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Representation of Girls in The Case of Ayşe Polat’s “En Garde” Movie
Get PDFAyşe Polat usually mentions migration and immigrants in her films. However the identification process, growing problems, different oriantations, impropriety, rootness, capability of being everywhere at the same time, gender roles, existence problems, loves, daily lives, expectations, dreams of the young immigrant individuals are not presented as an absoulte problem in her films. “En Garde” movie which was directed by Ayşe Polat and won Silver Leopard Award in Locarno Film Festival will be analysed in this study.The film is about Berivan who takes refuge in Germany with her family. Berivan loses her family in an accident, begins to stay in a catholic hospice and then she meets Alice who is 16 years old. The film also mentions friendship between two girls, concern for the future of both of them, their daily life problems, lonelinesses and their solidarity witheach other in the process of existence struggles
Reconceptualizing Computerized Culturally-Based EFL Programs For Scholarship Students
Get PDFFor decades, English Language teaching materials have been, to a certain extent, neglecting the learner's L1 culture. As computerized programs are often targeting the largest segment of population possible, teaching materials and textbooks producers do not seem to put the learner's point of reference in focus, especially when it comes to monolingual providers. Inter-language studies related to computerized EFL programs indicate learners develop hypotheses that do not always reflect the formal usage of the target language (TL). Learners’ hypotheses are based on a variety of input including L1 features, universal developmental patterns affected by overlapping programs, and TL idiosyncrasies not always obvious to monolingual teaching materials producers. Therefore, an attempt to incorporate all important aspects of the learner's L1must be emphasized. Scholarship students must be exposed to L1 as well as TL culture as early as at the intermediate level, before moving abroad, to ensure Intercultural Competence (ICC) and Cross-Cultural Competence (CCC) and effective L2 acquisition and learning. 
IMPACT OF ETHICS OF WORK ON JOB PERFORMANCE IN TECHNICAL COLLEGES IN SAUDI ARABIA
Get PDF The main objective of the paper was to find out if ethics of work can have an impact on an employee’s productivity and job performance. The researchers set out to develop a quantitative research by gathering data principally from sampled respondents from three different technical colleges in Saudi Arabia. Gathered data was tested to determine the significance of ethics of work on employee productivity and job performance. From the survey, two variables were eminent, namely: ethics of work (independent variable) and employee job performance (dependent variable). The study tested several hypotheses, and the results confirmed the positive impact of work ethics on job performance in all three sampled colleges. Results showed a significant difference of impact of ethics of work on different ages, management, religious and educational levels. The older the employee, senior and more educated, the more committed to work ethics and the higher the output. Keywords: ethics of work, productivity, job performance, Saudi Arabi
Knowledge management maturity model Analytical study
Get PDFThis study sought to identify the measurement of maturity for knowledge management in the business environment and determine maturity levels and highlighted the areas that must be measured to identify the level of application of the organization for knowledge management models The study curriculum content analysis was used with reference to the production of the intellectual has been reviewed by the study (16) study presented his proposal to measure maturity in the application of knowledge management models and concluded the study that the majority of the models define five main levels of maturity (initial - awareness - definition - Management - Continuous Improvement), The study also concluded that there are five key aspects measured more maturity models (Process - Human Resources - Information Technology - strategic - organizational culture) study recommended more Arabic study in this field km study recommended to work on the development of the maturity of Arabic to measure the application of knowledge management model Arab business environmen
STRATEGIC PLANNING PRACTICE OF THE TOP 500 COMPANIES: CASE OF KONYA
Get PDFStrategic plan can be defined as organization's plan which is chosen among the alternatives and determines the vision and mission by taking into consideration the external threats and opportunities under given the conditions of organization's strengths and weaknesses. It determines the paths, methods and resource distribution of the companies to reach the strategic goals. Analysis of external and internal conditions isimportant components of strategic planning. Then mission and vision are redefined to determine the new path for organizational goals. Under today's circumstances strategic planning is an integral part of corporate communication. The purpose of the study is to determine whether this concept is understood and practiced professionally among toplevel companies. City of Konya's eight companies, which were among Turkey's top 500, were examined. Interviews were performed with the companies' senior level managers. With the questions, it was tried determine whether the concept of strategic planning was understood and practiced effectively in their management activities. Study showed that only three of companies had strategic plans, whereas five of the companies didn't have any. It was seen that each company had different strategic planning/planning practice experiences
Evolution of E-Health in Saudi Arabia: Mobile Technology and M-health
Get PDFMedicine, to date, remains as an information intensive discipline since the onset days of practice. Back then, the pearls and nuggets of wisdom were orally passed on from one generation to another as well as through apprenticeship. At the base of health and medicine lies informatics helping to store, access and retrieve humongous amounts of data for patients,conditions and ailments. Today, medicine and health have evolved to breed the present day medical practice built on tenets of electronic health (E-health). The modern trendy milestones enable rapid dissemination of new information such as outbreaks through electronic access to fundamental relevant sources such as electronic journals, shared patient data and other electronic reference websites. In a nutshell, e-health transformed and digitized the world to the benefit of medicine. In as much as having this information electronically available are beneficial, medical practitioners such as doctors are immobilized to workstations, centers andimmobile desktop computers. The next era in e-health involves gaining rapid access to storage and creation of materials in a convenient manner. A fundamental tool to this is a smartphone.On its part, Saudi Arabia has developed a two phased e-health vision achievable by 2020. The author of this paper develops a masterpiece that will help nurture the next phase of Saudi Arabia’s e-health vision, m-health
Tourist in Wonderland: The Architectural Image as a Part of Tourism Marketing
Get PDFThe word “tourism” had emerged in end of 18th century related with the concept of "grand tour" which is a traditional trip undertaken mainly by upper-class Europeans across the Europe by train. After 1930’s, when labor class get the rights for annual leave and increased automobile ownership, the word had been coincided with the short-term vacations to relaxing geographies such as beachfront, mountain side etc. In time, the host geographies earned a considerable amount of income from these short term vacations and tourism became an input for urban and architectural planning. Thereafter, architects aimed to increase the attraction of the “place” for tourists by using design. Antalya had been one of these centers of attraction after 1980’s. Since then, the city and its architecture have been reshaped on this ambition. In recent decades, this ambition reshaped the east of the city, especially after the area was declared as "Kemerağzı-Kundu Antalya Culture and Tourism Conservation and Development Area" by the Council of Ministers in 03.08.2004. Thereafter, the area has been redesigned for tourism marketing by architectural image production. The aim of this study is to discuss the notion of “created center of attraction” through the famous book of Venturi, “Learning from Las Vegas”. 
SCIENTIFIC PROOF FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER BY NATURAL PRODUCTS; THE IMPORTANT and COMMON SPECIMENS FROM TURKEY
Get PDFCancer, is one of the discouraging diseases which make threats human life in our current world. Many searches have been made and are still made, aiming at the etiology and treatment of this deadly disease on life which is also known as abnormal cell proliferation in the organism. That is why, most part of the studies carried out on bioactive plants have been focused on cancer treatment. In recent years, traditional medical practices have become a topic which gains universal importance. Wide interest in “green treatment” and the success of antitumorigenic pharmaceuticals of vegetable origin like taxol, etoposide, vincristine and topotecan designate that this inclination will continue.At the same time, overexploitation of the biosphere means that many plant species are becoming extinct. Deforestation is continuing at an alarming pace and we need to work fast to investigate the areas of high biological diversity before it is too late. Thus strategies need to be developed efficiently exploit the vegetable resources available to us. One way is to combine the rapid chemical and biological screening of plant extracts. Recently, the development of new in vitro approaches for cell culturing and assessment of cellular functions greatly facilitates the screening of natural sources for active constituents and investigations on their mechanism of action. The wide use of such systems may help in reducing animal experiments and in increasing our knowledge about the characteristics, potency, and efficiency of natural products.In light of the significant biological activity and our screening studies, our team has decided to focus on Alkanna, seaweeds, rosemary, blueberry, microalgae, black carrot extracts [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].The obtained extracts alone or in combination with the anticancer drugs may offer a good strategy for the treatment of a variety of human cancers that are resistant to chemotherapy. In light of the findings of these studies, an important step has been taken as far as preparation of biologically obtained, cheap chemotherapeutics to be used in treatment of some cancer types.It is hoped that the results of this study will contribute not only to improve the life quality and navigation of the disease but also the economy of the country by decreasing the consumption of imported therapeutic medicine that is applied to cancer patients and will support chemotherapeutic and radiotherapic treatment effectiveness
Turkish-French Relations in Recent Years: Signs of Normalization During Hollande Period and Predictions for The Future
Get PDFTurkish-French relations are well rooted and based on strong economic, cultural andpolitical ties between two countries. However, in recent years, there have been some problemsbetween two countries and especially during the Presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012),these problems began to spoil relations between two nations as well. However, with theelection of François Hollande as the new President of the Republic in 2012, Turkey and Franceopened a new chapter in their relations. Although some issues creating problems in bilateralrelations were not completely solved, there has been a visible progress in Turkish-Frenchrelations during Hollande’s tenure in office. This article aims to analyze Turkish-Frenchrelations during Sarkozy and Hollande periods separately, to state main issues creatingproblems in bilateral relations, to analyze economic and cultural aspects of relations and todiscuss the future of relations in the light of recent political developments and Charlie Hebdoincident
KAMPÜS YAŞAM KALİTESİNİN ÖĞRENCİ MEMNUNİYETİNE ETKİSİ
Get PDFÜniversite öğrencileri, öğrenciliklerinin büyük bölümünü üniversite kampüslerinde geçirmektedir. Dolayısıyla, öğrencilerin memnuniyetinde kendilerine sunulan kampüs olanaklarının etkisi olabilmektedir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, kampüs yaşam kalitesinin öğrenci memnuniyetine etkisini ortaya koymaktır. Bu doğrultuda, bu araştırma nicel araştırma tasarımına göre gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırmanın evrenini İstanbul’da bulunan üniversitelerde öğrenim gören öğrenciler oluşturmaktadır. Araştırma kapsamında veriler 19 farklı üniversitede öğrenim gören 1050 öğrenciden yüz yüze anket tekniğiyle toplanmıştır. Elde edilen veriler, sosyal bilimler için paket program ile analiz edilmiştir. Araştırmanın sonucunda kampüs yaşam kalitesinin öğrenci memnuniyetini önemli oranda etkilediği tespit edilmiştir. Bu sonuçlar doğrultusunda ilgililere önerilerde bulunulmuştur.