EVALUATION OF BREAD WHEAT GENOTYPES WITH DIFFERENT PHENOLOGICAL CHARACTERS IN TERMS OF RESISTANCE TO SUNN PEST DAMAGE

The research was conducted with 23 different varieties in field condition and closed area in 2010 and 2011. Twenty three bread wheat varieties were grown in open fields and closed areas in Faculty of Agriculture, University of Namik Kemal experimental area. The nifm number, sunn pest damage ratio, black point, protein ratio, moisture ratio, sedimentation rate, retarded sedimentation rate, gluten rate and index in the bread wheat varieties were examined. The highest sunn pest damage rate in the samples grown in field condition was found from Tekirdağ sample with 3,08 % and followed by Alga, Renan, Sadova, Geya and Krasnodarskaya-99 samples. The lowest damage rate was obtained from Enola and Dropia with 1,60 %; Krasunia with 1,63 %. In bread wheat samples grown in closed areas, the sunn pest damage rate increased considerably and measured between 4,93-12,75%. According to the average of two seasons, the highest sunn pest damage rate was obtained respectively from Geya, Tekirdağ, Renan and Sadova samples. The lowest damage rates were obtained from Gelibolu, KateA-1, Krasunia and Dropia samples. When the quality features were analysed, gluten, gluten index, zeleny sedimentation and retarded sedimentation values reduced substantially in comparison with values obtained outdoors. Retarded sedimentation values in all samples were at a quite low level that making the crop useless

PND29 - a retrospective analysis of the economic burden among patients diagnosed with chronic migraine using the veterans health administration medical data

Onur Başer (MEF Author)OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the health care resource utilization and costsamong patients diagnosed with chronic migraine (CM) in the Veterans HealthAdministration (VHA) medical dataset. METHODS: Patients diagnosed with CMwere identified (International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, ClinicalModification diagnosis code 346.XX) using the VHA dataset from October 1, 2008through September 30, 2010. The initial diagnosis date was designated as the indexdate. Patients without CM with the same age, gender and region (comparison cohort)were matched using a randomly chosen index date to minimize selection bias.Patients in both cohorts were at least age 18 years and had continuous medicaland pharmacy benefits for 1 year before and after the index date. One-to-one propensity score matching (PSM) was used to compare health care costs and utilizations between the CM and the comparison cohorts, and was adjusted for baselinedemographic and clinical characteristics. Pain scores were also included to investigate wellness after CM diagnosis. RESULTS: After risk-adjustment by PSM, 123,241patients in each cohort were matched. Significantly more CM patients had inpatientadmissions (6.44% vs. 1.75%, p<0.0001) and emergency room (ER; 14.42% vs. 5.50%,p<0.0001), outpatient office (68.80% vs. 42.15%, p<0.0001), outpatient (69.30% vs.42.91%, p<0.0001) and pharmacy visits (70.84% vs. 41.43%, p<0.0001) compared tothose without CM. Accordingly, CM patients also incurred higher costs for inpatient admissions and ER, office, outpatient and pharmacy visits compared to thosewithout CM. Total costs incurred by CM patients were $4,776, almost triple that of patients without CM ($1,756). There were more CM patients with accompanying painat all levels (mild: 19.53% vs. 0.16%; moderate: 13.10% vs. 0.10%; severe: 16.20% vs.0.12%; all p<0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: CM patients in the VHA population had substantial health care resource utilization, incurred higher costs and suffered worsepain compared to those without the disease.WOS:000354498504317Science Citation Index Expanded - Social Sciences Citation IndexQ1Meeting AbstractUluslararası işbirliği ile yapılan - EVETMayıs2015YÖK - 2014-1

Thermal energy storage in borehole heat exchanger arrays

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The role of desire thinking in the problematic use of social networking sites among adults.

The problematic use of social networking sites (SNS) is associated with several psychiatric disorders. This behavior closely resembles addiction in terms of neurological basis and behavioral patterns. Nevertheless, successful intervention strategies and the etiology of problematic SNS use are not yet thoroughly investigated. We aimed to study whether desire thinking is associated with problematic SNS use among adults when controlling for some confounders, including boredom, affect, and impulsivity. With the help of convenience sampling, we enrolled 546 Turkish adults in this study to whom we administered a sociodemographic form, the Social Media Addiction Scale (SMAS), the Leisure Boredom Scale (LBS), the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11), and the Desire Thinking Questionnaire (DTQ). To explore the association between the variables, we performed Pearson correlational and hierarchical regression analyses. The results showed that higher scores on two sub-dimensions of desire thinking, namely verbal perseveration and imaginal prefiguration, were associated with higher scores on problematic SNS use after we controlled for boredom, affect, and impulsivity. This study demonstrates that desire thinking may play a role in problematic SNS use among adults. We recommend targeting desire thinking as a potential area in treatments which may help alleviate problematic SNS use. [Abstract copyright: © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

The characteristics of smoking habit among patients evaluated at our outpatient clinic

To determine the prevalence of cigarette smoking, to examine the risk factors affecting smoking amongst adults and to assess the opinion of patients about quitting smoking who were evaluated at our outpatient clinic. Six hundred fifty-nine patients who were evaluated at our outpatient clinic between June 2005 and June 2006 were included in the study. This is a cross-sectional study that evaluates prevalence of smoking. Data gathered by applying face to face questionnaires. The mean age of 659 participants [417 (63.3%) males and 242 (36.7%) females] was 53.1 ± 16.2 years. The prevalences were; 33% (n= 218) smokers, 39% (n= 258) ex-smokers and 28% (n= 183) non-smokers. Smoking prevalence under age of 50 was significantly higher (p= 0.0001). There was a positive significant relation between education and smoking amongst women, but this relationship was not significant amongst men. The most common reason for beginning smoking was because of friends (72%). 86% wanted to quit smoking. 48.9% tried to quit smoking but couln't be successful. The prevalence of active smoking and quit smoking among patients who applied to pulmonary medicine outpatient clinic were 33% and 28%, respectively. The ratio of smoking and smoking pack-years was higher among men. Eighty-six percent of patients wanted to quit, 25% tried to quit but could not be successful, and 49% quit smoking but began smoking again. According to these findings, patients who were smoking wanted to quit but couln't be successful without a professional help. We planned to found a smoking cessation outpatient clinic at our department

Storage of solar thermal energy in borehole thermal energy storage systems

This study focuses on the evaluation of solar thermal energy storage in a medium-scale soil-borehole thermal energy storage (SBTES) system installed in San Diego, CA. The SBTES system consists of an array of thirteen 15 m-deep, closely-spaced borehole heat exchangers installed in conglomerate bedrock. The entire site is above the water table, with relatively dry subsurface conditions. Instrumentation was included into the array to monitor temperature distributions with depth and radial spacing within the array, as well as water content fluctuations near the ground surface. A total of eight evacuated tube solar thermal panels with an absorber area of 4.16 m2 were connected in series to supply heat to a temporary heat storage tank. Results from a 4-month transient heat injection period into the SBTES system are presented in this paper. These include data on the characterization of the thermal properties of the SBTES system, the transient heat flux collected from the solar thermal panels, the corresponding transient heat flux into the subsurface, and the changes in ground temperature

Potential utility of p63 expression in differential diagnosis of non-small-cell lung carcinoma and its effect on prognosis of the disease

Background: P63 is a gene located in chromosome 3q27-29, which has been implicated in regulation of stem cell commitment and promotion of squamous differentiation in various tissues. The aim of this study was to investigate whether there was a correlation between p63 expression, differential diagnosis of lung carcinoma, and prognosis. Material/Methods: Immunohistochemical expression of p63 in 62 lung carcinomas was investigated and mRNA analysis using RT-PCR method was done in 6 selected cases. Results: When cases were evaluated for p63 staining, 24 of 25 (96%) squamous cell carcinomas were strongly positive. Six of 20 adenocarcinomas (25%) and 1 (100%) large cell carcinoma (except neuroendocrine carcinoma) were mildly positive. p63 staining was statistically significant in favor of squamous cell carcinoma than other tumors (p<0.001). Forty percent of squamous cell carcinomas had squamous carcinoma in situ, whereas adenocarcinomas had none. There was a significant statistical difference between squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma (p=0.002). p63 was strongly positive in all of 12 squamous carcinoma in situ cases. In 6 cases where mRNA analysis was performed by RT-PCR method, DNp63 was strongly positive in 3 squamous cell carcinomas, mildly positive in 1 adenocarcinoma, and negative in 1 carcinoid tumor. TAp63 was strongly positive in non-tumoral lung tissue but negative in all tumors, except 1 squamous cell carcinoma. Conclusions: Our data suggest that poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma had strong and widespread staining for immunohistochemical expression of p63. Therefore, p63 can be a useful marker in differentiating squamous cell carcinoma from poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma from large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma. © Med Sci Monit