The convictions for DWI since the year 1988 are continuously increasing. In the year 1992 140,000 driver licences were withdrawn for DWI 6.6 percent more than in 1991. 36 percent of them are drivers between 21 and 30 tears, 8 percent are women. The accident involvement of DWI decreased in the FRG in the last two decades from 14 to 9 percent, the amount of injured DWI diminished from 15 to 10 pe...

This paper presents a low complexity pairwise layered tabu search based detection algorithm for large-scale multiple-input multiple-output system. The proposed can compute two layers simultaneously and reduce the effective number of searches. An efficient Gram matrix matched filtered output update strategy is developed to reuse computations from past visited layers. Also, precomputation techniq...

BACKGROUND Polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN)-dominated inflammation is prominent in the airways of subjects with cystic fibrosis (CF) and chronic bronchitis (CB). Interleukin (IL)-8, myeloperoxidase (MPO), and DNA are markers of neutrophilic inflammation. We hypothesized that sputum MPO, DNA, and IL-8 concentrations would negatively correlate with pulmonary function and sputum transportability...

INTRODUCTION Although tuberculosis (TB) is frequently seen in Turkey, there are limited studies on childhood TB. We aimed to describe clinical and laboratory findings, including drug resistance, of children with TB in Istanbul, Turkey. METHODOLOGY The study included all children aged 0-14 years who were registered in public dispensaries between 2006 and 2010. RESULTS The study included 1,54...