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An Integrative Model on User Satisfaction and Continuance Intention for Using M-Banking
No full textThis study aims to extend the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) by integrating the three quality dimensions adopted from DeLone and McLean’s Information Systems (IS) Success Model and trust as additional constructs. In this respect, it also investigates the possible relationships among these constructs as new internal mechanisms that affect user satisfaction and continuance intention for using mobile banking. A total of 422 usable responses are collected from mobile banking users using an online survey. The empirical findings generally support the effect that the UTAUT2 constructs of effort expectancy, performance expectancy, hedonic motivation and facilitating conditions and the three quality dimensions of the IS Success Model have, along with trust, on user satisfaction and continuance intention, revealing the importance of extending UTAUT2 with these new constructs and new mechanisms proposed. In addition, the current study provides an enhanced insight by focusing on the post-adoption stage. The findings are important in terms of helping banks serve their customers better and achieve a competitive edge
Effects of Discharge Training and Counseling Service on Self-Efficacy, Care Behaviors and the Problems Experienced in Patients Who Have Undergone Coronary Artery By-Pass Grafting Surgery: An Experimental Study
No full textT Objective: The aim of this experimental study was to examine the effects of discharge training and counseling services on self-efficacy, care be- haviors, and problems experienced by patients who have undergone coronary artery bypass grafting. Material and Methods: The study was conducted with 100 patients (50 control, 50 experimental group), hospitalized in the adult car- diovascular surgery in a university hospital. Apart from the routine nursing care given to the control group, the patients in the experimental group were given dis- charge training and telephone counseling services. The patients in both groups were monitored twice after discharge: first and fourth weeks. In the study, Bar- nason Efficacy Expectation Scale (BEES) cardiac surgery version, forms of self- care behaviors, experienced problems, and telephone counseling were used. Results: At the end of the first and fourth weeks after discharge, it was found that the experimental group had more self-care behaviors (salt usage in meals p=0.001, exercising/walking p=0.001, performing activities that required physi- cal movement p=0.002, and walking at least 2 to 3 days a week for 25 minutes p=0.001), the control group had more problems, and fewer patients being able to solve the problems experienced (p<0.05). At the end of the first and fourth weeks of BEES, total and subscale mean scores were found to be higher in the experi- mental group than in the control group (p<0.05). Conclusion: The study find- ings indicate that discharge training and counseling services positively affect patients’ care behaviors, decrease the problems experienced after discharge, and increase self-efficacy
BİR TEKSTİL ATÖLYESİNDE HÜCRESEL İMALATA GEÇİŞ UYGULAMASI
Get PDFHücresel imalat, bir üretim sistemini bağımsız alt sistemlere ayıran ve alt sistemlerin hızlı ve etkin çalışma yeteneğini, tüm sisteme yansıtmayı amaçlayan bir yaklaşımdır. Bu çalışmada, günümüz rekabet ortamında değişen piyasa koşullarına çabuk uyum sağlamak ve verimliliğini artırmak isteyen hazır giyim sektöründeki işletmelere bir model oluşturması için örnek bir hücresel imalat sistemi uygulaması sunulmuştur. Bunun için, askeri kıyafet üreten bir işletmede incelemeler yapılmıştır. İşletmede dokuz çeşit mamulün üretim süreci gözlenmiş ve operasyon bilgileri toplanmıştır. Makine hücrelerini belirlemek üzere derece sıralama ve kümeleme, satır ve sütun maskeleme ve benzerlik katsayısı yöntemleri analiz edilmiş ve sonuç olarak iki hücreden oluşan makine ve ürün ailesi grupları oluşturulmuştur. Önerilen hücresel yapının performansı gruplama etkinliği, makine kullanım oranı, hücreler arası akış etkinliği, hücrelerin kullanım oranı gibi açılardan değerlendirilmiştir
Hemiplejili Bir Bireyde Paralimpik Boccia Sporunun Etkilerinin İncelenmesi: Olgu Sunumu
Get PDFAmaç: Bu çalışma, hemipleji tanılı bir bireyde Paralimpik Boccia sporunun etkilenen elin fonksiyonel kullanımı, depresyon ve mental durum üzerindeki etkilerini incelemek amacıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Gereç ve Yöntem: Araştırma kapsamında Eggers sınıflandırma sistemine göre devre 3’te yer alan iskemik orta serebral arter tutulumlu kronik hemipleji tanılı sağ eli etkilenmiş olan 69 yaşındaki erkek danışana uluslararası olimpiyatlarda yer alan Engelli Boccia Spor uygulamasına dahil edilmiştir. Birey Modifiye Ashworth skalasına göre 2. evrededir. Aktif dirsek ekstansiyon ve fleksiyonu yaparak objelere uzanabilmekte ve kavrama hareketlerini hafif tonus artışıyla gerçekleştirebilmektedir. Huzurevinde gerçekleştirilen araştırmada danışanın depresyon durumunu değerlendirmek için Geriatrik Depresyon Ölçeği; el fonksiyon değerlendirmesinde Jebsen el fonksiyon testi, mental durum için standart mini-mental test kullanıldı. Paralimpik Boccia sporu haftada 4 gün, 45 dakikalık seanslar halinde toplam 8 hafta süreyle uygulandı. Müdahale sonrasında testler tekrarlandı. Sonuçlar: Müdahalenin öncesinde bireyde orta derecede depresyon olduğu görüldü. Müdahale sonrası geriatrik depresyon ölçeği sonucunda olumlu gelişme kaydedildi. Mental fonksiyon açısından yalnızca bir puanlık artış sağlandı. Jebsen el fonksiyon testinde ise Boccia Sporu öncesi ve sonrası skorlar karşılaştırıldığında, testleri tamamlama sürelerinin azaldığı görüldü. Tartışma: Paralimpik Boccia Sporunun hemipleji tanısı almış bu bireyin, mental ve psikolojik durumunu geliştirdiği ve üst ekstremitenin fonksiyonel kullanımı üzerinde olumlu etkilerinin olduğu ve bu spora tamamlayıcı rehabilitasyon uygulamaları içinde yer verilebileceği sonucuna varılmıştır. Ayrıca sporun bir aktivite olarak kullanımı bu bireylerin sosyal katılımları üzerinde de olumlu etkiler meydana getirecekti
Estimation of surface wave induced fluid mud thickness on the seafloor
No full textMud-induced dissipation of surface wave energy is a key mechanism that affects wave propagation in muddy environments. The properties of fluid mud on seafloors required to simulate wave dissipation over shallow waters are often unknown in investigations where wave energy reduction over onshore fetch is a key factor in design of coastal infrastructure. Direct observation and estimation of the thickness of fluid mud on seafloors are complicated; this brings a major complication against accurate prediction of waves in muddy environments. As a step towards filling this gap, this study presents for the first time the estimation of the thickness of fluid mud layers surface waves generate over muddy shelves, using three methods : (1) a method based on vertical structure of acoustic backscatter that requires less assumptions, (2) a mass balance based on vertical structure of sediment concentration, and (3) an empirical approach. Comprehensive field observations of wave-mud interaction were collected for two months at 4 m water depth and analyzed here. The results, assumptions, and approaches of these three methods are evaluated. The analysis of the field observations and the estimates show that fluid mud layers formed in the wake of four significant frontal storms with relatively strong low-frequency swell energy (wave periods >= 7 s) during which the wave-induced orbital velocity at the bed exceeded the same threshold of u(b) similar to 0.5 m/s. The thickness of fluid mud layers varied between 4 cm and 15 cm among the four events. Using an onset density of fluid mud based on laboratory experiments, the mass balance method gives fluid mud thicknesses that agree with, but underestimating, the results of the acoustic backscatter method. The empirical approach agrees best with the acoustic backscatter method, when a settling velocity of 3.5 mm/s and a hydraulic roughness of 0.001 m are used, in agreement with the previous sediment and hydrodynamic data collected at the study site. Applicability of these methods to determine fluid mud thickness at other locations requires accurate description of sediment conditions near the seafloor under the influence of surface waves and hydrodynamics.Office of Naval Research, United States [N00014-07-1-0448, N00014-07-1-0756, N00014-10-1-0363, N00014-10-1-0389, N00014-10-1-0805, N00014-11-1-0269, N00014-13-1-0620]Acknowledgments This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research, United States Grants N00014-07-1-0448, N00014-07-1-0756, N00014-10-1-0363, N00014-10-1-0389, N00014-10-1-0805, N00014-11-1-0269, and N00014-13-1-0620. The authors would like to thank Prof. Ashish J. Mehta for his invaluable input and feedback. The authors also would like to thank the Editor Prof. David Burdige, the Associate Editor, and the three anonymous reviewers for the time and effort they spent for providing suggestions towards improving the manuscript
How does mothers' mood matter on their choice of organic food? Controlled eye-tracking study
No full textOrganic foods have been argued to be highly beneficial for human health and environmental sustainability. Interest in organic food consumption has been steadily growing. In practice, music and sounds of nature have widely been utilized in the food retailing industry to evoke customers and influence their sustainable product purchases. The present research explored the effects of subjective and objective knowledge, mood states, connectedness to nature (CtN), and visual attention to the organic logo on organic purchase by a controlled eyetracking study. Sixty women, all with children participated in the study. Findings revealed that objective knowledge, subjective knowledge, and visual attention on organic labels posed significant effects on organic purchases. However, no such effects of mood states and connectedness to nature have been observed. Theoretical and managerial implications of the findings are discussed
Evidence for WW/WZ vector boson scattering in the decay channel l?qq produced in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at ?s=13TeV
No full textEvidence is reported for electroweak (EW) vector boson scattering in the decay channel l nu qq of two weak vector bosons WV(V = Wor Z), produced in association with two parton jets. The search uses a data set of proton-proton collisions at 13TeVcollected with the CMS detector during 2016-2018 with an integrated luminosity of 138fb(-1). Events are selected requiring one lepton (electron or muon), moderate missing transverse momentum, two jets with a large pseudorapidity separation and a large dijet invariant mass, and a signature consistent with the hadronic decay of a W/Zboson. The cross section is computed in a fiducial phase space defined at parton level requiring all parton transverse momenta p(T)> 10 GeVand at least one pair of outgoing partons with invariant mass mqq> 100 GeV. The measured and expected EW WVproduction cross sections are 1.90(-0.46)(+0.5)3 pb and 2.23(-0.11)(+0.08)(scale) +/- 0.05(PDF) pb, respectively, where PDF is the parton distribution function. The observed EW signal strength is mu EW= 0.85 +/- 0.12 (stat)(-0.17)(+0.19)(syst), corresponding to a signal significance of 4.4 standard deviations with 5.1 expected, and it is measured keeping the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) associated diboson production fixed to the standard model prediction. This is the first evidence of vector boson scattering in the l nu qq decay channel at LHC. The simultaneous measurement of the EW and QCD associated diboson production agrees with the standard model prediction. (C) 2022 The Author(s). 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Çoklu-Değişkenli, Çoklu-Zamanlı, Çoklu-Çözünürlüklü Ve Çoklu-Kaynaklı Uzaktan Algılanmış Görüntülerin Çözümlenmesi Ve Öğrenimi
No full text15.09.2022 00:00Bu araştırma projesinin amacı karmaşık uzaktan algılanmış görüntülere yönelik, sıradüzensel gösterimlere dayalı, bütünleşik bir çoklu ölçekli görüntü çözümleme çözümü geliştirmektir. Her ne kadar sıradüzensel gösterimler, tek veya en fazla birkaç bantlı uzaktan algılanmış görüntülerin etkili ve verimli şekilde çözümlenmesine olanak tanımış olsa da, daha karmaşık görüntülere uygulanmaları henüz araştırılmamıştır. Ayrıca, yapısal ve çoklu-ölçekli veriyi kodlama yetkinliğine sahip olmalarına rağmen, henüz her bandın ayrı işlenmesinden öte geçecek şekilde ayrıntılı olarak araştırılmamışlardır. Bu bağlamda, söz konusu proje önerisi kapsamında, çoklu-değişkenli, çoklu-kaynaklı, çoklu-çözünürlüklü ve çoklu-zamanlı verilerden sıradüzensel gösterimlerin elde edilmesini sağlayacak yöntemlerin, ve çoklu-ölçekli çözümlemeye mahsus görüntü çözümleme ve makine öğrenimi araçlarının geliştirilmesi hedeflenmektedir. Proje kapsamında elde edilecek olan araçlar, yayılımlarını teşvik etmek adına, uzaktan algılama camiası tarafından kullanılan yazılım paketlerine dahil edilecektir. Projenin başarısı, geliştirilecek olan kuramsal ve uygulamalı çerçevenin iki uzaktan algılama uygulama alanında sınanması ile ölçülecektir. Hem etkinlik hem verimlilik anlamında, literatüre oranla önemli ilerlemelerin elde edilmesi beklenmektedir
(Neg)Anthropocene and the noetic character of life: Bernard Stiegler’s critique of the anthropocene
Get PDFÖZET: Sanayi Devrimi’nden sonraki dönemi ifade eden Antroposen, biyosferin evriminde önemli bir (f)aktör hâline gelen insanın etkilerinin yoğunlaştığı, zehir vasfıyla ortaya çıkan evreyi temsil eder. Antroposen, modern teknolojinin sanayileşme yoluyla gerçekleşen dünya üzerindeki egemenliğinden kaynaklanır ve ekolojik, psişik, sosyal, ekonomik ve özellikle de noetik seviyelerde bir entropi üreterek ken-di gelişiminin sorgulamasını engeller. Bilginin bütün formları, Antroposen’de âdeta sınanır. Bu, yoğun bir entropi artışıyla ortaya çıkan bir proleterleşmedir. Bilgi ile başlayan kayıp, yaşamların yalnızca hayatta kalmak üzerine kurulu olması nedeniyle arzuya, tekilliğe ve geleceğe-yönelimlere kadar sirayet eder. Bernard Stiegler’e göre noetik varlık olarak insan, geçmişe-yönelimlerin içerildiği geleceğe-yönelimleri dışsallaştırarak bireyleşir. Antroposen, arzunun içine düştüğü bu krizden beslenir. Yaşamın arzudan azade yapısında geleceğe-yönelimlerin hiçlik ile dolu olması, bireyleşmenin de yitimi anlamına gelir. Olumsuzlukla ve krizlerle dolu olan Antroposen’den çıkmak, onun ötesine geçmek, sınırlarda düşünmeyi gerektirir.ABSTRACT: The Anthropocene, referring to the period after the Industrial Revolution, represents the epoch, in which the effects of human that became a substantial (f)actor through the evolution of the biosphere, and having the characteristic of toxic. The Anthropocene origi-nates from the worldwide hegemony of the modern technology actualizing by means of industrialization and it prevents questioning of its own expansion by way of producing an entropy at ecological, psychic, social, economic and especially noetic levels. All forms of knowlegde are almost tested in the Anthropocene. This is a proletarianization, emerging along with an intensive increase of entropy. Loss begins with knowledge and spreads over desire, singularity and protention, since lives are built solely upon survival. According to Bernard Stiegler, human, as a noetic being, is individuated by exteriorizing the protentions that include retentions. The Anthropocene exploits this crisis which desire falls under. Protentions being full of nihil in the structure of desire liquidation of life amounts also to the loss of individuation. Escaping the Anthropocene, that is full of negations and crises, requires going beyond the Anthropocene itself, thinking within the limits
