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Although, state buildings are designed with higher building importance factors with respect to other buildings, they are damaged and collapsed in medium and large scale earthquakes occurred throughout the 14 year period starting from 1992 Erzincan Earthquake. Buildings, used for medical, educational, governmental and security purposes, have to be non-damaged and they should satisfy immediate occupancy after design earthquakes. In this study, structural deficiencies in 105 state buildings, of which seismic vulnerability assessment has been done in recent years, are investigated. Examples of different problems, which are not observed in other buildings mostly, are given., 1992 Erzincan depremi ile başlayan ve günümüze kadar geçen 14 yıllık süre içerisinde yaşamış olduğumuz orta ve büyük ölçekli depremlerde, daha yüksek bina önem katsayıları ile tasarlanmalarına rağmen kamu yapılarının da diğer yapılar gibi hasar gördüğü ve yıkıldığı görülmüştür. Sağlık, eğitim, yönetim ve güvenlik amacıyla kullanılan binaların özellikle tasarım depreminde hasar görmemesi ve deprem sonrasında da hemen kullanılabilir durumda olması gereklidir. Bu çalışmada; son yıllarda deprem dayanımları incelenen 105 kamu yapısında taşıyıcı sistem kusurları incelenmiştir. Karşılaşılan kusurlar örneklenmiştir. Diğer yapılarda pek gözlenmeyen bazı değişik problemlere ait örnekler verilmiştir.

Route choice is a complex problem in which the individual benefit is maximized by using many parameters. The effectiveness of a route choice model depends on well-definition of the users' behaviors. The purpose of this study is to model the route choice problem of an important network in Denizli with fuzzy logic using the real data gathered by a survey. Four important parameters; namely travel time, traffic safety, congestion and environmental effects are used in the fuzzy model. The fuzzy logic concepts are especially used to take into account the characteristics of route choice behavior such as imprecision, vagueness and uncertainty. The fuzzy logic model is compared with Logistic Regression Models and the best results are obtained with the Fuzzy Logic Model.

Route choice in urban transportation networks is a complex decision making problem for the road users. This decision has resulted in different ways such as increase in transportation cost and negative effects on driver psychology. Travel time, congestion, safety and environmental effects are the important criteria that should be taken in to account in route choice. Selection of the convenient route under determined criteria using the information axiom will be realized in this study. The Information axiom, the second axiom of Axiomatic Design (AD) principles, proposes the selection of the proper alternative that has minimum information content. Axiomatic approach including crisp information axiom for complete information and fuzzy information axiom for incomplete information is used as a tool for the evaluation of alternative routes in Denizli.

Microelectronics properties of Al/ZnO/p-Si/Al Schottky diode have been investigated. ZnO films have grown onto p type silicon substrate by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis @ 350°C. Al front contacts have been deposited by thermal evaporation process in vacuum at 10-6 Torr. The current-voltage I-V characteristics show a good rectifying profile around 1900. The extracted parameters in dark and light 150 mW/cm² conditions: ideality factor n , barrier height ΦB, series resistance Rs are respectively found to be 3.5 and 1.6, 0.74 eV and 0.89 eV, 5 kΩ and 1.6 kΩ, respectively. Effect of temperature, varied within the range of 22-107 ° C, on the I-V characteristics was emphasized. Dark and illumination characteristics were also studied. Finally, we accomplished the study by the measurement of capacitance-voltage C-V characteristics as a result of frequency.

Aim: To investigate the prevalence of monosymptomatic enuresis (ME) in children diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and the rate of resolution or improvement in enuresis following adenotonsillectomy. Materials and methods: We retrospectively reviewed the charts of 541 consecutive patients who underwent adenotonsillectomy for OSAS secondary to adenotonsillar hypertrophy between January 2005 and January 2009. All of the charts for patients between 5 and 18 years of age at the time of surgery (n = 398) were included in the study. After reviewing the charts, the families were contacted by telephone. Those patients who had shown preoperative symptoms of enuresis were questioned to determine whether there had been any change in their complaints postoperatively. Results: Of the 398 patients whose records were reviewed, 98 were excluded from this study because of incomplete records. The incidence of ME in the study group (n = 300) prior to adenotonsillectomy was 30.7% (92 patients). Among these 92 patients, 64 (69.6%) were male and 28 (30.4%) were female (P = 0.001). The parents of 46 of these 92 patients agreed to allow their children to participate in the study. In 46 patients, 26 (56.5%) had complete resolution, 8 (17.4%) had a partial improvement, and 12 (26.1%) had no change in enuresis following adenotonsillectomy. Patients with OSAS had a 2.38-fold higher risk of ME (odds ratio 2.38, 95% confi dence interval 1.60 to 3.53, P = 0.001). Conclusion: Children with OSA symptoms have a high rate of monosymptomatic enuresis. Relief of OSA symptoms also resulted in the complete resolution or partial improvement of ME in more than two-thirds of patients. In the diff erential diagnosis of a child presenting with enuresis, OSAS should be kept in mind and, conversely, the presence of enuresis should be investigated in children presenting with OSA symptoms.