Find relevant scholarly articles now

HTS 2G superconducting tapes without stabilizer are used for the construction of superconducting fault current limiters. The characteristics R =f(T) of the superconducting tape is essential for design of superconducting current limiters and analysis of their numerical models. The article presents the experimentally determined characteristics R=f(T) of the second generation superconducting tapes SF4050 and SF12050 using the LabVIEW integrated environment. The article describes the method of sample preparation and methodology of testing of HTS 2G superconducting tapes. The LabVIEW integrated environment was used for the testing, thanks to which it was possible to download, process and save measurement data.

As AI continues to transform educational practices, understanding its potential benefits, limitations, and ethical implications is critical. This study explores future educators’ perceptions of generative ΑΙ in higher education. Through a mixed-methods approach, this research gathered insights from undergraduate and master’s level students on their familiarity with, willingness to use, and concerns about AI-driven educational tools. Findings highlight a general positivity toward AI’s utility in learning and teaching, with key advantages including personalised feedback, time efficiency, and academic support. Conversely, challenges related to reliability, academic integrity, and the potential for over-reliance reveal areas for further guidance and digital literacy enhancement. Post-intervention data suggests that hands-on experience with AI can reduce concerns and foster a balanced perspective on AI adoption in education. This study underscores the need for ethical frameworks and policy guidance to support the responsible integration of AI in educational contexts.

The geometry of the environment can affect numerous psychological, social, and ecological processes. But its roles in social learning and the dynamics of descriptive norms remain unclear. Here we use agent-based modeling to explore how environments with different geometric shapes can influence social learning to produce variations in the extent of universally shared descriptive norms. Our simulations show that an environment with an irregular layout facilitates the emergence of multiple descriptive norms in a population, whereas an environment with a regular grid plan constrains social learning to produce a behaviorally homogeneous population.

Deep-sea corals are critical to global exploration of deep-sea biodiversity, but research on them in the Indian Ocean is very limited. In this study, we report the first discovery of two new species of red corals at a depth of 1697 m in the western Indian Ocean. The species were identified through detailed morphological analysis, including microscopic examination of colony structure, branches and autozooids (assessing size, abundance and spacing), as well as scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of sclerite morphology and quantity. Two species for the genus Hemicorallium Gray, 1867 were found as new species, designated Hemicorallium indicodensum sp. nov. and Hemicorallium jiaolongensis sp. nov. H. indicodensum sp. nov. is characterised by densely branched structures and numerous globular double-club sclerites, distinguishing it from other species. Meanwhile, H. jiaolongensis sp. nov. features yellowish-white colonies with short rods with sharp, large radial projections in the tentacles. Four mitochondrial regions were used to reveal the phylogenetic relationship in Coralliidae, supporting the taxonomic placement of these two new species. This study provides significant new insights into the biodiversity of deep-sea corals in the Indian Ocean, enriching the known species pool. Additionally, a more comprehensive key to the genus Hemicorallium is provided, further enhancing our understanding of the group’s taxonomy.

: EPDM (ethylene propylene diene monomer) is a type of synthetic rubber. The products of rubber have great importance in every part of life. EPDM rubber has high tensile strength, high tension, toughness, and is weather resistant. Therefore, EPDM (ethylene-propylene-diene rubber) is widely used in many fields. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of accelerator type on mechanical properties and vulcanization characteristics of EPDM rubber. We used the accelerators; thiazole, sulfonamides, dithiocarbamate, thiuram, and guanidine groups. The results show that the fastest cure time and the best tensile strength are achieved with dithiocarbamates for EPDM rubber.

Mehcer edebiyatı, Arap edebiyatının felsefe ile bütünleşip sanatsal öğelerden ve karışık üsluptan daha uzak olduğu, içinde barındırdığı anlam ve düşüncelerle değerliliğini kazanmış bir ekolüdür. Mehcer edebiyatının ikinci adamı olarak bilinen Nu‘ayme de aynı şekilde düşünceleri ile ilgi odağı olmuş, edebiyat ve felsefeyi aynı elekten geçirip, felsefi düşünceleri edebi sanatıyla süsleyip, birçok alandan okuyucuyu kendi edebi ve felsefi dünyasına çekmiş bir edebiyatçıdır. Mehcer edebiyatçılarının ülkelerinden çıkmak zorunda kalışları ve gittikleri ülkelerde karşılaştıkları dil, edebi, sosyal, kültürel ve düşünsel değişimler kendilerinde doğal olarak değişime ve karmaşaya da yol açmıştır. Nu‘ayme de aynı şekilde önce Rus ardından Amerika kültür ve edebiyatından etkilenmiştir. Rus edebiyatında kendisine yol gösterici olarak Tolstoy’u seçen Nu‘ayme onun gibi sürekli hakikat arayışı içinde olmuştur. Çocukluğundan beri zihnini meşgul eden yaşamın manası, ölüm ve ötesi, insanın dünyadaki gayesinin ne olduğu gibi düşünceler olgunluk dönemlerinde de devam etmiştir. Amerika’da birçok edebiyatçı ve filozof ile tanışan Nu‘ayme en çok Spinoza’dan ve onun panteizmi savunmasından etkilenmiştirÇalışmada Mîhâîl Nu‘ayme’nin hayatına kısa bir giriş yapılmış, onun düalizm görüşü, bunu monizmle bağlaması, vahdet-i vücut konusu ve her şeyi kapsayan içkin bir Tanrı’nın varlığı, doğanın ya da evrenin Tanrı ile aynı olduğunu kabul eden panteizm görüşü Nu‘ayme’nin eserleri ışığında incelenmeye çalışılmıştır. Eserlerinde dikkat çeken şeylerden biri, yaşadığı bu birbirinden farklı ortamların ve düşünsel gelişimlerin onda bazen reenkarnasyona yönelmesine, bazen tek tanrıcılığı kabul etmesine, dini inanca ve İncil’e sıkı bağlılığın ardından kiliseyi reddetmesine, Tanrı’yı kendi içinde ve doğada aramasına kadar götürmüştür. Bahsedilen bu görüşler çerçevesinde belli bir düşünceye sahip olamaması, sürekli değişim gösteren evren ve zaman karşısında gelgitler yaşamasına sebep olmuştur. Bu çalışmada hem edebiyat hem felsefe alanı dâhilinde yapılmış bir çalışma olup mehcer edebiyatı ve felsefe alanında daha iyi çalışmalara katkı sağlanması amaçlanmaktadır

Dijital çağın getirdiği teknolojik dönüşümler, görsel kültür pratiklerini ve izleyici deneyimlerini önemliölçüde değiştirmektedir. Bu değişim özellikle dijital yerlilerin medya tüketim alışkanlıklarında belirginbir şekilde görülmektedir. Bu araştırma, etkileşimli sinemanın sunduğu görsel ve işitsel teknikler ileizleyicilerin görme kültürü ve görme politikalarını nasıl yapılandırdığı konusunu incelemektedir. Çalışma,sinemanın dijitalleşmeyle gelişen anlatım olanaklarının izleyiciye hikâyeyi yönlendirme ve yönetebilmeimkânı sunmasına, dolayısıyla izleyici pratiklerinde ortaya çıkan değişimlere odaklanmaktadır.Araştırmanın kuramsal çerçevesi, etkileşimli ve siber drama ile çizgisel olmayan anlatı bağlamlarındasinema-izleyici ilişkisinin geçirdiği dönüşümleri ele almaktadır. Nitel araştırma yöntemleri arasında yeralan fenomenolojik desen üzerine kurulu olan bu araştırmada, 10 katılımcıya Late Shift interaktif filmiizletilerek derinlemesine görüşmeler yapılmış ve elde edilen veriler betimsel ve tematik analiz teknikleriyleçözümlenmiştir. Araştırmanın bulgularına göre izleyiciler, interaktif film deneyiminde yaratma, yönetmeve temsil etme yanılsaması içerisinde yeni bir özdeşleşme, görme kültürü ve seyir deneyimi içerisinegirmektedir. Çalışma, interaktif sinemanın geleneksel sinemadaki tekil karakter özdeşleşmesini aşarakizleyiciye karakter, yönetmen ve senarist rolleri arasında dinamik geçişler sunan katılımcı bir deneyim yarattığını ve bu sayede salt teknolojik bir yenilikten öte kültürel bir paradigma değişimini temsil ettiğiniortaya koymuştur.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the willingness of parents to allow their children to receive a COVID-19 vaccine and the factors affecting the decision. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted as a prospective, cross-sectional and descriptive survey study. A survey consisting of questions about the COVID-19 vaccination was conducted with parents. Results: The study included 592 parents, 180 (30.4%) male, and the mean age was 34.14±7.42 years. There were 257 (43.4%) parents would vaccinate their children. A high level of education of parents (p=0.022), a high monthly income of the family (p=0.006), and male gender (p=0.002) were associated with high willingness to vaccinate their children. Two hundred twenty two parents stated that their decision may change depending on whether the vaccine is of domestic or foreign origin, and 215 (96.85%) of them stated that they would prefer domestic vaccines. The most frequent reasons for vaccine hesitancy or refusal to their children were: fear of possible side effects and it being a foreign vaccine. Conclusion: The hesitancy or refusal of parents to vaccinate their children with the COVID-19 vaccine is high. Public health authorities should inform the public about the importance of vaccination and domestic vaccine production should be encouraged.

Aromaterapi; bitkisel uçucu yağların ve aromatik bitkisel bileşiklerin hastalıkların önlenmesinde ya da tedavisinde topikal olarak veya inhalasyon yolu ile uygulanan tedavi yaklaşımıdır. Geçmişten günümüze kadar geleneksel, alternatif veya tamamlayıcı tedavi yaklaşımları olarak tıp ve diş hekimliğinin çeşitli alanlarında kullanılması önerilen uçucu yağların antibakteriyel, antiviral, antifungal, analjezik, sedatif gibi farklı etkiler gösterdiği bildirilmektedir. Bu derleme, diş hekimliğinde kullanılabileceği belirtilen uçucu yağların tanımlanması, uygulanma alanlarının ve tedavi etkinliklerinin incelenmesi amacı ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Aromaterapiye ilişkin dental literatürler değerlendirildiğinde; uçucu yağların oral mukoza ve dişeti hastalıklarının tedavisinde, diş çürüğünün önlenmesinde, remineralizasyonda, endodontik ve restoratif tedavide, halitoziste, anksiyete kontrolünde kullanılabileceğinin önerildiği görülmektedir. Çay ağacı, karanfil, lavanta, kekik, tarçın, okaliptüs, nane ve limon uçucu yağları ise diş hekimliğinde en çok uygulanan uçucu yağlar olarak belirtilmektedir. Candida enfeksiyonunda çay ağacı, kekik, tarçın, nane, limon; stomatitiste okaliptüs, lavanta; dişeti hastalıklarında çay ağacı, tarçın, okaliptüs; ağız çalkalama solüsyonu olarak çay ağacı yağı, nane; diş çürüğünün önlenmesinde ve remineralizasyonunda çay ağacı yağı, karanfil, kekik, tarçın, limon; pulpa tedavilerinde karanfil, kanal patlarında karanfil, kekik; restoratif materyallerin antimikrobiyal özelliklerinin artırılmasında kekik, tarçın; halitoziste tarçın, okaliptus, nane; dental anksiyete kontrolünde lavanta ve topikal anestezide karanfil uçucu yağlarının kullanılabileceği bildirilmektedir. Kullanım güvenirliliklerine ilişkin deneysel çalışmaların artırılması ve tedavide etkili minimum dozlarının belirlenmesi ile uçucu yağların diş hekimliği klinik uygulamalarında kullanımının gelecekte artacağı öngörülmektedir.

Fibromyalgia is a musculoskeletal pain syndrome characterized with the presence of sensitive points and widespread chronic pain and restricts one's daily life activities and decreases the quality of life. The etiology of fibromyalgia is unclear, but there are numerous hypotheses regarding the emergence and progression of the disease. Among these, the biopsychosocial model offers a holistic framework in which biological, psychological and social mechanisms play a role in the development of fibromyalgia. Since the etiology of the disease is not yet understood, effective methods for its treatment have not been found, thus, interventions aim to reduce the effect of fibromyalgia and increase psychological and physiological functionality. This article aims to examine the psyhcological intervention areas and methods for fibromyalgia patients. In the literature, it is concluded that pain avoidance beliefs and behaviors, self-efficacy, physical activity, sleep quality, self-compassion, emotional skills, coping strategies, personality, comorbid psychopathology are the factors related with the emergence of the disease, severity of pain, and adherence to treatment in fibromyalgia patients. In this context, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), physical exercises, sleep management Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), compassion focused psychotherapies, mindfulness based psychotherapies, emotion expression and emotion regulation techniques, and biofeedback are recommended as effective methods which can be included in the treatment plans of fibromyalgia patients. Moreover, considering the psychosocial factors in the assessment processes was essential to establish individualized treatment plans. In addition, the importance of multidisciplinary approaches in the treatment processes of fibromyalgia has been discussed within the framework of the biopsychosocial model.

Some Azteca ants are well-known symbionts that defend their Cecropia host plants against herbivory, although there is considerable variability in behavior among colonies, conditions, and species. In exchange, ants receive food, and also shelter within the plants’ internodes. Here we demonstrate that ants repair damage to the host plant when their brood is directly threatened. Using comminuted plant fibers and an unidentified binding liquid (probably plant sap) ants generally began patching holes in the tree trunk immediately, and significantly reduced the size of the hole 2.5 hours after it was created, and they generally completed the repairs within 24 hours.

Introduction. The article, based on the “Materials on the Kyrgyz (Kazakh) Land Use Collected and Developed by the Statistical Parties of the Turgai-Ural Resettlement Region”, examines the crafts of the nomads of the Lbischensky, Uralsky, Turgai, Irgiz, Temir uyezds in the early 20th century. Temir, Lbishchensky and Ural uyezds belonged to the Ural region, Turgai and Irgiz uyezds to the Turgai region. Methods and materials. Using the mathematical method, the method of comparative analysis and content analysis, the author shows how much income per person came from crafts in the studied uyezds and proves that crafts were only additional industries and could not compete with nomadic cattle breeding. The article examines the crafts that brought the greatest income. Farmhands, transportation, groundhog hunting, fishing, etc., were well-known crafts; the Muslim spiritual cult and its servants was an unusual craft. Analysis. Our article shows that the studied uyezds had their own craft specializations. For example, a significant number of nomads in Lbischensky uyezd were engaged in transportation, in Turgai uyezd in hunting groundhogs, in Irgiz uyezd in hunting and fishing. Results. At the end of the article, the author concludes that the majority of nomads were primarily engaged in crafts as farmhands due to their poverty.

The article addresses the relationship between open and closed texts. The aim of the study is to analyze the specifics of relationship between the open and closed text in the general context of communication between the author and the reader. While supporting mainly U. Eco’s concept in our article, we furnish it with the analysis of four approaches of openness/closedness, which we have singled out. Openness/closedness is conceptualized, firstly: as an ontological perspective of the opposition between the communication parameters: The text-as-process and text-as-outcome; secondly, as interpretation procedures that are common for the articulation of all texts, regardless of their form and contents; thirdly, as the ontological and technological potential of works’ physical unfinishedness that invite the recipient to co-authorship (for example, ‘the work-in-movement’ and hypertext); fourthly, as the ability of a text to provoke multiple or unambiguous interpretations. We also demonstrate that the way of text’s functioning is determined not only by the addressee's attitude to it, but text itself, in return, stimulates this attitude, predisposing to it by its specificity (as informative or artistic, kitsch or art, hypertext or linear text, digital or analog). However, as we explain in the conclusion, the dialectic of openness/closedness can affect the distinctness of these dichotomies: The text can use its openness manipulatively, which turns it into a closed text.

In some languages, distributive markers/quantifiers can attach to the argument that is being distributed (the distributive share), as opposed to the restrictor of the sentence (the distributive key). Researchers agree that distributive share markers can also distribute over events (and not only individuals), but disagree as to what these markers are semantically – universal distributive quantifiers or event plurality (pluractional) markers. In this paper, we experimentally probe spatial event distribution. On a universal quantification account, exhaustive distribution over a spatial distributive key is enforced, while on the pluractional analysis there is no such requirement. We carried out two picture verification experiments to test exhaustivity requirements in intransitive sentences with distributive share markers from two typologically different languages: the Serbian marker po and the Korean marker -ssik. We found evidence for an exhaustivity requirement over pluralities of non-atomic individuals (groups), but not over designated spatial locations. We interpret these findings as evidence that the semantics of (spatial) event distribution with distributive share markers involves a (spatial) distributive key. Specifically, po/-ssik have a universal quantificational force (with a meaning akin to per (each)) establishing a distributive relation between individual events and elements of the spatial distributive key. Plural individuals made salient in the visual input can serve to divide up the spatial key into chunks of space that have to be exhausted.

This paper offers a description and account of the patterns of ex-situ focus in Dagbani. We show that there are two syntactic strategies for creating ex-situ focus in the language, one involving A’-movement to the left periphery, and the second involving base generation in the left periphery combined with coreference to a resumptive pronoun. Furthermore, we argue that subjects are difficult to move from Spec,TP to Spec,CP in the left-periphery because of anti-locality, which creates a tension when trying to focus subjects, which are required to derivationally fill the specifier of both positions. We further show that what looks to be a two-way distinction between the behaviour of subjects and non-subjects in the language is in fact a three-way distinction between subjects that are focussed to a local left-periphery, subjects that are focussed to a non-local left-periphery, and non-subjects. These distinctions arise due to there being two methods for Dagbani to resolve the antilocality problem of subject movement, and so local subjects solve the problem differently to non-local subjects.

Obstrüktif uyku apne sendromu (OUAS) hastalarında vasküler hastalık riski artmıştır. Bu hastalarda kardiyovasküler hastalık gelişimine ait kesin mekanizma bilinmemektedir. Fibrinojen normal plazmanın ana bileşenidir. Akut faz reaktanı olan fibrinojen düzeyleri inflamatuar yanıtın bir parçası olarak yükselmektedir. Fibrinojenin koroner arter hastalığı ve inme için bağımsız risk faktörü olduğu gösterilmiştir. Çalışmamızda yeni orta/ağır OUAS tanısı almış hastalarda ve non-apneik olgularda plazma fibrinojen düzeylerini karşılaştırmayı ve polisomnografi (PSG) parametreleri ile ilişkisini değerlendirmeyi amaçladık. Tüm gece PSG sonrası yeni tanı almış 50 orta ve ağır OUAS olgusu ile 33 nonapneik kontrol olgu çalışmaya dahil edilmiştir. uyku çalışmasının ardından sabah 8.00-9.00 saatleri arasında kan örnekleri alınarak plazma fibrinojen düzeyleri Clauss metodu ile ölçülmüştür. Her iki grup arasında yaş, cinsiyet, sigara alışkanlığı açısından fark saptanmadı. Plazma fibrinojen düzeyleri OUAS grubunda (4.2 ± 0.14 g/L) kontrol grubuna göre anlamlı derecede yüksek bulundu (p