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Publication behaviour and (dis)qualification of chief editors in Turkish national Social Sciences journals
No full textAbstractPurposeThis study investigated the publication behaviour of 573 chief editors managing 432 Social Sciences journals in Turkey. Direct inquiries into editorial qualifications are rare, and this research aims to shed light on editors’ scientific leadership capabilities.Design/methodology/approachThis study contrasts insider publication behaviour in national journals with international articles in journals indexed by the Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus. It argues that editors demonstrating a consistent ability to publish in competitive WOS and Scopus indexed journals signal high qualifications, while editors with persistent insider behaviour and strong local orientation signal low qualification. Scientific leadership capability is measured by first-authored publications. Correlation and various regression tests are conducted to identify significant determinants of publication behaviour.FindingsInternational publications are rare and concentrated on a few individuals, while insider publications are endemic and constitute nearly 40% of all national articles. Editors publish 3.2 insider papers and 8.1 national papers for every SSCI article. 62% (58%) of the editors have no SSCI (Scopus) article, 53% (63%) do not have a single lead-authored WOS (Scopus) article, and 89% publish at least one insider paper. Only a minority consistently publish in international journals; a fifth of the editors have three or more SSCI publications, and a quarter have three or more Scopus articles. Editors with foreign Ph.D. degrees are the most qualified and internationally oriented, whereas non-mobile editors are the most underqualified and underperform other editors by every measure. Illustrating the overall lack of qualification, nearly half of the professor editors and the majority of the WOS and Scopus indexed journal editors have no record of SSCI or Scopus publications.Research limitationsThis research relies on local settings that encourage national publications at the expense of international journals. Findings should be evaluated in light of this setting and bearing in mind that narrow localities are more prone to peer favouritism.Practical implicationsIncompetent and nepotistic editors pose an imminent threat to Turkish national literature. A lasting solution would likely include the dismissal and replacement of unqualified editors, as well as delisting and closure of dozens of journals that operate in questionable ways and serve little scientific purpose.Originality/valueTo my knowledge, this is the first study to document the publication behaviour of national journal chief editors.</jats:sec
Strength Values of a Soil Stabilized with Fly Ash, Lime, and Sea Water
No full textIn this study, the strength values of a soil to which fly ash (FA) and lime additives treated were examined experimentally. In addition to the additives, the effect of using sea water as kneading water was also examined. In experimental studies, Sieve analysis, Consistency limits, Proctor Test, Unconfined compression (UCS) and California bearing ratio (CBR) tests were carried out on the samples. In addition, X-ray fluorescence (XRF), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) analyses were carried out to describe the structural properties of FA. Test results showed that the UCS and CBR values of the soil were 134 kPa and 3.1% respectively. After 28 days of curing, these values increased to 846 kPa and 16.3%, respectively, in the mixture which all additives were used together.</jats:p
KASTAMONU’DA ASAYİŞ (1914-1918)
No full textOsmanlı Devleti dağılma döneminden itibaren özellikle otoritenin de bozulmasına bağlı olarak asayiş konusunda gerekli önlemleri almak, ülke genelinde suç ve suçluların tespitini sağlamak için vilayetlerin bu konuda kayıt tutmasını istemiştir. Bu kayıt çalışması ile devlet ülke genelindeki asayiş sorunlarına hâkim olmakla birlikte vilayetlerden gelen veriler doğrultusunda güvenlik tedbirleri alma yoluna gitmiştir. Vilayetlerdeki asayiş durumunu genel olarak aktaran kayıt defterlerinden birisi olan “Ceraim-i Umumiye” ve hapishanelerdeki mahkûm, tutuklu, suç ve suçlu oranlarını içeren “Hapishane Yoklama Cetvelleri” vilayet ve kazalardaki asayiş sorunlarını içermektedir. 1914- 1918 yılları arasında Kastamonu vilayeti dâhilinde bulunan hapishanelerin dört aylık sürelerle tutulan hapishane yoklama cetvelleri ile suç çeşitlerine göre erkek ve kadın mahkûm, tutuklu sayıları, işledikleri suçların oranları bildirilmiştir. Ceraim-i Umumiyye kayıtlarında ise, Kastamonu dâhilinde yaşanan suçların çeşitleri ve suç işleyenlerin genel durumu hakkında ayrıntılı bilgilere yer verilmiştir. Bu bağlamda bölgede yaşanan güvenlik sorunlarının hangi alanlarda daha yoğun olduğunu, cinsiyete, yaşa, tabi olduğu millete, inancına ve mesleğine göre dağılımları kayıt altına alınmıştır. Bu çalışmamızda, Kastamonu vilayet merkezi ve kazalarına ait olan “Hapishane Yoklama Cetvelleri” ve “Ceraim-i Umumiye” kayıtları temel alınmıştır. Bu kayıtlarda yer alan I. Dünya Savaşı yıllarında Kastamonu’da işlenen suç çeşitleri, suçlu oranları, mahkûm ve tutuklulukların cinsiyete göre dağılımı temel alınmak üzere suçluların genel durumları ele alınmaya çalışılmıştır. Çalışmamızda genel olarak Cumhurbaşkanlığı Devlet Arşivleri Başkanlığı Osmanlı Arşivinden yararlanılmış olup Osmanlı hapishaneleri, Osmanlı’da hukuki uygulamalar ve Osmanlı’da suç konularını içeren literatürden yararlanılmıştır. I. Dünya Savaşı yıllarında, Kastamonu’daki asayişin ortaya konulduğu çalışmamızda savaş şartlarının getirmiş olduğu olumsuzlukların toplum hayatına hukuki olarak yansımalarına da değinilmiştir.</jats:p
İNÖNÜ MAĞARASI KALKOLİTİK ÇAĞ ÇAN GÖVDELİ ÇANAKLARI ÜZERİNE GÖZLEMLER
No full textZonguldak ili, Ereğli ilçesi sınırları içinde yer alan İnönü Mağarası’nda 2017 yılından itibaren yapılan kazılarda, bölgenin hakkında çok az şey bilinen dip tarihi hakkında önemli verilere ulaşılmıştır. Mağarada yapılan kazılarda tespit edilen Kalkolitik Çağ’dan Orta Çağ’a kadar uzanan yerleşim evreleri Zonguldak’ın oldukça zengin ve özgün bir içeriğe sahip olan uzunca bir geçmişine ait kanıtlar sunmuştur. Mağaranın ilk sakinlerine ait olan V. tabaka bulguları, günümüzden yaklaşık 6300 yıl önce mağaranın ilk kez iskân edildiğini göstermiştir. Bu tabakada bulunan süs eşyaları, mağara sakinlerinin Balkan kültürleri ile yakın ilişkiler içerisinde olduklarının izlerini ortaya koymuştur. Ancak çanak çömleklerin analojik değerlendirmesi kap üretiminde ve form çeşitliliğinde yerel unsurların ön planda olduğunu göstermiştir. Bu çalışma kapsamında incelenen çan gövdeli çanaklar bölgeler arası ilişkilere ışık tutabilecek az sayıda kap formlarından biridir. Balkanlarda, Kıyı Ege ve Adalar’da Kalkolitik Çağ yerleşimlerinden bildiğimiz çan gövdeli çanaklardan bazılarının üzerinde yine dönemin modasına uygun olarak mat beyaz boya bezeme unsurları göze çarpmaktadır. Bu çalışmada söz konusu formun genel özellikleri, bölgeler arası ilişkiler açısından önemi ve mat boya bezemeli örneklerle ilişkisi açıklanmaya çalışılacaktır.</jats:p
Shear Performance in Reinforced Concrete Beams with Partial Aggregate Substitution Using Waste Glass: A Comparative Analysis via Digital Imaging Processing and a Theoretical Approach
No full textThe usage of waste glass aggregate (WGA) associated with the replacement of fine aggregate (FA) and coarse aggregate (CA) is observed to reduce the number of raw materials for sustainable concrete. For this aim, a total of 15 beams were produced, and then investigational experiments were implemented to observe the shear performances. The stirrup spacing and WGA proportion were chosen as the main parameters. FA and CA were exchanged with WGA with weight proportions of 0, 10, and 20%. The experimental investigation results showed that changing stirrup spacing and WGA proportion affected the fracture and shear properties of reinforced-concrete-beams (R-C-Bs). Furthermore, the findings of the test results revealed that the proportion of WGA could be efficiently consumed as 20% of the partial replacement of FA. With the addition of FA to the mixture, the load carrying capacity of R-C-Bs increases. On the other hand, increasing the WGA ratio by more than 10% using CA, together with increasing the stirrup spacing, can significantly reduce the capacity of R-C-Bs. It was observed that the calculated shear strengths of R-C-Bs with inadequate stirrup spacing, based on ACI 318 and EC2 design codes, can be up to 52 and 79% higher than the experimental results for R-C-Bs containing coarse glass aggregate and 21 and 56% higher for R-C-Bs containing fine glass aggregate, respectively. Additionally, an image processing method was applied to describe the damages/microdamages in R-C-Bs. At that point, the findings obtained from the experimental part of the study were confirmed by the results of the image processing method. Although the strains obtained with the image processing method are reliable, it has not been determined exactly where the crack will occur due to the very sudden development of the shear crack at the moment of beam failure
Ekonomik Entegrasyon ve Ekonomik Karmaşıklık İlişkisi: AB27 Ülkeleri Analizi
No full textBu çalışmanın amacı, AB27 ülkelerine ait 1996-2018 dönemi yıllık verileri ile ekonomik entegrasyonun uzun dönemli dinamik etkilerin ekonomik karmaşıklık üzerindeki etkilerini incelemektir. Seriler arasında eşbütünleşme ilişkisi Westerlund (2008) tarafından geliştirilen Durbin-Hausman eşbütünleşme testi ile tahmin edilmiştir. Uzun dönem panel eşbütünleşme katsayı tahmini için Eberhardt ve Bond (2009), Eberhardt ve Teal (2010) tarafından geliştirilen AMG testi uygulanmıştır. Elde edilen bulgulara göre kurumsal kalite, ölçek ekonomileri ve teknolojik ilerleme etkilerinin ekonomik karmaşıklık üzerinde pozitif ve anlamlı bir etkisi olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Panelin geneli için DYY ve verimlilik etkilerinin ekonomik karmaşıklık üzerinde anlamlı bir etkisi bulunamazken ülke bazlı bulgularda heterojen etkiler tespit edilmiştir. Bu bulgulara göre entegrasyonun kurumsal kalite, teknolojik ilerleme ve ölçek ekonomileri yolu ile AB27 ülkelerinin karmaşıklığının artırılmasında yardımcı olabileceği sonucuna varılmıştır. Öte yandan, DYY etkisinin karmaşıklık bağlamında pozitif etkisinden faydalanmak amacıyla DYY kararlarının bölge içinde yer alan ülkeler arasında nispeten daha az gelişmiş ülkelerde yoğunlaştırılması önerilmektedir.</jats:p
Does fear of activity predict exercise capacity in patients with coronary artery disease in both sexes? A cross-sectional multicenter study
No full textObjectives: This study aimed to identify whether fear of activity predicts exercise capacity in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and whether there is a difference between sexes regarding this relationship. Patients and methods: One hundred ninety-seven patients (145 males, 52 females; mean age: 56.3±10.8 years; range, 22 to 80 years) with a diagnosis of CAD or cardiac event in the previous one to 60 months were enrolled in this cross-sectional multicenter study between November 2015 and February 2017. Demographic and clinical features were recorded. Fear of activity was assessed by the fear of activity scale in patients with CAD (FactCAD). A 6-min walk test was used to assess exercise capacity. Results: Female participants were older, less educated, and less employed (p=0.045, p=0.048, and p<0.001, respectively) than males. Prevalence of myocardial infarction was higher in males. Comorbidities were higher in females. Multiple linear regression predicted 6-min walk distance (6MWD) based on FactCAD, sex, and education level with an r-squared of 0.321 (p<0.001). Fear of activity had an effect on walking distance in males (each additional score of FactCAD predicts a decrease of 1.3 m in 6MWD), together with disease duration, presence of chronic pulmonary disease, and low back pain, whereas fear of activity was not a predicting factor on walking distance in females. Age, education, and presence of angina predicted 6MWD in females. Conclusion: This study emphasizes that fear of activity is one of the predictors of 6MWD in males with CAD, and its assessment is recommended as a possible barrier to rehabilitation.</jats:p
Pandemic of the century: COVID-19 in inflammatory rheumatic diseases of a national cohort with 3,532 patients
No full textObjectives: This study aimed to assess the clinical outcomes and risk factors for severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in patients with inflammatory rheumatic disease (IRD) of a national cohort. Patients and methods: The multicenter cross-sectional study was carried out between July 15, 2020, and February 28, 2021. Data collection was provided from a national network database system, and 3,532 IRD patients (2,359 males, 1,173 females; mean age: 48.7±13.9 years; range; 18 to 90 years) were analyzed. Demographics, clinics about rheumatic disease, comorbidities, smoking status, being infected with COVID-19, and the course of the infection were questioned by rheumatology specialists. Results: One hundred seventeen patients were infected with COVID-19, the hospitalization rate due to COVID-19 was 58.9%, and the mortality rate was 1.7%. There was no difference between the COVID-19 positive and negative groups in terms of rheumatic disease activities and receiving drugs. It was observed that patients with COVID-19 had worse compliance with isolation rules, and bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination was less common. The mean age and the rate of smoking of hospitalized COVID-19 patients were higher than those without hospitalization. Conclusion: In this cohort, in which real-life data were analyzed, COVID-19 rates in IRD patients were similar to the general population for the same period. Compliance with the isolation rules and BCG vaccination attracted attention as components that reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection. The risk factors for hospitalization were older age and smoking.</jats:p
Evaluating climate-dependent distribution of orthohantaviruses with monitoring wild rodents: One Health Perspective†
No full textOrthohantaviruses, cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, nephropathia epidemica, and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, are major public health problems all over the world. Wild rodent surveillance for orthohantaviruses is of great importance for the preparedness against these human infections and the prediction of possible outbreak regions. Thus, we aimed to screen orthohantaviruses in wild rodents in Southern Anatolia, where the area has some of the glacial period refugia in the Mediterranean Basin, and interpret their current epidemiology with climatic biovariables in comparison with previously positive regions.We trapped muroid rodents between 2015 and 2017, and screened for orthohantaviruses. Then, we evaluated the relationship between orthohantavirus infections and bioclimatic variables. In spite of the long-term and seasonal sampling, we found no evidence for Orthohantavirus infections. The probable absence of orthohantaviruses in the sampling area was further evaluated from the climatic perspective, and results led us suggest that Orthohantavirus epidemiology might be relatively dependent on precipitation levels in driest and warmest quarters, and temperature fluctuations.These initial data might provide necessary perspective on wild rodent surveillance for orthohantaviruses in other regions, and help to collect lacking data for a such habitat suitability study in a bigger scale in the future
Comparison of Histomorphometric Characteristics of Heart and Aorta in Young Adult and Aged Rats
No full textAim: The aim of this study was to compare the histomorphometric and immunohistochemical properties of the heart and aorta in young adult and aged rats. Material and Methods: Sixteen female Wistar albino rats, eight young adult (6 months old, female, 233.25±13.85 g) and rats were used in the study. The rats were sacrificed under high dose anaesthesia and heart and aortic tissues were collected. Ventricular and septum interventiculare thicknesses were measured on the heart tissues, tunica media, tunica intima thickness and aortic diameter were measured histomorphometrically on the aortic tissues. In addition, Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase (iNOS) in the smooth muscle cells of the tunica media of the aorta and occludin protein levels in the aorta and heart endothelium were examined by immunohistochemical method and histological scoring was performed. Results: As a result of statistical analysis, body weight, heart weight, heart weight/body weight ratio, tunica media and intima thicknesses, and aortic diameters were found to be statistically significantly higher in aged rats compared to young adult rats (p</jats:p