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Space | Human | Memory: Integrated Conservation of Bozcaada's Cultural Heritage through Geographic Information System
No full textIslands represent complex cultural landscapes shaped by unique nature-culture interactions and the communities that inhabit them. Bozcaada (Tenedos), one of Turkey's largest inhabited islands, exemplifies this complexity through its rich multicultural history, distinctive architecture, and traditional practices such as viticulture and fishing. However, increasing tourist pressure since the 2000s has led to the commodification of the island's physical and cultural environment. This transformation has disrupted local production systems, altered spatial patterns, and undermined the balance between natural, built, and social elements. Recognizing Bozcaada as a living heritage site, this study proposes an integrated conservation strategy rooted in participatory and interdisciplinary methods. Conducted within the framework of the Middle East Technical University Graduate Program in Conservation of Cultural Heritage in 2023, the research draws on expertise from urban planning, architecture, and history to analyze Bozcaada's transformation and to develop tools for its sustainable management. At the core of the study is Bozcaadaĝ GIS, a Geographic Information System-based platform created to compile and analyze spatial and social data. By integrating land use records, architectural documentation, visual materials, and oral histories, Bozcaadaĝ GIS enables multi-scalar analysis of the island's evolving structure. In-depth interviews and community engagement further enrich the system by offering insights into human-space-nature relations. More than a technical tool, Bozcaadaĝ GIS functions as a living archive that documents and visualizes cultural memory while remaining open to continuous updates. Through participatory mapping and open data access, the project fosters local awareness, ownership, and involvement in conservation planning. It reflects a holistic approach that integrates physical, social, and historical values into a dynamic and adaptive framework. The study demonstrates how GIS can support cultural heritage conservation in island contexts by enhancing knowledge sharing, guiding policy-making, and strengthening interdisciplinary collaboration. Bozcaadaĝ GIS offers a replicable model for managing culturally significant and environmentally sensitive landscapes
Testing indirect effect of external locus-of-hope on life satisfaction through serial mediation of internal locus-of-hope and need satisfaction in patients with type 2 diabetes
No full textHope is accepted as a psychological strength, yet research on its relation to well-being in terms of external locus-of-hope dimensions remains limited. For individuals living with diabetes, hope and life satisfaction play a crucial role in achieving health-related goals. In goal attainment, hope focuses on the cognitive process about how people pursue their goals, while need satisfaction emphasizes the motivations behind goal pursuit. Integrating these perspectives, the current study examined the relation between external locus-of-hope and life satisfaction in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus, considering the mediating roles of internal hope and psychological need satisfaction. We collected data from 106 participants with type 2 diabetes. Serial mediation analysis indicated that family locus-of-hope predicted life satisfaction through internal locus-of-hope and need satisfaction. These findings highlight the crucial role of family locus-of-hope in fostering hopeful thinking. Psychosocial interventions focusing on strengthening family involvement and internal hope may improve well-being in diabetes management
Constraints on standard model effective field theory for a Higgs boson produced in association with W or Z bosons in the H →bb¯ decay channel in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
No full textA standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) analysis with dimension-six operators probing nonresonant new physics effects is performed in the Higgs-strahlung process, where the Higgs boson is produced in association with a W or Z boson, in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The final states in which the W or Z boson decays leptonically and the Higgs boson decays to a pair of bottom quarks are considered. The analyzed data were collected by the CMS experiment between 2016 and 2018 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. An approach designed to simultaneously optimize the sensitivity to Wilson coefficients of multiple SMEFT operators is employed. Likelihood scans as functions of the Wilson coefficients that carry SMEFT sensitivity in this final state are performed for different expansions in SMEFT. The results are consistent with the predictions of the standard model
Love me tender: The role of verbally coded emotions on nonverbally coded emotions in mother-child reminiscing and play contexts
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