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is firmly defining its priorities in this huge area while it revises the main directions of its foreign policy. Under the AKP, which came to power in 2002, Turkey has conducted a pragmatic foreign policy aimed exclusively at defending and satisfying the strategic interests of the Turkish state. This article focuses upon aspects of Turkey’s foreign policy as they relate to the current developments in the South Caucasus, particularly through the prism ofTurkey’s relations with the EU and Russia.

Cancer Research, 2008

TEL-AML1 (ETV6-RUNX1) is the most common translocation in the childhood leukemias, and is a prenatal mutation in most children. This translocation has been detected at a high rate among newborns (∼1%); therefore the rate-limiting event for leukemia appears to be secondary mutations. A frequent such mutation in this subtype is partial deletion of chromosome 12p, trans from the translocation. Nine del(12p) breakpoints within six leukemia cases were sequenced to explore the etiology of this genetic event, and most involved cryptic sterile translocations. Twelve of 18 del(12p) parent sequences involved in these breakpoints were located in repeat regions (8 of these in Long Interspersed Nuclear Elements, or LINEs). This stands in contrast to TEL-AML1, in which only 21 of 110 previously assessed breakpoints (19%) occur in DNA repeats (P = 0.0001). An exploratory assessment of archived neonatal blood cards (ANB cards) revealed significantly more LINE CpG methylation in individuals at birth who were later diagnosed with TEL-AML1 leukemia, compared to individuals who did not contract leukemia (P = 0.01). Nontemplate nucleotides were also more frequent in del(12p) than in TEL-AML1 junctions (P = 0.004) suggesting formation by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase. Assessment of six ANB cards indicated that no del(12p) rearrangements backtracked to birth, although two of these patients were previously positive for TEL-AML1 using the same assay with comparable sensitivity. These data are compatible with the a two-stage natural history: TEL-AML1 occurs prenatally, and del(12p) occurs postnatally in more mature cells with a structure that suggests the involvement of retrotransposon instability.

Food Control, 2011

Six antagonistic yeast strains were screened for their ability to degrade Ochratoxin A (OTA) in liquid medium amended with OTA (7.5 µgml -1 ) and inoculated with yeast cells at ambient temperature invitro conditions. Highest OTA degradation was observed when the yeast cell concentration used at 1x10 8 cells/ml. Out of six yeast strains, two strains [Metchnikowia pulcherima (MACH1) and Pichia guillemonodii (M8)] were further selected for degradation of OTA at different conditions and one strain, Rhodococcus erythropolis (AR14) was used as negative control.

2012

The paper develops a four sector small open economy model with two traded final good sectors, a public intermediate good producing sector and a nontraded good sector producing varieties of intermediate goods.

https://www.irjet.net/archives/V6/i5/IRJET-V6I5291.pdf

Wireless sensor networks consist of autonomous sensor nodes attached to one or more base stations.As Wireless sensor networks continues to grow,they become vulnerable to attacks and hence the need for effective security mechanisms.Identification of suitable cryptography for wireless sensor networks is an important challenge due to limitation of energy,computation capability and storage resources of the sensor nodes.Symmetric based cryptographic schemes donot scale well when the number of sensor nodes increases.Hence public key based schemes are widely used.We present here two publickey based algorithms, RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) and found out that ECC have a significant advantage over RSA as it reduces the computation time and also the amount of data transmitted and stored.

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2009

Localized Components Analysis (LoCA) is a new method for describing surface shape variation in an ensemble of objects using a linear subspace of spatially localized shape components. In contrast to earlier methods, LoCA optimizes explicitly for localized components and allows a flexible tradeoff between localized and concise representations, and the formulation of locality is flexible enough For information on obtaining reprints of this article, please send to: [email protected], and reference IEEECS Log Number

Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2008

The radiofrequency (RF) field used in magnetic resonance imaging is scattered by medical implants. The scattered field of a deep brain stimulation lead can be very intense near the electrodes stimulating the brain. The effect is more pronounced if the lead behaves as a resonant antenna. In this paper, we examine the resonant length effect. We also use the finite element method to compute the near field for (i) the lead immersed in inhomogeneous tissue (fat, muscle, and brain tissues) and (ii) the lead connected to an implantable pulse generator. Electric field, specific absorption rate and induced temperature rise distributions have been obtained in the brain tissue surrounding the electrodes. The worst-case scenario has been evaluated by neglecting the effect of blood perfusion. The computed values are in good agreement with in vitro measurements made in the laboratory.