Browsing Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi / Faculty of Letters and Science by Title
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beta-Adrenoreceptor antagonists reduce cancer cell proliferation, invasion, and migration
(2014)Context: Propranolol, atenolol, and ICI118,551 are non-selective beta-adrenergic receptor (AR), beta(1)-AR, and beta(2)-AR antagonists, respectively. Objective: We investigated the efficacy of propranolol, atenolol, and ... -
Building Resilience and Interconnectedness among Humans and Nonhuman Entities: Aminatta Forna's Happiness
(2021)Using the theoretical tools provided by the conceptualisations of resilience and interconnectedness, this article carries out a comprehensive analysis of Aminatta Forna's Happiness (2008). The starting hypothesis explored ... -
BULGARIAN PLAYGROUNDS IN TRANSITION: DO CHILDREN'S AND PARENTS' PERCEPTIONS DIFFER?
(2017)Focusing on ideological dualism reflected in children's playgrounds in Bulgaria, this paper examines cross-generational differences in parents' and children's perceptions of playgrounds and their equipment designed during ... -
Can Digital Game Play Improve Older Adults' Cognitive Skills?
(2021)Cognitive skills are essential for the performance of basic and instrumental daily living activities such as self-care, medication, and finance management. A decline in cognitive abilities with increasing age thus hinders ... -
Changing Cultural Practices, Self-Identifications and Gender Roles of Kurdish and Turkish Catering and Retail Business Owners in London
(2019)This paper focuses on the changing cultural practices, self-identifications, and gender roles of Kurdish and Turkish (KT) communities in London. It explores the research question of how the occupational shift from industrial ... -
Cognitive Training Using A Mobile App As A Coping Tool Against COVID-19 Distress: A Crossover Randomized Controlled Trial
(2022)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has been suggested to constitute a broad base stressor with severe mental health consequences. mHealth applications are accessible self-help tools that can be used to reduce psychological ... -
Cognitive Training via a Mobile Application to Reduce Obsessive-Compulsive-Related Distress and Cognitions During the COVID-19 Outbreaks: A Randomized Controlled Trial Using a Subclinical Cohort
(2022)Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a persistent psy-chiatric disorder causing significant impairment in func-tioning. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated OCD-related symptoms and interrupted access to treatment. ... -
Composite clinoptilolite/PCL-PEG-PCL scaffolds for bone regeneration: In vitro and in vivo evaluation
(2019)In this study, clinoptilolite (CLN) was employed as a reinforcement in a polymer-based composite scaffold in bone tissue engineering and evaluated in vivo for the first time. Highly porous, mechanically stable, and osteogenic ... -
Control Deprivation Decreases, Not Increases, Belief in a Controlling God for People with Independent Self-Construal
(2019)Compensatory Control Model suggests that, when deprived of personal control, people compensate this lack by bolstering their belief in a controlling God. However, this is not the only way of reacting to control deprivation ... -
Corchorus olitorius L. (Jute) leaf and seed extracts exerted high antibacterial activity against food and plant pathogenic bacteria
(2022)Aim of this study was to comparatively evaluate antibacterial activities of methanol (MetOH), acetone (Ace), petroleum ether (PE) and aqueous (dw) leaf (L), root (R), and seed (S) extracts of Corchorus olitorius L. on both ... -
Cross-Cultural Consistency and Relativity in the Enjoyment of Thinking Versus Doing
(2019)Which is more enjoyable: trying to think enjoyable thoughts or doing everyday solitary activities? Wilson et al. (2014) found that American participants much preferred solitary everyday activities, such as reading or ... -
Cultural Preservation Approaches in the Cinema: The Case Study of the Movie Iftarlik Gazoz
(2021)Nowadays, factors, such as the world's being a global village and the fast living of the consumption age together with the developing technology have led to the elimination of cultural values. In this era, which detains ... -
Designing a skills-based reading course for teaching english
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Differentiation of Memory Processing Stages and Effect of Demographic Variables with Alternative Scoring Approaches To The Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test
(2022)Background The Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) is the third most popular verbal memory test and the tenth most frequently used neuropsychological test. The original scoring system of RAVLT does not differentiate ... -
Digital Gaming Trends of Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Sample from Turkey
(2023)Background Although the gaming habits of children, adolescents, and younger adults have been investigated in Turkey there has been less emphasis on the gaming patterns of middle-aged and older adults. The current study ... -
Do changes in threat salience predict the moral content of sermons? The case of Friday Khutbas in Turkey
(2019)We analyzed the content of "Friday Khutbas" delivered in Turkish mosques between January 2001 and December 2018 to test the prediction of moral foundations theory (MFT) literature that threat salience would lead to an ...
