Mersin Üniversitesi

The Comparative Prognostic Value of the Interim PET Deauville Score and ΔSUVmax in Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma: A Real-World Study of Imaging and Inflammatory Markers

Background: Interim [18F]FDG-PET/CT with the Deauville score (DS) is central to response assessment in classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL). Quantitative ΔSUVmax and the lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR) may refine the DS, but ΔSUVmax thresholds vary across cohorts and have rarely b...

Universal Fractal Natural Language Decision Map: Real-Time Edge Triage Across Heterogeneous Domains

Universal Fractal Natural Language Decision Map: Real-Time Edge Triage Across Heterogeneous Domains This open-science research package presents the complete theoretical framework, empirical replication pipeline, and bare-metal production benchmarks for the Universal Fractal Natur...

Association of metformin exposure with oncological outcomes in BCG-treated non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a three-arm retrospective cohort study

To evaluate the association between metformin exposure and oncological outcomes in bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG)-treated non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) using a three-arm cohort design. Because all metformin-exposed patients were diabetic, the study was not designed t...

Peripheral Blood Non-Coding RNAs in Epilepsy: Biomarker Potential and Clinical Implications

Purpose: Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures, complex molecular mechanisms, and clinical heterogeneity. Despite significant advances in neuroimaging techniques and antiseizure therapies, the diagnosis and management of epilepsy still lar...

Mandelbrot Fractal Neural Synthesis: Zero-Storage Procedural Weight Derivation and Non-Linear Decision Boundaries

Mandelbrot Fractal Neural Synthesis: Zero-Storage Procedural Weight Derivation and Non-Linear Decision Boundaries What's New in Version 2.0 (Major Revision & Q1 Readiness) Systems Trade-Off Framing: Reframed the central research question from raw parameter fitting to fundamental...

Effect of Virtual Reality on Anxiety, Pain, and Radial Artery Spasm During Transradial Coronary Angiography: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial

Background: Radial artery spasm (RAS) is a major complication of transradial coronary angiography (TRA) that adversely affects procedural success and patient comfort. Although procedural anxiety and pain contribute to RAS development, prospective randomized controlled data on the...

Structure-Aware RGB Channel Reconstruction for YOLOv8-Based Oyster Mushroom Detection

Oyster mushroom cultivation requires accurate object detection for automated monitoring and precision agriculture applications. This study evaluates a structure-aware three-channel input representation for YOLOv8s in which raw RGB channels are replaced by grayscale intensity, Sob...

Biomarkers of Treatment-Escalation Risk by Obesity Status in Pediatric Asthma: A Development and External Validation Cohort Study

Background/Objectives: Obesity may alter the prognostic value of biomarkers in childhood asthma. We examined whether transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-β1), soluble suppression of tumorigenicity 2 (sST2), C-X-C motif chemokine ligand 8 (CXCL8), and insulin-like growth factor...

The role of early warning scores in predicting envenomation severity and adverse clinical outcomes in snake bites

This study aimed to examine the role of early warning scores (RAPS, REMS, MEWS, WPSS, and NEWS) in predicting envenomation severity and adverse clinical outcomes (ACO) in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) following a snake bite. This retrospective observational...

The Chrono-Resonant Field Model: A Theory of Temporal Binding in Consciousness

Current dominant theories of consciousness (GNW, IIT, Predictive Coding) leave the mechanism of temporal unification—how the brain integrates asynchronous neural processing into a coherent present—largely implicit. This paper proposes the Chrono-Resonant Field Model (CRFM) to add...

Position-specific lower extremity performance and machine learning-based injury-risk screening classification in adult male basketball players: a random forest and SHAP approach

Basketball imposes high position-dependent neuromuscular demands that predispose athletes to lower extremity injuries. Machine learning offers the potential to identify multivariable risk-screening patterns that single-threshold approaches miss. This study aimed to (1) compare po...

Myofascial chain sequencing and performance adaptations in youth football players: an exploratory knowledge graph-supported analysis

Abstract Background This study investigated the effects of myofascial chain-focused training on countermovement jump (CMJ) performance and dynamic balance in a small, specific cohort of youth football players, while also examining how performance changed across the intervention w...

Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of the Southern Bolkar Mountains and Adjacent Çukurova Plain (Mersin, Türkiye): Richness and Turnover Along a 2–2200 m Elevational Gradient

The southern slopes of the Bolkar Mountains, in the western Bolkar massif of the central Taurus range, compress the full sequence of eastern Mediterranean vegetation zones into a short horizontal distance, yet their butterfly fauna has never been surveyed as a continuous gradient...

Performance, Biomechanical Demands, Injury Burden, and Health Surveillance in Wheelchair Court Sports and Selected Para Sport Cohorts: A Systematic Review

Background: Research examining performance, biomechanics, workload, injury, and health in Para sport is heterogeneous and is particularly focused on wheelchair-based sports. This systematic review synthesized quantitative evidence focused predominantly on wheelchair basketball, w...

ALLELE AND GENOTYPE FREQUENCIES OF THE CDKAL1 rs7754840 G>C POLYMORPHISM IN TURKISH HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS: A POPULATION-BASED STUDY

Objective: The CDKAL1 rs7754840 G>C polymorphism is link to defective insulin release and an elevated risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus. The objective of the current research was to identify the frequencies of alleles and genotypes for the rs7754840 G>C polymorphism in healthy Tur...

Evaluation of the interthalamic adhesion in patients with multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic demyelinating disease causing atrophy in whole brain and deep gray matter structures resulting in physical and cognitive disability. In this study, we investigated the size of ITA in patients with MS and evaluated the relationship between the size...

Unheard voices, unseen paths: Are we educating guides for all? The case for accessibility in tourist guiding curricula

This study aims to evaluate the extent to which accessible tourism is integrated into the curricula of tour guiding programs in Turkey. As participation in tourism by people with disabilities (PwD) continues to grow, the role of tourist guides in addressing diverse accessibility...

The association between actigraphy-assessed sleep disturbance parameters, gestational diabetes risk, and maternal glycemia: a systematic review

This systematic review aimed to examine the association between actigraphy-assessed sleep disturbance parameters and the risk of gestational diabetes as well as maternal glycemic outcomes during pregnancy. This review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for S...

SU VE KANALİZASYON İDARELERİNİN YÖNETSEL SORUNLARI: SAYIŞTAY DENETİM RAPORLARI ÜZERİNDEN BİR DEĞERLENDİRME (2019–2024)

Türkiye'de stratejik öneme sahip olan su ve kanalizasyon hizmetleri, 2014 yılındaki büyükşehir yönetim modeli değişikliği ve genişleyen hizmet alanları neticesinde karmaşık bir yönetsel sürece dönüşmüştür. Mevcut yasal çerçevenin güncelliğini yitirmesi ve mahalli idare reformları...

Comparative performance and temporal variability of large language models on orthodontic questions from a national dental specialty examination

This study compared the performance of three artificial intelligence–based chatbots (ChatGPT-4o, ChatGPT-4.5, and Gemini 2.5 Pro) on orthodontic questions from the Turkish Dental Specialty Examination at two testing time points. A total of 179 orthodontic multiple-choice question...