Method: This study was conducted using scientific search engines such as Pubmed, Cinahl, Science Direct, Wiley Interscience, Ulakbim Medicine Database, and the Turkish Medline database. The English keywords were translated to “nursing by telephone” since that was the only term involved in the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) index for English keywords and TST (Turkish Scientific Terms) for Turki...

This paper proposes an emotion recognition system. Human emotion can be expressed through many kinds of medium such as speech, image, facial expression, and so forth. This paper focuses on the textual data of them. Proposed system is a hybrid system that uses alternatively two methods, keyword-based and machine learning method. Keyword-based methods are traditional approaches using emotional ke...

Infrared Functional Imaging was applied to the study of Raynaud’s Phenomenon obtaing a simultaneous assessment of the thermal properties of all five fingers of both hands of a group of patients with respect of a control group. The method is based on the use of high-resolution telethermography imaging and allows identification of objective parameters from the re-warming curves of finger immediat...

Background: Traditionally, the residents ‘competencies such as professionalism, interpersonal and communication skill have been assessed merely based on their faculty’ point of view without feedback. These assessments were neither efficiently, nor sufficiently cover the multi aspects` of residents ‘competencies. These multi aspects competences mandate the need for more all-around evaluations su...