BACKGROUND Morbid obesity can be a life threatening condition. The aim of our study is to assess the trend in morbid obesity in The Netherlands among children of Dutch origin since 1980, and among children of Turkish and Moroccan origin since 1997. METHODS AND FINDINGS Cross-sectional height and weight data of children of Dutch, Turkish and Moroccan origin aged 2-18 years were selected from t...

INTRODUCTION The Sexual Health Outcomes in Women Questionnaire (SHOW-Q) is designed to evaluate the sexual life of women for satisfaction, orgasm, desire, and pelvic problem interference. The SHOW-Q is important for evaluating worsening of sexual life for patients with pelvic problems and the management of these women to improve their sexual life. AIMS To validate the Turkish versions of the ...

Sentiment analysis aims to extract the sentiment polarity of given segment of text. Polarity resources that indicate the sentiment polarity of words are commonly used in different approaches. While English is the richest language in regard to having such resources, the majority of other languages, including Turkish, lack polarity resources. In this work we present the first comprehensive Turkis...

The Turkish language belongs to the Turkic family. All members of this family are close to one another in terms of linguistic structure. Typological similarities are vowel harmony, verb-final word order and agglutinative morphology. This latter property causes a very fast vocabulary growth resulting in a large number of out-of-vocabulary words. In this paper we describe our first experiments in...

In autumn 2003, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan declared: “The European Union is our national goal”. Since Spring 2002, two extensive constitutional amendments and eight harmonization packages, which imply fundamental changes in domestic policy and throughout Turkish society, were enforced. Prior to the start of the EU accession negotiations in October 2005 two thirds of the Turkish population s...

This chapter explores the determinants of ethnic culture retention and host country culture adoption among Turkish immigrants in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, using original survey data. To maximize cross-national comparability, the focus is on immigrants from two Turkish regions who themselves or whose parents migrated before 1975. As indicators of ethnic retention we investigate Turki...

Drawing on recent criticism of the Implicit Association Test (IAT), the present study tested the convergent and discriminant validity of two prejudice-related IATs to corresponding explicit prejudice measures in a German student sample (N = 61). Confirming convergent validity, (a) an IAT designed to assess negative associations related to Turkish people was significantly related to the explicit...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of intellectual capital of Turkish automotive supplier industry upon their innovation performance. This study showed that three types of intellectual capital –employee capital, structural capital, and customer capital– had a significantly positive relationship with innovation performance. Moreover, the results also indicated that the hi...

We describe a system for recognizing unconstrained Turkish handwritten text. Turkish has agglutinative morphology and theoretically an infinite number of words that can be generated by adding more suffixes to the word. This makes lexicon-based recognition approaches, where the most likely word is selected among all the alternatives in a lexicon, unsuitable for Turkish. We describe our approach ...

Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu (1385-1468?), the author of Cerrahiyetü'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery), was a distinguished Ottoman Turkish surgeon. The first illustrated Turkish surgical textbook, Cerrahiyetü'l-Haniyye consisted of three chapters (ie, cauterisation treatments, surgical procedures and fractures and dislocations). Although the main source of the book was Al-Tasrif (Textbook of Surgery) by ...