158 research outputs found
EAF Ladle Steel Slag as a Geo-Material: Compaction and Shear Strength Characteristics
No full textİrem Zeynep Yıldırım (MEF Author)##nofulltext##The numerous issues associated with the excess steel slag that is disposed of in landfills every year can be reduced by using it as a geo-material. This paper provides the results of laboratory tests (i.e., sieve, hydrometer, specific gravity, compaction, compaction-particle degradation, and large-scale direct shear with a box size of 30.5 x 30.5 x 20 cm) performed on electric-arc-furnace ladle [EAF(L)] steel slag from a mini-mill in Indiana. Based on standard proctor test results, the maximum dry unit weight values of the EAF(L) steel slag were in the 16.8-to-20 kN/m(3) range at the optimum moisture contents of 11-13%. The results of the large-scale direct shear tests performed on EAF(L) steel slag, compacted at 95-100% relative compaction and sheared with normal stress ranging from 50 to 300 kPa, showed that it has excellent frictional characteristics, with friction angles between 40 and 45 degrees. Based on the results from this study, due to its shear strength characteristics, EAF(L) steel slag has the potential to be utilized as a geo-material to improve the shear strength of various marginal soils.WOS:0004370007000122-s2.0-85048741251Conference Proceedings Citation Index- ScienceProceedings PaperMartYÖK - 2017-1
The effect of balance exercises applied with telerehabilitation on balance and quality of life in postmenopausal women
No full textBu çalışma postmenopozal dönemdeki kadınlarda telerehabilitasyon yöntemi ile uygulanan denge egzersizlerinin denge ve yaşam kalitesi üzerine etkisinin incelenmesi amacıyla yapıldı. Çalışmaya katılan postmenopozal dönemdeki 48 kadın egzersiz ve kontrol grubu olmak üzere iki gruba ayrıldı. Telerehabilitasyon grubuna denge egzersizleri çevrimiçi haftada üç gün, günde 60 dk, toplam 8 hafta süresince fizyoterapist eşliğinde yaptırıldı. Kontrol grubuna bir müdahalede bulunulmadı. Değerlendirmeler her iki gruba çalışmanın başında ve 8.hafta sonunda olmak üzere iki defa yapıldı. Menopozal semptom düzeyleri Menopozal Semptomları Değerlendirme Ölçeği ile, denge değerlendirmesi Tek Ayak Üzerinde Durma Testi, Dört Adım Kare Testi, Tandem Yürüyüş Testi ile, yaşam kalitesi Menopoza Özgü Yaşam Kalitesi Ölçeği ile değerlendirildi. Egzersiz grubundaki kadınların tedavi sonrasında menopozal, somatik, psikolojik ve ürogenital yakınmalarında, istatiksel olarak anlamlı düzeyde azalma olduğu tespit edilmiştir (p0,05). Menopoza Özgü Yaşam Kalitesi Ölçeği'nin alt parametreleri olan vazomotor, psikososyal, fiziksel, cinsel alt parametreleri egzersiz grubunda istatistiksel olarak olumlu iyileşme göstermiştir (p0,05). Ancak yaşam kalitesi, psikososyal yaşam kalitesi ve fiziksel yaşam kalitesi düzeylerinde, istatiksel olarak anlamlı düzeyde azalma olduğu tespit edilmiştir (p0.05). Vasomotor, psychosocial, physical, sexual sub-parameters of the Menopause Specific Quality of Life Scale showed statistically positive improvement in the exercise group (p0.05). However, there was a statistically significant decrease in quality of life, psychosocial quality of life and physical quality of life levels (p<0.05). In conclusion, it was found that balance exercises applied with telerehabilitation had a positive effect on balance and quality of life in postmenopausal women
Family Resilience and Dyadic Coping during the Outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy: Their Protective Role in Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being
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Family Resilience and Dyadic Coping during the Outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy: Their Protective Role in Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being
by Francesca Giorgia Paleari 1,*ORCID,Irem Ertan 1ORCID,Lucrezia Cavagnis 1ORCID andSilvia Donato 2ORCID
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Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, 24129 Bergamo, Italy
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Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 20123 Milan, Italy
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(18), 6719; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20186719
Received: 5 July 2023 / Revised: 14 August 2023 / Accepted: 25 August 2023 / Published: 6 September 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Protecting and Promoting Family Members’ Psychological Health in Challenging Times)
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has dramatically worsened people’s psychological well-being. Our aim was to examine for the first time the concurrent and longitudinal relations of family resilience with hedonic and eudaimonic well-being, and the moderating role of socio-demographics. For people having a romantic partner, we also explored whether family resilience and dyadic coping were uniquely related to well-being. One cross-sectional study (N = 325) and one 10-week follow-up study (N = 112) were carried out during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic (April–May 2020) in Northern Italy. Adult participants completed an online questionnaire in both studies. Correlation, multivariate regression, and moderation analyses were carried out with IBM SPSS version 28 and its PROCESS macro. Significance of differences in correlation and regression coefficients was tested through Steiger’s procedure, Wald test, and SUEST method. Family resilience was found to relate more strongly to eudaimonic (versus hedonic) well-being concurrently and to hedonic (versus eudaimonic) well-being longitudinally. The concurrent or longitudinal relations with hedonic well-being were generally stronger for females, part-time workers, and people undergoing multiple stressors. For people having a romantic partner, family resilience was concurrently associated with well-being independently of dyadic coping, whereas dyadic coping was longitudinally related to well-being independently of family resilience. Family resilience was found to protect, in the short term, the psychological well-being of people facing the pandemic outbreak. Its protective role mainly concerned hedonic well-being and was more pronounced for more vulnerable people. For persons having a romantic partner, however, dyadic coping seemed to have equal, if not greater, positive short-term effects
Derivative formulas related to unification of generating functions for Sheffer type sequences
No full textInternational Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM) -- SEP 13-18, 2018 -- Rhodes, GREECEKUCUKOGLU, IREM/0000-0001-9100-2252The main aim of this paper is to present partial derivative formulas for an unification, which was introduced by the author in "Unification of the generating functions for Sheffer type sequences and their applications, preprint", of Sheffer type sequences including the Peters polynomials, the Boole polynomials, the Changhee polynomials, the Simsek polynomials and the Korobov polynomials of the first kind. By making use of these derivative formulas, we provide a recurrence relation and a derivative formula for this unification. Furthermore, by using recurrence relation for this unification, we present miscellaneous special cases of this unification. Finally, we give some derivative formulas related to the well-known Sheffer type sequences such us the Peters polynomials and the Simsek polynomials.European Soc Computat Methods Sci & Eng
The Traces of Feminism in Essays of Elif Şafak
No full textBu çalışmamızda, Elif Şafak’ın gazete ve dergilerde yayınlanan deneme yazılarını
derlediği dört deneme kitabı, sabit karşılaştırmalı analiz ve söylem analizi yöntemleriyle
incelenerek, bu kitaplarda yer alan yazılardaki kadın-erkek, kadın-kadın ikili karşıtlıkları,
yazarın kadına özgün bakış açısı ve bu bakış açısında yazarın feminist söylemleriyle
çelişen ifadeler olup olmadığı, yazarın egemen ataerkil söylemin yeniden üretilmesine
katkıda bulunup bulunmadığı tespit edilmeye çalışılmıştır.
Sabit karşılaştırmalı analiz yöntemiyle, dört kitap taranmış ve çalışmamıza uygun
olabilecek, tekrar gösteren temalar çerçevesinde metin örnekleri seçilmiş, bu örnekler,
gruplara ayrılarak, yukarıda adı geçen başlıklara ve temalara hizmet edip etmediği,
mevcut teoriler baz alınarak saptanmaya çalışılmış ve eleştirel söylem analizi yöntemi ile
değerlendirilmiştir.
Feminizmin elbette ki tek bir görüşü ya da algısı bulunmamaktadır. Bu konuda üretilmiş
sayısız teori mevcuttur. Bu çalışmada özellikle feminizmin çıkış noktası olarak ele alınan
ikili karşıtlıklar/ikilikler baz alınmıştır. Diğer temalar da ikili karşıtlıklar/ikilikler
üzerinden, yeni karşıtlıklar kümeleri yaratılıp yaratılmadığı, mevcut kümelerin beslenip
beslenilmediği dikkate alınarak şekillendirilmiştir. Sonuçta Şafak’ın kadın erkek ikili
karşıtlıklar kümesine hizmet eden, ataerkil söylemi yeniden üreten, kendi içerisinde yeni
kadınlık kümeleri ya da stereotipler yaratan ve bir kümeyi diğerine ötekileştiren
açıklamaları, karşılaştırmalı örneklerle tespit edilmiştir.In this body of work, four books by Elif Şafak containing her essays published in
various newspapers and magazines are discussed constant comparative analysis and
discourse analysis to derive binary oppositions in male-female & female-female
relationships, the female-centered perspective of the author and consecutive feminist
approach to identify if her point of view conflicts with the feminist rhetoric or
contributes to the reproduction of the dominant patriarchal discourse.
The four books have been dealt with using constant comparative analysis and relevant
repeating themes have been selected and categorized to compare with existing theories,
identify if they serve the feminist discourse and analyze in relation to the topics
mentioned above in the light of critical discourse analysis.
Feminism supersedes any single perspective or perception. A limitless number of
theories have been constructed in this subject. This analysis focuses on binary
oppositions/dualities as a starting point. The rest of the themes have been developed
considering binary oppositions/dualities, whether they reproduce new sets of
oppositions or nurture existing sets of discourse. As a conclusion, examples in Şafak’s
bibliography which complement the set of male-female binary oppositions, reproduce
the patriarchal discourse, produce new sets or stereotypes of femininity or otherize one
set to another have been identified with comparative examples
Gaziantep O?uzeli-Dokuzyol village reuse proposal; Example of Ezogelin Barak culture center
No full textDokuzyol village is a settlement 17 km away from Gaziantep Oǧuzeli district, within the Barak Plain boundaries. The old name of this village is Uruş; it is also known as Ezo Gelin's village because it is the birthplace of the legendary Ezo Gelin in folklore. There are traditional abode buildings in the village, but some have been abandoned, and village people have started to prefer reinforced concrete structures. Rural architecture is an embodiment of cultural heritage; therefore, preserving and transferring it to future generations is an essential cultural continuity element. The main reason for choosing this village is that there are examples of traditional abode architecture. To maintain the Barak Culture, an abode cultural center named Ezo Gelin was built in 2018. Cultural center seldom is used and haven't served its main purpose. The aim of this research is develop a renovation for Ezo Gelin Barak Culture Center, which was built with great investment but not used and to draw attention the abode building in the village. In this research adobe buildings of Dokuzyol village were documented with traditional method and function suggestions for the protection of buildings have been developed within scope of the Interior Architecture education survey course. It has been suggested that some of the unused abode buildings in the village to serve for the new function of Ezo Gelin Barak Culture Center. The proposal developed for Ezo Gelin Barak Cultural Center aims to contribute to rural tourism and cultural heritage. © 2022 Author(s)
Determining the self-efficiency of the English teachers for the education of gifted students
No full textYüksek LisansBu araştırmanın temel amacı, İngilizce öğretmenlerinin üstün yetenekli öğrencilerin eğitimine yönelik özyeterliklerinin belirlenmesidir. Bununla birlikte araştırma özyeterlik durumlarının yaş, mesleki kıdem ve cinsiyete göre anlamlı bir biçimde değişip değişmediğini tespit etmeye çalışmaktadır. İlişkisel tarama modelinin kullanıldığı bu çalışma 2020-2021 öğretim yılında Milli Eğitim Bakanlığına bağlı eğitim kurumlarında görev yapmakta olan 352 (291 kadın, 61 erkek) gönüllü öğretmen ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Veriler araştırmacı tarafından geliştirilen "İngilizce öğretmenlerinin üstün yeteneklilerin öğretimine ilişkin özyeterlikleri" ölçeği ile toplanmıştır. Ölçeğin geçerlik çalışması için veri seti random olarak ikiye bölünmüştür. Açımlayıcı faktör analizi ile elde edilen yapılar doğrulayıcı faktör analizi ile sınanmıştır. Ölçeğin güvenirlikleri her iki veri setinde de incelenmiştir. Hazırlık boyutunun AFA veri seti için Cronbach-Alfa katsayısı 0,89 iken DFA veri seti için 0,86'dır. Sınıf boyutunun AFA veri seti için Cronbach-Alfa katsayısı 0,83 iken DFA veri seti için değeri 0,78 olarak bulunmuştur. Tüm ölçek için yapılan analiz sonucu AFA veri seti için Cronbach-Alfa katsayısı 0,88 ve DFA veri seti için 0,87 olarak bulunmuştur. Verilerin analizinde ortalama ve standart sapma hesaplanmış; normallik varsayımlarının sağlandığı durumlarda t testi ve tek yönlü varyans analizi, sağlanmadığı durumlarda Mann Whitney U testi ve Kruskal Wallis testi kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın sonuçlarına göre, ölçeğin her iki altboyutunda ve toplam puanlarda İngilizce öğretmenlerinin üstün yeteneklilerin eğitimine yönelik özyeterlik inançlarının 100 üzerinden 80 civarında olduğu yani İngilizce öğretmenlerin üstün yetenekli eğitimine ilişkin özyeterlik inançlarının yüksek olduğu bulunmuştur. İngilizce öğretmenlerinin üstün yeteneklilerin eğitimine yönelik özyeterlik puanlarının yaş değişkeni ile yükseldiği görülmüştür. Ayrıca İngilizce öğretmenlerinin özyeterlik puanlarının mesleki kıdem düzeylerinin yükseldikçe arttığı bulunmuştur. Bu bulgulara ek olarak yapılan analiz sonucunda ölçeğin tamamında ve alt boyutlarında cinsiyete göre anlamlı bir farklılık bulunamamıştır. Öğretmenlerin mesleki kıdem ve cinsiyet değişkenleri üzerine yapılmış çalışmalar incelendiğinde bir fikir birliğine varılamadığı görülmüştür. Bu belirsizliğin giderilmesi için bu konuda çalışmaların yapılması gerekmektedir. Bu çalışmanın sonucunda İngilizce öğretmenlerinin üstün yeteneklilerin eğitimine ilişkin özyeterliklerini ölçen bir ölçek elde edilmiştir. İleride yapılacak çalışmalarda farklı branşlardaki öğretmenlere yönelik veya tüm öğretmenlere yönelik üstün yeteneklilere ilişkin özyeterlik ölçeklerinin çalışması yapılabilir. Tüm bunlara ek olarak, ölçek incelendiğinde en düşük ortalamaya sahip maddenin 5.madde olduğu görülmüştür. Bunu takip eden en düşük ortalamaya sahip maddelerin 2. ve 8.maddeler olduğu belirlenmiştir. Bu maddeler incelendiğinde, İngilizce öğretmenlerinin davranış kontrolü, Bireysel Eğitim Programını uygulama ve sınıf kontrolü gibi konularda özyeterlik puanlarının diğer maddelere oranla daha düşük olduğu bulunmuştur. Dolayısıyla İngilizce öğretmenlerine yönelik hizmetiçi eğitimlerde bu konular ele alınabilir.The aim of this study is to determine the self-efficiency levels of the English Language Teachers towards the gifted student education. In addition, this research examined English Language Teachers' self-efficacy levels according to age, pofessional seniority and gender variables. This research in relational screening model was carried out with 352 volunteer English Language Teachers (291 women, 61 men) who worked in the 2020-2021 academic year in the Educational Institutions related to the Ministry of National Education in Turkey. To collect data, "English Language Teachers' self-efficiency Scale Towards Gifted Education" scale was used. For the validity analysis of scale, the data set was randomly divided into two. The structures obtained by exploratory factor analysis were tested with confirmatory factor analysis. The reliability of the scale was examined in both data sets. It is found that Cronbach-Alpha coefficient of the Preparation dimension was 0,89 for the EFA data set and it was found as 0,86 for the CFA data set. Also Cronbach-Alpha coefficient of the Class dimension was 0,83 for the EFA dataset and it was found to be 0,78 for the CFA dataset. As a result of the analysis for the whole scale, the Cronbach-Alpha coefficient was found to be 0,88 for the EFA data set and 0,87 for the CFA data set. In the analysis of the data, the mean and standard deviation were calculated; T test and one-way analysis of variance were used when normality assumptions were met, Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis test were used when not. According to the results of the study, it was found that self-efficiency beliefs of English Language Teachers towards education of gifted students in both sub-dimensions and total scores of the scale were around 80 out of 100. Therefore it was revealed that teachers' self-efficacy beliefs were high. Also, the results of the analysis showed that self-efficiency beliefs of English Language Teachers towards the education of gifted students increased with the age variable. In addition to these results, it was found that the self-efficacy beliefs of English Language Teachers increased as their teaching Professional seniority levels increased. Lastly, there was no significant difference in the whole scale and its sub-dimensions related to gender variable. In addition to that, literature review of the studies examining teachers' professional seniority and gender variables revealed that, a consensus could not be reached. In order to eliminate this ambiguity, further studies are needed on this subject. As a result of this study, a scale measuring self-efficacy of English Language teachers regarding the education of the gifted individuals was obtained. In future studies, self-efficacy scales of teachers towards gifted student education can be studied for teachers in different branches or for all teachers. On the other hand analysis of the scale revealed that item with the lowest average on the scale was the 5th item. It was determined that the items with the lowest mean following this were the 2nd and 8th items. Examination of these items showed that, self-efficacy scores of English teachers in subjects such as behavior control, implementation of the Individual Education Program and classroom control were lower than the other items. Therefore, these issues can be addressed in in-service trainings for English teachers
Thyroid Storm in Postoperative Delirium Etiology: Case Report
No full textDelirium is an acute organic brain syndrome of different physical and pathophysiological etiologies characterized by a disturbance in consciousness with accompanying change in cognition. Delirium causes prolonged length of stay in hospital and intensive care unit, also increased morbidity and mortality.
Thyroid storm is a severe, life-threatening type of thyrotoxicosis and is one of a few endocrine disorders that cause delirium. It is mostly occured suddenly after acute infection, surgical stress or trauma. This condition occurs due to excess production of thyroid hormone and 20-50% mortality rate depends on early diagnosis and treatment.
In this study it was aimed to present the diagnosis and treatment of a previously unknown hyperthyroid patient who underwent suspension laryngoscopy under general anesthesia and was post-operatively admitted to the intensive care unit because of pulmonary edema and proceeded to develop severe delirium caused by hyrotoxicosis
Evaluating distance education performance within the scope of architectural education
No full textTurkey is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic widely as well as all around the world. There is also a global impact in the field of education. Several precautions were taken for preventing infection from COVID-19 at a minimal level. One of the taken precautions is launching a distance education system (DES). DES started to practice from primary to higher education easily and swiftly. This system is an alternative to the existing education system. However, universities' architecture departments that have theoretical courses besides applied courses, are known that they are hard to put to set, moreover, most of them hesitate to start distance education due to characteristics of architectural education. Architectural education teaches codifying phenomenon, concepts, thoughts visually with the help of symbols and teach to analyse these codes. This tenet involves different processes from a student's former education life. Therefore, to reach the aims of architectural education features' and actualization level of learning is essential. Professional schools give privileged status to systemic, preferably scientific knowledge, and the schools' prevailing epistemology of practice, treats professional competence as the application ok privileged knowledge to instrumental problems of practice. When architectural education is considered as a process to gain essential skills, it can be seen that how active learning is important. It does not seem possible to perform "active learning"requirements with the distance education system's existing opportunities and architecture students will perform "passive learning"during DES is thought. This study focuses on how DES is made productive for architectural education which started to use due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The main aim of this research is to determine problems of architecture students and instructors related to distance architecture education and offering solutions. Additionally, this research goals to contribute to the limited distance architecture education system. To reach these aims questionnaire forms were constituted toward interviews with both architecture students and instructors and from the literature review. Questionnaires were prepared separately for students and lecturers. This procedure aims to offer an integrated solution by gathering different perspectives of participants. Data of the project were acquired by applying online questionnaires to participants via e-mail. Obtained data were analysed statistically using SPSS 22.0 software. This research will make a remarkable contribution about how active learning at applied courses can be increased during DES at architectural schools by presenting qualitative and quantitative findings. © 2022 Author(s)
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