Turkish Straits -- Dardanelles and Bosphorus are one of the most important passages maritime transportation world. Connecting Black Sea countries to Mediterranean world, these natural sea not vital only for economy security but also future region world peace. They dangerous difficult cruise seaways with powerful streams, sharp routes high traffic. The president Turkey started in 2011 a disputed...

Nutrient requirements increase during periods of growth and development such as pregnancy and lactation. In response, many clinicians recommend dietary supplements during these important periods of the life cycle. Although there exist some recommendations concerning the need for a limited number of nutrients in supplemental form (eg, iron, folic acid, and iodine), there is a relative paucity of...

Diseases such as plague, typhus, malaria, yellow fever, and dengue fever, transmitted between humans by blood-feeding arthropods, were once common in the United States. Many of these diseases are no longer present, mainly because of changes in land use, agricultural methods, residential patterns, human behavior, and vector control. However, diseases that may be transmitted to humans from wild b...

This article focuses on the relative influence of individual versus community effects on risk perception. The study is grounded in literature examining how individuals manage information and make risk judgments in the context of suspected environmental cancer threats. We focus on three individual-level perspectives: the psychometric model of risk perception, an adaptation of the heuristic-syste...

Studio studies can easily be defined as the cornerstone of discipline in departments giving architectural education. Although educational process differs institutions and among educators, its main purpose is always to give best experience on design students bring together different space designs functions with certain criteria. it often stated contrary, generally difficult get necessary support...

Cannabis sativa or Indian hemp grows spontaneously in almost all climates and places and is easily available. It is perhaps the oldest narcotic which has been indulged in by the human race and its use in one form or another prevails all over the world. The drug is habitually used to a considerable extent in India, Egypt, North Africa, and Central Asia, and millions of people are addicted to it....

OBJECTIVE To examine the existing evidence on gender differences in the prevalence, treatment, and quality of life of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). METHODS Review of the literature and expert opinion. RESULTS From a sociologic standpoint, women have historically been considered more likely to report symptoms, seek medical care, and give poorer self-evaluation of health, which ...

Suicide has reached epidemic proportions in the elderly, particularly in non-Hispanic white men. Unfortunately, the risk is underappreciated in this population. Known risk correlates for suicide in this population fall into three interrelated categories. Sociologic factors include such considerations as living alone and having few social interactions. Physical health factors include having more...

A number of virologic and environmental factors are involved in the emergence and re-emergence of viral disease. Viruses do not conservatively occupy a single and permanent ecological niche. Rather, due to their intrinsic capacity for genetic change, and to the evolvability of fitness levels, viruses display a potential to parasitize alternative host species. Mutation, recombination and genome ...

Socioeconomic status (SES) is a significant sociodemographic correlate of noncontraceptive hormone therapy, yet multiple dimensions of SES have not been examined systematically in previous studies of hormone therapy. This study examined the lifetime incidence of noncontraceptive hormone therapy, how usage varied by type of reproductive organ surgery, and the bivariate and net associations betwe...