Refurbished heritage buildings usually lack in meeting the required standards defined for new function especially when reused as educational buildings. Therefore, they are equipped with different post-occupancy retrofit strategies to achieve an acceptable level of environmental quality and energy demand. Daylight distribution natural light is a critical issue spaces, given that low illuminance ...

Symposium Organizers Program Chair Fred Douglis, AT&T Labs--Research Program Committee Eric Brewer, University of California Berkeley and Inktomi Dan Connolly, W3C Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan David B. Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University P. Krishnan, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Geoff Kuenning, University of California Los Angeles Yoelle Maarek, IBM Haifa Research Lab Udi Manber, Ya...

The use of inaccurate or outdated database statistics by the query optimizer in a relational DBMS often results in a poor choice of query execution plans and hence unacceptably long query processing times. Configuration and maintenance of these statistics has traditionally been a time-consuming manual operation, requiring that the database administrator (DBA) continually monitor query performan...

Address for Correspondence: Mehmet Reşit Asoğlu, Arakiyeci Hacı Mehmet Mah. Burhanettin Üstünel Cad. No:10, 34668, Üsküdar, İstanbul, Turkey Phone: +90 216 391 06 80 e.mail: [email protected] ©Copyright 2012 by the Turkish-German Gynecological Education and Research Foundation Available online at www.jtgga.org doi:10.5152/jtgga.2012.40 Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate ...

OBJECTIVE This article reports the early results of a novel sling used for the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI). This sling has a piece of autologous rectus fascia in its middle part and two arms of polypropylene mesh. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 44 women with SUI. The preoperative work-up involved complete history taking, physical examination, cough stress te...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to assess the effect of the Microablative Fractional CO2 Laser (CO2-laser) therapy on vaginal pathophysiology and the symptoms of the Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause (GSM). METHODS Postmenopausal women with moderate to severe symptoms of GSM underwent three sessions of CO2-laser therapy at monthly intervals. Participants were evaluated at baseline and 4 weeks a...

Objective To evaluate the effect of vaginal transobturator tape (TOT) on female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and sexual function. Patients and methods In all, 145 patients with SUI underwent TOT repair using the 'outside-in' technique. All patients had been sexually active in the previous 6 months. Patients were evaluated by history, routine laboratory investigations, cough stress test, ...