Investigating the associations between chronotype, physical activity, premenstrual syndrome, hunger, and food choice among Turkish women.

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between chronotype and premenstrual syndromes with food preferences and appetite among 931 women aged 18-40 who attended a private nutrition clinic in Istanbul. The survey data were analyzed using SPSS v27. Based on voluntary participation, questionnaires consisting of sociodemographic questions, the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ), Premenstrual Syndrome Scale (PSS), Simplified Appetite Questionnaire (SAQ), International Physical Activity Questionnaire (Short Form) (IPAQ), and Food Choice Test (FCT) were administered to women.

Retrospective evaluation of obstetric processes in patients with Familial Mediterranean Fever's disease: The three years experience of a tertiary rheumatology clinic.

Objectives: Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is a hereditary autoinflammatory disease affecting both genders in reproductive age. In this study, we aimed to investigate the relation between FMF and pregnancy on both maternal and fetal aspects.

Material And Methods: In this retrospective, single-center, descriptive study we analysed total of 95 pregnancies of 40 FMF patients.

The cortical representation of language timescales is shared between reading and listening.

Language comprehension involves integrating low-level sensory inputs into a hierarchy of increasingly high-level features. Prior work studied brain representations of different levels of the language hierarchy, but has not determined whether these brain representations are shared between written and spoken language. To address this issue, we analyze fMRI BOLD data that were recorded while participants read and listened to the same narratives in each modality.

Behavior of diclofenac from contaminated fish after cooking and in vitro digestion.

Background: Seafood consumers are widely exposed to diclofenac due to the high contamination levels often present in aquatic organisms. It is a potential risk to public health due its endocrine disruptor properties. Limited information is available about diclofenac behavior after food digestion to enable a more realistic scenario of consumer exposure.

Biosorption of a common micropollutant (methylene blue) from a water environment by chemically activated biomass of a widely available plant species ( M. J. Roemer).

Recently, to protect the health of aquatic life and, indirectly, all living things, biomass-based substances have been increasingly applied as biosorbent materials to remove micropollutant agents from an aquatic environment. However, these studies are under development, and the search for more successful materials continues. Here, the biosorption of a common micropollutant, methylene blue, from an aquatic environment was investigated using the chemically activated biomass of a widely available plant species, M.

The Cortical Representation of Language Timescales is Shared between Reading and Listening.

Language comprehension involves integrating low-level sensory inputs into a hierarchy of increasingly high-level features. Prior work studied brain representations of different levels of the language hierarchy, but has not determined whether these brain representations are shared between written and spoken language. To address this issue, we analyzed fMRI BOLD data recorded while participants read and listened to the same narratives in each modality.

Phonemic segmentation of narrative speech in human cerebral cortex.

Speech processing requires extracting meaning from acoustic patterns using a set of intermediate representations based on a dynamic segmentation of the speech stream. Using whole brain mapping obtained in fMRI, we investigate the locus of cortical phonemic processing not only for single phonemes but also for short combinations made of diphones and triphones. We find that phonemic processing areas are much larger than previously described: they include not only the classical areas in the dorsal superior temporal gyrus but also a larger region in the lateral temporal cortex where diphone features are best represented.

An efficient biosorbent material for green remediation of contaminated water medium.

The discharge of large amounts of wastewater carrying various contaminants from many anthropogenic activities into the receiving water environment is a multidimensional issue negatively affecting the ecological system and natural balance in many ways. The removal of pollutants by the biologically-originated materials is an emerging area of interest due to profoundly their environmental friendliness, renewability, sustainability, readily availability, biodegradability, multiplicity, low (or no) economic cost, high affinity, capacity, and stability. In the present study, a popular ornamental plant, M.

Semantic Representations during Language Comprehension Are Affected by Context.

The meaning of words in natural language depends crucially on context. However, most neuroimaging studies of word meaning use isolated words and isolated sentences with little context. Because the brain may process natural language differently from how it processes simplified stimuli, there is a pressing need to determine whether prior results on word meaning generalize to natural language.

Massachusetts General Hospital Hairpulling Scale: Validity and Reliability Study of the Turkish Form.

Objective: The aim of this study is to analyze the validity and reliability of the Turkish form of Massachusetts General Hospital Hairpulling Scale (MGH-HPS), which is used to measure the severity of Trichotillomania (TTM).

Methods: Fifty patients diagnosed with TTM according to the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and fifty healthy controls participated in the study. The participants were asked to complete a sociodemographic questionnaire, the MGH-HPS-TR, the Clinical Global Impression (CGI), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11).

Evaluation of Anti-Alzheimer Activity of Synthetic Coumarins by Combination of in Vitro and in Silico Approaches.

Series of synthetic coumarin derivatives (1-16) were tested against acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), two enzymes linked to the pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Compound 16 was the most active AChE inhibitor with IC 32.23±2.

Application of biorefinery by-product of L. herb for green treatment of synthetic dye impurity in aquatic environment: a circular economy based approach to water purification.

In this work, the performance of residual biomass of L. plant from the process of bio-oil production toward the green removal of synthetic dye pollution from aquatic medium was systematically studied for the first time based on the circular economy strategy. The characterization of material was performed using Electron Microscope of Scanning and Infrared Spectrometer of Fourier Transform.

Flavonoids as Sirtuin Modulators.

Sirtuins (SIRTs) are described as NAD-dependent deacetylases, also known as class III histone deacetylases. So far, seven sirtuin genes (SIRTS 1-7) have been identified and characterized in mammals and are also known to occur in bacteria and eukaryotes. SIRTs are involved in various biological processes, including endocrine system, apoptosis, aging and longevity, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, obesity, inflammation, etc.

A novel biowaste-based biosorbent material for effective purification of methylene blue from water environment.

The biowaste left over from the fixed oil biorefinery process of L. plant was used as a new biosorbent for the biosorption of synthetic dye of methylene blue from water environment in this study. The main variables of biosorption operation such as methylene blue concentration, time, pH, and biosorbent amount were optimized by the batch-type experiments.

Visual and linguistic semantic representations are aligned at the border of human visual cortex.

Semantic information in the human brain is organized into multiple networks, but the fine-grain relationships between them are poorly understood. In this study, we compared semantic maps obtained from two functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments in the same participants: one that used silent movies as stimuli and another that used narrative stories. Movies evoked activity from a network of modality-specific, semantically selective areas in visual cortex.

Evaluation of Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Psoriasis Patients.

Objectives: The purpose of our study was to compare healthy lifestyle behaviors between psoriasis patients and healthy controls.

Methods: This case-control study included 80 psoriasis patients and 80 sex- and age- matched healthy controls aged over 18. Participants completed the socio-demographic data form and the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP-II).

Inhibition of Melanogenesis by Some Well-Known Polyphenolics: A Review.

Melanogenesis is simply defined as the production of melanin in melanosomes by melanocytes through a complex process. Melanin, a pigment derived from L-tyrosine, comes into two forms, namely eumelanin (brownish to black) and pheomelanin (red to yellow). Melanin synthesis starts via the hydroxylation of L-tyrosine to L-3,4-Dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) catalyzed by the enzyme known as Tyrosinase (TYR), which triggers further conversion reaction to DOPAquinone and then to DOPAchrome.

Purification of malachite green as a model biocidal agent from aqueous system by using a natural widespread coastal biowaste ().

The present paper aimed to perform an environmentally friendly and effective study on the purification of biocidal material using bioremediation technique, and in this context, a natural widespread coastal biowaste () was applied to remove a model biocide from aqueous system. Herein, malachite green was selected as a common agent to evaluate the biosorption efficiency of waste biomaterial. The bioremediation properties of biosorbent were studied in a controlled batch experiment system by the optimization practice of operating parameters like biosorbent quantity, medium pH, time, pollutant concentration and temperature, and kinetic, thermodynamic, equilibrium, and characterization operations.

Clinical and demographic aspects of Paget disease of bone: A multicentric study from Turkey.

Objective: Paget disease of bone (PDB) is a metabolic bone disease that has been rarely reported in the Eastern countries. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical and demographic characteristics of patients with PDB followed up at endocrinology clinics in Turkey.

Methods: An invitation was sent to tertiary endocrinology clinics to complete a survey on the demographic, clinical, radiological, and laboratory parameters, as well as treatment modalities of patients with PDB.

Anti microbial corrosion properties of electrospun cellulose acetate nanofibers containing biogenic silver nanoparticles for copper coatings.

Nanofibers with inorganic nanoparticles are novel hybrid nanocomposites that have great potential in various areas. In the present study, cellulose acetate nanofibers (CA-Nf) loaded with biogenic silver nanoparticles were prepared and characterized. synthesis of silver nanoparticles was accomplished using a bacteria free solution as a reducing agent.

An economical and effective alternative to commercial activated carbon for treatment of synthetic dye pollution in aquatic environment: surfactant modified waste product of .

In this study, a novel biosorbent material was created from the waste product of with the surfactant modification (Hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide) and tried as a potential alternative to commercial (powdered) activated carbon for the treatment of synthetic dye (Fast green FCF, triarylmethane (anionic) type) pollution in aquatic environment. The treatment capability of biosorbent material was evaluated by the parameter optimization, kinetic, thermodynamic, equilibrium and characterization experiments. The optimum treatment conditions were found to be pH of 3, biosorbent amount of 10 mg, synthetic dye concentration of 15 mg L, temperature of 45 °C and operation time of 360 min.

A renewable biosorbent material for green decontamination of heavy metal pollution from aquatic medium: a case study on manganese removal.

In this study, a renewable biosorbent material was prepared from biological waste of widespread coastal plant, and employed for the biosorption of heavy metal pollution from water environment in green way. Manganese was selected as a model heavy metal to evaluate the treatment efficiency of prepared biosorbent. The batch biosorption behavior of biosorbent was investigated by the characterization, parameters evaluation, kinetic and equilibrium studies.

An Effectual Biosorbent Substance for Removal of Manganese Ions from Aquatic Environment: A Promising Environmental Remediation Study with Activated Coastal Waste of Plant.

In the present research paper, a biosorptive remediation practice for an aqueous medium sample polluted with manganese ions was implemented using the activated coastal waste of the plant. This is the first report in the literature on the utilization of current modified biological waste as a biosorbent substance for the removal of manganese ions from the water environment. The analyses of biosorbent characterization, environmental condition, kinetic, equilibrium, and comparison were performed to introduce the ability of prepared biosorbent for the removal of manganese from the aquatic medium.

Natural Products and Extracts as Xantine Oxidase Inhibitors - A Hope for Gout Disease?

Xanthine oxidase (EC 1.17.3.