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... This paper analyses three underlying reasons for the unprecedented socio-spatial changes that have resulted in the emergence of rural ghettos in southern Turkey. First, neoliberal agricultural transformation has led to changes in crop composition, which have caused a need for cheap labour over longer periods of time. Second, the extreme poverty levels of Kurdish seasonal labourers compels them not ...
Turkey (country), etc ; deformation; earthquakes; geophysics; Greece; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Structural mapping and dating of damaged speleothems have been used to investigate earthquake records in caves, especially of large infrequent events. However, there are few reports of damages in caves visited before and after a particular earthquake, where the damage can be directly related to a recorded event. We mapped the previously unexplored Korakia Cave on Pserimos island in the Dodecanese ...
Turkey (country), etc ; geomorphology; inventories; landscapes; landslides; Show all 5 Subjects
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... To understand the factors that make certain areas especially prone to landslides, statistical approaches are typically used. The interpretation of statistical results in areas characterised by complex geological and geomorphological patterns can be challenging, and this makes the understanding of the causes of landslides more difficult. In some cases, landslide inventories report information on th ...
Turkey (country), etc ; Spalacidae; cytotypes; geometry; morphometry; skull; Show all 6 Subjects
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... This study investigated three cytotypes of Nannospalax nehringi collected from the East Anatolian Region. The cranium and mandible of 42 specimens from 15 localities were analyzed by a landmark-based geometric morphometric method. The results of the Procrustes ANOVA showed that all cytotypes were different aspect of cranial size (F = 4.34, P = 0.0201), shape (F = 5.29, P < 0.0001), and mandible sh ...
Turkey (country), etc ; climatology; time series analysis; Mediterranean region; Show all 4 Subjects
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... This paper focuses on spatiotemporal characteristics of precipitation indices of Turkey’s precipitation data for the periods 1966–2014. Seven precipitation indices include the number of extremely wet days, very wet days, heavy precipitation days (10 mm and 20 mm), simple daily intensity days, and consecutive dry and wet days. The indices are based on homogenized precipitation data. Besides, long-t ...
Turkey (country), etc ; groundwater flow; landslides; optical fibers; temperature; topography; water table; Show all 7 Subjects
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... This paper assesses the stages and findings of a mass movement monitoring system developed for continuous long-term monitoring applications using optical fiber cable as a sensor to decrease the risks associated with slope instabilities. During this study, a system composed of optical fiber cables and a device referred to as the Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analyzer (BOTDA) has been used. This sys ...
Turkey (country), etc ; adulterated products; atomic absorption spectrometry; durum wheat; pasta; wheat flour; Show all 6 Subjects
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... In this study the possibility of using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) to discriminate durum and common wheat samples both in flour and pasta and determine the adulteration ratio was explored. For this purpose, 120 common and 119 durum wheat samples including different genotypes were collected from various regions of Anatolia. LIBS spectra were evaluated with partial least squares-disc ...
Turkey (country), etc ; Plum pox virus; enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; leaves; peaches; phylogeny; Show all 6 Subjects
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... A total of 486 symptomatic and asymptomatic peach leaf samples were collected from Bursa, Bilecik, and Bolu provinces and tested for plum pox virus (PPV, Potyvirus) in response to recent reports on the new divergent subgroup MIs in the nearby Istanbul province of Turkey. The phylogenetic analysis of newly sequenced isolates indicated that two isolates from Bolu belong to subgroup MIs, confirming t ...
Turkey (country), etc ; adults; altitude; body size; climate; life history; longevity; sexual maturity; zoology; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Age and size-related life-history traits of animals are influenced by a variety of factors. In connection with climate, the effect of altitude on demographic parameters may differ among different populations of the same species. In the present study, we analyzed how body size and longevity of the Asia Minor Thin-toed Gecko (Mediodactylus heterocercus (Blanford, 1874)) vary along an elevational gra ...
Turkey (country), etc ; data collection; ecoregions; forestry; forests; governance; models; research; tree height; trees; variance; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Generalized height (h)–diameter (d) models were developed for Crimean pine stands in the Kastamonu Regional Directorate of Forestry, northwestern Turkey. Nine generalized h-d models were fitted and evaluated based on data set consisting of 2697 h-d measurements obtained from 274 sample plots located in three ecoregions of the studied region. The best results were obtained by modified Richards h-d ...
Turkey (country), etc ; archaeology; ceramics; charcoal; fabrics; manganese; manganese monoxide; sand; steel; straw; South Asia; Show all 11 Subjects
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... In this article, we present the first archaeological evidence for crucible steel production in Anatolia uncovered in recent excavations at Kubadabad, which was built as a palace by the Anatolian Seljuks in the early 13th century AD. Along with plenty of crucible sherds recovered at the site, blades made of crucible steel, production waste-iron chunks and manganese oxide pellets also revealed remar ...
Turkey (country), etc ; Miocene epoch; Oxychilus; Pliocene epoch; biodiversity; phylogeny; population genetics; Caucasus region; Mediterranean region; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Several taxa that are distributed in the Caucasus and/or the adjacent Pontic Mountains also have representatives in the East Mediterranean region. These disjunctions could have been caused by long‐distance dispersal or be the result of extinctions in Central Anatolia caused by the aridification of the Anatolian Plateau during the Pliocene. We studied the Longiphallus–Hiramia group of Oxychilus as ...
Turkey (country), etc ; Alburnus; Ligula intestinalis; Squalius; fish; fish communities; gillnets; host preferences; hybrid species; lakes; parasites; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Taxonomic evaluations are needed to accurately determine the host selection of fish parasites. The present study is a multidisciplinary research in the field of basic and fish diseases sciences. The description of the hybrid species of Squalius orientalis and Alburnus derjugini and infection of Ligula intestinalis in these hybrid fish were reported for the first time from the Kürtün Dam Lake in no ...
... This paper joins in with the discussion on the temporalities of rural gentrification. Based on a case-study in the rural town of Ağlasun in South-West Anatolia, Turkey, we compare the influx of diverse groups of seasonal gentrifiers (second home users, students, tourists) and its material and experiential effects. Although actual material displacement was generally found to be limited, experientia ...
Turkey (country), etc ; Cervus elaphus; Holocene epoch; archaeobotany; avifauna; basins; cattle; diet; mortality; mouflon; occupations; water birds; woodlands; Show all 13 Subjects
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... The site of Körtiktepe in southeastern Turkey is one of few sites in the Upper Mesopotamia basin that attests continuous, permanent occupation across the boundary from end of the colder, drier Younger Dryas (YD) into the comparatively wetter and warmer Early Holocene (EH). This allows for the study of the degree of environmental change experienced on a local level over this boundary as well as for ...
Turkey (country), etc ; Salvia fruticosa; camphor; cineole; essential oils; leaves; lipid content; nitrogen; nitrogen fertilizers; plant nutrition; sage; Show all 11 Subjects
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... The effect of various amounts of nitrogen fertilizer (0, 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 kg ha⁻¹) on yield and quality traits of Anatolian sage (Salvia fruticosa Mill.) were investigated under Turkey’s Eskişehir ecological conditions in 2016–2018. Except essential oil content, all parameters examined in this study increased significantly with nitrogen applications. While dry leaf yield increased signifi ...
... ‘New glume wheat’ (NGW) is an archaeobotanical type increasingly recognised at Neolithic–Bronze Age sites across Europe and Western Asia. NGW has been recognised via aDNA and morphological analyses of chaff remains as a member of the Triticum timopheevii wheat group, recent cultivation of which is known only from western Georgia. This study combines geometric morphometric (GMM) analysis of NGW gra ...
... Allium shinasii (Amaryllidaceae) is described here as a new species. Diagnostic morphological characters, a full description, and detailed illustrations are given herein. Allium shinasii is known from Tunceli province in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. According to its morphological features, it belongs to Allium sect. Codonoprasum. It is related to A. kurtzianum that belongs to the same section, A. sie ...
Turkey (country), etc ; earthquakes; geophysics; oils; people; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The study area, Derince town, is one of the most densely industrialized (oil refineries, ports, etc.) and, therefore, populated urban areas located on the North Anatolian Fault Zone in Turkey. The study area is one of the areas that was most affected by the August 17, 1999 Kocaeli Earthquake (Mw = 7.4). A total of 10,984 buildings were heavily damaged, 6131 buildings were moderately damaged, 6803 ...
... In this work, organic cotton fabrics were dyed using Rhamnus petiolaris Boiss, Quercus ithaburansis Decaisne, and Quercus ithaburansis Decaisne + Rhamnus petiolaris Boiss by microwave irradiation and conventional dyeing methods. They were used in equal percentages. The dyed fabrics were analyzed by different analytical and technical methods. Coloring compounds were analyzed in the dye extractions ...