Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Cerrahpasa Medical School, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. Hasan Yazici, MD, Professor of Rheumatology (retired); Gulen Hatemi, MD, Associate Professor of Rheumatology. Please address correspondence to: Prof. Hasan Yazici, Ic Hastaliklari Anabilim Dali, Cerrahpasa Tip Fakultesi, Aksaray, Istanbul, Turkey. E-mail: hyazici@attgloba...

Tülin ARASOĞLU, Medine GÜLLÜCE*, Hakan ÖZKAN, Ahmet ADIGÜZEL, Fikrettin ŞAHİN İstanbul Regional Hygiene Institute, Ministry of Health of Turkey, İstanbul, Turkey Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Art, Erzincan University, Erzincan, Turkey Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science, A...

Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Cerrahpasa Medical School, Istanbul University, Turkey. Hasan Yazici, MD, Professor Please address correspondence to: Prof. Hasan Yazici, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Cerrahpasa Medical School, Istanbul University, 34098 Istanbul, Turkey. E-mail: [email protected] Received on August 17, 2016 and accepted on ...

OBJECTIVES To examine indicators of nicotine dependence in a national sample of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander daily smokers and their association with sustaining a quit attempt for at least 1 month, and to make comparisons with a national sample of Australian daily smokers. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The Talking About The Smokes project used a quota sampling design to recruit 13...

Analysis of the shape properties of fish otolith is one way to identify stocks of different species in the marine environment. Length, width, area, perimeter, form factor, aspect ratio, roundness, circularity, ellipticity and rectangularity analyses of otoliths were undertaken to assess patterns of spatial and temporal stock structure of a wide-ranging fish, the Arabian yellow fin sea bream Aca...

The islands of Torres Strait occupy a shallow area of submerged continental shelf narrowly separating Cape York Peninsula, Australia, from New Guinea. The human history of Torres Strait is unique with respect to mainland northern Australia. Island vegetation, however, exhibits a strong affinity with the environments of the western lowlands regions of Cape York Peninsula and with the vegetation ...

This study dealt with the interannual variability of summer coastal upwelling in the Taiwan Strait, based on empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis. Three datasets were used for the analysis: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sea surface temperature dataset from 1985 to 2005; hydrographic records at two coastal sta...

The tectonic opening of Fram Strait during the Neogene was a significant geological event that transferred the Arctic Ocean from a poorly ventilated enclosed basin, with weak exchange with the North Atlantic, to a fully ventilated ‘‘ocean stage’’. Previous tectonic and physical oceanographic analyses suggest that the early Miocene Fram Strait was likely several times narrower and less than half...

The paper presents validation of the numerical program that computes the distribution of marine current velocities in the Bangka strait and the kinetic energy potential in the form the distributions of available power per area in the Bangka strait. The numerical program used the RANS model where the pressure distribution in the vertical assumed to be hydrostatic. The 2D and 3D numerical program...

1Ozone therapist and Pain Specialist, Medipol University, Medical School, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Medipol Mega University Hospital Bagcilar, Istanbul, Turkey. 2Histology and Embryology, Acibadem University, Vocational School of Health Services, Istanbul, Turkey 3Acibadem University Medical School, Department of Orthopedic and Traumatology, Istanbul, Turkey 4Acibadem Univer...