Browsing by Author "Aktas G."

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    Relationship Between Epicardial Adipose Tissue, Inflammation and Volume Markers in Hemodialysis and Transplant Patients
    (2015) Çolak H.; Kilicarslan B.; Tekce H.; Tanrisev M.; Tugmen C.; Aktas G.; Kursat S.
    Cardiovascular (CV) diseases are still the most important cause of morbidity and mortality in both patients receiving hemodialysis (HD) treatment and individuals with renal transplantation (Rtx). Measurement of epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) thickness is an easily applied, cheap, and useful recent method predicting increased CV risk. We aimed to compare EAT changes in HD and Rtx patients and the association between EAT and inflammatory and CV volume markers in both groups. A total of 124 patients: 45 Rtx, 43 HD patients and 36 healthy controls were enrolled in the study. Laboratory parameters and inflammatory markers (interleukin-6 [IL-6] and high sensitive C-reactive protein [Hs-CRP]) were evaluated from venous blood samples after an overnight fast. EAT thickness was measured with transthoracic echocardiography. The levels of Hs-CRP, IL-6, systolic and diastolic blood pressures, left atrial (LA) diameter, left atrial index (LAI), left ventricular mass (LVM) and LVM index (LVMI) were significantly higher in the HD patients than in the other groups. EAT was positively correlated with age, body mass index (BMI), time on dialysis, serum creatinine, total cholesterol, Low density lipoprotein-cholesterol, and LVM in Rtx group and positively correlated with age, BMI, duration of dialysis, Hs-CRP, IL-6, LAI and LVMI and inversely correlated with inferior vena cava collapse index (IVC-CI) in HD group. EAT thickness of RTx patients (whose previous HD duration was similar to those in HD group) are similar to the healthy population and significantly thinner than patients on HD. Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis. © 2015 International Society for Apheresis.
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    Advertising events: Content and semiotic analyses of Cannes Film Festival posters
    (Cognizant Communication Corporation, 2019) Sel Z.G.; Aktas G.
    The visual, textual, and symbolic elements used in printed advertising can help target markets in that these appeal to their expectations and needs. This research investigates the historical evolution of printed advertising, namely posters, for the Cannes Film Festival. It aims to understand how the design and content of these posters have altered over time and what contextual and symbolic meanings could be derived from their analysis. To this end, the document archive of the Cannes Film Festival, one of the major international film festivals of Europe, was accessed and posters used between 1946 and 2016 were analyzed through a reliance on content and semiotic analyses. The findings of these analyses offer insight into how marketing strategies and efforts of organizers have changed over time, from the early days of the "establishment" to the current "prominent" status of the festival as one of the leading arts festivals in Europe. The findings also reveal that the festival has been emphasizing the visual more than the textual elements in its posters with the branding efforts progressively shifting towards the nearly exclusive reliance on visual elements over time, especially since the year 2000 onwards. Interestingly, over time the posters have also become art pieces in their own right through contribution of visuals by various artists. © 2019 Cognizant, LLC.