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Evaluation on metadata quality in institutional repositories
Full text linkVeri, ölçülebilir veya gözlemlenebilir gerçekleri temsil eder. Veri, olayları, nesneleri, ürünleri veya onların özelliklerini tanımlamak için kullanılır. Üst veri ise, bir çalışmayla ilgili olarak; çalışmanın başlığı, özeti, anahtar kelimeleri, yazar bilgileri, atıfları gibi verileri ifade eder. Ayrıca, bir bilgi kaynağının türü, dili, kullanım hakkı, konu başlıkları, kalıcı linkleri, otorite dizini gibi kaynağı kullanmayı ve yönetmeyi kolaylaştıran bilgiler de içerir. Üst veriler, çalışmanın doğru şekilde tanıtılması, keşfedilmesi ve erişilebilir hale getirilmesi için kritik öneme sahiptir. Bir akademik kurumda üretilen yayınlara ve bunlarla ilgili kaynaklara ilişkin üst veriler, araştırmalara kolay erişim, veri bütünlüğü, verilerin analizi, keşfi, yapılan bir araştırmanın sonraki araştırmalara temel oluşturması, atıf alma, kurumsal itibar, görünürlük, verilerin korunması ile uzun süreli saklanması gibi sayısız fayda sağlar.Data represents measurable or observable facts. Data is used to describe events, objects, products or their characteristics. Metadata refers to data related to a work, such as the title, abstract, keywords, author information, citations. It also includes information that makes it easier to use and manage an information source, such as its type, language, right of use, subject headings, permalinks, authority index. Metadata is critical for proper promotion, discovery and accessibility of the work. Metadata on publications and related resources produced in an academic institution provide numerous benefits such as easy access to research, data integrity, data analysis, discovery, the basis of a research for further research, citation, institutional reputation, visibility, data protection and long-term storage
Are you monitoring my performance or bullying me? A framework for patient orientation
No full textAs competition in the health sector increases, the burden on employees also increases. Patients, who are the customers of the healthcare industry, gain power with the development of marketing and make their own choices more easily in a competitive environment. It becomes inevitable to consider the link between the perceptions and motivations of hospital employees and outcomes for the patient. This chapter proposes a model on how performance monitoring affects patientorientation. Along with the model, relational propositions are provided. Looking at the relationship between monitoring and orientation, the moderator effects of service climate and interdependence are also considered. This model shows that practices that employees may perceive as bullying can have a negative impact on the customer, and it can negatively affect business performance in line with the effect of patient-orientation on patient satisfaction. The model will contribute to both the literature and managerial practices in the direction of a long-term research suitable for hospitals being complex workplaces. © 2024, IGI Global. All rights reserved
One-part sodium carbonate-activated slag/r-MgO based mixes: Influence of nano-silica incorporation on compressive strength and microstructural development
No full textIn this study, environment -friendly one -part alkali -activated slag -based mixes were prepared by using solid sodium carbonate as the alkali activator and incorporating reactive MgO (r-MgO) as the additive. Substitution of rMgO in reference mixes was carried out at various levels, up to 15%, to enhance the reaction mechanism and strength development. The strength development was measured up to 56 days and analyzed microstructurally using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetric, and scanning electron microscopy analyses. Additionally, the influence of incorporating nano -silica in the binary mixes on strength development and microstructure was investigated. It was observed that the reaction mechanism could be improved by incorporating a low amount of reactive MgO, leading to expedited setting time and significant increases at both early age and final compressive strength values. Nano -silica incorporation was found to be effective in improving compressive strength at all ages, resulting in the formation of a higher matrix phase as demonstrated by microstructure tests. The highest compressive strength was attained in the nano -silica and rMgO incorporating ternary mixes, reaching 25.9 MPa on the 3rd day and 47.2 MPa on the 28th day after production. Furthermore, the environmental impacts of the produced mixes were assessed. This study highlights the feasibility of one -part sodium carbonate -activated slag -based materials, especially with r-MgO inclusion, and underscores the role of nano -silica incorporation in enhancing strength properties.Istanbul Bilgi University Scientific Research Projects [AK85096]; Yildiz Technical University Scientific Research [FYL-2023-5636]; Production of Nano-Silica Added, Sodium Carbonate Activated Reactive MgO/Slag-Based Binder Systems: Rheological, Microstructural Properties, Performance, and Manufacturability with Digital TechnologiesThis study received partial funding from the project titled Production of Nano-Silica Added, Sodium Carbonate Activated Reactive MgO/Slag-Based Binder Systems: Rheological, Microstructural Properties, Performance, and Manufacturability with Digital Technologies, supported by Istanbul Bilgi University Scientific Research Projects (Project No: AK85096) and Yildiz Technical University Scientific Research Projects (Project No: FYL-2023-5636). The authors extend their appreciation to AKCANSA Inc. and KUMAS Magnesite Industry Inc. for providing slag and reactive MgO, respectively. Furthermore, the authors express gratitude to the Yildiz Technical University Central Laboratory for conducting microstructural analyses.During the preparation of this work, the authors used ChatGPT in order to improve the language. After using this tool/service, the authors reviewed and edited the content as needed and take full responsibility for the content of the publication
Search for Inelastic Dark Matter in Events with Two Displaced Muons and Missing Transverse Momentum in Proton-Proton Collisions at ?s=13 TeV
No full textA search for dark matter in events with a displaced nonresonant muon pair and missing transverse momentum is presented. The analysis is performed using an integrated luminosity of 138 fb-1 of protonproton (pp) collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV produced by the LHC in 2016.2018. No significant excess over the predicted backgrounds is observed. Upper limits are set on the product of the inelastic dark matter production cross section ?(pp ? A? ? ?1?2) and the decay branching fraction ?(?2 ? ?1?+?-), where A? is a dark photon and +++?1 and ?2 are states in the dark sector with near mass degeneracy. This is the first dedicated collider search for inelastic dark matter. © 2024 American Physical Society. All rights reserved.National Science Foundation, NSF; U.S. Department of Energy, USDOE; Hispanics in Philanthropy, HIP; Maryland Ornithological Society, MOS; Direktion für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit, DEZA; Secretaría de Educación Pública, SEP; Louisiana Academy of Sciences, LAS; CERN; Cosmetic Surgery Foundation, CSF; Türkiye Enerji, Nükleer ve Maden Araştırma Kurumu, TENMAK; Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación; Science and Technology Facilities Council, STFC; Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India, DST; Ministry of Education - Singapore, MOE; Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, DAE; Science Foundation Ireland, SFI; Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, HGF; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, FAPESP; National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC; National Science Council, NSC; Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, CAPES; Academy of Finland, AKA; Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF; Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS; Austrian Science Fund, FWF; Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS, FNRS; Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, MOST; Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, FWO; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, CONACYT; Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, MECD; Bulgarian National Science Fund, BNSF; Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, MBIE; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, CNPq; Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, MSIP; National Research Foundation of Korea, NRF; Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, INFN; National Science and Technology Development Agency, ????; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, FAPERGS; Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, SENESCYT; Universiti Malaya, UM; Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu, TÜBİTAK; Ministarstvo Prosvete, Nauke i Tehnološkog Razvoja, MPNTR; Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, FAPERJ; Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, MOST; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, NASU; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, MICINN; Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, UASLP; Ministry of Education and Science, MES; Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, IPM; Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, BUAP; Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, CEA; European Regional Development Fund, ERDF; Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CINVESTAV; Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, PAEC; Ministry of Science,Technology and Research, MoSTR; Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, BMBWF; Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal, NKFI; Agencia Estatal de Investigación, AEI; Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules, IN2P3; Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation, Thailand, MHESRI; Laboratorio Nacional de Supercómputo del Sureste de Mexico, LNSWe thank Brian Shuve for providing calculations for some of the cross sections used in this Letter. We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centers and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid and other centers for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC, the CMS detector, and the supporting computing infrastructure provided by the following funding agencies: BMBWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, FAPERGS, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES and BNSF (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); MINCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RIF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); MoER, ERC PUT, and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRI (Greece); NKFIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea); MES (Latvia); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MOS (Montenegro); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MES and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); MESTD (Serbia); MCIN/AEI and PCTI (Spain); MOSTR (Sri Lanka); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); MHESI and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TENMAK (Turkey); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (U.S.)
The Relationship of Pathological Response and Visceral Muscle and Fat Volume in Women With Breast Cancer Who Received Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
No full textObjective: Differences in individual muscle/fat volumes may change the effectiveness of chemotherapy. In this study, the relationship between trunkal muscle and fat volume and body mass index (BMI) obtained before receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT) in patients with breast cancer and complete pathological response (pCR) was investigated. Materials and Methods: The volumes of psoas, abdominal and paraspinal muscles, and trunkal subcutaneous and visceral fat were calculated using CoreSlicer AI 2.0 opensource program from the F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (CT) and CT images before NCT and postoperative pCR rates to NCT were recorded. Muscle/fat volumes and BMI prior to NCT were compared in terms of pathological pCR rates. Patients were followed up regularly for recurrence and survival. Results: Ninety-three patients were included with median (range) values for age, BMI, and body weights of 48 (28-72) years, 27 (16.8-51.6) kg/m2, and 71.94 (43-137) kg, respectively. The median follow-up time was 18.6 (6.7-59.6) months. No significant correlation was found between total muscle or fat volumes of patients with and without pCR. BMI [26.2 (16.8-51.6) kg/m2 vs. 24.6 (20.3-34.3) kg/m2, p = 0.03] and pCR rates in patients with low rightpsoas muscle volume [11.74 (7.03-18.51) vs. 10.2 (6.71-13.36), p = 0.025] were significantly greater. A significant relationship was found between right psoas muscle volume and disease-free survival (DFS) (11.74 cm3 (7.03-18.51) vs. 10.2 cm3 (6.71-13.36), p = 0.025). However, no significant relationship was detected between total muscle-fat volume, BMI and overall survival and DFS (p>0.05). Conclusion: This is the first published study investigating the relationship between the pCR ratio and body muscle and fat volume measured by CoreSlicer AI 2.0 in patients with breast cancer who received NCT. No correlation was found between the pCR ratio and total muscle plus fat volume. However, these results need to be validated with larger patient series. © 2024 by the Turkish Federation of Breast Diseases Societies
Impact of body weight-based dosing of palonosetron and ondansetron on postoperative nausea and vomiting following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: a randomized, double-blind study
No full textBackground Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is a frequent adverse effect following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. Palonosetron with a standard dosing (75 mu g) schedule has been questioned due to its low efficiency in obese patients. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness and safety of the body weight-based dosing of palonosetron in managing PONV following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. Methods A single-center, prospective, double-blinded randomized study was conducted between August 2021 and December 2021. Patients who underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy were prospectively recruited in the study. One hundred patients were randomly divided into palonosetron (Group P) and ondansetron (Group O). The demographic and clinical variables were recorded. The primary outcome of the study was the incidence of PONV between the two groups during the hospitalization. The secondary outcomes were the number of rescue anti-emetic and analgesic medications and the Functional Living Index-Emesis scores. Results There were 50 patients in each group (Group P and Group O). There were significant differences in the scores of POVN, nausea, and vomiting favoring Group P. In Group P, the rate of patients using rescue anti-emetics was significantly lower. The incidence of complete response and proportion of patients with higher Functional Living Index-Emesis scores were significantly higher in patients using palonosetron. Conclusions The use of palonosetron significantly reduced the incidence of PONV following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. There was a significant improvement in the scores of Functional Living Index-Emesis in patients using palonosetron
Evaluating match of firm and customer resources to maximize value
No full textThis chapter discusses the fundamental role of the match of firm and customer resource utilization capabilities for organizational effectiveness in value co-creation with a marketing perspective. A model is developed by applying both internal and external approaches to provide firms with an integrative strategic tool for evaluating their current value creation effectiveness. The proposed model maps out the emergence of different types of value based on the extent that firm and customers' resource utilization capabilities match. © 2024, IGI Global. All rights reserved
The Effect of Artificial Intelligence on the Concepts of Death and Mourning: The Example of Thanabot
Full text linkÖZET: Günümüzde teknolojik gelişmeler, özellikle de yapay zekâ pek çok farklı alanda önemli etkilere sahiptir. Ölüm ve yas kavramları da bu gelişmelerden etkilenmekte, bir anlamda dönüşmektedir. Bu makalenin amacı; ölüm ve yas kavramlarının yaşadığı bu dönüşümde yapay zekânın etkisini thanabotlar üzerinden tartışmaktır. Bu amaçla ölüm ve yas kavramları literatür taraması yapılarak toplumsal ve tarihsel bağlamları içerisinde ele alınmış, devamında dijitalleşme ile yaşadıkları dönüşüme değinilmiştir. Çalışmanın sonunda thanabotların olası etkileri literatürden çıkarımlarla tartışılmıştır. Buna göre; thanabot kullanımının kişiden kişiye değişen etkileri olacağını söylemek mümkündür. Bu anlamda bu teknoloji özellikle yas tutanlar için olumlu etkilere sahip olabilir. Ancak thanabotların ticari boyutu, ölen kişiyi ne kadar temsil edeceği, yas tutanlar için ikincil kayıp riski, yazılım güvenliği gibi olası sorunlara sahip olduğunu söylemek mümkündür. Ayrıca bu teknolojiyle ilgili araştırmaların hem bireysel hem de toplumsal düzeyde farklılıkları dikkate alarak yapılmasının önem arz ettiği görülmüştür.ABSTRACT: Today, technological developments, especially artificial intelligence, have significant impacts in many different fields. The concepts of death and mourning are also affected by these developments and, in a sense, are transformed. The purpose of this article is to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on the transformation of the concepts of death and mourning through thanabots. For this purpose, the concepts of death and mourning were examined in their social and historical context by conducting a literature review, and then the transformation they have with digitalization was mentioned. At the end of the study, the possible effects of thanabots are discussed with inferences from the literature. According to this; it is possible to say that the effects of using thanabot will vary from person to person. In this sense, this technology can have positive effects, especially for those who are grieving. However, it is possible to say that thanabots have potential problems such as their commercial size, how much they will represent the deceased, the risk of secondary loss for mourners and software security. In addition, it is important that research on this technology is carried out by taking into account differences at both individual and social levels