We calculate the probability of strong shaking in Istanbul—an urban center of 10 million people—from the description of earthquakes on the North Anatolian fault system in the Marmara Sea during the past 500 years, and test the resulting catalog against the frequency of damage in Istanbul during the preceding millennium. Departing from current practice, we include the time-dependent effect of st...

The Lombok Strait separates the Indonesian islands Bali and Lombok and is the second most important strait through which water is exchanged between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The south end of the Lombok Strait is split by a small island and on each side of the island are rugged sills with an average depth of about 200 m. On the sill, tidal current speeds up to ±3.5 m/s are encounte...

The objective of this study is to understand the calcareous nannoplankton response to past environmental changes in the Strait of Hormuz during the Holocene. Calcareous nannoplankton is well abundant in the living phytoplankton community and a key component of the marine sediments. Due to its distinct reaction to environment changes and its good preservation potential, it is well suited for p...

BACKGROUND Health Assessment (HA) items were introduced in 1999 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged at least 55 years and all Australians aged over 75 years. In 2004 a new item was introduced for HAs among adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15-54 years. The new item has been applauded as a major policy innovation however this enthusiasm has been tempered w...

This is an Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) response to Madden et al.’s paper entitled ‘Estimating Indigenous life expectancy: pitfalls with consequences’, which is published in this issue of the Journal of Population Research. This paper is a critique of the method used by the ABS for compiling life tables for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. The paper claims that ‘the A...

OBJECTIVES To determine the accuracy of routine identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women confining at King George V (KGV) Hospital, located in Sydney, Australia. DESIGN Interviewer-administered survey. PARTICIPANTS Consecutive sample of women who delivered live, well infants from May to July 1999. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Comparison of hospital documentation compared with...

1M.D., Başkent University, Zübeyde Hanım Hospital, Psychiatry Department, İzmir Turkey 2M.D., Bakırköy Mental Health and Neurologic Diseases Training and Research Hospital, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department, İstanbul Turkey 3M.D., Gazi University Medical Faculty, Psychiatry Department, Ankara Turkey 4M.D., İstanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, Psychiatry Department, İstanbul...

1 Department of Physics, Faculty of Art and Sciences, Celal Bayar University, Muradiye, Manisa, Turkey. 2 Department of Physics Education, Education of Faculty, Erzincan University, 24030, Erzincan, Turkey. 3 Department of Physics, Faculty of Art and Sciences, Yildiz Technical University, Davutpaşa, 34220, Istanbul, Turkey. 4 Department of Industrial Physics, Institute of Sciences, Istanbul Com...

Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul 34734, Turkey The European Board of Ophthalmology, Dunyagoz Hospital, Istanbul 34337, Turkey Correspondence to: Ozgun Melike Gedar Totuk. Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Bahcesehir University, Yenisahra Mah. Batman Sok. No: 66-68 Sahrayicedit, Kadikoy, Istanbul 34734, Turkey. [email protected]...

Studies of cross-strait lexical differences in the use of Mandarin Chinese reveal that a divergence has become increasingly evident. This divergence is apparent in phonological, semantic, and pragmatic analyses and has become an obstacle to knowledge-sharing and information exchange. Given the wide range of divergences, it seems that Chinese character forms offer the most reliable regular mappi...