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The aim of the present study is to determine the effects of wild boar (Sus scrofa) on farming activities in Samsun, Turkey. The presence and damages of wild boar was monitored by means of direct and indirect observations. ...

This study investigates the thermal performance of a heat pipe heat recovery system in air-to-air heat recovery systems using a nanofluid of Al2O3 (aluminum oxide) particles and distilled water. The experimental setup used ...

In this article we report the healing effects of a Phellinus linteus fruiting body hot water extract (PLE) in streptozotocin (STZ)−induced diabetic rats. PLE was given before and after STZ. The preprotective, protective, ...

Arvicola amphibius (Linnaeus, 1758) is a semiaquatic rodent living in and around wetland habitats covered by rich vegetation. It has a broad distribution in the Palearctic and three subspecies live in Turkey. In order to ...

This study proposed a metaheuristic pansharpening (MP) method, which performs in a Synthetic Variable Ratio (SVR)-like manner. The proposed method introduced the Symbiotic Organisms Search (SOS) algorithm, an advanced ...

Reconstruction of 2D object is a problem concerning many different fields such as forensics science, archiving, and banking. In the literature, it is considered as one-sided puzzle problem. But this study handles torn ...

The majority of the ground filtering techniques proposed so far use several user-defined parameter values. Since no standard protocols exist to define these parameters, obtaining the optimum filtering performance is very ...

Shredded banknote reconstruction is a recent topic and can be viewed as solving large-scale jigsaw puzzles. Also, problems such as reconstruction of fragmented documents, photographs and historical artefacts are closely ...

This paper investigates the behaviour of the double-curvatureDeriner dam, which is in the operation phase and also one of thehighest dams in the world. In order to determine the displace-ments, a geodetic network consisting ...