TDIOT: Target-Driven Inference for Deep Video Object Tracking.

Recent tracking-by-detection approaches use deep object detectors as target detection baseline, because of their high performance on still images. For effective video object tracking, object detection is integrated with a data association step performed by either a custom design inference architecture or an end-to-end joint training for tracking purpose. In this work, we adopt the former approach and use the pre-trained Mask R-CNN deep object detector as the baseline.

Regulation of the Nrf2 Pathway by Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3β in MPP⁺-Induced Cell Damage.

Recently, nuclear translocation and stability of nuclear factor erythroid 2 (NF-E2)-related factor 2 (Nrf2) have gained increasing attention in the prevention of oxidative stress. The present study was aimed to evaluate the regulatory role of glycogen synthase kinase-3β (GSK-3β) inhibition by tideglusib through the Nrf2 pathway in a cellular damage model. Gene silencing (siRNA-mediated) was performed to examine the responses of Nrf2-target genes (i.

Measurement of Pain in Multiple Sclerosis.

life is pain. It is important to determine the features and the measurement of pain. Common types of pain are described in multiple sclerosis.

Neurobehavioral effects of long-term maternal fructose intake in rat offspring.

Background: Previous studies have indicated an association between maternal metabolic conditions and general developmental disturbances of the offspring.

Objective: We aimed to investigate the influence of long-term maternal fructose intake during gestation and lactation on neurobehavioral development of rat offspring.

Methods: Twelve female Sprague Dawley rats were received either 30% fructose enriched water (n = 6) or regular tap water (control, n = 6) for 12 weeks.

Evaluation of long-term effects of artificial sweeteners on rat brain: a biochemical, behavioral, and histological study.

The aim of the present study was to compare the effects of artificial sweeteners (aspartame, saccharin, and sucralose) on rat brain. Twenty-four adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were included in the study. The control group (n = 6) received regular tap water, whereas other groups received aspartame (3 mg/kg/day, n = 6,) or saccharin (3 mg/kg/day, n = 6) or sucralose (1.

Clinical, radiological and laboratory findings in 185 children with tuberculous meningitis at a single centre and relationship with the stage of the disease.

Background: A delay in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis meningitis (TBM) may lead to increased mortality and morbidity. The aim of this study was to describe the clinical, radiological and laboratory findings of TBM on a cohort of 185 pediatric patients at a single centre over a 10 year period and to investigate relationship between the stage of the disease.

Methods: The hospital records of 185 TBM children that presented to the Pediatric Clinics of Dicle University Hospital were retrospectively evaluated.

Ornidazole-based sequential therapy is not effective in Helicobacter pylori eradication in children.

Background/aims: Sequential therapy is one of the recent answers given to the problem of increasing antibiotic resistance and decreasing eradication rates of Helicobacter pylori infection. The aim of this study is to compare the ornidazole-based sequentialtherapy with the standard triple therapy in Helicobacter pylori eradication.

Materials And Methods: Children aged 4-18 years diagnosed with Helicobacter pylori infection based on histology and at least one of 13 C urea breath test and rapid urease test positivity were included in the study.

Multicentric analysis of childhood tuberculosis in Turkey.

Only a few series of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) have been reported in the last 20 years. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical, radiological, microbiological, and treatment characteristics of childhood TB. A total of 539 children with childhood TB diagnosed over a 12-year period (1994-2005) in 16 different centers in Turkey participated in the study.

Perceptions of parents and physicians concerning the Childhood Asthma Control Test.

Background: The Childhood Asthma Control Test (C-ACT) has been proposed to be a simple, patient-based test that is able to reflect the multidimensional nature of asthma control. In this analysis, the aim was to evaluate the perceptions of physicians and caregivers concerning C-ACT and its predictive value for future asthma-related events.

Method: In a multicenter prospective design, 368 children aged 4-11 years with asthma who were either well- or not well-controlled were included in the study.

The reliability and validity of Turkish version of Childhood Asthma Control Test.

Introduction: The reliability and validity of Turkish version of Childhood Asthma Control Test (C-ACT).

Purpose: The management of asthma is an important as well as difficult issue of physician's daily practice particularly in busy clinical settings. C-ACT was created to identify asthma control levels in children aged 4-11 years.

Intracranial hemorrhage: clinical and demographic features of patients with late hemorrhagic disease.

Background: This retrospective study presents clinical, demographical features and radiological findings as well as outcomes of 31 infants with intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) due to vitamin K deficiency and hence evaluates the risk factors involved.

Methods: Thirty-one cases (17 males and 14 females) having a mean age of 52.52 ± 20.

Scorpion sting envenomation in children in southeast Turkey.

Background: Scorpion sting envenomation is a life-threatening emergency and a common public health problem in many regions of the world, particularly in children. Children are at greater risk of developing severe cardiac, respiratory, and neurological complications.

Objectives: The aims of this study were to evaluate demographic, clinical, laboratory, treatment, and outcome characteristics for pediatric patients with scorpion sting envenomation in southeast Turkey and to describe features that may be predictive of the need for pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) care.

Risk factors for drug resistant tuberculosis in southeast Turkey.

We undertook a cross-sectional survey of 116 patients at Dicle Hospital, Turkey, who had with bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis (TB). Demographic and clinical features, including age, gender, pulmonary TB history, associated diabetes mellitus, previous TB treatment, residential area and education, were collected from charts. Eighty-four of the strains were found to be susceptible to all drugs.

Paraoxonase, total antioxidant activity and peroxide levels in marasmic children: relationships with leptin.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the oxidant/antioxidant status, paraoxonase (PON) activity and leptin levels in children with marasmic malnutrition.

Design And Methods: Thirty marasmic children (age 14.4+/-10.

Interferon-gamma gene+874T-A polymorphism is associated with tuberculosis and gamma interferon response.

Interferon-gamma is the most important cytokine in resistance to mycobacterial diseases and common variants of interferon-gamma gene could be related to tuberculosis susceptibility. We tested the hypothesis that the interferon-gamma+874T-A polymorphism is associated with tuberculosis disease, and affects the interferon-gamma response. We determined by pyrosequencing the distribution of the interferon-gamma+874T-A polymorphism in a Turkish population of 319 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, 42 children with severe forms of tuberculosis and 115 healthy donors.

Relationships between leptin, insulin, IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 in children with energy malnutrition.

Objectives: Leptin has a key role in energy homeostasis and there may be a link between leptin and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) system. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationships between long-lasting insufficient caloric intake (marasmus), leptin and IGF-1 system.

Design And Methods: The study group consisted of 30 marasmic children and control group included 28 healthy children.

Oxidative stress, inflammation and early cardiovascular damage in children with chronic renal failure.

The relationship between inflammation, oxidant stress and cardiovascular damage in children with chronic renal failure (CRF) has not previously been investigated. The aim of this study was to investigate markers of oxidative stress, inflammation and early cardiovascular abnormalities. Therefore, erythrocyte superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) activities; blood glutathione (GSH) and serum malondialdehyde (MDA) levels; C-reactive protein (CRP) and proinflammatory cytokines (IL-6, TNF-alpha,); and left ventricular masses (LVM) and intima media thicknesses (IMT) were measured in children with CRF.

Electrocution-related mortality: a review of 123 deaths in Diyarbakir, Turkey between 1996 and 2002.

Electrical burns are responsible for considerable morbidity and mortality, and are usually preventable with simple safety measures. We conducted a retrospective study of non-lightening electrocution deaths in Diyarbakir, Turkey between 1996 and 2002. All 123 deaths investigated were accidental.

Clinical characteristics of children with snakebite poisoning and management of complications in the pediatric intensive care unit.

Background: Venomous snakebite is an emergency condition with high morbidity and mortality in childhood. Nearly all venomous snakes in Turkey are members of the Viperidae family and show poisonous local and hematotoxic effects.

Methods: A total of 77 children (mean age 9.

Foreign body asphyxiation in children.

We aimed to investigate the frequency and epidemiological features of deaths due to foreign body asphyxiation (FBA) in childhood, over 1990-2003. Of the victims, 14 (63.6%) were male and 8 (36.

Paraoxonase, anti-oxidant response and oxidative stress in children with chronic renal failure.

Increased oxidative stress is believed to contribute to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease in uraemia. In children with chronic renal failure (CRF), an anti-oxidant enzyme, paraoxonase (PON), that inhibits oxidation of LDL-cholesterol, has not been previously investigated. In this study we aimed to investigate PON activity, total anti-oxidant response (TAR), total peroxide (TPX), oxidative stress index (OSI) and some pro-oxidant cytokines in 29 children with CRF [mean age 10.

Polymorphisms of the angiotensin converting enzyme and angiotensin II type 1 receptor genes and renal scarring in non-uropathic children with recurrent urinary tract infection.

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate whether the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) and angiotensin II type 1 receptor (A1166C) gene polymorphisms were associated with the renal scar formation secondary to recurrent urinary tract infection in children without uropathy.

Methods: The polymorphisms were investigated by polymerase chain reaction in 97 children (81 females, 16 males; age, 2.5-13 years) with recurrent urinary tract infection and 100 healthy controls as a single centre study.

Child pedestrian fatalities in Diyarbakir, Turkey.

Objective: As there is an increase in modernization, transportation, unskilled, and drunk drivers, injuries from traffic accidents have taken on an epidemic form all over the world. The present study aims to describe the demographic data of childhood pedestrian fatalities in a large urban area in Turkey.

Methods: The demographic data of childhood pedestrian fatalities in a large urban area in Turkey was described retrospectively, with respect to age, gender, injury pattern and location.

Use of nebulized budesonide in two critical patients with hydrocarbon intoxication.

Reports of acute naphtha (a petroleum distillate) intoxication, particularly those containing treatment and toxicological data, are poorly verified in the literature. Systemic steroids have not usually been advised for routine management, but no previous studies have been reported on the effects of corticosteroid inhalations. In this study, two critical pediatric patients with chemical pneumonia due to naphtha ingestion have been reported who were effectively managed with nebulized budesonide.