Safevi Devleti’nin kurucusu olan Şah İsmail (1487-1524), aynı zamanda büyük bir sanatçıdır. Şiirlerinde “Hataî/Hatayî” mahlasını kullanan İsmail, XVI. yüzyılın en önemli Azeri-Türk şairlerindendir. İsmail’in kurduğu devlet, Şiilik temeli üzerine inşa edilen tarikat devletidir. Devlet heterojen yapıya sahiptir. Çeşitli milletlere mensup insanları arada tutmaya çalışan halkın mücadele heyecanını ...

PURPOSE Breast and cervical cancers are the most commonly diagnosed type of cancer and cause of cancer-related deaths in Iranian females. In contrast to previous studies, this study was carried out with a large sample size for assessment of breast self-examination (BSE)-, clinical breast examination (CBE)-, mammography-, and Pap smear-uptake rates and determination of associations among these s...

BACKGROUND Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an inborn error of amino acid metabolism that results from a deficiency of phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH). According to PAH database, exons 6 and 7 and their flanking introns of PAH gene contain the greatest number of mutant alleles. Therefore, as a preliminary study, nucleotide sequence analysis of exons 6 and 7 of the PAH gene has been performed in 25 PKU ...

BACKGROUND/AIM Multidrug resistance 1 (MDR1) gene encodes for P-glycoprotein (P-gp), a transmembrane efflux pump transferring both exogenous and endogenous substrate from the cells. In the human gastrointestinal tract, P-gp is found in high concentrations on the epithelial cells of the colon and small intestine. It is hypothesized that the expression level of MDR1 gene is related to susceptibil...

Bilingual lexicon induction is the task of inducing word translations from monolingual corpora in two languages. In this paper we present the most comprehensive analysis of bilingual lexicon induction to date. We present experiments on a wide range of languages and data sizes. We examine translation into English from 25 foreign languages: Albanian, Azeri, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Cebuano, G...

OBJECTIVE This study is an attempt to identify and specify the differences among five major Iranian ethnic groups, i.e. Persian, Azeri, Kurd, Lur, and Arab regarding their awareness, understanding and attitudes towards epilepsy and their beliefs about the treatment of epilepsy. METHOD This survey was carried out cross-sectionally on a sample containing 500 participants from five major ethnic ...

Objective(s):Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), an inherited autosomal recessive disorder, is frequently present among individuals of Mediterranean origin. Differences in the clinical manifestations of FMF between different ethnic groups have been documented. The aim of the present study was to determine the most common characteristics of FMF and the relationship between clinical findings and ...