Abstract Background Interleukin (IL)-10 is one of the key interleukins in immune system. It plays an anti-inflammatory role body by inhibition synthesis pro-inflammatory cytokines and reducing expression major histocompatibility complex II molecules. The single-nucleotide polymorphism gene this interleukin affects its level. Thus, study was conducted to investigate IL-10 at position -1082A/G Az...

Adaptation of the short-form of the UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-8) to Turkish for the Adolescents Objective: The purpose of this study is to adapt short form of the UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-8) to Turkish and investigate the validity and reliability of the scale for Turkish adolescents. Method: The participants in this study were 293 high school students aged between 14 and 19. Among the partic...

A Sign-Based Phrase Structure Grammar for Turkish Şehitoğlu, Onur Tolga MS., Department of Computer Engineering Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cem Bozşahin January 1996, 97 pages This study analyses Turkish syntax from an informational point of view. Sign based linguistic representation and principles of HPSG (Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar) theory are adapted to Turkish. The basic informa...

We built an open-source software platform intended to serve as a common infrastructure that can be of use in the development of new applications involving the processing of Turkish. The platform incorporates a lexicon, a morphological analyzer/generator, and a DCG parser/generator that translates Turkish sentences to predicate logic formulas, and a knowledge base framework. Several developers h...

This study aimed to evaluate whether cognitive and affective dimensions of reading self-concepts in English Russian are distinct constructs examine the relationships among variables invariant across gender. A total 349 tenth-grade Azeri students were selected from 12 schools Baku, Azerbaijan. adapted Self-Description Questionnaire Cényelvi mérés for assessment achievements two foreign languages...

Aphallia or penile agenesis is an extremely rare congenital anomaly with an estimated incidence rate of 1 in 10 to 30 million births. We report a rare case of aphallia with right kidney hypoplasia and left kidney dysplasia in a 10-day old Iranian-Azeri male. The patient had creatinine rise and renal failure due to dysplastic left kidney and hypoplastic right kidney and expired on fifth day of a...

conclusions the results demonstrated that the mortality rate was higher in cf patients with a positive family history, a consanguineous marriage, and residence in a rural area. therefore, demographic factors play an important role in the outcome of cystic fibrosis. unfortunately, these parameters, which can be managed easily and with low cost, have been overlooked. patients and methods this was...

In this paper, we describe the design and integration of a three level cascaded non-deterministic finite state model of Turkish compounding into Turkish PAPPI, a comprehensive syntactic parser in the principles-andparameters(P&P) framework. Our approach is to handle compounding as an intermediate stage between morphological analysis and syntactic parsing. We discuss how the compounding machine ...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of cross-cultural communication (ccc) on stakeholder management process (smp) in international construction projects from the turkish stakeholders’ perspective. the research is based on a survey of turkish stakeholders (contractors, consulting engineers, insurance brokers, and financial advisors) operating internationally. the useable su...

OBJECTIVES To study trends in height of Turkish and Moroccan immigrant children living in The Netherlands, to investigate the association between height and background characteristics in these children, and to calculate height-for-age-references data for these groups. DESIGN Nationwide cross-sectional data collection from children aged 0 to 18 years by trained professionals in 1997 and 2009. ...