historically, turkish-russian relations have been cold and distant. during the cold war, the two former rivals viewed each other with hostility. after the fall of the ussr and in the early 1990s, the grounds were paved for the improvement in the bilateral ties. even though the two states have different military and security concerns, they have established closer relations in economic and trade ...

BACKGROUND Flexible bronchoscopy should be performed with a correct posture and a straight scope to optimize bronchoscopy performance and at the same time minimize the risk of work-related injuries and endoscope damage. OBJECTIVES We aimed to test whether an automatic motion analysis system could be used to explore if there is a correlation in scope movements and the operator's level of exper...

In order to verify and test the performance of new packing algorithms relative to existing algorithms, test problems are needed. The scope of published test instances for 2D rectangular and irregular packing has been fairly limited in terms of object size, number and dimension of items. A systematic investigation into the performance of new algorithms requires the use of a range of test problem...

Our study explores perception of urban environment and its encoding into the system of spatial prepositions. We explore the divergences between the physical topology and the cognitive topology of environment constrained by (a) geometric invariants (Landau & Jackendoff, 1993), (b) functional knowledge (Coventry & Garrod, 2004), (c) reference frame (Levinson, 1996), and (d) individual’s spatial e...

OBJECTIVE Italian Road Law limits driving while undergoing treatment with certain kinds of medication. Here, we report the results of a test, run as a smartphone application (app), assessing auditory and visual reflexes in a sample of 300 drivers. The scope of the test is to provide both the police force and medication-taking drivers with a tool that can evaluate the individual's capacity to dr...

The systematic test is an inevitable part of the verification and validation process for software. The most important prerequisite for a thorough software test is the design of relevant test cases, since they determine the kind and scope and hence the quality of the test. The graphical editor CTE (classification-tree editor) presented in this paper supports the systematic design of black-box te...

Very young nonor hardly-speaking children with severe disabilities need active guidance to stimulate interaction with their environment in order to develop their communicative and linguistic skills. Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems can help this process, provided that they are tuned to this specific user group. LinguaBytes is a research programme, which aims at developin...