A study on the satisfaction level of tourists with Turkish cuisine

Indispensable part of tourism activities in the country, Turkish cuisine is among the biggest cuisines of the world together with French and Chinese cuisines. Turkish cuisine has been developed and enriched with the contributions of many different civilizations inhabiting the Turkish land. The Turkish cuisine has been affected by Western cuisines but it has also affected them. The present study was carried out on 138 foreign tourists visiting Alanya in July. The sample of the study consists of 4 four-star hotels in Alanya. While, selecting the hotel organizations to be included in the study factors, such as the owners' willingness to participate and environment comfortable enough for the researcher to work effectively and accessibility to the hotel organizations were taken into consideration. The tourists stated that when they came to Turkey on holiday, they preferred Turkish foods (52.9%), they preferred their own countries' foods (25.4%) and they preferred both Turkish foods and their own countries' foods (19.6%), only 2.2% of them stated that they preferred the foods of countries other than Turkey and their own country. The most liked foods by the tourists are yoghurt-soup among the soups, shish kebab among the meat dishes and dry bean dish with meat among the legumes, green beans among vegetable dishes prepared with meat, stuffed paper with olive oil among stuffed dishes, pilaf with rice among pilaffs, water heurek among pastry, potato salad among the salads, rice pudding among the desserts and lemonade among beverages. The tourists were asked whether they would recommend Turkish foods to other people when they went back to their countries. The 68.1% of them stated that they would recommend and 31.9% stated that they would not. © Medwell Journals, 2013

Quantification of Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors and Metabolites in Urine and Hair of Patients and Their Relatives

: Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors (CAIs) are prescription drugs also used in doping to dilute urine samples and tamper with urinalyses. Dorzolamide, brinzolamide, and acetazolamide are prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Detecting CAIs and their metabolites in biological samples is crucial to documenting misuse in doping. We quantified dorzolamide, brinzolamide, acetazolamide, and their metabolites in the urine and hair of 88 patients under treatment for ocular hypertension or glaucoma. Samples of the patients' relatives were analyzed to assess potential for accidental exposure. After washing, 25 mg hair was incubated with an acidic buffer at 100 °C for 1 h. After cooling and centrifugation, the supernatant was analyzed by ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS). Urine (100 μL) was diluted and centrifuged before UHPLC-MS/MS analysis. Run time was 8 min through a reverse-phase column with a mobile phase gradient. MS/MS analysis was performed in a multiple-reaction monitoring mode after positive electrospray ionization. Median urinary concentration was 245 ng/mL (IQR: 116.2-501 ng/mL) for dorzolamide, 81.1 ng/mL (IQR: 35.9-125.3 ng/mL) for N-deethyl-dorzolamide, 0.77 ng/mL (IQR: 0.64 ng/mL-0.84 ng/mL) for N-acetyl-dorzolamide, 38.9 ng/mL (IQR: 20.4-79.2 ng/mL) for brinzolamide, and 72.8 ng/mL (IQR: 20.7-437.3 ng/mL) for acetazolamide. Median hair concentration was 0.48 ng/mg (IQR: 0.1-0.98 ng/mg) for dorzolamide, 0.07 ng/mg (IQR: 0.06-0.08 ng/mg) for N-deethyl-dorzolamide, 0.40 ng/mL (IQR: 0.13-1.95 ng/mL) for brinzolamide. Acetazolamide was detected in only one hair sample. Dorzolamide and brinzolamide were detected in the urine of three and one relatives, respectively. Cutoff concentrations of urinary dorzolamide and brinzolamide are necessary to preclude false positives due to contamination or passive exposure. We reported the first concentrations of brinzolamide in hair

Hadrianopolis, I. Il Progetto TAU

Il volume, in parte bilingue, \ue8 dedicato all\u2019edizione preliminare delle indagini archeologiche condotte, dal 2005 al 2006, dall\u2019Universit\ue0 di Macerata ad Hadrianopolis e nella valle del Drino, in Albania, nell\u2019ambito del Progetto TAU. Dopo una attento inquadramento geologico, morfologico e botanico vegetazionale dell\u2019area di interesse, il volume affronta le problematiche di carattere storico ed archeologico grazie ad una sere di contributi che da un lato si pongono l\u2019obiettivo di sintetizzare gli esiti delle ricerche pregresse avviate dagli archeologi albanesi a partire dagli anni \u201870, dall\u2019altro di fornire i primi dati delle ricerche che hanno, a partire da una campagna di indagini remote sensisng, riguardato prima il teatro quindi complessivamente l\u2019area urbana. Una sezione specifica \ue8 dedicata alla realizzazione del progetto di restauro degli edifici monumentali in luce a all\u2019ipotesi di Schema direttore del costituendo Parco archeologico di Hadrianopolis e della valle del Drino Si tratta quindi di un volume a pi\uf9 mani nel quale convergono i contributi dei diversi specialisti che hanno partecipato alla realizzazione del Progetto stesso, contributi tra i quali: A. Ba\ue7e \u2013 R. Perna, Evidenze dal recente rilievo del teatro di Hadranopolis, pp. 37-40; R. Perna, Nuove indagini per lo studio del teatro di Hadrianopolis, pp. 40-46; R. Perna, Le indagini archeologiche in area urbana, pp. 46-50; R. Perna, Per una proposta di prima lettura della citt\ue0 romana, pp. 79-85; R. Perna, Premessa, Preface, Hyrie, pp. 145-147. In particolare il compito svolto dall\u2019autore, che ha coordinato le ricerche sul campo \ue8 stato quindi quello di inquadrare i risultati delle ricerche dei singoli specialisti al fine della elaborazione di una sintesi storco-archeologica dedicato alla citt\ue0 ed alla valle del Drino all\u2019interno della quale essa \ue8 collocata