Formerly, the laparoscopic surgery was accepted as a method of choice for benign diseases, and for palliative operations in progressive stages of malignant diseases of the colon. Today, the laparoscopic surgery of the colon has been also adopted in treating malignant diseases. The first laparoscopic colon resection was performed in our Clinic on December 12, 2002, and 114 patients have been suc...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Myringoplasty, one of the most frequent surgical techniques in otology, is the repair of tympanic membrane when the ear has only a perforation without any ossicular damage. The main objective of our work was to study the outcome of myringoplasty in patients less than 15 years of age. We also reviewed the existence of prognostic factors, such as Eustachian tube functi...

AgreementMakerLight (AML) is an automated ontology matching framework based on element-level matching and the use of external resources as background knowledge. This paper describes the configuration of AML for the OAEI 2014 competition and discusses its results. Our goal this year was broadening the scope of AML by delving into aspects such as translation and structural matching, while reinfor...

In this paper, we present the results obtained by our ontology matching system XMap++ within the OAEI 2014 campaign. XMap++ is a scalable ontology alignment tools capable of matching large scale ontology. This is our second participation in the OAEI, and we can see an overall improvement on nearly every task. 1 State, purpose, general statement XMap (eXtensible Mapping) is an ontology alignment...

Mesothoracic wings have been examined and compared in 32 species representing 20 genera of Afrotropical Scutelleridae. Morphological characters of the corium are described. Three main types of mesothoracic wing venation patterns can be recognized. The taxonomic significance of forewing characters in Scutelleridae is briefly discussed.

This study was partly presented as refresher course to the Congress of Euroanaesthesia 2012, 9-12 June 2012, Paris, France. Bu çalışma kısmen, Euroanaesthesia 2012 Paris Kongresinde tazeleme kursu olarak sunulmuştur, 9-12 Haziran 2012. Address for Correspondence/Yazışma Adresi: Dr. Zeynep Kayhan, Department of Anaesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey Phone: +90 3...