Bu makalede, mitolojiye ve kutsal metinlere göre balın kökeni, cenaze hazırlıkları öteki dünya ile bağı, yeniden diriliş kavramı şarap-ekmek kurulan ilişkisi, vaftiz ritüellerindeki anlamı, litürjinin bir parçası arılara yazılan övgü ilahileriyle Bizans sanatında ‘sadık hizmetkar’ arı ‘erdem’ balının ikonografisi araştırılmıştır. Hıristiyan bu hayvana ait tasvirlerin ardında yatan düşüncenin il...

Background and Purpose: Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is one of the most common life-threatening fungal infections among the critically ill patients including intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Delayed diagnosis and therapy may lead to poor outcomes. Diagnosis may be facilitated by a test for molecular biomarkers, i.e. detection of galactomannan (GM) antigen based on enzyme immunoassay, which is...

background: asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease with multifactorial and complicated mechanisms. elevated level of exhaled nitric oxide (no) in asthma and other inflammatory lung diseases has led to many studies examining no as a potential marker of airway inflammation. objective: this study was designed to determine the level of no in bronchoalveolar lavage (bal) fluid during early and lat...

Abstract Introduction The risk for suicide is greatest at night after adjusting population wakefulness, possibly due to sleep- and circadian-dependent changes in neurophysiology promote sleep. Those who die by night, however, may differ demographic and/or clinical characteristics from those during the day. Methods An archival analysis of National Violent Death Reporting System 2003-2017 identif...