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Little research has been conducted on examining the relationship between caring interventions such as adult day programs (ADPs) and the quality of life (QOL) of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. Our study objective was to investigate the merits of attending ADPs on the QOL of these…

Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor in children. Here we present a 4-year-old boy diagnosed with neuroblastoma, showing erythrocyte agglutination on blood smear six days after intensive chemotherapy. Total blood count showed a significant discrepancy between hemoglobin and hematocrit values.  Mean corpuscular hemoglobin…

Background and aim: An impacted tooth is a tooth that did not grow on its expected time because of an incorrect position or lack of space. The impacted third molar is the most common impacted tooth. In the present study, the presence of the impacted…

The objectives of this study are to determine the self-assessed oral health status and behavior of entrants educating in health related faculties of a university, Ankara, Turkey. There were currently four faculties namely Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry and Health Sciences in Hacettepe University with 964 first…

The motivation of this article is to diagnose local insulin related dystrophies and their dynamic with an ultrasound (US) subcutis (SC) map, by comparison with clinical data. To improve insulin injection technique by identifying the real cutis/subcutis thickness (CST). We have enrolled 53 type 1 diabetic…

We examine the problems faced by an IT Sector SME in planning the migration of existing Web Applications to the Cloud. Potential performance evaluation proved sufficiently complex, costly and imprecise as to result in postponement or cancellation of the migration, and plans for a more…

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of flask types, post-pressing times and base regions on the base adaptation of maxillary and mandibular complete dentures. Denture bases were waxed in stone casts and randomly divided into six groups (n=10), according to conventional and double flasks…

Alcaligenes xylosoxidans, formerly known as Achromobacter xylosoxidans is a nonfermenting gram-negative rod, that is increasingly been identified as a pathogen in the last decade. Nowadays the name commonly accepted for correct taxonomy is Achromobacter xylosoxidans1 . It has been isolated from several aqueous environmental sources,…

In children with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection biochemical evidence of liver involvement is frequent. However cholestasis and pancreatitis are rare. We report a child where this association, usually suggestive of biliary tract obstruction, was instead secondary to EBV infection without the typical clinical and hematological…

Objective: We investigated the usefulness of ultrasound for a thoracic epidural catheterization in bariatric surgery.Methods:  Sixteen patients with 125.9 kg in mean body weight and 45.5 kg/m2 in mean body mass index were studied.  The longitudinal view of the ultrasound scanning was used to detect…