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The Role of Extended Family Relations and Rituals in Family Resilience Following Loss of Mother to Cancer: A Case Study in Turkey
No full textThe loss of the mother leads to many changes in the family. The loss might have negative effects on the ones that are left behind. However, some family members do not show pathological symptoms; rather, they have healthy functioning despite their sad loss. Guided by the resilience perspective, this study illuminates the case of a Turkish family after the mother dies due to stomach cancer. The whole picture of a family after this loss was examined through using various data sources. Transcribed interviews with family members and teachers of two children in the family were investigated through thematic analysis, and five major themes were identified. Extended family relations and rituals, such as funeral services, meals after the funeral, or visiting the grave of the lost one, were found to be helpful toward positive grief experiences and resilience of the family members in the aftermath of the loss. This study was important in the sense that it gave an in-depth perspective of a Muslim family who lost the maternal parent, which is considered a person's most important attachment figure. © The Author(s) 2021
MODERN VISUALIZATION BY DIGITALLY MODELING NEOLITHIC CRAFTED HUMAN SKULLS
Get PDFOur digital modeling in 3D aims to visualize Neolithic crafted skulls found in the Near East for their preservation and study taking into account both the possibilities of skull deformation in vivo as well as crafting them postmortem. Decapitation and burying or caching human skulls is met already in Palaeolithic contexts. Postmortem cranial crafting by drilling and carving, or modelling with plaster and asphalt using human skulls as basis was practiced in the Near East during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic and Late Neolithic period. The first examples of plastered human skulls were discovered at Jericho in the 1950s, then belonging to Jordan, after which to Israel and now to the Palestinian territories. Similar skulls were later found in various sites in the Near East. The examples digitally reconstructed here include skulls from Gobekli Tepe and Kosk Hoyuk found in Turkey, from the cave at Nahal Hemar at the Dead Sea in the Judean mountains of Israel and skulls from Jericho in the Palestinian territories. Both drawings and photographs were used in digitally reconstructing the skulls in 3D. The Blender software allowed us to sculpt the complex shape of the skull from a base mesh. Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) rendering sped up rendering thanks to Nvidia graphics cards. UV mapping was carried out for importing the texture. The visualization enabled us to make further anthropological observations. Beside the generally acknowledged Neolithic "skull cult" we also wish briefly to discuss other reasons for the phenomena and practices
B2B fiyat müzakerelerinde davranışsal etmenler: hava kargo piyasasından bir örnek
Get PDFABSTRACT: Behavioral pricing research in B2B markets is still in its infancy, albeit it has shown critical improvements in the last decades. Moreover, finding any examples in which behavioral pricing is studied in logistics is almost impossible. To the author, such a study examining the air cargo sector has not yet been done. In this study, behavioral effects on price negotiations in B2B sectors were observed, taking pricing negotiations in the air cargo industry as an example. The study’s primary purpose is to show the impact of behavioral concepts, namely aspiration price, reservation price, initial price offer, and reference price on the B2B price negotiation process and outcome. On the other hand, the effects of anchoring bias on the determination of reference prices and the formation of the negotiation result are also observed. In addition, it is investigated whether there is difference in explanation of price negotiation between student and employee samples. This study includes the results of 258 price negotiation experiments in which 516 people participated in the period of May-November 2022. The results of the experiments showed that the buyer has a more influential position on the price negotiation outcome than the seller. In addition, the most critical reference prices are the buyer's aspiration price and initial price offer. Apart from this, the anchor price affects both the seller and the buyer to determine the reservation prices before the negotiation. Finally, the regression models explaining the price negotiations of student and employee subjects are statistically significantly different. In other words, there are significant difference between student and employee samples which make it necessary to be taken into deep consideration while using student samples in business related studies. As the most critical findings of the study and its contribution to the literature, it can be said that the buyer has a stronger influence than the seller in B2B price negotiations and that student subjects have different results than employee subjects.ÖZET: Son onlu yıllarda önemli gelişmeler göstermiş olsa da B2B bağlamında davranışsal fiyatlandırma araştırmaları halen daha emekleme aşamasındadırlar. Ayrıca lojistik alanında davranışsal fiyatlandırmanın incelendiği herhangi bir örnek bulmak neredeyse imkansızdır. Yazarın bildiği kadarıyla, hava kargo sektörünü inceleyen böyle bir çalışma ise henüz yapılmamıştır. Bu çalışmada, hava kargo sektörü fiyat müzakeresi örnek alınarak B2B sektörlerinde fiyat görüşmelerinde davranışsal etkiler gözlemlenmiştir. Çalışmanın temel amacı; hedef fiyat, son fiyat, açılış teklifi ve referans fiyat ismindeki davranışsal kavramların B2B fiyat müzakereleri üzerinde etkilerini göstermektir. Öte yandan, çıpa yanlılığının referans fiyatların belirlenmesinde ve müzakere sonucunun oluşmasında da etkileri araştırılmıştır. Ayrıca öğrenci ve çalışan örneklemleri arasında fiyat pazarlığının açıklanmasında farklılık olup olmadığı araştırılmıştır. Bu çalışma, 2022 yılı Mayıs-Kasım döneminde 516 kişinin katıldığı 258 fiyat pazarlığı simülasyonunun sonuçlarını içermektedir. Deneylerin sonuçları, alıcının fiyat müzakere sonucu üzerinde satıcıdan daha etkili bir konuma sahip olduğunu göstermiştir. Ayrıca en kritik referans fiyatları, alıcının hedef fiyatı ve açılış teklifidir. Bunun dışında çıpa fiyatı hem satıcıyı hem de alıcıyı pazarlık öncesi son fiyatlarının belirlenmesinde etkiler. Son olarak, öğrenci ve çalışan deneklerin fiyat görüşmelerini açıklayan regresyon modelleri istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir şekilde farklıdır. Diğer bir deyişle, öğrenci örneklemi ile çalışan örneklemi arasında anlamlı fark vardır ve bu da işle ilgili çalışmalarda öğrenci örneklemi kullanılanımın dikkatle ele alınmasını gerekli kılar. Çalışmanın en kritik bulgusu ve literatüre katkısı olarak B2B fiyat görüşmelerinde alıcının satıcıya göre daha güçlü bir etkiye sahip olduğu ve öğrenci deneklerin çalışan deneklerden farklı sonuçlar verdiği söylenebilir
Nurturing Curiosity Beyond Identity Labels to Find the Radical: Notes on What Encouraged Radical Youth to Participate in Transnational Qualitative Research
Get PDFResearchers interested in expanding our understanding about individuals, who are silenced by majority societies or those who willingly position themselves close to condemned standpoints, need to also think about ways of approaching and encouraging potential research participants. The current paper frames that need as an act of curiosity and an ethical responsibility. With that framing in hand, the paper explains the process of overcoming difficulties related to recruiting radicalized subpopulations of youngsters (154 self-identified Muslim youth with migration backgrounds and 153 native youth who support movements labeled as far right) in a transnational qualitative research conducted in four different countries (Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands) in 2020–2022. Because both groups are subject to the labels imposed on them by the majority societies (e.g., Muslim, Salafi, conservative, fascist, right wing, etc.), the researchers felt the need to be flexible in the ways they address and approach each participant. In the field, the purposeful efforts of recruitment wording for each individual appeared very useful in encouraging this by nature skeptical group of people. The current paper documents the development of this flexible strategy, which I hope will be useful to many qualitative researchers to facilitate their data collection efforts to identify and reach youth that is on the path of radicalization. We would like to encourage academics to stay curious about these two subpopulations of youth and other marginalized, singled out, and stigmatized groups, and consider interviewing as many individuals as possible in order to discover the radicals. © 2023, The Author(s)
Preventive and Therapeutic Mental Health Care after the Earthquake-Expert Opinion from the Psychiatric Association of Turkey 2
Get PDFTwo major earthquakes hit Turkey at the Kahramanmaraş region on February 6th 2023. The earthquakes affected almost 15 million individuals, resulting in more than forty thousand deaths, thousands of wounded and the destruction of ancient cities of humankind. Immediately after the earthquakes, the Psychiatric Association of Turkey organized an educational event to address the needs for a guidance on how to approach a trauma of such a big scale. The experts in this educational event summarized their presentations and prepared this review to guide the mental health professionals serving victims of this disaster. The review summarizes the early symptoms of trauma, and puts a framework on the principles of psychological first aid, the approach at the initial stages of the disaster, principles of planning, triage, and psychosocial support systems and the proper use of medications. The text covers the evaluation of the impact of trauma, aligning psychiatric practice with psychosocial interventions, the improvement of counseling skills and methods to better understand the mind during the acute post trauma phase. A set of presentations highlight the challenges in child psychiatry, brings a systematic overview to the earthquake and discuss the symptomatology, first aid and intervention principles in children and adolescents. Last, the forensic psychiatric perspective is presented, followed by a piece on the essentials of delivering bad news and the review is concluded with the emphasis on burnout, a syndrome to avoid particularly for field professionals, and possible preventive measures. Keywords: Disaster, trauma, psychosocial support, psychological first aid, acute stress disorder, post traumatic stress disorder
Measurements of Higgs boson production in the decay channel with a pair of ? leptons in proton-proton collisions at ?s=13 TeV
Get PDFMeasurements of Higgs boson production, where the Higgs boson decays into a pair of tau leptons, are presented, using a sample of proton-proton collisions collected with the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb(-1). Three analyses are presented. Two are targeting Higgs boson production via gluon fusion and vector boson fusion: a neural network based analysis and an analysis based on an event categorization optimized on the ratio of signal over background events. These are complemented by an analysis targeting vector boson associated Higgs boson production. Results are presented in the form of signal strengths relative to the standard model predictions and products of cross sections and branching fraction to tau leptons, in up to 16 different kinematic regions. For the simultaneous measurements of the neural network based analysis and the analysis targeting vector boson associated Higgs boson production signal strengths are found to be 0.82 +/- 0.11 for inclusive Higgs boson production, 0.67 +/- 0.19 (0.81 +/- 0.17) for the production mainly via gluon fusion (vector boson fusion), and 1.79 +/- 0.45 for vector boson associated Higgs boson production
Globalization in Action: Industry 4.0 Development Model for Turkey
No full textThroughout history, we have witnessed how human life has been affected socially and economically by the inventions brought by the first three industrial revolutions. After 200 years of the first industrial revolution, we are currently on the verge of a fourth revolution, which is called Industry 4.0. This fourth revolution will have profound effects on both our business and daily lives as it happened in previous industrial revolutions. Despite the burgeoning literature on Industry 4.0, it is difficult to forecast the way it will progress and the potential impacts bringing along to our lives and the business world. Within this perspective, this research was conducted with the purpose of analyzing Industry 4.0’s impacts on business models and labor and developing an Industry 4.0 process model for Turkey. By using the qualitative content analysis approach, six face-to-face interviews explicitly conducted for current research, thirteen video recordings of interviews available in the online media and eight online magazine articles were analyzed. Consequently, the findings shed light on suggesting an Industry 4.0 Developmental Process Model. Also, four research topics for future investigation emerged, which are ethical issues and emotional bonds with robots, employees’ and unions’ perceptions about robotics, and a more detailed study on the employment of women and disabled employees during Industry 4.0 processes. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Conclusion
No full textThe findings of this in-depth case study provide insights for generalisations about how strategic temporality may operate in other refugee-hosting countries as well as specific findings about state responses to mass migration situations. Some key findings can be summarised as including a (1) complicated and fragmented legal system, (2) multiplicity of actors, (3) re-nationalisation and restrictiveness, (4) increased complexity and uncertainty in all layers of rules and practices, (5) consistent liminality experienced by refugees. These characteristics are observable in concrete policy practices in diverse sub-policy fields involving remote border controls, blocking reception, downgrading protection and slowing integration. As we showed, the concept of strategic temporality, along with its related components of liminality, uncertainty and complexity, is helpful for understanding state responses across time and sub-policy fields. © 2023, The Author(s)
Measurements of jet multiplicity and jet transverse momentum in multijet events in proton-proton collisions at ?s=13 TeV
Get PDFMultijet events at large transverse momentum (p(T)) are measured at root s = 13 TeV using data recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.3 fb(-1). The multiplicity of jets with p(T) > 50 GeV that are produced in association with a high-p(T) dijet system is measured in various ranges of the p(T) of the jet with the highest transverse momentum and as a function of the azimuthal angle difference Delta phi(1,2) between the two highest p(T) jets in the dijet system. The differential production cross sections are measured as a function of the transverse momenta of the four highest p(T) jets. The measurements are compared with leading and next-to-leading order matrix element calculations supplemented with simulations of parton shower, hadronization, and multiparton interactions. In addition, the measurements are compared with next-to-leading order matrix element calculations combined with transverse-momentum dependent parton densities and transverse-momentum dependent parton shower
Computational gastronomy: A study to test the food pairing hypothesis in Turkish cuisine
No full textThis study adopts computational gastronomy methods to test the food pairing hypothesis. For this purpose, Food Pairing Index values (the average number of shared flavor molecules between ingredient pairs) were calculated for recipes from seven local cuisines in Turkey. These values were examined for correlation with user ratings of recipes, and compared with the FPI values of randomly generated recipes. Additionally, the contribution of individual ingredients to the FPI values and the frequently used ingredients in the cuisines were analyzed. The results revealed that FPI values were not significantly positively correlated with user ratings, suggesting that the food pairing hypothesis cannot be fully supported. Also, comparisons with randomly generated recipes show that FPI values are heavily influenced by the frequency of ingredient usage in kitchens. In particular, positive food pairing behavior was observed in some regional cuisines, while negative food pairing behavior was found in others. However, these patterns were consistent with the similarities observed in other kitchens. Overall, the findings, when evaluated together with previous findings and criticisms, show that the food pairing hypothesis and the current computational gastronomy approach to it are partially successful in food pairing