OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to clarify the morphological differences in the mandibular arches of Turkish and North American white subjects. METHODS The sample included 132 Turkish (34 Class I, 58 Class II, and 40 Class III) and 160 North American (60 Class I, 50 Class II, and 50 Class III) subjects. The most facial portion of 13 proximal contact areas was digitized from photocopied im...

Turkish makam music needs a comprehensive database for public consumption, to be used in MIR. This article introduces SymbTr, a Turkish Makam Music Symbolic Representation Database, aimed at filling this void. SymbTr consists of musical information in text, PDF, and MIDI formats. Raw data, drawn from reliable sources, and consisting of 1,700 musical pieces in Turkish art and folk music was proc...

Chronic spontaneous urticaria has a substantial impact on patients' quality of life. The first disease-specific tool to assess quality of life impairment in this condition, the Chronic Urticaria Quality of Life Questionnaire (CU-Q2oL), was developed recently. The aim of this study was to adapt the original Italian version to the Turkish language and to evaluate its reliability, validity, and se...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to translate the Psychosocial Impact of Dental Aesthetics Questionnaire (PIDAQ) into Turkish, validate the questionnaire, and provide a cross-cultural adaptation. METHODS The translation process included the following steps, which were performed by a translation committee: (1) translation into Turkish, (2) back translation into English, (3) pretesting, and ...

This article reports on an ethnopharmaceutical field study carried out among Turkish migrants in Cologne, western Germany, which recorded 79 botanical taxa and 115 plant-based preparations, encompassing 167 folk phytotherapeutical uses, as well as a few other biological (animal and mineral derived) remedies. One-fourth of the recorded remedies were represented by food-medicines. Half of the ing...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to show the reliability and validity of a Turkish version of Diabetes Eating Problem Survey-Revised (DEPS-R) in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus. METHODS A total of 200 children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes, ages 9-18 years, completed the DEPS-R Turkish version. In addition to tests of validity, confirmatory factor analysis was...

Background/aim: We developed a Turkish version of the Bladder and Bowel Dysfunction Questionnaire (BBDQ) and evaluated its psychometric properties among Turkish pediatric patients.Materials and methods: The BBDQ was translated into Turkish and then it was back-translated into English. A total of 193 patients were asked to complete the Turkish version of the BBDQ as well as the Dysfunctional Voi...

the present study investigates azari-turkish wh-words within the framework of minimalism. the analysis of wh-in-situ data shows that [+q] &ki;/kïparticle are syntactically in complementary distribution in azari-turkish. when a wh-word is bound by [+q] in c-position, it is interpreted as interrogative element. if, on the other hand, the wh-word is bound by ki/kïparticle which appears in c-positi...