Ahmet Turkmen, Yusuf Ziya Ider, Elif Sade , Kudret Aytemir, Ali Oto, Fikret Kuçukdeveci 1 Baskent University, Biomedical Engineering Department, Eskisehir Yolu 20.km 06530 Ankara/Turkey 2 Bilkent University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, 06533 Ankara/Turkey 3 Hacettepe University, Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Sıhhiye, 06100 Ankara-Turkey 4 Tepa Inc, Gersan...

background: in northeastern iran there is an area of high incidence of esophageal cancer which is populated by residents of turkmen ancestry. several environmental risk factors for esophageal cancer have been proposed, but the roles of familial and genetic factors have not been studied extensively in the turkmen population. materials and methods: we evaluated the importance of familial risk fac...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES In the well-known zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) focus in Turkmen Sahara, border of Iran and Turkmenistan, ZCL has increased among humans in the past five years. The present study was undertaken to incriminate vectors of ZCL in the region, and to find molecular variation in Leishmania parasites. METHODS The sandflies were sampled using CDC light-traps and stick...

Guo-Yue Niu,* Claudio Paniconi, Peter A. Troch, Russell L. Scott, Matej Durcik, Xubin Zeng, Travis Huxman and David C. Goodrich 1 Biosphere 2 Earth Science, University of Arizona, USA 2 Centre Eau, Terre et Environnement, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université du Québec, Quebec City, Canada 3 Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, USA 4 Southwest...

Joel A. Biederman,* P. D. Brooks, A. A. Harpold, D. J. Gochis, E. Gutmann, D. E. Reed, E. Pendall and B. E. Ewers 1 SAHRA, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721-0158, USA 2 Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721-0011, USA 3 Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA 4 National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, 8...

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 Sahra-Altı Afrika 21. yüzyılda dünya siyaset sahnesinde önemi her geçen gün artan bir aktör olarak dikkat çekmektedir. Kamu diplomasisi ise literatürde özellikle son yıllarda sıkça kullanılan kavramlardan biri ön plana çıkmaktadır. Bu makale, günümüzde dış politikanın önemli araçlarından birini teşkil eden kamu kavramı ışığında, 1998 yılında başlatılan “Afrika Açılım Eylem Planı”ndan g...