Postcard: Sunday at the Sod House Near Atwood, Kansas

This black and white photographic postcard features a group of people standing and sitting in front of a sod house. The thirteen people range in age from a small child to a man with white hair and beard. A circular grinding stone is on the left side of the sod house. Printed text is at the bottom of the card. Handwriting is on the back of the card.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/tj_postcards/2194/thumbnail.jp

Conducta del consumidor gastronómico basado en los elementos del neuromarketing: Gastronomic consumer behavior based on the elements of neuromarketing

De acuerdo con los datos del ministerio de Economía y Finanzas Públicas, los restaurantes registraron un crecimiento del 15% en el valor de sus ventas y/o servicios facturados, al pasar de $us 468 millones, de enero a octubre de 2022, a$us 539 millones en el mismo periodo de 2023. Mediante este proyecto, se busca identificar los distintos usos de elementos vinculados al neuromarketing que usan en el sector de la gastronomía, ya que pueden ocupar en tres ejes, atención, emoción y memoria, con el Objetivo de explicar la conducta del consumidor gastronómico basado en los elementos del neuromarketing en la ciudad de Santa Cruz en los últimos años, para ello el enfoque teórico será en neuromarketing asociado a la mirada socioeducativa, “el objetivo principal del Neuromarketing es el de decodificar los procesos que se forman en la mente del consumidor, para descubrir sus deseos, ambiciones y causas ocultas en sus opciones de compra, de tal manera, que podamos entregarles lo que ellos necesitan” . Es un proyecto interdisciplinar que involucra a carreras como gastronomía, diseño gráfico y comunicación visual. El enfoque metodológico que se desarrollará es investigación de diseño explicativa por que hace una relación entre el neuromarketing con la gastronomía y tratará de explicar todos los factores que inciden en la decisión de consumo que tienen los actores y transversal por que se realizará en un periodo de tiempo de seis meses. Es de enfoque cualitativo donde se utilizará el método narrativo con las técnicas de entrevistas y cuantitativo utilizando técnica de la encuesta

Using titanium complexes to defeat cancer: the view from the shoulders of titans

When the first titanium complex with anticancer activity was identified in the 1970s, it was attractive, based on the presence of the dichloride unit in TiCl2Cp2 (Cp = η-C5H5)2, to assume its mode of biological action was closely aligned with cisplatin [cis-PtCl2(NH3)2]. Over the intervening 40 years however a far more complicated picture has arisen indicating multiple cellular mechanisms of cellular action can be triggered by titanium anti-cancer agents. This tutorial review aims to unpick the historical data and provide new researchers, without an explicit cancer biology background, a contemporary interpretation of both older and newer literature and to review the best techniques for attaining the identities of the biologically active titanium species and how these interact with the cancer cellular machinery

Synchronous diversification of Sulawesi's iconic artiodactyls driven by recent geological events

The high degree of endemism on Sulawesi has previously been suggested to have vicariant origins, dating back to 40 Ma. Recent studies, however, suggest that much of Sulawesi's fauna assembled over the last 15 Myr. Here, we test the hypothesis that more recent uplift of previously submerged portions of land on Sulawesi promoted diversification and that much of its faunal assemblage is much younger than the island itself. To do so, we combined palaeogeographical reconstructions with genetic and morphometric datasets derived from Sulawesi's three largest mammals: the babirusa, anoa and Sulawesi warty pig. Our results indicate that although these species most likely colonized the area that is now Sulawesi at different times (14 Ma to 2-3 Ma), they experienced an almost synchronous expansion from the central part of the island. Geological reconstructions indicate that this area was above sea level for most of the last 4 Myr, unlike most parts of the island. We conclude that emergence of land on Sulawesi (approx. 1-2 Myr) may have allowed species to expand synchronously. Altogether, our results indicate that the establishment of the highly endemic faunal assemblage on Sulawesi was driven by geological events over the last few million years

Determination of Bone Developments of Rat Anterior and Posterior Extremity Bones in Prenatal and Postnatal Period by Double Staining Method

Aim: In our study, we aimed to determine the morphological development of the bones of the anterior and posterior extremity by staining the rat fetus and offspring skeletons with the double staining method. Method: In the current study, seven groups three prenatal (16th, 18th, and 20th days) and four postnatal (0th, 3th, 7th and 12th days) were formed from the foetuses and offsprings obtained from 13 pregnant rats. Then, it was stained with double staining method. Anterior and posterior extremity images of the fetuses and offsprings were examined under a stereo microscope, and ossification findings were determined. Total bone and ossification lengths as well as ossification areas were measured using the ImageJ software. Results: The first cartilage destruction in fetuses occurred on the 16th day of pregnancy in the clavicle, scapula, humerus, radius and ulna; It was seen in the femur, tibia and fibula on the 18th day of pregnancy. The first ossification centres were in the clavicle, scapula and humerus on the 18th day of pregnancy; It was seen in the radius, ulna, femur, tibia, fibula and 2-5 metatarsal bones on the 20th day of pregnancy. The secondary ossification centre was seen on the 0th day (birthday) in the scapula and humerus, on the 7th day after birth in the ulna and radius, and on the 12th day after birth in the femur and tibia. In the study, while the ossification rate in 20-day-old foetuses was 48.9% in the humerus, 53.2% in the radius, 55.7% in the ulna, 33.6% in the femur, 43.2% in the tibia, 44.3% in the fibula, it was determined that it reached 69.7% in the humerus, 78.4% in the radius, 73.3% in the ulna, 63.5% in the femur, 75.5% in the tibia, and 69.2% in the fibula on the 12th day after birth. Conclusion: In this study, we revealed the morphological changes of the anterior and posterior extremity bones of fetuses and offsprings in the normal developmental course. We think that these results will shed light on the studies to be conducted on the detection of skeletal anomalies in teratological studies and contribute to a more comprehensive evaluation of the findings to be obtained from the studies to be conducted

Tripodal O-N-O bis-Phenolato Amine Titanium(IV) Complexes Show High In Vitro Anti-Cancer Activity

The octahedral titanium(IV) complexes trans,mer‐[Ti{R3N(CH2C6H2‐2‐O‐4‐R2‐6‐R1)2}2] (R1 = Me, OMe, Cl; R2 = Me, OMe, F, Cl; R3 = Me, Et; not all combinations) are synthesised in two steps from simple phenols in 36‐53% overall yield. The highly crystalline (4 X‐ray structures) complexes are active against MCF‐7 (breast) and HCT‐116 (colon) cancer cell lines showing widely varying GI50 values in the range 1‐100 µM depending on R1‐R3. Highest activities are realised when R1 = OMe and R2, R3 = Me (GI50 ~1 µM for MCF‐7 and 2‐3 µM for HCT‐116). These are respectively 8× and 3× times greater than the activities of cisplatin in the same cell lines. These titanium complexes show some significant selectivity for cancer cell lines; up to 7× higher in MCF‐7 compared to non‐cancer (MRC‐5) fibroblast cells. Details of cellular mode of action indicators (cell cycle perturbation, Annexin V, γ‐H2AX, and caspase studies) that point to an apoptosis mode for the most active compound (R1 = OMe and R2, R3 = Me) are also reported

Synchronous diversification of Sulawesi's iconic artiodactyls driven by recent geological events

The high degree of endemism on Sulawesi has previously been suggested to have vicariant origins, dating back to 40 Ma. Recent studies, however, suggest that much of Sulawesi’s fauna assembled over the last 15 Myr. Here, we test the hypothesis that more recent uplift of previously submerged portions of land on Sulawesi promoted diversification and that much of its faunal assemblage is much younger than the island itself. To do so, we combined palaeogeographical reconstructionswithgenetic andmorphometric datasets derived from Sulawesi’s three largest mammals: the babirusa, anoa and Sulawesi warty pig. Our results indicate that although these species most likely colonized the area that is now Sulawesi at different times (14 Ma to 2-3 Ma), they experienced an almost synchronous expansion from the central part of the island. Geological reconstructions indicate that this area was above sea level for most of the last 4 Myr, unlike most parts of the island. We conclude that emergence of land on Sulawesi (approx. 1-2 Myr) may have allowed species to expand synchronously. Altogether, our results indicate that the establishment of the highly endemic faunal assemblage on Sulawesiwas driven by geological events over the last few million years

Synchronous diversification of Sulawesi's iconic artiodactyls driven by recent geological events

The high degree of endemism on Sulawesi has previously been suggested to have vicariant origins, dating back to 40 Ma. Recent studies, however, suggest that much of Sulawesi's fauna assembled over the last 15 Myr. Here, we test the hypothesis that more recent uplift of previously submerged portions of land on Sulawesi promoted diversification and that much of its faunal assemblage is much younger than the island itself. To do so, we combined palaeogeographical reconstructions with genetic and morphometric datasets derived from Sulawesi's three largest mammals: the babirusa, anoa and Sulawesi warty pig. Our results indicate that although these species most likely colonized the area that is now Sulawesi at different times (14 Ma to 2-3 Ma), they experienced an almost synchronous expansion from the central part of the island. Geological reconstructions indicate that this area was above sea level for most of the last 4 Myr, unlike most parts of the island. We conclude that emergence of land on Sulawesi (approx. 1-2 Myr) may have allowed species to expand synchronously. Altogether, our results indicate that the establishment of the highly endemic faunal assemblage on Sulawesi was driven by geological events over the last few million years

Credit Card Fraud Detection Analysis and Machine Learning Application

Kredi kartı şüpheli işlemleri, kredi ya da debit kartı ödeme aracı olarak kullanılan işlemlerde şüpheli ve dolandırıcı nitelikteki işlemlere verilen genel ifadedir. Internet ya da POS cihazlarının yakın zamanda kullanılmasının artması ile kredi kartı kaynaklı dolandırıcılık da artmıştır. Bu yasa dışı işlemler genel olarak kredi kartı ile ilişkili hesap numarası ya da işlem gerçekleştirilebilmesi için gerekli bilgilerin elde geçirilmesi ile başlamaktadır. Literatür araştırması ve veri analizi sonrasında bir işlemin şüpheli dolandırıcılık işlemi olup olmadığı makine öğrenme algoritmaları kullanılarak araştırılmıştır. Logistik regresyon, Naive Bayes, karar ağacı, rassal orman ve doğrusal SVC algoritmaları bu çalışmada kullanıldı. Örnekleme teknikleri (rassal alt ve üst örneklem ve SMOTE) ile birlikte ilgili algoritmaların performansları karşılaştırılmıştır. Lojistik regresyon, karar ağacı ve rassal orman algoritmaları daha iyi sonuçlar sağlamıştır. Kafes arama algoritması üç algoritma üzerinde uygulanmıştır. Karar ağacı algoritması kredi kartı şüpheli işlem tespiti için en iyi algoritma seçilmiştir. Python 3.7 yazılımı kullanılmıştır.Credit card fraud transaction is a common term for theft and fraud action involving a payment card such as payment or credit card or debit card as a source of funds in transactions. With increased usage of POS channel or internet in recent years, the risks of credit card fraud have increased. Mostly, these illegal activities start with a compromise of data associated with the account number or important information that required to start the financial transaction. After, literature review and exploratory data analysis, machine learning algorithms are going to use to decide whether the transaction is fraud or not. Logistic regression, decision tree, Naive-Bayes, decision forest and linear SVC’s classifier algorithms are used in this study. With re-sampling choices (random-under, random-over sampling ; SMOTE), these algorithms’ performances are compared. Logistic regression, decision tree, and random forest provide best results in terms of accuracy metrics. Grid-Search is applied to those three algorithms. Decision tree algorithm is chosen as the best algorithm for credit card fraud detection. Python 3.7 is used in this study