Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Biological sequences are composed of long strings of alphabetic letters rather than arrays of numerical values. Lack of a natural underlying metric for comparing such alphabetic data significantly inhibits sophisticated statistical analyses of sequences, modeling structural and functional aspects of proteins, and related problems. Herein, we use mu...
Recent progress in anatomical and functional MRI has revived the demand for a reliable, topographic map of the human cerebral cortex. Till date, interpretations of specific activations found in functional imaging studies and their topographical analysis in a spatial reference system are, often, still based on classical architectonic maps. The most ...
The primate cingulate cortex is structurally and functionally complex. Although no studies have investigated the regional densities of multiple neurotransmitter receptor systems, such information would be useful for assessing its functions and disease vulnerabilities. We quantified nine different receptors in five transmitter systems by in vitro au...
In the context of route choice, modeling the process that generates the set of available alternatives in the mind of the individual is a complex and not fully explored issue. Route choice behavior is influenced by variables that are observable, such as travel time and cost, and unobservable, such as attitudes, perceptions, spatial abilities, and ne...
Published in Hydrobiologia
A new index, diatom model affinity (DMA) was erected as a reference-based community metric, derived from generic and species composition. DMA provides an assessment of water quality by the calculation of percent similarity to a model community, which can be viewed as a reference standard. High similarity to the model indicates communities that are ...
Published in Hyperfine Interactions
The application of instrumental neutron activation analysis and multivariate statistics to archaeological studies of ceramics and clays is described. A small pottery data set from the Nasca culture in southern Peru is presented for illustration.
Tez (Doktora) -- İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2004 / Thesis (PhD) -- İstanbul Technical University, Institute of Science and Technology, 2004 / Hava ve iklim süreçlerinin yeryüzündeki yaşam üzerinde hayati etkileri vardır. İklim değişkenliği ve değişiminin anlaşılabilmesi, bölgesel ve yerel iklim tanılarının geliştirilmesi...
Published in Environmental Biology of Fishes
The potential of periphyton-based aquaculture in South Asia is under investigation in an extensive research program. This paper is a further analysis of data from four experiments carried out in that framework, to explore periphyton, fish and fertilizer dose effects on water quality. Factor analysis and ANOVA models applied to a data matrix of wate...
Published in Plant Systematics and Evolution
Previous taxonomic assessments of the hydrophytic genus Nuphar Sm. (Nymphaeaceae) have inadequately considered the range of morphological variation existing in the genus. A comprehensive statistical analysis of morphological features among the recognized taxa of Nuphar is presented here, first using 10 fruit characters to delimit the separation of ...
Published in Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society
Twenty-four coffee samples of different botanical and geographical origins were analyzed for their FA composition, including trans isomers. The analysis used high-resolution GC/FID/CP Sil 88 capillary column to separate FAME obtained by esterification with BF3/methanol. The purpose of this work was to verify whether this parameter could be applied ...
