This paper discusses the meaning of the Bulgarian and Turkish evidentials. I argue that evidential forms in these languages have a rich semantic content: they encode the source of information, epistemic modality, and temporality. Ultimately, I show that the meaning of the Bulgarian and Turkish evidentials is not reducible to the meaning of perfect forms, from which the evidential forms are hist...

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 describes the current state of the Turkish Discourse Bank, the first publicly available annotated discourse resource for Turkish. It describes the annotation methods and the challenges posed by annotating Turkish, a free word order language with rich morphology. It shows the usefulness of the PDTB style annotation but points out the need to expand this annotation style with the needs...

1 Turkish Ministry of Health Ankara Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, Ankara Turkey 2 Turkish Ministry of Health Kayseri Education and Research Hospital, Kayseri, Turkey. 3 Başkent University Ankara Hospital, Ankara Turkey 4 Turkish Ministry of Health Dr.A.Y. Ankara Oncology Training and Research Hospital. Ankara Turkey 5 Retired Radiation Oncologist. Ankara Turkey Case Report American Jo...

This essay is built on the recognition that analyses of contemporary Turkish politics are all too often framed by a binary logic which misrepresents processes afoot in the country. It begins by considering the relevance and limitations of three modes of binary thinking about Turkish politics—the East-West binary, the secularist-Islamist binary, and the centerperiphery binary. It builds on this ...

STUDY DESIGN A reliability and validity study of a translated, culturally adapted questionnaire. OBJECTIVE The aims of the present study were to translate the Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale (QDS) into Turkish, to perform its cross-cultural adaptation for Turkish patients with LBP, and to investigate its validity and test-retest reliability. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA As a widely used sca...

Milli marş, bir ülkenin gücü ve bağımsızlığı olarak düşünülmektedir. Seslendirilen marş o tarihini, kültürünü değerlerini anlatan içeriğe sahip özellikleri barındırması gerekmektedir. Bu çalışma Türkiye Cumhuriyeti devletinin milli marşı olan İstiklal Marşı’nı Azerbaycan Ulusal nitel yöntemlerinden görüşme yöntemi kullanılarak derinlemesine incelenmesi karşılaştırılmasıyla oluşturulmuştur. Çalı...

DEVELOPMENT OF A TRANSLATION MEMORY SYSTEM FOR TURKISH TO ENGLISH This thesis studies on translation memory systems and development of a translation memory system on Turkish to English. A translation memory system is a tool that is designed for helping human translators during translation. It uses a database that consists of text parts such as blocks, paragraphs, sentences, or phrases in one la...

We present growth curves of 1,726 Turkish children with Down syndrome (DS) between 0 and 18 years of age and investigate the factors that affect growth including congenital heart disease (CHD) and hypothyroidism. Longitudinal measurements of height, weight, and head circumference (HC) were assessed and accompanying major malformations were recorded. Growth curves were monitored using Cole's LMS...

OBJECTIVE There were two aims of the present study. The first aim was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Metacognition Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (MCQ-C) among Turkish children and adolescents. The second aim was to analyze relationships between metacognitive processes, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms among Turkish children and adolescents. METHOD Four h...