Most of the leprosy patients in Turkey live in the rural areas of Eastern and South-Eastern Anatolia. Those living in the suburbs of the big cities of the Western parts of the country have come there by immigration. Nearly all patients are very poor; they have no land, or only a small amount of soil for cultivation. The incidence of deformities in our patients is high, excluding them from regul...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to perform a retrospective analysis of the causes of burns observed in children in the eastern provinces of Turkey. METHOD In this study, patients were studied retrospectively with regard to their age, sex, cause of burns, seasonal variations, social and economic factors, length of hospital stay, burned body surface area, medical history, site of injury, an...

Fatty Acids, α-tocopherol, β-caroten, minerals, and some pomological properties of walnut genotypes from four locations (Iğdır, Tuzluca, Karakoyunlu, Kağızman) of Aras Valley (Eastern Turkey) were examined. In this study, the differences among the genotypes were determined in terms of some fruit characteristics, oil and protein contents, fatty acid composition, selenium content, α-tocophero...

BACKGROUND The Eastern border of the European Union (EU) consists of 10 countries after the expansion of the EU in 2004 and 2007. These 10 countries border to the East to countries with high tuberculosis (TB) notification rates. We analyzed the notification data of Europe to quantify the impact of cross-border TB at the Eastern border of the EU. METHODS We used TB surveillance data of 2010 su...

Selection of habitats has regularly been suggested to influence species demography at both local and broad scales. The expectation is that selection behaviors have positive benefits via greater fitness or increased survival. The current paradigm of habitat selection theory suggests a hierarchical process, where an individual first selects where they choose to live (e.g., range) and then searche...

A collection of 172 durum wheat landraces from 21 Mediterranean countries and 20 modern cultivars were phenotyped in 6 environments for 14 traits including phenology, biomass, yield and yield components. The genetic structure of the collection was ascertained with 44 simple sequence repeat markers that identified 448 alleles, 226 of them with a frequency lower than 5%, and 10 alleles per locus ...

Two markers of regional exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean during the first millennium BCE are the White Painted and Bichrome Wares from Cyprus's Cypro-Geometric and Cypro-Archaic periods. Although these ceramics are often assumed to be imports from Cyprus, excavations in southern Turkey at sites such as Tarsus-Gözlükule, Kilise Tepe, Sirkeli Höyük, and Kinet Höyük suggest that at least some...

GHISLAINE GEELEN,1,2 TOMI LAITINEN,3 JUHA HARTIKAINEN,4 ESKO LÄNSIMIES,3 KIM BERGSTRÖM,3 AND LEO NISKANEN4 Departments of 3Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine and 4Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital and University of Kuopio, Kuopio FIN-70211, Finland; and 1Laboratoire de Physiologie de l’Environnement, Faculté de Médecine Grange Blanche, Université Claude Bernard, and 2Hospices Civils de...

damage to essential facilities (e.g. lifelines and industrial facilities) due to extreme loads may cause remarkable indirect impact as well as direct physical loss. hence understanding seismic performance of essential facilities is very important in high seismic risk regions. on october 23, 2011 an earthquake of magnitude mw7.2 occurred in van province in eastern turkey. several damages occurre...