Günümüz kentlerinde sokak oyunları neredeyse tamamen ortadan kalkmış ve yerel yönetimler tarafından yapılan çocuk oyun alanları çocukların yaşıtları ile dışarıda oyun oynayabileceği yegâne mekânlar durumuna gelmiştir. Dolayısıyla çocuk oyun alanları oldukça önemli bir kentsel mekân ögesi olarak değerlendirilmelidir. Bu mekânların çocuklar ve ebeveynleri için güvenli ve kullanılabilir nitelikte olması gerekmektedir. Bu çalışmada, Akyazı mahallesinde bulunan çocuk oyun alanları yüzölçümü, kent mobilyaları, oyun alanı ekipmanları, bitki kullanımı, güvenlik, bakım faktörleri açısından irdelenerek her çocuk oyun alanı için detaylı bir mekânsal analiz ortaya konulmaya çalışılmıştır.

Bu araştırma, bir homofermantatif laktik asit bakteri (LAB) inokulantının ve formik asit temeline dayalı bir koruyucunun (FAT) düşük kuru maddeli (KM) küçük balya mısır (Zea mays L.) silajının aerobik stabilite ve yem değeri üzerine olan etkisinin belirlenmesi amacı ile yürütülmüştür. Mısır süt olum döneminde hasat edilmiş (%26,4 KM) ve yaklaşık 2,0 cm boyutunda parçalanmıştır. Araştırmada LAB inokulantı olarak Pioneer 1132 H/M F, FAT olarak KemiSile 2000 adlı ticari ürünler kullanılmıştır. Katkı maddeleri mısıra sırasıyla, LAB 106 cfu/g; FAT 3, 4 ve 5 g/kg; LAB+FAT 106 cfu/g+3 g/kg, 106 cfu/g+4 g/kg, 106 cfu/g+5 g/kg düzeyinde katılmıştır. Kontrol ve katkı maddeleri ile muamele edilen mısır her uygulama için 3’er tekerrür olmak üzere 30 kg kapasiteli plastik torbalara silolanmıştır. Silolamadan 60 gün sonra açılan silajlarda kimyasal ve mikrobiyolojik analizler yapılmış, silajlara 5 gün süre ile aerobik stabilite testi uygulanmış ve ayrıca silajların in vitro organik madde (OM) sindirilebilirlikleri ve metabolik enerji (ME) değerleri saptanmıştır. Sonuç olarak, homofermantatif LAB inokulantı, FAT ve LAB+FAT kombinasyonu düşük KM’ li mısır silajlarının aerobik stabilitelerini etkilemezken, in vitro OM sindirilebilirliklerini ve ME değerlerini düşürmüştür.

The citrus fruits have a high nutritive value and are also beneficial effects for human health due to their high flavonoid content. Mandarin (Citrus unshiu March.) a kind of citrus fruits are consumed as fresh and processed juice and/or juice concentrate. The aim of this work was to produce jam and evaluate its physical, chemical and sensory qualities from satsuma mandarins that are inconsumable or low quality small fruits. The jam was produced with 1:1 fruits: sugar ratios in an open vessel by traditional technique. Produced whole fruit mandarin jam had reasonable favour score from applied hedonic scale. The mean values of total soluble solid, titratable acidity as citric acid, dry matter, ash percent and pH of jam samples on wet basis were found as 70.38, 0.098, 74.77, 0.28 and 2.87 respectively. Hunter L, a and b values of tangerin jam were measured as 45.34, 11.48, and 21.16 respectively. Total phenolic content, antioxidant capacity and vitamine C of sample were measured 201.60 mg/100g as gallic acid equivalent and 102,24 mg FeSO4.7H2O/100g, 0.07 mg/100 g respectively.

Star Ruby is the main grapefruit (Citrus paradisi) variety grown in Turkey; however, small fruit size is a common problem in ‘Star Ruby’ grapefruit. Fruit size is a decisive external quality parameter in citrus at the marketing of fresh citrus fruits. Fruit size can be enhanced by several techniques such as girdling and thinning. Various plant growth regulators are known to affect the growth and size of citrus fruit. The objective of the present study was to observe the effects of 2,4 dichlorophenoxypropionic acid-p (2,4-DP-P) on the fruit size, yield and quality of Star Ruby from 20-year-old trees budded on sour orange rootstock in Adana, Turkey in 2007. Four concentrations (50, 100, 150 and 300 ppm) of 2,4-DP-P were applied 8 weeks after anthesis during physiological fruit drop when the mean fruit diameter was 13-15 mm. The results indicated that the application of 2,4-DP-P increased the fruit size of Star Ruby grapefruit without reducing yield. The application had a significant effect on fruit yield except for trees treated with 50 ppm 2,4-DP-P. Compared with the control trees, applications of 2,4-DP-P increased the number of large, commercially valuable Star Ruby (>93 mm, 89-93 mm and 84-89 mm). No effects were determined on fruit internal quality parameters. Thus, the results of the present study revealed that 2,4-DP-P can be used to improve the fruit size of Star Ruby fruitlets during the June drop.

Lentil crop has largely been affected by global climate changing, particularly, due to rainfall and temperature changing and variability. Hence, the experiment was conducted in Central Highlands of Ethiopia, namely Akaki, Chefe Donsa and Bishoftu Agricultural Research Centre, in the 2009 and 2010 cropping seasons to assess the genotypic variation of lentil for growth and yield performances. Five lentil genotypes viz. 87S-93549 X EL-103-16, 87S-93549 X EL-103-9-1, Alemaya X FLIP 88-41L-02-AK-14, Alemaya X FLIP 88-41L-02-AK-6 were arranged in randomized complete block design with four replications at all locations. The result of study revealed that the genotype 87S-93549 X EL-103-9-1 produced the highest seed yield of 1985.90 and 2500.00 kg ha-1 during 2009 and 2010 cropping seasons, respectively, at Akaki. On the other hand, the genotype Alemaya X FLIP 88-41L-02-AK-14 gave the highest seed yield (4189.1 kg ha-1) at Chefe Donsa in 2009 cropping season. The genotype X FLIP 88-41L-02-AK-14 was found to be the earliest in physiological maturity, accounting 128.75 days, and the genotype 87S-93549 X EL-103-9-1 had yield advantage of 27.6% over the local check at Chefe Donsa in the 2010 cropping season. Generally, all lentil genotypes were performed better at Chefe Donsa, followed by at Akaki and Bishoftu locations during both cropping seasons. Rainfall and temperature conditions have enormous influences on the growth and yields performances of lentil genotypes at all research locations. The study inspires other studies to be conducted on other factors than climate events thwarting the production of lentil crops in the study areas.

The purpose of this study was to measure and analyse the economic efficiency, and to identify the main factor behind economic efficiency of sorghum and millet for small scale farmers in traditional rainfed sector in North Kordofan State. Primary data is collected using structured questionnaire for a sample of 205 farmers from four localities namely (Sheikan, Umrwaba, Elnuhoud, and Elkhowi). Stochastic frontier approach (cost function) was used to analyse economic efficiency and descriptive statistics were used to analyse socio-economic characteristics of farmers. The results of stochastic frontier cost function revealed that the estimated economic efficiency of the sorghum and millet farmers obtained was found the mean economic efficiency to be 39% and 15%, respectively. The economic efficiency is very weak, because most parameters and inefficiency effect factor found to be not significant, these determinants may give a clear picture of farmers that could be targeted in order to increase efficiency

The physical and chemical characteristics oven dried millet flour from dehulled millet soaked in different media was studied. Depigmented oven dried dehulled millet flour was produced by soaking dehulled millet in different solutions; water, 1% NaCl, 1% Na2CO3, and 1% citric acid. All samples were soaked in their respective solution for 12h, dried in the oven at 60oC for 6h then milled into flour and sieved through 710µm mesh size. The physical properties of oven dried dehulled millet; colour had L* (whiteness value), a* (redness values), and b* (yellowness values) that differed significantly ranging from 66.74 to 84.21, 0.85 to 1.43, and 6.89 to 12.69 respectively. The minimum, mean and maximum particle size distributions of samples ranged from 9.53 to 23.41µm, 29.09 to 50.15µm and 59.46 to 176.01 µm respectively. Starch granules in micrographs of oven dried depigmented millet flours were irregular, compact and polygonally shaped. Gelatinization properties of oven dried millet flour; the onset temperature (To), peak temperature (Tp), end set temperature (Te) and enthalpy varied significantly ranging from 70.15 to 97.65 o C, 79.48 to 102.31 o C, 83.30 to 104.96 o C, and 6.70 to 28.41 (J/g) respectively. Chemical properties comprising of moisture, fats, ash, protein, crude fiber, pH, total titratable acidity, pH of soak solution, phytates and tannins varied significantly ranging from 10.19 to 10.88%, 4.27 to 4.61%, 0.71 to 1.19%, 7.25 to 8.67%, 1.00 to 1.08%, 4.35 to 8.45, 0.001 to 0.084%, 3.32 to 9.93, 0.60 to 0.62, 1.84 to 6.45mg/g and 3.06 to 6.68 mg/g respectively. Depigmenting dehulled millet by soaking in 1% Na2CO3 impaired the colour of sample ODMF2 while depigmenting dehulled millet grains by soaking in 1% citric acid solution for 12 h improved colour of sample ODMF1.

In this research, the effects of dam age and type of birth and sex of lambs on birth weight of Akkaraman lambs was investigated at village conditions in Konya province. Additionally, the heritability and repeatability of birth weight was estimated. The Least-squares means of birth weight was 4.07±0.04 kg. The effects of dam age, year, birth type and sex on birth weight were found statistically significant. The heritability and repeatability of birth weight were found as 0.052±0.04 and 0.130±0.04, respectively.

Policy makers need to know the relationship among energy use, economic growth and environmental quality in order to formulate rigorous policy for economic growth and environmental sustainability. This study analyzes the nexus among energy consumption, affluence, financial development, trade openness, urbanization, population and CO2 emissions in Ethiopia using data from 1970–2014. The ARDL cointegration results show that cointegration exists among the variables. Energy consumption, population, trade openness and economic growth have positive impact on CO2 in the long-run while economic growth squared reduces CO2 emissions which confirms that the EKC hypothesis holds in Ethiopia. In the short-run urbanization and energy consumption intensify environmental degradation. Toda-Yamamoto granger causality results indicate the bi-directional causality between energy consumption and CO2 emissions, CO2 emissions and urbanization. Financial development, population and urbanization cause economic growth while economic growth causes CO2 emissions. Causality runs from energy consumption to financial development, urbanization and population which in turn cause economic growth. From the result, CO2 emissions extenuation policy in Ethiopia should focus on environmentally friendly growth, enhancing consumption of cleaner energy, incorporating the impact of population, urbanization, trade and financial development.

Hatay iline bağlı kayısı alanlarında ve ev bahçelerinde 2014 yılı yaz aylarında arazi çalışmaları gerçekleştirilmiştir. Arazi çalışmaları sırasında sararma, solgunluk ve kök çürüklüğü gibi belirtiler gösteren kayısı bitkilerinden örnekler alınmıştır. Hastalıklı bitki dokuları yüzeyden dezenfekte edildikten sonra içinde tetrasiklin bulunan PDA ortamına ekilmiştir. Beş günlük inkübasyonun ardından, gelişen fungal koloniler mikroskobik ve makroskobik özelliklerine göre teşhis edilmiştir. Toplam 30 izolat Macrophomina phaseolina olarak teşhis edilmiştir. Tüm izolatlar tek mikrosklerot ya da hif ucu yöntemleri ile saflaştırılmış ve +6°C’de saklanmıştır. Her bir izolattan 10mm çapında diskler alınarak PDA ortamına transfer edilmiş ve 15, 20, 25 ve 30, 35 ve 40°C sıcaklıklarda gelişmeye bırakılmıştır. Optimum gelişme sıcaklığı 25 ve 30°C olarak tespit edilmiştir. Klorat fenotiplerini belirlemek amacıyla tüm izolatlar 120mM potasyum klorat içeren minimal ortamlarda geliştirilmiş ve sonuçta 30 izolatın 21’i sıkı, 6’sı parçalı ve 3’ü ise sınırlı gelişim göstermiştir. Lokasyon ile fenotip arasında herhangi bir ilişkiye rastlanmamıştır. Patojenisite testinde, tüm izolatlar kayısı, yerfıstığı, soya, mısır ve kavun bitkilerine inokule edilmiş ve 21 günlük inkübasyon süresinin ardından hastalık şiddeti 0-4 skalası kullanılarak belirlenmiştir. Hastalık şiddeti en yüksek 3,87 ile kayısı bitkilerinde oluşurken, yerfıstığı, soya, mısır ve kavun fidelerinde orta düzeyde hastalık şiddetinin oluştuğu ve aralarında istatistiksel olarak bir farkın olmadığı tespit edilmiştir. Moleküler çalışmalarda 14 farklı RAPD primeri kullanılmış olup, agaroz jel üzerinde oluşan 51 bandın 14’ü polimorfik olarak bulunmuştur. Filogenetik ağaç üzerinde 2 temel grup gözlenirken, bu iki grupta pek çok alt grubun oluştuğu gözlenmiştir. Oluşan gruplar ile lokasyonlar, sıcaklık tepkileri, klorat fenotipleri ve patojenisiteleri arasında herhangi bir ilişkinin bulunmadığı tespit edilmiştir.