TURKISH TIME-PIECES

Solving the Autism Puzzle a Few Pieces at a Time

In this issue, a pair of studies (Levy et al. and Sanders et al.) identify several de novo copy-number variants that together account for 5%-8% of cases of simplex autism spectrum disorders. These studies suggest that several hundreds of loci are likely to contribute to the complex genetic heterogeneity of this group of disorders. An accompanying study in this issue (Gilman et al.), presents ne...

Nursing Time Allocation: A Wok Sampling Survey in a Turkish Private Hospital

Background and Objectives: Work sampling is a useful technique to characterize how employees allocate their work time to various activities. Given the value of nurses’ time for quality health care delivery, characterization of nursing time distribution may provide useful information for optimal use of nursing staff. The purpose of the present study was to explore time allocatio...

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Language Selection at the Time of Processing Anger: A Case Study of Turkish-Persian Bilinguals

Recent research declares the influence of bilingualism on many cognitive and emotional processes. The aim of the present study is investigating the role of bilingualism in processing anger in Turkish-Persian bilinguals’ first (L1) and second (L2) language. To achieve this goal, 18 Turkish-Persian sequential bilinguals (with an average age of 26) who were students of Tehran universities were sel...

Focus: Missing Pieces

Stem Cells and Cancer: The Medical Mystery of the 21st Century Cancer, which is characterized by abnormal cell proliferation that leads to uncontrolled tumor growth, is a leading cause of death worldwide (7.4 million deaths in 2004). Scientists have focused on the biological mechanism of tumor formation in an attempt to develop well-informed, effective cancer treatments that slow or halt the pr...