Q fever is a worldwide distributed zoonotic disease caused by Coxiella burnetii (Hoover et al., 1992; Maurin and Roult, 1999; Norlander, 2000), except New Zealand (Hilbink et al., 1993). Seroepidemiologic studies have reported different results for the seroprevalence of the bacterium in sheep (3 to 79 %) in Turkey (Özyer et al., 1990; Çetinkaya et al., 2000; Kalender, 2001; Kı lıc et al., 2005;...

We performed renal biopsy in three cases complicated by myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN). Although several cases of glomerulonephritis associated with MPN have been reported, the etiologies of the renal disorders were not established (Plomley et al., Aust NZ J Med, 13:125-129, 1983; Sharma et al., Nephron, 69:361, 1995; Kanauchi et al., Intern Med, 33:36-40, 1994; Kasuno et al., Nephrol Dial ...

Osteosarcoma is one of the most common malignant bone tumors in children and adolescents (Meyers et al., 1998; Bacci et al., 2000; Hauben et al., 2003; Chano et al., 2004; Marina et al., 2004; Benassi et al., 2007). The present therapeutic strategies in clinical applications have low efficiency under the current osteosarcoma therapy (Huang et al., 2012; Choeyprasert et al., 2013). Therefore, ne...

Percutaneous valve implantation is an innovative, successful alternative to open-heart surgery for the treatment of both pulmonary and aortic heart valve dysfunction (Bonhoeffer et al., 2000; Cribier et al., 2002; Leon et al., 2011; Lurz et al., 2008; McElhinney DB et al., 2010; Rodes-Cabau et al., 2010; Smith et al., 2011; Vahanian et al., 2008). However, this minimallyinvasive procedure still...

The root mean square error (RMSE), as implemented in the Fakhouri et al. study, was calculated using Giant protein concentrations as model inputs and the corresponding lacZ mRNA concentrations as outputs [1]. Data points were taken at 20 different Giant concentration levels, uniformly ranging from 0 to 1. Each term in the RMSE was weighted by the number of actual data points over which each lac...

Five-year relative survival rates of cancer patients have been improving worldwide (Jung et al., 2011). In Korea, five-year relative survival rate in 2006 to 2010 was 64.1%. And, the prevalence of cancer was 1925.9 per 100,000 people in 2010 (National Center Information Center, 2011). With the increasing number of cancer survivors, evaluation and management of their chronic comorbid conditions ...

Seagrasses are amongst the most valuable ecosystems on shallow subtidal soft bottoms worldwide (COSTANZA et al., 1997; TUYA et al., 2014). They are considered as ecological engineers (WRIGHT & JONES, 2006), providing food, shelters and nursery areas for a variety of fish and invertebrates (HEMMINGA & DUARTE, 2000; COMO et al., 2008; ESPINO et al., 2015). Moreover, seagrass beds stabilize sedime...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of knowledge management capabilities and information technology capabilities on innovative performance with the mediating role of organizational entrepreneurship, organizational learning and competitive advantage. The research method is descriptive-survey. The statistical population consists of all employees of Shimifar Iran Company, and 137 peo...

We constructed 32 stimulus items. Test stimuli were separated into four lists, where each condition was equally represented, and each item appeared once. Across lists, each item appeared in each condition an equal number of times. Test stimuli were presented in random order and intermixed with 40 fillers, designed so that throughout the experiment, all six individual types in a display were equ...