midcentury Italian pessimist, Natalia Ginzburg. And if you think you know precisely why a mid-century Italian writer would have a dark and bitter view of the world (already thinking of the Nazi shadows in work by Italo Calvino, Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani) Ginzburg's The Dry Heart will have you thinking again. Merve started her piece by asking that age-old question: "When should a woman kill her husband?
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No full textDetecting pathogens and mounting immune responses upon infection is crucial for animal health. However, these responses come at a high metabolic price (McKean and Lazzaro, 2011, Kominsky et al., 2010), and avoiding pathogens before infection may be advantageous. The bacterial endotoxins lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are important immune system infection cues (Abbas et al., 2014), but it remains unknown whether animals possess sensory mechanisms to detect them prior to infection. Here we show that Drosophila melanogaster display strong aversive responses to LPS and that gustatory neurons expressing Gr66a bitter receptors mediate avoidance of LPS in feeding and egg laying assays. We found the expression of the chemosensory cation channel dTRPA1 in these cells to be necessary and sufficient for LPS avoidance. Furthermore, LPS stimulates Drosophila neurons in a TRPA1-dependent manner and activates exogenous dTRPA1 channels in human cells. Our findings demonstrate that flies detect bacterial endotoxins via a gustatory pathway through TRPA1 activation as conserved molecular mechanism.sponsorship: Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie Alessia Soldano Luis Franco Guangda Liu Natalia Mora Emre Yaksi Bassem A Hassanr Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0702.12 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0077.15 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0680.10 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0681.10 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0503.12 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0654.15 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0761.10N Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0596.12 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0565.07 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar KU Leuven GOA/14/011 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Luis Franco Alejandro Lopez-Requena Guangda Liu Natalia Mora Emre Yaksi Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar European Commission IUAP P7/13 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Luis Franco Alejandro Lopez-Requena Guangda Liu Natalia Mora Emre Yaksi Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekensr KU Leuven OT/12/091 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Luis Franco Alejandro Lopez-Requena Guangda Liu Natalia Mora Emre Yaksi Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar KU Leuven PF-TRPLe Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Luis Franco Alejandro Lopez-Requena Guangda Liu Natalia Mora Emre Yaksi Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talavera (Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|G.0702.12, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|G.0077.15, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|G.0680.10, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|G.0681.10, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|G.0503.12, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|G.0654.15, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|G.0761.10N, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|G.0596.12, KU Leuven|GOA/14/011, KU Leuven|OT/12/091, European Commission|IUAP P7/13, KU Leuven PF-TRPLe)status: Publishe
Approach for siting a support facility for transporting supplies in emergency cases in the Republic of Bulgaria
No full textIn this paper, the author determines the most suitable transportation location for intervention in a large scale disaster in the Republic of Bulgaria, by means of the Weber Problem and the Weiszfeld method. The objective is to minimise the cost of transporting emergency supplies across the country by locating a support facility, and thus reaching the area of event at the lowest possible cost. A brief description of the Weiszfeld method is provided in the paper. Further, using recent population data of both provinces and municipalities, the method is applied respectively to obtain the results. They were compared in terms of spatial correspondence and the final facility location was fixed. Erecting the supply site is recommended to help decrease the losses
Comparing clusterings and numbers of clusters by aggregation of calibrated clustering validity indexes
No full textAkhanli, Serhat Emre/0000-0001-7173-3277WOS: 000543319300001A key issue in cluster analysis is the choice of an appropriate clustering method and the determination of the best number of clusters. Different clusterings are optimal on the same data set according to different criteria, and the choice of such criteria depends on the context and aim of clustering. Therefore, researchers need to consider what data analytic characteristics the clusters they are aiming at are supposed to have, among others within-cluster homogeneity, between-clusters separation, and stability. Here, a set of internal clustering validity indexes measuring different aspects of clustering quality is proposed, including some indexes from the literature. Users can choose the indexes that are relevant in the application at hand. In order to measure the overall quality of a clustering (for comparing clusterings from different methods and/or different numbers of clusters), the index values are calibrated for aggregation. Calibration is relative to a set of random clusterings on the same data. Two specific aggregated indexes are proposed and compared with existing indexes on simulated and real data.EPSRCEngineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/K033972/1]The work of the second author was supported by EPSRC grant EP/K033972/1
Nezihe Araz'ın Dertli Dolap ve Jacques Lacarrıere'in Dünyanın Tozu romanlarında kahramanın yolculuğu: "Yunus Emre"
No full textYunus Emre, Türk toplumu için derin bir bilgelik kaynağıdır. Onun, toplumu yüksek değerlere ulaştırmak için, yüzyıllar öncesinden yaktığı aydınlanma ışığı, bugün hâlâ dünyayı aydınlatmaya devam etmektedir. Jacques Lacarrière'in (1925-2005) Dünya'nın Tozu (1999) (La Poussière du Monde) (1997) romanında kahraman "Yunus Emre"'dir. Bir Fransız yazar olan Lacarrière "Yunus Emre"'yle ilgili menkıbeleri öğrendikten sonra "Yunus Emre"'yi kahraman yaptığı bir roman kurgular. Bu romanda yazarın sadece duydukları üzerinden bir kurgu oluşturmadığını görürüz. Yazar aynı zamanda "Yunus Emre"'yi kendi kültür çerçevesinden anlamaya da çalışan sorular sorar. Diğer yandan çocukluğundan beri duyduğu "Yunus Emre" dizeleri ve menkıbelerinin etkisinde olan Türk yazar Nezihe Araz, (1920-2009) Dertli Dolap (1961) romanını çocukluğundan bugüne kalbinde yetiştirdiği bir kahraman olan "Yunus Emre"'nin yaşamı üzerine kurgular. "Yunus Emre"'nin tekâmül yolculuğunu onun dizeleri üzerinden ilerleyen bir kurguyla aktarır. Bu iki romanı ortak noktada buluşturan kahraman "Yunus Emre", insanın kendi özüne yaptığı yolculuğun en önemli temsilcilerinden birisidir. Öze yolculuk, Carl Gustav Jung'a (1875-1961) göre, arketipler aracılığıyla aktarılan bireyleşmenin başka bir ifade biçimidir. Jung'un bu görüşünden yola çıkan Joseph Campbell, yolculuğu ve bireyleşmeyi kahramanın geçirdiği yolculuk aşamaları bağlamında anlamayı ve açıklamayı önerir ve bu süreci "kahramanın sonsuz yolculuğu " olarak adlandırır. Çalışmamızda, Joseph Campbell'in bu modeli çerçevesinde, farklı iki kültüre ait iki yazarın romanlarında ortak kahraman olan "Yunus Emre"nin, kahramanın yolculuğuna ne ölçüde uyum sağladığının ve iki yazardaki "Yunus Emre" algısının farklılığının tespit edilmesi amaçlanmıştır."Yunus Emre" is a deep source of wisdom for Turkish society. The light of enlightenment that he lit centuries ago in order to bring the society to high values still continues to illuminate the world today. In Jacques Lacarrière's novel La Poussière du Monde, the hero is "Yunus Emre. After learning the legends about Yunus Emre, Lacarrière, a French writer, constructs a novel in which he makes Yunus Emre a hero. In this novel, we see that the author does not create a fiction based on only what he hears. The author also asks questions that try to understand Yunus Emre from his own cultural framework. On the other hand, Turkish writer Nezihe Araz, who has been influenced by Yunus Emre verses and legends that she has heard since her childhood, constructs her novel Dertli Dolap on the life of Yunus Emre, a hero whom he raised in her heart from her childhood. She conveys Yunus Emre's journey of evolution with a fiction that proceeds through his verses. Yunus Emre is the hero who brings together these two novels at a common point and he is also one of the most important representatives of the journey which a person makes to his\her own essence. According to Carl Gustav Jung , (1875-1961) journey to the essence is another expression way of individualism which is transmitted through archetypes. Based on this view of Jung, Joseph Campbell, offers to understand and express the journey and individualism with in the context of the journey's periods which the hero has experienced and he names this process as "the hero's endless journey". The aim of our study is to determine to what extent "Yunus Emre", who is the comman hero of the two novels by two novelists from different cultures , adapts to hero's journey and to identify the differences between the "Yunus Emre" perceptions of the two novelists within the framework of Joseph Campbell's this model. Key words: Nezihe Araz, Jacques Lacarrière, Dertli Dolap, Dünyanın Tozu, Yunus Emre, Hero, journey
Nezihe Araz’ın dertli dolap ve Jacques Lacarrıere’in dünyanın tozu romanlarında kahramanın yolculuğu: “Yunus Emre”
No full text“Yunus Emre”, Türk toplumu için derin bir bilgelik kaynağıdır. Onun, toplumu yüksek değerlere ulaştırmak için, yüzyıllar öncesinden yaktığı aydınlanma ışığı, bugün hâlâ dünyayı aydınlatmaya devam etmektedir. Jacques Lacarrière’in (1925-2005) Dünya’nın Tozu (1999) (La Poussière du Monde) (1997) romanında kahraman “Yunus Emre”’dir. Bir Fransız yazar olan Lacarrière “Yunus Emre”’yle ilgili menkıbeleri öğrendikten sonra “Yunus Emre”’yi kahraman yaptığı bir roman kurgular. Bu romanda yazarın sadece duydukları üzerinden bir kurgu oluşturmadığını görürüz. Yazar aynı zamanda “Yunus Emre”’yi kendi kültür çerçevesinden anlamaya da çalışan sorular sorar. Diğer yandan çocukluğundan beri duyduğu “Yunus Emre” dizeleri ve menkıbelerinin etkisinde olan Türk yazar Nezihe Araz, (1920-2009) Dertli Dolap (1961) romanını çocukluğundan bugüne kalbinde yetiştirdiği bir kahraman olan “Yunus Emre”’nin yaşamı üzerine kurgular. “Yunus Emre”’nin tekâmül yolculuğunu onun dizeleri üzerinden ilerleyen bir kurguyla aktarır. Bu iki romanı ortak noktada buluşturan kahraman “Yunus Emre”, insanın kendi özüne yaptığı yolculuğun en önemli temsilcilerinden birisidir. Öze yolculuk, Carl Gustav Jung’a (1875-1961) göre, arketipler aracılığıyla aktarılan bireyleşmenin başka bir ifade biçimidir. Jung’un bu görüşünden yola çıkan Joseph Campbell, yolculuğu ve bireyleşmeyi kahramanın geçirdiği yolculuk aşamaları bağlamında anlamayı ve açıklamayı önerir ve bu süreci “kahramanın sonsuz yolculuğu ” olarak adlandırır.
Çalışmamızda, Joseph Campbell’in bu modeli çerçevesinde, farklı iki kültüre ait iki yazarın romanlarında ortak kahraman olan “Yunus Emre”nin, kahramanın yolculuğuna ne ölçüde uyum sağladığının ve iki yazardaki “Yunus Emre” algısının farklılığının tespit edilmesi amaçlanmıştır.“Yunus Emre” is a deep source of wisdom for Turkish society. The light of enlightenment that he lit centuries ago in order to bring the society to high values still continues to illuminate the world today. In Jacques Lacarrière's novel La Poussière du Monde, the hero is “Yunus Emre. After learning the legends about Yunus Emre, Lacarrière, a French writer, constructs a novel in which he makes Yunus Emre a hero. In this novel, we see that the author does not create a fiction based on only what he hears. The author also asks questions that try to understand Yunus Emre from his own cultural framework. On the other hand, Turkish writer Nezihe Araz, who has been influenced by Yunus Emre verses and legends that she has heard since her childhood, constructs her novel Dertli Dolap on the life of Yunus Emre, a hero whom he raised in her heart from her childhood. She conveys Yunus Emre's journey of evolution with a fiction that proceeds through his verses. Yunus Emre is the hero who brings together these two novels at a common point and he is also one of the most important representatives of the journey which a person makes to his\her own essence. According to Carl Gustav Jung , (1875-1961) journey to the essence is another expression way of individualism which is transmitted through archetypes. Based on this view of Jung, Joseph Campbell, offers to understand and express the journey and individualism with in the context of the journey’s periods which the hero has experienced and he names this process as “the hero’s endless journey”.
The aim of our study is to determine to what extent “Yunus Emre”, who is the comman hero of the two novels by two novelists from different cultures , adapts to hero’s journey and to identify the differences between the “Yunus Emre” perceptions of the two novelists within the framework of Joseph Campbell’s this model
World Affairs Lecture Muslim Identity in Peril: Commemorating the Bosnian Genocide
No full textKenan Trebincevic, author of The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return, will discuss the war in Bosnia and Muslim identity with Associate Professor of Social Sciences Emre Özsös.The Department of Social Sciences’ World Affairs Lecture Series fulfills FIT’s mission to foster an understanding of diverse cultures and politics within the international as well as domestic perspectives. It also embraces, supports, and expands upon the president’s campus-wide initiative on civility.This lecture is presented in partnership with the Presidential Scholars program
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