Objectives: Tarsal coalition describes a complete or partial union of two more tarsal bones. We aimed to determine the anatomical features in patients undergoing ankle magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and report prevalence Turkish population. Methods: A total 1075 MRI were evaluated with included study. Statistical analyses performed check whether there is correlation between presence age, gend...

OBJECTIVES To study the age- and sex-specific incidence rates of first acute myocardial infarction (AMI) among first-generation ethnic minority groups (henceforth, migrant groups) and the Dutch majority population in the Netherlands during two time periods (2000-2004 and 2005-2010). METHODS Through linkage of Dutch nationwide registers, first AMI events in the Dutch majority population and th...

This paper presents a preliminary work on aligning Turkish and English parallel texts towards developing a statistical machine translation system for English and Turkish. To avoid the data sparseness problem and to uncover relations between sublexical components of words such as morphemes, we have converted our parallel texts to a morphemic representation and then used standard word alignment a...

Text We feel that it is our ethical responsibility to add the following acknowledgment to the article titled "Investiga-tion of Staphylococcus strains with heterogeneous resistance to glycopeptides in a Turkish university' [1]: 'We greatly thank Dr. for their collaboration in confirming of the population analysis. which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, pro...

Since March 2018 Turkey and allied Syrian actors have controlled the Afrin region of northern Syria. The subsequent five years been marked by acts criminality infighting incidents between dozens Turkish-backed militias in region, an insurgency campaign, terrorism, dramatic demographic changes to detriment region’s indigenous Kurdish population. This paper examines outlines Turkish-installed loc...

We describe the English-Turkish and Turkish-English translation systems submitted by Yandex School of Data Analysis team to WMT16 news translation task. We successfully applied hand-crafted morphological (de-)segmentation of Turkish, syntax-based pre-ordering of English in English-Turkish and post-ordering of English in Turkish-English. We perform desegmentation using SMT and propose a simple y...

OBJECTIVE The awareness, time in therapeutic range (TTR), and safety of warfarin therapy were investigated in the adult Turkish population. METHODS This multicenter prospective study includes 4987 patients using warfarin and involved regular international normalized ratio (INR) monitoring between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2014. TTR was calculated according to F.R. Roosendaal's algorith...

OBJECTIVE Coronary artery disease (CAD), which develops from complex interactions between genetic and enviromental factors, is a leading cause of death worldwide. Based on genome-wide association studies (GWAS), the chromosomal region 9p21 has been identified as the most relevant locus presenting a strong association with CAD in different populations. The aim of the present study was to investi...

OBJECTIVE The exon 3-deleted/full-length (d3/fl) growth hormone receptor (d3/fl-GHR) polymorphism has been associated with responsiveness to GH therapy in some children and also with adult height variation in the general population. We aimed to evaluate the distribution of d3/fl-GHR polymorphism in a Turkish population. METHODS The study included 477 (54 females/423 males) healthy adults with...

Italian Maremmana, Turkish Grey and Hungarian Grey breeds belong to the same Podolic group of cattle, have a similar conformation and recently experienced a similar demographic reduction. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship among the analysed Podolic breeds and to verify whether their genetic state reflects their history. To do so, approximately 100 single nucleotide polymorphi...