52 research outputs found
Mevlâna legens and Osman Fevzi Olcay's Mevlana's summary legends transposition into modern writing (review-text)
No full textBu çalışma, Osman Fevzi Olcay'ın Muhtasar Menakıb-ı Mevlâna adlı eserinin Osmanlı Türkçesinden günümüz Türkçesine aktarımı çalışmasıdır. Eser, Mevlâna'nın çevresindekilerle olan ilişkileri ile onlarla olan konuşma ve sohbetlerinin özetinden oluşmaktadır. Bu nedenle eserde, Farsça yazılmış beyitler ve Arapça yazılmış ayet, hadis ve bazı sözler bulunmaktadır. Bu çalışmada bu beyitler ile ayet, hadis ve sözler orijinalinden yazılmış ve latin harflerle okunuşunun yanısıra tercümeleri de yapılmıştır. Bu çalışma "Giriş"'ten sonra üç bölümden meydana gelmektedir: Çalışmanın "Giriş" bölümünde Menkıbeler ile ilgili eserlerin nasıl bir devlet anlayışı ve işleyişi içerisinde yazılmış olduğuna destek oluşturması açısından Mevlâna Celâleddin-i Rûmi'nin yaşadığı XIII. Yüzyılda Anadolu'nun durumu ile ilgili bilgiler verilmiştir. Hz. Mevlâna ve yaşadığı dönemdeki önemli şahsiyetler, irtibat içerisinde bulunduğu kişiler belirtilmiştir. Birinci bölümde, Tasavvufta ve Türk Edebiyatı'nda Menâkıb ve Mevlâna Menkıbeleri ele alınmış ve incelenmiştir. Türk edebiyatındaki Menâkıblar ve Mevlâna menkıbelerini konu edinen eserler hakkında açıklama yapılmıştır. İkinci bölümde, eserin müellifi Osman Fevzi Olcay hakkında bilgi verilmiş, ayrıca verdiği eserler ve hayatı konu edilmiştir. Üçüncü ve son bölümde ise Osman Fevzi Olcay'ın bu araştırmaya konu olan Muhtasar Menâkıb-ı Mevlâna isimli eserinin yeni yazıya aktarımı yer almaktadır. Anahtar Kelimeler: Menkıbe ve Menâkıb, Osman Fevzi Olcay, Mevlâna'nın döneminde yaşamış önemli şahsiyetler ve ârifler.This work is the study of the transfer of Osman Fevzi Olcay's work named "Muhtasar Menakıb-ı Mevlâna" from Ottoman Turkish to modern Turkish. In this work, summary of Mevlâna Celâleddin-i Rûmi's conversations and relationships with those around him . For this reason, in the work contains Persian couplets written in Persian; verses, hadiths and some words written in Arabic. In this study; this couplets and verses, hadiths and words were written from the original and these sentences are spelled in Latin letters and translated. This study consists of three parts after "Introduction". In the introduction to the work, information was given about the situation of Anatolia where Mevlâna lived in the XIII. century in terms of providing support for how the works related to legends were written in a state understanding and functioning. Mevlâna the important personalities of the period he lived and the people he was in contact with were specified. In the first chapter, legends ve Mevlâna legends in Sufism and Turskish Literature have been handled and examined. An explanation has been made about the works that are the subject of the legends and Mevlâna's legends in Turkish literature. In the second chapter, information about the author of the book Osman Fevzi Olcay and his other works and life story are explained. In the third and last chapter, there is a translation of Osman Fevzi Olcay's book named Muhtasar Menakıb-ı Mevâna which is the subject of this research transposition in to Modern Turkish writing. Key words: Legend and legends, Osman Fevzi Olcay, important personalities ande religion great persons who lived in the reign of Mevlâna
Social Robots and Wearable Sensors for Mitigating Meltdowns in Autism - A Pilot Test
No full textYoung individuals with ASD may exhibit challenging behaviors. Among these, self-injurious behavior (SIB) is the most devastating for a person’s physical health and inclusion within the community. SIB refers to a class of behaviors that an individual inflicts upon himself or herself, which may potentially result in physical injury (e.g. hitting one’s own head with the hand or the wrist, banging one’s head on the wall, biting oneself and pulling out one’s own hair). We evaluate the feasibility of a wrist-wearable sensor in detecting challenging behaviors in a child with autism prior to any visible signs through the monitoring of the child’s heart rate, electrodermal activity, and movements. Furthermore, we evaluate the feasibility of such sensor to be used on an ankle instead of the wrist to reduce harm due to hitting oneself by hands and to improve wearable tolerance. Thus, we conducted two pilot tests. The first test involved a wearable sensor on the wrist of a child with autism. In a second test, we investigated wearable sensors on the wrist and on the ankle of a neurotypical child. Both pilot test results showed that the readings from the wearable sensors correlated with the children’s behaviors that were obtained from the videos taken during the tests. Wearable sensors could provide additional information that can be passed to social robots or to the caregivers for mitigating SIBs
Robotic Trains as an Educational and Therapeutic Tool for Autism Spectrum Disorder Intervention
No full textSocial robots are emerging to become useful assistive tools for use in the therapy and education of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The nature of ASD causes its symptoms and manifestations to vary widely, resulting in a variety of robotic form factors that have been developed for this application. These robots vary in structure, shape, size, color, and function. In this paper, we propose a train-based model to be used as an educational and rehabilitation tool. We explore the responses from children with ASD in a special needs centre toward a variety of toys (e.g. ball, cymbals, truck) and robots (i.e. humanoid and a robotic seal), including trains. Experiments were conducted to verify whether or not trains have any advantage over other form factors and to extract any features of interest to the children. Results show that trains represent an appealing platform to a wider range of children with ASD. Additionally, results showed that simple features that can be easily incorporated into trains play a significant role in the interactions and could serve as reward mechanism
Essays on principal-agent models
No full textThis dissertation consists of three chapters on principal-agent models. Chapter 2 studies an optimal contract design problem in a principal-framework whereas chapter 3 is an empirical investigation of the incentive contracts in the market of top executives. Chapter 4 is a theoretical chapter exploring welfare impacts of the structure in a top-level bureaucracy. In the first chapter, I consider a dynamic moral hazard model where the principal offers a series of short-run contracts. I study the optimal mix of two alternative instruments for incentive provision: a performance based wage (a “carrot”) and a termination threat (a “stick”). At a given point in time, these instruments are substitutes in the provision of incentives. I am particularly interested in the dynamic interaction of these two instruments. Both carrot and stick are used more intensively as the agent approaches the end of her finite life. The sharing of the surplus of the relationship plays a key role: a termination threat is included in the optimal contract if and only if the agent's expected future gain from the relationship is sufficiently high, compared to the principal's expected future gain. Also, a termination threat is more likely to be optimal if output depends more on “luck” than on effort, if the discount factor is high, or if the agent's productivity is low. Having inspired from chapter 2, chapter 3 of the dissertation is an empirical study of the contracts of Chief Executive Officers (CEO). Direct pay for performance and a threat of termination when performance is low are two important instruments to incentivize CEOs. This chapter is an empirical analysis of the use of these two incentive devices and how they depend on tenure and managerial ability. For managers promoted from within a firm, ability is proxied by their age at the time of promotion. For managers hired from outside, I instead rely on constructed measures of “reputation”, based on media citations over time windows of different length. Using a sample of firms, listed in S&P 1500 over the period 1998-2008, I find that CEO compensation and the threat of forced turnover are used as incentive devices throughout tenure. Even though the results indicate that pay increases as the CEO is more senior in her tenure, there is no strong evidence that termination threat follows a particular time pattern. For outsider CEOs, a better reputation increases pay and decreases the likelihood of forced turnover, with stronger effects for more current reputational measures. Regarding the impacts of reputation on the tenure-pay relationship, only more current measures have a significant and negative effect. Managerial ability, as proxied by age-at-promotion for insiders and as proxied by reputation for outsiders, decreases the likelihood of forced turnover. More current reputation measures, as in the case of total pay, have a larger impact of likelihood of turnover. Chapter 4 investigates the welfare implications of multiple principals in the highest level of bureaucracy. An agent has to carry out two separate tasks, which can either be organized by two separate principals, or combined under one principal. The relationship between the top level (the principals) and the lower level (agent) of the bureaucracy is a “principal-agent problem”. The existence of multiple principals generates a “common agency”. The analysis reveals that the optimal hierarchy depends on the existence of “rents” from office that the principals enjoy. If there are no rents, the two systems are equally welfare-efficient. A single-principal model dominates common agency otherwise.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Nadide Banu Olca
Micromeria myrtifolia: Essential Oil Composition and Biological Activity
No full textWOS: 000475765700020Detailed chemical composition of the essential oil of Micromeria myrtifolia Boiss. & Hohen., as well as its antioxidant and enzymatic activity, was analyzed. The most abundant constituents of the oil were sesquiterpene hydrocarbons, beta-caryophyllene (40.8%) and alpha-copaene (17.9%), followed by oxygenated sesquiterpene, caryophyllene oxide (13.5 %). Antioxidant activity of the oil was tested via 8 different methods based on reduction of both radicals and stable metal cations. The oil of M. myrtifolia showed weaker, but still comparable activity with the known antioxidants, butylated hydroxyanisole and disodium edetate, that are used as positive controls. In addition, the essential oil of this aromatic plant species revealed strong inhibitory effects against tyrosinase and alpha-amylase. Present results suggest the use of the essential oil of endemic M. myrtifolia in a wide variety of applications in food and pharmacological industries.Ministry of Agriculture, Czech RepublicMinistry of Agriculture, Czech RepublicThe author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by project No. RO0418 (sustainable systems and technologies, improving crop production for higher quality of production of food, feed, and raw materials, under conditions of changing climate) funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Czech Republic
Family Generated and Delivered Social Story Intervention: Acquisition, Maintenance, and Generalization of Social Skills in Youths with ASD
No full textWOS: 000370214800006The purpose of this study was to examine whether (a) family members were able to learn to write a social story and deliver social story intervention to teach social skills to their children (age 12 to 16) with ASD, (b) youths with ASD acquired and maintained the targeted social skills and generalized these skills across novel situations. Multiple probe design across three dyads (family members-youths with ASD) was used. Results showed that family members were able to write and deliver social story intervention with high treatment integrity and youths acquired the targeted social skills. Also they were able to maintain the acquired skills over time and generalize them to novel situations. Family members reported positive opinions about using social stories and social comparison data showed that after intervention, the social skill performance of the youth with ASD was found to be similar to their peers. Based on the findings, future research needs and implications for practice are discussed.Anadolu Univesity [1103E062]This study was a partial fulfillment of doctoral dissertation of the first author at Anadolu University. Also, this study was supported by Anadolu Univesity Research Fund with a grant No. 1103E062. The authors would like to thank to participants and their families. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Seray Olcay-Gul, Hacettepe Universitesi, Egitim Fakultesi, Ozel Egitim Bolumu, 06800, Beytepe, Ankara, TURKEY. E-mail: [email protected]
A general purpose game module for children with autism spectrum disorder
No full textThe percentage of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been increasing in the world in general and in the Middle East in particular throughout the years. The growing numbers have not been directly linked to a particular cause but are likely to be a result of gene mutations and environmental factors affecting early brain development. Autism affects children in different ways, which makes each child with ASD behave uniquely; however, some behaviors are common in many of those children such as lacking emotional and social skills. This paper presents a digital gaming module, which has been designed to help in the therapeutic process of children with ASD. The module involves displaying images on a touch screen through Arduino MEGA platform with Wi-Fi module connected to a graphical user interface to design different types of activities. The module can display various types of images as needed in the activity. The displayed images involve basic facial expressions, geometric and other objects, and text in such a way that the children could select the images corresponding to questions asked by the care-giver.The authors would like to acknowledge the support from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, and College of Engineering, Qatar University for its support without which the presented hardware would not have been realized.Scopu
Martial communiques in the cities of Diyarbakır and Siirt in the period of 12 march
No full textÜskül, Zafer (Dogus Author)1-35 Numaralı Bildiriler 7. Kolordu ve Diyarbakır ve Siirt İlleri Sıkıyönetim Komutanı Korgeneral Suat Aktulga, 36. ve sonraki bildiriler 7. Kolordu ve Diyarbakır-Siirt İlleri Sıkıyönetim Komutanı Korgeneral Şükrü Olcay imzalıdır. 70 ve 71 numaralı bildiriler 2 nci Taktik Hava Kuvvet Komutanı Ve Sıkıyönetim Komutan Vekili Hava Korgeneral Mehmet Eziler imzalıdır
Evidence-based review of experimental research examining the effectiveness of simultaneous prompting with students with autism
No full textBased on the evidence of 20 peer-reviewed studies, conducted by Tekin-Iftar, Olcay-Gul, and Collins (2019), they concluded simultaneous prompting appeared to be an evidence-based practice which teaches skills to students with autism.
Simultaneous prompting includes probe trials, which can occur daily or every few days (Tekin-Iftar et al., 2019). In these trials, the teacher presents the targeted skills and waits to see if the student responds. Wrong answers during the probe trials are generally ignored.
Simultaneous prompting includes instructional trials, which can be presented daily (Tekin-Iftar et al., 2019). The targeted skill is presented, and the directions or answers are immediately presented. This prevents the learner from answering incorrectly.
Probe and instructional trials are conducted until the student's goals are met
Improving college readiness, pursuit, access, and persistence of disadvantaged students
No full textThis study investigated how participation in the comprehensive College Readiness Access and Success Program (CRASP) affected disadvantaged students’ college readiness, pursuit, access, and persistence. The study was guided by three major research questions: (1) What are the impacts of CRASP? (2) How does each component of CRASP affect college readiness, pursuit, enrollment, and persistence? (3) What struggles do graduated PCSST students report in their first year of college? CRASP was implemented by the Paterson Charter School for Science and Technology’s (PCSST) school counseling department. PCSST, located in Paterson, New Jersey, served 1,040 students, grades K through 12. Approximately 85% of PCSST’s students were enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program, and 90% of the school’s population was African American or Hispanic. The sample population for this study consisted of 384 PCSST alumni from the classes of 2009 to 2013. This study compared college-related outcomes of PCSST students who participated in CRASP for different lengths of time (from none to four years). Multiple regression was used to measure the relationship with CRASP, controlling for students’ basic demographics and abilities prior to CRASP. The findings showed that when professional school counselors, educational leaders, and key stakeholders worked collaboratively to deliver comprehensive counseling programs such as CRASP, disadvantaged students received measurable benefits in their college readiness, pursuit, and access. Particularly, CRASP participation was associated with higher percentages of students making necessary preparations to get ready for college and enrolling in post-secondary institutions. Overall, this study provided information on the efficacy of CRASP to inform local decision making. Furthermore, it shed light on factors that hinder or help disadvantaged students’ college readiness, pursuit, access, and persistence. The findings also address disadvantaged students’ low rates of college readiness, access to higher education, and completion of college degrees. In line with the new college and career readiness accountability standards, the results indicate a need for further investigation by creating research-based and innovative comprehensive school counseling programs catering to the needs of disadvantaged students.Ed. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Olcay Yavu
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