The effectiveness of pediatric symptom checklist for psychosocial screening in low-income turkish children

Background: Using a brief and valid screening tool to enhance early detection and treatment of psychosocial problems can lead to timely severe impairment

The development of organic sliceable black table olive products in sausage-like form from physicochemical, microbiological and organoleptic characteristics

Olive paste is recognized not only for its excellent taste and quality, but also for its health promoting effects. However, there is a limited range of olive products in the market. The aim of the present study was the production of a new organic olive product in sausage-like form which has sliceable properties by using organic olive paste and additives. The physicochemical, microbiological, sensorial and textural characteristics of the final product were also determined. The suggested olive product with 19.7% oil content and 3% organic locust bean gum which showed the most desirable texture characteristics allowing the solidified olive paste to turn into sliceable sausage form, is considered advisable for industrial production. Thus, the organic production of an innovative added value olive product in sausage-like form could meet the evolving expectations of consumers, boost food industry's research and development, and increase the profitability of the producer, with concomitant harmonization with the current environmental and nutritional trends

Women's Views on Wet Nursing and Milk Siblinghood: An Example from Turkey

WOS: 000346069900016PubMed ID: 2504591

Influenza surveillance in Western Turkey in the era of quadrivalent vaccines: A 2003-2016 retrospective analysis

Human influenza is predominantly caused by influenza A virus (IAV) - A/H1N1 and/or A/H3N2 - and influenza B virus (IBV) - B/Victoria and/or B/Yamagata, which co-circulate each season. Influenza surveillance provides important information on seasonal disease burden and circulation, and vaccine content for the following season. To study the circulating influenza subtypes/lineages in western Turkey. Community-based sentinel surveillance results during 2003-2016 (weeks 40-20 each season; but week 21, 2009 through week 20, 2010 during the pandemic) were analyzed. Nasal/nasopharyngeal swabs from patients with influenza-like illness were tested for influenza virus and characterized as A/H1N1, A/H3N2, or IBV. A subset of IBV samples was further characterized as B/Victoria or B/Yamagata. Among 14,429 specimens (9,766 collected during interpandemic influenza seasons; 4,663 during the 2009-2010 pandemic), 3,927 (27.2%) were positive. Excluding the pandemic year (2009-2010), 645 (27.4%) samples were characterized as A/H1N1 or A/H1N1/pdm09, 958 (40.7%) as A/H3N2, and 752 (31.9%) as IBV, but the dominant subtype/lineage varied widely each season. During the pandemic year (2009-2010), 98.3% of cases were A/H1N1/pdm09. IBV accounted for 0-60.2% of positive samples each season. The IBV lineages in circulation matched the vaccine IBV lineage >50% in six seasons and <50% in four seasons; with an overall mismatch of 49.7%. IBV cases tended to peak later than IAV cases within seasons. These results have important implications for vaccine composition and optimal vaccination timing. Quadrivalent vaccines containing both IBV lineages can reduce B-lineage mismatch, thus reducing the burden of IBV disease

Anti-inflammatory efficiency of levobupivacaine in an experimental colitis model

AIM: To investigate the efficiency of levobupivacaine in treating experimentally induced colitis in rats

Beneficial Effects of Aminoguanidine on Skin Flap Survival in Diabetic Rats

Random flaps in DM patients have poor reliability for wound coverage, and flap loss remains a complex challenge. The protective effects of aminoguanidine (AG) administration on the survival of dorsal random flaps and oxidative stress were studied in diabetic rats. Two months after the onset of DM, dorsal McFarlane flaps were raised. Forty rats were divided into four groups: (1) control, (2) AG, (3) DM, and (4) DM + AG groups. Flap viability, determined with the planimetric method, and free-radical measurements were investigated. In addition, HbA1c and blood glucose levels, body weight measurements, and histopathological examinations were evaluated. The mean flap necrotic areas (%) in Groups I to IV were 50.9 ± 13.0, 32.9 ± 12.5, 65.2 ± 11.5, and 43.5 ± 14.7, respectively. The malondialdehyde (MDA) and nitric oxide (NO) levels were higher in the DM group than in the nondiabetic group, while the reduced glutathione (GSH) levels and superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity were reduced as a result of flap injury. In the diabetic and nondiabetic groups, AG administration significantly reduced the MDA and NO levels and significantly increased GSH content and SOD enzyme activity. We concluded that AG plays an important role in preventing random pattern flap necrosis

Experimental and theoretical approaches for magnetic, superconducting and structural characterization of Bi(1.75)Pb(0.2)5Sr(2)Ca(2)Cu(3-x)Sn(x)O(10+y) glass ceramics

TUGLUOGLU, NIHAT/0000-0001-9428-4347; Tasci, A. Tolga/0000-0001-9450-6499; KORALAY, HALUK/0000-0001-7893-344XWOS: 000418983300003In this work, the effect of the partial substitution of Sn for Cu on structural, electrical and magnetic properties in the superconducting ceramic glass Bi1.75Pb0.25Sr2Ca2Cu3-xSnxO10+y system (x = 0, 0.1, 0.5) has been examined. The structural characterization of samples produced by glass-ceramic technique were done by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) measurements. The electrical and magnetic properties were determined by resistance-temperature (R-T) measurement and magnetization-magnetic field measurement (M H) in the low temperature by using vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM), respectively. From the results of R-T measurement, the value of critical temperature (T-c(offset)) has been decreased from 98 K to 73 K with increasing Sn- concentration. The critical current density has also been decreased with increasing magnetic field intensity. It has been observed from M-H plots that it was decreased with increasing the value of temperature. We have observed from M-H curves that the area size of the hysteresis curve decreases with increasing the value of temperature.Scientific Research Projects Foundation of Gazi University AnkaraGazi University [BAP 05/2011-47]The Authors thank the financial support for this work through the Scientific Research Projects (BAP 05/2011-47) Foundation of Gazi University Ankara

Detecting fake reviews through topic modelling

Against the uncertainty caused by the information overload in the online world, consumers can benefit greatly by reading online product reviews before making their online purchases. However, some of the reviews are written deceptively to manipulate purchasing decisions. The purpose of present study is to determine which feature combination is most effective in fake review detection among the features of sentiment scores, topic distributions, cluster distributions and bag of words. In this study, additional feature combinations to a sentiment analysis are searched to examine the critical problem of fake reviews made to influence the decision-making process using review from amazon.com dataset. Results of the study points that behavior-related features play an important role in fake review classifications when jointly used with text-related features. Verified purchase is the only behavior related feature used comparatively with other text-related features