climate is a natural resource that effects decision making for selection of destinations in tourism and ecotourism. therelationship between climate and tourism is a complex one. but application of a climate index provides an ideal approachto understanding this complexity and is a useful tool for the tourism industry. in this study, a modified version ofmieczkowski's (1985) tourism climate index...

Tourism activities are highly dependent on climatological conditions. The suitability of tourism destinations is investigated by using a Climate Index (TCI) that frequently used researchers. TCI varies between 0 and 100 created temperature, relative humidity, sunshine duration, wind precipitation data. For TCI, for ideal extremely unfavorable conditions tourism. In this study, the meteorologica...

BACKGROUND Propofol is widely used in sedation for colonoscopy, but its adverse effects on cardiovascular and respiratory systems are still concerning. The present study investigated whether target controlled infusion (TCI) of propofol could provide a better sedation quality than manually controlled infusion (MCI) in training inexperienced anesthesiology residents. MATERIAL/METHODS Eighteen t...

BACKGROUND The current study evaluated the effects of fixed and removable space-maintainers on halitosis and oral health of children. METHODS Forty-three patients randomly selected between the ages 4-10 whom fixed or removable space maintainers were indicated in Gazi University, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Pedodontics. The inclusing criteria were: caries-free (with/without restoration...

drought is a major problematic phenomenon for the mostly semi-arid country of iran. the north centralregions of iran (north of esfahan and ghom province) have suffered from severe droughts several times duringthe last three decades. the frequent occurrence of drought in these regions is due to low and inconsistentprecipitation, abnormally high temperatures, increases in surface albedo and evapo...

Given the importance of stock market synchronization for international portfolio diversification, we estimate degrees co-movements among US, Chinese and Russian markets. By applying TVP-VAR approach, measure total bivariate indices utilizing daily data from 1998 to 2021. Our analysis demonstrates that connectedness index (TCI) is 26.15% three We find US highest volatility contributor, whereas r...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE To study whether transcallosal inhibition (TCI) can evaluate the severity of traumatic brain injury (TBI). RESEARCH DESIGN Case-control study. METHODS AND PROCEDURES Twenty patients with a chronic TBI and 20 control subjects were studied. The following transcranial magnetic stimulation parameters were checked; resting motor threshold, central motor latency times, onset lat...