OBJECTIVES To determine the seroprevalence of diphtheria in 767 children aged 0-6 years and to identify the relationship between diphtheria seroprevalence and several sociodemographic characteristics of the study subjects in the Erzurum, Erzincan and Kars cities situated in Eastern Turkey. DESIGN A cross sectional study. SETTING The subjects were recruited from three cities (Erzurum, Erzinc...

The research examines an unobtrusive measure of racial attitudes based on the evaluations that are automatically activated from memory on the presentation of Black versus White faces. Study 1, which concerned the technique's validity, obtained different attitude estimates for Black and White participants and also revealed that the variability among White participants was predictive of other rac...

In this study, mold and moisture risk of external walls were investigated based on the six different wall types (block bims 1-2-3-4, hollow brick, aerated concrete) three insulation materials (hemp wool, aerogel blanket, extruded polystyrene). During examinations, uninsulated insulated taken into account according to growth depending dew point temperatures. While calculating optimum thickness f...

This work summarizes methods for prevention of gas pipeline clogging by natural gas hydrate formation – with emphasis on development of environmentally friendly hydrate inhibitors. The work highlights advantages and disadvantages of current solutions and encourages future studies on new type of inhibitors based on ice-structuring proteins.

the purpose of this study is environmental risk assessment of pipelines in case study conducted in the 9th national gas pipeline in lorestan province (iran). the study employed the indexing method for investigating the risk through the muhlbauer method. geographic information system is also used to develop the maps corresponding to the environmental risks and to map the relative risk scores and...