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Doctoral Thesis Development of Different Koruk (unripe Grape) Products by Using Several Processing Techniques(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018) Kaya, Zehra; Ünlütürk, SevcanVerjuice, obtained by pressing unripe grapes, is mostly used as an alternative to lemon juice and vinegar in salads and traditional meals due to its unique sour taste and flavour. It has a short shelf life due to growth of yeasts and molds when produced at household conditions. Verjuice products in the market are not meeting desirable quality characteristics. The high quality verjuice and its derivatives required to be produced by considering several processing techniques. The objectives of this Ph.D. thesis are to (i) produce long shelf life verjuice with minimum change in its “fresh like” properties by using the combination of UV-C irradiation or Pulsed-UV light (PUV) with mild heating, (ii) produce verjuice powder with a good storage stability by using freeze drying, (iii) produce concentrated verjuice with minimal quality loss by using vacuum evaporation. Verjuice was successfully pasteurized without loosing its desirable quality by a combined UV-C and mild heating (78.0 mJ/mL, 6.2 min, 51.2°C) and PUV assisted with mild heating (6.12 J/cm2, 8.5 min, 47°C) and mild thermal (72°C, 18 s) treatments. 5-log reduction of target S. cerevisiae (NRRL Y-139) was aimed for the pasteurization of verjuice. No microorganism was developed in pasteurized verjuice during 12 and 6 weeks of refrigerated storage after UV+MH and PUV+MH treatments, respectively. Freezedried verjuice powder containing maltodextrin (FD 48h, 20% MD), was highly stable under the accelerated storage conditions (40°C, 90%RH) for 70 days. Concentrated verjuice obtained under vacuum conditions of 45°C/913 mbar, showed minimal quality change and was consumable up to 12 weeks at refrigerated storage.Doctoral Thesis Quantum Calculus of Classical Heat-burgers' Hierarchy and Quantum Coherent States(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2017) Nalcı Tümer, Şengül; Pashaev, OktayThe purpose of this thesis is an application of quantum calculus to classical Heat- Burgers’ hierarchy and quantum coherent states. First we construct random walk on q-lattice, corresponding q-heat equation and exact solutions in terms of new family of q-exponential functions. Then we introduce a new type of q-diffusive heat equation and q-viscous Burgers’ equation, their polynomial solutions as generalized Kampe-de Feriet polynomials, corresponding dynamical symmetry and description in terms of Bell polynomials. Shock soliton solutions with fusion and fission of shocks are found and studied for different values of q. The q-semiclassical expansion of these equations in terms of Bernoulli polynomials is derived as corrections in power of ln q. A new class of complex valued function of complex argument as q-analytic functions in terms of q-analytic binomials is introduced and shown that these binomials are generalized analytic functions. As an application, we construct a new type of quantum states as q-analytic coherent states and corresponding q-analytic Fock- Bargmann representation. Then, we extend the concept of q-analytic function for two complex arguments, called double q-analytic functions, which has q-Hermite binomial expansion. As hyperbolic extension, we describe the q-analogue of traveling waves and find the D’Alembert solution of q-wave equation. By introducing q-translation operators we obtain q-binomials, q-analytic and q-anti analytic functions, q-travelling waves and non-commutative binomials. New type of quantum states as Hermite coherent states and Kampe-de Feriet coherent states are studied by generalization of the known Mehler formula. We introduce Golden quantum calculus, and as an application we study Golden quantum oscillator and its angular momentum representations.Doctoral Thesis Development of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Markes for Fingerprint Analysis of Turkish Olive (olea Europaea L.) Cultivars and Detection of Adulteration in Turkish Olive Oil(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2015) Uncu, Ali Tevfik; Doğanlar, SamiOlive (Olea europaea L.) tree and oil are signature figures of the Mediterranean culture. Because of its high economic value, olive oil is extremely vulnerable to fraud. The aim of this study was to develop molecular tests for authenticating cultivar and botanical origin in olive oils. In order to authenticate the botanical origin and detect adulteration, a plastid DNA region was utilized for standardizing a capillary-electrophoresis barcode assay. The performance of the assay was evaluated on series of olive oil : seed oil admixtures. The assay proved successful in identifying seed oils in olive oil down to a limit of 10%. The molecular assay described in this work enables adulteration detection regardless of compositional similarities between the adulterant and adulterated oil species, thus will complement the shortcomings of analytical chemistry approaches. In order to establish a DNA-based identification key to ascertain the cultivar origin of Turkish monovarietal olive oils, short fragments from five olive genes were sequenced for SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) identification. CAPS (Cleaved Amplified Polymorphic DNA) assays were designed for SNPs that alter restriction enzyme recognition motifs. When applied on the oils of 17 olive cultivars, a maximum of five CAPS assays were necessary to discriminate the varietal origin of the samples. Admixture detection threshold of the assays was identified as 20% when tested on olive oil admixtures. The SNP-based CAPS assays developed in this work can be used for testing and verification of the authenticity of Turkish monovarietal olive oils, for olive tree certification, and in germplasm characterization and preservation studies.Doctoral Thesis Investigation of Carotenoid Contents of Various Microalgae by Chromatographis/Spectroscopic Methods(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2013) Erdoğan, Ayşegül; Eroğlu, Ahmet EminMicroalgae are the most important energy sources among microorganisms. Carotenoids, as important pigments and antioxidants, are produced by microalgae and are used both for health purposes and as natural colorants. There has been considerable research for the development, identification and determination of new strains of organisms to produce a variety of carotenoids. New methods for the isolation of carotenoids should be developed also for analytical purposes. This study aimed the biosynthesis of carotenoids from microalgae, (Prochlorococcus sp., Scenedesmus protuberans and Nitzschia sp.) their identification and quantification. It is known that some types of microalgae can produce high amount of carotenoids under different stress conditions while some others can produce carotenoids only under stress. For this purpose, cultivation conditions were optimized for the production of new or high value of carotenoids in the selected microalgal strains. Freeze-dried microalgae were extracted using different organic solvents and their carotenoid contents were investigated by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and other chromatographic techniques such as liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS); in addition to (UV-VIS) spectroscopy. In green microalgae lutein (2.54 mg/g for Prochlorococcus sp. and 2.45 mg/g for Scenedesmus protuberans) is the most abundant carotenoid. On the other hand, in brown microalga fucoxanthin (6.58 mg/g for Nitzschia sp.) is the highly accumulated carotenoid. Under stress conditions, many microalgae alter their biosynthetic pathways for the formation and accumulation of carotenoids. Therefore, the effect of different nitrogen sources, oxidative stress conditions and different light sources on lutein content in green microalgae and on fucoxanthin content in brown microalga were investigated.Doctoral Thesis Dna Adsorption on Silica, Alumina and Hydroxyapatite and Imaging of Dna by Atomic Force Microscopy(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2013) Yetgin, Senem; Balköse, Devrim; Balköse, DevrimThe scope of the study is to investigate calf thymus DNA adsorption process on solid powders such as silica, alumina and hydroxyapatite (HAP) to improve DNA solid phase extraction efficiency and to visiulize DNA adsorption by atomic force microscopy (AFM). The equilibrium and kinetics of the DNA adsorption were investigated in batch adsorption on a commercial silica gel and a synthesized silica aerogel, commercial alumina and HAP powders from aqueous DNA solution. Commercial DNA extraction kit adsorbents were also characterized and used for adsorption. Adsorbed DNA was imaged in ambient air on flat surfaces of mica, silica and alumina wafers and HAP particles coated glass surfaces and a HAP pellet surface by AFM. Effects of ambient air, nitrogen flow and freeze drying methods on DNA morphology on the releted surfaces were also investigated. Adsorption of DNA on silica, alumina and HAP increased with the decrease of pH from 9.0 to 2.0. Enhancements of the adsorption capacities of adsorbents were obtained with the addition of MgCl2. It was found that the Van der Waals and the hydrogen bonds rather than the surface charge were the cause of the adsorption. The adsorption isotherms of DNA on silica, alumina and HAP were fitted to Langmuir model in pH range 2-9. The adsorption kinetics obeyed pseudo second order model. The sharpest image of DNA by AFM was obtained by freeze drying method on alumina surface. Dispersed DNA in water was adsorbed on the surfaces not as single molecules but as supercoils consisting of many molecules.Doctoral Thesis Synthesis and Control of Exciton Dynamics in Cdte, Cdte/Cds and Znxcd1-Xte Colloidal Nanocrystals(İzmir Institute of Technology, 2012) Eral Doğan, Leyla; Özçelik, SerdarThe aim of this study is to synthesize cadmium-based semiconductor colloidal nanocrystals and to control their exciton dynamics by tuning the size and composition of the nanocrystals (NCs). CdTe, CdTe/CdS binary, and ZnxCd1-xTe ternary semiconductor NCs are prepared by wet chemistry. The reactions are thoroughly optimized to enhance the optical properties. The optical properties of CdTe and CdTe/CdS are tuned by the size of the NCs by adjusting the reaction (the growth) time. Coating CdTe NCs with CdS layer enhances the photoluminescence quantum yields up to 45%. ZnxCd1-xTe ternary nanoalloys were synthesized by varying the initial mole ratios of metals (Zn/Zn+Cd) and the growth time. The size and the composition-tunable ZnxCd1-xTe nanoalloys exhibit highly luminescent optical properties. When the amount of initial Zn precursor is low, the nanoalloys have Cd-rich and Zn-poor internal crystal structure. However, at higher amount of Zn precursor, the nanoalloys have Zn-rich and Cd-poor core exhibiting gradient composition. The exciton interactions and dynamics are investigated as a function of the size of CdTe/CdS, and the composition and the size of ZnxCd1-xTe nanoalloys. The exciton interaction yields amplification in the output signal at the threshold of 1015 photon/cm2s per laser pulse. The exciton lifetimes are in the range of picoseconds to nanoseconds. The decay associated spectra are affected by the laser power, size and composition of the NCs. As the laser power increases new excitonic states are created especially in ZnxCd1-xTe nanoalloys. Multiexcitons were created in the NCs depending on the laser power. Small NCs exhibit stronger exciton-exciton interactions under high laser power compared to larger NCs. However larger NCs have lesser exciton density, therefore reducing the exciton-exciton interactions.