38 research outputs found
The Poems Of Qashqaı Turkısh Author Mansur Shah Muhammadi (Analysıs-Text-Glossary)
No full textBu tezin konusu, Kaşkay Türklerinden Mansur Şah Muhammediznin şiirleri esasında
Kaşkay Türkçesinin dil bilgisi özelliklerinin incelenmesidir. 1945 yılında Firuzabad
şehrinde dünyaya gelen Mansur Şah Muhammedi, Kaşkayzın Amele Mehterhana boyuna
mensup bir şairdir ve çağdaş Kaşkay Dil ve Edebiyatının önemli temsilcilerindendir. Onun
Klasik Türk şiiri kalıplarını ve hece veznini kullandığı şiirlerinde Kaşkay Dil ve
Edebiyetinin gelişim ve değişimini görmek mümkündür. Ayrıca, onun eserleri 20.
yüzyıldaki Kaşkay hayat tarzı, dünya görüşü ve sanat anlayışı hakkında fikir vermesi
bakımından son derece önemlidir. Kaşkay Türklerinden Mansur Şah Muhammediznin
Şiirleri (İnceleme-Metin-Sözlük) adlı tezimiz: Giriş, İnceleme, Metin ve Sözlük olmak
üzere dört bölümden oluşmaktadır. Giriş bölümünde: Kaşkay Türklerinin ve tarihi,
kökenleri, coğrafyası, nüfusları ve bugünkü durumları, Kaşkay Dili ve Edebiyatı, Mansur
Şah Muhammediznin hayatı ve eserleri hakkında bilgiler verilmiştir. İnceleme bölümünde
Mansur Şah Muhammediznin şiirleri imlâ, ses ve şekil bilgisi yönünden incelenmiştir.
Metin bölümünde Mansur Şah Muhammediznin şiirlerinin transkripsiyonlu metni yer
almaktadır. Sözlük bölümünde eserde yer alan Arapça, Farsça kelimeler ile ses değişmeleri
sebebiyle anlaşılamaycak duruma gelmiş Türkçe kelimeler, anlamlarıyla birlikte
gösterilmiştir.The topic of this thesis is the study of the Qashqai Turkish grammar peculiarities based on
the poems of Qashqai Turkish author Mansur Shah Muhammadi. Mansur Shah
Muhammadi was born in the city of Firuzabad in 1945; besides, he is the poet of the
Qashqai Amale Mehtarkhana tribe and is one of the important representatives of modern
Qashqai language and literature. It is possible to see the development and change of
Qashqai language and literature in his poems where he uses Classic Turkish poetry patterns
and syllabic meter. Moreover, his works are of vital importance in terms of lifestyle,
worldview, and understanding of art of Qashqai people of the 20th century. Our thesis
called The Poems of Qashqai Turkish Author Mansur Shah Muhammadi (Analysis-Text-
Glossary) consists of four sections: Introduction, Analysis, Text, and Dictionary. In the
first section, the information on the history, origin, geography, population and modern state
of Qashqai Turks; Qashqai Turkish language and literature; the life and works of
Mansur Shah Muhammadi is given. In the analysis, the poems of Mansur Shah
Muhammadi are examined in terms of spelling, phonology, and morphology. Transcribed
text of Mansur Shah Muhammadizs poems is given in the third section. Finally, Persian,
Arabic and Turkish words, which due to the sound changes are unrecognizable, together
with their meanings are listed in the glossary
The Quiet Ego and Its Predictors in Turkish Culture
No full textAlthough high self-esteem has been seen as a panacea for all sorts of personal and social problems for a long time, recent research has shown its potential negative effects. The concept of quiet ego, defined as a balanced integration with others by turning down the volume of the ego (Bauer & Wayment, 2008), has been coined as a plausible alternative that can mitigate negative effects of fragile high self-esteem. This study aims to examine psychometric properties of the Quiet Ego Scale in Turkish culture, and to investigate its correlates related to personality traits, culture, and well-being. A total of 254 Turkish university students completed the measures of the Quiet Ego Scale, Big Five Personality, happiness, self-esteem, and individualism-collectivism. Factor analyses on the items of the Quite Ego measure supported its construct validity among Turkish participants. As expected, quiet ego was positively associated with the indicators of well-being and certain personality traits. Regression analyses indicated that openness to experience among the personality traits and horizontal collectivism among the cultural orientations were the strongest predictors of quiet ego. Results were discussed considering cultural values and previous findings on quite ego
Quality assessment of 3D building data
No full textThis project has been funded by Ordnance Survey Research, the research and development department of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, which is gratefully acknowledged. The first author, Devrim Akca, was formerly with the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry of ETH Zurich, Switzerland.Three-dimensional building models are often now produced from lidar and photogrammetric data. The quality control of these models is a relevant issue both from the scientific and practical points of view. This work presents a method for the quality control of such models. The input model (3D building data) is co-registered to the verification data using a 3D surface matching method. The 3D surface matching evaluates the Euclidean distances between the verification and input data-sets. The Euclidean distances give appropriate metrics for the 3D model quality. This metric is independent of the method of data capture. The proposed method can favourably address the reference system accuracy, positional accuracy and completeness. Three practical examples of the method are provided for demonstration.This project has been funded by Ordnance Survey Research, the research and development department of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, which is gratefully acknowledged. The first author, Devrim Akca, was formerly with the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry of ETH Zurich, Switzerlanddepartment of the Ordnance Survey of Great BritainPublisher's Versio
Transforming managers with mindfulness-based training: a journey towards humanistic management principles
No full textData availability:
Confidentiality and anonymity were ensured throughout the study, with all data stored securely by the corresponding author and identifiable information removed during the analysis and reporting stages. The data that support the findings of this study are available upon request from the corresponding author. However, they are not publicly available due to company restrictions, as they contain information that could compromise the privacy of company and research participants.This study examines the transformative impact of a 6-week mindfulness-based training program on managers within the framework of humanistic management principles. Implemented as a randomized controlled trial (RCT), the research involved 97 managers from the R&D department of a technology development company in Turkiye. Participants were allocated to either an intervention group (N = 47) or a waitlist control group (N = 50), with assessments conducted at three time points: pre-test, post-test, and a 16-week follow-up. The findings reveal significant improvements in empathy, mindfulness, and wisdom among managers who completed the program, compared to those who did not. While the impact on inclusive leadership was less pronounced, the results indicate potential benefits for organizational culture as a whole. This study provides empirical evidence supporting the efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions in fostering key elements of humanistic management—such as empathy, mindfulness, and wisdom—and underscores their broader implications for cultivating a more humanistically oriented workplace.No funding was received
A study of architects' understanding of laypersons' language; similarity of architect and layperson
No full textThis study discusses connotative meaning, which is a design input, and how it is understood by architects and laypersons. The study also examines layperson's value judgments and the factors that influence them. Studies of architects and laypersons have mainly attempted to acquire information from laypeople so that architects can use it to estimate their opinions. If architects know how connotative meanings affect laypersons, they can make better design decisions. For all these reasons, the author examined the opinions about connotative meanings between freshmen and seniors in the department of architecture and architects. The author also analyzed whether the architects comprehend the desires and likes of lay people. The primary hypothesis of the study is that architects and laypersons will make the same interpretations if the image overlaps the meaning. This study aims to find clues regarding shared opinions between designers and laypersons about connotative meanings. The experimental study in this paper mainly aims to determine which cognitive concepts are overlapped with which physical components by participants from the groups. Accordingly, the study aims to determine whether the meaning implied by the designer is recognized by laypeople, whether they comprehend it or not if they recognize it, whether they make the same interpretation as the designer and finally, whether they like it. Another aim of the study is to describe the extent to which laypeople differ among themselves and with architects. The study was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, the author identified the differences and similarities between the groups. Then buildings that overlapped the image and the meaning and data related to those images were collected. In the second phase, the author tried to find shared interpretations about overlapping images and meanings for the overlapping images and their data. The survey was done with the participation of four different groups: 40 freshmen in the department of architecture who were regarded as layperson, 40 seniors in the department of architecture, 40 academic architects and 8 independent judges. The author used 40 images to conduct the experimental study. The styles and functions of these images differ, and they were selected based on whether they had the components in the architectural components list. The author used the Lens Model to access the physical components through cognitive features and also to demonstrate the differences and similarities between architects and non-architects. The author asked the three groups of participants about the cognitive features and asked the group of independent judges about the physical components. Each group's evaluations of general aesthetics regarding the images were correlated with five cognitive features (functional connotation, connotation of meaning, complexity, familiarity and getting impressed). Then, the Pearson Correlation, the two groups' degrees of participation, was calculated regarding 20 buildings based on their cognitive features. Finally, the author determined to what extent the two groups agreed with each other about the general aesthetics of the buildings. One of the study's findings indicates that there are common interpretations between the groups. This is very significant since it identifies a cognitive concept common to the two groups for the first time and identifies the physical components that generate this cognitive concept. In this respect, this study is a foundation for further national and international research in this area. Designers should be informed about users' perception and interpretation of the buildings they design. They also should do so in their professional education. It is important that students of architecture are given the chance to make designs in design studios and are trained to understand common people. This is an important issue since it will provide data regarding design inputs. If the curriculum of studio lessons is organized to focus on these points, future generations will be more conscious and sensitive to environmental issues, and they will also be able to do user-centered design.Publisher's Versio
Team Cognition and Outage Management: Improving Nuclear Power Plant Resilience
No full textabstract: Nuclear Power Plants (NPP) have complex and dynamic work environments. Nuclear safety and organizational management rely largely on human performance and teamwork. Multi-disciplinary teams work interdependently to complete cognitively demanding tasks such as outage control. The outage control period has the highest risk of core damage and radiation exposure. Thus, team coordination and communication are critically important during this period. The purpose of this thesis is to review and synthesize teamwork studies in NPPs, outage management studies, official Licensee Event Reports (LER), and Inspection Reports (IRs) to characterize team brittleness in NPP systems. Focusing on team brittleness can provide critical insights about how to increase NPP robustness and to create a resilient NPP system. For this reason, more than 900 official LERs and IRs reports were analyzed to understand human and team errors in the United States (US) nuclear power plants. The findings were evaluated by subject matter experts to create a better understanding of team cognition in US nuclear power plants. The results of analysis indicated that human errors could be caused by individual human errors, team errors, procedural errors, design errors, or organizational errors. In addition to these, some of the findings showed that number of reactors, operation year and operation mode could affect the number of reported incidents.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation Engineering 202
A STUDY OF ARCHITECTS' UNDERSTANDING OF LAYPERSONS' LANGUAGE; SIMILARITY of ARCHITECT and LAYPERSON
No full textThis study discusses connotative meaning, which is a design input, and
how it is understood by architects and laypersons. The study also
examines layperson's value judgments and the factors that influence
them. Studies of architects and laypersons have mainly attempted to
acquire information from laypeople so that architects can use it to
estimate their opinions. If architects know how connotative meanings
affect laypersons, they can make better design decisions. For all these
reasons, the author examined the opinions about connotative meanings
between freshmen and seniors in the department of architecture and
architects. The author also analyzed whether the architects comprehend
the desires and likes of lay people.
The primary hypothesis of the study is that architects and laypersons
will make the same interpretations if the image overlaps the meaning.
This study aims to find clues regarding shared opinions between
designers and laypersons about connotative meanings. The experimental
study in this paper mainly aims to determine which cognitive concepts
are overlapped with which physical components by participants from the
groups. Accordingly, the study aims to determine whether the meaning
implied by the designer is recognized by laypeople, whether they
comprehend it or not if they recognize it, whether they make the same
interpretation as the designer and finally, whether they like it.
Another aim of the study is to describe the extent to which laypeople
differ among themselves and with architects.
The study was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, the author
identified the differences and similarities between the groups. Then
buildings that overlapped the image and the meaning and data related to
those images were collected. In the second phase, the author tried to
find shared interpretations about overlapping images and meanings for
the overlapping images and their data. The survey was done with the
participation of four different groups: 40 freshmen in the department of
architecture who were regarded as layperson, 40 seniors in the
department of architecture, 40 academic architects and 8 independent
judges. The author used 40 images to conduct the experimental study. The
styles and functions of these images differ, and they were selected
based on whether they had the components in the architectural components
list. The author used the Lens Model to access the physical components
through cognitive features and also to demonstrate the differences and
similarities between architects and non-architects. The author asked the
three groups of participants about the cognitive features and asked the
group of independent judges about the physical components. Each group's
evaluations of general aesthetics regarding the images were correlated
with five cognitive features (functional connotation, connotation of
meaning, complexity, familiarity and getting impressed). Then, the
Pearson Correlation, the two groups' degrees of participation, was
calculated regarding 20 buildings based on their cognitive features.
Finally, the author determined to what extent the two groups agreed with
each other about the general aesthetics of the buildings.
One of the study's findings indicates that there are common
interpretations between the groups. This is very significant since it
identifies a cognitive concept common to the two groups for the first
time and identifies the physical components that generate this cognitive
concept. In this respect, this study is a foundation for further
national and international research in this area. Designers should be
informed about users' perception and interpretation of the buildings
they design. They also should do so in their professional education. It
is important that students of architecture are given the chance to make
designs in design studios and are trained to understand common people.
This is an important issue since it will provide data regarding design
inputs. If the curriculum of studio lessons is organized to focus on
these points, future generations will be more conscious and sensitive to
environmental issues, and they will also be able to do user-centered
design
Development of a power electronics converter dynamics toolbox for MATLAB
No full textProviding the required load's power using Switch Mode Power Supplies (SMPS), leads to smaller and more efficient converters. Correct operation of a SMPS needs some form of control. Applying the well-known controller design techniques like root locus and Bode needs a dynamical model for system under control. Power electronics converters are dynamical variable structure systems. Extraction of small signal dynamical equations by hand is cumbersome, time consuming and error prone. Development a software to automate the small signal model extraction process of power electronics converters is the aim of this paper. Parameter's change and uncertainty's effects on overall system performance can be studied easily using this software. Multi graph property of developed software, allow drawing results of different simulations on the same graph. This makes comparison possible. Available commercial softwares cannot calculate the algebraic transfer functions while developed software can do this job. Contact correspondence author to receive the software. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by IASE
Precursors of instability in a natural slope due to rainfall: a full-scale experiment
No full textA full-scale landslide-triggering experiment was conducted on a natural sandy slope subjected to an artificial rainfall event, which resulted in mobilisation of 130 m3 of soil mass. Novel slope deformation sensors (SDSs) were applied to monitor the subsurface pre-failure movements and the precursors of the artificially triggered landslide. These fully automated sensors are more flexible than the conventional inclinometers by several orders of magnitude and therefore are able to detect fine movements (< 1 mm) of the soil mass reliably. Data from high-frequency measurements of the external bending work, indicating the transmitted energy from the surrounding soil to these sensors, pore water pressure at various depths, horizontal soil pressure and advanced surface monitoring techniques, contributed to an integrated analysis of the processes that led to triggering of the landslide. Precursors of movements were detected before the failure using the horizontal earth pressure measurements, as well as surface and subsurface movement records. The measurements showed accelerating increases of the horizontal earth pressure in the compression zone of the unstable area and external bending work applied to the slope deformation sensors. These data are compared to the pore water pressure and volumetric water content changes leading to failure.Geo-engineerin
Importance of CdS buffer layer thickness on Cu2ZnSnS4-based solar cell efficiency
No full textCu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin films were grown on Mo-coated soda lime glass (SLG) substrates by the sulfurization of DC magnetron-sputtered Zn, Sn and Cu metallic precursors under a sulfur atmosphere at 550 °C for 45 min. Understanding the composition and structure of the CZTS absorber layer is necessary to obtain efficient solar cells. With this aim, x-ray diffractometry, Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy were used to investigate the CZTS absorber layers. CZTS absorber films were obtained and found to be Cu-poor and Zn-rich in composition, which are both qualities desired for efficient solar cells. CdS was used as a buffer layer and was grown by the chemical bath deposition technique. The optical properties of CdS films on SLG were searched for using a spectroscopic ellipsometer and the results revealed that the bandgap increases with film thickness increment. CZTS-based solar cells with different CdS buffer layer thicknesses were prepared using a SLG/Mo/CZTS/CdS/ZnO/AZO solar cell configuration. The influence of the CdS buffer layer thickness on the performance of the CZTS solar cells was investigated. Device analysis showed that electrical characteristics of solar cells strongly depend on the buffer layer's thickness. Highly pronounced changes in V OC, fill factor and J SC parameters, which are the main efficiency limiting factors, with changing buffer layer thicknesses were observed. Our experiments confirmed that decreasing the CdS thickness improved the efficiency of CZTS solar cells down to the lowest thickness limit.The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) with the project number of 114F341 and the Applied Quantum Research Center (AQuRec
