The purpose of this paper is to describe Hiperkitap, the first and only Turkish e-book database in Turkey. The paper starts with a brief overview of the developmental stages of the e-book database under the local market conditions in Turkey. This developmental period includes the establishment of relationships with publishers, authors, the publishers’ association of Turkey, computer companies, ...

AIM To assess the frequency distribution of six Y-chromosomal specific short tandem repeat (STR) polymorphisms and frequencies of haplotypes in Turkish population. METHODS Blood samples were taken from 200 unrelated Turkish men from different regions of Turkey, who were involved in legal proceedings concerning paternity. The DNA was amplified and typed by use of Y-Plex 6 kit containing 6 Y-ST...

This paper investigates whether or not the J-curve hypothesis holds in Turkish agricultural sector. The analysis is conducted using the model the most commonly employed in j-curve literature. Based on the data covering the period from 1986: I to 1998: III, our results indicate that, following devaluation, agricultural trade balance initially improves, then worsens, and then improves again. This...

In this paper we report on the preliminary findings of our ongoing study on Turkish referring expressions used in situated dialogs. Situated dialogs of pairs of Turkish speakers were collected while they were engaged with a collaborative Tangram puzzle solving task, which was designed by Spanger et al (2011) in an effort to build a corpus of referring expressions in Japanese and English. The pa...

In the present study, it was aimed at combining remote sensing technology, geographic information system and statistical data in order to provide a rather rapid, sensitive and comprehensive overview of current situation of Turkish river basins in terms of existing spatial data. For the aim of the study, all statistical information gathered from the national authorities on regional basis was ove...

The purpose of this study is to elicit problem causing word stress patterns for Turkish EFL (English as a foreign language) learners and investigate whether Internet-based pronunciation lesson is superior to traditional pronunciation lesson in terms of enhancing Turkish EFL learners’ accurate production of stressed syllables in English words. A pre-post test design with two groups of Turkish EF...

In this paper, we report our tree based statistical translation study from English to Turkish. We describe our data generation process and report the initial results of tree-based translation under a simple model. For corpus construction, we used the Penn Treebank in the English side. We manually translated about 5K trees from English to Turkish under grammar constraints with adaptations to acc...

Poems are essential in art and vital organs in literature. Similarly, surgery (and neurosurgery) is also regarded to be an art in medicine. From Hippocrates to nowadays, there is a debate on whether medicine -especially surgery- is a kind of an art or a field of science or a combination of both. This close relation becomes clearer during the practice of surgery, especially in neurosurgery. Here...

the purpose of the study was to detect the alui and ddei polymorphisms within pou1f1 gene exon 6 and 3'utr region in turkish sheep breeds, and their association with milk productive traits. jugular blood samples were collected from 50 sakiz, 50 white karaman, and 50 awassi sheep using edta as an anticoagulant. pcr-rflp and sequencing analysis were performed to investigate possible polymorphisms...