49 research outputs found
Orchestrating learning during implementation of a 3D virtual world
No full textKarakus Yilmaz, Turkan/0000-0002-5809-3962; Baydas Onlu, Ozlem/0000-0002-5812-7085WOS: 000383915700002There are many issues to be considered when designing virtual worlds for educational purposes. In this study, the term orchestration has acquired a new definition as the moderation of problems encountered during the activity of turning a virtual world into an educational setting for winter sports. A development case showed that community plays a key role in both the emergence of challenges and in the determination of their solutions. The implications of this study showed that activity theory was a useful tool for understanding contextual issues. Therefore, instructional designers first developed relevant tools and community-based solutions. This study attempts to use activity theory in a prescriptive way, though it is known as a descriptive theory. Finally, since virtual world projects have many aspects, the variety of challenges and practical solutions presented in this study will provide practitioners with suggestions on how to overcome problems in future.Turkish Science and Technology Institution Project [111K516]This study was conducted as part of the "Effects of Virtual and Multimedia Environments on Interest and Awareness Towards Winter Sports" project [number "111K516"], supported by the Turkish Science and Technology Institution Project
Fyysistä näyttelijäntyötä entisen urheilijan silmin Turkan, Lecoqin ja Grotowskin metodeja reflektoiden
No full textTämä opinnäytetyö esittelee kolmen teatterivaikuttajan, Jouko Turkan, Jacques Lecoqin ja Jerzy Grotowskin fyysisen teatterin menetelmiä ja reflektoi niitä kolmen tekijälle tärkeän projektin prosesseihin.
Kyseiset projektit ovat tekijän työharjoittelu 2:n ohjaus Sparrisuhde keväällä 2015, Just for you -kurssi työpajoineen keväällä 2014 ja Scaramouche, jossa tekijä näytteli sysksyllä 2014.
Pääasialliset tutkimusmenetelmät ovat kolmen projektin prosessien havainnointi sekä oman toiminnan reflektointi. Työ tuo esille sen, kuinka tekijä on entisenä urheilijana, ohjaajana ja näyttelijänä käyttänyt näitä menetelmiä hyödykseen.
Työssä pyritään havaitsemaan keinoja, joilla ohjaaja saa tarkennettua sekä rikastutettua näyttelijöiden fyysistä ilmaisua ja liikettä.This thesis presents physical theatre methods of three prominent figures of theatre, Jouko Turkka, Jacques Lecoq and Jerzy Grotowski. Thesis reflects those methods to processes of three projects that have been important to author.
These projects are a play called Sparrisuhde that author directed for his practical training 2 at spring 2015, Just for you class in which author directed improvisation workshops at spring 2014 and Scaramouche where author acted at autumn 2014.
The main research methods are observation of the processes in three different projects and also reflection of author’s own working. Thesis discloses how author has used these methods to benefit himself from the ex-athlete’s, director’s and actor’s point of view.
Thesis aims at observe the ways that helps director to make actors physical expressions and movement more precise and more diverse
The Efficiency Analysis of Non-life Insurance Companies Active in Turkey
No full textThis paper evaluates the technical effi ciencies of non-life insurance companies, which are active in Turkey in 2007, using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA, which is a nonparametric method, facilitates to examine different input-output components. DEA is a
management evaluation tool that assists in identifying the most efficient and ineffi cient decision making units (DMUs) in the best practice frontier. In this study, as inputs of 23 non-life insurance companies, the number of agents, the number of brokers, fi xed assets,
shareholders’ equity and as outputs the investment incomes, premiums received are used. Empirical results of BCC and CCR models, which are DEA models, show that the most efficient insurance company is RAY
Technical Problems Experienced in the Transformation of Virtual Worlds into an Education Environment and Coping Strategies
No full textResearch into virtual worlds demonstrates that to successfully use virtual world platforms in different disciplines, certain limitations and potential difficulties of these platforms must be overcome. The current study extends previous research by investigating problems in integrating virtual worlds in education with a longitudinal observation of two cases and in perspectives of designers, practitioners and administrators. The purpose of this study was both to determine technical problems encountered by practitioners and designers who create environments in 3D virtual worlds for a certain purpose and to suggest practical strategies for these problems. In the study, designers experimented with two different 3D virtual world platforms for one year, to design and create learning environments. To collect the research data, interview records and design diaries in which the designers and practitioners noted problems that they encountered during two virtual world projects. The results indicate that the technical problems has not aroused only related the problems and those problems influenced several pedagogical issues like motivation of students and guidance in the environments. Our findings should be beneficial both to virtual world designers and to users who wish to use these environments in broad range of fields
A Method for Supporting Smoking Cessation in Adolescents: Peer Education
No full textSmoking is the most important cause of disability, death and preventable illness in Turkey and all over the world. According to the Global Youth Survey, smoking prevalence among young people increased from 9.4% in males and 3.5% in females in 2003 to 10.2% and 5.3% in 2009. Cigarette smoking affects a large part of the society with increasing frequency among young people. Therefore, the tobacco industry targets youth and women. The decrease in the starting age of smoking will cause longer term exposure to the harmful effects of cigarettes. Adolescents start smoking due primarily to a desire to imitate adults, peer pressure, affectation and easy access to cigarettes. Peer group has a great impact on both risky and safe behaviours of an adolescent. Adolescents want to be independent in their behaviours, attitudes and interests. They want to have activities with friends without prior permission and explanation. Peer education aims to use peer influence in the positive way, as peers can be positive models for behaviour. The increase in tobacco consumption among adolescents in the recent years has increased the importance of peer education. The purpose of this article is to explain how to use peer education in changing the cigarette smoking behaviours of adolescents. © 2014 by Turkish Thoracic Society
Profiling Procedures for Long-Range Medication Efficacy in Double-Blind Trials
No full text Statisticians working in biological investigatory trials are quite often faced with inferences obtained in long-range experiments which do not fit within the general framework of time-indexed designed studies. The initial response of patients in long-term studies is usually depicted within the first six months of the trial; the remaining part of the trial being confined to patient monitor of dropouts, survival rates and adverse effects. The objective of the present paper is to describe two computerized profiling methods developed by the present author for maximizing contrastive differences between medications. The first method analyzes the consistency of successive observations on a patient-by-patient basis, yielding cumulative increment scores which is used as a decision rule for a time-indexed response. The method is reminiscent of sequential medical trial procedures applied to data from a given patient. Using this procedure, patients are categorized as “responders” or “non-responders” depending upon the profile of successive observations which they elicit during the trial. The second method utilizes superimposed distribution profiles of each medication under comparison. Profiles generated at various cut-off points during the study enable the utilization of more stringent indices than means and variances of the observations. Constriction in data variability is obtained by utilization of non-parametric trichotomization. Double-blinding of comparative medications may still be kept intact: yet the investigators have the flexibility of monitoring emerging contrastive differences as the trial proceeds. </jats:p
Maximization, Regret and Decision Making
No full textU moderno doba ljudi moraju donositi više odluka nego ikada i suočeni su sa sve većim izborom dostupnih opcija, bilo da se radi o izboru fakulteta ili karijere, ili o izboru jednostavnih, svakodnevnih stvari poput prehrambenih proizvoda. Stoga ne čudi sve veći interes psihologa za područjem psihologije odlučivanja i proučavanjem procesa koji se događaju tijekom donošenja odluka. Jedan od bitnijih konstrukata u psihologiji odlučivanja je maksimizacija, koja se često definira kao pristup odlučivanju s ciljem odabira najbolje moguće odluke u određenoj situaciji. Uz nju je usko vezano žaljenje, više ili manje bolno kognitivno i emocionalno stanje prouzročeno gubitkom, nedostatkom, ograničenjem ili pogreškom. Ciljevi istraživanja bili su ispitati povezanost između maksimizacije, žaljenja, vremena odlučivanja i zadovoljstva donesenim odlukama te ispitati razlike između uvjeta s većim i manjim brojem ponuđenih opcija, kao i prevesti na hrvatski jezik te ispitati faktorsku strukturu i psihometrijske karakteristike Skale maksimizacije i Skale žaljenja. U istraživanju je sudjelovalo 100 studenata sa Sveučilišta u Rijeci i Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, od čega 78 ženskog i 22 muškog spola, dok je raspon dobi bio od 19 do 28 godina. Istraživanje se sastojalo od upitničkog i eksperimentalnog dijela. U prvome dijelu ispitanici su ispunjavali prevedenu Skalu maksimizacije i Skalu žaljenja Schwartza i suradnika te odgovarali na 6 tvrdnji vezanih uz putovanja i odlučivanje koje je autor sam konstruirao, dok su u drugome dijelu donosili odluku o najpoželjnijim destinacijama za putovanje među ponuđenima, pri čemu je polovica ispitanika na raspolaganju imala 30 opcija, a druga polovica samo 6 opcija. Pokazalo se da je maksimizacija u pozitivnoj korelaciji sa žaljenjem, a u negativnoj sa zadovoljstvom izborom destinacija i donesenim odlukama. Osim toga, pozitivno je povezana i s vremenom odlučivanja o najpoželjnijoj i drugoj najpoželjnijoj destinaciji, ali samo u uvjetu sa 6 opcija. Ispitanici koji su imali veći broj opcija na raspolaganju u prosjeku su bili zadovoljniji izborom destinacija i trošili više vremena na donošenje odluke o najpoželjnijoj destinaciji, no manje vremena za procjenu pojedinačnih opcija.Nowadays people have to make decisions more often than ever and they are faced with a growing choice, whether is it the choice of education, career or simple, everyday things like groceries. Because of that, it is not unusual that psychologists are getting more interested in psychology of decision making and processes that occur during the decision making. One of the most important constructs in psychology of decision making is maximization, which is often defined as the approach to decision making with a goal to choose the best possible option in a certain situation. It is closely connected with regret, defined as a more or less painful cognitive and emotional state of feeling sorry for losses, shortcomings, limitations or mistakes. Decision time is also one of important variables in this study. The main aim of the study was to examine the relationship among maximization, regret, desicion time and satisfaction with decisions about the most attractive destinations. The second aim was to examine the difference between condition with a bigger and condition with a smaller array of options. The last aim was to translate Maximization Scale and Regret Scale to Croatian language and examine their factor structure and psychometric characteristics. A hundred students from the University of Rijeka and the University of Zagreb participated in this study. Among them, there were 78 female and 22 male students. The age range was between 19 and 28 years. The study consisted of two parts. First, the participants completed the translated version of Maximization Scale and Regret Scale (Schwartz et al., 2002) and then they answered the 6 items about travelling and decision making which were constructed by the author of this paper. The second part was experimental and participants had to make decisions about the most attractive destinations for travelling among offered ones. There was an array of 30 options in the first condition and only 6 options in the second one.
Maximization is in a positive correlation with regret and in a negative correlation with satisfaction with the choice of destinations and satisfaction with decisions. It is also positively correlated with the most attractive destination's and the second most attractive destination's decision time, but only in case when participants had only 6 options. Participants who were in the condition with more options had longer decision time on average, but shorter average time per option
Research project work plan for automating lidar data to develop and manage active transportation asset inventories
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Effects of social inequalities on coronary heart disease risk factors: a population-based, cross-sectional study in İzmir
No full textObjective: Aim of the study was to determine effects of social inequalities on coronary heart disease risk factors in individuals living in an urban district of Izmir; namely Balcova
