399 research outputs found
Evaluation of the approaches and knowledge level of tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment of infectious disease research assistants and specialist physicians
No full textConclusion: Infectious diseases and clinical microbiology physicians continue to encounter TB patients. This group of physicians often has a good level of knowledge and experience with TB, although special training for this disease is low
"Selma" : "Selma"
No full textAbstract The author Selma Lagerlöf was born in 1858 at Mårbacka, in Värmland and died in 1940. Fifty years after Selma´s death were her correspondence released and ten thousand of letters were found in the collection. But it was just the correspondence between Selma and Sofie Elkan who interested people because they wanted to know if Selma and Sofie have had a sexual relationship. Later, in time for Christmas 2008 the Swedish Television shows a film about Selma. "Selma Lagerlöf Society" was critical to the movie and thougt that the movie focused too much on Selma`s sexual orientation. This situation aroused a curiosity and a desire to find out why the film was perceived in this way. The purpose of this work is to show how the producer uses gender constructions to show that Selma was a lesbian and for that reason a thematic analysis was made from a social constructionist perspective. Different themes about gender constructions emerge in the analysis, and those themes are presented together with feminist theorist as Judith Butler, Yvonne Hirdman and Simone De Beauvoir. The discussion is about the presentation and how this can be perceived, but also about the reasons they might have had in mind when they made the presentation that way.Författarinnan Selma Lagerlöf föddes 20 november 1858, på Mårbacka i Värmland, och dog 16 mars 1940. Femtio år senare släpptes Selmas korrespondens fri. Tiotusentals brev fanns i denna brevsamling men det var endast brevväxlingen mellan Selma och Sofie Elkan som ansågs intressant. Detta på grund av att man ville veta om Selma och Sofie hade en sexuell relation eller inte. Senare lagom till julhelgen 2008 visar Sveriges Television en film i två delar, som handlar om Selma. Bland annat Selma Lagerlöf sällskapet ställde sig kritisk till filmen och menade att man fokuserat för mycket på Selmas sexualitet i filmen. Detta väckte en nyfikenhet och en önskan hos mig, att ta reda på varför filmen uppfattades på detta sätt. Syftet med detta arbete är att visa på hur man i framställningen har använt sig av könskonstruktioner för att visa att Selma var lesbisk Av denna anledning har det gjorts en tematisk analys ur ett socialkonstruktivistiskt perspektiv med utgångspunkt i filmens innehåll . Under analys har olika teman framträtt som på något sätt handlar om könskonstruktioner. Dessa teman presenteras i analysdelen tillsammans med feministisk teorier av bland annat Judith Butler, Yvonne Hirdman och Simone De Beauvoir. I diskussionen behandlas det hur framställningen kan uppfattas och även vilka motiv man kan tänkas ha haft i åtanke när man gjort framställningen på detta sätt
Selma Lagerlöf och Sophie Elkan
No full textA description of the friendship between the Swedish children's books author Selma Lagerlöf and the Jewish-Swedish author Sophie Elkan
HEPATITIS C TESTING AMONG ADULTS BORN BETWEEN 1945 AND 1965 IN TURKEY: A MULTICENTRE STUDY
No full textAltindis, Mustafa/0000-0003-0411-9669; ALTINDIS, Selma/0000-0003-2805-5516; Ozdemir, Mehmet/0000-0002-9316-771X; Aksozek, Alper/0000-0003-4044-9702WOS: 000446082400002PubMed ID: 30102494Objective: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major public health problem and affects large populations all over the world. Serum anti-HCV level is a valuable marker to determine HCV infection. Anti-HCV testing has been recommended for high-risk population. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention in the United States proposed a new high-risk population group - adults born between 1945-1965. Under this perspective, we designed a multicentre retrospective study to determine the seropositivity of anti-HCV among adults born between 1945 and 1965 and adults born after 1965 in Turkey. With the data collected, we aimed to determine whether there was a need for anti-HCV testing especially in people born between 1945 and 1965. Methods: We requested data from ten different medical centres in ten different provinces. Each medical centre collected the anti-HCV test results of adult patients for five-year period between 2009 and 2014 from hospital records. Results: A total of 974,449 anti-HCV test results were included in this study. When the seropositivity rates in the two groups of adults were compared, anti-HCV seropositivity rates were higher in nine medical centres out of ten. Anti-HCV seropositivity in adults born between 1945-1965 was significantly higher than in adults born after 1965 (p <0.05). Conclusions: We determined that the anti-HCV seropositivity rate is significantly higher in adults born between 1945-1965 compared to the younger adults as indicated in the literature. According to data from this study together with the WHO and CDC suggestions, we believe that it is appropriate to offer anti-HCV serology testing for people over 50 years of age since the anti- HCV seroprevalence in this age group is relatively high
Correction to: TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF SOLUTION SET FOR ψ-HILFER FRACTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS IN BANACH SPACE (Journal of Mathematical Sciences, (2024), 10.1007/s10958-024-07399-0)
No full textThe published version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The author name Selma Gülyaz‑Öztürk should be Selma Gülyaz-Özyurt. The original article has been corrected. © 2025 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Could Value-Based Purchasing Approach Be Used in Assessment of Healthcare Delivery Outputs?
No full textIn spite of increasing expenditures for health services, the lack of improvement in the quality and patient safety at the desired level brought about the search for reform of the reimbursement mechanisms. The main purpose of the present review is a search for a comprehensive answer for the question of "Can Value-based Purchasing (VPB) approach emerged as such kind of quest and applications developed in this context be used to evaluate the outputs of health service delivery?". According to the studies, the VBP approach and especially Hospital Value-based Purchasing Program and Hospital-Acquired Conditions Program which are the two applications developed under this approach can provide effective results in evaluating the outputs in health services and improving quality and patient safety. The data show that the VBP approach in health care has the potential to contribute significantly to improving the quality and patient safety level of the health care service and to keep costs under control. In this context, Hospital Value-based Purchasing and Hospital-Acquired Conditions Programs draw attention in terms of its potential to be implemented especially in the public sphere in our country. The realization of the research and applications in our country aimed at revealing the potential benefits of the mentioned programs will facilitate the evaluation
Los avatares del yo: iteratura Argentina en primera persona a partir de 1990
No full textI examine a corpus of narrative texts (nouvelle, short story, and essay) and poems that focuses on the relationship between the narrative/poetic “I” and referentiality to account for new ontological dimensions of the first person in Argentine literature since 1990. Acknowledging the rich Argentinean autobiographical tradition from Domingo F. Sarmiento to Jorge Luis Borges, I argue that the works in my corpus present a shift from self-conscious and metafictional positions regarding the first person. I analyze a variety of uses of the “I” related to auto-fiction, the pseudonym, the “performance of the author” and the biography of the voice traced in the texts as representational strategies that address the fluid borders of the “I” in contemporary writing. My analysis takes into account works by Alan Pauls, Washington Cucurto, Silvio Mattoni and Matilde Sánchez. Based upon the theories of Philippe Lejeune, Régine Robin, Serge Doubrovsky, and Sylvia Molloy regarding the definitions of auto-fiction and autobiography, I identify the emergence of new meanings and functions for the concept of intimacy and strategies of self-representation. These changes in subjectivity and writing in the first person are strongly marked by postmodernism and globalization. Following the considerations of Néstor García Canclini and Arjun Appadurai on globalization and new media, I argue that in contemporary times there are new parameters of production of space and time that have a strong impact on the subject configuration and its ways of relating to the world where experience plays a key role in new articulations of the “I”. In my corpus I also analyze the gradual but persistent genre hybridization of texts that also engage with the visual. The texts I study increasingly refer to and incorporate images such as photographs, drawings, and comics. Politics and collective imagination are other aspects of literature in the first person. All the works I analyze transcend the individual to relate to others. Some of them make specific comments on politics or promote the development of community projects, such as the cooperative Eloísa Cartonera. Others address gender issues and their relationship with the male literary tradition. From different perspectives and approaches all of them take part in the interplay and discussion of the contemporary Argentinean cultural field.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Selma Cohe
Job motivation and organizational commitment among the health professionals: A questionnaire survey
No full textThe objective of this study is to investigate the level of organizational commitment and motivation as well as the relationship between health staff's organizational commitment and motivation within state hospitals. Using the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), the relationships between the organizational commitment and motivation were examined. Data for this study were obtained through a questionnaire. The questionnaire was applied to health professionals working in state hospitals by using the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire and the Motivation Questionnaire. Within this scope, the organizational commitment levels of the health professionals were analyzed in three dimensions which are emotional commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment and the motivation levels of the health professionals were examined in two dimensions: intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The results indicated that intrinsic motivation of health professionals was explained mostly by affective and normative commitment. Also affective and normative commitment impact on intrinsic motivation was more than continuance commitment. The most effective factor on extrinsic motivation was normative commitment. Continuance commitment had effect on extrinsic motivation less than normative commitment. Also it was seen that the affective commitment had the lowest effect on external motivation
The artistic method of Selma Lagerlöf, a study of form and idea in Körkarlen
No full textThe essay deals with the patterns of storytelling in Selma Lagerlöfs novel "Körkarlen". The focus is on the relationship between idea and form. Selma Lagerlöf tries to show how the drinker David Holm comes to insight about his own shortcomings and faults without knowing that he is in fact educated by his old friend. The author of this essay tries to show that Selma Lagerlöf use the same method in relation to the reader of the novel. Selma Lagerlöf wants to enlighten the reader without actually preaching. To som extent the essay deals with typical patterns of storytelling that Selma Lagerlöf uses, such as her symbolic method, her use of patterns from legends and ghost stories and finally her esthetics.Uppsatsen berör Selma Lagerlöfs sätt att gestalta ett relativt kontroversiellt idéinnehåll. Selma Lagerlöf går delvis i dialog med läsaren och antyder hur skeendet i Körkarlen kan tolkas, samtidigt som hon lämnar utrymme för läsarens egna reaktioner. En stor del av uppsatsen berör typiska mönster för Selma Lagerlöfs berättarteknik, såsom användandet av sagans, legendens och spåkhistoriens mönster, symboltekniken samt hennes estetiska hållning. I Körkarlen är det Selma Lagerlöfs intention att drinkaren David Holm skall komma till insikt genom vägledning utan att han själv är medveten om att han undervisas. Uppsatsens författare driver tesen att Lagerlöf intar samma hållning gentemot läsaren
HEPATITIS C TESTING AMONG ADULTS BORN BETWEEN 1945 AND 1965 IN TURKEY: A MULTICENTRE STUDY
No full textConclusions: We determined that the anti-HCV seropositivity rate is significantly higher in adults born between 1945-1965 compared to the younger adults as indicated in the literature. According to data from this study together with the WHO and CDC suggestions, we believe that it is appropriate to offer anti-HCV serology testing for people over 50 years of age since the anti- HCV seroprevalence in this age group is relatively high
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