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    GraphUnet-SS: A Novel Deep Learning Model for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Based on U-Net Architecture
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2026-04) Aydin, Zafer; Görmez, Yasin; Sabzekar, Mostafa
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    Citation - WoS: 1
    Citation - Scopus: 1
    A Comparative Study of Existing and Current On-Site Documentation of Anatolian Seljuk Kümbets
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2025-12) Güzelci, O.Z.; Türel, A.
    During the Anatolian Seljuk period (1077–1307), monumental tombs known as kümbets emerged as a distinct architectural typology in present-day Türkiye. 2D drawings of these structures, produced since the early 20th century, contain inconsistencies that necessitate verification and accurate documentation. This study digitally documents Anatolian Seljuk kümbets in 3D to generate updated 2D sections reflecting their current condition and compares these with previously published drawings. The methodology includes collecting available 2D sections, digitally documenting kümbets through field studies, generating new 2D sections from 3D models, and systematically comparing these datasets. Two image-based metrics are employed in the comparison: the Exact Pixel Match Ratio (EPMR), which evaluates pixel-level alignment, and the Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM), a standard indicator for visual similarity. The results provide a comparative framework for assessing previous drawings and present a verified, up-to-date dataset of kümbet sections for future research. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Effect of Different Pitch Ratios on the Flow Around Tandem Circular Cylinders with Spoilers
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2025-12) İlkentapar, M.; Akşit, S.; Öner, A.A.; Genç, M.S.
    This study experimentally investigates the unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of two tandem circular cylinders subjected to various pitch ratios and spoiler configurations in a controlled wind tunnel environment. The primary objective is to understand how the placement and presence of spoiler's influence flow separation, wake interference, surface pressure distributions, and overall aerodynamic performance. The experiments were conducted for three pitch ratios (2D, 4D, and 7D) and four spoiler configurations: NN (no spoilers on either cylinder), NS (spoiler on the downstream cylinder only), SN (spoiler on the upstream cylinder only), and SS (spoilers on both cylinders). Measurements included surface pressure, velocity distribution via hot-wire anemometry, and aerodynamic forces, while qualitative flow patterns were assessed using smoke-wire visualization. The results indicate that the usage of spoilers substantially alters the wake structure and pressure profiles, especially in closely spaced configurations. In the NN configuration, increasing the pitch ratio led to a progressive decoupling of the flow between the cylinders, transitioning from a merged wake to more isolated vortex shedding. In the SN and NS configurations, the asymmetrical placement of spoilers induced unsteady wake interactions and altered reattachment dynamics on the downstream body. The SS configuration exhibited the most disturbed flow regime at low pitch ratios, which gradually stabilized as the spacing increased. Violin plots derived from velocity measurements provided statistical insight into flow symmetry and turbulence intensity, while smoke visualizations captured coherent structures and transition zones across the configurations. The combined analysis demonstrates that both pitch ratio and spoiler configuration are critical parameters in controlling aerodynamic interference and unsteady wake behavior in tandem arrangements. These findings offer valuable implications for flow management and control strategies in offshore structures, cylindrical risers, and heat exchanger tube banks, where vortex-induced vibrations and flow separation play crucial roles. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Citation - Scopus: 22
    Transition Towards the Sustainable Development: Unraveling the Effects of Mineral Markets, Belt & Road Initiative, and the Paris Agreement on Green Economic Growth
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2024-04) Xia, Xiqiang; Chishti, Muhammad Zubair; Dogan, Eyup
    The Agenda 2030 strongly emphasizes implementing effective and equitable measures to address the urgent challenge of global warming, primarily driven by unsustainable fossil-fuel combustion, and one of its core focuses is Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) – 8, among others. In light of this, the recent article aims to explore the dynamic nexus between minerals (MNR), the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Paris Agreement (PA), green technologies (GT), and green growth, with a specific focus on developing a policy framework for advancing SDG – 8. The study utilizes daily data and advanced econometric tools such as QVAR, Cross-quantileogram, and wavelet-quantile correlation to examine the diverse effects of these factors on green growth across various time horizons. The short-run analysis reveals that MNR, BRI, and GT discourage green growth under most market conditions, except for a few quantiles that exhibit positive or insignificant relationships. In the medium run, impacts are mixed, with both positive and negative effects observed. However, in the long run, MNR, BRI, and GT consistently demonstrate favorable effects on green growth. For PA, short and medium-run effects are mixed, but medium-run results indicate a predominantly positive impact on green growth. In the long run, PA significantly benefits green growth across the majority of market conditions. Overall, the diversified results suggest that minerals, BRI, the Paris Agreement, and green technologies play a crucial role in stimulating green growth to achieve SDG - 8 in the long term. © 2024 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Citation - Scopus: 404
    The Moderating Role of Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy in Environment-Income Nexus for Asean Countries: Evidence From Method of Moments Quantile Regression
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2021-02) Anwar, Ahsan; Siddique, Muhammad; Dogan, Eyup; Sharif, Arshian Aslam
    A vast body of studies estimates the impact of energy consumption on the environment. A typical empirical study either use aggregate energy consumption or apply conventional econometric techniques in modelling the nexus of energy, income and environment. To correct these gaps, the objective of the study is to use renewable and non-renewable energy consumption in analyzing energy-income-environment nexus, and to apply the novel Method of Moments Quantile Regression for ASEAN countries. The outcomes indicate that non-renewable energy consumption stimulate carbon emissions across all quantiles (10th to 90th), the value of the 10th quantile is 0.257 which rises to 0.501 till 90th quantile. Whereas, the renewable energy consumption leads to a decrease in CO<inf>2</inf> emissions across all the quantiles (10th to 90th) but this association is statistically insignificant at higher quantiles from 60th to 90th. The empirical outcomes also verify the presence of the environmental Kuznets curve relationship, which is statistically significant from the middle (30th) to higher (90th) quantiles. Moreover, the finding of panel estimation approaches (FMOLS, DOLS, FE-OLS) also verify the existence of the EKC hypothesis in ASEAN countries. Their finding also describes that 1% increase in non-renewable energy consumption increase CO<inf>2</inf> emission by 0.29%, 0.26% and 0.30% whereas 1% increase in the usage of renewable energy reduces CO<inf>2</inf> emission by 0.17%, 0.15% and 0.17% in case of FMOLS, DOLS and FE-OLS respectively. The empirical results conclude that the government should encourage and subsidize the sources of green energy to tackle environmental degradation. More policy implications are further discussed in the study. © 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Citation - Scopus: 52
    Solving an Ammunition Distribution Network Design Problem Using Multi-Objective Mathematical Modeling, Combined AHP-TOPSIS, and GIS
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2019-03) Akgün, Ibrahim; Erdal, Hamit
    We study a strategic-level ammunution distribution network design problem (ADNDP) where the purpose is to determine the locations and the service assignments of main, regional, and local depots in order to meet the ammunition needs of military units considering several factors, e.g., stock levels at the depots, costs, and risk levels of depot locations. ADNDP is a real-world and large-scale problem for which scientific decision making methods do not exist. We propose a methodology that uses multi-objective mathematical modeling, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), The Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), and Geographic Information System (GIS) to solve the problem. The multi-objective mathematical model determines the locations and the service assignments of depots considering two objectives, namely, to minimize transportation costs and to minimize risk scores of main depot locations. The risk score of a depot location indicates how vulnerable the location is to disruptions and is determined by a combined AHP-TOPSIS analysis where TOPSIS is used to compute the risk scores and AHP is used to compute the weights needed by TOPSIS for the identified risk attributes. The GIS analysis is conducted to determine the potential depot locations using map layers based on spatial criteria. We have applied the proposed methodology in designing and evaluating a real ammunition distribution network under different scenarios in collaboration and cooperation with the area experts. We have employed the weighted-sum method to find non-dominated solutions for each scenario and discussed their tradeoffs with the area experts. The purpose of this paper is to present the proposed methodology, findings, and insights. © 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Citation - Scopus: 2
    Prediction of Colorectal Cancer Based on Taxonomic Levels of Microorganisms and Discovery of Taxonomic Biomarkers Using the Grouping-Scoring (G-S-M) Approach
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2025-03) Bakir-Güngör, Burcu; Temiz, Mustafa; Canakcimaksutoglu, Beyza; Yousef, Malik
    Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most prevalent forms of cancer globally. The human gut microbiome plays an important role in the development of CRC and serves as a biomarker for early detection and treatment. This research effort focuses on the identification of potential taxonomic biomarkers of CRC using a grouping-based feature selection method. Additionally, this study investigates the effect of incorporating biological domain knowledge into the feature selection process while identifying CRC-associated microorganisms. Conventional feature selection techniques often fail to leverage existing biological knowledge during metagenomic data analysis. To address this gap, we propose taxonomy-based Grouping Scoring Modeling (G-S-M) method that integrates biological domain knowledge into feature grouping and selection. In this study, using metagenomic data related to CRC, classification is performed at three taxonomic levels (genus, family and order). The MetaPhlAn tool is employed to determine the relative abundance values of species in each sample. Comparative performance analyses involve six feature selection methods and four classification algorithms. When experimented on two CRC associated metagenomics datasets, the highest performance metric, yielding an AUC of 0.90, is observed at the genus taxonomic level. At this level, 7 out of top 10 groups (Parvimonas, Peptostreptococcus, Fusobacterium, Gemella, Streptococcus, Porphyromonas and Solobacterium) were commonly identified for both datasets. Moreover, the identified microorganisms at genus, family, and order levels are thoroughly discussed via refering to CRC-related metagenomic literature. This study not only contributes to our understanding of CRC development, but also highlights the applicability of taxonomy-based G-S-M method in tackling various diseases. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Citation - Scopus: 7
    Effluent Treatment in Denim and Jeans Manufacture
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2015) Uzal, Niǧmet
    This chapter discusses the major strategies that should be considered in the treatment of denim dyeing and jeans processing wastewater. It first gives an overview of wastewater characteristics and further elaborates on the different techniques currently available for treating wastewater. There follow the strategies to be adopted for water reuse and the recovery of dyes and chemicals. Also emphasised is the utilisation of novel technologies that provide waste minimisation, recovery and reuse opportunities and pollution prevention, instead of end of pipe approaches for treating this highly polluted wastewater. © 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Citation - Scopus: 2
    Deformation Behavior of Nanostructured Aluminum: Experiment and Computational Study
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2023-04) Deka, Surja; Mozafari, Farzin; Mallick, Ashis K.
    Nanocrystalline metals have been processed from powder predecessors in recent times in significant ways, and nowadays, materials are starting to be manufactured which are not only strong but also ductile. Nanocrystalline aluminum (Average grain size 51 nm) was synthesized through high-energy ball milling at the room temperature of microcrystalline powder. The particle size and crystallite sizes were obtained by Williamson Hall and found to be in good correlation with transmission spectroscopy (TEM) data. There was a significant increase in the mechanical properties of nanostructured aluminum in comparison to coarse-grained aluminum. Moreover, a phenomenological model of large-deformation, isotropic, rate-dependent plasticity is developed, which takes into account pressure dependency, plastic dilatation, and non-normal flow. The model has been incorporated into a finite element program. Compression and tension experiments were performed on nanocrystalline aluminum, and the constitutive parameters within the model were estimated from these experiments. The present study shows that the constitutive model successfully simulates the mechanical response of nanocrystalline aluminum with reasonable accuracy using our numerical finite-element capability. © 2023 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Citation - Scopus: 4
    CCPred: Global and Population-Specific Colorectal Cancer Prediction and Metagenomic Biomarker Identification at Different Molecular Levels Using Machine Learning Techniques
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2024-11) Bakir-Güngör, Burcu; Temiz, Mustafa; Inal, Yasin; Cicekyurt, Emre; Yousef, Malik
    Colorectal cancer (CRC) ranks as the third most common cancer globally and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Recent research highlights the pivotal role of the gut microbiota in CRC development and progression. Understanding the complex interplay between disease development and metagenomic data is essential for CRC diagnosis and treatment. Current computational models employ machine learning to identify metagenomic biomarkers associated with CRC, yet there is a need to improve their accuracy through a holistic biological knowledge perspective. This study aims to evaluate CRC-associated metagenomic data at species, enzymes, and pathway levels via conducting global and population-specific analyses. These analyses utilize relative abundance values from human gut microbiome sequencing data and robust classification models are built for disease prediction and biomarker identification. For global CRC prediction and biomarker identification, the features that are identified by SelectKBest (SKB), Information Gain (IG), and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) methods are combined. Population-based analysis includes within-population, leave-one-dataset-out (LODO) and cross-population approaches. Four classification algorithms are employed for CRC classification. Random Forest achieved an AUC of 0.83 for species data, 0.78 for enzyme data and 0.76 for pathway data globally. On the global scale, potential taxonomic biomarkers include ruthenibacterium lactatiformanas; enzyme biomarkers include RNA 2′ 3′ cyclic 3′ phosphodiesterase; and pathway biomarkers include pyruvate fermentation to acetone pathway. This study underscores the potential of machine learning models trained on metagenomic data for improved disease prediction and biomarker discovery. The proposed model and associated files are available at https://github.com/TemizMus/CCPRED. © 2024 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.