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A 3d Virtual Environment for Training Soccer Referees
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2019) Isler, Veysi; O'Connor, Rory V.; Clarke, Paul M.; Gulec, Ulas; Yilmaz, Murat
Emerging digital technologies are being used in many ways by and in particular virtual environments provide new opportunities to gain experience on real-world phenomena without having to live the actual real-world experiences. In this study, a quantitative research approach supported by expert validation interviews was conducted to determine the availability of virtual environments in the training of soccer referees. The aim is to design a virtual environment for training purposes, representing a real-life soccer stadium to allow the referees to manage matches in an atmosphere similar to the real stadium atmosphere. At this point, the referees have a chance to reduce the number of errors that they make in real life by experiencing difficult decisions that they encounter during the actual match via using the virtual stadium. In addition, the decisions and reactions of the referees during the virtual match were observed with the number of different fans in the virtual stadium to understand whether the virtual stadium created a real stadium atmosphere for the referees. For this evaluation, Presence Questionnaire (PQ) and Immersive Tendencies Questionnaire (ITQ) were applied to the referees to measure their involvement levels. In addition, a semi-structure interview technique was utilized in order to understand participants' opinions about the system. These interviews show that the referees have a positive attitude towards the system since they can experience the events occurred in the match as a first person instead of watching them from camera as a third person. The findings of current study suggest that virtual environments can be used as a training tool to increase the experience levels of the soccer referees since they have an opportunity to decide about the positions without facing the real-world risks.
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Active Laser Radar Systems With Stochastic Electromagnetic Beams in Turbulent Atmosphere
(Optica Publishing Group, 2008) Cai, Yangjian; Korotkova, Olga; Eyyuboglu, Halil T.; Baykal, Yahya
Propagation of stochastic electromagnetic beams through paraxial ABCD optical systems operating through turbulent atmosphere is investigated with the help of the ABCD matrices and the generalized Huygens-Fresnel integral. In particular, the analytic formula is derived for the cross-spectral density matrix of an electromagnetic Gaussian Schell-model (EGSM) beam. We applied our analysis for the ABCD system with a single lens located on the propagation path, representing, in a particular case, the unfolded double-pass propagation scenario of active laser radar. Through a number of numerical examples we investigated the effect of local turbulence strength and lens' parameters on spectral, coherence and polarization properties of the EGSM beam. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America
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Adaptive Optics Correction of Beam Spread in Biological Tissues
(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2022) Baykal, Yahya
Beam spread in turbulent biological tissues is examined when the tissue is excited with a collimated Gaussian laser beam. Adaptive optics correction is applied to the beam spread in the form of piston only (P Only), tilt only (T Only), piston + tilt (P + T), and the reduction in the beam spread is evaluated as com-pared to the no adaptive optics (No AO) corrected beam spread. No AO and adaptive optics corrected beam spread are expressed for various biological tissue types, against the variations in the strength co-efficient of the refractive-index fluctuations, source size, small length-scale factor of turbulence, tissue length, fractal dimension, characteristic lengths of heterogeneity and the wavelength. For the examined tissue types of liver parenchyma (mouse), intestinal epithelium (mouse), upper dermis (human) and deep dermis (mouse), No AO beam spread and the adaptive optics corrected beam spread are found to increase as the strength coefficient of the refractive-index fluctuations, tissue length, fractal dimension, the char-acteristic lengths of heterogeneity increase, and to decrease as the source size, small length-scale factor, wavelength increase. Reduction ratio of P + T correction is almost the same for all the evaluated cases which is 74%.(C) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Adaptive Optics Effect on Performance of Bpsk-Sim Oceanic Optical Wireless Communication Systems With Aperture Averaging in Weak Turbulence
(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2020) Baykal, Yahya; Ata, Yalcin; Gokce, Muhsin Caner
Turbulence-induced wavefront deformations cause the irradiance of an optical signal to fluctuate resulting a in serious degradation in the bit-error-rate (BER) performance of optical wireless communication (OWC) system. Adaptive optics is an effective technique to compensate for the wavefront aberrations to reduce the fluctuations in the received intensity. In this paper, we investigate how the adaptive optics technique affects the BER performance of an oceanic OWC (OOWC) system employing binary phase shift keying-subcarrier intensity modulation (BPSK-SIM) and aperture averaging. To evaluate BER performance in weak oceanic turbulence, the required entities such as the received optical power captured by a circular aperture and the aperture averaged scintillation index measuring the fluctuations in the received irradiance are derived. The effect of adaptive optics correction of various wavefront aberrations (i.e., tilt, defocus, astigmatism and the coma) on the BER performance is illustrated and the performance of the adaptive optics-OOWC system is compared to that of a non-adaptive optics OOWC system by the metric defined. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Airy-Type Relativistic Matter Wave
(Elsevier Gmbh, 2021) Umul, Yusuf Ziya
A new relativistic Airy-type matter wave is introduced as a solution of the kinetic energy based wave equation. The parametric solution of the related differential equation is obtained. The total energy and momentum of the relativistic particle are derived by using a Bohmian type of decomposition of the kinetic energy based equation. The acceleration of the particle is also evaluated. The behavior of the matter wave is investigated numerically.
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Almost Autonomous Training of Mixtures of Principal Component Analyzers
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2004) Musa, MEM; de Ridder, D; Duin, RPW; Atalay, V
In recent years, a number of mixtures of local PCA models have been proposed. Most of these models require the user to set the number of submodels (local models) in the mixture and the dimensionality of the submodels (i.e., number of PC's) as well. To make the model free of these parameters, we propose a greedy expectation-maximization algorithm to find a suboptimal number of submodels. For a given retained variance ratio, the proposed algorithm estimates for each submodel the dimensionality that retains this given variability ratio. We test the proposed method on two different classification problems: handwritten digit recognition and 2-class ionosphere data classification. The results show that the proposed method has a good performance. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Ammonia Removal From Anaerobically Digested Dairy Manure by Struvite Precipitation
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2005) Uludag-Demirer, S; Demirer, GN; Chen, S
Ammonia is one of the most important contaminants impairing the quality of water resources. When this is considered along with the fact that the global demand for nitrogenous fertilizers is in constant rise, the need for recovery as well as removal of nitrogen is well justified. Crystallization of N and P in the form of struvite (MgNH4PO4 center dot 6H(2)O), which is a slow releasing and valuable fertilizer, is one possible technique for this purpose. This study investigated the removal of NR4+ through struvite precipitation from the effluents of one- (R1) and two-phase (R2) anaerobic reactors digesting dairy manure. To force the formation of struvite in the anaerobic reactor effluents, Ma(2+) ion was added by using both Mg(OH)(2) and MgCl2 center dot 6H(2)O. To prevent the effect of different total phosphorus (TP) concentration in the effluents of RI and R2, as well as to not limit the formation of struvite, an excess amount Of PO43- (0.14 M) was added in the form of NaHPO4. Different stoichiometric Mg2+:NH4+:PO43- ratios were tested to determine the required Mg2+ concentrations for maximum NH4+ removal by keeping NH4+:PO43- ratio constant for the effluents of reactors RI and R2. The results revealed that very high NH4+ removal efficiencies (above 95%) were possible by adding Mg 21 ions higher than 0.06 M concentration in the effluents from reactors RI and R2. It was also observed that the initial pH adjustment to 8.50 using NaOH did not result in any significant increase in the removal of NH4+ and the removal of NH4+ in the reactors treated with MgCl2 center dot 6H(2)O was higher than those treated with Mg(OH)(2) for the same Mg2+ concentration. (c) 2005 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Analysing Iraqi Railways Network by Applying Specific Criteria Using the Gis Techniques
(Coll Science Women, Univ Baghdad, 2019) Naji, Hayder Fans; Maras, H. Hakan
The railways network is one of the huge infrastructure projects. Therefore, dealing with these projects such as analyzing and developing should be done using appropriate tools, i.e. GIS tools. Because, traditional methods will consume resources, time, money and the results maybe not accurate. In this research, the train stations in all of Iraq's provinces were studied and analyzed using network analysis, which is one of the most powerful techniques within GIS. A free trial copy of ArcGIS (R) 10.2 software was used in this research in order to achieve the aim of this study. The analysis of current train stations has been done depending on the road network, because people used roads to reach those train stations. The data layers for this study were collected and prepared to meet the requirements of network analyses within GIS. In this study, the current train stations in Iraq were analyzed and studied depending on accessibility value for those stations. Also, to know the numbers of people who can reach those stations within a walking time of 20 minutes. So, this study aims to analyze the current train stations according to multiple criteria by using network analysis in order to find the serviced areas around those stations. Results will be presented as digital maps layers with their attribute tables that show the beneficiaries from those train stations and serviced areas around those stations depending on specific criteria, with a view to determine the size of this problem and to support the decision makers in case of locating new train stations within the best locations for it.
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Analysis of Barriers To the Adoption of Circular Supply Chain Management: a Case Study in the Air Conditioning Industry
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2023) Çıkmak, S.; Kesici, B.
Circular supply chain management (CSCM) is a process used to design the supply chain by recycling, remanufacturing or refurbishing, repairing, and reusing products However, no study has been encountered in the literature that analyzes CSCM barriers in the air conditioning sector. Hence, this study is aimed to investigate the barriers to CSCM adoption in the air conditioning industry. A case study was conducted on a company operating in the global air conditioning sector. Initially, literature review and expert opinions have been used to identify essential barriers. Later, 6 main barriers and 21 sub-barriers were ranked using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method based on the interval type-2 fuzzy sets. The findings indicate that “Regulatory” is the most crucial, and “Operational” is the least important main barrier. The findings of the study would be useful for practitioners and policymakers to focus on the most prominent barriers in the air conditioning supply chains. © 2023 Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers.
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Citation - Scopus: 10
Analysis of Exergy and Energy of Sugar Production Process in Sugar Plant
(Maney Publishing, 2010) Acir, A.; Altunok, T.; Baysal, E.; Kocyigit, E.; Sahin, H. M.
In this paper, the energy and exergy analysis results of sugar production processes were presented by using operational system data from the Kayseri sugar plant, Turkey. All sugar production processes were thought as a steady state open thermodynamics system and employed the energy and exergy analyses, based on the first and second laws of thermodynamics. The best values of the energy and exergy efficiencies were obtained as 95.1% for the juice production process and 74.3% for the juice concentration process respectively. Moreover, the location of the energy degradation and the irreversibility were determined during the whole sugar production processes. Consequently, it has been pointed out that the energy and exergy efficiencies can be improved if the rates of the energy degradation and irreversibility in the sugar production processes are reduced.
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Analysis of Quantum Radar Cross-Section by Canonical Quantization Method (Full Quantum Theory)
(Ieee-inst Electrical Electronics Engineers inc, 2020) Salmanogli, Ahmad; Gokcen, Dincer
This article investigates the difference between two quantum-based theories to calculate the radar cross-section (RCS). Quantum radar cross-section (QRCS) has been commonly analyzed using the dipole approximation method, and the related results show that it can improve the sidelobe of the interference pattern in contrast to the classical methods. This study, on the other hand, utilizes the canonical quantization (or microscopic) method, which is a more comprehensive theory than the dipole approximation method to calculate the radar cross-section. It is shown that there are some similarities between two methods; nonetheless, there are some crucial quantities and factors that have been ignored in the dipole approximation methods. The main difference arises due to the interaction Hamiltonian that two methods relied on. The theoretical calculation shows some critical points suggesting that the dipole approximation method cannot cover all aspects of the radar cross-section calculation. To verify the mentioned point, we establish a new method in which the radar cross-section is calculated by merging the quantum approach with the method of moment (MoM), called quantum-method of moment (QMoM). The simulation results show that the newly established method is in harmony with the canonical quantization method.
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Analysis of Reciprocity of Cos-Gaussian and Cosh-Gaussian Laser Beams in a Turbulent Atmosphere
(Optical Soc Amer, 2004) Eyyuboglu, HT; Baykal, Y
In a turbulent atmosphere, starting with a cos-Gaussian excitation at the source plane, the average intensity profile at the receiver plane is formulated. This average intensity profile is evaluated against the variations of link lengths, turbulence levels, two frequently used free-space optics wavelengths, and beam displacement parameters. We show that a cos-Gaussian beam, following a natural diffraction, is eventually transformed into a cosh-Gaussian beam. Combining our earlier results with the current findings, we conclude that cos-Gaussian and cosh-Gaussian beams act in a reciprocal manner after propagation in turbulence. The rates (paces) of conversion in the two directions are not the same. Although the conversion of cos-Gaussian beams to cosh-Gaussian beams can happen over a wide range of turbulence levels (low to moderate to high), the conversion of cosh-Gaussian beams to cos-Gaussian beams is pronounced under relatively stronger turbulence conditions. Source and propagation parameters that affect this reciprocity have been analyzed. (C) 2004 Optical Society of America.
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An Analytical Solution for the Plane Wave Diffraction by a Resistive Half-Plane Residing at the Interface of Left and Right Handed Media
(Elsevier Gmbh, 2019) Basdemir, Husnu Deniz
The diffraction of waves by a resistive half-plane lying on the interface of left and right handed media is investigated in this study. Because of the anomalous refraction property of left handed media, shadow boundary shifts toward to the lower surface of the half-plane. In order to obtain the shifted boundary, diffracted waves are divided to subfields. Thus, obtained diffracted waves compensates the deficiency of geometries optics fields at the transition regions. The uniform version of waves is obtained by using the uniform theory of diffraction. The wave behaviors are examined numerically.
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Anisotropy Effect on Multi-Gaussian Beam Propagation in Turbulent Ocean
(Osa-optical Soc, 2018) Ata, Yalcin; Baykal, Yahya
Average transmittance of multi-Gaussian (flat-topped and annular) optical beams in an anisotropic turbulent ocean is examined analytically based on the extended Huygens-Fresnel principle. Transmittance variations depending on the link length, anisotropy factor, salinity and temperature contribution factor, source size, beam flatness order of flat-topped beam, Kolmogorov microscale length, rate of dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy, rate of dissipation of the mean squared temperature, and thickness of annular beam are examined. Results show that all these parameters have effects in various forms on the average transmittance in an anisotropic turbulent ocean. Hence, the performance of optical wireless communication systems can be improved by taking into account the variation of average transmittance versus the above parameters.
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Anisotropy Effect on Performance of Ppm Optical Wireless Oceanic Communication Links
(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2019) Baykal, Yahya
The performance, quantified by the bit-error-rate (BER), of M-ary pulse position modulated (PPM) optical wireless oceanic communication (OWOC) link is investigated when such a link operates in anisotropic weak oceanic turbulence. For this purpose, formulations of the average received power and the scintillation index of collimated Gaussian optical beam detected by a point detector are developed for anisotropic weak oceanic turbulence, which in turn are employed in the BER expression of the PPM OWOC links. BER is evaluated under various turbulence parameters of anisotropic oceanic turbulence, M of M-ary PPM, data bit rate, average current gain of avalanche photodiode (APD). For any investigated parameter, it is found that the BER performance of M-ary PPM OWOC links is improved as the ocean becomes more anisotropic. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Anti-Ship Missile Defense for a Naval Task Group
(Wiley-blackwell, 2011) Kandiller, Levent; Karasakal, Orhan; Ozdemirel, Nur Evin
In this study, we present a new formulation for the air defense problem of warships in a naval task group and propose a solution method. We define the missile allocation problem (MAP) as the optimal allocation of a set of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) of a naval task group to a set of attacking air targets. MAP is a new treatment of an emerging problem fostered by the rapid increase in the capabilities of anti-ship missiles (ASMs), the different levels of air defense capabilities of the warships against the ASM threat, and new technology that enables a fully coordinated and collective defense. In addition to allocating SAMs to ASMs, MAP also schedules launching of SAM rounds according to shoot-look-shoot engagement policy or its variations, considering multiple SAM systems and ASM types. MAP can be used for air defense planning under a given scenario. As thorough scenario analysis would require repetitive use of MAP, we propose efficient heuristic procedures for solving the problem. (C) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 58: 305-322, 2011
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Antibacterial Behavior of Oxynitride Glasses as a Glassy Grain Boundary Phase for Silicon Nitride-Based Ceramics
(Wiley Periodicals, inc, 2021) Kushan Akin, Seniz R.; Dolekcekic, Emrah; Webster, Thomas J.
Silicon nitride-based ceramics have provided significant advantages due to their high chemical resistance, high elastic modulus, and combination of hardness and fracture toughness (depending on self-reinforcement). Over the past two decades, a significant amount of interest has been generated for the bio-applications of these materials. However, the effect of the grain boundary phase on such applications is still not very well understood. In this study, the effect of different cations on biological (such as antibacterial and cytocompatibilty) and material properties (like wetting angles and isoelectric points [IEP]) of oxynitride glasses, mimicking the grain boundary phase in Si3N4 and SiAlON ceramics, were investigated. Results revealed that the antibacterial behavior and mammalian cell viability were inversely correlated in glasses with rare-earth cation additions. Ca was the best cation when the two properties (bacterial response and cell proliferation) were considered together, and, thus should be further studied for a wide range of applications.
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Aperture Averaging and Ber for Gaussian Beam in Underwater Oceanic Turbulence
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2018) Baykal, Yahya; Gokce, Muhsin Caner
In an underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) link, power fluctuations over finite-sized collecting lens are investigated for a horizontally propagating Gaussian beam wave. The power scintillation index, also known as the irradiance flux variance, for the received irradiance is evaluated in weak oceanic turbulence by using the Rytov method. This lets us further quantify the associated performance indicators, namely, the aperture averaging factor and the average bit-error rate (). The effects on the UWOC link performance of the oceanic turbulence parameters, i.e., the rate of dissipation of kinetic energy per unit mass of fluid, the rate of dissipation of mean-squared temperature, Kolmogorov microscale, the ratio of temperature to salinity contributions to the refractive index spectrum as well as system parameters, i.e., the receiver aperture diameter, Gaussian source size, laser wavelength and the link distance are investigated. (c) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Aperture Averaging in Strong Oceanic Turbulence
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2018) Baykal, Yahya; Gokce, Muhsin Caner
Receiver aperture averaging technique is employed in underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) systems to mitigate the effects of oceanic turbulence, thus to improve the system performance. The irradiance flux variance is a measure of the intensity fluctuations on a lens of the receiver aperture. Using the modified Rytov theory which uses the small-scale and large-scale spatial filters, and our previously presented expression that shows the atmospheric structure constant in terms of oceanic turbulence parameters, we evaluate the irradiance flux variance and the aperture averaging factor of a spherical wave in strong oceanic turbulence. Irradiance flux variance variations are examined versus the oceanic turbulence parameters and the receiver aperture diameter are examined in strong oceanic turbulence. Also, the effect of the receiver aperture diameter on the aperture averaging factor is presented in strong oceanic turbulence. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Apertured Averaged Scintillation of Fully and Partially Coherent Gaussian, Annular Gaussian, Flat Toped and Dark Hollow Beams
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2015) Eyyuboglu, Halil T.
Apertured averaged scintillation requires the evaluation of rather complicated irradiance covariance function. Here we develop a much simpler numerical method based on our earlier introduced semianalytic approach. Using this method, we calculate aperture averaged scintillation of fully and partially coherent Gaussian, annular Gaussian flat topped and dark hollow beams. For comparison, the principles of equal source beam power and normalizing the aperture averaged scintillation with respect to received power are applied. Our results indicate that for fully coherent beams, upon adjusting the aperture sizes to capture 10 and 20% of the equal source power, Gaussian beam needs the largest aperture opening, yielding the lowest aperture average scintillation, whilst the opposite occurs for annular Gaussian and dark hollow beams. When assessed on the basis of received power normalized aperture averaged scintillation, fixed propagation distance and aperture size, annular Gaussian and dark hollow beams seem to have the lowest scintillation. Just like the case of point-like scintillation, partially coherent beams will offer less aperture averaged scintillation in comparison to fully coherent beams. But this performance improvement relies on larger aperture openings. Upon normalizing the aperture averaged scintillation with respect to received power, fully coherent beams become more advantageous than partially coherent ones. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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